Yeah! So what we need is a law that allows any corporation to confiscate any car or truck that they claim has any stolen goods in it, or has been used or is likely to be used to carry stolen goods without proof or judicial oversight on those claims.

"We think that Volkswagen over there might have had stolen candy in it, Volkswagens are hippy cars. Confiscate it. And that van over there... you can see those people in the van are singing and I'll bet they haven't licensed the song they are singing for a public performance. Confiscate the van. And that pickup driven by my competitor? Must be something stolen in there. Confiscate it."

1) Judges would get pretty annoyed with cops who continually arrested people without some basis, however thin.
2) The harassment factor is much higher if the cop arrests you with something that can stick, that you can't disprove, or that you are actually guilt of.

Wloud you lkie fires wtih taht?

> Just flashing my eyes across the screen shouldn't push enough bandwidth to actually OCR the page

I often have the experience that my eyes glance across some papers on a desk and I notice an interesting word or phrase is in there somewhere but I have no idea *which* paper it is on. I would have to read through everything looking for it.

My father was a cop, and he would tell us this exact thing. There are enough laws that they (the cops) could find some laws anyone has broken and basically arrest anybody they wanted at any time.

> face penalties for spoilation of evidence
> Note: I am NOT a lawyer

No, clearly you aren't. It's "SPOLiation of evidence", not "SPOILation".
But everyone knows what you meant, so my point is mute.

> the "good cops" make up more than 20% of the force at any given precinct across the country.

Those 20% are covering up for the "bad eggs", which puts them squarely in the "bad egg" category as well.

I wouldn't want to be in #occupy-Houston right now...

"An investigation has determined that police acted correctly when shooting protesters from unmanned aerial drones to protect citizens from unsanitary conditions in the park"

How absurd,

No, of course Microsoft cannot "control" me into buying a Zune. What does that have do to with a chemical corporation controlling congressmen into quietly passing a bill that waives environmental restrictions on dumping toxins into a river? Or prison corporations controlling lobbyists that push for harsher Marijuana laws to expand their prisons? Or every single law passed by "OUR" government being ghost-written by corporate lobbyists?

> Something tells me they're going to do with this that they did with the xbox: burn money until it takes hold. MS absolutely doesn't want to be pushed completely out of the smartphone space, which is a primary driver for them attacking Android.

If Microsoft had any faith in their ability to make great products, they would have been one of the first to jump on Android and made a must-have Android phone that kicks the iPhones arse. It would have included all kinds of proprietary Microsoft secret sauce that made it integrate seamlessly with Windows desktops, which like it or not 90% of us have.

Many of us would have given it a chance because we wanted something that worked well with our desktops.

But instead Microsoft revealed their deepest fear that they cannot make a decent product and cannot compete on a level playing field against more creative companies. They invented their own and are trying to win by making deals with other companies to spread fear and doubt about patents and lawsuits.

Last week I got to play with a Windows phone for the first time. It had a START button that filled the screen with program names. I clicked around until I got a cryptic error about a device driver.

Why would anyone ever want that on a phone?

I heard the gingers are trying to recruit as well. They are using slideshows, children's books and red-head radio talk shows to try and convince us they aren't evil. I thought my will was strong, but the other day I hesitated in front of a bottle of red hair dye in the supermarket.

"Daddy, my toy won't print. I need help finding which of my vertexes' normal vector is non-manifold."

Yes, please... in terms we can all understand: How many libraries of congress will it cost?

Yeah, I never got the love for Superman either. Nothing can hurt him, so how is he heroic?

It used to crack me up when the old black-and-white Superman TV show had him stand there chest out while the bad guys shot at him, then when they ran out of bullets and threw the gun at him HE WOULD DUCK to dodge the thrown gun!?