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  1. Re:Inception and TSN, perhaps. on Inception, The Social Network, TS3 Get Oscar Noms · · Score: 1

    It was nominated for Best Picture as well, which is what GP was complaining about.

  2. Re:What Congress really needs .... on Patriot Act Up For Renewal, Nobody Notices · · Score: 1

    It would also have a nice benefit that if they passed too many laws they would spend all their time renewing existing laws and be unable to create more. Of course, they would just bundle all the laws together and pass them at once and then nothing would ever be reviewed and it would just be some quick automatic thing they did at the beginning of the next year.

  3. Re:You think they give more... on WikiLeaks Gives $15k To Bradley Manning Defense · · Score: 2

    Webster has no legal standing in the US Court system. The Constitution, on the other hand, does: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

  4. Re:Net neutrality is not capitalism on Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections · · Score: 1

    I think he was being facetious. That said the reason you only have 1 provider is probably because one company was granted a local monopoly by the government. Although I suppose you could just live in the middle of no where.

  5. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    This isn't a forum to go into what needs to stay and what needs to be removed, such a discussion here would be insane so we have to use generics. The Libertarian platform does not state that all regulation is bad: http://www.lp.org/platform. Not to mention you can identify with a political party and not be in 100% agreement with their platform. Clinton was definitely the best president of the last two decades and we are talking about regulation because you started posting false crap about regulations and the Libertarian party. But hey don't let the fact that I've pointed out that all your posts are based on straw men arguments from making half a dozen more in a single post.

  6. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think our main problem here is that you believe "Less Government power" is the same as "Complete Deregulation and anarchy." Its fairly easy to make a good argument when you setup ridiculous straw men arguments in every single post.

  7. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    All people are the same and every model you build has to take that into account. Neither government nor corporations are evil or good. Power is abused no matter where it is. Putting power in government is the same as power in corporations, because both are filled with normal people. We see this all the time, how many regulations have been broken and abused over the past 4 years in scandal after scandal, whether it is in housing, mining and drilling, banking.... Is more regulation going to solve this? More watchers to watch the watchers? Are we suddenly going to find honest people who are not corruptible to put in these positions? This isn't even getting into the corporations writing/lobbying for their laws, subsidies and loop holes. Just because you feel safer to think the guy in the Department of Interior is more honest and caring than a manager is some company, doesn't mean you need to spin libertarians as evil capitalist anarchists.

  8. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually there is nothing big money loves more than government regulations, subsidies and power. Without that they can't get free money and shut out the competitions and pass favorable laws for their business. They would shit their pants if they thought libertarians were going to start running the country. Regulations rarely mean 'consumer protection' in this day and age. Lucky for them the majority of Americans are blinded by the fact that somehow giving the government more power decreases the power of big money and that you can define libertarianism and anarchy and dismiss it entirely.

  9. Re:Great Simple Idea on FCC Will Tackle Cell Phone 'Bill Shock' · · Score: 1

    Yea same with my carrier, they provide it as a free service on their unlimited plans.

  10. Re: No worries on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 1

    They don't have any IOUs to call in, they own bonds paying a predictable interest rate at predictable time periods. The only thing they could do would sell their debt to others and flood the market with US bonds. This would make it so that we would either not be able to get more debt (because no one is buying) or we would have to pay extremely high interest rates to create more demand. This would not be good, but if we balanced the budget we would be alright, we would not have to try and pay it all back right away.

  11. Re:step 2 missing on Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access · · Score: 4, Informative

    Per this article (http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6698137-how-abducted-reporter-kosuke-tsuneoka-used-twitter-while-in-captivity) they released him because was muslim... So his tweets had nothing to do with anything....

  12. Re:Snitch on Online Forum Speeding Boast Leads To Conviction · · Score: 1

    You left off an important part of what hearsay is... Hearsay is information gathered by one person from another concerning some event that the one person was not present for...

  13. Re:Huh?! on Intuit Still Fighting Government Tax Software · · Score: 1

    For anyone interested in looking at it: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/1913.pdf

  14. Re:Evolution of deer on First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created · · Score: 1

    From my experience they evolved the desire to leave the forest and stay within the city limits where it is illegal to shoot them....

  15. Re:$226 million? on Tesla IPO Raises $226 Million · · Score: 1

    They only bought a part of the plant, Toyota also bought $50 million of Tesla stock (I have a feeling the part they bought was roughly worth $50 million, although I couldn't easily find a number ).

  16. Re:Did I miss something? on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    How do you get $4000 a year? Assuming that gas is $4/gallon (just to make the math easy) that means you drive 35,000 miles a year. Or am I missing something obvious?

  17. Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Other signs of cheating: When you get a student that does A+ work on programming assignments, but fails the exam (not always the case, but usually). Another sure sign is when they turned in two or three sub par programming assignments and then turn in a beautiful program using concepts that haven't been taught yet. Also once you suspect them it is easy to verify. They can either explain the code or they can't, if they can explain it maybe they cheated, but at least they spent the time to learn what the code does, although I never saw this when I was grading work.

  18. Re:Nicotine vs Caffeine on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    It would be really really hard to OD on caffeine and it is only really hard to OD on nicotine. Yes it is much more toxic, but I would say it is also true that it is just as harmless as caffeine because your ability to get to a lethal dose is difficult and not going to happen without purposefully attempting it.

  19. Re:-1 False Assumption on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    Whoops, well run them reds...

  20. Re:-1 False Assumption on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    Then your not running a red since you are already in the intersection when it turns red.

  21. Re:Seven years for eight hours work on Novell Wins vs. SCO · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shorts closing their position?

  22. Re:Do Free games cover all genres? on EA Editor Criticizes Command & Conquer 4 DRM · · Score: 1

    DO NOT download dwarf fortress! I have had way to many nights where I forgot to go to bed because of that damn game. You have been warned.

  23. Re:Why so much hate? on Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii · · Score: 1

    Wow you just perfectly described my household as well....

  24. Re:Microsoft - why no AV in Windows install? on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More likely, they don't want to find themselves with another antitrust suit from the western governments.

  25. Re:Socialist internetz on FCC's Broadband Plan May Cost You Money · · Score: 1

    They were appointed by the governor of the state. The 17th amendment changed it to an election. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution