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nikon1 said:

“ Jensen reportedly managed to get Moyer to promise that Apple would donate 200 iPads, worth about $70,000, to the Sheriff's Office. Undersheriff sung also extracted from Chadha, the insurance broker, a "promise of $6,000 worth of luxury box seat tickets to a San Jose Sharks hockey game."

In California, it is illegal to carry a concealed firearm without a CCW license that can cost between $200 and $400.

So these 2 CLOWNS (Moyer & Chadha) risked their careers and wanted to avoid paying between $200 & $400 to legitimately get their CCW legally?  They should be imprisioned for pure greed and stupidity.

What a pair of Morons!

You're not wrong to think it was stupid to do this to avoid a 200-400 fee, but the 'may issue' nature of this in California is the problem.  As others also point out, law-abiding citizens have a low chance of actually getting a permit issued since it's at the discretion of the Sheriff, and many don't feel like anyone deserves it... Which is, as a bonus, ripe for abuse.  I guess 'protecting Tim Cook' isn't good enough, but they could have just carried illegally like any actual criminal would.  Ludicrous - and it's probably coming to a state near you.

gatorguy said:

rob53 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

ITGUYINSD said:

Good ol' Bill Barr.  Can't wait until JAN 2021.  Buh-bye!

I don't think that this viewpoint that the DOJ has presented is going to change, regardless of who's in charge.

You can think that all you want but Barr is not your normal AG. Once he's gone, we can start clearing out the garbage and make sure the people who get installed are following the Constitution and laws, something Barr doesn't know anything about.

This didn't start with Barr. The Obama administration attempted to do it too a decade ago Maybe 2010 Obama and his 2015 FBI didn't know anything about the Constitution and laws either, certainly believable. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-giants-urge-obama-to-resist-backdoors-into-encrypted-communications/2015/05/18/11781b4a-fd69-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html

Without a doubt.  Clinton was pushing for it with the Clipper Chip as well years before that, and Bush gave us the Patriot Act in the first place after that, and Obama - after campaigning on fixing the violations of our 4th Amendment rights - doubled down on expanding the illegal surveillance programs.

Ironically, the only positive step in recent years regarding our privacy has been Trump not extending the FISA provisions because his campaign was spied on.  Along those lines, the only chance for any of these types of overreach being stopped are for the politicians who are making and passing these laws to have their own privacy violated*.  That seems to be a lesson they can understand - sometimes**.

But rob53 this isn't (just) a Barr thing, hate to tell you. Whoever else might come in is going to keep pushing for this as well.


* Unless they've already have enough spying done on them to where they can't actually oppose things.  If it's not "you did xyz", it probably wouldn't take much more than "it would be a shame for these 5 friends and relatives to be arrested" to buy a little cooperation or silence.

 ** The CIA spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computers - and Brennan eventually showing up to 'apologize' for it after initially saying "nothing could be further from the truth" - did nothing in terms of fixing that, so see (*) again - who knows what dirt they have on various Senators.  I'd say it sounds paranoid, but I'm really not sure what other great explanations there are for our elected representatives going along with this for decades.  Snowden released the details of the illegal programs, and he's the only one in trouble for it.

Surely Apple can just point out that they're a private company and that Facebook has no 1st Amendment free-speech rights on their platform? I mean, that's been the go-to for Facebook, YouTube and Twitter when silencing people, right?

Uh... might I suggest a follow-on lawsuit about the XR screen not having as high a contrast ratio as the higher-end models? /s

canukstorm said:

What about software engineering?