More like a blue state problem. The new tax law has a few provisions that are aimed at people who live in blue states. Like the union dues, writing off state taxes. A lot of red states have low or no state income tax. Typically they receive more federal funding per federal tax dollar paid than states with an…

No. Apple complies with all proper legal requests to the best of their ability. They have just made their customers info beyond their ability to access. This in not about criminals. This is about the innocent people who deserve to have their data private. The police just have to find another way.

what you are asking is how much am i willing to compromise my values to catch make a little easier for police to catch a few more criminals. None. If i were to compromise my values, they wouldn’t have been my values in the first place.

Now who’s splitting hairs.

the price for living in a free society is that the job of the police is hard and sometimes criminals get away.

We are already doing it. like i said. Fix the hole. Let the police find another way. If they step out of bounds, punish them for doing so. Done. The price of living in a free society is sometimes criminals get away with stuff and the police’s job is really hard.

I’m splitting hairs? Really? No. This conversation is just getting too frustrating. The answer here is obvious. Fix the security hole and let the police find another way. If they abuse any power while doing it punish them. The phones should be as secure as Apple can make them. Thats Apples job. The job of the…

No, its more like my analogy. Yours isn’t creating a security hole, it just adjusting how a security hole is fixed until it works better and is more secure, not less. Giving the police back door access gives everyone access. Plugging a security hole like this won’t encourage bad behavior and even if it did, that…

“I agree, but law enforcement probably doesn’t, and the other half of my question goes to that point. By barring law enforcement from having any access, are we potentially encouraging them to abuse their authority in other ways?”

And when the abuse that that power we make them find another way. And we keep doing that until the get it right. The employees who put their passwords on post-its will be fired if they keep doing it. As new challenges pop up we meet them and move on. We don’t just give up because it might create a problem in the…

We will let the police handle it. They will have to find another way into the phones or find another source for the evidence. Simple as that. Simply allowing the government a back door to our data might fix one problem but it creates many more. The police will find a way to convict criminals. But if they don’t,…

Well I think Apple is just protecting their own ass here as any corporation would. Now that they know about the security flaw, they could be liable for any damages incurred by a customer who’s data was stolen using this glaring security flaw. They can’t not fix it. If the government tries to re write the…

Thats not Apple’s problem. Apple’s problem is that they have a glaring security flaw in their devices and they need to patch it, otherwise they are negligent in their duties to their customers and open themselves up to a lawsuit if any of the data on one of their customers’ phones gets stolen. Especially since they…

I see it the opposite. Very little upside huge downside. and the downside is more likely. There is very little chance we would pick up all 4 new senate seats. And it also puts more electoral votes on the table that don’t need to be there. It would be like betting on a hard 8. Sure you might win big but chances…

I think at best dems get 4 making it a wash. The electoral votes is the real kicker though. We had 3 million more votes than the republicans in 2016 and still lost on electoral votes. We can’t afford to lose any more to the republicans. They are already purging voter rolls and blocking people from voting in many…

Actually, it would be most likely a wash. Since the GOP would likely pick up 2 senate seats as would the Dems. No real gain there. Worse they might actually only get one of the four new ones. Making it worse for them. There are a fair number of republicans in California. Splitting this way would leave the Dems…

Not likely. At best we might get 2 more but that gives them two more as well. It would be a wash.

“This is a great example of problem only being a problem now that Trump is president. This has literally always happened and the media never wanted to talk about it under Obama.”

No, I don’t. But I do have the benefit of hindsight. They could never have imagined what country has become. That’s why they gave us the power to change the constitution. Heck they practically mandated it, knowing that they wouldn’t be able to predict the future. I’m sorry, but a vote in Utah shouldn’t be worth…

“Did you know I said Trump offered asylum to all DACA kids?”