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It's the latter. Anyone who has ever been to county jail can attest.

County jail intake is the same, everywhere, unconditionally. That whole no blankets, no food, no water thing is pretty common. Since this is likely these protestors' first experience in jail, it's probably jarring to see how bad the corrections system is and assume it is treatment unique to the current situation. It isn't. Keep in mind the variety of people who end up in intake, often without going on to live in full jail, and why a lot of people refer to intake as "the drunk tank".

I did three days in intake and ate once. You start counting the days until you leave intake, then, if you know you're going to prison, you start counting the days until you get there. Intake, jail, prison is the order of "decent living", and there's a big gap between jail and prison.

Slacker mods, phoning in your job. Verify the rest, you lazy bastard.

IS THIS HOW FAR /r/IAmA HAS FALLEN?

"How do you plan on securing your new nation?" Yes.

Not willingly. I used to work at Google. Google did not wake up one morning and say "gosh, we should send the NSA user data!" because that's counter to the company's needs for user data. I can almost promise that the situation is the same at Microsoft. National Security Letters (of which I've held one, from my former hosting career) not only coerce a company to give up everything it can, they also forbid the company from telling anybody they have done so. The PRISM story broke while I was at Google, and our best guess was that was their codename for the information collected via the "legal" process using NSLs and FISA warrants (they have other, illegal programs, of course).

All companies I am familiar with that were involved with PRISM were coerced by laws that suck, decided in a court that isn't public out of the view of legislative oversight.

I got shafted by Google in terms of employment, so I'm not here to sway you on Google being a good company, just that the law is heavily skewed toward government surveillance at this moment and needs to be fixed.

If the movies are any indication, immediately die while the killer absconds to Bruges.

And hates it.