Most small time drug dealers are just feeding their own habbit and can't afford to buy enough at once to actually make more than they use themselves.

And either way, fuck you for thinking its ok to threaten someone with violence and rob them...for any fucking reason. There is no excuse, I don't give a shit what he was doing.

His "crime" doesn't even have a victim; theirs does.

This is one of the things that pisses me off about droids as awell. I bought the fucking hardware, its my phone. If I break it, I buy a new one. So why don't I have access to the root acount. I don't want to run everythng as root, but I shouldn't need an exploit to get it and run apps that need it.

And maybe, if they designed with that access in mind, and didn't make people use exploits to get root access....maybe if they stopped treating it like hardare I was borrowing instead of buying we could have mechanisms to deal with this access better.

In theory I agree, in practice, this requirement is imposed by the intersection of the other stated requirement "privacy" and the necessary capabilities of the device known as a "smart phone".

You can't really have a device that does what a smart phone does and isn't a privacy risk without some sort of hard power disconnect.

You could, otoh, leave the phone in another room, or lock it inside a soundproof box. There are many solutiuons but none of them involve "hit the soft off switch and put it in your pocket"

If you really need privacy, you pull the phone battery....and if you might need privacy, you don't buy a phone that can't have its battery pulled.

Not really any solutions, as long as people are walking around with what amount to wireless microphones in their pockets this will always be a potetial problem.

Except, if they are that advanced they likely wouldn't even bother. We would be far more likely to not even see it as an invasion, hell they wouldn't even see it as an invasion.....no more than we see it as an invasion when we bleach the toilet.

If anything we are far more likely to have them giving us their version of the smallpox infested blankets.

The real problem is size. Make the system big enough spanning enough territory and enough people and it can be so distant from them as to basically be an abstract.

I did a quick back of the envelope calculation once looking at approximate number of eligible voters at the country's founding, vs now and number of federal reps/senators then and now. Do you have any concept of how the system has utterly failed to scale?

for representation levels to be similar to the founding.... we would need approximately 100k people....IN CONGRESS.

The idea that around 500 or so people can represent 300 million is just absolute farce. They couldn't hope to if they even wanted to.

I think Kruchev said it best "Politicians are the same all over; they promise to build a bridge, even where there is no river".

Doesn't matter what the claimed ideology, doesn't matter the system, people in power will say whatever they have to say, truth or not, sequitor or not, if it means staying in power. Power and principles are mostly mutually exclusive.

As an American myself, I really can't find any fault there. I have been saying basically the same to my countrymen for years. That said, its not us.....its the Aristocratic ruling class that we wont admit exists.

I only disagree in that, version control just isn't that hard and doesn't take that much education to get started with. A lot of the problem really is more about it looking intimidating with a couple of new terms people need to get used to. I could show a person how to use git as a normal user in about 5 minutes.

Couple it with a system like maven and who needs sharepoint? Sure its a bit more setup work for the admin but, its very flexible and easy to use.

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.