The Apple figures are for GROSS margin at 39.9%. it's operating margin is 28.72% and it's actual profit margin is 21.61%.
This is comparable with other hardware manufacturers (gross/profit) e.g. Samsung (electronics) at 39.87% / 11.76% profit, Blackberry 51.70% / 20.68%, Intel 63.7% / 20.95%, Nokia 44.46% / 24.12%, Cisco 59.89% / 16.25%.
TL;DR Apples actual PROFIT is comparable with similar companies and it's gross margin is way LOWER.
I don't think there is one common link, or one blockbuster hack of a single service (which means Apple is getting some very unfair press right now).
Looking at the whole picture of data, dates, locations, resolutions, phone models, file names etc, it appears to be multiple hacks conducted quietly over a number of years and in a number of different ways. So it's possible this is the output of one or more collectors operating over a long time.
The backstory to this is going to be very interesting!
Looking at the EXIF data attached to the photographs, where it's available, and the structure of the filenames I can see that only some of them came from iPhones/iCloud. I can also see photographs from Android phones (Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy 5s) likely acquired via Google Drive, other photographs clearly taken from Dropbox accounts (the dumps include default dropbox files), and many clearly taken from Twitter and Facebook private messages (filenames are a dead giveaway).
Some of the filenames look like those you would get from a recovery or backup programme rather than an auto generated one, which chimes with what victims have said on Twitter regarding deleting the images months or even years ago.
In any case there are clearly multiple sources and as usual Apple Derangement Syndrome is in full swing.
Likely as not this was related to the heartbleed bug. Large amounts of passwords were acquired around that time, and were probably being used on multiple services. It's equally possible that this wasn't a breach at Apple et al but a breach of Amazon Web Services or Microsoft's Azure as those services are used to backup data from iCloud, Google Drive, and many others.
What's worse for some of the celebs is that the pictures contain GPS data that could compromise their homes.
I went for 'forms' rather than 'groups' because I thought it easier to understand and the distinction seems increasingly important to researchers, pharmacists, and patients. I'd classified MODY as Type 2, although looking back I probably shouldn't have.
I'd probably also take back the use of 'cured', as the patients would have a normal range A1c but would still be considered diabetic by most Endocrinologists.
I was an undiagnosed Type 2 for a very long time, and since diagnoses it's become clear to me that brain function and mood are very closely tied to my blood sugar levels.
Undiagnosed I would experience bouts of temper or melancholy that came from nowhere in particular, and these have been mostly eliminated since I started to medicate.
When sugars a low it's very hard to think at all, you can't concentrate, and it's hard to coordinate movement. Those that think lows can be cured by simply eating chocolate haven't drunk 10 pints of beer and then tried to find a source of sugar in a three bedroom house!
When sugars are high you can be hyper for a time, before you begin to lose control of your body temperature and the slightest thing can send you into a rage.
Uncontrollable rage is very common indeed in teenage diabetics.
There are already five forms of diabetes.
Type 1 (early onset, no pancreatic function, incurable);
Type 1.5 (Late onset, no pancreatic function, incurable);
Pre Type 2 Diabetes (insulin resistance building, possibly curable);
Type 2 (late onset, insulin resistance, some pancreatic function, incurable); and
Gestational Diabetes (hormonal imbalance create insulin resistance, temporary).
So this might be a sixth.
I have some phone insurance through a fee 'premium' based bank account ( I also get AA membership, household emergency insurance and the like) - which has turned out to be a handy investment, especially when the heating broke down.
On top of which I stick 25 quid a month into a medium interest savings account for the next/replacement phone - thus far this has more than covered my needs.
It really depends on your budget but the biggest single price issue is screen size - the best deals are for 15.6 screens but if she wants something larger or smaller then the prices for decent machines go up wildly.
Look for a powerful processor with a good GPU that has dedicated RAM, as much non-graphics RAM as you can afford and x64 Windows 7 with good build quality and you should have a machine which will perform well and last a long time.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ is really handy for checking on what's good/not for processor and GPU deals
Both Lenovo and Samsung make excellent machines which both look good (which could be important, quite a few of my female friends use Samsung) and have great build quality
If you had the experience I've had, watching my father die from cancer, you would understand that after a certain point the patient is no longer able to make rational decisions. The long term effects of the morphine, chemo drugs, and the metastases of the cancer often render the sufferer distressingly incompetent.
