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  1. Re:Not a flying car on BiPod Flying Car Makes (Short) Test Flights · · Score: 1

    I think a helicopter is the closet we are to an actual flying car. It is used like a car by the rich. It can take off and land from a personal residense with a large enough square of concrete. So far its the only flying vehicle that you can use to go from you home to Walmart and back.

  2. Re:apple lawsuit on BiPod Flying Car Makes (Short) Test Flights · · Score: 1

    I looked up subluxation and this is scary stuff:

    "If you wait until your body sends out pain or other clear signals, it may too late. You need to stop subluxations before they have a chance to do major damage and before they become difficult to correct. You -- and your entire family -- need to visit a chiropractor regularly to make sure you can all lead a healthy, subluxation-free life."

    I haven't had an adjustment since I had my neck wrenched around as a small child. Not fun and didn't fix anything.

    Wow what a coincidence. I looked up Quackery. "Quackery is a derogatory term used to describe the promotion of unproven or fraudulent medical practices."

  3. Re:Then Why Have We Moved in the Narrative Directi on Developer Panel Asks Whether AAA Games Are Too Long · · Score: 1

    No one played to the 50+ mark. Thats the point. Most players quit that game at the 10 hour mark. It would of been a good game if they took the interesting battle situations they spread out over 80 hours and edited the game down to 10 hours. It would not have been an RPG anymore. But it would have been fun.

  4. Re:orphan works on Frustrated Judge Pushes For Solution In Google Books Case · · Score: 1

    That would totally screw with the web. The web is based on automatic copyrights. Your talking millions of blogs registering the content of their blogs everyday. With a likely 5 day to 2 year waiting period for approval.

  5. Re:Not a flying car on BiPod Flying Car Makes (Short) Test Flights · · Score: 1

    A flying car doesn't drive on roads period. A flying car should do vertical liftoffs from your driveway and do vertical landings in the parking lot. And it should be cheap. Like under $40k cheap. Anything else is an airplane.

  6. Re:I don't get this at all on Aaron Swartz Indicted in Attempted Piracy of Four Million Documents · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who cares what MIT or JSTOR thinks. This is criminal matter not a civil one. If they don't want to sue then that is their deal. The govement has a responcibility to its citizens to enforce the laws equally. If I broke into a closet at MIT I would get jail time even if I was just stealing soap.

  7. Re:Password Encrypted? on Hotmail To Ban Common Passwords · · Score: 1

    They are using passwords from other sites. Sites that didn't do their security correct and stored passwords as plain text. The sample size of these exposed sites is large enough that they know what Americans currently choose as common passwords.

  8. Re:Password Encrypted? on Hotmail To Ban Common Passwords · · Score: 1

    No I think he was saying "reset your password" is the side screen door to Fort Knox. "Reset your password" generally involved security questions and emailing the password to a secure email location. So once you break their hotmail account you can "Reset your password" on your bank account or your WOW account. I wonder if there are any lists of common answers to security questions.

  9. Moving Target on Hotmail To Ban Common Passwords · · Score: 1

    Wont this just lead to new commonly used passwords while at the same time reducing the number of overall passwords possible. I would think they would need to regularly study what becomes common and ban those while unbanning old common passwords.

  10. Re:Not prior art on Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping · · Score: 1

    Thats not really prior art then. You have to show that the N95 prior to Apple implimenting it in the IPhone. Instead you have another company that can claim first to invent.

  11. Re:No rage, just a lost customer. on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 1

    Netflix prices have already gone up over the years. This isn't the first rate hike. So no this has nothing to do with the USPS shipping costs. In fact the dvd side of the buisness has to be getting cheaper. Their sunk costs for the distribution centers are already paid for by now. This is just about increased cost of licensing the streaming side of the buisness. They need more content and better quality content. That cost $$

  12. Re:How is this not theft on Phone Customers Pay $2B Yearly In Bogus Fees · · Score: 1

    My parents are not morons. That was the first thing they told them. It is the very first thing everyone asks for their carrier to do. That and demand a refund.

