I don't think either the OP or I are categorizing theft as violent robbery. Theft is different from robbery. Theft is property crime (stealing a phone out of a purse or off a table) while robbery is violent crime (using a weapon or threats to the person). What we're talking about is robbery, plain and simple. …

You said, "I have yet to find data on how many stolen phones fall into each group" and then said "I'm sure they happen, but do they happen enough that we need to put a self destruct feature ... I say, emphatically, no."

By your own admission, you can't find concrete data, yet you still come to a conclusion. I obviously can't convince you when you're looking for data to support your conclusion, rather than letting the data lead you to a conclusion. I'm not saying I disagree with your conclusion, only your methodology.

I think the phones are the target. Robberies have been increasing in my neighborhood for the past few years, as our police force has been cut by 25%. Phones are easy to move and easy to obtain. Will kill switches stop all robberies? Of course not. But you were calling bullshit on the OP about people targeted for…

Oh, they steal your wallet too! Sometimes, the threaten you with a knife or a gun. Sometimes, they surround you in a group and give you a beat down. Sometimes, they just surround you in a group and ask nicely that you hand over all your shit. Generally, this stuff happens late at night, but they've been getting…

You must not live in a big city. This shit happens all the time in my neighborhood in Chicago.

Very well stated!

Chikan hentai?

You need to check your math.

The guys at Red Letter Media perform a very good take down of it, too.

Of course, all things considered, a complete and utter disaster was narrowly avoided in the editing room.

Agreed. Aside from the eye-rolling heart transplant in the finale, I enjoyed that movie much more than most other people, as well.

As one of the other highly recommended commenters said, this sets precedence. When net neutrality is dead and buried, the big guys are going to turn the internet into this:

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I already did. You can call it Logical Fallacies 2.0, but trusting the top search engine results seems like a technological appeal to authority. The authority, in this case, is Google, not the author of the article.

I don't think that problem is solely the domain of the young. I find most people have very poor critical thinking skills these days.

Here, too. Just sent this to my girlfriend. She always complains that I enjoy managing my queue more than I enjoy watching it. Honestly, I think she's right.

"The more I explored, the more none of it made sense. I had always felt out of place, and it wasn't until I stepped outside of religion completely that I felt at peace and like I was really myself."