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  1. Re:rights on Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail · · Score: 0

    Requirement of consent to contracts is a right deleniated by the social contract. The natural condition is doing whatever you want, like clubbing rolfwind's head in. A social structure creates the idea of respecting consent, not the other way around.

    Dense fucking libertarians, trying to use their derived concepts as a basis for themselves.

  2. Re:rights on Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail · · Score: 1

    Ugh, read some goddamned John Locke. Depriving people of rights to continue a condition that allows rights is an inevitability, not just a choice.

  3. Re:rights on Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail · · Score: 1

    Right, so what are prisons then? Proof that every single thing we call a right is secretly a privilege? I'm sorry they're not true Scotsmen.

  4. Re:One and the same on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    Actually, you'll find that a lot of people breaking the law don't know it, and that ignorance is no excuse.

  5. Re:rights on Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, it sort of is. Rights, as we know them, are derived from the social contract, and withdrawal of one or more of those rights(such as freedom of movement) is necessary to preserve the benefits of the social contract to everyone else. It shouldn't be done unnecessarily(like this) or to unreasonable extremes(like removal of right not to be tortured), but protection of rights is done with the understanding that you won't use your rights to infringe the rights of others.

    *You can make the argument that rights are natural or divine in origin, but that's an unprovable derail I'd prefer not to go down.

  6. Re:One and the same on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    If not, then it's the same as an ex post facto law.

    Restrictions on handling classified documents only apply to people who seek security clearance, which means some education is given on what "should be" classified to people who are handling it. Please understand, I think Radack should get off through jury nullification or something similar, but it's not identical to unconstitutional ex post facto laws.

  7. Re:When?! on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    In spite of how it's completely absurd given D&D is a game, your tone still reads like a manager describing how they had sex with some of their female employees by abusing their power. Tone is an odd thing.

  8. Re:One and the same on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's actually because the espionage act defines things that "apparently should" be classified as protected under law too. It's a bad law, but it's not the same as ex post facto.

  9. Re:TED talk on Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love · · Score: 2

    You can discuss exceptions, but the reality is that red flags on pseudoscience are important for casual observations of this sort.

  10. Re:Thugocracy in Action on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 0

    No government or unions involved at all=blame government and the unions because those are who I'm told to hate.

  11. Re:We have one of those already. on CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup · · Score: 1

    But it's not? It's a reddit clone?

  12. Re:We have one of those already. on CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup · · Score: 1

    I feel like targeting that demographic with a new techy website is a plan that's doomed to failure. But I'm judgmental, and certainly am capable of being wrong.

  13. Nice CSS/Javascript on your reddit clone on CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's nice looking, laid out a little different, and puts slightly different rules down, but fundamentally, it's a reddit clone. I don't like reddit, and I can't imagine this doing much better for me.

  14. Re:Water=life on Water Plume Detected At Dwarf Planet Ceres · · Score: 0

    Yes, but life on this planet was also dependent on rather substantial influx of energy in the form of light. The adaptability of that life to numerous locations happened well after the "oxygen crisis".

  15. Re:TED talk on Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, but under the lens of actual medical science it all falls apart.

    From wikipedia

    Many of Andraka's claims do not stand up to rigorous peer-reviewed research. For instance, a 2011 article published by Sharton et al. of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the NIH National Cancer Institute refutes many of Andraka's claims about specificity of using mesothelin as a biomarker for pancreatic cancer. Specifically, the group showed that mesothelin serum levels in healty donors 0.58 (0.15 – 0.72) nmol/l were not statistically different from serum levels in pancreatic cancer patients 0.66 (0.52 – 0.94) nmol/L.[15] In addition to this issue of false positives, George M. Church, professor of genetics at Harvard University, has raised concerns about the cost, speed, and sensitivity claims.[11]

  16. Re:TED talk on Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love · · Score: 2

    Medical innovation comes from, get this, medical research. I'm not going to buy the fundamental credibility of someone who hasn't even necessarily seen the inside of a university, much less a medical school. If you see a "cold medicine invented by a teacher" altmed package at the checkout of a grocery store, you don't go "oh anyone could come up with something that works" you flip it over and see "*this statement not evaluated by the FDA" because it's bullshit.

  17. Re:Need a transparent government on MIT Develops Inexpensive Transparent Display Using Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    Eh, I can see the most loathsome terrible people in the universe getting a little ad-revenue out of store windows.

  18. Re:TED talk on Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I think that's a fair conclusion, after reviewing their archives. It really has gotten worse.

    Science category for 2013: here. Notable woo includes:
    *Could we speak the language of dolphins
    *Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.
    *A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager.(Woop woop woop, red flag detected)
    *How a dead duck changed my life

    Going back to 2003 here. The only item that draws my eye as bad is
    *Tierney Thys: Swim with the giant sunfish. (and it's possible that's not as bad as the name implies)

    With plenty of legit topics like:
    *Life in the outer solar system
    *Birth of the computer
    *health and the human mind (...maybe)
    *The face of AIDS in Africa

    It's gotten worse.

  19. Re:TED talk on Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love · · Score: 5, Interesting

    TED is now basically full of pseudoscientific bullshit and ego-fueled self-promoters.

  20. Re:human germs don't like higher body temp on Fighting the Flu May Hurt Those Around You · · Score: 1

    "Germs" typically refers to living things. Influenza is a virus.

  21. Re:I'm waiting for anti-helium. on CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen · · Score: 1

    I know this is a "funny"-because-I'm-intentionally-misunderstanding-science post, but sulfur hexafloride will totally help.

  22. Re:Internet filters are a joke ... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you understand what "propaganda" means.

  23. Re:Internet filters are a joke ... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Congratulations in living in a world of sanity.

  24. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Yeah, as much as I think criticism of Obamacare is overblown(and claims of success also overblown, it didn't fix pricing problems), being legally mandated to do something dangerous isn't good.

  25. Re:Great..... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    A treaty only guarantees extradition under specific conditions. Countries can still voluntarily extradite on serious charges(like, say, murder).