However when police perform illegal searches they ARE people doing bad things, and this IS giving them a get out of jail free card. As far as I am concerned an illegal search is a terrible violation, and deserving of a felony conviction.

"I don't understand my job" is no excuse; and frankly, look where its gotten us, the only reason there are not many many more TONS of evidence tossed out by illegal searches is most people give up without a fight in the face of our abusive system which will do everything in its power to strong arm people into giving up their right to a trial.

Frankly, I think we should get rid of pleas entirely, automatic not-guiolty plea for all cases, you MUST fight it; that way a prosecutor must file honest charges and not try to present two massively different options in hopes of not having evidence seen or contested.

See and this is why its bullshit. I can be charged for crimes even if I had no malicious intent. I cannot use ignorance of the law as my excuse. Mens Rea is a double standard that has no place here, and certainly no place being applied to the very people who enforce the law which doesn't give us the same benefit.

Mens Rea is a tyrants argument if it doesn't apply to everyone.

Wait so, distros are using systemd because redhat chose it.... meaning a big enough player pushed it? However, this is NOT the case for upstart, which, is what Redhat chose last time and is replacing systemd with now?

Exactly this. How many other professions would look you right in the eye and claim its not their fault that they don't understand the parameters of their own job!

If there is ANYTHING a cop should be a fucking expert on, its when he can and can't arrest someone. If he isn't, then that really is negligence. On his part, on his departments part. If they really are that incompetent they don't deserve to be cops.

What is it? An outdated concept that has clearly failed us.

I understand the academic argument, I just don't see how people look at the results and claim its still valid reasoning.

This. One thing I have never understood this sequence:

1. Cop searches car illegal.
2. Court tosses out evidence.

So far so good. No qualms there with the court....

3. Cop is NOT charged with a crime, continues working

That never made any sense. If the search was illegal, he didn't have the authority to do it...so it was....by very definition....outside the parameters of his job. He was NOT acting as a police officer if he was conducting an illegal search.

In fact, if anything he was denying a person their civil rights under color of law....which is a felony. Why should he NOT be charged? Why should a prosecutor even be allowed to know about such an event and not bring up charges?

And no, I am in now way saying such evidence should be used.... I understand fruit of a poisined treee, I just don't understand allowing trees to be poisoned and hoping nobody notices next time.

Bullshit. The courts only "agree" because he took a plea bargain. You can't actually take anything of value from that, esepcially in a country where the law is structured to allow major trumping up of charges if one refuses to take a deal.... even people who believe they are innocent often plead guilty in the face of that.

ROTFL you mean an underpaid, overworked public defender who doesn't barely have time to actually represent you? yah that works real well. Public defeders are barely adequet for a plea bargain most of the time. Shit a friend of mine had one and when he sat down with her she hadn't even bothered to look at his case.

This "justice system" is 99% scam jobs program

reminds me a lot of a guy who lives in NH. He was a pot dealer who was a member of a local political group that the feds wanted to keep tabs on. So what did they do? They offered a heroin dealer a wrist slap if he would help nail the pot dealer.

The pot dealer gets nabbed, and told he will be given a sweetheart deal if he spys on the policitcal group...he says no so they railroad the fuck out of him to make an example of what happens when you don't act like the sniveling peon you are.

I guess one needs to actually work for you to find out why its crap.

I don't work with C much but generally speaking, that looks really clear and easy to follow to me. The case
itself may be simple enough to use a return statement directly in place of the goto but, if you needed to do any further massaging of the output that was common to all/most return paths, that goto seems like a fine way to do it to me....or do you want to put that in yet another function and let the compiler handle optimizing/inlining if need be?

I was wondering that too, but, there is another one.... what if the real issue was simply Djikstra's underestimation of how obvious the pitfalls with goto are.

Its easy to accidentally cut yourself with a knife, its also easy to see the danger and most people learn to use one without cutting themselves pretty quickly. The pitfalls are easy to see, and making mistakes causes pain.... much like Goto.

The problems with it are easy to see if you just use it a few times. I learned to use goto in applesoft basic, after my first session of learning C, it was obvious I would never want to use goto again.

In fact, after learning a bit of C, it was far less obvious that I would want goto at all than that I would generally not.

You know, I never gave it too muich thought but, I have really good vision (better than 20/20). So while I have never been up close and personal with a real movie house screen, from my seat, with the projector off, I have noticed they seem to not be flat white but appear to have lots of holes in them. I wonder now if what I was noticing was some feature fordealing with contrast.

Yes I understand that is their opinion, one of the many reasons I see Washington as little more than a gang my state should be separating from.

Actually the numbers themselves are almost meaningless but are a nice general gauge, especially when they are user reviews.

The correct way, I think, to use them is to look for a few high scores, and then read the low and medium score reviews. Are the 1 star reviews people who don't even like this type of game? Thats actually a GOOD sign of a decent game.

Are the 1 star reviews complaining about bugs and play control? Watch out.

Overall though, after checking this stuff out, I almost always watch at least the first 5-10 minutes of gameplay walkthrough before deciding to buy. I hate being duped by cutscenes.

Did that actually sound clever or make sense when you posted it? I don't know what more to say other than you clearly don't seem to understand some very basic concepts to such an amazing level I don't even feel I have the time to begin.