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  1. Re:Are they liable for other cars? on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 1

    Please pardon the pedantry. Always remember that 9/11/01 is the current blanket reason why the cops will always get their toys and have fun therewith. If the common law doctrines of sovereign immunity and the most irritating cliche of law that is "driving is a privilege" are insufficient, the motor vehicle via and/or torts statutes can be amended so as to protect state agents in their course of their duties.

    Yesh gavul l'dina d'malkuta dina.
    (There is a limit to obeying the laws of others.)

  2. Re:My personal yield... on Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record Rate · · Score: 1

    There are times [BRRRRRRFFFT!] that I think Gazprom might [POOT!] have an interest [FFFFT!] in my [PLLLLITT!] intestinal prokaryotics. Don't flick that light[BOOOM!]

    Gas explosion levels complex, details at 11.

  3. Re:And could this have an even broader reach? on MA Proposes Two Year Jail Term for Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    Felons lose their voting privilege.

  4. Re:I've read about this before. on Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic · · Score: 1

    I say basically the same thing about the bluepilling of the masses (cushy jobs, nice homes, big SUV's, etc) and I am either ignored or downmodded. It must be the lack of semen in my saliva.

  5. Re:Simple solution on Congress Pressures DoJ With PIRATE Part II · · Score: 1

    I LOVE the sound of Brandenburg v. Ohio being run through the shredder. The problem is too many people have popped blue pills (cushy jobs, nice homes, big SUV's, monstrous entertainment systems, fat retirement accounts, boats, vacations, etc). Simply not enought people are desperate enought to revolt.

    Truth is the red pill.

  6. Re:Alienation on FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies · · Score: 1

    Now that the word is out, these will now use cash to buy foods and other things that are viewed as 'ethnically suspicious'. Buying pork and beer will raise even more suspicion because it will be seen as a conscious attempt to conceal their intentions. I guess if I go shopping in a kosher food store, I will be viewed as either a Kahanist, Jonathan Pollard supporter, or even worse, someone who believes there is more to life than petroleum, uncontrolled borders, sexual promiscuity, and socioeconomic Darwinism.

    How about pulling an Echelon? Get as many people to buy 'terrorist food' as possible and give them a headache! But invariably I will hear "Oh no, my cushy job, my beautiful house, my SUV, my entertainment system, my boat, my retirement portfolia, etc."

  7. Re:crime? what about birth? on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    The international law concept of diplomats could be applied to astronauts so that there is no legal monstrosities of potentially incompatible citizenship mixes upon birth in such locales.

  8. Re:crime? what about birth? on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    Pre-launch activity, eh? Would not the occupation of astronaut be considered so unique in scope as to preclude such human activity? Would a reasonable individual conclude that part of the job would be to refrain from becoming pregnant before and/or during a mission? Even so, the thought of a controlled experiment involving the unborn in space would be replete with ethical concerns given the increased radiation doses alone.

    [Bracing for some comment involving Lisa Nowak...as coffee is spewed from mouth onto kbd and disp in laughter]

  9. Re:crime? what about birth? on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    By reason of its complications, would not pregnancy be grounds for removal from duty aboard the ISS? This would neatly eliminate the need for adjudicating citizenship. As for the USA modules, such could be considered an 'insular territory'. These are places where the Constitution does not always follow the Flag.

    More likely than not, there are some lawyers (with too much time on their hands) who are attempting to find the best jus soli/jus sanguinis citizenship mix for the present configuration of the ISS. The results may appear as a humor piece in a yet to be published law journal.

  10. Re:So What? on National Security Letter Plaintiff Speaks · · Score: 1

    FWIW, children are one of the many pawns which tyrants use to control people. "Think of the children" is a often used byline. The soccer mom does the tyrant's work by means of the maternal instinct.

  11. Re:So What? on National Security Letter Plaintiff Speaks · · Score: 1

    The problem is that people are unwilling to sacrifice their material pursuits and posessions for "doing the right thing". These basically say that political liberty is useless if one is homeless and hungry. As for those who unfortunately find the balance of their lives shambled because they fought back and won, this is what the system wants sheople to see so they 'think twice' and stay in line (the nail that sticks up gets hammered flat).

    For people like these, there is a world of choices (i.e. many nations to which one may emigrate for better economic opportunites without regard to political liberty) and many do speak their language (English as the world's 'alternate' language).

  12. Re:Pick your poison on REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU · · Score: 1

    No, its not for political theorists. It is for the governed to decide how they will be governed. You don't need a degree in Political Science to know the difference between right and wrong. [sarcasm]

    GASP! There is nothing more obscene and barbaric to the modern mind than an appeal to morality: right and wrong!

    [/sarcasm]
  13. Re:Apply Godwin's Law to the Government. on REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU · · Score: 1

    I can hear it now: "I would LOVE to support your cause, but...but...my cushy job, my beautiful home, my SUV, my entertainment system, my boat, my retirement portfolio, my this, my that..."

    Posessed by one's own posessions. Now THAT'S freedom.

  14. Re:It's a shame. on REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU · · Score: 1

    Using a passport for anything except crossing an international boundary only serves to strengthen the idea that one is a foreigner in one's own country.

