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  1. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    http://law.justia.com/codes/us...

    Since 1994 at least.

  2. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Bull shit.

    The laws have been on the books for a very long time, and continuing to parrot that line to make her look better is disingenuous.

    http://www.archives.gov/record...
    http://www.archives.gov/about/...

    You can read up on the records laws, they date back quite far. Here is a link to the 1994 version:

    http://law.justia.com/codes/us...

  3. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    ...what difference at this point does it make?

    http://www.nationalreview.com/...

  4. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But yet, the TEA party, which stands on the platform of shrinking the federal government is labeled as wackos by the media. It makes you wonder what they think will be the logical conclusion of a constantly growing federal government.

  5. Re:OUR solar system? on Our Early Solar System May Have Been Home To a Fifth Giant Planet · · Score: 1

    Kirk?

  6. Re:Non biased? on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    I have only ever heard that phrase in reference to this thing, but perhaps he meant to say she was spitting venom?

  7. Re:To be an American... on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    From http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

    “The crime is raging and it’s violent. And if you talk about it, it’s racist,” Trump told Fox News, three days after a purported illegal Mexican immigrant deported five previous times allegedly killed a woman in San Francisco.

    “When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best,” he said during the announcement. “They're not sending you, they're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting."

    “It’s about safety,” he said. “Some of the people coming here are very violent people, not all.”

    The comment was about 80% of the women crossing the border illegally getting raped. It was a quote from Huffington Post, which was a quote from a Univision owned magazine, according to Trump. He didn't say that all immigrants are rapists, just that rapes happen to women crossing the border.

    I already commented on the other two pieces, but you can persist in your opinion, everyone is entitled to their's after all.

  8. Re:Non biased? on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    So far, the right hasn't chosen anything. It is the media choosing Trump as the whipping post.

  9. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you have any evidence to back up your claim, you realize that the evidence gathered without a warrant is inadmissible, so you should submit the paperwork and have the evidence thrown out.

    But as you give no evidence to this ever happening, I will just assume that it didn't happen as it is more likely that the police wouldn't do something that would taint all the evidence of the crime occurring.

  10. Re:To be an American... on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Here is the quote I refered to:

    Trump brought up the statistic — actually released by a Univision-owned magazine and repeated by the Huffington Post — that 80 percent of women who attempt a border crossing are raped in the process.

    “I don’t mind apologizing for things,” Trump said. “I can’t apologize for the truth. I said tremendous crime is coming across. Everybody knows that’s true. It’s happening all the time. When I mention crime, I’m a racist? I’m not a racist. I don’t have a racist bone in my body.” (H/T Breitbart)

    from: http://conservativetribune.com...

    So, it is racist and terrible to bring up a real problem happening at the border because it is mostly Hispanics effected. But when it is a Univision owned magazine, or Huffington Post stating the statistic, it is quite all right.

  11. Re:To be an American... on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 2, Informative

    So, "blood coming out of her eyes" must have something to do with a period, because she is a woman?

    My point is that CNN has been coming out with these hit pieces on him since he declared his intention to run. Just do a search on CNNs home page for the word Trump, there are 8 mentions of him on their page, 4 mentions of Clinton, 0 about Cruz. Search for whatever name you like.

    Look at the pieces, them freaking out because he allegedly said something about blood coming out of her eyes. Or the article about him asking a woman not to breast pump in front of him. Do you honestly think that this isn't an attack on the man because CNN simply hates him? There was also the story about the immigrants and crime rates when he first declared, but did you see much about the fact that he was quoting a Hispanic news site owned by Univision?

    If you go to Fox News, you have 6 mentions of Trump, the very first one from the person he supposedly said these things to, saying we should move on. I can't get the video to play, but I would expect that she is in some way saying that it was a misunderstanding, but I don't know.

  12. Re:Security on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 IoT Core For Small, Embedded Devices · · Score: 2

    You mean the track record of not being significantly broken into since Windows 7?

  13. Re:Non biased? on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    The right has Trump, and you see how the media is trying to crucify him.

  14. Re:To be an American... on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    They sure seem to be making shit up about him left and right.

    I still have yet to find any account of what he actually said to the Fox presenter that CNN is complaining was so bad. It seems like they are just throwing shit at him until something sticks.

  15. Re:Shifting election day on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    In theory, in the US, we fill out a form which is handed to the employer that give a number of deductions that you are taking. For me as a single parent of two, the computation comes out to 5 (one for each kid, three for me)

    Here is the "I am an employee" version of the form, the W-4

    http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf...

