While I won't comment on everything...

Bullshit. Repeat after me: "I do not consent to a search"

The cops can ASK you if they can search you, your car, etc all they want. Without a warrant or evidence that a crime is being committed, they CANNOT search your person or property without your consent.

I do not consent to a search. Know your rights!

I want to comment on one particular point...

Emphasis of course mine.

It depends on your definition of "about to kill more", and it changed between your two posts. In your first post, he was "preparing to kill more", in your second he is "about to kill more". And in that line is whether or not the SWAT team is justified in killing the suspect.

If they raid his house and find bomb making supplies, arms, etc...but the guy is otherwise non-violent at that point in time, you're goddamn right they're violating the constitution by shooting him (preparing to kill more). If he has a gun in his hands, or a bomb strapped to his chest, or other similar scenario, then the SWAT team is entirely justified in killing the bastard, because inaction right there in that moment could result in more deaths (about to kill more).

And that's kinda the rub...I of course think every one of these terrorist sons of bitches should be hunted down and killed...but not without proof that they're terrorist sons of bitches and that inaction will cause a near or perceived immediate loss of life.

Unilateral action without either proof or immediate danager, as far as I'm concerned, is an act of aggression, and the USA should be held by the balls if they do that. On the other hand, if you have the proof, or an immediate threat on the lives of others, then it is a defensive act, which we should (and do) have the right to do under international law.

Actually, if Apple was smart about this, they could open up a bigass revenue stream for both themselves and 3rd parties...

Licence the magsafe adapter (Yeah, I know, unlikely, but hear me out) for a hefty sum to a number of quality 3rd parties, but do NOT license the crypto power brick.

That way, we, as the consumer, can purchase a non-crypto power brick to carry with us when we travel, leaving the crypto power brick safely at home where it belongs.

Of course, this is Apple, so they'll be smart towards only their own bottom line...they'll make 2 power brick themselves - and worse yet, they'll do it the most consumer unfriendly way...the crypto power brick will be an addon to your order, with only the non-crypto power brick being sold with the system - effectively mostly-forcing every Mac owner to have 2 power bricks at an extra expense.

Option #1. Every time.

Who the fuck would want Option #2?

I can go without making a transaction at Store_ATM_001345716 at a given moment.

Oh please.

The best argument you can make on that line is that it "covers the ass of an HR drone too stupid to actually think and even test a potential applicant on their claims of knowledge".

That piece of paper...certificate, degree, whatever...is a fucking useless pile of garbage not even worthy to wipe one's ass with. ALL it tells you is that X Individual spent some amount of time and was able to somehow "Pass" a certain number of courses, some of which related to Degree Z.

That's it. It doesn't tell you that Individual X actually knows shit about fuck, whether life or the job you are employing them in. It doesn't tell you if the guy spent 4 years on a degree...or took 15 to get a Bachelor of Sucking Cock. It doesn't tell you if they know shit about Subject Z, or cheated their way to that piece of paper.

HR drones use these stupid pieces of paper so when Applicant X is a giant fuckwit they can come back with "But he has a degree in Dicksucking! I assumed he would be a good dicksucker!" and hopefully shield the fact that they are just as stupid, useless, and should be fired for being incompetant HR boobs.

Fucking spend time getting to know an applicant. Fucking TEST THEM with real-world problems they will face day-to-day. I have a fucking idiot I work with that has a fancy-schmancy business degree from a goddamn good school that can't fucking think of how to get out of a wet paper bag...they're fucking useless. But hey! They have a degree....

Speaks volumes for the good of the degree, doesn't it?

And that, really, is precisely my point. And the universities DO get it, although most of the sheep going to university do not.

Colleges/Universities (which exception to the best of the best of the Ivory League) are even marketing ON the experience now. Meet friends that will last a lifetime! All that warm and fuzzy babble they spew to try to get you to spend your dollars at their institution. And in that, it has become an industry, rank with bullshit advertising, no different than the constant bull fighting between Coke and Pepsi...education has become less about the education you get and more about the college experience.

