[citation][nom]DRosencraft[/nom]I know it's not popular to say, and I know few will agree with me, but I do believe that the gov't genuinely tries it's best for the public's sake. There are a number of bad incidents that should be highlighted and addressed, but those moments tend to cast a shadow over everything else. I do not believe the gov't needs to be coddled or any such thing, but I think people don't give the gov't enough credit for the good it does, and piles on whenever it screws up. Additionally, I don't like Apple as a company. I don't hate them, and I do believe their products are at least made with quality, but as a company I can't really come to like them all that much. Then there's these hackers... They need to be locked up and someone needs to lose the key. Whether they did or didn't really steal all those UDIDs doesn't really matter right now. Their actions are nothing but self aggrandizing, grandstanding, over doing something completely stupid.[/citation]
I agree with your stance on Apple, but I simply don't agree with your stance about the government. I think that the purpose of the government should be to help our nation and its people, but I don't think that that is what it is really doing. I do not believe that they are doing nearly the best that could be done in this goal. Many of their actions seems to be intentionally counter-intuitive in this.
As for the hackers, well, they are committing criminal acts... They aren't revolutionaries fighting the red-coats like what went down in the 18th century i n the USA. They are criminals that occasionally pretend that they are justified. Yes, they should be punished. Maybe there really are a rare few people that do some cracking and actually do good with it, but that's not the kind of thing that seems easy to do genuine good with. It's like trying to do good with a gun as a guerrilla in the wrong war, except you're not even a *badass* for doing it. At least for the vast majority, these don't seem to be good people doing good deeds in the best interest of our nation. Sure, a little of what they do can be good, but not even our government does naught but bad things either.
Well, that's my opinion of it.