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  1. Re:Culmination of a dream on The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents · · Score: 1

    That checklist and web site are some ignorant about fascism it is not even funny. Then you have to be really stupid to think that a good portion of those have happened in the USA at any major level.
    You might as well go with the definitions of fascism that alot of liberials like to use 1) you love your country; 2) you are against communism.
    Historically I could apply that same list against almost any kind of government.

  2. Re:killing the mandating part may lead stuff out s on Healthcare Reform Act Prediction Market · · Score: 1

    No side is saying the mandate it is a tax there are other portions of the law that are taxes and also raise existing taxes.
    If it was a tax you would not have this situation.
    When it is struck down it will be written up as a "special case" and use other terms that were given as a reason somthing this major takeover should be allowed. If by some reason it is allowed they will also use the same term to place some limit on why the federal government now does not have the abaility to dictate everything you buy.

  3. Re:This seems reasonable on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 1

    It does not say when arrested it specifies that when you are arrested and put into general population, they are allowed to search for the safty of the guards and other inmates.
    Being arrested does not allow them to search you right on the street like you are saying.

  4. Re:Mountains and molehills? on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 1

    The opposing side made the claim that since people arrested on minor charges would not have planned to go to jail there is no reason to search them since they would not of hidden objects.
    Frankly that is just stupid, and makes local police resonsible to make up a policy on what is minor and in what cases is it minor instead of doing what they think is needed to ensure that the guards and other inmates are safe(r).

  5. Re:Wrong Question on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    You have not proved your points it was not the company making CFC inhalers that hid some flaw.
    Also it was not the IPAC that did the early lobbing it was the american lung association and environmental groups that pushed for the ban; IPCA did provide funding and the initial push to those groups then followed up with lobbing.
    For your second point it is the insuranes do not like extra testing again you divert to something different and fail to provide any valid point.
    As for your poor idea of banning HMOs, you probably don't realize that the plans for the government taking over health care are to create a gaint HMO where you have no choice and the decisions that current require HMOs to go through various levels before dening coverage will all be consolidated into a single panel that will have the final say. That idea is just plain bad.

  6. Re:Wrong Question on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    President Obama is that you again???
    Are the people doing this the same doctors you know that perform surgeries that are not needed?

  7. Re:We all know why on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    Please do a little research on the topic.
    In just deciding who is an infant for counting the USA has one of the least restrictive criteria, if the child has ever taken a breath it is counted, even if assisted by a machine. While other countries are suppose to use a measure similar that to it is not the case, instead it is common for countries ahead of the USA in that chart to use weight, height or age(has to be breathing for a few hours or days) before it is counted for that chart.
    The other reason for the high infant deaths is illegal aliens, once you remove them and standardize the method of counting the chart switches around and proves another proof of your final point.

  8. Re:Arianna on NY District Judge Dismisses Blogger Suit Against Huffington Post · · Score: 1

    I was stuck in a room having to listen to Chris Matthews and he was saying the same thing you that you are accrediting to FoxNews.

  9. Re:Yeah yeah on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    The source of the "meme" is the World Health Organization, the USA and other organizations that are working to save peoples lives and it started around 6 years ago.
    And to correct your false thinking on theses "DDT liars" whatever that means, DDT was almost stopped everywhere where malaria was the largest killer of people. While it was not banned in a lot of countries its used dropped to almost none because the industrialized countries placed funding restrictions that if you used DDT you would not get any funding.
    While some countries did have banes those started going away around a decade or so ago and then some of the restrictions on funding and DDT starting being removed. Some people start working more about eradicating malaria verse the false science of was common knowledge, and DDT use started to spread

  10. New Game Releases on Best Buy Closing 50 Stores · · Score: 1

    It has been a decade since I regularly went to Best Buy and then it was for new game releases and when I had an immediate need for hardware.
    Back then BB always had the cheapest prices and decent incentives for new releases. Has this changed? If so are there other local companies or is everyone going online?

