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  1. Re:Profiling is a good thing... on DHS Passenger Scoring Almost Certainly Illegal · · Score: 1

    So, if we use profiling and pull all the Muslims out of line and inspect them, what's to stop the evil doers from hiring a white guy to do their work for them? I imagine there are plenty out there willing to do so.

  2. Re:reset the economy on Richest 2% Own Half the World's Wealth · · Score: 1

    This is pretty much the reason Andrew Carnegie supported a very high estate tax. He saw people living off of inheritances as actually being a drain on the economy, because they are not doing anything productive.

  3. Re:I don't think you've been paying attention... on How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged · · Score: 1

    Prepaid cell phones + cash + fake name + new phone all the time = good luck getting a wiretap.

    Drug dealers have been doing this for awhile now.

  4. Re:OSU on A Spaceport In Ohio? · · Score: 1

    Not that I give any credence to US News & World Report, but twenty-sixth isn't all that impressive if they were placing something in a location solely to leech good students.

    And exactly why would being a large university have anything do with it at all?

  5. Re:you don't drive when you don't have anywhere to on Americans Drove Less in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but all of those people that were hired in October to help with the Christmas season will be back on the street come January 1st.

  6. Re:Wrong reason. on Americans Drove Less in 2005 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I figured it was because we were stuck in traffic longer and so we had less time to drive.

    Wouldn't hours driven be a more important figure than miles driven? Especially when you take into account major urban areas with severe traffic problems.

  7. "Permanent" injunction on Ban On Louisiana Video Game Law Now Permanent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Permanent injunction does not mean "forever." It is simply an injunction granted after a complete hearing on the merits, as opposed to a preliminary injunction, which is granted before a trial if you show a "reasonable likelihood of success" and other things, like irreparable harm.

  8. Re:Injection moulding on How They Make LEGO Bricks · · Score: 1

    RTFA. It appears to be much more like a compression molding system than an injection molding one.

  9. Re:How many times do we have to say it? on How They Make LEGO Bricks · · Score: 1

    The plural of Lego is Lego NOT Legos!

    The singular of LEGO is LEGO not Lego.

  10. Re:Welcome to the 70's on Best Sitting Posture Is Not Straight Up · · Score: 1

    it is talking about a lap to abdomen angle greater than 90 degrees, with the optimal angle being about 135 degrees

    So the easiest way to achieve this and still be able to work is to raise your seat height a little bit. Of course, then your keyboard might be too low and you'll be bending your wrists backwards.

  11. Re:Bill of Rights Lite on Newt Gingrich Says Free Speech May Be Forfeit · · Score: 1

    You seem to have confused the GOP with conservatism. Don't worry, it happens to all of us.

  12. Re:The world needs ditch diggers too... on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    But where will we get the ditch fillers from?

  13. Re:Arrrrr on Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords · · Score: 1

    It's a good feature when it works only for each site. But why should it be taking what I put in at gmail to log in and sticking that login/password into some other site? That's the problem.

  14. Arrrrr on Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The flaw derives from Firefox's willingness to supply the username and password stored on one page on a domain to another page on a domain.

    Worst idea ever. The question isn't why wasn't this discovered earlier, but who decided this was a good idea in the first place?

  15. Re:circumvention of our legal system on Universal Music Sues MySpace · · Score: 1

    We could always raise taxes to support appointed counsel for civil cases. I have a strong feeling that will not happen anytime soon.

  16. Re:circumvention of our legal system on Universal Music Sues MySpace · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One of the many goals of the legal system is to encourage people to fix their problems without going to court. A huge percentage of criminal AND civil cases are settled without a trial. Many of them never even get close. This is a good thing, not a bad thing.

  17. Re:There are three kinds of cops in the world on Youtube Video Prompts FBI Probe of LAPD · · Score: 1

    Circular reasoning. Cops are dicks to people because people are dicks to cops beacuse cops are dicks to people....

    It all had to start somewhere. I'm betting it was a cop who took his job a little too personally....


    Actually, more than likely it started on both sides in the same way and has now perpetuated itself to the extent that no one really remembers WHY they act that way towards the other group, but they do it, because they were told story X or story Y about it.

  18. Re:There are three kinds of cops in the world on Youtube Video Prompts FBI Probe of LAPD · · Score: 1

    At the same time, cops are typically dicks to people for no reason.

    For the most part, that has to do with the 10% of people that are dicks to them for no reason.

  19. Re:Trademark on Bar Performer Arrested For Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    Please send me your home address, and I will mail you a sense of humor for Christmas.

  20. Trademark on Bar Performer Arrested For Copyright Violations · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, with a name like "Toyoda," he's lucky they didn't add a charge for Trademark Dilution.

  21. Re:diebold! on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 1

    Strange how with all of these close elections in traditionally "red" areas we don't hear anyone screaming "FRAUD! WAAAAHHHH!" like you did in the last three elections that the Dems lost big.

    They're still reeling in shock as to how when they tried to fix the elections, they somehow managed to lose big. As soon as they get over that, they'll come out swinging alleging all kinds of fraud on behalf of the Dems.

    Slightly off-topic: The R's were engaging in some pretty shady tactics leading up the election anyway. Like placing automated phone calls to people which start off sound like they are from the democratic candidate and then end up trashing him in the end and at the very end saying the message was from the RNC. Then sending the same call to people 50 times over, so that all they think is the D candidate is harassing them and they get pissed and vote for the other guy. Underhanded tactics like that piss me off quite a bit.

    Slighty more off-topic: From late-night numbers, I figured that D house candidates in Ohio received 51% of the vote. However, D's will only have 39% of Ohio's seats in the U.S. House. How big would Dem's have won had districts been drawn fairly?

  22. Re:Dear Blogosphere: on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 1

    the Republicans already like him, and the Democrats already booted him

    The Republicans only liked him because they thought he would help get an R elected in Conn.

  23. Re:How old was the judge? on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Informative

    And how [legally] savvy was [the OP]?

    Rules of civil discovery are intentionally very liberal. There are many situations where pertinent information to the lawsuit that is discoverable could have been on his hard drive. Or should we just take his word that there are no copies of any of these messages on his hard drive? There are many possible circumstances where copies of the messages COULD be on his computer hard drive, and that alone should probably be enough to let the other side have a look.

  24. Re:Uhhh... on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you see, receiving web mail doesn't necessarilly mean caching

    It doesn't mean the opposite either. If there is a chance he might recover something useful, he should get access to the hard drive. Welcome to the world of civil discovery.

  25. Uhhh... on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    webmail that was obviously never actually stored on his hard drive

    Yeah.... all of those websites you visit and all of the data that comes with them is never stored on your hard drive.