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  1. Re:So, effectively on Washington, D.C. Police Affirm Citizens' Right To Record Police Officers · · Score: 1

    "sigh"

    It specifically says all they can do is tell you to move to a location not interfering with them. It even goes as far as saying if you are at a safe distance and don't do anything that obstruct the police or puts them in danger, you are not interfering. If they can only tell you to move when you are interfering and it spells out when you are not, it leaves no wiggle room at all. This, btw, is not some new policy because someone all the sudden got some common sense, it is a policy developed because they lost or settled a lawsuit over their previous handling of these situations.

    Most cops are corrupt asshats that are wasting good oxygen others could be taking advantage of. But I can understand why they do some of the shit they do after reading a few of the replies here. It doesn't justify their behavior but i have to have some apathy for them if they deal with idiots who can't even read or comprehend what they read, on a regular basis. If i was a cop, I would probably already snapped and started beating some sense into people.

  2. Re:Relevant on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: 1

    The problem is deeper then cost per watt analysis will show. If you have to retool in order to take advantage of the new energy sources, then the costs of the retooling gets tacked on top of that cost per watt too. Also, you can't just average the costs over a life time because the time value of money is greater then the lifetime of expected parts- especially when trying to accelerate an economy out of recession.

    While I'm glad the news you bring is looking good, the reality is that it won't have an immediate impact which is what is needed. If we can get the economy back on track, working that in over the years will be beneficial in the long run. Until then, it is sort of ancillary to the problems.

  3. Re:For the majority of posters (who didn't RTFA) on Washington, D.C. Police Affirm Citizens' Right To Record Police Officers · · Score: 1

    I would shoot Michelle Obama too if I was defending myself or others from imminent life threatening harm- A situation I do not realistically think would ever come about in real life. Was this officer participating in some fantasy "what if" game when the comment was made or was it something he offered on his own out of stupidity?

    I mean we have played the game of what would you do and then set out impossible and unrealistic scenarios. What would you do if you turned a corner and looked down a dark alley to see Nicole Kidman Nude being slapped in the face by a midget standing on a bunch of boxes? Now what if it was Rose O'Donnell instead of Kidman? Was it something like that or is there not enough information?

  4. Re:Rights mean nothing if they can be infringed on Washington, D.C. Police Affirm Citizens' Right To Record Police Officers · · Score: 1

    One clarification.

    Corporations are a legal fiction we use to allow owners to appoint other people to manage the operations of a business which present people with a method of limiting their liability when they do not directly or indirectly participate in the act.

    Contrary to popular belief, no corporate veil will protect someone from their own actions. It only protects people from acts they are not part of outside of ownership interest of a company. For instance, you are a working owner and make a decision to use sub standard materials and a building collapses, you can be personally liable beyond the corporation. If another worker unbeknown to you made that decision, you would be protected beyond the corporation. Similarly, if you start embezzling funds and it causes the corporation to go into bankruptcy, you can be personally liable beyond the corporation. If another employee does it, your liability would end at the corporation.

    It's just a personal pet peeve of mine when corporations are explained or represented as some magic wall separating personal accountability for everything when it is really everything not of your own doing.

  5. Re:So, effectively on Washington, D.C. Police Affirm Citizens' Right To Record Police Officers · · Score: 1

    did you even read what was posted? it defines what those officers can do if interference is found by the officers and describes specifically when interference cannot be claimed. It is very much the practice.

  6. Re:The jerk probably wants to eat and raise a fami on App Developer: Android Designed For Piracy · · Score: 1

    I could not agree more.

    Every app I find useful is either ad supported or outright free on my rooted andriod phone. I've installed and removed more crap apps that just didn't cut it for me then I have kept which may be part of the concept behind pirating if it really is as bad as claimed (test driving the experience?). Apple controls the apps on IOS and the selection might be a lot thinner and more polished although from what i hear isn't the case with this developers works.

    It wouldn't be impossible to secure a game or app on andriod, just do the authorization and validation yourself.

  7. Re:This is not time to talk about that on NASA Satellite Measurements Show Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt · · Score: 2

    Or we could have emotions demanding completely useless and ineffective solutions that do more harm in the long run then any good perceived or not.

    The reason we wait until something has played down a bit is not because everyone will forget about it, but because the emotions have died down and you don't end up banning dyhydrogen monoxide simply because it is used in the process of making guns and ammunition and destroys millions of dollars of property each year.

  8. Re:You said it first on NASA Satellite Measurements Show Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt · · Score: 1

    You don't think the historical claims of global warming being behind the ice melt in Greenland have anything to do with the jump of comments?

    In your Detroit scenario, it would be like after years of bombardment that GM destroyed Detroit, an article comes out and someone points to what they think is significant about Fiat's roles.

  9. Re:Who needs science? I have conspiracy theories! on NASA Satellite Measurements Show Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt · · Score: 1

    Al and Kipper dressed up as strangers and met at a hotel for one hell of a romantic evening. Some say this is why Al comes across stiff as a board as something they were using snapped off and wasn't ever removed. Anyways, it was during one of these sessions that Al lost the remote control pad for the internet. He is no longer able to turn it up or down or off altogether. It is perpetually stuck at the mercy of the programming on it.

  10. Re:\m/ ( w ) \m/ on F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You forgot Pakistan and China in that ramble. You also forgot that the states who did sign the treaty and agreed to be bound by it, the same states who benefited from the signing of the treaties, only one is openly hostile towards another nation. Of course India and Pakistan are or was openly hostile to each other but they didn't sign.

    Also, international law is not some imposing legal system that strips the sovereignty of nations just because a few states get together and declare something. Imagine if they got together and outlawed the Muslim religions or sodomy by declaration or something.

