There are in excess of 800k Police/Sheriff/Highway Patrol officers in the US. 50 doing bad things or even 500 is a very tiny percentage. Look at other professions and plot the sizable percentage that go rogue. I wonder what the % of CEO/CIO that commit fraud and embezzle is. Cops that go bad SHOULD be nailed to the wall, but quit painting everyone the same color as the crooks.
On another note Flock is a great tool provided it is strongly regulated. What they are doing today is crap. You need a writ or a warrant to get info on anyone...

FT or Field Training is 12 months AFTER a 14-18 week boot camp academy. You can be let go for any reason during your FT. That seems like a fairly robust training and guidance period. What other countries are you referring to ? All police in the world operate with "qualified immunity" not would not be possible to do the job without i.t

Yeah, it's going to be hard to establish a plausible positive ROI for interstellar travel. I think even public funding for probes will be problematic, since it will take years just to get flyby photos. Probably the first flyby will be funded by some rich guy.

If the Feds want to protect children from sex, why don't thy start by telling the DoJ to prosecute the Epstein bros instead of protecting them?

Born yesterday, I presume?

We should pass around a hat for all those rich people who didn't richer as fast as they expected to.

Then what happened?

It is a nice thought but nothing more than that. Not even enough for a bad cup of coffee each.

And their honeycomb really attracts the Martian bears!

Can't you buy elk lottery tickets online?

You just made my day

You can't help it that your country is sanctioned, but this is what sanctions mean... It's a very broad weapon and hits indiscriminately.

You can hardly blame Google for that. What you can blame them for is being a monopoly which, if remedied, would also possibly make the sanctions less useful.

That is rather an American point of view.

The US constitution only protects citizen's rights in dealings the government. In most other countries, human rights are also protected when dealing with businesses and citizens.

If children are barred from speaking, how is this not a freedom of speech matter? You have to be able to speak first before government can punish you for it!

"We know that people uniquely trust Google Earth" Anyone who trusts ANYTHING Gurgle puts out is foolish. Everything Gurgle does is for profit.

because you don't have any idea where it got its "facts" from.

With a link you can (roughly) judge the credibility of the source. I.e., did the "facts" come from published research or some nobody on social media. Or some known propaganda outlet.