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  1. Re:Not to take anything away from the Big E... on USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage · · Score: 1

    Isn't the Constitution a myth that got replaced by corporate money?

    No, the Constitution is the law of the land that the Islamists want to replace with Sharia or they will keep trying to kill us.

    And the Fundamentalist Christians want to replace it with the Bible. And one of these groups is far more likely to get their way.

  2. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    If you've literally lived here your entire life (you were born here), you're a citizen. That's not true in all countries. I'm not sure, but I doubt the US's stance on not giving automatic citizenship to long term residents is an uncommon one.

  3. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    Austria and Australia are one thing. Columbia and Colombia are different in spelling, but identical in pronunciation.

  4. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    If you want to use a term for citizens and residents of USA which isn't based on an abbreviation of "United States of America", you already have one: Columbian.

    So you want to replace a term that, while technically imprecise, in practice is very clear in its meaning, with a term that will result in immediate confusion with people of Colombia, the South American nation?

  5. Re:Validity? on For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu · · Score: 1

    That's always been a problem with software on Windows. The publishers think they're important so file their software under their name rather than the software's name (or under a category). This is the same in XP as in 7.

  6. Re:Validity? on For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu · · Score: 1

    "All Programs" is far from obvious?

  7. Re:Validity? on For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu · · Score: 1

    If you want to hunt in the submenus, hit Start->All Programs

  8. Re:My internet connection on Warner Bros: New Program To Digitize Your DVDs · · Score: 1

    I ripped the data off my DVD. That's not's pirating the content. Legality aside, I see nothing wrong with doing so.

  9. Re:what's the 'D' stand for? on Warner Bros: New Program To Digitize Your DVDs · · Score: 1

    Like the guy who decided the initials for Blu-Ray were BD?

  10. Re:Here we go again. Own?! on Warner Bros: New Program To Digitize Your DVDs · · Score: 1

    Do you have a copy of that license I signed? I seem to have misplaced it.

  11. Re:The man who fell to Earth? on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    Or humans who turn into aliens and have sex with real aliens.

  12. Re:I'll tell you on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    If you can't drive safely, you shouldn't be on the roads. I'm not making an explicit cutoff, but the price you quoted is so out for out of line I had to call you on it.

    In any case, it's crazy to compare car insurance prices with a requirement to buy a cheap disposable breathalyser and keep it in your car.

  13. Re:Not a Disney film! on Advertisers Co-Opting The Lorax With Half-Truths About Conservation · · Score: 1

    It was exciting to see a new animation studio to compete with Pixar and Dreamworks. Sad that after (the excellent) Despicable Me all they've done is garbage.

  14. I was already put off by the previews, which make it seem likely they intend to throw out the ending of the original (things are bad, but maybe, just maybe, they can get better) to replace it with a traditional happy ending.

    I love my Mazda, but I'm almost ashamed of that commercial. Sure a hybrid is "better" than a traditional car of the same size (depending on construction and disposal of the battery...), but I still doubt the Lorax would "speak for the trees" and advocate cars of any kind.

  15. Re:who's paying for it? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    They suggest you buy two. So after you use one, you still have another to show the cops.

  16. Re:who's paying for it? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    It's not. It's only going to cost you $2 when you decide you had something to drink earlier and you're not sure if it's cleared your system yet. If you don't use the breathalyser, you don't have to replace it.

  17. Re:I'll tell you on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    Anyone who's liability insurance (the mandatory part) is $500/month should be kept off the road at all costs.

  18. Re:good thing they don't have laws in france on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    In the US, if you're driving and get stopped at a checkpoint and the officer thinks you might be drunk, THEN you are forced to prove your innocence or have your license suspended. I'm not sure if France does anything similar.

  19. Re:good thing they don't have laws in france on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    You aren't forced to prove anything. You're required to have the breathalyzer. If you know you're not drunk, you are not required to use it.

  20. Re:Well... on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    You could uninstall the game and install it again without the patch to get back what you paid for. You can't do the same with this game, because only the latest version is available.

  21. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stop talking logic. We're talking about the Commerce Clause here.

  22. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    But I think if a state put through laws forbidding every conceivable method of keeping weapons/bombs off planes, the US government could say that the state has forbidden them from doing their job and that would be in conflict with the federal law.

    So I imagine it will come down to whether the TSA can argue that this practice is essential for them to carry out their mandate

    I predict they'll give a half-assed argument, yell TERRORISTS!, and the Supreme Court will rule in their favor

  23. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    But those planes could, theoretically fly down to Washington, so as far as the federal government is concerned, that's interstate commerce. Just like if you grow weed in your own home to smoke for yourself as prescribed by your doctor in accordance with the laws of your state.

  24. Re:US Gov. needs to treat women like adults on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 1

    The government disagrees with you. If you have sex, you are taking on the responsibility for any children born of that act. If you don't want children, YOU take action and get the surgery to prevent it.

    You can either be a man about it or have the courts force you to support your child.

  25. Re:US Gov. needs to treat women like adults on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 1

    The guy should have been smarter about the situation, too. He should have used a condom (or not slept with a woman he barely knew...)

    Men acknowledge that they're responsible for the birth of the child too, and do what's necessary to help support it. Only boys fight against paying child support for children they know are theirs.