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  1. Re:PayPal Regulation? on PayPal Freezes the Assets of Wikileaks.org · · Score: 1

    If you can't write a dissent properly advocating your position, then there's probably a problem with your position. Especially since he could have invoked the precedent itself and then expounded properly on why it was correct without also throwing out every other precedent attached to free speech. The latter being what he actually ended up doing.

  2. Re:PayPal Regulation? on PayPal Freezes the Assets of Wikileaks.org · · Score: 2, Informative

    W00T! I've attained the status of right wing troll. Even though, assuming the status of troll is correct, it would be much more proper to label me libertarian troll. This would of course require you to differentiate much more broadly on the political spectrum. After all, there's a reason I don't use liberal as a noun to describe leftist idiots.

    "In normal usage then, as now, the term “speech” referred to oral communications by individuals. See, e.g., [various citations]. Given that corporations were conceived of as artificial entities and do not have the technical capacity to “speak,” the burden of establishing that the Framers and ratifiers understood “the freedom of speech” to encompass corporate speech is, I believe, far heavier than the majority acknowledges."

    The conclusions arrived to in Stevens' opinion REQUIRE that you assume all non-oral types of speech do not apply concerning the part of the 1st amendment that refers to speech. Which means that in order to accept his conclusions, you have to assume that no other types of speech exist. This means that things like flag-burning, as abhorrent and juvenile as I personally find it, could be legislated as to be illegal.

  3. Re:PayPal Regulation? on PayPal Freezes the Assets of Wikileaks.org · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ah, yay for leftist idiocy. Did you read Stevens' dissent? Y'know, the thing that would have resulted as precedent had Kennedy voted with Stevens. No? Cause if you had you would have noticed it treated speech strictly as audible noise. Which means, among other things, flag burnings could be banned by any locale that chose to do so because symbolic speech was no longer protected, and any corporation could be forced to give up the names of it's members. Like sayyy, the NAACP. The only difference between now and Wednesday is that the money will no longer need to be funneled through 527s. Which means we'll get who's actually funding various campaign ads. One would think that transparency would be a good thing. Of course, I imagine George Soros would consider it to be bad.

  4. Re:Reeedeeeculous on Heat Engines Shrunk By Seven Orders of Magnitude · · Score: 1

    What does Immigration and Customs Enforcement have to do with piezoelectric heat engines?

  5. Re:Wait a minute... on Tor Users Urged To Update After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Clearly it was done in C++ and some idiot set up a loop in Book 1. Possibly in the chapter about fields.

  6. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't, which is why if an individual now goes to the SC citing violation of equal protection, the same limits on individuals placed by McCain-Feingold will be thrown out. Problem fucking solved.

  7. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    While taking over Toronto wouldn't be that hard, a shitload of rural Canadians have weaponry. Wouldn't be fun.

  8. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    Canada had that dumbass free speech tribunal up until a couple of moths ago, so really, you're not exactly a place to pay attention to about rights.

  9. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um, no, Brown won because his opponent was a stupid statist bitch who thought Schilling was a Yankees fan. Also, she has no problem with trying to cover up a cop raping his two month old niece with a hot curling iron. Now, while the Massholes might excuse behavior like that in one of the vaunted Kennedy family, Brown wasn't a Kennedy.

  10. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    I can only keep a firearm I make myself? Hot damn, within the year I'll be turning out M-60s.

  11. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    It's called a PAC. Form one, and find a bunch of people to support your idea. What? That takes effort? Boo-fucking-hoo, you want to play you'd better be damned ready to make sacrifices.

  12. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    Actually shit for brains, their are plenty of states with laws on the books that if a mere majority of people in a workplace want to form a union, everybody else either joins up or quits.

  13. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjOI7bj5ks

    G'job, you and Tim Robbins agree on something.

  14. Re:Yum on Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction · · Score: 1

    Given it's size and non-domesticity, I'd guess more like bison than modern beef.

  15. Re:Enter the Matrix was OK... on Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies · · Score: 1

    The CoR directors cut was perfectly good. Of course, this is because pretty much all of the WTFBBQ moments in the movie get explained.

  16. Re:Enter the Matrix was OK... on Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies · · Score: 1

    Goldeneye was not better than Casino Royale. It was admittedly better than QoS, but that's because that's what you get when you try to bash the Bush Administration and the invasion of Iraq with a Bond storyline. If you actually ignore all the elements but the action and the plot carrying over from CR, it was pretty good.

  17. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Um, no. TARP was his baby. The first bailout, sure, that was Bush's. Well, him and the Dems in office. But the second, that was ALL Obama.

  18. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    You forcibly reduce salaries to 65k a year and you'll see he number of people willing to pony up the money and the twelve 'best' years of their life to med school drop through the fucking floor.

  19. Re:Management Types... on CBS Refuses To Preserve Jack Benny Footage · · Score: 1

    Well, states would front candidates, but a bunch of populist assholes decided to cook up something called the 17th amendment, thus removing any disconnect from the House and the Senate, and leading to the current mess.

  20. Re:vote with your money on Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses $1 Billion Mark; Dedicated Servers What? · · Score: 1

    Not really, it just means the FPS scene is turning into the Madden scene.

  21. Re:"Free" like I say on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We never lived in a true democracy shit for brains. It was a republic, but ever since the 17th amendment instituted direct election of senators the counterbalances of power have been faltering ever so slowly but surely under the pressure of greed.

  22. Re:Call themselves teachers? on Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because not only are 99.999% of those who go after the job of high school principal power hungry monsters, but they are the utterly inept power hungry monsters, else they they would have a different job with more status. Basically, most principals are like Gilbert Gottfried in Problem Child 2

  23. Re:I disagree on Adding Up the Explanations For ACTA's "Shameful Secret" · · Score: 1

    To be fair, by measure of type this is no longer true. Now if you measure by pure quantity of beer produced it still is.

  24. Re:Inaccurate on Game Endings Going Out of Style? · · Score: 1

    Or you can play Dragon Age on the PC, where there are no less than 4 separate mods to increase your storage space.

  25. Re:How Thick is the Display? on Forget LCDs and LEDs, Here Come LPDs · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, that only means one of it's dimensions has to be thin. Which would probably be H, although in certain asian countries L would be more popular to use. D isn't necessarily affected.