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  1. The wrong way on Linking Dangerously · · Score: 1

    While I don't feel that what he did warrants a year in jail, I do feel that actively pursuing the violent enactment of eliminating the US government, when creating and voting in a party to constitutionally legislate the same end product is at any non-felonious citizens abilities, is an act against the people itself. How silly is it to attempt to, in the name of the people, overthrow a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people"?

  2. Re:The Matrix is just a movie on Powered by Blood · · Score: 1

    AC is correct, but circularly so. I'd rather put forth the notion that If I think I am, how could I not be?

  3. Re:The Matrix is just a movie on Powered by Blood · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The ideal of a "soul" is actually fable/fiction/pure speculation

    No, the reality you perceive is your own pure speculation. The fact that you percieve and speculate is incontrivertible proof of your soul/essential existance, proof available to you and no one else. This makes it subjective in any manifestation, and thus is, as you've stated, not subject to the objectivity of science. So you're half right, half wrong. Remember, I think therefor I am. A statement that hasn't been successfully debated since its conception.

  4. Bad Analogy on Cyber Sleuths vs. Secret Networks · · Score: 0

    "Mr Ishikawa's vision for BayTSP is to become a hi-tech version of Pinkerton, the legendary detective agency that protected presidents like Abraham Lincoln..."

    Didn't he die of old age or something not assassination-related? Anybody?

  5. A bit of reasoning on Mitch Bainwol To Succeed Hilary Rosen As RIAA Head · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Follow me here...
    Any good California law firm (as you know, we tend to have the most experience in such a field) will have hired one attorney into partnership for every State Supreme Court Justice, each attorney having previously been a different justice's clerk. After a while of typing all the J's decisions, they know what the Justice wants to read when going over correspondances and court pleadings.

    This new head is entirely about the personal experience of working with the head of the senate majority leader, and less about being qualified to lead the RIAA into a rational future that isn't based on getting money through suing people, who by their definition aren't likely to be able to afford a good lawyer.

  6. Re:Wrong on Darwinian Poetry: From Bad to Verse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Computers/processes are quite capable of producing works we percieve as art.

    I'll believe it once a poem comes out adequately describing the computational condition.

  7. Re:Constitutionally Protected in some places... on Flash Mobs: Peaceable Assembly for Spontaneous Fun · · Score: 1

    However in places like columbus ohio, as far as i'm aware, it's illegal to gather more than 6 people in public places with out a permit from the city.

    Good thing malls are privately owned.

  8. Amazing in its own right on MIT, Boston College Refuse DMCA Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    "I wonder how long the schools will be able to keep the RIAA's pack of lawyers at bay..."

    I don't think it matters as much as the fact that they're standing up to this crap to begin with.

  9. Settled on California Microsoft Settlement · · Score: 1

    "The lawsuit, filed in February 1999, claimed that Microsoft violated California antitrust laws by overcharging by as much as $40 for every copy of the Windows 95 and 98 operating systems."

    "...consumers and corporations in the state will be notified that they may qualify for vouchers ranging in value from $5 to $29."


    So was that the part where we settle for less and they still profit from crime?

  10. Re:Nasa died 1969 on Bad Testing Doomed NASA's Hypersonic X-43A · · Score: 1

    I'd like to think that our society would be interested in seeing space explored by science purely for the bettecment of mankind... and then I remember that Columbus was funded by people seeking a profit. And a big one at that.

  11. It begins... on Robot Balloon Escapes In Britain · · Score: 1

    Skynet is born.

  12. Re:Inches or Centimeters? on Orbital Space Plane Problems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then why hasn't congress rewritten the NASA charter in such a fashion that NASA can pad its own funding with its profitable endeavors?

  13. Re:career opportunities on Solar Sail Will Work, says Planetary Society · · Score: 1

    Highly depending on how common these become, I wouldn't be suprised if future unmanned space shipments did get highjacked.

  14. Re:Chance or Design? on SETI Gains Respect, NASA Funding · · Score: 1

    Pope Pius XII stated so on 22 November 1951, early in the development of the theory (1). Either way, as long as the conversation keeps to the near side of the big bang, the theory holds nothing for science and religion to disagree about (2).

    The same kind of truce has helped, to a lesser degree, the Darwinian paradigm for evolution and the origin of life on Earth. The theory says life originates out of nonliving chemicals and evolves to higher levels of organization simply by following mechanistic laws. Western religions say yes, and every mechanism has a creator. But here the truce has been uneasy. On October 22, 1996, in a message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope John Paul II (right) acknowledged the significance of the mainstream theory of evolution.

    -From http://www.panspermia.org/mechansm.htm

    Damn it feels good to be Irish Catholic.

  15. Re:What about accidental e-mails? on Still No Federal Spam Law · · Score: 1

    Fuckin believe it.

  16. Re:Things I've learned from games on Videogames, Learning, And Literacy · · Score: 1

    http://www.starregistry.com/

    Fiddler's Green: Make it happen!

  17. Re:What a bunch of losers on LOTR Campout Begins · · Score: 5, Funny

    And when people keep telling me that American stupidity runs rampant, I point to John Q. Condescend here who blames American culture for Danish fans obsessing over a New Zealand produced movie based on a book written by an Englishman.

  18. Conspiracy Theory on McNealy Calls for National ID Card Too · · Score: 1

    It's a push to indirectly give police officers power to murder. Remember the black/hispanic immigrant in NY who was shot with 41 bullets?
    "LOOK OUT! HE'S GOT ID!"

  19. Re:Technology is a Double Edged Sword... on Black Death's Genome Cracked · · Score: 1

    True. We must use our powers for good, not evil

  20. Catch-22 on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    If it's retroactive, then the U.S. ought be treated as we're looking to treat Afghanistan for harboring our terrorist-hackers.

  21. Forecast for all continents beyond 50 years... on Earth Simulator Sees Green Light · · Score: 1

    Winter. Nuclear winter. Yeah I need a computer to tell me that.

  22. Violation of the DMCA on Net Taps Without Warrants? · · Score: 1

    This bill is a device used to ensure the circumvention of electronic encryption. Bush would be a criminal upon signing the law should the House of Representatives pass it, and would be eligible for impeachment thereafter. Then the Supreme Court would rule the law unconstitutional, which would be really ironic and unsettling.

  23. Re:The need for offsite backup on More WTC News · · Score: 1

    Mourn co-workers? Fuck that, we've got stockholders more important to us.

  24. Re:Airport security on More On Tragedy · · Score: 1

    F-in A, I went in and had to put my name and number down because they couldn't take any more blood today. I've never been more proud to be an American.

  25. Those who didn't see that coming... on Bush Administration Stops Microsoft Breakup · · Score: 1

    I want you found, blindfolded and shot.