To anyone that still believes all that "Protect and Serve" shit, tasers are primarily and overwhelmingly used by LEOs as punishment. They are not used to protect anyone. If you do not do exactly as the officer says, no matter how unfair it may seem, you will be tasered. It is immediate punishment administered without judicial review. Plus, it relieves a lot of frustration for the cop.

So let's all stop pretending now that use of a taser is anything legal or moral, it's a circumvention of judicial review, denial of individual rights and a travesty of justice. Tasers should be outlawed or their use outside of life threatening situations should be cause for immediate dismissal of the offending officer. Any other course of action is merely inviting a Judge Dredd type of future.

Allow me to introduce you to at least 95% of our beloved law enforcement personnel.

May be the lesson here is that we shouldn't be asking national security agencies to investigate copyright claims at all in the first place. Copyright claims should be handled as the civil matters they are. There is absolutely no just reason that any government agency should be involved in investigating these civil matters amongst private entities.

Go ahead, just say no to college, that's fine by me. Degreed people like myself need ambitious young people like you to work for us and do all the shit we don't feel like doing.

I don't care what they name after him. His legacy will be the thermonuclear war dragging through the courts all over the world now that was started at his behest.

You're supposed to cultivate it.

That's a nasty thing to say about Earthlink.

While I'll not question the sincerity or truthfulness of the original post as others have beat me to that, I will question equating Alibaba to Amazon.

I consider Alibaba a slightly inferior peer to EBay which puts it way, way lower than Amazon in my book.

or during sex

Dude, this is /.

If you acknowledge their rights, they'll all just resign from Starfleet.

Is this /. or Fark?

Ballmer wants to be remembered for doing something no one else at MS could do - make Bob look good.

It's not about Assange. It's about human rights, yours, mine, anyone's. The question is: Is it ok for a government to pursue and prosecute a foreign national, a person, any person for speaking or repeating the truth simply because those truths are embarrassing to the government.

You should care about the rights of Assange only for as long as you care about your own.

This Dimon fellow is the best used car salesman I've seen for a while.

He kinda alludes to the fact that they will use this fantastic new data center for customer service. My guess is they will probably use it to scam more money from people with some devilish plot like HFT.

I was scratching my head trying to figure out the intended meaning of that sentence. Thank you for the clarification.