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  1. Re:ACLU Approves Of Overwhelming Majority of Patri on The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Putting all that aside, I don't want to dwell on constitutional analysis, because our view has never been that civil liberties are necessarily coextensive with constitutional rights. Conversely, I guess the fact that something is mentioned in the Constitution doesn't necessarily mean that it is a fundamental civil liberty."

    Of course this is true. The Constitution recognizes civil liberties, rather than grants them, in the view of the founding fathers. In this respect the ACLU and the writers of the Constitution agree. You quoted this as if it were a bad thing to have an idea of civil liberties independent of the Constitution.

  2. Re:yes on Homemade Silly Putty · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, Borax, Sodium Boratem, and sodium tetraborate decahydrate are the same chemical, Na2B4O7 + 10H2O.

    This according to this site.
    Of course, IANAC.

  3. Re:I'd rather not have to deal with the DOJ... on White House Obfuscates Email · · Score: 1

    I've looked at their HTML code:

    <SELECT NAME=subject>
    <OPTION value=patriot>Supporting comment
    <OPTION value=terror_suspect>Differing opinion
    </SELECT>

  4. Re:The best? on The Long-Awaited MOO! · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed. And you can still play TW2002 on BBSs via telnet over the internet. It is still a great game, with new additions, like multiple people are able to play at once, and more than 1000 sectors. Who needs graphics to have fun? I remember Food Fight, too. THAT was a great door.

  5. Here's your backup script on Large IDE Drives as Long-Term Archival Media? · · Score: 3, Funny

    --Begin #! /bin/sh mv $1 /dev/null End-- Benefits: 1. No worrying about media 2. Saves space Drawbacks: 1. May be difficult to get your data back 2. No GUI (yet)

  6. More Star Wars Debts..... on Jedi Archives In Dublin Library? · · Score: 1

    John Williams owes a debt to Richard Wagner, as well. The way he constructs his music around the movie, incorporating and transforming the themes for the characters and actions in the movie is very similar to Wagner's synthesis of drama and music. His operas, especially the Ring cycle, appear to me to have had a profound effect on Williams' musical thought. There are two ways of looking at this though - not everyone in the world thinks that using someone else's work entitles that someone else to an acknowledgement. There is also the idea that the use of the idea IS the acknowledgement itself, especially in art. Artists will use hints of other people's work in order to show the respect that they have for the other artist. Not everyone has a contraining view of intellectual property.