This is from a new york times story:
"Of the 12,700 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration consumer complaints analyzed [about unintended acceleration] by The Times, the Ford Motor Company had the most, about 3,500.
Toyota ranked second, with about 3,000 complaints, but those were linked to far more accidents — 1,000 — compared to 450 crashes for Ford.
All told, from 2000 through 2009, Toyota had one speed-control crash complaint per 20,454 vehicles sold in the United States. Ford had one complaint per 64,679 vehicles. Honda had one per 70,112 and G.M. one per 179,821."
Even if you're a sceptic this figures suggest there is a problem!
I don't subscribe to the dark side theory you espouse (though the likes of murdoch are pretty cynical), the truth seems to be the overwhelming majority of people don't seem to want in-depth reporting on the issues or investigative reporting, they want Britney tearing her hair out in public and the latest scandal from pop idol or big brother or whatever nonsense is on TV. Ultimately news organizations supply what the majority of consumers demand.
The NY times has a bigger problem, in that a good deal of it's readers don't live in new york and can't buy the paper (like me). I love the reporting, it's a great read but I don't read it often enough to want a subscription and the only time I do read it is through Google or through the iPhone app - I cant be bothered to sort through the website to find the interesting content - the app is way better.
They are a business, they need to get paid, the less people pay the less we get - it is that simple.
I think the news media's attitude to Google News is pretty silly, maybe I would consider a subscription to Google news, I use that often enough to justify the money and then maybe we have a spotify for News. Maybe that's the answer. This isn't going to happen though because it would kill of the paper's brand identity and that's part of the news media's problem with Google.
It's going to be an unpopular opinion on here though!
I don't think it's a belief that MMR is bad that people are clinging to so much as taking a risk judgement. The world has been subjected to so many drugs which, while approved for use by scientists and government, turn out to be killers that many perfectly rational people refuse to believe the scientific evidence and don't want to take any risk with their children's long term heath.
To name a few:-
Thalidomide (birth abnomalaties),
Redux (heart valve disease),
Vioxx (increased the risks of heart attack and stroke),
Seldane (fatal heart-rhythm irregularities),
Posicor [Mibefradil] (caused toxic levels of 25 different drugs to build up in the body),
Rezulin (sudden liver failure),
Duract (liver toxicity),
Baycol (rhabdomyolysis, which can lead to kidney failure),
Zelnorm (increased risk of heart attacks and stroke),
Just one of these, Vioxx is suspected of causing 27,000 deaths.
Agreed it's horrifying!
I think most organised efforts like this require a clear distinctions so people can make clear choices and that's not what happens in UK politics. We have a choice between two centre right parties who spend a lot of time and effort trying to criticise each other despite the fact that they largely agree on the important stuff and would mostly make the same decisions in the same way using the same advisor's all things being equal. It's very hard to get excited about that!
A day late and a dollar short for my money. Their interface was creaking as much as their design language five years back. I looked at an X6 today and it's basically an I phone clone, just a cheaper plasticky one. Come on nokia you need to genuinely innovate not just throw out new keypad layouts on the same old candy bar phones.
The times of London is reporting that Jobs had N-Stage liver disease and had the highest UNOS score for his blood type at the time of the transplant. (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6567133.ece). The interesting part is your assumption that he bought the organ.
This guy has had one of the rarest and most deadly forms of cancer around (I had to watch my father die from this, it's no fun at all) then ends up with N Stage liver disease, probably caused by the chemo. So could we show a little RESPECT for the fact that he fought it, survived, and kept working afterwards, when many others would have retired.
He will probably spend the rest of his, much shortened, life on immunosuppressant drugs, which are about as much fun as chemo.
Hope you feeling better Steve, hope the transplant holds, and thanks for Apple (even if we love to hate it).
I recently gave my sister an old laptop running Ubuntu while I was repairing her main machine, when I was done fixing the new one I asked her how she got on and if she would like me to dual boot the newer machine.
She said: "It was ok but I don't need it".
Linux didn't to anything different or special, in her judgement, to windows and she already knew how that worked.
This makes sense most people buy based on need or desire.
It's a really nice commercial, but it sells Linux to Linux users; plus as Bush discovered freedom is in the eye of the beholder.
