The Department of Education exists to mandate and ensure compliance with minimum standards of education throughout the US. One of those ‘minimum standards’ interferes with religious ‘education’ as demanded by conservatives like DeVos. So of course she wants to get rid of the Department of Education. It’s been a thorn…

A leopard doesn’t change its spots, just like John Riccitiello will always be a shitty person. It’s who and what he is to his core.

Cruelty *IS* the point.

“Protections for me, laws for thee.” -- Conservative America in a nutshell.

Agreed. Trump’s action might have been a bridge too far for Liz, but she still supported a lot of what he said and did and the GOP’s agenda as a whole. She’s merely the least awful of a horrifically terrible political party. She’s only ‘good’ when compared to the worst this country has to offer.

There was a nice line that I’m going to paraphrase that ‘describes’ this situation — the turd won’t flush itself.

Who could have possibly guessed that systems that reward the exploitation and abuse people attract horrible people to run them...

It’s called the Tolerance Paradox. Look it up.

No. The meaning of their specific “serve” is well defined as a part of the oath they take as an officer of the law — serving the public good. The definition you’re referring to — serving legal papers — law enforcement officers do not generally perform, outside of search warrants.

Similarly, we’d likely be safer if the point at which one can no longer be a cop tended to happen a lot sooner than the point at which one should be incarcerated.

“It can do everything.” That’s the problem. It’s the equivalent of using a full-blast firehose to water house plants. It doesn’t do *ANYTHING* well and none of them *SECURELY*. The only thing you *CAN* count on is that it will bite you in the ass spectacularly.

It was not an incrimination of the person who fell for the scam. It was about the provider — Adobe — and their wildly insecure document reader that is being used for everything, including things that *NEED* to be as secure as humanly possible. They keep bolting more ‘capabilities’ on top of the security dumpster fire…

If your document reader needs access to critical, system-level OS functions, you’re doing something terribly, terribly wrong. And if that same document reader then exposes access to those same critical, system-level OS functions, you have no business being a software developer. Period. End of discussion. That level of…

Adobe doesn’t need help coming up with bad ideas. :P

Take Two clearly hates customers. Because they’re always pulling out the nail bat to beat them around...and the blaming then customers for all Take Two’s woes (like their complete screwup of the GTA trilogy remaster, and blaming customers for why other remasters are on hold now).

Ya know, if PDFs are so wildly insecure that something like this is happening all the time, why the fuck are so many businesses using them for everything?

More or less what I was going to say. According to people who have known him, nothing about him has changed. He’s just made it obvious just how much of a steaming pile shit he is.

Hint: that’s why Republicans are so staunchly anti-choice. More people equals fewer jobs to go around, and greater competition for those jobs. And what happens when more people compete for the same jobs? Businesses can offer lower pay, fewer benefits (if any at all) and worse working conditions.

The whole system is set up to incentivize punishing someone, anyone. It doesn’t matter who — guilty or not — just so long as someone ‘pays’ for the crime. Simultaneously it protects the officers, attorneys, etc who can’t be bothered to put any real effort into finding the *CORRECT* person to charge and prosecute.

And, of course, the police department isn’t paying for their fuck up. And neither will the police union. Nope. That came out of the city’s coffers...you know, the taxes paid by people who have no control over law enforcement hiring policies or procedures. But I’m sure those officers will totally learn their lesson…