Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> > "Cops have no obligation to timely defense of people in their own homes.", or some
similar idiocy.
>
> Unfortunately, when you actually look at the actual reality of things, this
> makes perfect sense.  Most people who get outraged over things like this (or
> who propose, for example, a cap on incomes or similar nonsense) don't stop
> and think that the rule has to apply to cases other than the one they're
> specifically considering at the moment.
>
> Like Joel Spolsky bitching about the power menu
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html and ignoring the fact
> that not everyone is running a laptop with a lid that can be closed, or who
> might get on a plane and need to actually turn it off all the way, or might
> be connected to a computer in a different country and need to reboot it
> without turning it off, or ....

ZOMG, someone call the cops at this offending matter!

> (That, incidentally, was the post that taught me Mr Spolsky is a dipshit in
> many ways.)

he's an entertaining dipshit. :)

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