In the era of ubiquitous data mining, all those situations are knowable, and a display or speaker will be able to specially craft the exact phrase you want to hear, but aren't consciously aware of what you want to hear.

The extra paid is a finders fee to meeting other similarly buzzed people, and perhaps some of them would want to have sex with you before your night is over.

Looks like you'll have to chat up the robot maintenance guy instead.

If the dash cams prove anything, the footage will always be "missing" in those events, or abuses will happen in the dead-zones that, of course, the corrupt officers will know of and tell each other about.

So get crackin', ye of thin skin.

Because it tells you how much extra headroom is available in rendering that screen, and if all the cards render current games at monitor refresh speeds, you can't really gauge how fast they are with respect to each other. Think of it as futureproofing.

Then consider futureproofing as a scam anyway, because no matter how "futureproof" it is, some new feature or extension will come out that won't be supported, even if it required no extra silicon.

Why offer the feature if it's stripped, gimped, and only partially functional? Unless it's ammunition for the Feature Checkbox Wars.

There's a reason why you don't make deals with the devil.

The problem isn't that crowdsourcing fingered too many of the wrong people, the problem is that all the photographic evidence was transparent and all the investigation was opaque.

People can therefore only spot potential suspects, and it takes investigation and cross referencing to rule them out or not. All that investigation stuff is secret, so it's no wonder people start shouting about mob justice when it appears the investigators aren't even investigating when, the truth is, they've already investigated that angle.

The crowdsourcing shows that no detail will be left unexposed, but in order for that to be helpful, the other side of the research has to be exposed also.

No originality points, but +100 full grasp of reality points.

I guess that second one was so she could claim fursecution when not hired.

I'd love to figure out how they can enforce universal background checks without a database. At some point in a criminal investigation, they're going to have to check if (gun->currentOwner() == gun->backgroundCheckedOwner())....

Then you don't know if it's bullshit. If I'm going to toss statistics around I want to be sure I'm not spreading lies, but that's just me. It's certainly feasible for someone with an axe to grind to simply not care.

But he said reasonable background checks.

LOL, kidding, that's probably the greatest weasel word ever to disguise tyranny.

The checks and balances are to blame, too. The Supreme Court has been declining to hear cases that are paramount to our liberties protected in the Constitution, and the cases they do hear are most often split down conservative/liberal lines instead of what the law actually is. The system can't possibly work when 1/3 are corrupt, 1/3 is a megalomaniac, and 1/3 is phoning it in. I'll leave it to you to decide which branch is which.