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  1. Re:Government fails again on Why NASA's Budget "Victory" Is Anything But · · Score: 1

    Pension buys social peace and appeasement...

  2. Post office recipient *do* pay... on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: -1

    He forgot to mention that the Post Office does not charge recipients for those DVDs

    Post offices are publicly funded and thus, financed through taxation. So because someone does not pay *explicitly* does not mean they don't pay at all.

  3. Re:the Putin stage on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The left hates the whole Bill of Rights...

  4. +1 !

  5. Re:Credit rating databases aren't new on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 2

    Because the US Federal Governement has better transparency and accountability ? Obama wanted to be the most transparent gv, but ended up denying *way* more FOI request than any preceding government...

  6. Re:the Putin stage on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 4, Informative

    btw, YES, I do believe that the whole mortgage crisis was caused not by banks, who merely provide a tool, but by the people with bad credit history thinking they can buy the american dream.

  7. Re:the Putin stage on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 2

    You do, because you live in a country where sub-prime rated folk think they can afford a $500000 mansion. And thus need the Government to prevent stupid.

  8. Re:the Putin stage on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To some extend, I doubt the US constitution authorize the Government to do that, but it would not be the first time it exceed its prerogative, and certainly not the last one either.

  9. Re:Good idea on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    History is merely subjective, and thus biased, interpretation of past events.

  10. Re:Good idea on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 2

    Do you mean as they do by all the way you can be charged with a felony, and even more controlled afterward ?

  11. Re:I call BS on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let me guess. You probably dress in a shirt with a tie and wear some clean pants. On casual Friday, you *might* switch to a polo. Guess what ? You might not be what the FBI is looking for..

  12. Re:Probably known already on Discrete Logarithm Problem Partly Solved -- Time To Drop Some Crypto Methods? · · Score: 0

    Do you mean like the DES S-box "controversy" ?

  13. Re:Life or death on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    Only because of freedom restrictions introduced by C-68 and C-17.

  14. Re: Have a nice time on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    Because the government has no business in the economy.

  15. Re:Life or death on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    The very concept of "freedom" is stranger to most European country. The most liberal country wrt. guns being the Czech Republic, because they suffered under the USSR and knows what "freedom" means.

  16. Re:Life or death on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    My cabinet is full of proof to disprove your comment. We *do* have guns in Canada, and we need them...

  17. Re:Right to a Bank Account on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Btw, you are also missing on United States v. Hubbell, which involves the 5th Amendments.

  18. Re:Right to a Bank Account on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 2

    Administrative subpoena have no judicial oversight, leaving plenty of room for abuse.

  19. Re:Legal on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    "Innocent until proven guilt" has no place in a socialist, precaution principle-based, system.

  20. Re:really??? on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 2

    They are doing it in a way more subtle way, just as any agenda-based administration would do. A death by a thousand paper cut. Democrats have very few in common with "liberals"...

  21. Re:Right to a Bank Account on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    It might be argue that subpoena and affidavit constitute an unreasonable search, and thus protected by the 4th Amendment.

  22. Re:Right to a Bank Account on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, but pornography is a first amendment rights, and screw you if it is at the opposite of your morality.

  23. Re:really??? on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm down for that.. .as long as we can have fetishist orgies while drinking and masturbating with gun and ammo (a .50BMG would do a hell of an anal plug).

  24. Re:"there's not much to indicate difficulty" on The Ways Programming Is Hard · · Score: 1

    The week-end trip at Home Depot is more about fixing the house than "entertainment". Let's face it, most jobs are about trying to keep the damn thing running for one more day.

  25. Re:Perfect example on The Ways Programming Is Hard · · Score: 1

    Because proprietary software is better ?