Linux is not a lifestyle product like Macs, but it could be a business product. If you want it to sell tell me (or in this case corporate middle management and small businesses) that it will cost me less, tell me that open office is compatible, tell me that Linux is interoperable, tell me it will run better on older lower spec hardware, and then tell me that the guys who set it up will cost me no more than the guys who set up my windows network. Talk about freedom all you want but freedom will not sell Linux because the OS may be free but the hardware, support and set up is not.
Reminds me of a line from D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
"A child with a stick of chewing gum has just rendered your $15,000,000 worth of military hardware useless. Any suggestions?"
Always get your complaint in first, even if it is you who started it and you who were in the wrong. If things have gone awry and you suspect the cops are going to be called, get your retaliation in first. Ring the cops right away and allege for all you are worth. If you can work a racist or homophobic slant into it so much the better.
Make a counter allegation
Regardless of the facts, never let the other side be blameless. If they beat you to the phone, ring anyway and make a counter allegation against them. Again racism or homophobia are your friends. If you are not from a visible minority ethnic culture, may I suggest that that the phrase âoeYou gay bastardâ or similar is always useful. In extremis allege sexual assault. It gives us something to bargain with when getting the other person to drop their complaint on a quid-pro-quo basis. This is particularly good where there are no independent witnesses. When it boils down to one word against another and nobody is âfessing up, CPS run a mile and you, my friend, are definitely on a walk out
Never explain to the Police
If the Police arrive to lock you up, say nothing. You are a decent person and you may think that reasoning with the Police will help. âoeIf I can only explain, they will realise it is all a horrible mistake and go awayâ. Wrong. We do want to talk to you on tape in an interview room but that comes later. All you are doing by trying to explain is digging yourself further in. We call that stuff a significant statement and we love it. Decent folk canâ(TM)t help themselves, they think that they can talk their way out. Wrong.
Admit Nothing
To do anything more than lock you up for a few hours we need to prove a case. The easiest route to that is your admission. Without it, our case may be a lot weaker, maybe not enough to charge you with. In any case, it is always worth finding out exactly how damning the evidence is before you fall on your sword. So donâ(TM)t do the decent and honourable thing and admit what you have done. Donâ(TM)t even deny it or try to give your side of the story. Just say nothing. No confession and CPS are on the back foot already. They forsee a trial. They fear a trial. They are looking for any excuse to send you home free.
Keep your mouth shut
Say as little as possible to us. At the custody office desk a Sergeant will ask you some questions. It is safe to answer these. For the rest of the time, say nothing.
Claim Suicidal Thoughts
A debatable one this. Claiming to be thinking about topping yourself has several benefits. If you can keep it up, it might just bump up any compensation payable later. On the other hand you may find yourself in a paper suit with someone watching your every move.
Always always always have a solicitor
Duh. No brainer this one. Unless you know 100% for sure that your mate the solicitor does criminal law and is good at it, ask for the Duty Solicitor. They certainly do criminal law and they are good at it. Then listen to what the solicitor says and do it. Their job is to get you off without the Cops or CPS laying a glove on you if at all possible. It is what they get paid for. They are free to you. There is no down side. Now decent folks think it makes them look like they have something to hide if they ask for a solicitor. Irrelevant. Going into an interview without a solicitor is like taking a walk in Tottenham with a big gold Rolex. Bad things are very likely to happen to you. I wouldnâ(TM)t do it and I interview people for a living.
Actively complain about every officer and everything they do
It's pretty bad in many places, my home town, along with about twenty others has CCTV cameras with speakers on them. They are used to disperse crowds and complain about littering or all manner of other things.
The curious thing is, despite the heavy coverage they have done nothing to prevent numerous assaults, rapes or other violent incidents and quite often fail to produce useful evidence - which was the main argument for their introduction.
It's pretty dreadful in Mexico in 1992 there were 46 reported kidnappings, by 1999 there were 402 kidnappings a year - columbia is worse in 1992 there were 464 kidnappings by 1999 that had risen to 972!
You can also get some data on average payouts here - just in casehttp://danger.mongabay.com/kidnapping_stats.htm you need to update your KRE insurance.
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The Apple figures are for GROSS margin at 39.9%. it's operating margin is 28.72% and it's actual profit margin is 21.61%.
This is comparable with other hardware manufacturers (gross/profit) e.g. Samsung (electronics) at 39.87% / 11.76% profit, Blackberry 51.70% / 20.68%, Intel 63.7% / 20.95%, Nokia 44.46% / 24.12%, Cisco 59.89% / 16.25%.
