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  1. Re:Maybe if the economy wasn't so fucked on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    So as long as all you want in life is to be alone, that's fine. Of course, you'd have been toast had you gotten injured and out of work for a month.

  2. Re:Yeah sure on Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen · · Score: 1

    There is no grey area when the closest 'attempt' was getting within 100 miles. Now stop being silly.

  3. Re:It's about time on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    They look to be close enough to detect the seismic activity if there is any.

  4. Re: It's about time on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    While there is probably some carbon coming in from space and some escaping the atmosphere, I doubt it's at all significant. So it is close enough to zero sum.

    The carbon was present in the gas clouds that formed the Earth. Back when more of it was in the atmosphere, there was a working ecosystem, but it worked for species that are now extinct. It wouldn't work very well for us or the other species on Earth now.

    A big difference though is the rate of change. It was very slowly sequestered over millennia. There was time for evolution to do it's thing. We are freeing it again at a tremendous rate, much faster than it can be sequestered. I doubt it will be fast enough to wipe out all life, but it's quite possible it will wipe out all human life. Or at least make it quite miserable.

    To put it in perspective, if we re-process our nuclear fuel, the nuclear waste (even that which escapes containment) will be gone long before the carbon balance is restored. Even if we stop all carbon emissions today, the zone of alienation around Chernobyl will be a forest ripe for human habitation before our existing emissions are sequestered again.

  5. Re:I do not do it because I want to on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the geniuses in management.

  6. Re:Awesome! on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 1

    Regular citizens come to a bad end if they ignore the courts. It's becoming SOP for the feds.

  7. Re:Awesome! on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 2

    They add a system to contest the placement which just happens to take the rest of your life plus 1 day to make a ruling.

    They thumb their noses at the court as usual.

    They let you contest it so you get off of the no-fly list and on to the double secret lose your luggage, anal probe and audit every year list.

  8. Re:Yeah sure on Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen · · Score: 1

    Close enough to say "I'm placing you under arrest. Turn around and put your hands on your head."

    Otherwise, 'tried' could mean I looked in the broom closet but he wasn't there.

  9. Re:This could be political too on China Starts Outsourcing From ... the US · · Score: 1

    They should do the same thing here.

  10. Re:Leverage the poor, whoever they are on China Starts Outsourcing From ... the US · · Score: 1

    What platform is the squirrel running on? We might have a winner!

  11. Re:false choice on China Starts Outsourcing From ... the US · · Score: 1

    The problem is, nobody can unless they're getting a handout to fill the gaps.

  12. Re:Leverage the poor, whoever they are on China Starts Outsourcing From ... the US · · Score: 1

    Minimum wage hikes is one of the regulations they are fighting the hardest. Next hardest is any regulation that would make them liable for the damage they inflict on everyone around them. Basically anything that doesn't keep people desperate and under-employed.

  13. Re:Funny ... on China Starts Outsourcing From ... the US · · Score: 2

    Pay them well enough that they become consumers who, in turn, create more demand which requiring more decently paying jobs to keep up.

  14. Re:oh boy on China Starts Outsourcing From ... the US · · Score: 2

    The inevitable result of an exploitative management.

  15. Re:Yeah sure on Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen · · Score: 1

    Where is the arrest attempt? Who showed up at his home with handcuffs and an arrest warrent?

    Nobody. That's who.

  16. Re:You know ... on Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I don't know about a speed comparison, but some studies have shown that cellphome while driving is similar to DUI in effect.

  17. Re:Ding on US Court Dings Gov't For Using Seized Data Beyond Scope of Warrant · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure it is a moderately hard pat on the head. Same motion as ringing the bell for service.

  18. Re:So they can keep this one guy's data for years. on US Court Dings Gov't For Using Seized Data Beyond Scope of Warrant · · Score: 1

    But it stretches credulity when they claim that those little accidents just happened to wipe out 100% of the data requested on multiple people's emails requested in an investigation and yet they can't even manage to delete data they should have deleted. The fact that it is an agency notorious for not being at all understanding if any taxpayer documentation at all is destroyed is just the cherry on top.

  19. Re:Yeah sure on Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen · · Score: 1

    But until they actually attempt the arrest, summary execution is wrong.

  20. Re:Yeah sure on Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen · · Score: 1

    So when was an attempt made to arrest him? Was there even an outstanding warrant on him?

  21. Re:Yeah sure on Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen · · Score: 1

    The bolded statements back up my statements. Read carefully. Note that in order to prevent escape, there must be an attempt to capture and an attempt to escape that capture. Drones don't have handcuffs on board or any other means to attempt arrest.

    None of that is in any way an application of punishment for a crime.

  22. Re:It's about time on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    Perhaps briefly, soon to be reversed by the new trees growing to replace them. But since the trees wouldn't burn completely, some of the carbon would get sequestered long term under layers of soil, so over-all the cycle of burnming and re-growth sequestered carbon and caused global cooling.

    We are now busy digging up many tons of that sequestered carbon and burning it.

  23. Re:It's about time on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    Did you ACTUALLY just claim that visible light isn't hitting the Earth, or did you get confused?

  24. Re:It's about time on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 2

    We have a number of research stations out there. Got any seismograph data to support your theory? There certainly should be some.

  25. Re:$507.03 on Judge: $324M Settlement In Silicon Valley Tech Worker Case Not Enough · · Score: 1

    As I walk away do you think to yourself "He'll never do THAT to anyone again!"?

    How about when you hear someone paid me $200 to smash your phone in the first place?