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  1. Re:Public transit on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    They can't raise the fine that much since the fine needs to remain reasonable for those that simply forgot their ticket or lost it.

  2. Re:Sounds like a sting on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    They've been doing this for the past 13 years, a bit long to run a sting don't you think?

  3. heh on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 0

    Yet somehow most European police forces manage just fine with their policies of disabling shots before lethal force. It's almost as if you're making things up.

  4. Re:Untested? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    They're only forbidden to supply the drug to correctional facilities, since that market is utterly tiny theres absolutely no profit to be had in catering to it.

  5. Re:Hmm on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    The law forbids cruel and unusual punishments and regardless of cruel, pushing someone off a tall building is certainly unusual. It would also I suspect be a bitch to clean.

  6. Re:Untested? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of tested ways of execution. Decapitation, gassing, hanging, firing squad, the previous lethal cocktail etc.

  7. Re:Punishment fits the crime on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Generally when we as a society decide that we do not torture criminals to death, it is not because we don't feel the criminals deserve it, but rather that we as a society are better then that.

  8. Re:Written by a Woman? on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They controlled against no person present which had the same effect as female which means that it was the male odor that was the cause.

    They also tested with scents from various male and female animals and the male scents still had the same effect.

  9. Re:Slight problem with your storyline on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 2

    Sweden can't make any such promise because Extradition is a court matter and any politician bypassing the court in such a matter would be performing a major breach of the separation of powers.

  10. Re:I love to read on France Moves To Protect Independent Booksellers From Amazon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have you heard about this newfangled institution called a library?

  11. Re:No Moral Standing Here on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    The policy is against selling drugs that will be used to kill people. The policy is not against selling drugs to regimes that kill people.

  12. Re:Easy to trace??? on 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' · · Score: 1

    No, Bitcoin was never designed to be hard to trace, in fact Bitcoin by design is easy to trace.

  13. Re:Make cars harder to drive and faster on New York Turns Rest Stops Into 'Texting Zones' · · Score: 1

    Bla bla bla. Look, you just need to look at any kind of traffic accident vs car safety feature statistic to see that people in no way were better drivers with worse cars, they just died more.

  14. Re:False distinctions on Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with how radio works, they give no fucks, it has everything with what the user of the radio expects. Laws are by and large written to apply to people, not technology.

    If most people expect a situation to be private and you listen in, then you're an asshat and the law will usually punish you for it regardless of how easy it was for you to listen. This has nothing to do with the technical details of the situation.

  15. Re:Terrible Ruling on Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with how radio works, they give no fucks, it has everything with what the user of the radio expects. Laws are by and large written to apply to people, not technology.

  16. Re:This isn't very complicated. on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    Once again we come back to the fact that it's always really easy for the government to create political "thought-crimes" however with a solid constitution there's a limit to the damage they can do.

    You have to remember that it's infeasible to write a constitution to prevent the government from writing bad laws at all, the fifth is a very important part in preventing the potential abuse of the rather inevitable bad laws.

    If you want an example of recent US history where the 5th was very important, just remember:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

    Imagine how much worse that could have been without the 5th even if it was to an extent disregarded.

    The country I live in is Sweden.

  17. Re:This isn't very complicated. on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    Indeed the 5th is only a part of a larger set of rights that together are supposed to ensure that the criminal justice system functions properly.

    However even when torture as such is banned, contempt of court charges themselves become a form of torture when you're forced to choose between incriminating yourself, contempt of court or perjury.

    That's the important distinction between the right to be silent about yourself and the right to be silent about someone else, in your own case you're forced to harm yourself in some manner regardless of which option you choose, which is considered inhumane and unjust, while in the case of a third party you still have an option that leaves you unharmed.

    However I'll note that being forced to witness is a fairly rare law which doesn't exist in many other countries such as my own.

  18. Re:This isn't very complicated. on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    I'm confused as to why you would think there should be examples of that. Once the right to remain silent is established in law there is no point for any prosecutor to bring such a case before a judge, they're usually not complete morons.

    What you will find if you open any history book is that the amount of religious and political prosecution is vastly lower in any country once the right to remain silent is established in law. I'm surprised at your complete ignorance in the history and background of these laws.

  19. Re:This isn't very complicated. on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    No they can't. You seem to be unable to comprehend the idea of a bad government acting legally, which is actually really common.

    The very point of having a constitution in the first place is so that you have a set of laws that are very hard for any individual government to change, so that even though they have the power to rewrite most of the normal laws, they're still bound by the constitutional laws unless they have popular support for an extended period of time.

  20. Re:This isn't very complicated. on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 2

    That's because they were guilty, what part of political and religious prosecution do you have problems understanding?

    The right to remain silent makes it a lot harder to prosecute people over political crimes.

  21. Re:Oh, damnit... I've been trolled. on Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It probably is that simple for a very simple reason. His target audience isn't really poor kids that just want to try out hacking, he's selling the licences for 2.5k a pop/year so he's obviously targeting companies, companies that would rather not crack the copies regardless of how easy it is because of legal liabilities.

  22. Re:Amazing idea on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    I wasn't thinking of variable speed signs, but rather on the westbound road from Uppsala the main road is 70 however every intersection is 50 and supplied with a speed camera, so every time you come close to an intersection you have to brake and every time you leave it you have to accelerate and every time you have to be paranoid about if a camera will catch you not braking hard enough.

  23. Re:Amazing idea on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 2, Informative

    I hate those cameras so much. I wouldn't mind them so much if the road was permanently 50, but 50-70-50-70-50-70 with cameras in between is just pure ass-hole.

  24. Re:Amazing idea on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 2

    What kind of grade A moron would make a car brake to match a speed limit? It'll just turn the engine off to slowly reduce speed.

  25. Re:easy solution on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 1

    The Swedish Millitary is forbidden by law to interfere in civilian matters ever since a protest got bloody about 80 years ago.