TL;DR Apples actual PROFIT is comparable with similar companies and it's gross margin is way LOWER.
Apple's Gross Margin is 39.9% - Samsung's is 39.87.
Compare that to Microsoft's at 61.71%, IBM's 53.34%, Blackberry's 51.70%, and Red Hat at an eye watering 84.35%.
I don't think there is one common link, or one blockbuster hack of a single service (which means Apple is getting some very unfair press right now).
Looking at the whole picture of data, dates, locations, resolutions, phone models, file names etc, it appears to be multiple hacks conducted quietly over a number of years and in a number of different ways. So it's possible this is the output of one or more collectors operating over a long time.
The backstory to this is going to be very interesting!
Looking at the EXIF data attached to the photographs, where it's available, and the structure of the filenames I can see that only some of them came from iPhones/iCloud. I can also see photographs from Android phones (Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy 5s) likely acquired via Google Drive, other photographs clearly taken from Dropbox accounts (the dumps include default dropbox files), and many clearly taken from Twitter and Facebook private messages (filenames are a dead giveaway).
Some of the filenames look like those you would get from a recovery or backup programme rather than an auto generated one, which chimes with what victims have said on Twitter regarding deleting the images months or even years ago.
In any case there are clearly multiple sources and as usual Apple Derangement Syndrome is in full swing.
Likely as not this was related to the heartbleed bug. Large amounts of passwords were acquired around that time, and were probably being used on multiple services. It's equally possible that this wasn't a breach at Apple et al but a breach of Amazon Web Services or Microsoft's Azure as those services are used to backup data from iCloud, Google Drive, and many others.
What's worse for some of the celebs is that the pictures contain GPS data that could compromise their homes.
I went for 'forms' rather than 'groups' because I thought it easier to understand and the distinction seems increasingly important to researchers, pharmacists, and patients. I'd classified MODY as Type 2, although looking back I probably shouldn't have. I'd probably also take back the use of 'cured', as the patients would have a normal range A1c but would still be considered diabetic by most Endocrinologists.
I was an undiagnosed Type 2 for a very long time, and since diagnoses it's become clear to me that brain function and mood are very closely tied to my blood sugar levels.
Undiagnosed I would experience bouts of temper or melancholy that came from nowhere in particular, and these have been mostly eliminated since I started to medicate.
When sugars a low it's very hard to think at all, you can't concentrate, and it's hard to coordinate movement. Those that think lows can be cured by simply eating chocolate haven't drunk 10 pints of beer and then tried to find a source of sugar in a three bedroom house!
When sugars are high you can be hyper for a time, before you begin to lose control of your body temperature and the slightest thing can send you into a rage.
Uncontrollable rage is very common indeed in teenage diabetics.
There are already five forms of diabetes. Type 1 (early onset, no pancreatic function, incurable); Type 1.5 (Late onset, no pancreatic function, incurable); Pre Type 2 Diabetes (insulin resistance building, possibly curable); Type 2 (late onset, insulin resistance, some pancreatic function, incurable); and Gestational Diabetes (hormonal imbalance create insulin resistance, temporary). So this might be a sixth.
I have some phone insurance through a fee 'premium' based bank account ( I also get AA membership, household emergency insurance and the like) - which has turned out to be a handy investment, especially when the heating broke down. On top of which I stick 25 quid a month into a medium interest savings account for the next/replacement phone - thus far this has more than covered my needs.
It really depends on your budget but the biggest single price issue is screen size - the best deals are for 15.6 screens but if she wants something larger or smaller then the prices for decent machines go up wildly. Look for a powerful processor with a good GPU that has dedicated RAM, as much non-graphics RAM as you can afford and x64 Windows 7 with good build quality and you should have a machine which will perform well and last a long time. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ is really handy for checking on what's good/not for processor and GPU deals Both Lenovo and Samsung make excellent machines which both look good (which could be important, quite a few of my female friends use Samsung) and have great build quality
The SSL service only seems to work with https://www.google.com/ attempting https://www.google.co.uk/ or .de .it .com.au etc lands you back at http://www.google.whatever/
If you had the experience I've had, watching my father die from cancer, you would understand that after a certain point the patient is no longer able to make rational decisions. The long term effects of the morphine, chemo drugs, and the metastases of the cancer often render the sufferer distressingly incompetent.
