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  1. Re:Thats good to hear. on "Do Not Call" Violators Fined $1.2M · · Score: 1

    I do appreciate the links, except that they have nothing to do with the DNCL

  2. Re:Thats good to hear. on "Do Not Call" Violators Fined $1.2M · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I've never heard any evidence of your statement regarding judges. Care to elaborate? I would have suspected that with more straight forward laws, such as this one, that judges could make more cut and dry opinions and not have any personal opinion injected to decisions. The way they're supposed to.

  3. Re:Won't someone please think of the children? on Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution · · Score: 1

    Most adults are that impressionable. If you don't think the kids in your high school are that impressionable, then you too are that impressionable. As for the ID, the problem is that there is nothing to the theory other than "We don't know how this step happened - insert god's work". Try watching Ben Stein's movie and tell me what you learn about creationism and why it should be taught, and you'll have a short list. The entire movie is fear mongering based on lies and half-lies.

  4. Re:Loss of Habeas? on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you're aware, but the Geneva Convention refers to Switzerland, as in, it wasn't written by the states for the states. Plus it's a completely separate issue from habeas corpus. Your loss of HC is cemented in the Military Commissions Act. If you are accused of being an enemy combatant, you lose all rights, and thus have no way to prove you are not an enemy combatant.

  5. Re:Some easy answers to those questions. on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 1

    Ah, at least someone has the answers to all the questions. What are you doing on the internet instead of fixing all of the world's ills? They might as well shut down every philosophy class with captain omniscient in charge.

  6. Re:Another dilemma on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good jokes always get spoiled when you have to explain them to the dimwit. It's so obvious that those countries are first world countries, the point being that in a first world country you would think it would be easy enough to view/purchase digital media. If it makes you feel better, I have the same issue getting trying to watch BBC shows on this side of the pond.

  7. Re:*sigh* on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That would involve Americans travelling.

  8. Re:Lawyers are paid to represent clients on Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post · · Score: 1

    So you've established that he's greedy above compassionate. Just what America needs.

  9. Re:The solution on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 1

    Don't listen to top 40 radio Then the question becomes, what should you listen to? If you're in a decent sized city you should have college radio, local artists and a stream of smaller independent artists coming through your town. Additionally, there are any number of websites, podcasts and streaming radio stations online. Top 40 radio is ridiculous, greatest song ever one year and forgotten the next. It's the radio version of disposable society.

  10. Where are my mod points when I need them on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 1

    I believe you failed to read the articles. The benefit was increased interaction, the detriment was over-stimulation. Smog, crime, safety and economics were not mentioned at all and somehow, someone rated you up.

  11. Re:It's about time... on Obama Moves To Link Pentagon With NASA · · Score: 1

    Ya, why isn't NASA just piggy backing off of all of those hundreds of companies that are performing long term space exploration. Oh wait... The government can stay out the truck building business, because lots of companies build trucks, but space craft is a slightly different matter.

  12. Re:hallelujah ! on Obama Moves To Link Pentagon With NASA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It might be beneficial in this regard, but there is a reason the civilian is separated from the military.

  13. Re:Charitable contributions on How Do You Stay Upbeat Amidst the Idiocy? · · Score: 1

    I don't want to rain on your parade, but the christians that headed over there a couple hundred years ago are the cause of a vast majority of Africa's problems.

  14. Re:Stay humble on How Do You Stay Upbeat Amidst the Idiocy? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't see how thinking about one kind of stupid rather than another would make me feel any better. That's just twice as depressing.

  15. Re:Time frame seems wrong... on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    probably not linear

  16. Re:Global Warning on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the starving. There's always the starving.

  17. Re:Preventing the Photoshop defence on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    Financially backing what you know to be an illegal activity is also a crime.

  18. Re:Simpsons porn is child porn too. on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    That's because you have two parties that more or less believe the same thing.

  19. Re:Whose brains, exactly? on Valuable Objects Stimulate Brain More Than Junk · · Score: 1

    This study can only deal with perceived value. If you showed a picture of a diamond and then told the subject it was a cubic zirconium, the level of stimulation would change, even though it's the same picture.

  20. Sunday to Tuesday on Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    Things that happened two days ago aren't new anymore.

  21. Re:Sorry... on Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM? · · Score: 1

    The increased capacity to copy doesn't make the concept of copyrighting less sound, that's where you're wrong. The advent of pistols didn't waive people's obligation to not kill each other.

  22. Re: We Could See it Every Day on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    What would have also done this, is NOT cutting down every single tree in sight.

  23. Re:A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Publ on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I am going to guarantee that the heat generated from the pumps and the power plants that power the pumps (not to mention the carbon emissions) will vastly outweigh any visible reduction in cooling.

  24. Qs on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when do grade 6 students get laptops at school? And what happens when students "lose" the laptops? And what student is possibly going to buy a 6 year old laptop when they graduate? If someone offered to sell you a laptop from 2002 right now, how much do you think you'd pay? So many questions.

  25. Re:Arms Race on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't understand anything about drug use. Alcoholics require LESS alcohol to get drunk Pot heads require LESS marijuana to get high etc. Your body doesn't build up resistance, it can't get rid of the chemicals fast enough. There are alternate universes where prohibition wasn't enacted. Other countries with similar economic and social policies except say, no prohibition (say most of Europe as a solid comparison). I agree that the root needs to be addressed, but I think you go off after that. My grandfather killed a kid through no fault of his own when he tobogganed onto to the road in front of him. The solution isn't to ban sliding, but to encourage safe tobogganing.