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  1. Re:True, but ... on Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court · · Score: 1

    Depends on the state. Some states allow violence to stop felonies in progress, and attempted murder is certainly a felony.

  2. Re:True, but ... on Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court · · Score: 1

    And when analysis comes back with police issued GPS device, you can sue the police for a new car.

  3. Re:But... on Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court · · Score: 1

    And it is illegal to go sticking shit on other people's cars. If I go tossing magnetic bumper stickers on people's cars, the police are not going to be happy with me.

  4. Re:Frankly, I was disappointed on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    No, midichlorians are crappy quick science. A better explanation would have been special quantum interactions with the brain of the force user which while selection for such structures is genetically influenced it also can pop up randomly because of the nature of said interaction.

  5. Re:Holy Colons Batman on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    You're right on the grammar Nazi thing, since the proper non-capitalized term is grammar communist. You see, fascists allow people at least some free thought as long as it is not too disrupting of the state's(language's) overall agenda. Whereas with the communists it's all or nothing. The state is the only proper holder of canon.

  6. Re:Singularity? on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    How does it address the fact that the Federation was dumb enough to build starships at the bottom of a gravity well?

  7. Re:Good, but on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Serenity's over there *points to the neglected franchise corner*

  8. Re:French died fighting while the Yanks made excus on European Union Asks US To Free ICANN · · Score: 1

    Yes. The humanitarian aid we give does nothing to alleviate the political problems present and often exacerbates them.

  9. Re:French died fighting while the Yanks made excus on European Union Asks US To Free ICANN · · Score: 1

    And we helped them at the end of WWI. We were even. But then there was WWII, and after that war Truman being the dumbass that he was, backed the Frenchies claim to Vietnam. Which eventually led us to the Vietnam war, and we all know what a mess that was. Fuck the French.

  10. Re:French died fighting while the Yanks made excus on European Union Asks US To Free ICANN · · Score: 1

    Ahem, then were ordered home. Patton wanted to continue and kick the shit out of the remnants of the russian army but Eisenhower ordered him to stop. Dumbest thing Ike ever did really.

  11. Re:French died fighting while the Yanks made excus on European Union Asks US To Free ICANN · · Score: 1

    You could easily have cut out China, since the Japanese pacific operations were limited by their supply lines and an influx of soldiers without the rise in naval capacity wouldn't have helped the Japanese. Although reconstruction afterwards might have been more interesting.

  12. Re:French died fighting while the Yanks made excus on European Union Asks US To Free ICANN · · Score: 1

    The french died because their leaders were dumber than shit. Only two people have led the french to victory, and one of them wasn't properly french.

  13. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Well, they were, but then Obama raced to equalize the national debt per capita of the US with that of Japan.

  14. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    I'm calling bullshit on this too. Until the late 60's, the poverty rate among black americans was dropping regularly. Moreover, the rate of education was steadily increasing. Then suddenly it flatlines and a decade or two later actually starts to regress.

  15. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, as a matter of percentage(the only metric that really matters in situations like this) inner city white kids reject compulsory education a fuckload less than inner city black kids(interestingly, the more rural you get the less the disparity) and it's almost entirely because of the effects of .gov programs enacted in the late 60's and throughout the 70's.

  16. Re:Public education... on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Really? My US history teacher was a complete progressive who still believes that the 2nd is not a personal right. Yet when I tried pointing out that Washington basically ordered the slaughtering the Iriqous villagers to get their warriors to quit fucking with his supply lines and patrols she refused to hear it. As for the conquering of the Indian tribes(let's be honest here), that's basically what the English did to the Scots except without the whole language barrier bit and since the Scots had the whole concept of actual land ownership, instead of just the idea of a territory, they got a much better deal out of the whole thing. Any time you get a bunch of small squabbling polities on resource rich land next to an expansionist power the polities are going to get their ass kicked. End of story. The only time that changes is when the overall equation changes, and there was nobody to balance the equation on the indian's side. Also known as life's a bitch and then you die. If they want to take it back, they're welcome to try, but they're not allowed to go crying about it when they get their asses kicked.

  17. Re:Public education... on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Bingo, in 3rd grade my teacher told us that we would always use cursive. I reach middle school and my teachers pretty much refused to grade things in cursive.

  18. Re:Public education... on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Without ripping apart the state and national union's(Local unions are a different story entirely, as when a union is small it becomes much less concerned with it's own perpetuation and power and more with actually accomplishing things for it's members.) control along with abolishing the DoEd, any raises in teacher pay will do little to nothing.

  19. Re:Is it possible to have enemys on facebook? on White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Only if you're stupid enough to believe his projections. Not to mention that on the level the .gov plays at, cash accounting debt is almost utterly meaningless. Accrual accounting is all that's important, and the spending outlays Obama's attempting to ram through will make the current SocSec/MediCare outlays(Which rack up to somewhere between 70-90 trillion dollars) look like fucking chump change.

  20. Re:Facebook on White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter · · Score: 1

    Not unless he can travel backwards in time.

  21. Re:Taxes have that effect on people on UK Possibly Exploring "Google Tax" · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm pretty sure Susan Roesgen is actually stupid enough to believe what she was saying.

  22. Re:What for? on UK Possibly Exploring "Google Tax" · · Score: 1

    That's because the UK is really fucking weird when it comes to the BBC. I think the people running the BBC are actually running the entire UK government from behind the scenes.

  23. Re:These guys are no heroes on MN Supreme Court Backs Reasoned Requests For Breathalyzer Source Code · · Score: 1

    The problem with blood tests is that they are not taken directly at the scene. Which means it can be anywhere from a half hour to 2 hours from when they were stopped. This mean that their BAC may have changed, higher or lower depending on when they first drink was and their food intake prior to drinking.

  24. Re:Useless to get angry about it on Stardock Declares Victory Over Demigod Piracy · · Score: 1

    Only applies if you pirate the game and then use their servers to play. Setting up your own hamachi connection to play Demigod or simply downloading and playing something like Arcanum would not qualify.

  25. Re:Metcalfe's law on Stardock Declares Victory Over Demigod Piracy · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Companies are simply the most efficient vehicles at maximizing profit. THIS DOES NOT MEAN that they will be successful at doing so, especially when they concentrate on outmoded business practices and attempt to get laws passed to penalize a market reaction. This is especially true when the laws that are passed are simply treating secondary symptoms, and not the primary symptoms or the problem itself. See every constitutional gun control law ever and the vast majority of anti-drug laws. Such laws will never accomplish their stated purpose.