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  1. Re: Harder if you're a child on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Smashing it is a bit of an overstep

    Three words: PC Load Letter.

  2. Re:"I have friends who own coal mines..." on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This is where people like to say "But...but...if it saves the life of one child/seal/polar bear/delta smelt, it's worth it!"

  3. Re:"I have friends who own coal mines..." on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "Global Warming" (It's called Climate Disruption now)

    Just like "Comcast" is now "Xfinity" and for much the same reason.

  4. Um on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So let's see...Congress doesn't recycle money back to the states to prevent fraud and the progressives say that's how we get Trump. States try to enact voter ID laws to prevent fraud and the progressives say it's a dog-whistle that doesn't exist. Weird.

  5. As long as it's a problem, they can campaign on it and/or raise taxes to "address the crisis" or "conduct a study"

  6. Re:Markey Malarky on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yawn. They always say that. It never happens, of course, but it doesn't stop them screeching.

  7. Re:Futile and Unconstitutional Effort on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Washington state's AG Ferguson is trying to establish his bona fides for a gubernatorial run.

  8. Re:Why don't you? This already law. Passing it aga on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but the existing law was intended to prohibit firearms that were undetectable by metal detectors. IIRC, it has to have at least four ounces of metal to be legal, leading to makers actually adding a chunk of metal whose sole purpose was weight. The bullet and firing pin just aren't enough.

  9. Re:Going to ban books? on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:What is being protected? on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the issue is rooted in the first and second amendments, thus negating any tenth amendment claim. The tenth just says that the federal government only has those powers stated in the Constitution and everything else is up to the states.

  11. Re:Why don't you? This already law. Passing it aga on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well-regulated at the time simply meant functioning normally, not the current administrative-state definition in use today. In other words, people were expected to be proficient with their guns.

  12. Re:So Now Facebook is the Gatekeeper? on Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It would also be far better if we had actual journalists who knew their shit, instead of 27 year olds who uncritically accept a narrative. I'd expect journalists to all questions, not be simply the extension of the Democrat public affairs office.

  13. Re:It's not really speach on 20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's prior restraint, something that the courts deeply frown upon.

  14. Re:Hate News on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Ministry of Truth thanks you for your support.

  15. Re:WaPo = Fake News on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Just to set the record straight on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Kinda like that whole "fake but accurate" thing a while back.

  17. Citation needed. We have always had legal immigration. Please cite your sources for the undocumented immigrants that contributed to the Apollo and Manhattan projects.

  18. DACA was initially rejected by POTUS as beyond his authority. But he saw the flagging numbers in the 2012 election and did it anyway, knowing that court challenges would be resolved after the election. There are already conditions for declaring asylum but hey, what are a few bribes to stand in the way of vote-seekers who try to ensure a permanent underclass?

  19. Re:Why not both guarenteed income and jobs? on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the risk of litigation is what killed the citizen-park projects. There was a case a few months ago where folks went on their own to install a wheelchair ramp at their park. The city tore it down because it hadn't gone through the proper process.

  20. Re:Waste of time on Massachusetts Proposes Public Shaming of Net Neutrality Violators (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "If it bleeds, it leads" is the media's motto and few things bleed more than the Two Minutes Hate over the latest POTUS tweet.

  21. Re:Shaming a monopoly means jack shit on Massachusetts Proposes Public Shaming of Net Neutrality Violators (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I would. Comcast has been very good to us since 2009. There were a couple of hiccups, but they bent over backwards to fix it.

  22. Re:Comcast is compared to the Nazis on Massachusetts Proposes Public Shaming of Net Neutrality Violators (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that. It's gotten to the point where if someone gets called a nazi, it's because they've irritated some Red Guard who thinks they must be Silenced, and therefore probably has something interesting to listen to. It doesn't mean they're a nazi.

  23. "My ISP sucks and is run by idiots? Why, thank you Big Brother! I would never have realized this without your benevolent watchful eye!"

  24. Re:Two sets of rules on Massachusetts Proposes Public Shaming of Net Neutrality Violators (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm so old, I remember when "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" was a bumper sticker. Then Obama got elected and they mysteriously went away.

  25. Re:Universal AC on How Many Computers Does the World Need? (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    A Deus Ex reference! Outstanding!