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  1. Re:We've got water problems in the lower 48 on Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water · · Score: 1

    If you vote, you help set the regulations regarding lawns. One way or the other you made the decision.

  2. Re:Should we be optimistic? on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 1

    Considering the police reaction 32 years later on the same campus I have little room for optimism.

  3. Re:flowers to a gun fight on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 1

    Yes those students not involved in any protest really needed to be shot. Assume for a moment that every negative thing you have ever heard about the protesters is true, does it justify firing your weapon in an uncontrolled manner on civilians?

  4. Re:Cause and Effect on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 1

    "up to framing several men for treason to prove a point" Who was framed for treason? One guy was charged, but hasn't stood trial yet and I;m unaware of any evidence that makes the charges look like a frame up job.

  5. Re:I don't buy the tax argument on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Let's assume for a moment you are right and dealers don't want to transition to paying taxes. Say ten percent of pot sales is the most you can successfully tax or even one percent. That is a positive amount of money coming in instead of an expenditure. Right now we spend money to enforce a prohibition with at best limited positive impact. Why go with a negative amount of money instead of a positive one?

  6. Re:Decriminalize not legalize on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    I know that anecdotes aren't evidence, but I had a much easier time getting pot in school than I did getting cigarettes. People who are already breaking a law to sell a product don't check IDs, but a shopkeeper generally will.

  7. Re:Marijuana/cannabis on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17382831 It was at the center of the whole David Nutt issue.

  8. Re:No the way to do it on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 1

    Really, a movie is worse than abuse of the legal system? A thousand movies, even if they only consisted of lies and disturbing images has nothing on one instance of the use of government power to try to squash science they don't agree with.

  9. Re:A little paranoid. on Cryptome Hacked; All Files Deleted · · Score: 1

    Their first leak was from within Somalia. That is both an origin and a target from outside of the US and its allies.

  10. Re:Uh.. on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Then instead of standing around being foul human beings there should have been a policy in place to bill him for the actual cost, yes including his share of standby time and costs that extend beyond the moment. If you worry about it being paid have it be a lien applied to the house.

  11. Re:A little paranoid. on Cryptome Hacked; All Files Deleted · · Score: 1

    Whether you believe it or not Wikileaks reported it ,which is what he asked about. Wikileaks may have gotten most of its press for reports pertaining to the US and its allies, but those aren't all that they have disclosed.

  12. Re:No, that's not it at all on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Yet you can pay to get your car repaired. He offered to pay their costs, well beyond the $75.

  13. Re:No, that's not it at all on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    They were human beings first and a collective pool of resources second. If they were worried about free riders they could have a system where if they come across someone who hadn't paid they can agree to be billed some percentage of the department's annual cost, something that would actually prevent leaches without leaving the only option of soryy dude.

  14. Re:A little paranoid. on Cryptome Hacked; All Files Deleted · · Score: 1

    So, you give credibility to the parts of the same documents that hurt the US image, but the parts that hurt Iran must clearly be fabrications.

  15. Re:A little paranoid. on Cryptome Hacked; All Files Deleted · · Score: 1

    Yes, when they include Iran performing actions that hurt their image.

  16. Re:What is he hiding? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 3, Informative

    The US comes in higher on assault, murder, and rape on the site you listed. Crimes per capita is meaningless if each country has different standards that they report. So in the UN report mentioned on the nationmasterlist the US comes in with a higher rate on violent crimes and the UK comes in higher on fraud and various property crimes. Choice D, the US has higher crime rates in the things that are generally considered more severe and that have more similar reporting criteria.

  17. Re:A little paranoid. on Cryptome Hacked; All Files Deleted · · Score: 1

    Kenya, Somalia, and the Ivory Coast are not exactly western democracies and have all been exposed for various things. Oh and as for Iran http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7910926/Wikileaks-Afghanistan-Iran-accused-of-supporting-Taliban-attacks.html

  18. Re:Change we can believe in on White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites · · Score: 1

    Missed the "Democratic" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Have we? Maybe, just maybe, politcal groups name themselves things that will appeal to their audience.

  19. Re:In the meantime, we in the USA... on Chinese High-Speed Train Sets New World Record · · Score: 1

    I fwish we were stuck in the 50s for rail in the US. At least we still had some viable interurban rail left.

  20. Re:Punish results, not behavior on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Why involuntary manslaughter, at this point they are showing enough disregard for human life to qualify for second degree murder. If people treated guns the way they treat cars we would be going with the heavier charge.

  21. Re:Leaps of logic on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We also can't rule out regional players other than Israel. The UAE has deep pockets a no desire for a nuclear Iran, same deal for Saudi Arabia.

  22. Re:What reality do you live in? on Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China · · Score: 1

    And where is this mythical place you live where there have been no deviations from the ideas of universal freedom and human dignity. The US is flawed deeply and in ways that have to change, but in comparison to China it is the beacon of freedom that people would like to pretend it always is.

  23. Re:damn hipsters on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 1

    Until very recently I had a second job at a record store and very little of our clientele would qualify as hipsters at all. A lot of them were people looking for genres or artists who never had the popularity in the CD era to be rereleased.

  24. Re:Erroneously Aggregating Enemies on MPAA Asks If ACTA Can Be Used To Block Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Even a vague book tends to beat a good video in the garage. You can take a book under the car and glance over with a light, doing that with a video is a waste of time. It is the same reason none of the mechanics I know give a shit about e-books for manuals.

  25. Re:Inaccurate article title on Google Publishes Censorship Map · · Score: 1

    The map also has an information removal listing for each country. That pretty clearly falls under censorship.