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  1. Re:Devil's Advocate on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 0

    The problem is that there exists a critical mass of individuals who either derive wages from their employers that create intellectual property and/or have retirement and/or other investments in entities that produce intellectual property. We cannot have people toiling for seven plus years in college to practice law and others who "have to be weird be discovered" that bust their asses creating stuff only to have "fully informed people" (especially those of us who got screwed out of college) acquit defendants thus accused. With what else can the U.S. Dollar be backed other than pledging all federal lands to Chin[SLIT!Gush!Gush!Gush!Passout-THuD!]

  2. Re:Big Brother on UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV · · Score: 0

    Wrong. Never underestimate the power of government to call anything a crime, even the mere existence of certain people.

    Godwin's Law is a cop-out.

  3. Re:Fuck you, this is about EVERYBODY on "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas · · Score: 0

    A common sense definition of a clunker is a vehicle that is paid in full.

    With the exception of New Jersey where dynamometer testing is done in all counties, the vast majority of states that have dual regions. An excellent example is (drum roll)...New York. Dyno testing is done in 'NYMA' (NY Metro Area i.e. NYC, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester counties) and the rest of the state performs only a physical presence check. Pennsylvania used to test only in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and just a safety check elsewhere. Now all PA counties do at least a physical presence check. It seems like New Jersey was pressuring PA to institute testing so as to stop people moving out there to avoid enhanced testing and all the wonderful things for which the Garbage State is notorious. What many people have done is establish residency outside the metro areas and so avoid dyno testing for their 'affordable' vehicles.

    For a while I was seeing a slew of instances where people were using art software to make their own inspection stickers a la "Screw the law, use CorelDRAW!". Sometimes the artwork would change slightly from year to year so as to throw off the counterfeiters. Most were printed on inkjet printers and the inks were not fadeproof. These would have make a sticker every month or so as not have a faded sticker garner police attention. No thanks to the 1990 Clean Air Act renewal with its enhanced testing procedures, many states have resorted to making inspection stickers using holograms, 2D bar codes, RFID chips and other anti-counterfeiting measures as enhanced testing is expanded to cover more of the registered vehicle fleet. Since a vehicle is the third most expensive purchase (after home and college), people have been "state shopping" to avoid among other things onerous I/M programs. Florida got smart about this and implemented an 'impact fee' for registering vehicles in Florida acquired elsewhere about twenty years ago.

  4. Re:Who do you sue when it crashes? on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 0

    One of the results of the Progressive Movement in the USA and elsewhere in the world in the opening years of the twentieth century was the assignment of strict liability to machines that allowed people to locomote apart from muscular power. Even as deaths, injuries, and loss statistics continue to decline throughout the decades, there will never be a time when governments concede that apart from commercial purposes the dour rejoinder of personal use of personal property for non-commercial purposes (what many call 'driving') being a privilege. A personally mobile populace is a threat to any government. Governments continue to support public transportation for among other reasons to continue to call this activity a privilege.

  5. Re:Riiiight. on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 0

    Germany (indeed, most/all of Europe) get around this situation by requiring that people pass a driving test before allowing them to drive. In my homeland (the UK) its long, arduous, and if you don't get it right, you don't pass (and you can be failed for things like "lack of confidence").

    WARNING: USA-centric content

    This is not done solely to improve the skills of motorists, rather it is done with the unspoken intent to discourage private motor vehicle use as a matter of public policy. One must remember that these are agencies that if they had their way, only the military and the police would be personally mobile and commercial operators only in the course of commerce.

    An armed, communicative, and personally mobile population is a threat to any government.