    The states in question by your comment have to agree to be bound by the treaty creating the international law or defeated by force and subjected to the ramifications of it ex postfacto. Should one of these non bound countries become openly hostile against another country or threaten the use of Nuclear or Chemical and/or biological weapons, I'm sure the focus of the world will change a bit. Until then, crying that they aren't being troubled is a bit like saying, why am I being arrested for robbing the bank, banks get robbed all the time and those people don't get caught.

  11. Re:disinformation? on F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC · · Score: 1

    Or they could be watching for IP traffic and waiting for the accused to log in and see the chaos for themselves in order to detect and close holes in their systems.

  12. Re:Springsteen, weaponized. on F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC · · Score: 1

    Iranians will proudly tell you they are Persian. One of the easiest ways to insult some of them is to call them Arabs. The Persia comment was probably borne from that.

  13. Re:lyrics? on F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC · · Score: 1

    I doubt politicians are trying endorse a particular artist but rather ride the coat tails of their popularity or the catchy lyrics of a particular song. Its pretty much the same as how proms select their theme songs.

  14. Re:\m/ ( w ) \m/ on F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC · · Score: 1

    Maybe it will start playing white wedding then?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9j6DE6RnSk

  15. Re:trickle down on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: 1

    Actually, copper is worthless unless you have someone who can use it and will exchange wealth for it. You are making the same mistake novice coin or baseball collectors (or any collector) makes where you see a listing that X is worth something, you spend Y on it, and find you can only sell it for Z which might be less then both X and Y. It is only a value until someone exchanges wealth for it.

  16. Re:it's perfectly ok to be richer than someone els on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    Keep thinking that and keep encouraging the Arab Spring in the US and we will find out. From the people and groups I know, it would seem like you are talking out your ass but I guess we are just guessing until it really happens.

  17. Re:Pay to be Poor on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: 1

    I have a bad back and was on disability for a while. I could do some normal things for short periods of times but had to take frequent breaks and stuff. I was on reduced lifting, had to shift from sitting to standing and back every couple hours, was limited to 4 hours a day working and a few more things. If I wrenched my back, at work or at home, I would be bed ridden for 2 or 3 days minimum and took prescription narcotics quite often.

    But the worst part about being on disability is that the restrictions on my work negated me to jobs where I had absolutely no skillset for. I could sit in front of a computer and input stuff, I could answer the phone and such, but I couldn't find anyone needing someone within my limitations. Furthermore, I found that a lot of companies tend to shy away from anyone who has had a back injury.

    It could be said that I really could have been working, but the reality of the situation proved otherwise. I had to learn an entirely new skill set and go into business for myself.

  18. Re:trickle down on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: 1

    You are confused. What the programmer, the recording artists, the factory worker, and the fry cook creates is called value. Value is worthless without a market to exchange it in. Once there is an exchange of value, there can be wealth but typically, that exchange vehicle is provided by the more rich members of society not the individual himself.

  19. Re:Relevant on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only thing that is going to revive the economy is cheap energy. Every economic boom we have had has also had cheap energy. There is nothing the government can do besides create policy ensuring cheap energy that will have any significant impact on the economy except perhaps relax environmental regulations driving the costs of energy or the costs of energy usage up.

  20. Re:it's perfectly ok to be richer than someone els on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    Nothing is missing anything. The point was that it wouldn't be some liberal utopia like the op seems to want. There are highly vocal groups right now crying about the US government over stepping it's bounds on a lot of things. And by all means, it has ever since the civil war but was compounded by FDR, That stuff will go away, most states will refuse to be part of a new government that is more liberal then what we have if the government is overthrown.

  21. Re:Classy on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    They probably could grant a license but considering the title, the book appears to be political in nature which Jack Daniels might not want to be associated with.

  22. Re:Classy on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've seen about a dozen OEM versions of XP become tagged as pirated for no apparent reason at all outside a windows update. In all cases, after about 2 or 3 hours of tracking the original supplier of the software down, I would have to wait 24 hours to get a new product number/key then another day or two to get the license sticker.

    In one situation, I lost an account and had to hire a lawyer to stop one confused and irate business lady from going around telling people that I ripped her off by billing for the operating system then installed pirated software instead. Her defense was that Microsoft told her I did that.

  23. Re:made in China on UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, Some politicians will request a new stimulus package because throwing money in the air has worked so well so far. We will end up funding those Chinese with money we borrowed from them in the process _again_.

  24. Re:it's perfectly ok to be richer than someone els on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    Rich boy screws up and he's just being a boy, poor boy screws up and he is a criminal and fucked for life.

    And this has what to do with the state of education how? I never said a wealthier kid doesn't have advantages, I said that poor people can and do use the education system to better their lives.

    Oh and when all your rednecks finally find out that the dream of the american pie and land of possibilities has been stolen and replaced with "might makes right" the risk is that all those guns will tear the country apart. I hope that won't happen but you as a country are so off the track at the moment that it's scary. Your image of yourself doesn't nearly match the reality anymore.

    First, you say redneck like it is a bad thing. It isn't.

    Second, I think you missed the part where the GP said the french revolution, the Russian revolution and the Arab Spring is coming to America. This would imply the country is already torn apart and the reality is that in a vacuum of power, those with the guns will fill that vacuum because the others claiming to want something better will be powerless. A revolution in the US will not end favorable for the op and most likely not for you. You both can wish for the best socialist outcome possible but reality will slap you in the face hard.

  25. Re:Journalists? on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    ha.. that is rich. You picked one country that is largely still subsidized by the US (They cry every time we try to close a military base and drop our troop strength) that by your own admission is basically supporting the 17 other countries in alliance with it.