It's not about whether or not your politicians are crooked. It's about finding their preferred flavor of cookie.

Don't you mean flavour of biscuit?

Nukes are bad!

Flying is a privilege and not a right, so if you want to fly you have to put up with the TSA. Remember they are protecting us all.

One thing is to not allow for any company or organization to regularly automatically debit your account even when alive. It's best to have 100% control over that type of thing at all times. Other than that you'll be dead anyway, so you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

It's nice to see some potential competition for a change. IMO, for the past 2 decades the west has been getting way too soft.

Another problem in Europe is that not everyone is entitled to a degree but everyone has to pay taxes to support the lucky few that do. In Germany children as young as 10 are put on paths of either obtaining a degree or baking bread for the rest of their lives.

If they are law-abiding then the drones should not have to worry about drones. It's only criminals who should worry.

Texas cops are not violating anyone's freedoms, they are fighting crime and catching criminals. Didn't you know that?

You do realize that that would be breaking the law and you could get arrested.

People who predate the invention of the telephone do in fact sit on the bench.

According to Wikipedia that earliest public demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell telephone was in June 1876. While it's true that US Supreme Court judges are appointed for life I am not aware of any that are currently over the age of 135.

"complete and utter legal ignoramuses do not end up as high-level judges"

Nice appeal to authority there.

The general idea is good and would be quite interesting, but there appears to be just too much room for error in this "study". Ihr koennt's bestimmt noch viel besser

But Apple doesn't own the hardware that people purchased and they should not have the final decision as to what people load onto their own devices.

They got themselves into this mess by imposing editorial control over the iPhone in the first place. They made their bed, now they get to lie in it.
This is the real problem I have with Apple and the fact that they control whatever content gets loaded to what they see as "their" devices. I miss the days when just anyone with programming knowledge could write a program to run on a computer. Today's hardware is far too locked down and protected by draconian DRM and similar "laws." Apple and similar companies seem to think that they are leasing hardware rather than selling it.

Is the following scenario plausible?

Sometime close to midnight some newbie in the Twitter IT department is tasked with copying the data to a CD ROM for the Feds:.

23:59:
$cd TwitterLogsWithEvidence
$mv TwitterLogsWithEvidence /TempDirectory (Probably should have used the "cp" command.)

00:00:
Backgound system runs daily system clean-up routine and all data in /TempDirectory is deleted. (oops)