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  1. Re:Awesome! on Spamming a Judge Is Contempt of Court · · Score: 1

    This judgment didn't make it a crime to use email. It meant that one person calling for a group of people to take an action to disrupt or sway the judicial process outside of the proper channels was in contempt.

  2. Re:Not to sound overly nationalist on 5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter · · Score: 1

    If it were unions you would think union hostile states would dominate productivity measures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita_(nominal) They don't.

  3. Re:Great Literature != good read for most on Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics · · Score: 1

    If sex in Tom Jones was the main issue Madame Bovary would be out.

  4. Re:Only Apple on iPad Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Most people read internet stuff and other things that you are likely to read on an lcd or crt for a shorter period of time. Full novels tend to keep you focused on the screen for longer at a stretch.

  5. Re:finally... on Science Attempts To Explain Heaven · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mescaline tends to lead to geometric imagery and mushrooms tend to lead to a feeling of connectedness.

  6. Re:So, what now? on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 1

    I don't pay taxes, my employer does in the form of increased wage demands. It works both ways.

  7. Re:Eh? on Federal Appeals Court Says Sex Offender's Computer Ban Unfair · · Score: 1

    Ms13 is a street gang well known for violent proclivities that is pretty common in US prisons. Punching the leader of that group would end the nihilistic view that the loss of their freedom was equal to the loss of their life by bringing about the latter.

  8. Re:Bad things to say about chiropractors? on In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech · · Score: 1

    My drug dealer carries marijuana that has shown a good deal better outcomnes in clinical trials than chiropractors and amphetamines which have a whole list of medical uses. Cocaine even has medically accepted use in the US.

  9. Re:From the No Duh Dept. on How To Build Roads To Control How Fast You Drive · · Score: 1

    Those laws are generally meant to discourage getting into a situation where you can't react in time.

  10. Re:Topsy Turvy World We Live In on Israel's Supreme Court Says Yes To Internet Anonymity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, national socialist, who rounded up communists and trade union members. Maybe, and this is a wild idea, it was an organization that appropriated ideas and symbols from both the left and right to have a broad enough appeal to gain power. Names and stated intents mean very little in politics. Actions define everything.

  11. Re:It will be interesting to see... on Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration · · Score: 1

    It could be that quick scarring to heal a wound was a better deal for survival than a slow regrowth. In a world with sufficient food, sterile wound dressings, and antibiotics regeneration would be clearly better. It might not have been for the protomammal.

  12. Re:Dear Seringhaus, see the movie Gattaca on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 1

    There have traditionaly been laws saying to destroy a variety of data. They are often disobeyed on a wide scale. It is a risk from both a freedom standpoint and a practical one.

  13. Re:Dear Seringhaus, see the movie Gattaca on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 1

    To build that profile they have access to your DNA. That sample may or may not be destroyed. Even if it is all destroyed we really aren't certain that the DNA that we now think is junk may correlate to something significant.

  14. Re:An easier plan on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    He had some of the details wrong, but it seems they are referring to MKUltra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

  15. Re:Gay rights are civil rights. on Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression · · Score: 1

    Marrieage for most of its history had the purpose of managing property. It still serves that purpose for homosexual couples as well. The meaning of the word has changed before it will change again. Arguing from tradition to create a separate class of citizen isn't all that effective.

  16. Re:Possibly another reason on Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency · · Score: 1

    .7 percent of New York's teaching staff being on paid administrative leave while disciplinary issues are handled is not an indictment of unions. If the school board would have its disciplinary committe meet more than five days a month that number would fall rapidly.

  17. Re:Doubly unreliable on iPhone's Liquid Sensors Can Be Triggered By Wintertime Use · · Score: 1

    The great lakes region is out too, as well as KC and Saint Louis, the rivers jack up the humidity.

  18. Re:Hmm on PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued Laptop Webcams · · Score: 1

    After the whole bong hits for Jesus case it is pretty clear that our legal system has given up on the idea of rights for minors.

  19. Re:"How long until the first actual robbery" on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    There are also people like myself who don't necessarily pick up their paper.

  20. Re:What's more fun than shooting fish in a barrel? on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    It tends to just be a murder charge if you knowingly tried to get them to enter. Once you try to get someone to enter, even illegally, you could very well be looking at a first degree murder charge.

  21. Re:And the zombification of our children continues on The Wi-Fi On the Bus · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, here in a suburb of Cleveland it is nearly unheard of for a child not to walk to and from school. This is true from kindergarten right up until the first of their friends start to drive. In fact the schools are set up around that idea.

  22. Re:behavioral problems have virtually disappeared on The Wi-Fi On the Bus · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately in many instances violent retaliation only escalates the situation. There is no shortage of mentally unstable individuals in schools with either access to weapons or just to large groups of friends. Sure you might break his jaw in that first encounter, but it really doesn't do you much good if he shows up at the next with a knife, gun, car, or just enough friends to ensure you aren't leaving under your own power.

  23. Re:usefullness? on A Printer That Uses No Consumables · · Score: 1

    It gets used once or twice, sure. During that time it gets stapled, smudged, marked up, bent, torn, handed out, or any number of things that will make it unusable in the future. At 100 times the cost for paper and a higher cost for the printer it will be hard to justify it from a business perspective. Given the specialty nature of it, repairs will pretty much have to be handled by the company. Six sheets per minute is also ridiculously slow and it only holds 50 sheets in the feed tray. It isn't really ready for mainstream office use. Also 230 DPI isn't very good for black only.

  24. Re:"Living Constitution" on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    Because only those wicked lefties would creatively reshape the constitution to their ends. No one on the right would ever overlook the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth or tenth amendments. It must only be those vile progressives.

  25. Re:"Living Constitution" on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    The federalist papers aren't part of the constitution. They are a useful guide to interpreting the ambiguity that is present. The fact that you had to turn to another document to prove your point mean that there is ambiguity.