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  1. Re:Standard sentence for contempt of court on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 1
    Why should you respect the authority of a court that has overstepped the bounds of its authority? Unchecked power is just as bad in the hands of the judicial branch as it is in the hands of the executive or legislative branches.

    You must be a judge, or a glutton for punishment.

  2. Re:Free speech. on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't really matter which branch of the government is supressing his message, it still violates his right to free speech.

  3. Re:With regards to Uwe Boll on Studio Head Answers Your Questions About the Movie Business · · Score: 1

    Uh, this has been explained for a long time now: He funds his movies with Nazi Jew Gold.

  4. Re:Umm... could anyone explain? on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 1

    Well, I was planning on buying both of these games, and since I don't have a console I have to wait for the PC version. I won't buy either with this DRM intact, though. I'll probably end up downloading mass effect, and I'll buy it when they get smart and take off the stupid DRM crap OR when its in the 10 dollar bargain bin, whichever comes first.

  5. Re:Garage Nukes on Nuclear Warhead Blueprints On Smugglers' Computers · · Score: 1
    Well, we could always dump some money into cryogenics and then put excess people into storage until we've built up infrastructure sufficient to care for them. Or we could shoot them into space to colonize other planets...


    Do we really need all these telephone sanitizers?

  6. Re:Okay. Here's *MY* blog entry, Senator on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 1

    Wow, I'm a nerd. After getting halfway through the second sentence of that quote I knew it was Heinlein. I grew up on his stuff, the man was fucking brilliant.

  7. Re:Okay. Here's *MY* blog entry, Senator on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 1

    Actually, Obama has a 50 state strategy that has campaign offices in every state in the country. He's running a totally different kind of Presidental campaign. Unlike Bush and McCain, Obama is not just educated, he displays critical thinking skills and an understanding of not just how the system works, but how it SHOULD work, and is working to make it closer to the ideal.

  8. Re:Okay. Here's *MY* blog entry, Senator on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 1

    Your argument is not logically consistant. If government authority depends on the consent of the governed, then the governments of the southern states did not have the authority to secede because they had no consulted a large portion of their population (black slaves and women). Thus, the Union was correct in not recognizing the legitamacy of the Confederacy.

  9. Re:life mirrors art on AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010 · · Score: 1

    I hear they got some internet still down in Californy.

  10. Re:Copyright? Maybe not, but maybe trademark? on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if they'll try and force him to give up his source during discovery. That might very well be the angle they're looking at in this whole thing.

  11. Re:I'm confused on Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline · · Score: 1

    You could always do it the same way you do in a hybrid, recover the energy from braking and use it later.

  12. Re:Okay Then. on The Limits of Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    Considering the level of medical technology in star trek, anyone who is fat is that way solely because they wish to be and specifically choose that body shape. It is more of a cosmetic thing, like some extreme body piercings, than anything else.

  13. Re:Mars? on Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth · · Score: 1

    If there is liquid water, it seems like thats 95% of everything we need to live there.

  14. Re:heh on RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied · · Score: 1

    How much does a bottle of KY and 15 minutes in the bathroom equate to when reported as an "in kind" donation? Also, is semen that isn't swallowed and ends up being washed off the Senator's face tax deductable?

  15. Re:Could never distinguish a dangerous sourcd on Cell Phone Radiation Detectors Proposed to Protect Against Nukes · · Score: 1

    or a slightly radioactive rock or a bag of cement with some thorium


    What if I transmute the thorium to arcanite?

  16. Re:As always on Apple QuickTime DRM Disables Video Editing Apps · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that the lawyers can find both statutes and case law to use to get damages out of apple. Causing a "loss of confidence" in Adobe's products, damaging brand value, etc.

  17. Re:The discouraging prior art on The Age of the Airship Returns? · · Score: 1

    So use a sky crane to lift the heavy crap onto the lighter than air sky sled for transport?

  18. Re:Anti-gravity tech on The Age of the Airship Returns? · · Score: 1
    As has been pointed out, you were thinking of H, not He.

    To add on top of that, a zep can be as safe as any other air transport, as long as you take the lesson of the Hindenburg to heart and don't use a compound roughly equivalent to NAPALM to paint your airship. It does exaserbate the whole "its crashing and its burning" thing.

  19. Re:Flaming to get hits. on Copyright Cutback Proposed As RIAA Solution · · Score: 1
    From Article 6 of the Constitution:
    This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

    Interesting, isn't it? Treaties are considered just as important as laws, and its even possible to read it that treaties are up there with the constitution as the supreme law of the land. Though obviously an act of congress can change one pretty easily. It is also interesting that Copyright is one of the few things the Federal Government is explicitly given the power to oversee in the Constitution.
    Imagine what kind of awesome movies could be made if, say, the Alien, Predator, and Robocop franchises were dropped into the public domain.And maybe we could finally get that "Robocop vs Terminator" movie adaptation of the game I've always wanted to see. Maybe Uwe Boll is available to direct...


    Oops, I guess I'll see the trolls and newbtards in the -1 zone.

  20. Re:time conservation on Universe May Be Running Out of Time · · Score: 1

    If you don't start taking Peak Time seriously, you're really going to suffer after the time crash. Its coming sooner than you think!

  21. Re:Disparity on RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, keep your Ninja Propaganda to yourself.

  22. Re: What else is new? on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Good point. I do wonder, though, if they would grandfather old lasers like they did with assault weapons. The market for "preban" lasers would be impressive. And that reminds me, I wonder what the blowback from the gun community would be, considering the popularity of laser sights. Though they only use green laser sights in movies.

  23. Re:Bad for studying Mars? on Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars · · Score: 1

    Depends on where it hits. Regardless of what it shows, if it hits its going to teach us something. Even if that something is "hitting planets with rocks makes a cool light show."

  24. Re:Old news on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Huh? I thought it was the driving lane and the driving fast lane?? Least thats how we do it here in Texas...

  25. Re:Dumb. Asses. on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    The only way to defeat the serpent is to turn it against its own tail.