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  1. Re:Illegal eh? on Surveillance Watchdog Concludes Metadata Program Is Illegal, "Should End" · · Score: 0

    The real problem is the fact that we have things like the "executive order". The executive order did not exist pre-civil war, which was not about ending slavery, but about ensuring the presence of a central banking authority.

    Our United States is not the same as the one in the original Constitution, composed of voluntary States, but is founded upon General Orders 100 (a.k.a The Lieber Code), and most especially upon General Orders 100 Article 2:

    "Martial Law does not cease during the hostile occupation, except by special proclamation, ordered by the commander in chief; or by special mention in the treaty of peace concluding the war, when the occupation of a place or territory continues beyond the conclusion of peace as one of the conditions of the same. "

    There has never been a "special proclamation, ordered by the commander in chief" or a "treaty of peace concluding the war", and all laws since then have been based upon this form of "martial law", and not the Constitution we have been taught about.

    http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19t...

  2. Re:Dumb bitch. on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 1

    I don't think we should throw her in jail/prison. That won't help much. I think we should put her through a two-week professional driver's course.

    EDUCATION IS THE ANSWER - make it more difficult to get a driver's license by requiring serious driver's training, including proper etiquette.

    We should also require by law that all new vehicles LOUDLY inform the user via auditory and visual mechanisms whenever they break the speed limit.

  3. Re:Government sells seized assets on US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD · · Score: 1

    Gold is merely a nice looking metal with few practical uses, but it is a finite metal that is based in reality, not in accounting or paper or some human made system, but in the very essence of our existence. It is rare and unique enough to make it of general interest, yet bountiful enough to use as currency.

    The problem with gold, everyone says, is that it is just not easy enough to spend. You actually have to meet someone person to person, weigh out using a mutually trusted scale, and then pass over the goods. I personally consider this required face to face exchange to be a very significant feature in the currency, as I think it would be especially healthy for our society to be based on real things in general, not on ancient paperwork, convenience and legalese.

  4. City of London = Privately owned Corporation on It's Official: Registrars Cannot Hold Domains Hostage Without a Court Order · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the City of London is a privately owned corporation. I would imagine their police are also.

    Do not mistake London the city with the City of London.

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-city-medieval

  5. "Fully Decentralized" on Twister: The Fully Decentralized P2P Microblogging Platform · · Score: 2

    Nothing is ever "fully decentralized" until the internet itself is a giant mesh network.

  6. Why was he there? on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 0

    He hasn't committed any sort of violent crime. There's no need to remove him from society.

  7. Re:Good for Him on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 2

    Minimum security prisons no longer as nice as you claim them to be.

  8. Good for Him on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 0

    But when we find him we should just kill him. Right guys? MORE punishment will make things better; make the world better; make him a better functional member of society. Right?

  9. Re:What drove him to that? on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 0

    Exactly my thoughts. No one escapes prison with such a short sentence left unless they have a good reason.

  10. Re:You'd figure the guy would on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 1

    He was probably spending most of his time trying to not be raped or murdered.

  11. Re:What an idiot. on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 1

    He obviously had a reason to escape immediately. I wonder what was happening to him.

  12. Good for Him on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have no doubt his human rights were being trampled with sub par food, health treatment, and safety. I'm glad when anyone manages to escape the US incarceration system, aka "hell on earth". Hopefully he wasn't raped since it was a low security prison. If caught again, I'm guessing they'll put him in a higher security prison with a higher chance of him being raped/murdered and even less access to basic mammalian needs.

    Rehabiliation my ass - our prisons serve only to dehabilitate.

  13. Re:kind of ruins the point....... on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 2

    Do I actually need to state that institutions are made up of individuals? Institutions are not run by the teachers - the people who run the institution must care so that when choosing a teacher to fill a position they carefully select teachers who actually care. It is indeed the leaders of the institute who have the power to hire these uncaring professors.

  14. Re:At least... on Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio · · Score: 2

    Who cares about the constitution? The government does whatever it wants to. They have the big guns.

  15. Re:Oh my. on Your Phone Number Is Going To Get a Reputation Score · · Score: 1

    You can if you make use of Google voice. You're able to select your number from a list and change it at any time.

  16. Card's Responses to These Allegations on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    http://www.hatrack.com/misc/Quotes_in_Context.shtml

    From reading this document published on his personal fan site in response to these allegations, I take that his view is that marriage is, by definition, a bond between a man and a women.

    Just speculating, but he may not have any issue with a homosexual bond at all so long as that bond isn't called "marriage".

  17. Re:And all will have due process on RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Mob rule is the fall back when a republic is usurped by an aristocratic elite.

  18. Re:what the flying fuck? on RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Protip to corporations: if you want to sell stuff, you need to have a middle class to buy it, which means you can't horde your funds or merely cycle them among the already wealthy.

    "trickle down economics" works as well as "bottom up economics", but really what we need is "middle to middle economics", in which the majority of the population earn similar amounts.

    Somehow, every system we build, no matter how new and updated, an aristocracy forms at the top of the power structure and attempts to rule the masses indefinitely.

  19. Re: 153 GOP voted to default on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1
  20. Re:153 GOP voted to default on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    How the hell does a government get into debt when it can print money?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iFDe5kUUyT0

  21. Re:153 GOP voted to default on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    If only that were true! The system is set up so that the US government BORROWS from the Federal Reserve.

    For every dollar borrowed, a dollar twenty five is owed. It is literally impossible to pay all of the dollars back because, well, there aren't that many dollars in existence.

    Unless, of course, the US government decided to actually start printing its own money again instead of handing that power to a private corporation with private stock holders.

    This video will tell you everything you need to know about the root cause of problems in this nation:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iFDe5kUUyT0

  22. Re:Why? on Samsung Creates Phone With Curved Display · · Score: 1

    Then you havent met someone who has tried to use the Galaxy Note with one hand.

  23. Re:Douche-o-matic on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 1

    This is true. Why the down mod?

  24. Re:The problem here... on Finding a Tech Museum For Your Beloved Retired Computer(s) · · Score: 1

    incorrect moderation post + insightful

  25. Re:If this was Apple... on Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 · · Score: 1

    I used to do that too, until I started taking them apart. So far, Samsung and LG are the easiest to disassemble and reassemble compared to HTC & iPhone.