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  1. Re:That's simply not true, and never has been. on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Even if something is out of code you usually don't take it out of the house. His property was basically stolen from him with no recourse in court to demand to know what codes he broke.

  2. Re:Chemicals on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Spotting drugs is an obvious violation of law. Having some chemicals including some flammable chemicals is not. I'll say it again. I've thought of turning my bathroom into a dark room to make enlargements of black and white film negatives. This involves Developer, Stop bath (a weak acid), Fixer (supposedly the most dangerous to the environment) and a rinse that that always suspicions dihydrogen monoxide. If I had a fire and my dark room was spotted would all my chemicals be confiscated "JUST IN CASE"?

  3. Re:Chemicals on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    No warrant is needed IF and ONLY IF the items spotted are obviously ILLEGAL. I sincerely doubt that they could actually determine that before they came in and confiscated everything.

  4. Re:Call the FBI? on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Pretty much everywhere (Except I guess backwards Massachusetts)the zoning laws just prevent you from running retail storefront space or a business with over a certain amount of employees from your home. If you work by yourself and you don't have a storefront and customers never come to you then the zoning laws mostly don't apply. The whole zoning bullshit argument is way out of hand here.

  5. Re:Chemicals on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Yes but since when is a lab illegal? What if I turned my bathroom into a dark room to make enlargements from some black and white film negatives I have laying around? What if I purchased the fixer in quantities that didn't require a license and I disposed of them correctly? Just because my bathroom is a "LAB" with "CHEMICALS" in it does that mean the firefighters should call HAZMAT on my ass?

  6. Re:Call the FBI? on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    So they see what they "SUSPECT" is an illegal cache of chemicals. Because most people are not competent enough to determine if they are illegal or not without making an inventory of them the usual course of action would be to ASK if they could come and inspect it or to file for a search warrant.

    Note that it would be completely different if the firefighters found an illegal cache of rocket fired missiles or an illegal cache of crack cocaine in his house. However what they DID FIND was not Immediately INCRIMINATING. In other words they didn't know whether he broke a law or not.

  7. Re:Chemicals on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well I usually keep several 5 gallon bottles of the stuff in my dining area and one on a dispenser so I guess the cops are coming for me next.

  8. Re:Call the FBI? on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Civil forfeitures are in rem. In rem refers to a legal action directed solely against the property based on a legal finding that the property itself is used in an illegal manner.

    The point is a court decided that the forfeiture was deemed acceptable. In this case no court heard the case that I'm aware of.

  9. Re:Chemicals on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, but you usually get a warrant before you bust into someone's house.

  10. Call the FBI? on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SO call the FBI and complain that the local police entered and arrested you without a warrant. Call the local and national media. Make a big stink about it. Start a website. The Massachusetts police are morons and they need to be put in their place.

  11. Re:Encryption on Military Spends $4.4M To Supersize Net Monitoring · · Score: 1

    I don't need to encrypt crap. You just need to stop accepting non-encrypted traffic. Then you will be safe.

  12. Re:I'll judge them in 3 days. on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    Satire is covered by free speech. They are not claiming to be the IOC; they are claiming the IOC to be misguided at best and evil at worst.

  13. Re:Cue the rationalists.... on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1
    I guess you missed this part...

    Prof. Beck's paper "180 YEARS OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 GAS ANALYSIS BY CHEMICAL METHODS" has now been published in the journal Energy and Environment.

  14. Re:Cue the rationalists.... on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1

    All the arguments I'm talking about are the same. Namely that over millions of years (for you old earth people) the levels of CO2 fluctuated separately from temperature and was much higher then we have now. In addition what we have now is not even recently historic as data from 1812 taken from air samples is thrown out by the IPCC. This is what I was linking to.

  15. Re:Cue the rationalists.... on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1

    I do actually carpool with my wife.

  16. Re:Cue the rationalists.... on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1

    Are you going to pay me $800 more a month so I can move from Riverside County to Orange County and afford the increase in rent?

  17. Re:Haha on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1

    Yes that is a little detail you have to include. It is the action which is evil.

  18. Re:Cue the rationalists.... on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Canon? on Digital Camera Powered By a Fuel Cell · · Score: 1

    That's why my Film A2E is still working right?

  20. Re:Cue the rationalists.... on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Find me a job within walking distance and I'll walk to it.

  21. Re:Cue the rationalists.... on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 2

    Exactly! We need to reduce particulate matter and harmful gases from the environment but CO2 is a natural part of the environment and we are in a time of low CO2 levels historically and more CO2 just helps the plants out. Not that we should go overboard or anything but this sequestering CO2 crap is the dumbest move ever.

  22. Re:Summary: on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 4, Informative

    The method for burning it matters. Coal is burned to be efficient but also scrubbed in most newer plants to remove particulates. Oil is not burned RAW but instead burned after being distilled, processed and with additives including detergent and octane boosters. This is burned in a very precise mixture of fuel and air and then the exhaust gas is then run through a catalytic converter before being dumped into the environment. It is a completely different ball game here.

  23. Re:Haha on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Didn't you ever hear of "Hate what is Evil and Love what is good"? Hate may be an emotional response but many times it is to a logical conclusion one reaches on the good/evil scale of measuring things. It helps if you don't subscribe to relativistic morality to understand this.

  24. Re:Well, if that's the way they want it on Airline Cancels All Flights Booked Through Third-Party Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually if you wanted to have plenty of legroom then today is your day.

  25. Re:In Soviet USA on US Warns Olympic Visitors of Chinese Cyber-Spying · · Score: 1

    Ted Kennedy is a terrorist. He terrorized young women into the back of his car and then drives them into a lake.