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  1. Re:Uh oh. on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    Ever had a policeman let you off with a warning after he caught you speeding? That's the policeman using nullification.

    And it is trial by mob, but only one trial at a time. If the law is truly bad, lots of people will escape its clutches. The point is that people will basically come to a consensus that is against whatever it is that the legislature is doing. And that is the point.

  2. Re:Blue Screen of Nuclear Death ? on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, some people here do predate Microsoft.

  3. Re:Cheaper on Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model · · Score: 0

    Fiction: Women almost always dislike being sexualised.

    Fiction: Women dislike being ONLY sexualized.

    Fact: Women only dislike being sexualized when the sexualization does not result in an increase in their power of manipulation; hence, "Hell hath no fury like a women scorned."

  4. Re:Cheaper on Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but the fashion shows I've seen have been nothing but soft porn. How do the principals of Victoria Secret avoid being arrested for kiddie porn when they have underage girls prancing around in fancy underwear?

    Fact: Women "like to be beautiful", because it gives them power. They know that they can wrap men up and get what they want when they are the sexiest in the room.

    Call it what you want, but it all about the power.

  5. Re:The stupid! It hurts! on Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents? · · Score: 1

    But, how did they get a patent on the drug, without knowing about the blood chemical correlation? Isn't their expired drug patent prior art to the blood chemical correlation patent?

  6. Re:Too bad on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Several square miles? Is that all you're worried about? You need to get out of that city block that you limit yourself to, and see just how large the world really is.

  7. Re:Blue Screen of Nuclear Death ? on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How did Bill get all that money to donate? Sorry, but I was there, reading the bogus warning messages that Windows produced to scare people off of DR_DOS. I compared the DR_DOS and MS_DOS 6, and wept as per processor licensing choke the better product out of the market.

  8. Re:And this is how on The Unique Candidates of the New Hampshire Primary · · Score: 1

    I'll go one step further. Remove the names from the ballots. Seriously, if you can't even legibly SPELL the person's name (physical disabilities aside), don't vote. This is not a poll tax, or a way of keeping the "disenfranchised" from voting. It's a way of keeping the uninformed from voting.

  9. Re:New power source? on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 0

    Like you, I got furious real fast over the assertion that the US Government could be competent.

  10. Re:I don't think you understood that. on The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation · · Score: 1

    The law. The impetus for the law was an invasion of privacy thing.

    From http://www.alternet.org/story/152896/why_is_ows_blanketed_with_nypd_cameras_--_and_are_police_breaking_the_law/

    recording legal protest activity violates the Handschu decree, a set of legal guidelines designed to check the NYPD's historic tendency to steamroll First Amendment rights. The order emerged from a class-action lawsuit prompted by revelations that the NYPD had spent much of the 20th century and millions of dollars monitoring legal protest activity, an endeavor that generated up to a million files on such dangerous radicals as education reform groups and housing advocates. The Handschu decree prohibits investigations of legal political activity and the collection of data, including images and video of protests, unless a crime has been committed.

  11. Re:They are brave, but there's a difference on The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation · · Score: 1

    ~38m....~80M......................~330M

    Which two are closer?

  12. Re:Moral equivalence not withstanding on The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation · · Score: 1

    Well, if you want to arbitrarily redefine "violence" go ahead.

  13. Re:Moral equivalence not withstanding on The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation · · Score: 1

    Was anyone hospitalized?

  14. Re:Astonished on The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation · · Score: 1

    There does not exist a free market in government regulation. The bureaucrats used the monopoly government power to give discounts to the groups they like, and prohibitively expensive rates to groups they disliked. Just like they have done in Richmond, VA.

  15. Re:Americans on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    And all his descendant's customers care about is price rollbacks (and getting filthy rich).

  16. Re:Important? How? on Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 0

    So, instead of answering the question, you argue that I'm just not smart enough to see the obvious? How quaint.

    I get out enough to want to move from the sub-burbs and into the country. Unfortunately, the wife wants to be close to shopping. Knowing what is in the world around me is important. It affects the decisions I make.

    Now, if you're going to respond, could you make an attempt at answering the question. What effect will knowing that their is a roughly Earth sized rock circling an unreachable star going to have on any decision you make in your lifetime? How is this discovery important in any way other than to sate your curiosity?

  17. Important? How? on Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Kepler's results continue to demonstrate the importance of NASA's science missions, which aim to answer some of the biggest questions about our place in the universe

    So the "importance" of NASA is to sate some geeks curiosity? They've discovered that our solar system isn't completely unique in the whole of the universe. They've discovered that there are, in fact, other planets. Now what? Everybody says, "Woohoo!" and goes home? I just don't see how this has any importance, whatsoever, because I don't see how it can have any measurable effect on any decision made by anyone on this planet in the foreseeable future.

  18. Re:As Usual on After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More · · Score: 1

    How did that screwy antennae issue work out for you?

  19. Re:Who? on After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More · · Score: 2

    That's nothing. If they had some contacts in a Democratic administration, they could have blown through $500 million.

  20. Re:Should X be mandatory? on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    This is quickly changing. The new trend is to pump the landfill with leeching agents with supply oxygen and encourage the breakdown of materials. Extractor pipes syphon off the methane produced and use it to drive a generator and often produce hot-water for co-located industries. If you're wearing denim jeans right now, they might have been washed during their production at the Burlington Mills plant in Greensboro, NC by water heated by gas from the nearby landfill.

  21. Re:Ready, fire, aim on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    2.) Giving people loans that they may or may not be able to repay is the very definition of a bank taking risk. That is the bank's job & responsibility. Due diligence and all that.

    The banks did due diligence. Then the Feds pushed through the "Community Re-Investment Act", saying we don't care about your due diligence, make the damn home loan anyway. And make the student loan, too. We'll guarantee you get paid pack, even if the idiot is a "majorette in Drama" (hence, the name "Guaranteed Student Loan").

  22. Re:Ready, fire, aim on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    No. 1 is a pipe dream. You are not going to get the money out of politics, nor should you. How is a candidate going to get his message out without money?

    Just a suggestion here: Maybe by doing like the Republican primaries this year?

    They've had so many "debates", which I think was driven by the talking head shows needing something fresh to talk about, are 30sec adds really going to have much effect? Would Herman Cain have gotten a rise in the poles if it were not for the "free" exposure? Newt is near the top now, and he hasn't really had to spend much of anything?

    Could the "overplayed debate" syndrome be the way out of the money driving politics dilemma?

  23. Re:Ready, fire, aim on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    And you must be one of those (the majority of Americans according to the polls) who thinks that someone else should pay their bills.

  24. Re:Occupy is going to get republicans elected ... on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    When your opinion is that "We are trying to come to a consensus on that" after two months of protests, with nothing to show for it except a protocol composed of wiggling fingers? Yeah, you should probably keep them to yourself.

  25. Re:Ready, fire, aim on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    First they ignore you,
    then you go into a hissy fit, striking out foolishly and through ignorance harming the wrong party,
    then they laugh at you,
    then they find you and arrest as the ignorant criminal you are.