  13. Re:How is this not theft on Phone Customers Pay $2B Yearly In Bogus Fees · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. The customers are doing squat. These scammers just go through the phonebook at and add monthly fees to peoples bills. My parents buisness had fight with AT&T for 3 months because of these scams. They would get a fee taken off and the scammers would just add it back on. They had to watch there bill each month and call AT&T every month to get the fees dropped.

  14. Re:This issue would be terribly easy to resolve... on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    I don't know. These are the same taxes that exist currently. It is just a change in who does the collection. May not be workable with current constitution.

  15. Re:Perfectly sound legal arguments on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Except that you're missing the entire point of the law. You *already have to pay sales tax* on out of state purchases in pretty much every state with a sales tax.

    There is the law and then there is the law as it is applied. States don't enforce the use tax except on expensive items. Over the 4th of July weekend I drove to my parents. Why on the road I purchased gas in three different states. I purchased food. I even stopped at a walmart and purchased some music. The use tax states that I must pay tax on that stuff again when I get back home if any of it comes back with me. So you have CA trying to selectivily enforce a tax on an out of state buisness. They collect it on no one else. But they want to collect it from Amazon and a few other retailers.

  16. Re:if he's so concerned on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Where are these unowned things you are babbleing about? Air? Is air property? In practice a person mixes their labor with existing property. Not unowned things. I mix my labor with someones land using someones tools. The result is property whose ownership is shared. Taxes are an extension of this principle.

  17. Re:This issue would be terribly easy to resolve... on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Congress doesn't have the power to regulate what sales tax individual municipalities choose to charge for purchases made in those municipalities. It can make requirements about how they treat out of state collection. Those municipalities can continue to collect their use taxes if they want. But don't expect Amazon to collect them. The federal rule would just apply to collection of state level sales tax. States could continue to have complex rules. They just would not apply to out of state businesses. They would have to collect the tax themselves from their citizens.

  18. Re:Hilarious on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Your wrong. Your forgetting about the English East India Company. By 1708 it was an interanation megacorporation with a monopoly in many goods. There were plenty of nation spanning businesses during the founders time. The nation consisted of a cities stretched along the east coast connected by shipping.

  19. Re:Just Federally Coordinate the Sales Tax Already on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    The law Amazon is pushing would allow states to set the rate from nothing to whatever they want. They are totally fine with looking up a single rate from a table with 50 entries. They just want something that is simple and applied evenly to all businesses.

  20. Re:Just Federally Coordinate the Sales Tax Already on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    No, were saying they have to make it simple if they want collect from businesses out of state. Wyoming can set its rate to whatever it wants. It can also split the tax with its local governments. It can do rebates on goods it doesn't want to tax. But it has to be simple and uniform on the business end if they want to collect from out of state. The people of Kentucky, Nevada, and New York didn't vote for Wyoming complex tax laws. They shouldn't have deal with that junk.

  21. Re:Taxation is unethical on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Well the United States went a long time without much of an income tax. Instead it sold land taken from natives to European settlers. The high income tax came about when the land ran out.

  22. Re:NASA owned it, not the museum? on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    The state of Alaska is claiming that the museum curator stole the rock. That he falsly reported it missing. And that he then gave it to his son. His son is the person possesing the rock. It is not as simple as you think it is.

  23. Re:Translation on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    It depends on the state. Sometimes the statute of limitations start when they discover you have the property as opposed to when you aquired the property.

  24. Re:Precedence on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    Not actual custodian. Curator.

  25. Re:Precedence on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    The custodian of the item for the museum was Phil Redden, Coleman Anderson foster father. So you have the custodian of the museum improperly disposing of an item and it winding up with his foster son. Or maybe he just stole it and Anderson inherited it from his dad.