Georgelemental

Sane parliaments have quorums

Unicode is complex because human language is complex. If you want someone to blame, blame God:

> Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Perhaps attempting to build one character set for all languages is just another Babel-like act of hubris, and the security vulnerabilities are God's judgment upon us for not sticking with the mess of incompatible local encodings that preceded it.

Because the Play Store has none of those?

Forget Iran, we need to bring Freedom™ to Myanmar

Who said anything about soul or conscience? Getting hacked doesn't deliver value for shareholders

The video was posted hours early, quickly deleted (but not before being reshared), and then posted again at the proper time. The link in your comment is not the first release of the video

There is no such thing as a "friendly phone call" at the middle of the night from a police officer you don't know.

I think it is someone else who bought the domain?

Yes, that would make no sense, that's why it's not what I said.

It takes time for responders to arrive on scene. Even if police end up not usually not being needed, there can be value in calling for them ahead of time so that they are available in case they do end up being needed. On the other hand, their presence alone can cause issues even if they don't do anything. That's why it's a tough call

> It would be someone who's actually trained to interact with the mentally ill and de-escalate situations.

This is great when it works. But sometimes, people having mental health crises just don't want to be de-escalated, you try all the techniques and it doesn't work. (Just like with other medical calls—sometimes you do all the appropriate interventions, but the patient keeps getting sicker anyway.) Physical force should be the last resort, but sometimes there is unfortunately no other choice. (Source: I am an EMT)

There is a difficult balance to strike in these types of calls (e.g. mental health crisis). On the one hand, the presence of police can escalate tensions and cause a situation to spiral out of control when it might not have otherwise. On the other hand, when a situation does get out of control, police are by far the best equipped to keep responders and bystanders safe. It can be a tough judgment call for responders to make