  15. Re:And for Dessert... on Chefs As Chemists · · Score: 1
    Concerning the new cuisine:

    It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. Red Oval cuisine: Better eating through chemistry.
  16. Re:Right.... on Linux-Powered Lego-Like Devices Target Developers · · Score: 1

    How about DOS for Dummies? A cardinal rule of marketing was violated by insulting the potential customer. What out there does NOT have its corresponding For Dummies(tm) book nowadays?

  17. Re:Confusing The Issue on Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail? · · Score: 1

    Nowadays with such tools available to the common man, it is no surprise that the method of accomplishment would be considered to carry more gravity that the act itself. Think criminal empowerment i.e. he/she used (leveraged) the infrastructure against itself and/or the powers that be.

    Who is the usual juror that will decide the case? More likely than not, said person will be someone who will be scared into convicting by the prosecution and the media. Said person will be made to think and/or believe that not convicting the defendant would put all for which they have worked so hard in jeopardy. Remember how so many prosecutors were playing the Osama card since 9-11-01?

  18. Re:Cooool... on Joss Whedon Back on TV · · Score: 1

    Ripping off Gerry Anderson, eh? May they be haunted by the ghost of real television.

  19. Re:Open source surveillance on Transform Cellphones Into a CCTV Swarm · · Score: 1

    Human nature is finally recognized for what it is. If given the opportunity, any human being would exercise supreme authority over other human beings.

    Downmodding posts is like destroying bugs; it is an admission of guilt.

  20. Re:just taking care to take care. on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    That is the whole point. It is the circus part of Bread and Circuses. Too many people have become possessed by their possessions to think of the liberties that they or their fathers once had. If people did not have so much to lose, there would be more agitation to keep the chemistry sets around.

    In Amerika, property owns YOU!

  21. Re:unrealistic goals on Privacy Groups Mull 'Do Not Track' List for Internet · · Score: 1

    we cannot reasonably expect any privacy laws to deter usage of this data, whether it be by private companies for profit, or government entities for censorship and oppression...With this, there will come more and more tradeoffs in terms of conveniences, and ultimately perhaps even one's place in society...

    This makes the government's job that much easier as to whom shall appear on the 'no-fly' and 'no foreign travel' lists.

    ~|.$*#
    NO FEDDERS
  22. Re:It's not hard to understand. on FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database · · Score: 1

    What a sneaky move. This is how the current administration gets around Kent v. Dulles and other case law establishing the right to travel. What we have now is that exit may be a right, but entry is a privilege governed by others who have been studied as to what grounds to deny entry. One cannot exit one nation without entering another. Create information that other countries can use to deny entry, and voila! no right to travel. It is the same spirit as Echelon. Can't spy on your own people (moot after 9/11)? Have nations spy on each others citizens and share the info.

    Make your money and acquire property and positional goods 'cause there are no other freedoms left.

  23. Re:Aye, but that's the easy part on Handheld Supercomputers in 10-15 Years? · · Score: 1

    Liquid cooling definitely, let the computer heat the house and the hot water. However, these would be a hard sell in Canada, for the RCMP will be investigating all these cases of unusual increases in 'hydro' use (again with the indoor cannabis farms, eh?).

    Having been in computer repair for nearly a quarter century, I have heard a number of jokes about personal supercomputers. The year was 1989 and IBM was attempting to retake the PC market with MicroChannel. One fellow where I was working (Computer Systems Repair in Teterboro, NJ, long since defunct) came up with the '986 Fat Channel PC'. The bus (an obvious spoof on MicroChannel) would have slots that were twelve inches long with the bottom sides of the cards were end to end 50 mil card edge. 256 bit muxed data/address bus the other 224 lines for power, clock, and control. Processor and RAM would have its own card and cooling shroud. RAM cards using 144 pin SIMM edge would have the size of US dollar bills. The case components were to be made of ceramic, fiberglass textile, fluorosilicome polymers and stainless steel because of the heat. Run video games, business apps, BBS (dated aren't we!) and heat the house, garage, chicken coop, barn, etc. Three phase industrial power would be a must where half the weight of the power supply would be a finely extruded aluminium heatsink with cutouts for cooling fans designed like gas turbines.

  24. Re:Chest X-Rays required for immigration on Using Old Medications to Defeat Tuberculosis · · Score: 1

    AFAIK Canada has no equivalent of USA case law based on decisions like U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark and Afroyim v. Rusk which has established drive-by citizenship beyond the reach of Congress. Furthermore, there appears to be no potent immigration lobby (unnaturalized minds in naturalized bodies) as it exists in the USA. Kudos to the North. IMHO it is due to the fact that other nations do not own a percentage of Canada's debt sufficient to influence its internal affairs (unlike the USA). Again, kudos to the North.

    Nothing is more a lie than an unpleasant truth.

  25. Re:thought is the enemy of belief on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    ...but at the end of the day human lives are too complex to establish experimental controls over in every respect The secularists are going to be angry! "How dare he suggest that man is something more than merely a thinking animal!"