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  1. Re:Educate, don't indoctrinate on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    No, But The post I was responding to was. Communists aren't conservative, and I usually don't agree with them.

  2. Re:Educate, don't indoctrinate on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do you really believe what you just wrote?

    1) Schools are funded primarily through state and local taxes, so even if the Federal government stopped all spending in the area, Federal taxes, (which are the bunk of what people pay,) would stay roughly where they are.

    2) K-12 still only accounts for about half of the budget in most states (41 % in CA, for example). So the most you'd be seeing with your "back-to-basics" cutbacks is maybe a 25% reduction in State Taxes.

    3) So let's see now 25% reduction in state taxes probably saves you, at most, a few grand a year, probably less, Losing one income earner will cost you more like 25 grand, at least.

    4) Another Conservative Pipedream bites the dust.

  3. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Slashback: Google, Surveillance, Stardust · · Score: 1

    Your point is correct, but one minor factual correction: Kosovo was seperate conflict from Bosnia, in 1999.

  4. Re:Not Google's task to oppose regime on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    Here's two reasons to be somewhat optimistic:

    "The Empire long united, must divide; long divided, must unite. Thus has it always been." - Romance of The Three Kingdoms

    "74,000 protests that took place in China in 2004, according to government figures" - Boston Globe

  5. Re:Bold Statement on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    Indeed, If you get up early in the morning and go to any park in China you'lll see all sorts of people practicing it.

  6. Re:The Notice Is There on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I didn't see it for Tibet , though it is there onGoogle Image search for Tibet.
    Perhaps the top ten results aren't on the censor's list?

  7. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on U.S. Government Wants Google Search Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if you're innocent, you shouldn't have to worry

    This is extremely firghtening. The Forth Amendment says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" NOT "The Goverment shall search through any your posessions and records, but if you're innocent you should have nothing to fear."

    "We need two prisons, one for the guilty and one for the innocent."

  8. Re:**AA? on Search Engines Leech Value from Web Sites · · Score: 1

    It's the *AA or the ??AA, **AA is redundant.

  9. Re:There goes on BellSouth Will Charge Providers For Performance · · Score: 1

    As much as I hate responding to Trolls: Here you go.

    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-6005_22-5764187.html

    By the way, that took two seconds on Google, less time than it took you to write your post.

  10. Re:The quote that sums it up on Sony RootKit Still A Problem? · · Score: 1

    How I long for Government of the people, by the people and for the people. Unfortunatly this hasn't been true for quite a while.

  11. Re:There goes on BellSouth Will Charge Providers For Performance · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why do people keep on insisting that ISPs are Common Carriers when they aren't?

    See the damn Wikipedia article:
    The key FCC Order on this point is: IN RE FEDERAL-STATE JOINT BOARD ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE, 13 FCC Rcd. 11501 (1998), which holds that ISP service (both "retail" and backbone) is an "information service" (not subject to common carrier obligations) rather than a "telecommunications service" (which might be classified as "common carriage").

  12. Re:Greed on BellSouth Will Charge Providers For Performance · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nice Internet Business you've got there... Hate to anything happen to it...

  13. Re:Benjamin Franklin, the truest of American Heroe on Happy 300th Birthday Benjamin Franklin · · Score: 2, Funny

    he must be spinning in his grave!

    Hmm, maybe we could hook up a turbine up to him and generate some electricity. That would be properly honoring Franklin's inventive spirit.

  14. Re:C++ has its place on Demise of C++? · · Score: 1

    (((((I (wonder) why)) ((that) could)) be?))

  15. Did anyone else notice... on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 5, Funny

    that the author of the BBC article is Chris Hogg?

  16. Re:This is so Funny on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 1

    It's more the fourth amendment than the fifth that protects you in this case, although both are relevant.

    IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    V

    No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

  17. Re:2 - 12 Volts? on Tapping Trees for Electricity? · · Score: 1

    Silly goose! A = V/R.

  18. Re:Back to (Tiananmen) Square One? on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 3, Informative

    China has had several thousand protests a year for the last few years and they're getting more numerous. They're only getting scant attantion in the Western media though, since it's mostly poor people protesting poor wages, unsafe working conditions, corrupt officials, government abuses, etc., rather than media savy students fighting for democracy.

  19. Re:Conflicts with other studies on Burned CDs Last 5 years Max -- Use Tape? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've had burned CDs die very quickly as well though. Therefore the only solution is to upload your music onto P2P netwroks to save the back up copy fair use entitles you to.

  20. Re:A Closer Look on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Many foreign miltaries are complaining that google details their installations just a little too well...

  21. Re:Locking up our culture on A Look at Google DRM · · Score: 1

    I think he was using Redundant in a Biercian way:

    REDUNDANT, adj.
      Superfluous; needless; de trop.

          The Sultan said: "There's evidence abundant
          To prove this unbelieving dog redundant."
          To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive,
          Replied: "His head, at least, appears excessive."
                          Habeeb Suleiman

          Mr. Debs is a redundant citizen.
                              Theodore Roosevelt

  22. Re:get rid of waste on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    One thing that it seems everyone responding to this idea has forgotten is that subduction zones are very deep under the sea, ~5000 meters or so, so it would be very expensive to transport the waste and the drilling equipment there in the first place.

  23. Re:must be more zero tolerance on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know gouys, They might just use the /.ing of the site as evidence against him in the trial.

    See how destructive his actions were, your honor. The school's servers were down for days.

  24. Re:Stop naming tropical storms... on Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic · · Score: 2, Informative
  25. Re:Question on More CA Games Bill Reactions · · Score: 1

    A number of reasons:

    Article IV Section 4:
    The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.

    This has been interepted is requiring the states to honor certain provisions of the Bill of Rights.

    Amendment 14 Section 1:
    No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    This is fairly clear that States can't take away rights you have on the Federal level.