Well, if anyone reading is looking for the college experience, I can sum it up for you:

Get drunk. Fuck lots of people. Get VD - hopefully one treatable by a shot in the cock and not one that is uncureable. Get drunk more. Join a group of like-minded people to get drunk with. Copy lecture notes off of that one asshole that actually goes to class. Drink copious amounts of caffiene, commit all the spoon-fed bullshit to memory, and vomit it back up. Pay $100K over 4+ years, get a piece of paper that allows you to tick off a box on a job application.

Yeah, that's fucking valuable.

Oh, I even understand that...the giant hypocryte in me is back at fucking school taking a certification program...but it is one certificate that will open alot of doors for me.

Of course, that speaks nothing to the fact that my work experience and history already makes me MORE than fucking qualified for the work I want to be doing, but because of assholes in education selling stupid pieces of paper with fancy letters have convinced employers that I can't do the fucking job without the stupid piece of paper I have to go get the stupid fucking piece of paper.

The (post-secondary) education industry is a fucking joke...they're marketing companies for the most part...nothing more, nothing less. "Come to our school where everyone will see our name at the top of your stupid piece of paper you get at the end of it and think you're fucking awesome".

And everyone buys into what the big advertising engine tells them to do. I hate using the term, because it is far too overused...but if it wasn't for the sheeple believing in the bullshit the ads tell you, we could do away with the bullshit of education and get back to educating people.

Well, really....what IS the value of a college education today?

With the recession, so many people have gone back to school for graduate degrees that the Masters is rapidly becomming (if not already) the new Bachelor's degree.

But the reality of it all...it is complete bullshit. Going to college doesn't guarantee success, or even a career. Hell, it doesn't guarantee you sweet fuck all...you have taken 4 years and god only knows how much money that got you a piece of paper that suggests you should be able to do some task with some level of competency.

Now, if you're my doctor...yeah, I want you to have that piece of paper that says "M.D." on it. I want my lawyer to be able to read and interpet legalese (although, quite frankly, I do a better job of it than most of the lawyers I know). I want the engineer designing the bridge to have a P. Eng. and actually understand that shit, since lives are on the fucking line. But for a netadmin? You come in with a 4-year Bachelor of Science in CS looking to get an entry-level netadmin post I'm going to see you as vastly over-qualified and probably reject you flat out. Fuck, in my home province, it is mandatory for a librarian to have a minimum of a masters degree for a job that paid in 2004 less than 40K a year...make sense out of that fucker. The poor person we hired at the city the one year had something like $100K in student debt & pratically cried when she saw the offer.

The education bubble is the next great crash to come, where people finally stand up and realize that getting fleeced for $40K a year by an institution so that little Timmy can have a degree in Mediterranian Art which will serve him well while he cooks fucking fries at McD's for the rest of his life just isn't fucking worthwhile, and you will see a re-surgence of cheaper "technical schools" that teach you what you need to know in your chosen profession & fuck all the pretentious bullshit.

Of course, they (the schools) have "educated" us all on how special and unique and wonderful the fucking college experience is, and how shallow and empty your life will be if you don't go to university. Well seriously, fuck that shit. I drank beer, fucked girls, and even made the occasional class when I was in college. I could drink beer & hire a metric fuckton of whores for the prices universities charge today.

Education is an over-hyped over-valued industry, and it is just a matter of time till the public tells universities to go fuck themselves.

(As I funnel absurd amounts of my pay into college funds for the kids...yeah, I'm a fucking hypocrite)

Actually, apprently it does take a genius, because you don't get it.

If you buy an unlocked phone, it costs you more than a subsidized phone, without a doubt. But carrier-locking a phone doesn't change the fact that it is a subsidized phone, it just makes it useless to you when you have completed your contract.

The carrier-lock doesn't hold you to your contract. Your fucking contract holds you to your contract, with a penalty for early termination.

Nobody is suggesting that you can't still get a subsidized phone in this plan...just that you, as the consumer, get a unlocked phone and a contract.

Carrier locks are anti-competitive and does harm to the consumer.

THIS