This is from a new york times story: "Of the 12,700 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration consumer complaints analyzed [about unintended acceleration] by The Times, the Ford Motor Company had the most, about 3,500. Toyota ranked second, with about 3,000 complaints, but those were linked to far more accidents — 1,000 — compared to 450 crashes for Ford. All told, from 2000 through 2009, Toyota had one speed-control crash complaint per 20,454 vehicles sold in the United States. Ford had one complaint per 64,679 vehicles. Honda had one per 70,112 and G.M. one per 179,821." Even if you're a sceptic this figures suggest there is a problem!
Who said it was their traffic in the first place?!
I don't subscribe to the dark side theory you espouse (though the likes of murdoch are pretty cynical), the truth seems to be the overwhelming majority of people don't seem to want in-depth reporting on the issues or investigative reporting, they want Britney tearing her hair out in public and the latest scandal from pop idol or big brother or whatever nonsense is on TV. Ultimately news organizations supply what the majority of consumers demand. The NY times has a bigger problem, in that a good deal of it's readers don't live in new york and can't buy the paper (like me). I love the reporting, it's a great read but I don't read it often enough to want a subscription and the only time I do read it is through Google or through the iPhone app - I cant be bothered to sort through the website to find the interesting content - the app is way better. They are a business, they need to get paid, the less people pay the less we get - it is that simple. I think the news media's attitude to Google News is pretty silly, maybe I would consider a subscription to Google news, I use that often enough to justify the money and then maybe we have a spotify for News. Maybe that's the answer. This isn't going to happen though because it would kill of the paper's brand identity and that's part of the news media's problem with Google. It's going to be an unpopular opinion on here though!
I don't think it's a belief that MMR is bad that people are clinging to so much as taking a risk judgement. The world has been subjected to so many drugs which, while approved for use by scientists and government, turn out to be killers that many perfectly rational people refuse to believe the scientific evidence and don't want to take any risk with their children's long term heath. To name a few:- Thalidomide (birth abnomalaties), Redux (heart valve disease), Vioxx (increased the risks of heart attack and stroke), Seldane (fatal heart-rhythm irregularities), Posicor [Mibefradil] (caused toxic levels of 25 different drugs to build up in the body), Rezulin (sudden liver failure), Duract (liver toxicity), Baycol (rhabdomyolysis, which can lead to kidney failure), Zelnorm (increased risk of heart attacks and stroke), Just one of these, Vioxx is suspected of causing 27,000 deaths.
Agreed it's horrifying! I think most organised efforts like this require a clear distinctions so people can make clear choices and that's not what happens in UK politics. We have a choice between two centre right parties who spend a lot of time and effort trying to criticise each other despite the fact that they largely agree on the important stuff and would mostly make the same decisions in the same way using the same advisor's all things being equal. It's very hard to get excited about that!
A day late and a dollar short for my money. Their interface was creaking as much as their design language five years back. I looked at an X6 today and it's basically an I phone clone, just a cheaper plasticky one. Come on nokia you need to genuinely innovate not just throw out new keypad layouts on the same old candy bar phones.
The times of London is reporting that Jobs had N-Stage liver disease and had the highest UNOS score for his blood type at the time of the transplant. (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6567133.ece). The interesting part is your assumption that he bought the organ.
This guy has had one of the rarest and most deadly forms of cancer around (I had to watch my father die from this, it's no fun at all) then ends up with N Stage liver disease, probably caused by the chemo. So could we show a little RESPECT for the fact that he fought it, survived, and kept working afterwards, when many others would have retired.
He will probably spend the rest of his, much shortened, life on immunosuppressant drugs, which are about as much fun as chemo.
Hope you feeling better Steve, hope the transplant holds, and thanks for Apple (even if we love to hate it).
I recently gave my sister an old laptop running Ubuntu while I was repairing her main machine, when I was done fixing the new one I asked her how she got on and if she would like me to dual boot the newer machine. She said: "It was ok but I don't need it". Linux didn't to anything different or special, in her judgement, to windows and she already knew how that worked. This makes sense most people buy based on need or desire.
