If I ever wanted to follow a career in law enforcement - I would only even CONSIDER doing it in a country where teh police do NOT carry guns.

That's most civilized countries.

Intriguingly it doesn't seem to cause the anarchy you seem to fear it would. The UK doesn't arm police - they ONLY get given guns for specific, known-dangerous operations and have to give them back after the op.
They patrol unarmed.

Since 2000 only 3 people have been shot by police in the UK - and nobody is therefore accusing the UK police of being trigger happy and wondering if there is maybe too many for it all to be legitimate ?
Oh, and they have a LOT less cops who GET shot than the US police as well.

So, to answer your question - I would refuse to be a cop WITH a gun.

Where is the evidence that he had an assault record ? Oh right, he didn't.

Even if you are right about guns. So. Fucking. What.

He was American - he had a constitutional right to own a gun if he wanted to.

You do know that black people have that right as well ? Right ?

Amazing how the SAME people who keep fighting even the most basic of common sense gun regulations ALSO keep claiming that "I thought he had a gun" is a justification for killing somebody !

And what exactly was Tamir Rice guilty off ? 12-year old kid with a BB-gun. Even if it had been a REAL gun - why shoot him ? Isn't gun rights supposed to be enshrined in the constitution ?

It's not like he was threatening anybody, there's video that shows he did nothing wrong.

For that matter, what exactly did John Crawford do wrong ?

I could keep going -but the fact is even if you were right about Brown - I can list a hundred names of people killed where it's absolutely, provable that they did nothing wrong- and where no cop faced any justice.

Where exactly is it being "forced" onto anybody's roof ? People are offered a deal, they can either take it or leave it.

More like second-in-charge of their legal department. Considering how Verizon loves to sue the F.C.C. - it's entirely likely that, in quite a few lawsuits, the current head of the F.C.C. was the main company lawyer for the plaintiff (although it's unlikely he acted in court directly - that usually gets farmed out to specialised trial lawyers but those work very closely with in-house council in lawsuits).

Not that this is particularly unusual now. The current head of the EPA had previously sued the EPA 14 times !

It's not accurate to call this a "relaxing of federal rules" - if anything it's a retightening of federal rules that were recently relaxed !

And if he's "trust telco provider" is Verizon I'm not even sure that's true. The company has been rated "worst company in America" for 3 years running.

People trust used car dealers more than they trust telcos for fucks sake ! And nobody trusts a used car dealer.

Now whether people in general trust congress more or less (or just trust the other party's congresspeople more or less) I don't know - but an apples to apples comparison is really to compare telcos to other businesses - and there is no business less trusted than telcos anyway.

Your mistake is to think that regulations are anything other than law and order to ensure civility.

That's exactly what they are, so by your own definition, this IS part of government's job. Just because the particular type of laws are specialized to deal some unique circumstances that don't really exist with individuals doesn't make them any less about maintaining order and civility.

You can poison somebody, maybe a few if you are very good at getting away with it. A corporation can poison millions of people in a day for about a penny each and consider it well worth while, all while shielded by limited liability laws (which to be fair, may actually have some merit and could indeed be as claimed much more good than bad). That's a unique circumstance - so we make specialized laws for that circumstance.

If I have a complaint about regulation it's that it tends to go in the opposite direction of where it should: we shouldn't have less regulation, we should make the punishment for violating existing regulations much, much harsher.
The principle of equality before the law demands that, if a company does anything bad, it's CEO should face the same punishment I would face for doing the same thing - multiplied by the much larger number of victims.

When every CEO who dumps toxic waste in a river gets the same death penalty (or life in prison) I would get if I poisoned you - nobody will dump toxins in a river.
The problem with regulation is that it, all too often, allows the CEO to get away with a fine for crimes that you and I would get a lifetime in prison or even executed for.
That problem however cannot be fixed with deregulation - it can only be fixed by making the punishment for violating regulations much, much harder so it's in line with criminal law.

how all lawmakers are exactly the same on every issue.

Go on, say it.

I dare you.

Today I learned that "conversations of slashdot" are consider "coding" by some people...

I'll give you the reason Thomas Jefferson gave when he first proposed an estate tax: to protect America from the tendency of society to develop aristocracies.

Til trying to avert a deadly catastrophe using a 30 year old law is a 'power grab'.

Even if you are right it doesn't follow that text config files belong in /usr/lib does it? That's where libraries go. At the very least if it had to be under /usr it ought to have been in /usr/share/SystemD

Upstart was in no way system V like, it had a backwards compatibility feature that led system V scripts work but that was only for non-updated third party software. Upstart's own system used config files, not scripts. Its wrapper utility commands were compatible with older ones created for system V but were drop in replacement code. Upstart was parallel capable, sensibly structured (dependency model) and fast. It was the right way to improve init. And it was just init. Upstart didn't mess with anything else.
Capturing stdout was never actually a good thing. It's not supposed to be logged. It's supposed to be read live if you manually start a command and contain information only useful in that scenario. A well written daemon will not write anything to stdout at all unless you specify foreground running in which case it should give debug level info.

I didn't work with gentoo's init enough to comment on it.

Supervisord is a prime example of why systemD is a bad design. It's a terrible init approach... For almost but not quite every use case. But for what it is designed for its absolutely brilliant, indeed better than anything else I have seen.

Thats exactly where systemD annoys me, no single program can ever be the best for every use case, so having a program that is so tightly coupled to so much of the system that it's hardly possible to replace it (and trying means weird breakages in utterly unrelated software) is terrible because it inevitably forces a bunch of use case to use inferior software.

We have apache and nginx and haproxy and there is great overlap in what they do but none can fully replace the others. Haproxy is simply a better load balancer than the others if your use case is complex because it's specialized and thus has far more powerful features. Apache is still better at doing things like tomcat hosting and nginx is deservedly popular because it's great.
But nothing in nginx says if I use it for web hosting I cannot use haproxy for load balancing despite nginx also having loads balancing features. If I need the extra power of the specialized tool nothing in either stops me combining them.
That's how it should be. The job should dictate the tool, nothing else. There must be standards about how tools talk to each other, how they respond to signals etc. But never standard tools. The task should determine the tool and no tool should make it difficult to swap out a component when a task would be better served by a different one.
There is no such thing as a best program. There is only the best program for what I am doing right now.

I've never found journalctl to contain anything that wasn't in /var/log - but if you only checked one file in a folder full of logs you'd likely have missed things.

And if you recall, I said in my original post that System-V had issues - you mention one of the worst, I just don't think SystemD was the best answer available - it wasn't even in the top-5 best alternatives that were available at the time. Personally I think upstart was but there were several other very good ones, and none of them should have been in EVERY distro - each distro should have been using the one best suited to the use-cases and target markets that distro was aimed at.