No. Because what you are saying isn't true. And even if it was *sort of* true, then every "good" cop that stands behind and protects the "bad" cops makes a lie of them being "good." They are not just everyday people - everyday people do not have guns, a badge and a massive, built-up immunity to using force against other citizens regardless of the reason or the outcome. Seeing it your simplistic and flowery way is pure fantasy.

In the Nuremberg trials, they explicitly mentioned electrical torture methods as being particularly heinous and despicable.

I can only nod my head and sigh, friend...

This is entirely true. I have had friends and acquaintances that are cops. Not only are they some of the worst offenders, I and other people have found out first-hand why it's not a good idea to befriend a cop. If they decide for some reason that they don't like you (say you start dating their younger sister) or you have a falling-out in general, they can and very well may make your life a living hell. They have all the tools they need to do it, facts be-damned.

The ones that have made society an us-and-them situation isn't society.

excellent post

This is computer neophytes telling IT how things work.

Like the pigs running the farm. Like the inmates running the asylum.

Like councillors up to their ears in that Microsoft bribe money.

I've wondered several times to myself if this was possible. I figured no, since the torrent clients / seeds participate in an ACK system of sorts (or, so I've reasoned), so the sending clients would not get a return and so wouldn't keep bothering. But then, this *IS* possible to a torrent client which clicks on a carefully formed link and always was. Ever click on a link that has 40,000+ peers and/or seeds on it?

I think it all depends on whether you are the kind of person that requires human technical support or not. A lot of people do.

Getting a malware attachment by email has NOTHING AT ALL to do with their server. If someone had hacked their server and was doing it, then fine... but the two issues do not go hand in hand in any way.

The truth is what people want, even now, is a version of XP that installs nicely on new hardware. And is better at doing useful things - like file copies that don't lock up the computer despite the CPU/s being nearly free.

Sometimes I think the governments are simply trying to spend themselves into the kind of debt that breaks the banking system. But that doesn't seem to be happening.

I'm afraid this is true, at the moment. Kolab has never been a workable or even working project, in my opinion. Which is really, really sad.

...ISPs do not care about file sharing much. People usually set a reasonable rate and download sporadically and through all times of the day. Most of these people don't want the data NOW RIGHT NOW and they aren't expecting live 4K video with zero stutter. Streaming content is a *BITCH* for ISPs because it's all lumped together at the same time of day - evening entertainment - and the customers want flawless video streaming at full rate in the highest resolutions possible. To multiple devices in the home, at the same time. And they do their best to convince the ISPs that they should support the home network and smart televisions, too (ISPs are having none of it, and for good reason).

They want it unlimited, as well. Free, if they could.

This really is a red herring. Streaming is what makes the Internet creak under the strain. It's essentially the worst possible, most expensive, most prone to issues way to distribute video to a wide market. Satellite broadcast is positively cheap, compared.

This is not true. Or it's only true if the drivers and game procedures are specifically optimised for DirectX.

Ehhhhhh...... Gnome has always had that "pretty but vacuous" look to it, kinda like one of my ex.