  11. Re:Summary oversimplifies the proposal on S+M Vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google Battle Over HTTP 2.0 · · Score: 2

    Micro soft is getting away from that terminalogy and simplifing, they are going with:

    HTTP S & M Leather Edition
    HTTP S & M Chain Edition
    and for the Asian market HTTP S & M Tentacle Edition

  12. Re:So...How long until on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    But that is the interest of Chernobyl, seeing the decay of the city as it breaks apart.
    The memorial at the reactor is more interesting then seeing the reactor itself.

  13. Re:Different airlines on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1

    One major difference is the price they charge.
    Transatlantic flights on my own dime I go with the cheaper airlines and get small food snacks, when on someone else dime I go with the higher priced airlines, all economy, and get better food.

  14. Re:Not due to piracy on The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math · · Score: 1

    They don't take a much larger margin, it is slightly more then what the stores got.
    However you are ignoring everything Apple brings such as distribution. Just adding in distribution and sales Apple takes in far smaller amount.

  15. Re:Wall, Book, Face, Poke... on Facebook Asserts Trademark On "Book" In New User Agreement · · Score: 1

    I would be more scared of poking her for medical reasons.

  16. Re:Government control? on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    The reason for big price differences is taxes.
    There was an article a few years ago and floats around here that removed the taxes from fuel and IIRC the U.K had the cheapest gas when comparing the countries of Europe, USA and Canada.

  17. Re:Not due to piracy on The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math · · Score: 1

    The OP reason for loss of money is that people started buying from download places like Apple and that those companies took money that use to go the record companies.
    That is complete BS. Other companies use to take a greater cut than what Apple or Amazon do for the music sold.
    Like you said some of the loss of profits has come from the decreased sales of higher priced complete albums (what do you call them now a days) with the current abaility to by a single track. Then again you use to beable to purchase a single track for top songs but at a higher price then is charged by Apple.

  18. Re:Not due to piracy on The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math · · Score: 1

    So all those local record stores and places like Walmart and Best Buy did not make any money off of sales of music?
    Of course they did and so did the distributors and other people in the supply chain and all those amounts along with the money Apple or Amazon make are factored in or not depending on where the chain you are getting the numbers from.

  19. The way to go. on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 1

    The step after this would be to imbed a chip or unique identifier into the person so that carring around a card would not be needed.
    This would stop alot of theft; there would still be some merchants that would accept a seperated hand but once a person is declared missing or dead those could be tracked down.

  20. Lots of updates .... on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 2

    There have been a lots of updates since this summary was written.
    The reading on pornographic material was separate material and not in the books mentioned. It may or may not of happened.
    The complaint from the parent mentions swearing and use of guns and violence.

  21. Re:Revolving Door on FTC Attorney Joins Microsoft · · Score: 0

    So according to you this person a corrupt immoral person. Do you have any proof of this is it something personal?

  22. Re:more legal bribery on FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine · · Score: 1

    Not you did not fix it, you just showed you where are major idiot, and could not learn why they choose to label it as a dietary supplement.
    There FTFY.

  23. Re:Not really ... historically ... on Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real · · Score: 1

    Depending how you intake the pot you will get those chemicals others show up in processing, for instance formaldahyde comes from the curing not from the plants.
    You can also find studies saying infrequent cigarette usage or second hand smoke also increase lung capacity. The problem is moderation, pot smokers don't need a lot while tobacco smokers do. If you increase the use of pot to that of a normal smoker according to various reports you will hurt your lungs more then tobacco along with alot of other side affects..

  24. Re:Who owns the airspace? So many questions on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    The US law is he who owns the ground owns the sky into space.
    Not a problem until lately so now the law is you own the air you can reasonably expect to beable to use and everyone has access to over 500 feet. At 500feet + you are in FAA territory.
    So someone flying a glider or a home drone is tresspassing and you have all rights as if they had stepped into it.

  25. Re:Canada.... on Canada's Online Surveillance Bill: Section 34 "Opens Door To Big Brother" · · Score: 2

    If you look at numbers released for the US Government in 2006-2007 that is not the case. Recruits from the poorest quintile of neighborhoods make up less than 11% while those in the richest make up over 25%.
    So don't sweat the fine details.