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  1. Re:If you want us to buy complete albums..... on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    Animals came pretty close, if you consider Pigs on the Wing as one song, there was only 4 worthy tracks.

  2. Re:WTF? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    No, they should be charged with refusing to blow with penalties equal to being impaired.
    Drawing someones blood against their will is about the most invasive search possible and should only be allowed in the most extreme circumstances.
    Of course the defendant should also have the right to get the blood independently tested so two vials of blood should be drawn.
    At least that is how it is done in free countries.

  3. Re:Whats next? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    In my country it is vial, actually 2 vials as we have the right to defend ourselves which includes the right to independently get the blood tested so one vial for the cops and one for the defendant.
    Also only a doctor or medical technician can draw the blood and they can decline. Also a warrant for blood can only be issued if there is an accident. On the negative, the warrant can be faxed and only has to be presented the next day.
    For those who refuse to blow there is a law where the punishment is equal to an impaired charge.
    Our courts have consistently held that removing someones blood is one of the most invasive searches possible and therefore the criteria for a search warrant is very strict.

  4. Re:There is no left or right on China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested · · Score: 1

    Canada is much the same. I've seen fashion shows in the after school time slot, 3:00 PM, showing topless models and nobody freaks out. Partial and occasionally total nudity in prime time and of course swearing.
    One show that surprised me was one night, prime time, flipping through my limited channel selection there was an opera on so out of boredom watched it. This was performed at the Royal Opera House with all kinds of the upper crust of society dressed to the nines. I was quite surprised how much full nudity and simulated sex there was, especially considering the opera was a couple of hundred years old or so. Now I know why they have those opera glasses.

  5. Re:ah faux news on World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the theory of gravity, another unproven theory.

  6. Re:Overhead wires on South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet · · Score: 1

    Actually one of the big advantages over tram rails is trollies can change lanes.

  7. Re:Mugabe on Wikileaks and Democracy In Zimbabwe · · Score: 1

    What tyrant did America have that they removed by force? The English monarchy had been finally neutered in the revolution of 1688, with very little violence and parliament was supreme with the democratically elected House of Commons holding the balance of power.
    I understand that there was also a large movement to make George Washington the King but he declined so not knowing what else to do they copied the mother country with a democracy with the improvement of a constitution and electoral reform.

  8. Re:Good! on California Rare-Earth Mine Reopens · · Score: 1

    The majority of Americans are not San Fransisco based Apple Fags. The majority of Politicians though seem to be.

    And you're better because you want to have sex with old dead prophets?

  9. Re:Quoting Homer on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    As far as I know magnesium is still used in some of the high performance machines such as a good chainsaw. At least my couple of year old Husky (and all others I've owned) has a big warning in the manual not to use ethanol or methanol blended fuels.
    Luckily around here premium still has 0% ethanol and these machines should use premium anyways.

  10. Re:Ethanol pluses and minuses on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Actually adding 5-10% ethanol does have advantages. It causes less pollution and is one of the cleaner octane boosters. I'd rather have a small amount of ethanol in my gas tank then lead or mtff or whatever the latest was.
    It does seem horrible to make it out of food though (wheat here in Canada)

  11. Re:The War on Drugs an abuse of the Commerce Claus on If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet From the Start · · Score: 1

    Why did the war on alcohol need a constitutional amendment to start and end?

  12. Re:its called TAXES stupid on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    Kind of a waste to try to use solar power for us who live in a rain forest. When you don't even see the sun for months I doubt that solar would produce much.

  13. Re:Suicide! on How the Free Market Rocked the Grid · · Score: 2

    You mean that one of these days I won't be on dialup? All due to the last 20 years of little regulation which has seen my service downgrade and my bill go up. $30 bucks a month now for a 2.64 kb/s connection. Lots of choices for long distance which I don't use so pay $5 a month for not using long distance. At least my basic bill has been pretty stable which is why now it is only 20% of the total.

  14. Re:No More Deregulation on How the Free Market Rocked the Grid · · Score: 2

    My power is provided by a government owned corporation. Not only do I get some of the cheapest power in N. America but it almost always turns a profit, sometimes a very large profit and very occasionally a small loss. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Hydro#Financial_performance )

  15. Re:boycott all large labels? on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1

    We pretty well are, at least with music. You can borrow my CD collection and copy it for personal use, download music from my computer for personal use etc.
    What is illegal is my making copies for you or you selling your copies.
    This is the reason that the States considers Canada to be the third worst country in the world for copyright infringement with only Russia and China worst.

  16. Re:This isn't helping. on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1

    Perfectly legal here in Canada for you to copy my whole music collection, go to the library, checkout music and copy or download music from my computer for your personal use.
    What isn't legal is for me to make you copies and if you live in a non-free country to take that music across the border.

  17. Re:Not pro-corporate on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Private companies use force all the time.

    Really? Can you provide an example?

    Pinkerton detective agency, which back in the really free market days of no government regulation was bigger then the Army of the USA and killed a lot of people.
    Now a days, there is still Pinkertons, railway police who have all the powers of regular police, and various other private security companies who are armed and will shoot you if you look shifty around a rich person.

  18. Re:Not pro-corporate on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should give your property back to the people it was stolen from therefore helping create a free market.

  19. Re:Not pro-corporate on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You do know that AT&T had a monopoly before the government got involved?
    At the time the least harmful thing seemed to make the monopoly official on the condition that they served everyone instead of the cherry picking they were doing.

  20. Re:Not pro-corporate on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You do not understand liberty if you think that a freedom to punch someone in the face and a freedom to not get punched on the face are basically the same thing, to be traded off against one another. The first involves oppression of someone else's freedom, the second one doesn't. That is the crucial difference.

    Meanwhile your signature quotes a slave owner so obviously liberty is the freedom to buy people.

  21. Re:Assange is the guest of honor on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 1

    Not as strongly as rape. There is being verbally assaulted, being assaulted by a smell, as a couple of examples of non-violent forms of assault. I believe in some jurisdictions verbal assault can be a crime and even being assaulted by a smell may be cause for a tort in some circumstances.

  22. Re:Assange is the guest of honor on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 1

    The way I understand it is the woman went to the police to find out if there was any way to force Assange to take a STD test. This is how the prosecutor found out. Possibly in Sweden charges at this point are automatic or maybe at the prosecutors discretion whether the woman wants to or not. This is how it works in my country depending on the degree of the assault.
    Really for this kind of offence rape is the wrong word with all its connotations of violent force. Unluckily English doesn't really have a better term though in my country there is just different degrees of sexual assault.

  23. Re:Is this Wikileaks day? on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 1

    In the case of Canada, we currently have a pro-American party in power who are also very secretive.

  24. Re:Lot of track? on Japanese Robot Picks Only the Ripest Strawberries · · Score: 1

    Looks to me like they're picking cukes, much different then strawberries which I have picked.
    Also at 9 seconds a berry this would be so uneconomical compared to a fast human picker who probably averages 1/2 a second per berry with close to 100% of ripe berries being picked even if hiding under a leave.

  25. Re:Lot of track? on Japanese Robot Picks Only the Ripest Strawberries · · Score: 1

    Railroads have the luxury of having a layer of ballast, usually crushed rock, to lay the track on. Strawberries like to grow in dirt that can easily turn into mud.