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  1. Re:Ex Post Facto Law on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    And yet Article 1, Section 9 makes no distinction between civil and criminal. How did the 'precedent' (pronounced 'bullshit') get set that this only refers to criminal issues?

    If what he said is true, then this is yet another (out of many) example of the courts 'creatively interpreting' (in other words, modifying it with invisible ink) the constitution.

    Sure, it's a wikipedia link, but it's trivial to verify.

  2. Re:Ex Post Facto Law on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    The underlying offense is the same. The law is written to play legalistic games.

  3. Re:Sadly, sounds like I was right on Mozilla Appoints Former Marketing Head Interim CEO · · Score: 1

    Losing Eich is going to be the worst thing to ever happen to Mozilla, mark my words.

    How is losing someone that thinks 20% of his employees are subhuman not a good thing? He hates his gay employees. He publicly admitted he is a Nazi that wants to steal their rights. He gave money to a cause that attacks them. Unless you are one of them, how can you defend his kind? Hopefully it won't be that many decades before society has progressed enough to put your kind behind bars to protect the rest of us from your intolerance.

    20%? Got a citation for that, or just wishful thinking?

  4. Re:Ex Post Facto Law on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 2

    And yet Article 1, Section 9 makes no distinction between civil and criminal. How did the 'precedent' (pronounced 'bullshit') get set that this only refers to criminal issues?

    BTW, can you be jailed for failing to pay the IRS? Makes me wonder how 'civil' that infraction is then...

  5. Re:What's left to say? on Carpenter Who Cut Off His Fingers Makes "Robohand" With 3-D Printer · · Score: 1

    Could you primitive screwheads stop dropping quotes?

  6. Re:Margeret Thatcher? on Why the IETF Isn't Working · · Score: 1

    depends what side of the pond your on... though Palin always struck me as more retarded than constructively evil.

    Agreed. That Spanish Inquisitor fellow never could do anything right.

    Did somebody say "the Spanish Inquisition"?

  7. Re:They already "gave back" on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    "Except when governments are involved"

    Get out of the basement. Read more widely. Go enjoy some clean, unlimited tap-water. And marvel at the magical process that keeps it that way.

    It's pretty clear that someone with that kneejerk response would only be interested in rainwater and grain alcohol, Mandrake.

  8. Re:Zontar, why're you running from this? on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Hey, you hurt my feelings. I thought I always got a hat tip in the 'known and admitted trolls' category.

  9. Re:Here we go again on Study: Video Gamer Aggression Result of Game Experience, Not Violent Content · · Score: 3, Funny

    Torture an animal long enough and it will bite you. Humans are no different, we're just better at it.

    The biting or the torturing?

  10. Re:So Obama canceled stem cell research? on Stem-Cell Research Funding Institute Is Shuttered · · Score: 1

    If stem cells can make Christopher Reeve walk again, they're a helluva lot more powerful than anybody ever thought.

  11. Re:The ball game on Apple, Google, and Amazon's Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile · · Score: 1

    So how does your tech-illiterate mother watch the ball game on your setup?

    She's too busy in the kitchen heating him up some hot pockets to worry about tv.

  12. Re:Damn you, Amazon and your bluetooth! on Apple, Google, and Amazon's Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile · · Score: 1

    Oh, I forgot to end with "You damned dirty apes!"

    Double sad, given the Heston reference in the summary.

  13. Re:Can't fire a Nazi? on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    So if one of your employees makes a contribution to the New Black Panther Party, you can't fire them for being the type you don't want around?

    I don't know. You tell me.

  14. Re:Bu the wasn't fired on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    Are there any numbers available to support this, or was it just a bunch of vocal people who claimed they were uninstalling Firefox?

  15. Re:Bu the wasn't fired on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    A lateral transfer can be considered coercive or a dismissal in many instances. Off the top of my head, if you move an employee from position A to position B because he is unavailable one weekend per month due to guard duty, position B must have the same pay, status, and potential for advancement as position A.

    I've no idea if similar thinking applies in this case.

  16. Re:Seems dubious to me. on Comcast Takes 2014 Prize For Worst Company In America · · Score: 1

    Sorry your circles are not in the know but frankly your sample seems to be a bit off from the whole.

    Whereas yours is perfectly representative?

  17. Re:Daimler? on Tesla: A Carmaker Or Grid-Storage Company? · · Score: 1

    Appeal to authority. -eleventy billion Internet debating points.

  18. Re:Hmm... on Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Human Brain · · Score: 2

    Doesn't apply to me. Perhaps because I don't skim articles and read the entire thing.

    You're on the wrong site.

  19. Re:A better question: on Judge (Tech) Advice By Results · · Score: 1

    Go look at the number of comments under this or most of his stories, and you will have found your answer.

  20. Re:LOL, yup ... on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I also believe that 99.99% of U.S. cops are honest.

    I bet you also expect a visit from the Easter Bunny here shortly.

  21. Re:Didn't you guys get the message?? on NASA Laying Foundation For Jupiter Moon Space Mission · · Score: 1

    I bet you're a real hit at parties.

  22. Re:Daimler? on Tesla: A Carmaker Or Grid-Storage Company? · · Score: 1

    the latter's hybrids seem to be doing quite well at the moment (in Formula 1)

    I wouldn't call KERS a 'hybrid' in the same sense of the word as used in context with the Prius.

    Nor would I consider much F1 tech to be relevant to street driven autos.

  23. Re:A likely story on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 2

    In an unrelated story, there are no guilty men in jail.

  24. Re:Rabid V on To Reduce the Health Risk of Barbecuing Meat, Just Add Beer · · Score: 1

    Again confirming the postulate that being a vegan makes you an asshole.

  25. Re:As far as colon cancer is concerned on To Reduce the Health Risk of Barbecuing Meat, Just Add Beer · · Score: 1

    Concentrate on the elephant in the room

    That would need one heck of a lot of marinade...

    That's why he said to concentrate it.