  6. Re:Cursive in other languages? on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 0

    Someone forget something? With genetic engineering, intermarriage, and/or multiculturalism (no thanks to Hart-Celler) the USA will have:

    4. Get everyone to look the same.

  7. Everything is political, penmanship no exception on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 0

    WARNING: Contains jingoistic material

    In those nation-states where the populace is shielded from market forces, people are not stressed and can take the time and patience to engage in such arcane matters such as cursive handwriting. The stereotype that socialism in Europe and other places makes for better art is grounded in this truth. However, it is no accident that such societies also have compulsory military service, limited civil liberties, rationed health care, and also play soccer. Remember the price that one may pay for that beautiful penmanship.

  8. Re:!thoughtcrime on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 0

    Citation required. However, the above does have that dour common sense jurisprudential quality.

  9. Re:Old Testament API is deprecated on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 0

    I like the analogy. However, there seems to be a bug:

      "I have not come to abolish Torah; I have come to bring it to the goal." Matthew 5:17.

    What has been called here as the "Old Testament API" is actually a body of casuistry that was eventually condensed to writing as the Mishna, Gemarot (Bavli & Yerushalmi), Baraitot (Mishna-era teachings that were not included in the Mishna that are found in the Gemarot), Tosefot/Tosefta, etc. In Yeshua's day , it was two competing API's, namely Hillel and Shammai. The post-apostolic figures in Christendom corrupted its API, infecting it with the virus of supersessionism that gave it the appearance of deprecation. I heartily suggest reading Pirke Avot alongside the New Testament. Expect headspin.

    The Jewish world hooks into the Talmud (Mishna & Gemarot)and Halakhah. The Christian world hooks into the Apostolic documents (New Testament) and Tradition (patristics and later works).

    As for the immediate parent comment, the proper approach is that the Christian must deal with the writers of the Epistles because these were letters written in response to various issues arising in the communities so addressed. In Judaism, this is called 'Responsa'.

    'Tis like System V & BSD, rugby league & gridiron. These have different rules, but the game is the same.

    To close the thought in a manner consistent with the subject of the article, there are behaviors that are opposed by the tenets of the Abrahamic continuum. There are those adherents withtin this realm who fear that to tolerate the existence of moral deviants (by not engaging in violence directed at the same) is to invite the negative attention of the Divine. These fear that the negative attention of the Divine will hurt everyone. Therefore it stands to reason in the minds of these that it would be better that the deviant group be pressured to change their behavior than to have everyone suffer.

    For those who know what time it is, come and hear. In this weeks episode, Pinchas accidently invents the club sandwich, complete with... toothpick.

  10. Re:whats the crime in hate crime? on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 0

    There is this 'totem pole of protected classes' in USA (federal) civil rights jurisprudence based on 'historical factors'. It goes something like this:

    0 LGBT, any ethnic any gender
    1 Black female
    2 Black male
    3 Hispanic female
    4 Hispanic male
    5 Asian female
    6 Asian male
    7 NAPI (Native American / Pacific Islander) female
    8 NAPI male
    9 Unassimilated ethnic white female
    10 Unassimilated ethnic white male
    11 White female
    12 White male
    13 Evangelical Christian, any ethnicity, any gender

    Within this scale, if one's worldview is perceived to be more hostile to historic Western values, the individual is granted more 'protection'. Basically, the more 'different' one is perceived by those assumed by reason of history to have power (i.e. white males), the more 'protection' one is granted. According to this model, it is absolutely impossible for the Black female gay (orientation overrides ethnicity and gender to the positive because we are carefully instructed that it is BIOLOGY) to be accused of a hate crime. In the contrapositive, the white male that attacks even another white male who espouses a worldview that is less tolerant of Western values (excepting Judaeo-christianity, of course!) than that of the attacker, that attacker has committed a hate crime. Therefore it stands to reason that anyone who attacks an evangelical Christian (faith overrides gender and ethnicity to the negative because we are carefully instructed that it is a CHOICE) is not merely not guilty of a hate crime, rather (s)he is doing enlightened humanity a favor by ridding society of such a pest. There are so many possible combinations of perpetrators and victims in these situations that adjudication of said cases requires the skill and judgment of one holding a terminal law degree and decades of experience.

