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  1. Re:OMG save the children on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 1

    Why do you even consider a correlation between vaccinations and autism has any credibility? There is a stronger corelation between walking and autism than vaccinations and autism.

  2. Re:Noooooooooo!!!!!!1111!11! on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 1

    Why don;t we just call it as we see it;

    Reckless endangerment: A person commits the crime of reckless endangerment if the person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person. “Reckless” conduct is conduct that exhibits a culpable disregard of foreseeable consequences to others from the act or omission involved. The accused need not intentionally cause a resulting harm or know that his conduct is substantially certain to cause that result. The ultimate question is whether, under all the circumstances, the accused’s conduct was of that heedless nature that made it actually or imminently dangerous to the rights or safety of others.

    What Wakefield and other charlatan espousing the imaginary dangers of vaccinations need to feel the full weight of the law in this matter. Not everybody can be vaccinated and people who can be and aren't due to superstitions suggested by these charlatans for personal gain pose a danger who can't.

  3. Re:attorneys on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    I honestly believe that the USG hopes Assange will just go to jail in Sweden long enough for everybody to forget about him; the dickwad is becoming quite the Tarbaby.

  4. Re:attorneys on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    Actually I was thinking the same thing, but because of the left-wing trolls LOL. Remember the Good ol' days when people posted anonymously primarily because they had something topical to add, some inside information that would be embarrassing for the government or employer, you know like a leak! I got it, anonymous cowards postings must be from logged-in accounts, moderations count for/against the accounts karma and moderations on anoymous cowards don't count against your mod points.

  5. Re:I have a better idea on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 1

    The point is you don't have to take the arms through the Suez, you pick up the arms and weapons operators once your past the Suez and drop them off once your out of pirate range, then they pick up another ship for the trip back toward the canal. It works for Somalian pirates as well as Indonesian pirates.

    Why buy something when you can rent it, especially when it'll only be useful in a narrow geographical area or two?

  6. Re:I have a better idea on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 1

    Why not? Ships passing by my house frequently pick up pilots to take them through the demanding Navigation of the St. Clair River and drop them off on the fly. We are talking about loading up with maybe an antitank missile to keep the mother ship at bay and maybe a Ma Deuce, M2 Machine Gun, Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun, to make believers of the small boats that do the actual attacking. I'd be seriously surprise if hearing Ma Deuce punching out that steady bass beat over their bow didn't make them turn tail and run back to the mothership. The Effective range 2,000 m (2,187 yds) and Maximum range 6,770 m (7,400 yd) easily bests the RPG-7's Maximum range ~ 920 m (1000 yd) (self detonates). If the Pirates try to match this fire power they'd have to mount a NSV machine gun which aren't that common.

  7. Re:I have a better idea on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 1

    In both Iraq and Afghanistan it's not uncommon for Men who are non-combatants to carry AK-47's for protection from insurgents.

  8. Re:I have a better idea on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 1

    Dude how about live-fire tourism, load up a Cruse ship, and sail it up and down the North East African coast until you bait out some pirates and then let the passenger have a rock-n-roll party on their asses. They could even rent out jet-ski's with machineguns for the more adventurous.

  9. Re:Ban guns on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    Whoa their dude, just because you have a gun and can defend yourself and your peers, doesn't mean you'll have a clean shot; especially in a crowd. Do you take a shot to save your own life in a situation where your likely to miss or have a bullet pass through your target and kill an innocent? That the kind of question a responsible gun owners has to be able to face.

  10. Re:Ban guns on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    Most Americans don't consider Mexico as part of North America, but they are wrong too. Hell most American don't know that Cuba and Russia boarder the United States either.

  11. Re:Ban guns on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    Does that include the various Colonial Wars around the world as killing their own?

  12. Re:Ban guns on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    The second amendment is about the right to keep and bear arms, Open carry is the primary example of the right to bear arms.

  13. Re:Ban guns on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    A "Home Invasion" is when a person enters your home without permission, it includes entry through an open door or a closed but unlocked door or window, where the term "Breaking and Entry" involves a forced entry through a locked door or windows. Persons who commit the crime and encounter the homes lawful residents frequently commit crimes against the occupants, rape and murder aren't uncommon, in addition to the burglary.

  14. Re:What??? on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    Yes, It's just unlikely to happen because it's unlikely to be successful. You really have to read the laws in question, a lot of American laws have a phrase like, "for anyone in the United States or it's Territories ..." for those you have to be inside the US, for others there isn't such a phrase; I believe murder or rape is murder or rape to the USG no matter where it's committed. Im sure that the US isn't that special and other countries have laws the aply outside their boarders as well. Of course IANAL and that's what you need, a good lawyer to consult with if your worried about such things personally.

