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  1. Re:Be polite by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 1 · on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant

    No way they just Taser you for refusing to answer questions.

    You can be tased or beaten by cops pretty much at their psychotic discretion.

    Boy tased for refusing to wash cop car

    Man tased for not giving up his phone

    Man beaten to death for not providing ID

    We live in a police state, and it's not going to stop until either 1) we raise standards and pay for cops, or 2) we liberalize CCW laws and recognize the right of self-defense against bad cops.

  2. Re:failed copper thieves in the US are deep-fried by tompaulco · · Score: 0 · on Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber

    Also in the U.S. after auto-darwinating, the copper thief's family sues the city, building owner and local electric company, resulting in draconian new laws which have devastated home prices in the area.News 9

  3. Re:SPOILERS by slamb · · Score: 1 · on Don't Fly During Ramadan

    Explosive test comes up positive in an airport and you wonder why they react strongly? You truly are a fuckwit.

    They have false positives. My Ortlieb roller bags tested positive after a month-long bicycling trip. Could have been the construction of the bag, could have been the Tanzanian dirt throughly embedded in everything by then, who knows. It didn't come directly into contact with anything combustible, much less explosive. Apparently soap/lotions can cause false positives. And of course, ammonium nitrate (the explosive used in the Oklahoma City bombings) is more commonly called "fertilizer". So, no, they shouldn't be reacting so strongly. They should know that it's likely a false positive.

  4. Channel 9 did do the report by MDMurphy · · Score: 1 · on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic?

    I felt really dumb when I saw this post, so I looked some more. The posting on YouTube was from user "NEWS9OklahomaCity" which looked to be the official place for the TV station. Then I went to the new station's web site and searched for "digital drugs", finding several links:
    http://www.news9.com/Global/searchresults.asp?vendor=ez&qu=digital+drugs

    So it might be that News 9 got taken, but Wired and Slashdot have it right: There are people in OK who think the iPods are going to drive their kids to heroin.

  5. Re:People, this is a spoof story. by Qzukk · · Score: 2, Informative · on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic?

    After working 6 years in a TV station, I can tell a real story

    Apparently working 6 years in a TV station doesn't qualify you to do jack: http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12793977

    (Undoing all my mods because someone is wrong on the internet, and being a huge asshole about it)

  6. Re:Okay by SpeZek · · Score: 1 · on Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn

    Actually, yes, there are a lot of people that find any depiction of nudity erotic and/or inappropriate. They might not be a huge percentage, but they often have the loudest voices.

    And, yes, there are tons of people who complain when Michaelangelo's David tours America. The Simpson's even parodied that one in the 90's.