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  1. Re:Started with Bush, Expanded by Obama & Trum on Trump Administration Sued Over Phone Searches at US Borders (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    Really?
    Are you THAT incompetent at reading?
    "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
    • unreasonable

    searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things ..."
    Stop selectively quoting
    Thanks to Scalia, it is REASONABLE if a cop THINKS it might be reasonable.

  2. No, when you are exploited without another option (monopoly) you are not a consenting customer
    I take it you know nothing of Contract theory, obviously

  3. Somewhere I found a video of a 1923 Magnus equipped cargo ship.
    Great idea,NEVER gets off the ground.

  4. So instead of working 8 hour days for a net lifetime profit of $120K (a small house) the per capita will be $390 million but the mean will be $8000 PER LIFETIME (net)?
    There is all that student debt to account for, plus financialization moving all the profits of labor into the dynastic inheritance class

  5. Re: Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but even Scalia noted that they were vitiating 223 years of precedent with Tiller. Trump will leave. The court will turn left. it will be overturned

  6. No, they had victims, as in people sold one thing in lieu of the offered item.
    They were SOLD mortgages, what they GOT was paper diluted to negative value by merge and slice.

  7. Anyway, in some ways it is a lot like people complaining about "the rich" using loopholes to lower their taxes. It isn't their fault the loopholes are there (at least I believe it isn't), ...

    Well, they pay a fortune in "Campaign contributions" nee bribery every election cycle to get those loopholes injected, so......

  8. Don't tell that to the sub-prime Leverage Mortgage Debt Bundlers, who made off with billions when they crashed the world in 2007.

  9. A long dead friend put it thus... on In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore -- Everybody 'Pivots' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "When you fall down, quick, pick up something and hold it aloft shouting "EUREKA!" and pretend you MEANT to fall down"
    Thanks Greg. I've gotten away with more mistakes that way.

  10. Re:You are racist on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A 44 year old transgression by Byrd is nothing compared to the ongoing TODAY involvement of the RNC in racist causes.
    Think "Wall" and the case is proved

  11. Re: Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is only legal to be armed to serve "a well regulated militia..." said 223 years of precedent. Heller will fall
    Organizing a legal protest and bringing lethal weapons proves intent.

  12. So, you admit you were wrong (false deliberately, or ignorant) in your claim Medicare is BY LAW the lowest price paid.
    Thanks

  13. Re:You are racist on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    RNC - Led in 1998 by the three times keynote speaker at the WHITE POWER CONFERENCE OF THE COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS (uptown klan, originally "League of white decency")
    BTW, Byrd resigned from the Klan in 1964.
    There is a hell of a difference between 1964 and 1998 chump

  14. Re: Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And bringing guns and pipes, shields and body armor to rallies YOU schedule and YOU announce proves intent to initiate violence.

  15. Wrong
    See "private insurance" for maximizing prices

  16. Re:Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    True enough.
    lack of competition, no matter how honorably acquired, is the death of Capitalism as a POSITIVE social force.
    THat's why Disney bought an administration, (no names) to get their monopoly on Mickey to run for the LIFE OF THE CORPORATION PLUS 99 YEARS
    So much for "limited time" as specified by the Constitution Article 1

  17. Medicare, by law, is the lowest rate you can charge. As a result, the list price of services is always high: it's set a step above the Medicare rate schedule.

    Wrong. By law, Medicare must pay a fixed proportion of USUAL AND CUSTOMARY charges

    Medicare and every permutation of what Medicare may become in the near future have terrible consequences.

    Which terrible consequences? Profitability of Lilly, et al will not be as HIGH as desired?
    Don't play the "we need more income to develop new drugs" card since 4x more is spent on advertising than on research!

  18. Re:Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Google is not government and may censor whatever it wishes on its property.

    Google takes money from the government, making it quasi-governmental.

    Wrong. A private entity paid by government for some purpose is NOT a publicly owned entity

    Aside from that, the websites they crawl actually aren't on Google's property...

    The publicly-funded internet being in control of private companies, who can determine what speech is and is not acceptable on the public internet is a bit of a Hobson's choice, wouldn't you agree?

    Nope
    They are not regulating those vile sites. They are regulating THEIR server time.
    nice try though, if a little ignorant of law

  19. Re: Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I will argue that any public university is on par with any Government run institution and must allow equal access
    if NO political rallies are allowed,nobody gets a permit.
    That works well enough

  20. Re:Time to plant trees on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "without subsidies"
    Since when is any fossil fuel, and yes that means Uranium too, without subsidies?
    The Anderson laws prohibit anyone from charging for the worst case insurance cost coverage for nukes
    That alone is worth over 20 BILLION per year in the U.S.
    Add the subsidized cost of containment and shipping rods plus...96000 years of storage and you get a rough equivalent
    Now oil and gas have huge but unmentioned subsides, like the 300 BILLION PER YEAR military protection of U.S. access to foreign oil and control of that market place.
    Health costs, likewise subsidized.
    Want a level playing field for all energy?
    Remove the cost coverage for the two oilwars and healthcare costs for coal, along with the reconditioning costs for abandoned coal / oil slag and now fracking waste and THEN talk to me about subsidies for clean energy

  21. Re:Time to plant trees on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope
    Cyanobacter

  22. Re:Shut the fuck up poor people! on AT&T's Slow 1.5Mbps Internet In Poor Neighborhoods Sparks Complaint To FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ,... Being a rich white guy... it would costs 10s of thousands if not 100s of thousands for me to personally have a line ran.

    I'm going to call bullshit on this person who lacks elementary English Grammar.
    An Immigrant Indlish speaker MIGHT be rich and make these mistakes, but not a Citizen White Guy unless the money is all inherited.

  23. Re: Shut the fuck up poor people! on AT&T's Slow 1.5Mbps Internet In Poor Neighborhoods Sparks Complaint To FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Lie.
    You get paid only what it takes to avoid replacing you
    Thus offshoring, H1-B and any other tactic to cut wages by rendering employees "redundant"

  24. I remind you of "Suitability of purpose" in Uniform Product Code
    If it won't do what it was intended to do (lawn mower must cut grass) then selling to that purpose is a fraud.

  25. Medicare.
    Proof of contrary