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  1. Re:Waiting for it... on Man Attacked In Ohio For Providing Iran Proxies · · Score: 2, Informative

    See told you!

  2. Re:What took them so long? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    No I can't and it was a local chapter of the ACLU not the national. They at least do have a position and the NRA handles the rest.

  3. Re:Choice of cases? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    there are some things here that are just stupid. I wear a seat belt because it's a good idea, there is no need for a law to make me. I'm not going to bother with the other one that IS stupid.
    It took more than 5 years for the last one to be carried out so I think that 8 years is not unreasonable depending on the action contemplated.

    Get this through your heads, giving up liberty for security does not assure security.
    You can take the rest of your version of that statement and shove it straight where the sun don't shine, I'll keep the liberty thank you!

  4. Re:Waiting for it... on Man Attacked In Ohio For Providing Iran Proxies · · Score: 1

    Ah you are a right wing Republican from Texas I assume. Good job then. The rest of us appologize to the Brazilian, we didn't vote for this guy...

  5. Re:Waiting for it... on Man Attacked In Ohio For Providing Iran Proxies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even what is true can be a troll if you disagree with it.

  6. Re:Why, oh why. - Indeed. on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    A: Grocery stores usually limit the money orders to under a thousand dollars.
    B. Not all banks cashiers checks are treated the same if the check is over $2000.00.
    C. Banks close typically at 4:00 in the afternoon except in some parts of the world.
    D. What difference would this make anyway as the whole thing was none of your or the TSA's business.

  7. Re:Choice of cases? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is below the maximum amount you can take out of the country, and is well within the amount I might be willing to pay for a really neat car in another state. I'm an idiot and carry the cash on me instead of a travelers check because I'm meeting the guy late at night and the banks won't be opened and I hope to bargain the guy below the exact amount but ya never know. All of that is none of the TSA's business and they need not inspect the box beyond the fact that it contains nothing dangerous.

  8. Re:Choice of cases? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    Lack of bad guys taking action is not a positive indication that DHS has done anything. It simply means that forethought and planning by the bad guys has caused them to be unready to act. Nothing we or DHS does will really stop a well educated and well planned action by a terrorist. Get this through your heads, giving up liberty for security does not assure security it simply assures lack of liberty!

  9. Re:What took them so long? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    See laws governing interstate commerce and no they do not follow the "Private property" bullshit you seem to be enamored of.

  10. Re:What took them so long? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    Let me know when you start your own airline so I don't patronize it. The airlines are subject to the same interstate commerce laws as every other carrier.

  11. Re:What took them so long? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes actually I have seen them take on second amendment cases. Why haven't you!

  12. Re:Someone call the Waaaambulance on Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society · · Score: 1

    Who decided on the original intent and how was it presented?
    Even in the context of the article they seem to think that the add on is the money maker not the original work. I think they may find that in order to encourage the creation of new works it pays to help the author feed himself 'til the he finishes the next work. Hence I see it as exactly a welfare system for artists Q.E.D.

  13. Re:Cultural Production, eh? on Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society · · Score: 1

    My bad got backwards you are correct, don't know what I was thinking. But I can parse that sentence now.

  14. Re:Cultural Production, eh? on Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society · · Score: 1

    Data is plural datum is singular thus datum indicate data indicates.

  15. Really! on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    Have they actually hired anyone that fell for their phishing scam or is that the test?

  16. Re:Cultural Production, eh? on Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society · · Score: 1

    Sorry? just couldn't parse this exactly: Data are plural, thus data "indicate"--they don't "indicates".

  17. Re:Cultural Production, eh? on Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society · · Score: 1

    Yeah I'd watch the grammar and spelling flames there stewie. You aint got so great a hand at it yer damnself!

  18. Big woop on Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society · · Score: 1

    So now in order to make sure I make a profit on my paintings I have to book a speaking tour? Or I need to lecture on my crappy little casual game software. This is bullshite and pointless.

  19. Re:i'll be the first to say.. on Anonymous Newspaper Commenters Subpoenaed In Tax Case · · Score: 1

    "electronic funds transfers and check imagining,"
    I like check imagining. I imagine I'll give the bank a very large check for a very large amount of cash. they just don't seem to have the same imagination I do. They also have no tolerance for recursion. I wrote myself a check for $200 and deposited it withdrawing $100 and they got upset and pulled my teller card.

  20. Re:Makes me feel good on the inside. on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 1

    As did the French and Liberians and many other democracies that modeled themselves. Some we "gently" modeled for them (like Iraq and Germany and Japan) and later they managed to hate us for it for a while but they usually get over it and start trading with us.

  21. Re:more protests with no info... on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 1

    Hey apparently we in LA go into the streets and trash the neighborhood here just because a stupid Basketball team won a championship. WTF!

  22. Re:It happens on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ya know back in 2000 they made the same claims about the republican vote counters in Florida. And election review committees and legislatures deciding to go republican no matter what the vote showed. It goes both ways at different times.

  23. Re:This reads like electoral interference to me on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 1

    No they know what whales are too.

  24. Re:Camel Jockeys are Liars and Cheats?? on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow pretty much why the "Camel Jockeys" dislike us so much. Mealy mouthed cowards here in the good Ol US. Put your name behind it and say it again moron.

  25. Re:All other considerations aside on Jet Stream Kites Could Power New York City · · Score: 1

    No I don't think that many people actually know how much energy is being circulated in the upper atmosphere and I don't think you do either. Passive solar energy capture would have very little affect you would think but when you cover up that ground and take that heat as energy for something else that ground doesn't heat up any more and it doesn't move the mass of air it use to move. What effect does that actually have. I mean there is more than one meaning to the "Butterfly effect" isn't there? A butterfly flapping it's wings in America causes a typhoon in Malaysia? So where are the studies, environmentalists can't simply replace one problem with another worse one. Right now we are using long stored solar energy, it hasn't had a place in the environment for quite a while it has been sequestered, but what happens when you don't allow that excess energy to be sequestered?