It depends on the behavior of the officer. It’s the difference between these two statements:

“I’m going to make things worse than they should be for you if you don’t do what I want”

And

“Ok, I will not fulfill my duty because you offered me something to look the other way.”

In the first case, the officer IS using the threat of imprisonment to have sex with someone. In the second case, the officer is shirking his duty because the arrestee has offered a quid pro quo. These are two difference scenarios and it comes down to who is instigating the act. In the eyes of the law, intentions matter. This is why there is a distinction between first and second degree murder.

I’d be asking for more — and emotional distress, rent to live somewhere else while they fixed my house for months, additional money for the inconvenience.

You’re basically saying if anyone commits a crime and an officer arrests them for that crime, but the person offers money or sex to get out of it, and the officer accepts, then that person was robbed or raped. So, all any criminal needs to do to become a victim is convince the officer to take their bribe.

Don’t you think there is nuance in how both parties behaved?

If the officer was going to execute their duties fairly, but gave in to temptation and took the persons offer; that is bribery.

If the officer fabricated or embellished the charges and used that to make a threat against someone in order to pressure that person to give something of value, then that is rape/robbery, and blackmail.

A court and jury should review the case closely, but from the article, it sounds like the officer was doing his duty in arresting the woman on legitimate legal grounds, and then she offered sex to get out of trouble, which he accepted. I did not see any evidence that he threatened to escalate the trouble she was already in, in order to get sex out of her.

I see… I only remember the very early days of Justin.tv and kind of lost track of it between then and when it became twitch.

I think it’s a little different than straight up rape. Rape is forcing a sexual encounter on someone. In this case, the woman was not forced to have sex, she tried to use sex to get out of legal trouble. This is the definition of bribery. Here is a thought experiment - if the woman offered money instead of sex, would you say the officer robbed her? I doubt it. The woman offered a bribe, the officer accepted it. The officer is corrupt, not a rapist. Let’s not absolve the woman for offering bribes just because what she offered was sex instead of something else of value.

You’re not wrong

I don’t think the reason the US hasn’t sent soldiers is because it doesn’t have 3000 available.

Was Justin.tv doing copyright infringing things? I seem to remember it was just a guy streaming his everyday life. He would literally wear a hat with a camera on it and record everything he did all day. It makes sense that it became twitch because they solved a technical problem around mass streaming that empowers twitch today.

It’s likely they were trying to get the news riled up so they could cause a moral outrage that would attract attention to the game.

Wow, today I learned. Nintendo is pretty protective of its IP, so it’s nuts that these were allowed to be made by another company in the first place.

Kaspersky reported a major iOS exploit to Apple in recent years. They discovered it and helped unravel the details of how it worked. I understand the US decision, but it seems unlikely that they’re bad actors through and through. I guess the Russian state could lean on them to do their bidding though and that potential is enough to consider them a threat.

*Not jailing all politicians involved in January 6th attempted coup

Blake Stone. Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in awhile

Honestly, your job doesn’t matter. Study the absolute hell out of leetcode and do mock interviews. Then, when you feel confident you’ll know you’re ready.

India, maybe stop kissing Russia’s ass

Looks cool, and a major first letting players be Zelda

Can’t they do that at the Capitol Hill Club?

It’s not the speed that kills you, it’s the force?

Yeah all the people bitching about gas prices are getting 8-12 mpg in these things, filling a 25 gallon tank once a week. A lot of these folks aren’t exactly rich either and the trucks are expensive. They’re paying a mortgage payment in monthly fuel, insurance, and loan expenses on these things.

If they could keep their egos in check, they’d save a lot of money.

They had to give it a new name “antifa” in order to obscure who the bad guys truly are.