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  1. Re:War /= civil process. on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    "Great or ferocious struggle." It does not have to be in any militaristic sense, that's only one interpretation.

  2. Re:War /= civil process. on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    A declaration of war is a real thing. There are defined parameters to pass said declaration. This isn't 'Nam. There are rules.

  3. Re:One of 'us' on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    Its not stupid semantics though. The constitution says only congress can declare an act of war, that defines a war as something declared by congress. Nothing else counts as a war. So when we say that "a time of war" is required to supersede a fundamental right - in this case, due process, the semantics matter a very good deal. No declaration of war, no legal right to do something without due process.

  4. Re:Yuh Huh on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    I agree, lets expand that to Christians and Jews as well, since both have histories of genocide. Also, make sure to remove protections from Buddhists, Taoists, Confucianists... and especially those Jains.

  5. Re:5th Amendment on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    We still have wars, but no one bothers with them since the president can have "executive actions" which are far more convenient. They let you completely sidestep all of those laws about how to treat enemy combatants, etc.

  6. Re:5th Amendment on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    And answering questions like that is exactly what due process was made for.

  7. Re:5th Amendment on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    Nope, not unless he did it at a US embassy or consulate. There are very strict rules to renouncing US citizenship - I know, I was looking into doing it.

  8. Re:5th Amendment on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    Note that we also didn't just kill him, we killed him and an unknown number of other people in that vehicle. Further, we did so on sovereign soil, in a country we are not at war with. Again, he could have been convicted in absentia. The fact they didn't even bother with a kangaroo court to do this is what really distresses me.

  9. Re:You missed "shall be held to answer" on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it would have been easy to have a grand jury find him guilty in absentia. No one would care about this being a kangaroo court. But the facts are we killed him without a trial, and we violated another nation's sovereignty in the process. We also killed everyone else in the vehicle. There is no legal sidestepping that as far as I can tell.

  10. Re:5th Amendment on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I think most neocons don't quite grasp the concept of "casus belli." They're to busy bleating.

  11. Re:5th Amendment on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    We're saying this because the future of our country and our freedoms actually are at stake with the answer. Don't be mad because we're making it difficult - a hell of a lot of people fought and died for those clauses to be in the constitution. To disregard their sacrifice, and be unwilling to commit the same sacrifice to safeguard them would put this nation in a sorry place indeed. I'll believe he was a top terrorist agent when I can see a formal list of charges. He can be convicted in absentia. The fact that they don't even attempt to go through any semblance of due process is scary to me.

  12. Re:Forever war. on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    War is Peace.

  13. Re:Simple. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Citation Needed. From an unbiased source, complete with citations. I have seen so many things that contradict one another on this its absurd. It also often forgets to mention that most of the spending in Obama's first 2 years in office was related to fiscal policies enacted by a Republican controlled congress. So yes it may have gone up under him, but he's not single handedly responsible.

  14. Re:Simple. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    You really don't understand what Buffet wrote about, do you? No "upstart new investor" has billions of dollars. He's talking about the old rich, and 1$ salary CEO's who pay a flat 15% tax on their income.

  15. Re:Simple. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Well, I mean pork IS delicious. Mmmmmm. Pork.

  16. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    I currently make 67k a year, and in Pennsylvania, I am taxed at 25%. And that is only federal. linky

  17. Re:Talk about hypocrisy on Yahoo Blocked Emails About Wall Street Protests · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of a story called "the boy who cried wolf?" Their price list for selling out customer information was released via wikileaks some time ago. Don't consistently paint a history of yourself selling out your customers to any government official who can cross your palms with silver and expect people not to draw the same conclusion in future events. It may not be malevolence this time, but they've already built a logical conclusion for people to jump to.

  18. Re:No censorship on youtube on Yahoo Blocked Emails About Wall Street Protests · · Score: 1

    If dozens isnt enough, someone better tell this guy he failed (NSFW maybe? historical absolutely).

  19. Re:No censorship on youtube on Yahoo Blocked Emails About Wall Street Protests · · Score: 1

    Angle the camera so that you only capture the stragglers to the left or right of the main group, or stand inside the group and position yourself so that only 50 people in front of you are shown. And I'm not a photographer.

  20. Re:Of course not on RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' · · Score: 1

    Hm, sadly the only source I can find atm is the statistics release by Millenial's ad network. Would have sworn there were articles about this earlier, but for the life of me I can't find them now. Oh well, i concede it for now :)

  21. Re:And what phone does RMS own? on RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' · · Score: 1

    He's got an android, and the hurd kernel is in development.

  22. Re:Of course not on RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' · · Score: 0

    You're wrong about IOS being the most common OS, Android has it beat worldwide. If a single manufacturer made android phones they would beat apple, however since its spread across Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG, Huawei, etc etc etc they can't claim the cup on that one.

  23. Re:Awesome Lightning on Stunning Time Lapse of the Earth From the ISS · · Score: 1

    Each frame is approximately 2.4 minutes apart if he spaced it evenly across 24 hours. The lightning appears to be completely concentrated and flows just like a normal video. That is amazing, and hard to believe.

  24. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Hmm, interesting. I appreciate the info actually, I just know that the Cayman Islands and Scotland were big places to set up shells specifically to avoid taxes. Thanks for the correction!

  25. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    "It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be." - Warren Buffet