No. If you’re a good person who chooses to work for a corrupt organization, you are also choosing to shoulder some of the responsibility for the actions of that group. I would also like to know where you got the idea that there are 800,000 good officers in the US, because that feels like a made up number.

Just look into John McAfee’s baby blues and tell me he isn’t reliable!

Just look into John McAfee’s eyes and tell me it isn’t true.

I think you’ll find that everyone is qualified for prison quality healthcare already as long as they’re willing to commit a crime.

I’d be willing to risk it all for the pi.

In my opinion, it is perceived difficulty that keeps people from using it. Most basic users will use the OS that is installed on the computer when it ships and never stray from that. It often takes another Linux user to introduce someone to it before they will use it.

Those concerns you mentioned are basically non existent for a low level user who just wants to do email, internet, and word documents, which covers a decent chunk of home windows users. Not all, of course, but many.

Bro, you’re talking about Arch. No duh it isn’t user friendly—it isn’t designed to be. If you’re going to compare Windows to Linux, the only fair comparison would be to Ubuntu or Linux Mint or something else designed for the people outside of the tech-illuminati.

Why does it seem like this has been happening more frequently?

You can tell that Tim Apple is very impressed.

Why make new tech when consumer tech do trick? Seems like a decent idea to use a Raspberry Pi or other consumer electronics for this sort of thing because they knew there was a nearly 100% chance that some or all of the balloons would be intercepted by the US government. Rather than reveal secret spy tech, they only revealed things that we were already familiar with, and they still likely got some data sent back while the balloon was flying.

For the record, I’m not trying for this to look like a pro-China thing, I just think the real answer is something between inability and practicality rather than conclusively being a sign that they can’t make good tech.