The truly evil thing about heroin is it doesn't always kill you. Sometimes it just turns you into Keith Richards.

Munch is saying to one of the molesters.

Munch: I'm for gymnastics. The girls are younger, the outfits tighter.

Molester: Mmmm, the Swedish Horse. Don't get me started.

Then one of the molesters is moping with Munch.

Molester: Heartbreak, she got her driver's license, and well, that's when I learned I was a glorified taxi service.

Then one of the molesters says:

Molester You know. I hate to bring business into this. But I have some product out in my car if anybody's interested. You'll need a high speed graphic equalizer to download it

A "high speed graphic equalizer to download it"? What the fuck over!? What the fuck do you download with a ""high speed graphic equalizer"?

It then turns out that one of the molesters is actually an undercover FBI agent and the NYPD bust screwed up a major FBI investigation of internet paedophilia. The FBI and the NYPD get into a pissing contest which ends as a plea for interagency cooperation.

At one point Stabler puts some blocking software on his daughter's computer. In the way of ueber-hacking teens everywhere, the daughter knows how to defeat this software. Do teens really learn such things today? Are kids going around junior high schools and high schools (and perhaps even elementary schools!?) actively trading system exploits? If so I'd have to give today's kids a huge "hurrah!" for doing their best to fight back and subvert the bullshit authoritarian child rearing paradigms that are so prevalent these days.

The episode includes such dialog as:

Dann Florek: He solicited minors multiple times flesh and blood minors. These are someone's children for God's sake!

ADA: Don. I hear but you, but two years ago I didn't know my ass from Windows 95. Cyberspace crimes are very very tough to prosecute.

The show also includes such improbabilities as Benson and Stabler negotiating a plea deal with the defense attorney. Since when do cops negotiate plea deals with the suspects they are investigating? That strikes me as an incredibly huge conflict of interest as well as stomping all over the district attorney. Does such a thing actually exist in the real world?

It is truly awful but I have to keep watching. God save me from my compulsion to watch truly bad television such as this. It's like watching a really bad accident where you know you're going to see something truly horrible but you still have to watch.

nasty hideous plague that it is. It is obvious to me that there was absolutely no quality control work done on the performance of this upgrade with FireWire devices. None at all, if there had been you wouldn't be seeing the problems with FireWire devices that are currently being reported. I think that we should screw Apple the way that they've screwed us. How can we do this? Well, it's simple. Let's massively pirate this release of the OS. I realize that there may be consequences of this action ranging from legal action to Apple adopting some form of product activation such as Microsoft has with Windows XP. But Apple should not be allowed to get away with releasing a defective product that was insufficiently tested, some form of punishment is in order.

It's starting to feel normal. I can view Amazon somewhat dispassionately now. I still have to make a conscious effort not to say "we" when I'm talking to my friends who still work there as I am no longer part of that "we" (except in the sense that I am a stockholder). I think that I can handle a few more months of this before I start looking for work again.