It's a really nice commercial, but it sells Linux to Linux users; plus as Bush discovered freedom is in the eye of the beholder. Linux is not a lifestyle product like Macs, but it could be a business product. If you want it to sell tell me (or in this case corporate middle management and small businesses) that it will cost me less, tell me that open office is compatible, tell me that Linux is interoperable, tell me it will run better on older lower spec hardware, and then tell me that the guys who set it up will cost me no more than the guys who set up my windows network. Talk about freedom all you want but freedom will not sell Linux because the OS may be free but the hardware, support and set up is not.
The security cameras in my town allow the operators to shout messages (sadly unintelligible one's) at pedestrians behaving in an anti-social manner.
Reminds me of a line from D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) "A child with a stick of chewing gum has just rendered your $15,000,000 worth of military hardware useless. Any suggestions?"
This is a pretty good indication of what you should do if you find yourself in trouble with the law, it from the NightJack Police blog, http://nightjack.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/a-survival-guide-for-decent-folk/
Complain First
Always get your complaint in first, even if it is you who started it and you who were in the wrong. If things have gone awry and you suspect the cops are going to be called, get your retaliation in first. Ring the cops right away and allege for all you are worth. If you can work a racist or homophobic slant into it so much the better.
Make a counter allegation
Regardless of the facts, never let the other side be blameless. If they beat you to the phone, ring anyway and make a counter allegation against them. Again racism or homophobia are your friends. If you are not from a visible minority ethnic culture, may I suggest that that the phrase âoeYou gay bastardâ or similar is always useful. In extremis allege sexual assault. It gives us something to bargain with when getting the other person to drop their complaint on a quid-pro-quo basis. This is particularly good where there are no independent witnesses. When it boils down to one word against another and nobody is âfessing up, CPS run a mile and you, my friend, are definitely on a walk out
Never explain to the Police
If the Police arrive to lock you up, say nothing. You are a decent person and you may think that reasoning with the Police will help. âoeIf I can only explain, they will realise it is all a horrible mistake and go awayâ. Wrong. We do want to talk to you on tape in an interview room but that comes later. All you are doing by trying to explain is digging yourself further in. We call that stuff a significant statement and we love it. Decent folk canâ(TM)t help themselves, they think that they can talk their way out. Wrong.
Admit Nothing
To do anything more than lock you up for a few hours we need to prove a case. The easiest route to that is your admission. Without it, our case may be a lot weaker, maybe not enough to charge you with. In any case, it is always worth finding out exactly how damning the evidence is before you fall on your sword. So donâ(TM)t do the decent and honourable thing and admit what you have done. Donâ(TM)t even deny it or try to give your side of the story. Just say nothing. No confession and CPS are on the back foot already. They forsee a trial. They fear a trial. They are looking for any excuse to send you home free.
Keep your mouth shut
Say as little as possible to us. At the custody office desk a Sergeant will ask you some questions. It is safe to answer these. For the rest of the time, say nothing.
Claim Suicidal Thoughts
A debatable one this. Claiming to be thinking about topping yourself has several benefits. If you can keep it up, it might just bump up any compensation payable later. On the other hand you may find yourself in a paper suit with someone watching your every move.
Always always always have a solicitor
Duh. No brainer this one. Unless you know 100% for sure that your mate the solicitor does criminal law and is good at it, ask for the Duty Solicitor. They certainly do criminal law and they are good at it. Then listen to what the solicitor says and do it. Their job is to get you off without the Cops or CPS laying a glove on you if at all possible. It is what they get paid for. They are free to you. There is no down side. Now decent folks think it makes them look like they have something to hide if they ask for a solicitor. Irrelevant. Going into an interview without a solicitor is like taking a walk in Tottenham with a big gold Rolex. Bad things are very likely to happen to you. I wouldnâ(TM)t do it and I interview people for a living.
Actively complain about every officer and everything they do
Did they cuf
It's pretty bad in many places, my home town, along with about twenty others has CCTV cameras with speakers on them. They are used to disperse crowds and complain about littering or all manner of other things. The curious thing is, despite the heavy coverage they have done nothing to prevent numerous assaults, rapes or other violent incidents and quite often fail to produce useful evidence - which was the main argument for their introduction.
It's pretty dreadful in Mexico in 1992 there were 46 reported kidnappings, by 1999 there were 402 kidnappings a year - columbia is worse in 1992 there were 464 kidnappings by 1999 that had risen to 972!
You can also get some data on average payouts here - just in casehttp://danger.mongabay.com/kidnapping_stats.htm you need to update your KRE insurance.