Cap guns were awesome, but I don't think I could ever give one to a child now in good conscience. Not because it would turn them into warmongering little Stalins or anything like that, but because I might end up hearing about the kid getting shot and killed by an officer who thought it "looked real enough".

The toy gun is disappearing? NERF guns are all the rage, inexpensive, cool, and fun. So much that BoomCo guns were made by the competition.

Cap guns were a big part of my childhood. Man what fun! You don't see many of the revolver with the round caps or the auto style with the rolled up snap paper. I remember you could go to the flea market and get the imported revolver cap gun, pull off the orange tip, and practically shoot yourself with tiny bits of…

I'll cross apply what I posted on Jalopnik.

Because for all its problems it's much better than the alternatives. Compare nyc cabs

Actually Uber only takes 5%, and $1.00 goes to the "safety fee" which does not come out of the $5 fare, which is really $6 to the customer, so the driver takes home $4.75 on a $5 fare... which you'd know if you actually drove for them, as you facetiously imply.

>Why should Uber invest in more stringent background checks when they're not required to do so by the government?

Hmmm... or people could just stop using their service till they do them and we can avoid all of the unnecessary government intrusion in the private markets

DDoS isn't hacking, for christs sake, damnit. Don't give these assclown lizard whatevers fat heads. DDoS is exactly > building a botnet > sicking it on something. Hackers call these turds their "DDoS bitch" for when they might want to take something down and don't want to feel all dirty and creepy doing it. Look it up…

Please don't retweet that...

Anyone else see those exaggerated numbers and think it's more likely to make some people think there's crazy money to be made hosting a torrent linking site? It's like when some local pot dealer gets busted with a handful of plants in his house and the DEA says they busted a guy with $300,000 worth of weed he was…

Did anyone in N. Korea noticed the Internet outage? Besides the Dear Leader, of course.

They ran out of the free AOL minutes they stockpiled back in the 90s.

Exactly. The police are literally stealing identities themselves. That's like the cops using drugs to try and catch the bad guys. Letting then do something blatantly illegal is a slippery slope.

It's not illegal when the government does it.

another lesson learned...

You think police are going to get in trouble for identity theft when they can already get away with murder?

you're mistaking impersonation for under cover. 2 different things.

This is all good and we'll till a PD gets sued for identity theft. Or impersonation. So far as i know it's still illegal to assume the identity of another digital or otherwise.

Why can't I just trust mega-international-corporations? If I can't just pay my bill and assume I am not getting screwed something is wrong. #notallcorporations (but actually, all corporations)