    Now, in practice, I always pay way to much taxes, and get a huge tax return, but there is a penalty for not paying enough taxes through the year on a routine basis, so it is not worth correcting. I end up getting about a 5% tax return, I have never really understood where the discrepancy comes from, but it just isn't worth correcting.

  16. Re:similar approaches have succeeded. on Oracle Exec: Stop Sending Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 1, Insightful

    On the other side of the spectrum, if you take guns from people who use them lawfully, it will really reduce crime!

  17. Re:Fine but they should invest in wind next on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

    It looks like there is plenty of space offshore where wind is best built. But yes, it is much more expensive, and sucks for actual useful power generation.

  18. Re:What energy prices have risen? on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    and Japan has been literally burning foreign currency reserves to burn fossil fuels.

    I don't think that "literally" means what you think it means. /Inigo Montoya

  19. Re:A gallon of uranium??? on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    I am trying to picture a gallon of Uranium, and what it would take to move it.

    It weighs around 150 lbs/72kg, it would be quite unwieldy at that weight/size, but not too bad I guess.

  20. Re:What did they think was going to happen? on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    Naa, if the majority really had the chance to vote on it, we would have single payer, Obamacare is a cluster**** caused by collusion with the health care industry on how best to scratch their backs.

  21. Re:Burn the protestors... on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    I especially liked the quote in TFS:

    "Past arguments that nuclear plants were safe and nuclear energy was cheap were all shown to be lies," said writer Satoshi Kamata, one of the demonstration organizers. "Kyushu Electric is not qualified to resume operations because it has not completed an anti-quake structure to oversee a possible accident as well as a venting facility."

    Past arguments that nuclear is safe have been shown true by the very accident he is refering to. NO ONE died from radiation at Fukushima. What safety didn't pan out there?

    Nuclear also would be cheap if it wasn't for protesters and NIMBYs who slow down every single reactor construction. In fact, it is still one of the best power sources we have for expense per Wh. The only thing I know that beats it is Hydro, which of course the environmental crowd hates as well.

  22. Re:It'd be hilareous if not so sad... on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    To compare properly, you have to consider the cost of nuclear power verses other forms of generation. The cost in terms of what it costs to build and operate, and the cost in terms of what accidents have damaged and will cost to rectify, the cost to the lives of human beings who live with those technologies, and damage to the environment.

    Even with all those costs, and the costs of all the senseless litigation by NIMBYs like you, nuclear still comes out way ahead.

    Post citations on anything different, or stop spouting off about all the things you think are true.

  23. Re:It'd be hilareous if not so sad... on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    500mw? in a phone?

    That is actually pretty small for a phone even.

    MW =/= mw

    Also, batteries are measured in Wh, not W.

  24. Re:Hovered over property for only 22 seconds .. on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I don't think this homeowner was in a city, but you can quote city laws from other cities all you like, until you quote the law that was broken, you won't get it.

    The homeowner was not charged with discharging a firearm.

    He was arrested and charged with first degree criminal mischief and first degree wanton endangerment before being released the next day.

    Nowhere in there was he charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits. Also, very likely the wanton endangerment would be dropped once it was proven he fired bird shot which cannot harm someone past around 40 yards. Criminal mischief may be dropped once it is proven that the drone was trespassing, and had done so repeatedly.

  25. Re:Hovered over property for only 22 seconds .. on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    http://www.rem870.com/2013/02/...

    Take the information from experts, and you will find that the bird shot fired into the air is unable to harm anyone past about 40 yards.

    Birdshot

    Most hunters use the 40/40 method, which is a 40-inch spread at 40 yards. Forty yards is likely the maximum effective range of birdshot. This of course depends on the choke setting, steel or lead shot and so forth. However, using the 40/40 method you know the spread is 40 inches at 40 yards. Beyond 40 yards, you can of course make a kill but you will not have the full impact on the bird. You also have to consider the size of your bird. You want to avoid spreading shot where it injuries other birds.

    Birdshot is also used for home defense because at close range it will put anyone down. The shot is not as likely to penetrate walls and doors causing injuries to others. However, at very close range birdshot will penetrate certain doors and walls. Once again, for home defense effective range is usually not an issue.

    http://www.shootingillustrated...

    That one has pictures of targets at different ranges. Also, Mythbusters did an episode about the myth of firing bullets into the air, they found that past about 30 degrees, the energies involved are too low. That was with bullets though, not shot which loses energy much more rapidly. Some of the comments about non leathality actually quote from personal experience at having bird shot rain down on them; I have not gone bird hunting, but my understanding is it is quite common to be hit with a rain of shot.