I think the idea is to pay new cops more, not the old already highest paid cops even more.
Something like double the hiring salary, then cut pay raises from seniority in half.

There was a single specific police department right next to the FBI HQ that decided they didn't want anybody over 135(?) IQ because the FBI would sniper them the moment they got a year's experience.

email is simple....I don't need something to Auto sort or manipulate my incoming or outgoing emails.

I don't like a fucking web interface...never as clean and snappy as the local app based version.

I don't need Clippy or Copilot helping me with it....

But they'll last forever and can be resoled as needed....

My country is about to destroy what we call the voting rights act

You are NOT AN AMERICAN and do not even live here in the US.

Please quit trying to portray yourself as such....JFC.....this gets old.

You have no say in how we run ourselves....

I want a way to TURN THEM OFF completely.....

Right, but as I just said obeying a disallow directive isn't legally mandatory, so it doesn't mean much.

The difference depends on context, of course.

Generally speaking there are several cases to consider:

(1) Site requires agreeing on terms of service before browser can access content. In this case, scraping is a clear violation.

(2) Site terms of service forbid scraping content, but human visitors can view content and ...
(2a) site takes technical measures to exclude bots. In this case scraping is a no-no, but for a different reason: it violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
(2b) site takes no technical measures to exclude bots. In this case, the answer is unclear, and may depend on the specific jurisdiction (e.g. circuit court).

(3) Site has a robots.txt file and ...
(3a) robots.txt allows scraping. In this case, even if the terms of service forbid scraping, the permission given here helps the scraper's defense.
(3b) robots.txt forbids scraping. In this case obeying robots.txt isn't in itself legally mandatory, but it may affect your case if the site takes other anti-scraping measures.

Not *explicitly*. Offering such a database would be an invitation for people to look at the whole data broker industry. So what you, as a databroker who tracks and piegeonholes every human being who uses the Internet to a fare-the-well, do to tap into the market for lists of gullible yokels? You offer your customer, literally anyone with money, the ability to zero in on the gullible by choosing appropriate proxies.

For example, you can get a list of everyone who has searched for "purchasing real estate with no money down". Sad people who buy colloidal silver and herbal male enhancement products. People who buy terrible crypto assets like NFTs and memecoins. Nutters who spend a lot of time on conspiracy theory sites.

It's kind of like doxxing someone. You might not be able to find out directly that John Doe lives on Maple St and works for ACME services, but you can piece it together by the traces he leaves online. Only you do it to populations wholesale.

I had to double check to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

Seriously, WTF would anyone need a bed hooked to the fucking internet?!?!?

Maybe the US needs to start electing adults to fix things. Although you may no longer have that option.

Govt. Ineptness is NOT a new thing in the US....it's been around since I was born.

And seriously, you can drop the stupid "kings, no more elections " thing....it's getting old and it's just not even a concern.

If it were the case, it's the worst attempt at a dictator ship I've ever seen.....this administration is freeing up oppressive gun legislation the libs have been pushing for years.....protests are still allowed (except when they turn violent).....and I see no suppression of speech, unlike the previous admin.

If for some reason Trump was trying to overtake the govt....he really isn't doing the first things you'd need to do for that end goal.

Imagine being able to get the medical care you need without having to worry about it bankrupting you.

That's already the case with me. I have decent insurance through work....

Hell, I recently had to have surgery, and it didn't break the bank at all.

And I guess you're lucky over there for here dealing with the DMV is generally an all day cluster fuck, if you can get lucky and only deal with it 1 days.

There are some things the govt needs to do, by necessity that private could not do it...ie Defense, etc.

But I have yet to find anything offered or managed by the govt. (City, State or Fed) in the US that they do better and more efficiently than the private sectors.

BMVs/DMVs are state level, not fed. Only thing the fed has involvement in at that level is interstate CDLs.

It's an allegory, just an example of "A" govt entity that is almost universally known to be bad, inefficient and generally crummy.

The fed offices are not any better...last time I had to go into the Social Security office, I think for Real ID....what a fucking nightmare...took almost all day just to get an official copy of my SS card lost in Katrina.

There are a number of other agency examples....none of them positive.

People who have taken driver's ed still make damn foolish mistakes. As is Waymo currently has a lower accident rate per mile driven than humans do on average.

As such, I consider 'we were made aware of the problem and deployed a fix' to be an acceptable outcome. Much like a teenager who just upgraded from a learner's permit, they should keep improving.

As they keep identifying and fixing bugs, IE incorrect driving decisions, the rate should keep dropping until they're better than all but the best human drivers.