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  1. Re:Secure in their persons... on Finnish Guy Gets Prosthetic USB Finger Storage · · Score: 1

    Your person is not immune to searches at the border either. All they need is "reasonable suspicion" which is itself unimpeachable and can be as simple as "I felt something was wrong" by the officer in question.

  2. Re:This too was foreseen on Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    Say what?? "Black death" is a bacteria. Your ancestors survival will do nothing, NO THING, in regards to your ability to survive HIV infection. In fact, your ancestors survival probably had more to do with not being infected than anything else.

  3. Re:community on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 1

    There's lots to disagree with when it comes to Marx but it'd be nice if people disagreed with what he actually said and not a bunch of weird misconceptions.

    No, there's more to disagree with when it comes to Marx as compared to the misconceptions that come about because his ideas were simply not workable in real life. He is in fact, weirder and less well thought out in his actual ideas than in the broken implementations attempted over the last few decades.

  4. Re:Oppression on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We do respect the result of their election. The result was the Gaza strip being run by terrorists, which we're not keen on giving money too. If the Gaza strip wasn't so reliant on handouts, they might not care about our lack of recognition. However, they are so reliant.

  5. Re:community on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I'm curious. Do you know the poster

    Yes.

  6. Re:community on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Always the easy excuse. "It's never been REALLY tried!"

  7. Re:community on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Er? A dogma is that which is accepted on faith. No faith, no dogma.

    Agreed. Which is why people acting on faith that there is no reason to have faith creep me out.

    So fundamentalist capitalists creep you out too.

    As that is an example of a known working economic system, it doesn't follow from my previous statement.

  8. Re:community on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 0

    Doubtless some christians and or capitalists were uncomfortable with or offended by some of my past comments.

    Two things really creep me out in this world: People who present a dogma of the lack of faith as somehow superior to a dogma of faith, and those who continue to press economic systems that are known to be fundamental failures.

    You sir, encompass both categories.

  9. Re:Notification for everything on Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? · · Score: 1

    I prefer to straddle the line on the two leftmost lanes. As an added benefit, here in California, such an action also blocks motorcycles.

  10. Re:Capable of supporting life? on Carbon Dioxide and Water Found On Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    How the hell is Venus an example for something that starts out "The temperature of a gas giant..."

  11. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Actually quite the opposite. Freedom from religion would be the "freedom" to never be exposed to a religion you don't want to be. Freedom of religion is the freedom to worship in your own way. The two are not compatible, and anytime the latter exists the former cannot.

  12. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Palin not once tried to ban a single book, she made no request for any banning. Period.

    Palin not once tried to fire the librarian, for it was within her power to do so and yet the librarian remained unfired.

  13. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Fox News is less biased than MSNBC.

  14. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    I have read it, and it suffers from the simple problem that I don't believe him. Not only has Obama personally already lowered the bar to $200k in an election ad, but I suspect Biden's $150k statement is more a true statement he didn't intend to publically state rather than a misstatement.

    The $120k claim is simply one in which, a Democrat, points out the level where taxes would absolutely have to be increased in order to meet the funding levels Obama requires.

  15. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Except when they try to teach them in science classes in our schools

    That's fine. Unless Obama has made some declaration I am not aware of, or the far more likely Biden gaffe, nobody running for Presidential office in the election tomorrow made such a policy pronouncement. I'm absolutely certain that neither McCain nor Palin has.

  16. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! You've supplied a link that doesn't support the claim that Palin requested books be banned or that she fired the librarian.

    Here is the official Wasilla library list of all book banning requests. If it's not listed there, it didn't happen. There are no requests for book bannings in 1996.

  17. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Such events did not happen. I understand weak minds desire to hold on to excuses for a long time, but you're really stuck in the old news category here.

  18. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am entirely sure of that. Having already read your biased and factually incorrect link before, it will not convince me otherwise.

  19. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if thee had not forsaken the Bright Shining Star of Federalism, thee would fear less. Fortunately, the power of the Star is with thee, and shall embrace thee, and protect thee.

    Amen.

  20. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how can we be free while subjected to Palin's version of Genesis?

    Because, as you quoted, it is freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

    Neither Palin nor McCain has ever expressed a desire to force either you or your children to follow their religious choices.

  21. Re:Looking from afar... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the end, I couldn't care less about the creation myths others have, even our President. After 6 Republican Presidential terms, they still haven't managed to overturn Roe.v.Wade.

    On the other hand, taxes are never found unconstitutional, and rarely reduced significantly. The only way to avoid them is to never increase them.

    I vote my financial self interest, and regardless of what the Obama propaganda is it has nothing to do with $250k

  22. Re:Founding fathers on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    More specific to elections though, isn't it about time we abolished the electoral college and go right to a popular vote?

    No, but feel free to try. Get right on that constitutional amendment.

    It should be noted, that in this election cycle the popular vote currently makes it a statistical tie between McCain and Obama. Obama may be slightly ahead, but not enough to beat the margin of error. However, when you sit down with state based polls and an electoral calculator, it's a complete washout.

  23. Re:Voter registration on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    Millions of illegal aliens. More than enough to swing elections.

  24. Re:War on Drug Users on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    "Holes in your brain" is an excessive description, likely just some sort of layman translation used at some point. MDMA does directly cause brain damage, which increases with every dose.

  25. Re:I'd be more concerned... on Dead Goldfish Offered The Vote In Illinois · · Score: 1

    I have also been requested to show ID. You can refuse, and they will not bar you from voting. Identification is not a requirement.

    I tested this in 2006, because I did not actually bring my ID and did not want to go back for it. I was not given a provisional ballot.