    Like any system, this one can be hacked. Be perceived as gay and *presto* instant top-level protection. No evangelical of any ethnicity and/or gender will try to pull that stunt because his/her faith prohibits such behavior.

  11. Why bother? on NIH Spends $400K To Figure Out Why Men Don't Like Condoms · · Score: 0

    Abortion is safe and legal, all STD's are treatable, and welfare is available. Sex and responsibility are like church and state. These must remain separate in an modern enlightened society.

  12. Re:Get over yourself. on Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant · · Score: 0

    Wealth and good fortune has this weird (but reliably demonstrable) way of causing health tragedies, thus the reason for DeathCheater^Wexecutive health clinics.

  13. Re:I'm very tired of global warming on Cows That Burp Less Methane to Be Bred · · Score: 0

    Clean air, clean water, clean earth, clean wallets.

  14. Someone had to be made an example on $1.9 Million Award In Thomas Case Raises Constitutional Questions · · Score: 0

    To the extent that money is borrowed into existence and lent at interest and the USA economy has (d)evolved past agriculture, manufacturing and soon past services, the only commodity that is left to back the currency is intellectual property. Basically, she was found 'liable of messing with that which backs the currency' and was made an example.

    She appears to be a visibly recognizable (and therefore a reasonable expectation of protected status) minority. Where are the outcries from the appropriate ethnic defense lobbies? If this is going where I think it is going, then it appears that Big IP has trumped the protected ethnic lobby by reason of the GREEN thing.

    I wonder if those jurors were either involved in creating IP and/or have retirement or other investments in IP companies. Why is that not cited as conflict of interests?

  15. Re:Its not what happens in 5 Gyr... on Earth Could Collide With Other Planets · · Score: 0

    At the risk of many people's minds gravitating toward the gutter in one way or another, here goes...The moon crack, the moon crack! You forgot the MOON CRACK!

    P.S. Helium flash occurred last Tuesday. We're all screwed!

  16. Re:Doesn't quite work like that on Chinese Government To Mandate PC Censorware · · Score: 0

    China attempts to force the US to adopt unconstitutional laws, threatening economic attack, the US responds in kind with an economic attack...They might stop buying as much, or buying any, if they feel it doesn't make economic sense, but trying to use it to threaten political change would be a really bad idea. They could easily find themselves with a bunch of worthless paper on their hands.

    Perhaps it is high time to consider every take out establishment as a front for PRC interests. I guess we'll all starve then...

  17. Re:Hmm. on Splash, Splatter, Sploosh, and Bloop! · · Score: 1, Informative

    It could be the sound usually described with the word "PBBBT-BWECK!"used prominently in the 1960's Hanna-Barbera animated cartoons. It could also be the sound effect used in the Tom & Jerry cartoons throughout the 1950's approximated by "THFFFWWRK!" representing an impacting into mud, tar, uncured concrete, manure, etc.

  18. More offensive examples on French ISP Orange Fined For Offensive Temporary Password · · Score: 0

    Here are more negative examples for temp passwords including but not limited to "charlesmartel", "poitiers732", "svpretournerdansvotrepaysdorigine", "nousnallonspascapituler", and of course the functionally equivalent "lhygieneestquepourlesoccidentaux".

  19. Re:Cynicism on Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness · · Score: 0

    I guess that explains the absence of those cube shaped memo pads with the drug trade names and IUPAC formulas. As for this growing trend of 'everything is a disease', it smacks of the psichushka of the Brezhnyev era.

  20. Re:Bring water to mars on Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find · · Score: 0

    Perchlorates? Gather all the obsolete black toners for the old HP's and Lexmarks and send them with the manned Mars mission.They can make all the solid rocket fuel needed for the return trip!