  15. Re:Dear Governments, Here is how to control the We on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    Profit, schphofit, we can print as much money as we want; POWER trumps Profit.

  16. Re:Icelandic MP supeanad on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    Aluminum, their abundant geo-thermal energy make Iceland a top producer of Aluminum

    ... Abundant geothermal and hydropower sources have attracted substantial foreign investment in the aluminum sector and boosted economic growth, although the financial crisis has put several investment projects on hold. Much of Iceland's economic growth in recent years came as the result of a boom in domestic demand following the rapid expansion of the country's financial sector. Iceland

    In fact it's probably easier to work around no Oil than No Aluminum.

  17. Re:Icelandic MP supeanad on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    What's the problem, She publicly admitting She's a former Wikileaks volunteer, we know her name and almost all of the other requested data. Seriously if We don't know some of the data, Twitter wouldn't either. Admitting to being a former Wikileaks volunteer, is like admitting to being a person formerly engaged in espionage and other subversive activities against the US, so I'm not sure what the deal is. I'm sure She's unlikely to fly into JFK, unless the pilot spills his coffee on the radio, even then Gander is just as likely. Aren't tweets about as private as posting something on a billboard anyways?

    Seriously this just sounds like some Narcissistic Grandstanding on her part, if she didn't expect stuff like this happening well she must just be stupid.

  18. Re:Shouldn't have a leg to stand on on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    Anyone notice Obama is acting a lot like Bush lately? You sound surprised, anything too good to be true usually is. Bush was a bush-leaguer compared to Obama.
    Obama's health-care system is basically take everything that was broken and keep it, throw out anything that was working.
    Obama's environmental record, well just look at the golf coast, he not only didn't stop it, he paved the road to ruin.
    Obama definately isn't sucking hind tit from the *IAA's either.

  19. Re:There is a threat to democracy! on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 2

    Finally a voice that passes the sanity checks. The other thing I find either illuminating or conspiratorial is that all of the wailing over things like ECHELON, COINTELPRO, Carnivore and Patriot Act seems to be much ado over nothing because either the Feds still have to do significant amounts of good old fashioned legwork to get anything done or do it anyways to cover up how easy it is to do it now.

  20. Re:short term skimming on NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this has been fixed because an Average Joe can easily make serious cash off a flashcrash.

  21. Re:Meh. on Online Impersonations Now Illegal In California · · Score: 1

    Today, with our "zero-tolerance" policies and the stupid mantra of "let the authorities handle it", we get things like this. All the while ignoring the possibility that we are at this point because we refuse to let kids learn how to deal with bullying.

    You might get some traction from that point of view, if it weren't for the fact that,
    1. The authorities not only don't handle it, but actually punish the victims,
    2. the victims that get fed up enough to take matters into their own hands all to frequently are seriously out numbered and use weapons,
    3. the victims that don't will either quit going to school or commit suicide.
    The days when a schoolyard altercation ended with a bloody nose and a bruised ego are long gone.

  22. Re:Why would Fake Steve Jobs worry? on Online Impersonations Now Illegal In California · · Score: 1

    Please feel free to exercise your right to free speech, so that rather than simply suspecting that your an idiot, we'll be sure.

  23. Re:HP PreTexting(tm) on Online Impersonations Now Illegal In California · · Score: 1

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

    SECTION 1. Section 528.5 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
    528.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person
    who knowingly and without consent credibly impersonates another
    actual person through or on an Internet Web site or by other
    electronic means
    for purposes of harming, intimidating, threatening,
    or defrauding another person is guilty of a public offense punishable
    pursuant to subdivision (d). ...
    (c) For purposes of this section, “electronic means” shall include
    opening an e-mail account or an account or profile on a social
    networking Internet Web site in another person’s name.
    (d) A violation of subdivision (a) is punishable by a fine not
    exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in a
    county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and
    imprisonment.

    The way I read it is if you use other electronic means , such as SMS, VoIP, Cellular telephony, or landline telephony to commit your impersonation your probably in deep shit too.

  24. Re:Licking wounds on Zimbabwe Gov't Websites Hit By Pro-WikiLeaks DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Holy fuck, "ZWD72 million (USD0.12 at June 2008 exchange rates)" they'd have to pay their cell phone bill with billion dollar notes!
    Could you sell a package of corn seeds and ask the buy for 150 million dollars and keep a straight face?

  25. Re:$15,0000,000 on Zimbabwe Gov't Websites Hit By Pro-WikiLeaks DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    What difference does that make, The effective UN forces are 60% American, 15% British, 10% Canadian, 10% Australian and the rest of the world fills in the rest. No matter what happens it looks like an American operation because almost everybody speaks english.