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  1. Some members on Netflix Decides To Crack Down On VPN Users (netflix.com) · · Score: 2

    "Some members take the effort to find VPNs so that they can use our service even more, and we obviously don't care very much for that." If it is indeed the content providers, why can't Netflix stand up to them?

  2. Re:free trade on Nicolas Cage To Return Rare Stolen Dinosaur Skull To Mongolia (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably a Poe, but if not this doesn't really work when the skull was stolen from its original owners beforehand.

  3. Re:Blame radical Islam? on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's your fault we're so irrationally scared of something that has an infinitesimal chance of killing 0.0001% of the population that we'll generate more ammo for radicalization."

  4. Looks like ALEC's misinformation campaign is going on more smoothly than scheduled.

  5. Re:We must outlaw thinking on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Being Trump supporters, they've already cut to the chase.

  6. Re:Curry? on MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine (polygon.com) · · Score: 2

    If anything it just makes me crave a Fanta.

  7. Re:Curry? on MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine (polygon.com) · · Score: 2

    Curry flavored snacks is very much a Japanese thing, Google image search "japan curry flavored snack" for more examples. They love curry over there.

  8. Tupac on Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx To Tour As Holograms · · Score: 1

    What is it with disputed dead celebrities and holograms? First Tupac and now this. Maybe it's really him?

  9. Whoosh

  10. Fight the power, vote Lib Dem! They'll fight the system.

  11. Re:Avogadro FTW! on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sixty octillion one hundred ninety-five septillion three hundred sixty-eight sextillion five hundred forty-one quintillion four hundred seventy-four quadrillion six hundred seventy-three trillion eight hundred twenty-two billion six hundred thirty-one million nine hundred forty-five thousand two hundred ninety-one, sixty octillion one hundred ninety-five septillion three hundred sixty-eight sextillion five hundred forty-one quintillion four hundred seventy-four quadrillion six hundred seventy-three trillion eight hundred twenty-two billion six hundred thirty-one million nine hundred forty-five thousand two hundred ninety-two... shit I lost count.

  12. Re:Politics isn't about compeling on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't sortition be jury duty on steroids?

  13. Re:Human Action on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they as questionable as praxeology?

  14. EU Green parties are all on point with this on Croatian Party Advocates Government Adoption of Open Source · · Score: 1

    It's very interesting to see the green parties of Europe take up the cause of free software and freedom-of-information/IP-reform positions that are usually advocated by pirate parties. These green parties were instrumental in helping defeat ACTA in the European parliament, and it is nice to see these platforms finding more support.

  15. Re:Where does the Fed claim to get power to ban th on Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison · · Score: 0
  16. Re:outrageous on Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison · · Score: 1

    Do countries giving away free heroin to addicts count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

  17. Re:Where does the Fed claim to get power to ban th on Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Tenth Amendment explicitly, and the Ninth Amendment implicitly, ban the Federal Government from use of any power not explicitly specified in the Constitution as amended. I don't see anything in there that explicitly gives the Federal Government to ban any drugs or traffic in them, or in any way regulate such traffic (beyond forbidding false advertising claims, setting standards for labeling, and the like). (Do YOU find any such power in there? If so, please point it out to us.)

    The Commerce Clause? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  18. Re:So what was the patent? on Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Patent Troll · · Score: 0

    If you bothered to read it, the patent is in the article: https://www.google.com/patents...

  19. Re:This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Would you have objected to the Loving v. Virginia case as well?

  20. Re:Umm... on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    Some time before they decided to have literally censored internet and other nanny-state bullshit.

  21. Re:More proof the media is controlled by Republica on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Surveys have repeatedly shown that about 90% of newsroom staff in the media supports Democrats.

    [citation needed]

  22. Re: USA in good company... on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    Stupid bleeding heart cunts and their faggoty Eighth Amendment.

  23. Re:California lol on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    Because some people have an actual medical reason that they cannot take the vaccine. These people need protection, whether you believe so or not. Also there's no threat of violence, silly libertarian.

  24. Re:This law will not stand... on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 2
    Just because some people have religious objections to a law does not mean we necessarily must make exceptions for them. They're free to believe whatever they want to believe, but they are not necessarily free to put it into practice if it endangers other people, or any other compelling state interest.

    Do you think that Islamic terrorists should be free to murder whoever they want because trying to stop them would violate religious freedom? They're certainly free to believe that it is justified, but they are not free to put it into practice.

    In Employment Division v. Smith the Supreme Court ruled that the State can deny unemployment benefits to users of peyote, as the ban did not violate the Free Exercise Clause.
    "To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself."

    Even more to the point Jacobson v. Massachusetts ruled that the State only needs to justify compulsory vaccination on the State's basic police powers in order to be constitutional.

    Anti-vaxx parents are free to believe that vaccines are an evil communist jew plot, AND they can choose not to vaccinate their kids. They just can't send their kids to public school. As long as the law is neutral and does not target any specific religious group (a tax on wearing yamulkes e.g.), there is no valid First Amendment challenge.

    But, more to the point, failing to put this exemption into the law will open it up to constitutional challenge. Such challenges will likely be successful.

    You mean like in New York?