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To the rest of the human race. After all, most people are on ISIS hit list if you understand their theology.

"imagine the next Star Wars movie where Jedi prefer blasters"

Funny, I saw that last night in the Disney Star Wars Rebels Cartoon. A Padawan who actually built a blaster into his lightsaber- so that he had both ranged and hand-to-hand weaponry.

DS9, bad as it was, did a MUCH better job of showing the implications of Utopia, especially in the Sisko-extended-family story line.

There is already a plan for tracking every cell tower in the US (and possibly beyond) and identifying new towers as the appear. This would make it that any "new" tower would immediately be identified, traced, tracked and cataloged in a database, and not really trusted until such time as it is proven to be one added by one of the known carriers.

This would basically nullify the use of Stingray type MitM attacks on Cell towers.

No, I'm saying the bureaucracy is unresponsive to the citizens (rights and needs) it is supposed to serve. The government is more bureaucratic in nature than it is anything else. WE only elect people when to change it when we are sufficiently pissed off. Only it never really changes, since it serves its own self interest.

OK, and digging loose change out of your couch cushions is you making use of a banking platform.

Everybody involved here knows that "investment" means something very specific when you're handing money to a company to use in the formation and growth of their business. What happens when you funnel money towards a favored project through Kickstarter is no more an investment than losing some change in your couch is you making a bank deposit.

There's nothing wrong with Kickstarter or with people on both ends of the gift-giving making use of it. But it's not an investment. If you're one of these people that thinks you've just "invested" money when you go to see a movie, then the term - to you - is so absurdly broad as to have no meaning, especially not in the context of an actual discussion about business finance and project funding.

We don't have many cops as smart and observant as that one anymore.

Which is "hilarious", because landlords are specifically prohibited in most US states from entering their apartments without the permission of the tenant except in an emergency.

Thank you for pointing out why retaining the emails on government servers is necessary.

If, on the other hand, you are reminding us of this incident in order to excuse it through the "everybody does it" doctrine, kindly go pound sand.

In the USA, only the state and federal governments enjoy sovereign immunity. Any government officials in any capacity do NOT enjoy immunity from any ILLEGAL actions they took in office.

I'm not understanding how anyone could consider this to qualify as "push[ing] the rules to their limits". The emails were never archived, which was required by law. PERIOD. If she'd used her personal email, but used Google backup or something* and dumped the archive to IT on her way out, that would be "push[ing] the rules".

* We'll ignore how insecure that may be.

The problem is that everybody seems to defend the politicians on their side, no matter how immoral or corrupt they've proven themselves to be. Confirmation bias, I suppose.... it's always worse when the other person does it.

That!

I've had a number of arguments against certain candidates because they quite obviously lied... and partisan apologists for that candidate would say "yeah, but all politicians lie!" This has happened, of course, for politicians from every party... but it shows that far too many of us not only accept it, but condone it. "It's OK because it's the one I support... but if your candidate lies I'll never stop mentioning it!"

I remember when Bill lied to a grand jury, and there were far too many people who said "yeah, but who wouldn't in that situation?" I wouldn't... I wouldn't have been in that situation, either. Which leads us to the fact that it's not just politicians, it's a large (and growing) segment of our society that believes that lying and deceitful behavior, immorality and selfishness are OK.

There is no sense or morality or common decency anymore. Sure, most kids lie about their bad behavior, but it used to be that parents would punish them even worse for lying about it. Nowadays so many people don't want to punish their kids - they want to be "friends," that kids get away with anything by lying about it... and those kids grow up, and breed more kids just the same; they grow up to be politicians, businessmen, police officers, and all manner of people that we are supposed to be able to trust. I even had an argument with someone boasting about screwing up someone else... their defense was "there's no law against it." I had to ask "since when to common decency and common sense need to be written into law?"

There once was a senator from mass.
Who went out in search for a piece of asd
Lucked up and found it
But fucked up and drowned it
Even that didn't end his ass.