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  1. Re:And if you own the only microphone? on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    I agree with your entire post. Unfortunately, you need to go to China to argue against that situation effectively as it doesn't at all apply here.

  2. Re:What. on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    There is no implied "right to be heard" as that would require the government to *ensure* you are heard (as that's the entire point of rights). If you are standing in the square shouting your opinions, there is no right whatsoever that an audience be provided for you.

  3. Re:What. on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    That would be bad. That is not the case here so you can't apply any answer to your question to this. On to your next hyperthetical point. (I misspelled that on purpose)

  4. Re:Fox breathes a sigh of relief on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    That boils down to all outlets, no need for a name at all.

  5. Re:The Founding Fathers are crying.. on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    Dropping into pedantry is the very best way to show that you have no real substance to your position.

  6. Re:The Founding Fathers are crying.. on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    While you hate Fox, you do understand all the news channels do it, right?

  7. Re:The Founding Fathers are crying.. on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    Oh bullshit. The idea *is* censorship, the subterfuge is import/export control.

  8. Re:14th Amendment on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    You mean like being arrested for inciting a riot and public endangerment? Note to you: it is not a right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. It is illegal.

  9. Re: 14th Amendment on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    Nice assertion based on..... what exactly?

  10. Re:It wasn't just private opinion. on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 2

    You mean like union workers threatening to strike because the CEO isn't Dem? That kind of thing's OK? His not being Dem is causing the company problems by your logic.

  11. Re: Without her permission? on Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    To mimic your writing - It most DEFINITELY DOES NOT cover coercion to obtain passwords. It ain't the detention (and they need a valid reason, by the way, not something yanked from her FaceBook) that bothers people, it's the coercion and exploitation of her privacy.

  12. Re:Without her permission? on Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password · · Score: 0

    Perhaps the voters think that the consequences of a baby being raised by a demonstrably irresponsible 13-year-old are worse than the consequences of one more abortion.

    Even given your false dichotomy, are you seriously promoting that killing an unborn human is better than that same human being born and raised poorly?

    As to your last blurb, it's because they think deeper than the bifurcation method you use.

  13. Re:I admire their spunk, but... on Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Unlike you, people can review my history and see that I spent my career in banking. Not only do individual banks implement security to keep your account safe, they're required to provide a minimum by mandate. I repeat, bullshit.

  14. Re:I admire their spunk, but... on Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    His listed benefits were outside their 'systems'. The computation involved with creating a BitCoin is internal to their 'system', providing no external benefits.

  15. Re:I admire their spunk, but... on Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Iff

  16. Re: It's always elegant at first on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 1

    "If you want quality, remove time from the equations." If you want to spend all your money prior to having a functioning product - remove time from the equations. I've been in this profession my whole career. The vast bulk of programmers are far more interested in putzing around with their code and dicking around with little logical playthings than in making a finished product for sale. *Yet*, those same programmers want a paycheck.

    I'd rather see a bidding war situation.

  17. Re:only 5.5%!?! on Klingon Beer · · Score: 1

    You mean the one where the Klingons looked like sad rejects from the late Beatnik period?

  18. Re:Sadistic on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Frankly, what's your point, other than dabbling in a little self-righteousness? We don't have the number of conservation agents it would take to cull deer in specific, but other species as well. We don't have the numbers of predators we used to and unless you want cougar, grizzly and wolf packs running through your yard, you require hunters to cull sufficient numbers of prey animals. Check out Missouri Conservation for in depth treatment of management problems and how hunters are used in the solutions.

  19. Re:Sadistic on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    "We are specifically talking about people who hunt for fun" I do not think that is anywhere near the percentage of hunters you think it is. Could you pull up some stats please?

  20. Re:Hunting for food is not needed in the US on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Actually, the other purpose is to keep the numbers of any given species in check. Just examine what's happening in upper New England in regards to overpopulation of deer. Without hunting, deer destroy forests, not maintain them. They will remove all undergrowth and most lower branch leafage. After that's gone, they will strip the lower trunk bark and the tree dies. They like cedar, probably because it's a soft bark and once they kill enough trees, you have an immense pile of dried cedar, otherwise known as tinder.

  21. Re:Redefine hunting. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    The leopard is scared of death and injury as well, so it uses stealth and ambush to catch it's smaller prey by surprise. Lions use numbers. Eagles use swoop and clutch. Chimps and monkeys will throw things and flail with sticks. On and on. Only morons aren't scared when it comes to facing lethal violence, online gaming notwithstanding.

  22. Re: Redefine hunting. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Whitetails may average one-fifty or so, but they're tough. I've seen one slammed by a car and thrown into the air only to find its balance before landing and stumbling off. Don't know if it survived, but that looked harder than a bow shot.

  23. Re:Redefine hunting. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 2

    That last was overboard. Remember too we are also *the* species that will, with great frequency, go out of its way to help another species., both individually and in toto. Enough so, that other non-domestic species are known to come to humans for aid on occasion. We are a conundrum to ourselves and everyone else.

  24. Re:Bans Drones not Guns. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 2

    You have no idea what you're talking about. Educate yourself.

  25. Re:They haven't tracked it down on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. What happened to the plane is a theory. Gravity is a Theory. But yes, they definitely collided.