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  1. yada on A Court's Weak Argument For Blocking IP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    It is everyone's 'right' to call out the Judge. But Judges are Judges because they have been judged to have better judgement than those laypeople who would call out the Judge.

    Or something.

    Regardless, IP addresses are not people. The Judge got that part right.

  2. Change on CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act' · · Score: 0

    They told me if I voted for McCain, Corporations would try usurp the role of Government. They were right.

  3. Treason by any other name on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 0

    Hang the son of a bitch.

  4. Re:In a perfect world on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    In a perfect world only Fraud and the use of Force against another would be a crime.

  5. Re:I have to deal with this all the time.... on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The Army-Air Force NEEDS to be cut. America NEEDS to be out of NATO, Japan and Korea. The Cold War is Over. The Army-Air Force should (finally) return to its pre-WWII size. There is no modern military threat.

    And Net Neutrality is a GOOD thing.

    btw, I'm Right of Genghis Khan. Newt Gingrich is a RINO and Ron Paul is only slightly to his right.

    "Despair is a sin" Jerry Pournelle

  6. Re:I have to deal with this all the time.... on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    ". . . and Social Security and unemployment insurance is gone . . . "

    Our collective asses are tied up by Social Security; three or four generations have planned on its continued existence. But, if it take 100 years to phase it out, so be it.

    As to UI, that is an issue for the Several States, NOT an overwhelming, overarching, overreaching, National Government.

    Modern Liberals (not Thoreau or Whitman or Clemons) have done their ever-loving best to destroy what is best in America. All high school students to get a college prep education? For the the love of God, why? University should be for the top 10% (and this ain't Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average). Just another example.

  7. Re:Reading light on African Villages Glow With Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Funny (interesting) how old Honest Abe Lincoln managed to study (by candlelight) after sundown.

    As long as these solar panels and LED lights are paid for by something other than my tax dollars, I suppose it's OK.

  8. Re:PBS video on network neutrality explains it bes on Al Franken Makes a Case For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Which they can do whether Net Neutrality is instituted, or not.

    What is your point?

  9. Re:PBS video on network neutrality explains it bes on Al Franken Makes a Case For Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    I have been in IT since 1977. I remember having to purchase additional telephone lines for MODEMs and FAX. I do not wish to return to the bad old days. I'm Right of Genghis Khan; I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the Conservative pundi are so opposed to an obvious goodness. They are either in the employ of Comcast, et. al., are completely ignorant of what Net Neutrality is, or they just wish to be 'good' free marketeers.

    I am perplexed.

  10. Cow Farts on 'Pocket Airports' Would Link Neighborhoods By Air · · Score: 1

    Quote the article, "running a competition to design a low-cost, quiet, short take-off personal aircraft, that requires little, if any, fossil fuel."

    Powered by Moon Beams and Unicorn Farts? My aching ass.

  11. It's 2010 on SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Make It To Orbit · · Score: -1

    Doesn't anyone object to 1950s technology being touted as "NEWS" in 2010?

    Single stage to orbit,
    Single stage to orbit.
    Single stage to orbit.

    What I tell you three times is true. - Robert A. Heinlein.

  12. Bring back Neutron Jack on GE To Buy 25,000 EVs, Starting With the Chevy Volt · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GE has lost its way; in bed with algore and all. Bring back Neutron Jack.

  13. Public education or Income Tax? on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    quote, "public education, or a $2B state income tax-free payday for its CEO?""

    In most states public education is funded by property tax.

    Further, I'm happy to be in one of the few states that doesn't tax income.

  14. Re:kindergarten etiquette on Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? · · Score: 1

    Respect is something that is earned, not given, I've always heard. At least until I started working at a large urban hospital, where everyone is disrespected at the drop of a hat.

  15. Technology? on Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 · · Score: 1

    The writer ignores technological innovation at his (and the readers) peril.

  16. Tandy on Apple's Long Road To $300 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And had one purchased $1000 (not $10,000) in Tandy (Radio Shack) in 1972, by 1980 that $1000 was worth $1.2 million (not $554000).

    Tandy was the 800 lbs gorilla of PC manufacturing. For 7 years they built and sold more PCs than all other manufacturers combined (IBM, Compaq, AST, et.al. ad infinitum).

    No, I didn't buy any.

  17. Re:Why? on Layoff Anxiety Is Top Risk To Space Shuttle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    sorry bub. I have no desire to dis NASA, but you fucks haven't done anything since we landed on the moon. Politician's fault, not yours.

    When I see NASA monies being used to "uplift" Moslems and Women, I shake my head in wonder.

    Then I notice that Advanced Propulsion research has been canceled.

    Then I noticed that while we once flew to the Moon, we no longer can.

    Pournelle's Iron Law has prevailed at NASA. Fire them all and give Space to the Navy.

  18. Re:we are in a new era of mccarthyism on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 2, Insightful

    mccarthyism was an era of fear of "secret communists" everywhere,

    There were many Communists, and fellow travelers, who were outed and expelled from government. McCarthy was a drunk but they did good work, nonetheless.

  19. Re:And this is the problem with America on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if you framed the issue; Government Control as a Gateway to Government Control, you would have an easier time understanding?

  20. Re:Auto-car. on Building the Zero-Fatality Car · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To paraphrase Mr Heinlein, "forget Republican or democrat, left or Right; there are two kinds of people in the world, those who wish to control others, and those who have no such desire."

  21. 12 cents a k/w hr on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 1

    And how long, at 12 cents a kw/hr will it take to pay for this monstrosity.

    There is plenty of uranium in the world. Build more Nukes.

  22. the awfulness of tweeting the execution of a huma on Utah Attorney General Tweets Execution Order · · Score: 1

    the awfulness of tweeting the execution of a human being.

    As opposed to the awfulness of phoning/emailing/front page headlining the execution of a human being?

  23. Security as Kabuki Theatre on The Men Who Stare At Airline Passengers, Coming To the UK · · Score: 1

    The only purpose of TSA is to demonstrate to formerly free citizens that they are subject to the whims of barely literate bureaucrats.

  24. Re:Republicans have gone space crazy on Senators Demand NASA Continue Spending On Ares · · Score: 1

    No doubt the space program has lost its way. Bureaucracies have a way of doing that.

    Close NASA and give Space to the Navy.

  25. Short Answer, no on Can World's Largest Laser Zap Earth's Energy Woes? · · Score: 1

    Short answer, no..

    Bussard's Polywell, for the win.