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  1. Re:Absolutely stunning .... on Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena · · Score: 1

    What they need is to be under the scrutiny of the people. Send your ACLU card back.

  2. Re:Who steals what? on Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene? · · Score: 1

    The Spanish?

  3. Re:Controversial opinions does not belong in schoo on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    Only fact should be taught. All the religous and scientific bullshit theories should be saved for college.

  4. Re:What Do Other Sources Say? on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    Yes, the earth is going to burn up. Eventually our sun will cool and expand which will fry our planet. So, the bible, in that context, is correct.

  5. Re:Hmm? on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    Maybe they couldn't spell "A million bazillion" correctly.

  6. Re:Patented Breast Cancer Genes? on Nobel Laureate Attacks Medical Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Look at it this way. They have a patent on the breast cander gene. They own that gene, and it is now their product. They own a product which is detrimental to humans, causes death, and causes pain and suffering. They are libel for the damage their product causes.

    Sue them into the poor house.

  7. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    "You also forget that there are many of us civilians that were once former soldiers ourselves. We've experienced tear gas, and some of us much worse. You show a serious lack of imagination about what a disciplined person, or group, can accomplish."

    That is because they have never experienced discipline.

  8. Re:Iraq is a good example of this on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    "but it would certainly make those Canadians think twice before invading us."

    It's already happened. Canada is the only country to invade us, and burn our capitol to the ground.

  9. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    The concept is defined as the person being a clear and present danger. As a policeman once told me, "If you ever have to shoot someone, say only, and keep saying 'I feared for my life.'"

    Unfortunately in the U.S. the Nancys in the country would like to emulate the UK in making even self defense a criminal offense.

  10. Re:Now is the time to define "the left" on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    We have a central bank that controls the currency. We're well on our way to communism.

  11. Re:Now is the time to define. . . on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    How about you free your head from your ass? Getting rid of guns will not get rid of violence or crime. Knives are more efficient to use in close quarters than a gun ever will be.

    Violent crime is NOT more acceptable if it is done with a weapon other than a gun, it's not more civilized, and to try to paint it as such is assinine.

  12. Re:VISAs harm Americans on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    You don't get any Oinkeys if your job has been shipped to India. So you take a job for less Oinkeys, and spend less Oinkeys into the economy because the Oinkeys you would normally be spending is going overseas, but the Oinkeys people want for their goods and services never goes down, and always goes up.

  13. Re:USPTO, wake up or go away! on Intel Patents the "Digital Browser Phone" · · Score: 1

    Might as well. Searches for prior art happens only within their files. There is no incentive to search for prior art that hasn't been patented.

  14. Re:VISAs harm Americans on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    >Is this true?
    >
    >If so, why?

    I didn't know this was an essay test.

    >Yes and no. Businesses try to make as much money as possible. If they *can* raise prices, they will. However, the fact that usually plenty >of other people are selling similar products means they *cannot* raise prices, because if they did, they wouldn't make much money at all.

    Price fixing. Gasoline prices at different gasoline stations are an example. If you watch prices of any good/service closely you'll see that it takes only one company to raise prices then others also raise their prices shortly afterwards. There's no 'real' price competition.

    >If you're paid half what you were before, but prices have dropped to only a quarter of what they were before, hasn't spending gone up?

    Spending would go up, but we don't live in Fantasy Land where your scenario would happen. Prices will go up, workes pay goes up sporadically at best, but prices always outstrip pay raises (unless your an officer in a company).

    The bottom line is that if Americans are out of work, forced to take less pay, etc... spending slows down. All touch-feely bullshit about 'immigrants', 'outsourcing helps indians/pakistanis/philipinos', etc... H1b increases, and outsourcing only hurt the American economy. In the short run the companies that do this may be saving cost while still increasing prices. Looks good on the balance sheet now, but in the long run they are only fucking themselves. That is why the big promotion of 'globalism', and other crap like that. The corporations know that they days that Americans can spend on the local economy (American) like they have been are coming to an end, and it's their own doing.

  15. Re:K-12 education on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    yes, we need standardized testing so the schools can teach only what is on the test to 'prepare' students for it. Good idea!

  16. Re:VISAs harm Americans on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    Prices go up anyway. Corporations will use any reason to raise prices, including no reason at all. Less pay means less spending which leads to a slower economy.

  17. The real reason on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    We all know there are enough skilled IT people in the United States to meet demand. The real reason for all this is to weaken the United States economy, and the morale of it's workers so as to pull it down to the level of the rest of the world in order to bring on the 'new world order', or 'one world government' in which corporations will rule, instead of the people. It's not just IT, it's all sectors of the work force. Small business owners will be next up against the wall by the corporations and the world bank.

  18. Re:USPTO, wake up or go away! on Intel Patents the "Digital Browser Phone" · · Score: 1

    As far as the USPTO is concerned, prior art only exists within it's library of existing patents.

  19. Paint your wagon on The Corporate Invasion of Second Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Watch the movie, other than the bad singing it's an analogy to what is happening to the net. At first it was a kind of 'wild n wooly' thing, but eventually civilization moves in. Same is happening with Second Life. Eventually people will move on to other virtual worlds because Second Life is becoming 'too civilized'.

  20. Re:Its about "utility"/value for money. on Piracy Stats Don't Add Up · · Score: 1

    Well, as far as films go, I don't know why the movie companies are in such a big snit... after all, according to them there's not one move that has made a net profit. They are all money losers on the movie company balance sheet.

  21. Re:Its about "utility"/value for money. on Piracy Stats Don't Add Up · · Score: 1

    it's easy to quantify. If company A had a projected earnings of 20 million dollars, but only earned 10 million dollars, the 10 million dollar short fall against projected earnings must mean that they lost 10 million dollars due to piracy!

    See how easy it is?

  22. Re:Polish passports... on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    Ok, you are correct. The flags present do not represent the power behind the court. Sure, maybe I just took the wrong pill.

    Nope, just checked, didn't take the wrong one. The military flag is present, it is a military court.

  23. Re:Doesn't this remind you of something? on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    The Federal Reserve banking system. Actually formed into law in 1913, but was in operation in 1912. A private cartel by government fiat.

  24. Re:Polish passports... on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    Been there? I live there. Yes, the Federal government has the money to try each and every case... indirectly. The flag is there, it is what it is. The illusion of the 'state' and 'county' is fairly strong.

  25. Re:Doesn't this remind you of something? on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    It's a gradual thing, and the process started in the United States in 1912. The forces at work are different than what was at work in Germany and the Soviet Union. Those forces are also at work in other countries such as Britain. The culprits are/is the banking system(s), international corporations, and those that profit and benefit from them.