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  1. Re:And we all know what will happen... on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    It's a hard comparison because communism is defined by theory, whereas fascism is usually defined by example.

    Two rather large differences:

    Communism says social classes are to be abolished. Fascism says there should be a rigid class hierarchy.

    Communism says that the state should be abolished. Fascism says that the state is all important and should be glorified.

  2. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "professionals" didn't have clearance to see it so yes he dumped everything.

  3. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    It's not completely incompatible. Obviously it's not ideal and as little as possible should be kept secret.

    However, the US shouldn't have made the details of its WW2 Normandy invasion plans public prior to the invasion, for example.

  4. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 2

    Wow, gave up her license!

    Usually they just blame the car manufacturer and have them recall thousands of vehicles to fix some made up non-problem instead.

  5. Re:And we all know what will happen... on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    Why have you added a jail requirement, there are many laws that you could disobey that don't put you in jail. You are still not law abiding if you do so.

    16 USC 3372 would be the obvious example. Own anything made of wood? Do you have proof it doesn't violate a foreign law somewhere?

  6. Re:Read the court order here, all 4 pages of it on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 1

    Which is all good in the scheme of things.

    Way back when the patriot act was the new thing, "just remember the other side will be in power at some point, do you really want to hand them all of that?" was the was always one of the points you made to the idiots who thought it was a great idea. Hopefully they'll remember that, yes in fact the other guys do win and yes they will in fact build upon whatever you handed over to your guys and take it even further.

    It was precisely the same argument to the republican moron calling for the "nuclear option" in the senate whenever the Democrats actually threaten (or do) filibuster something. One day you'll be the ones wanting to filibuster something - and surprise a few years later...

    Maybe they'll learn to think longer term than next week at some point.

    Anyone who didn't criticize the Patriot Act under Bush shouldn't be allowed to criticize this under Obama. They made their bed, now they get to lie in it. And anyone who did criticize it then and doesn't now is a partisan fool - they'll get to lie in their freshly made bed on the next cycle.

  7. Re:Read the court order here, all 4 pages of it on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 1

    Yes, Bush successfully inflated a bubble to make the numbers show the economy was growing.

    I'm not sure why you would consider that a good thing.

    Oh and the "jobless recovery" was Bush's economic "boom" that you seem to like so much - for example: http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci9-8/ci9-8.html. Yes Obama managed to do even better on that front!

  8. Holy leap of logic, batman! on American Targeted By Digital Spy Tool Sold To Foreign Governments · · Score: 1

    Though investigators didn’t obtain the file that the downloader was supposed to install, analysis of it showed that it was the same downloader that has been used in the past to install Remote Control System (RCS), a spy tool made by the Italian company Hacking Team and sold to governments. A digital certificate used to sign the downloader has also been used in the past with Hacking Team’s tool.

    So because a difference piece of software has been used in conjunction with RCS in the past, this use of that software must also have something to do with RCS?

  9. Re:Simple reason on Surgeries On Friday Are More Frequently Fatal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By definition "elective surgery" is something that "can wait until Monday". So no.

  10. Re:Annoyed by award shows on 2013 Nominees For Hobby Gaming's Top Prize · · Score: 1

    If you can come up with as good a name as Diana Jones then good luck with your awards.

  11. Re:If you're taking your tablet to the beach on DRM: How Book Publishers Failed To Learn From the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    Taking a book to the beach means I'm doing it wrong too I take it?

  12. Re:A confederacy of douchebags. on Kim Dotcom Wins Case Against NZ Police To Get Seized Material Back · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that's what "trial by combat" was.

  13. Re:A confederacy of douchebags. on Kim Dotcom Wins Case Against NZ Police To Get Seized Material Back · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah sure. From the boring point of view justice and so on.

    From the entertainment side though, not so much.

  14. So Monsanto can be sued for damages, right? on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    Countries refusing American wheat has to hurt the bottom line for some farmers - and most farms are part of huge companies these days so finding a lawyer shouldn't be hard.

    Or did the government grant them immunity?

    Actually scratch that, without even checking I'll go with the government has granted Monsanto immunity to do whatever it likes.

  15. BULLSHIT!!! on Early Brain Response To Words Predictive For Autism · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How can "pattern of brain responses to words" (whatever that means) at age 2 possibly have anything to do with whether the parents give their kid autism by vaccinating it???

  16. Re:Giorgio Tsoukalos asks... on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 1

    Occam's razor isn't supposed to come up with anything. It's supposed to help choose between competing explanations.

    Special Relativity wins according to Occam's razor against all the alternative explanations I've heard (remember the competing explanations have to explain the observations equally well - if one better fits the data you have no need for the razor in the first place).

  17. Re:Giorgio Tsoukalos asks... on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 1

    "billions and billions of random events occurred to create anti-entropic self-organizing entities" is the simpler explanation that "God did it". So no, Occam's Razor would side with your example out of those two reasonably commonly proposed explanation.

  18. Re:In the grand scheme of things on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 1

    Of course it isn't. That they had some means of smelting iron ore so early would be though.

    Showing that these particular iron items aren't in fact evidence of that is useful information gathering.

  19. Re:Why ? on Interpreting Global Flight Maps · · Score: 1

    So the environmentalist can be made fun of.

  20. Re:That's stupid on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 2

    Of course not. However, if I decided to locate offices on those countries then yes I would expect to have study their laws and comply with them.

  21. Re:facebook is an american company on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 1

    Given facebook has offices in numerous other countries, it quite possibly does have an obligation to comply with some of the laws of other nations (at least if it doesn't want its assets and personnel in those countries put at risk). The office in Milan, Italy for example.
     

  22. Re:Act of war. on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 2

    Because the world would be one big radioactive crater if each and every act of espionage was treated as an "ok then war it is" moment.

  23. Re:Percentages on Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float · · Score: 1

    "or lengthen the ship to accommodate the excess weight" didn't give that away? You still had to make an assumption?

  24. Re:Metric on 5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles · · Score: 1

    Holy ridiculous increase in significant figures batman!

  25. Re:They saw this coming for ages... on Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms · · Score: 1

    Do you have a reference for your new claim that they did everything but sign the check? Seems to me Bush tried to get it put through so he could take the credit but the DoE sent it back to be reworked. All that reworking happened during the Obama administration as did the months of due diligence on the it before issuing the guarantee.

    It's got nothing to do with a free ride. Though I don't think the Bush administration gave any money to Solyndra. I could be wrong on that of course, I have asked your for a reference to support your assertion multiple times after all.

    You would expect some such guarantees to result in failures - if they are only funding sure things then the entire program is pointless since the private sector will do that just fine. There's no "free ride" because there's no problem to be avoided in the first place. It's a program working as designed. Of course politicians and partisan morons will go nuts over it no matter which way it turns out - but that's irrelevant.

    It's your multiple statements that appear to be out and out lies I'm taking issue with, not the funding of this particular company. So do you have any references to back up anything you've claimed yet?