  21. Dirty Work, Ethnicity and... on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 0

    I can vouch for the dirty work issue. From 1986 to 1993, I worked for one of the first third party IBM PC computer repair companies in the USA. In my last years there, I noticed that persons of a certain ethnicity did not like to get dirty at all.These did everything in their power to avoid having to get dirty, even to the extent of overdressing for the job (shirt and tie dresscode). As one who is on the bottom of the Protected Class Totem Pole(TM), I was assigned such tasks. Later I found out from a former co-worker who came to work with me in another company that I was pressured to quit (constructive discharge) because I was 'paid too much'.

    Dirty skills such as machining coupled with 'clean' skills like software and circuit design can be very valuable in certain situations, like building machine-vision controlled miniguns or other Second Amendment Exercise Machines.

  22. Re:This is true for some value of on The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wonderful, Next thing is when I power up my next Alienware system, I am going to hear a jingle (DLEELEELEET!) and see something like this:

    *** ALIENWARE BASIC 4.0 ***

    20480000000 BYTES FREE

    READY.
    []

  23. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 0

    Please do not give people in power any ideas.

  24. Child abuse and well-marketed distractions on Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study · · Score: 0

    The following content may exhibit USA-centric bias.

    Like DWI, child abuse was not a public policy concern until it was addressed in the popular culture. It took Pat Benatar to record "Hell Is for Children" in 1980 before people began to notice. State legislatures began passing laws against child abuse. Then children began to misbehave knowing that the government would be on their side if the parents tried to effectively discipline (by beating the shit out of) them. How many of us threatened to call Child Protective Services when we 'did not get our way'? As for the 'new age time-out' thing, I had seen it employed first hand in a family. The mother swore by it. Then I saw the plaque on the wall of the home office that had her name on it and read among others: "MASTER'S DEGREE IN SOCIAL WORK". That explained EVERYTHING! She even looked like Pat Benatar in the day! That was scary.

    The worst is having to grow up in a household where the husband who was not one's father is a police officer. Not just any garden variety LEO, but one who came out of the military with MP experience, e.g. U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds in the late 1950s to early 1960's. To whom could a kid turn? Don't let anyone say that there is no Blue Wall of Silence. How many of us fabricated intrusion detection systems before the age of ten to keep snoopy nonconsanguine marital partners in their place.

    IMHO, I say the real scourge is not this restraint device; it is the skateboard. There is something about skateboards and skateboard culture that have been made to appeal to young males of European origin. I do not understand why; all I know is that this is so. Everywhere I see skateboards, I see youthful Euro males and only Euro males and my city has a significant multi-ethnic mix. It is as if some nefarious conspiracy the origins of its members I will not discuss is marketing this scourge to keep this class of people wasting its time on skateboarding instead of excelling in school so they'll have to settle for dirty trade jobs or enlist in the military. Dare I say the same could be made about basketball for African Americans and soccer for Latinos?

    There was a skateboarding store in my neighborhood that closed recently. Maybe some Euro males in the area will have a chance some day to attend college and earn a degree because that distraction was removed. Maybe he will have a chance to work in a clean office environment with homeowner pay. Maybe he will not have to drive a van and breathe harmful chemicals and/or work with hazardous equipment and have to pinch pennies to rent cockroach infested "affordable housing". Maybe he won't have to enlist in the military and return in a body bag so those who come here can pick the Tree of Liberty bare with little or no thought for its defense.

    Say what you will, but even those perceived as racist fuckheads have rights too.

  25. Re:Vampirism on Stem Cell Treatment To Cure the Most Common Cause of Blindness · · Score: 0

    And yes kids, THIS is how one does a troll. Pure Truth, yet presented in the most inflamatory way possible, is the surest way to drive folks into a blind rage.

    This is one of the reasons why The Left like to live in cities. Cities are by definition nuclear targets. Suicide by terrorist nuke is their desired means of exit because these are too intimidated to commit suicide^W^Wengage in post-natal self-abortion and it also takes out 'the surplus population'.