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  1. Re:Ya, right on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am willing to agree that what you say about LEOs having no extra power should be the law every but it is not. No state has a problem issuing LEOs with very effective tools for inflicting deadly force. Only 32 of those states are willing to allow all non-felons to exercise that same right. Two of them (including DC) are unwilling to allow any non-LEO the ability to lawfully exercise that right. So, no, in practice, there is a huge divide between LEO and non-LEO in regards to the use of deadly force.

  2. Re:Yes, Fox News is run by the democrats. on Lawsuit Over Two-Word Tweet Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    Yeah, MSNBC is so afraid of Republicans that they never even hired Rachel Maddow.

  3. Wait, why is someone who buys an electronic armband for the purpose of monitoring their heartrate and tracking their jogging route not already aware of the fact that it monitors their heartrate and tracks their jogging route?

    What's next, requiring car manufacturers to publicize the fact that the car might actually move you from one place to the next?

  4. Re: Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Officers as in "Officers of the United States" which traditionally was interpreted as Executive Branch employees and then Congress re-interpreted to mean Executive Branch employees and elected officials. So, I guess Congress could hold a non-binding referendum to have people nominate someone who is already in one of those categories. I guess we could day exactly the same thing for every decision that Congress makes or we could just have them do what they were elected to do and make decisions on their own on our behalf. IOW, we either have a Congress or we don't; we shouldn't have a Congress in some situations and not in others.

    And who gets to be in charge while we run this small election? Nobody? Mighty Polyanna of you to think that no foreign government might take advantage of such a situation.

  5. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 2

    I have actually read the official Citizens United opinions. The majority opinion did state that ruling against Citizens United would have resulted in exactly what I stated because there exists no rational way to distinguish Mother Jones as a corporation from NBC from GE from Citizens United. Nobody on the left seems to want to stifle the speech of the first three in that list but all four are corporations.

  6. Re:Only if it works on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    Yes, it should do that but will it?

  7. Re: Smaller, but still pretty big on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    but both are considered nuclear so what is your point?

  8. Re:OK, but... on Hackers Remotely Cut a Corvette's Brakes · · Score: 1

    So, the blame would be on the insurance company or dongle manufacturer for allowing unauthorized access to the dongle then. Either way, the auto manufacturer is not at fault as they did not provide the attack vector.

  9. Re:We are rapidly getting to a point where it's... on Hackers Remotely Cut a Corvette's Brakes · · Score: 1

    And we should also hold manufacturers accountable because they build cars in such a way that it is possible to drive them with worn out tires and bolt stuff on to them that might cause a problem. We all know that making car bodies out of materials that the common person can drill through or weld or glue onto is just asking for trouble.

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

    Possible. Perhaps using a dictionary would help you understand the difference between the two words.

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

    "That sign's not going to stop a [burglar]" and yet we have many people who actually believe they are safer in a business that puts up a sign requesting that their law-abiding customers not bring in their legally owned but completely hidden firearms. My wife was a teller at a bank and she had coworkers who actually believed they would never face an armed robbery because the bank was posted "No Weapons." Even when the police officer the bank brought in to do some training about active shooter and other situations publicly told the employees and management that posting was useless, they didn't change their mind.

  12. Re:Catch 22: on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Unless two of them want to pool their money to buy an ad (the modern equivalent of printing a pamphlet). Being able to say what you want inherently requires the ability to say it to a large enough audience to matter and that takes money. Not allowing people to pool their money for the purpose of getting their message out only means that the common people are not able to make political speech.

    Yes, now you understand that the left, the only ones opposed to Citizens United, are actually trying to make it the law of the land that only the wealthiest can make political speech.

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

    Or maybe the government could use the previous year's receipts to spend the next year.

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

    Yup, all of the resource heavy states will remain capitalist and the others will go socialist/communist. How will that work out exactly?

  15. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Uh, read the whole thing. "declaring what Officer shall then act as President." It seems as though the Constitution says that Congress should outline an order of succession from existing "Officers". Holding an election would not actually be in keeping with that.

  16. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, let's fix that pesky free speech problem.

  17. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Uh, the bastions of liberalness like Ivy League schools and the UC system started that well before 2004.

  18. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Now, now. We can't expect everyone to actually read and understand the simple truth before blathering on about adult topics such as "what are my rights?"

  19. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Or just realize that, as an employee of Harvard (a Corporation), if he says anything representing Harvard he can only do so because of how Citizens United was decided. How come so many people out their do not understand that had SCOTUS ruled the other way on Citizens United no person employed by any corporation could make any speech remotely touching on politics. No more reporting on anything a politician does. Period. How stupid does one have to be to not understand that simple little fact?

    Dumb enough to be considered as serious contender for the Democratic nomination, I guess.

  20. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    I guess you chose a much worse company than I did; not that I really chose mine as I've just been staying with the one my parents were with when i started on their insurance at 16. 30+ years later and they've never given me a reason to leave them and yes, the service charge was $1.5 US per month.

  21. Re:Ultimate Fate? on More Supermassive Black Holes Than We Thought! · · Score: 1

    Wait, black holes are so dense that no radiation can escape from them except they eventually dissolve because of something akin to sublimation?

  22. Re: The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    bullshit

  23. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    Well, you made a claim that a $500 premium ends up costing $1000 when paid monthly. That would be ~$83 per month in fees ( 1000 - 500 = 500, 500 / 6 = 83.33). My experience shows that the monthly fee for paying monthly is $1 - $2. 1x6 500 and 2x6 500.

    What are you talking about?

  24. Re:First Book Is Still Solid on Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On · · Score: 1

    The no-ship in Chapterhouse was associated with a crashed Guild freighter. A crashed freighter that had happened at some time in the past was mentioned prior to Chapterhouse but no details. The no-ship was never mentioned until Chapterhouse. Since Ix had been taken over the Tlielaxu long before the time of Dune, the no-ship had to have been built before the time of Dune.

  25. Re:Future prediction... on Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On · · Score: 1

    Uh, Dune was copyrighted in 1965 so I'm fairly certain Paul Atreides was also not modelled on some politician from the 1980's either.