What's worst about all this is that the oldest generations don't give a fuck. Anybody over forty right now could care less about what the police are doing. If you tell them what's going on with innocent people being killed, maimed, hurt, sexually assaulted, etc. they'll just say --

"Good! I like to hear my taxes are working!"

"Good! They're keeping us safe!"

That's why I love it every time I hear about some retiree getting the shit scared out of them and having their head smacked in by a gung-ho, drug-addicted SWAT team. I love hearing about these old worthless shit-eaters who are now sitting there, nursing their concussions, going --

"Oh my god, I was so wrong!"

"They're not police! They're m-m-monsters!"

"Look at this cut on my pretty financial-echelon face! Get my lawyer, I'm withdrawing my yearly donation to the FOP! Not my criminal lawyer you dipshit, my financial attorney! OOF! THE PIGS PUNCHED MY BALLS! Quick get the criminal, tooooo!"

ALL of these old, dried-out sacks of shit should have THEIR shit raided and THEIR asses kicked up and down their neighborhood streets, stripped nude, and then come back around and see if they still vote that way and still donate that money.

Drive the new police force tank up to most of those old fogey's houses and they just go "oh wow cool it's finally here!"

But I bet if they had to lay on the ground with a boot on their head for twenty minutes because they asked why they should be expected to wear handcuffs during a search of their house, and they'll think differently.

One of the above comments raises a great point: the police look, talk, and act like thugs. That's our community police we all get chided so often to hold so dear; but they consider themselves as gangsters "above the law". So how do you think they will choose their actions to portray their image? Police are likely to do the thuggest bullshit to a person just to present a tough-guy, no-holds-barred, untouchable image. It's not necessary, it's not strategically sound, it's not even sociable. It's just thuggery, and the only people interested in police work now-a-days are thugs. People who aren't thugs look into the courses, I'm sure, and if they aren't turned off by their classmates' presentation and attitude, then they get swiftly turned-about by their instructors for not "fitting in". The day isn't too far off when police accountability will be completely nil and police corruption won't be a flash in the pan but will be the daily mire for every community in America. If you don't think so, go ask some affluent, peaceful gardening town what they think of their village police force's latest SWAT team and urban assault vehicle. It's not even an urban area, why the fuck would they need an urban assault vehicle? It's a bunch of townhouses and Victorian cottages. But there you have it -- nobody's policing the police. When your nine year old boy asks for a rocket launcher for his birthday what do you tell him? "Sure, we'll put it in the budget"?

How little effect your shame has on those who are warring over square meters of dirt.

What's worst of all this, in my point of view, is that even when the syndrome is apparent in a person and that person is already being paid by the government for having a disability, and even when that syndrome is likely to be passed onto offspring ... ... it's still just peachy for them to have children. Two of them together, if they feel like it, though I've seen a lot of retarded guys slugging around with apparently healthy women. It must be very attractive to some women to see that steady, uninterrupted income guaranteed for life, and to jump for it.

At any rate, whether we "fix" it for a developed person or not, unless there's some rule against it, they're still going to have kids. They and their disabled children are still going to represent a demand for other peoples' money. The world is still going to creep towards an unsustainable population and they're still going to just lazily slug slide right on through all of it with little to no cares or worries.

That black hole really ripped one.

Whoever can patent firing a gun at your own skull first, wins. The trick is to show prior art, so hurry before you opponent gets it done.

* "I might" / "It might"

I might actually be trivial with practice, which is also (as you pointed out) not surprising. None of this is very surprising.

I'm guessing if you wanted to add a visiting vehicle's thrust, you'd first have to re-calculate the center of mass given the attached vehicle, and then calculate how much thrust -- and in what direction -- from that vehicle will produce what angles of rotation around which axes.

Not that I could do it all, but I think I might be close, and I can imagine the calculations that go into it and I am, frankly, not at all surprised even in an imaginary sense.

Soooooo to make sure this is always the case, Linus should obviously be reaching out to code obfuscators. Obviously legible, robust code is not at issue -- shorter, smaller code using more geeky twists and obfuscations is the best possible fucking idea for any huge, gigantic-ass code base.

I mean, I can understand getting pissed about new features being added. But obviously the point of a release candidate is to slowly compress and obfuscate the code into smaller and smaller renditions until it's humanly unreadable because, hell, fuck, god damn, that's how progress works in open-source land. Smaller = better.

Oh I dunno, maybe I'm talking out of my ass, here. For all we know, Linus' bottom line is that the same OS works on both smartphones and desktops.

It must have been easy to be Saint-like, knowing there were legions of essentially incarcerated Asians being forced to manufacture your products on the cheap.

I can see why your church authority, whoever the fuck that is, Partially Beautified and Nearly Canonized Steve Jobs so that he would be referred to as (at the very least) "Saint-like" by millions of hipster trash looking after his Departure from this Realm.

He was an ANGEL! *sob*