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  1. Re:Work around the problem... on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that won't help you. All it takes is one clipboard ticking nincompoop who's never felt worse than a stubbed toe deciding you aren't really in that much pain (never having met you) to screw you over good.

  2. Re:Don't tell your doctor about marijuana on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, they're living off of the war on drugs. If anyone is supporting them, it's the DEA. Make them legal to buy at CVS or Walgreen's and the cartels will collapse overnight.

  3. Re: Not your father's Apple on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this look like an allen wrench to you?

  4. Re:Chinese/Alt. medcine on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    And the people hunting rhinos aren't reputable herbalists.

  5. Re:why does this database exist in the first place on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention terminal patients who were prescribed "too much" because it's better to live another week in comfort than two in agony.

  6. Re:Fuck The DEA on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You should "double glove" first. You do NOT want to catch what they have.

  7. Re:Chinese/Alt. medcine on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to count rhino horn against Chinese medicine, you'll have to count snake oil against western medicine to be fair.

    Every culture has it's charlatans.

  8. Re:Always litigate instead of boycott on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, Me too. Just to avoid personally being hit with by Sony's assholery. They're still here and doing fine. Their CEO probably blows that much on a lunch with his cronies.

    .

  9. Re:Always litigate instead of boycott on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You've proven OPs point. Sony is still here and still doing evil.

  10. Re: Not your father's Apple on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the PC was thoroughly officially documented inside and out. OTOH, the Mac required special tools just to open the case. That's not to claim IBM was happy with clones.

  11. Re: Revenge p0rn on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Gawker made themselves a huge target for this by showing a remarkable lapse in judgement, but that doesn't negate the huge amount of damage a legal team backed by a billion dollars can do to practically anyone.

  12. Re:Implications for other immune system disorders? on 23 Seriously Ill MS Patients Recover After 'Breakthrough' Stem Cell Treatment (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Actually, since the patient receives his own harvested marrow, rejection is not one of the risks.

  13. Re:Bank Accounts not mentioned in TFA on Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops (news9.com) · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how expensive it is to be poor.

  14. Re:Implications for other immune system disorders? on 23 Seriously Ill MS Patients Recover After 'Breakthrough' Stem Cell Treatment (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I'm not about to claim the FDA is reasonable or even thinking. However, those who are largely unaffected between flare ups may prefer to live with it rather than risk death.

    A big problem is the FDA, composed primarily of people who do not have a chronic condition, wants to decide for patients what risk is too high rather than just making sure the patient knows what the risk actually is and how much benefit they can expect from it.

  15. Yeah, yeah, bla, bla, bla.

    They're not demanding, marching in the streets, shaking their fists in anger, or even threatening not to buy one. It was just a suggestion (and not a bad one at that).

    Do you get pissed when parents read from a storybook at bedtime rather than from memory too?

  16. Actually, it is exactly armed robbery.

  17. Re:Catching the bad guys. on Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops (news9.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...yet the headlines scream that there are rampant criminals stealing and profiting from drugs, terrorism, arms...

    There are. We call them "cops".

  18. Re:Bank Accounts not mentioned in TFA on Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops (news9.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a distinction without a difference for many. A lot of people use their paycheck to recharge a prepaid card. Effectively it is their bank account even if not in name.

    The fact remains, you had money before and now you don't.

  19. Re:Gee, I wonder why anti police sentiment exists on Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops (news9.com) · · Score: 1

    A moral or ethical person refrains from thievery even in a state of anarchy. The cops doing this are not good people and deserve nothing but contempt. Quite honestly, they deserve to get shot like any other armed robber.

  20. Re:If you can prove you're innocent... on Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops (news9.com) · · Score: 1

    It's time. If they take your stuff, they don't even have to charge you with a crime. Further, you don't get it back unless you can prove it wasn't involved in a crime. The police get most of it with a percentage to the courts to make sure they keep looking the other way.

  21. Re:Judge Davis retired last year on Crazy Patent Troll Suing Devs For Posting Apps To Google Play (technobuffalo.com) · · Score: 2

    This isn't a case of malpractice, it's judicial misconduct.

  22. Re:Why doesn't law enforcement get it? on Tech Firms Say FBI Wants Browsing History Without Warrant (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They do get it. It's just that they care a lot more about their job being easy than they do about the U.S.A. or anything it stands for. If American flag toilet paper was $0.0001 cheaper per roll, they'd use it.

  23. Re: Why doesn't law enforcement get it? on Tech Firms Say FBI Wants Browsing History Without Warrant (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Found the fed!

    Sorry, you're wrong. If you HAVE information, it is your information. The subject of that information is irrelevant.

  24. Re:Luddites? on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Not everyone has someone who can/will take them in. Unless we want them to starve, we have to have a public safety net. That means we need a minimum wage to keep employers from turning public assistance into a subsidy for their payroll.

  25. Re:uh, what? on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1

    Exactly this!

    Netflix could also offer an alternative server name like v4.netflix.com that has no v6 address in DNS so those who don't have a problem with v6 can use it and those who do can be told to use v4.netflix.com.