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  1. it's not "only" on Snowden Demystified: Can the Government See My Junk? · · Score: 1

    "only records..."
    There no only here, it's just one brick in a big shithouse.
    "...or even forwards...actual crimes" DA's have bragged for decades about their ability to indict a ham sandwich.

    Various less advertised provisions for "collection" and "sharing" already make broad surveillence an internal US affair. We already have internal checkpoints under various sweeps and searches of the public e.g. Immigration and Customs broadly stopping interior highway traffic without probable cause, wanting to see everybody's trunk, or illicit FEMA home searches and gun confiscations during Katerina. Another thing about police states, people inside the sphere often have a hard time to admit it, perhaps even to themselves, until close to a general breakdown, naked power displays, or open gunfire in the streets.

  2. the real traitors on Snowden Demystified: Can the Government See My Junk? · · Score: 1

    Yes, the US has become an overreaching police state.

  3. Warren, Al.... on UN Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign · · Score: 0

    All thank for your undermarket sale going to the bottom of the market. Sucka. Remember Soylent Green.

  4. culture trap on Swedish Authorities Offer To Question Assange In London · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a trap. A legal aussie date may be felonious in Sweden.

  5. vs iatrogenic; rationalizing nothing on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1

    Homeopathic medicine often had an advantage with respect to iatrogenic medicines. Many diseases are self limited and may clear themselves or at least stabilize. Many medical treatments were outright injurious (e.g. mercury, arsenic, war gas based based) and homeopathy could actually produce head-to-head better results. Even now many mainstream cancer treatments and last ditch medical treatments will have fearsome adverse effects that people have to decide when doing nothing **IS** better.

  6. chutzpah on UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? · · Score: 2

    The industry sponsored copyright legislation (I won't call it "law") being expnded with demands for "10 years" on thefts of the public domain is like a massive counterfeiter demanding execution of people that refuse its currency.

  7. Re:It doesn't matter on UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? · · Score: 2

    Never forget that these assh*** demanding "10 yrs for priracy" are in fact raiders of the public domain and corrupt usurpers of real law and order.

  8. Re:screw the system on UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never forget that these cretins wanting "10 yrs for piracy" are in fact, raiders of the public domain.

  9. how about 10 yrs for execs on UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about 10 yrs in the slammer for execs guilty of corruption and bribery? Like creating retroactive changes to the laws, raiding the public domain, and making perpetuities out of basic, limited copyright in faster world of the internet. My contention is that copyright for ephermera, like news, TV and movies, should have been SHORTENED from 28 yrs to a lower number !

  10. shitheads constantly fomenting chaos on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    Yes, both George and Hillary.

  11. snot nosed little s--- on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    US Embassy help is often some arrogant little 20s something know-nothing that doesn't give as good service as the deputy county clerks in the US.

  12. float it, point it on Paul Allen Helps Find Sunken Japanese WWII Battleship Musashi Off Philippines · · Score: 1

    The Philippines should float it, renew the 18" barrels, add a few missle tubes, and move it to about 10-20 miles from some of China's islands under adverse possession and fill it with concrete.

  13. LSU 1970s; history on Physicists Gear Up To Catch a Gravitational Wave · · Score: 1

    The article only talks about MIT history and laser inferometers (LIGO). It doesn't credit Louisiana State University's efforts to build resonant mass gravity wave detectors from the 1970s. By 1972, physics Prof William O Hamilton at LSU was working on a multi-ton aluminum bar and a He3 dilution cooler in what would become the Allegro graviy wave detector.

    Some interesting history papers:
    http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pap...
    http://www.slac.stanford.edu/g...

  14. New and improved... on Employees In Swedish Office Complex Volunteer For RFID Implants For Access · · Score: 1

    "New and improved over our previous 666 model corporate drone." Available in Yes man versions.

  15. Re:Supplements should have to prove efficacy on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    No. FDA "proof" is itself corrupt with manifold more dangerous examples, like forced mkt withdrawals and black box labeling that should never have made it, period. The FDA approved drug system is also bankrupting the US.

  16. soup du jour on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Have to make fresh soup from fresh vegetables, which are potassium rich.

  17. sellouts on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Much of the bias, pseuoscience and error comes from university "authorities" and thought leaders that were purchased wholesale, and media that claim (big) "Science sez..." The nutrition field has had many sellouts to industry.

    If you want to know what science says, read and analyze papers yourself then compare with other papers. Then make some observations and checks yourself, just to be sure. There is always vested interest groups eager to do your thinking for you, for only a small part of your health, wealth and freedom.

  18. Weapon of massive capital destruction by a Constitutional enemy that is already damaging and destroying the US middle class.

  19. Re:More ambiguous cruft on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am an engineer with chemical and biological background. I've seen more than I want to in commercialized conclusions by PhD scientists that were really just hired guns, corporate and academic. In some cases they got unhired because I proved things otherwise and showed long stretches of repeated, highly biased results.

    I think paycheck corruption in science today is even worse, like with the CAGW promoters.

  20. PLA'yers ? on Drone Maker Enforces No-Fly Zone Over DC, Hijacking Malware Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Possibly the PLA has the Chinese company's "Plutonium" series for use within 25 miles...

  21. 1600 Penn Ave biggest on Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' · · Score: 1

    The biggest zone of lawlessness centers around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave...

  22. Gordon Gould, 1st laser inventor? on Nobel Laureate and Laser Inventor Charles Townes Passes · · Score: 1

    We should not forget Gordon Gould's statements about being Townes' grad student who made the major critical breakthroughs for the laser. Gould had a three decade patent war to win his patent claims to invention of the laser and many developments. It's an interesting story for an overage commie grad student...

    In the end, Japanese manufacturers paid over a billion $ royalties on Gould's patents.

  23. speck on The Mystery of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved · · Score: 1

    Lump? 2.7 micrograms, I'd call it a small speck.

  24. fair use commentary on Sony Sends DMCA Notices Against Users Spreading Leaked Emails · · Score: 1

    almost any commentary on perhaps several related emails should make significant portions fair use.

  25. cashless is suicidal on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    My lost $20 bills never sent me a charge for $24,000 from halfway around the world from a country I've never been to. If some psycho exGF, worker, political opponent manages to frame you or turn everything off, 2-3 weeks fast pedaling becomes harder, while you starve. In a police state, all kinds of bad things formerly just in the movies, mean YOU.