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If I am, they can arrest me. That still doesn't give them the right to assault me.

They can use whatever violence they — at their own discretion — deem necessary to subdue you. Yes, they can. They may be punished later for exceeding the amount of violence necessary, but that is still a judgment call for the cops to make. For example, consider the following legalese:

When an officer meets resistance from a suspect, that officer is legally authorized to escalate the level of force employed, depending on the resistance received from the suspect. The continuum of force ranges from an officer’s presence to verbalization, command voice, firm grips, pain compliance, impact techniques and, finally, deadly force.

Meanwhile the police killing someone through excessive use of force is a crime

No, it is not. The victim may have a civil case, but it is rarely (if ever) a crime, my loud- and dirty-mouthed friend. Time for you to learn a thing or two about the actual laws.

The police should fucking behave

The police are the armor, that society wears to protect itself from criminals. You should not and can not expect the armor to be as comfortable and attractive as jeans or tuxedo. Yes, it is better, when that armor is shiny and smooth. But whether it is or is not, it is that armor, that stands between your pink flesh and the real assholes — the ones immediately responsible for the spike of crime, that's the very subject of TFA.

Right, most news outlets bury corrections.

You are right that news is not their "primary" function, but the fact that a comedy program does a better job of covering the news than do most cable news outlets really says something, doesn't it? I decided to have a look at that poll they do each year, where they show how informed people are, based on their news source. I wondered if the Daily Show was included. Turns out Daily Show viewers are second only to NPR listeners. I suspect it's for the same reason - both do in-depth coverage of issues. It is unfortunate that, while their listeners are first and second most informed, they are last and second-to-last in numbers.

Read it and weep:

http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012...

... or Fox News, or (far worse than Fox, according to a recent Pew study) MSNBC.

You seem to be confusing this Pew study with an earlier Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. survey. The Pew study found MSNBC to be the most "opinion dominated" station, with 85% of its content being opinion. The FDU survey found FOX viewers to be the least well-informed of all TV viewers... even less well informed than people who don't read or watch any news at all.

Few here will believe you. They're so biased against FoxNews (though few have actually watched it), that anything said in FoxNews' favor just flies over their little adolescent heads. They'd rather get their news from Jon Stewart (or worse, MTV).

People who get their news from the Daily Show are better informed than those who watch Fox News: http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/.

I can understand why you'd put ideological media like MSNBC on that list, but NPR... seriously? How is NPR "even worse" than Fox? The average NPR listener scores the highest on being able to correctly answer factual questions about world events (such as "have the opposition groups protesting in Egypt been successful in bringing down the regime there?"). FYI, Fox viewers not only scored lowest on such factual questions, they scored LOWER than those who don't watch news at all! (To be fair, MSNBC viewers were the next least-informed, but they still scored substantially better than Fox's victi^H^H^H viewers.)

Here's the link to the study, in case you're interested: http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/

Next time, try listening to NPR before bashing it... you might actually learn something.

http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/

... while some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than
those who say they don’t watch any news at all ...

I don't really know how that word ended up there... But looking at X-Lite's GUI, with those black & greenish colors and rounded shapes, it kinda makes me think of a lair from "Aliens." Eerie.

BTW, if a "phone simulator" won't even let you paste in phone numbers copied from your Address Book, you can pretty much tell our world is doomed!

A good illustration of the KIIS principle is the allegory of the toaster. Summary: A king wants a toaster so he has a software engineer put to death. Take heed!

I am not implying anything. Syndicated shows are sold to stations within each market one-by-one (or, as in the way the King brothers sell shows in groups of shows to individual stations). King World also sells to cable networks and I am not surprised that they syndicate Jeopardy! to GSN.

Your particular market may show the game on CBS this year and on ABC next year -- it all depends on how much faith the broadcaster has that the show will rake in an audience and make money for the station and how much the station wants to pay for the show. It is not a networked show, it is a syndicated show.

In the last year, the CBS network paid handsomely to buy the syndication company and made the King Brothers, especially Michael King very rich. But their means of distribution remains the same: The highest bidder in each market gets the show.

Even if the chip rate of 802.11b is 11MHz (I'm not so sure, I'm pretty sure there are multiple bits transmitted at the same time)