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  1. Re:Makes Total Sense on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Oh, and I'm willing to bet that you're white because white people don't have a problem with having suspicious looking brown people refused passage on a flight. I'm sure though that if someone put your name on the TSA's no-fly list that you'd be singing a different tune very, very quickly. Did you RTFA? John Gilmore is a suspicious looking WHITE guy. And if my name appeared on TSA's no-fly list I'd be far more concerned with how it got there, then actually making my flight.

  2. Re:No particular, but any? on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    There is also nothing in the Constitution about protecting your ananonymity, you must be thinking of Earthlink ads.

  3. Ummm on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    How are we know that you are in fact an American Citizen,to whom these rights apply,if you don't prove it? Big Brother already knows you are traveling, your name is printed on the ticket.

  4. Re:This is simply... on Cingular Patents the Emoticon? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, when will this patent frenzy of stupidity end?

          When someone manages to patent stupidity.

  5. Re:News flash: global warming in effect on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record · · Score: 1

    So we fended off an Ice Age and this is bad? Given that we will stop using fossil fuels in 50 years anyhow (whether we want to or not) why do we need to panic? The loss of land mass to a rising ocean is nothing compared to the other factors contributing to our near future population density. You want a greener earth? forget zero-emmision cars and worry about population control.

  6. Re:News flash: global warming in effect on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record · · Score: 1

    Save the plankton! Kill the Whales!

  7. What if... on Making Files Available Breaking the Law? · · Score: 1

    ... I own all of the computers on the network, and the CD, is it still illegal then? or if it's someone else's CD and I'm just using my computer as a CD player? Where is the legal line?

  8. Re:Ignoring facts on Both Parties Ignore the Facts · · Score: 1

    Christ was also born in a barn, traveled mostly by foot, occassionally slept outside, wore the most basic of clothing, ate very simply, etc. The unfortunate fact is he never addressed this modern situation. Needy in Jesus time meant naked,homeless and starving to death. Everyone agrees we should help those people. What we have here is people who have some and want more.

  9. Republican without insurance on Both Parties Ignore the Facts · · Score: 1

    People with money have access to better everything than people without. Fact of life get used to it. Healthcare has progressed to the point where we have to put a pricetag on the extension of human life, failure to do so is why our current system is in shambles. The majority of $$$ is spent on the extension of terminal cases through excessive efforts. Those costs are distributed to everyone paying into the system, putting healthcare out of reach for the poor. That's why an ace bandage costs $30 in an emergency room visit and doctors bill for $400 an hour. Just like all of the other dividing issues mentioned, you only think there are two potential views because that's all the politicians want you to think about, because those issues are what they use to lead you around. They have no interest in actually providing a solution, because the problem has become such a valuable tool in influencing the public.

  10. With costs born by the state ... on Both Parties Ignore the Facts · · Score: 1

    I already pay enough to raise the babies of the flagrently irresponsible, please don't add hyper-expensive medical care to it. Besides medical science can cure that ill right now. Birth control implants have existed for some time now and can be removed when family is desired. I'd rather pay for that,then another mouth to feed.

  11. Re:So much for copyrights on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 1

    then it is protected as it contains a creative selection of votes.

  12. the secret ballot on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 1

    ... so secret even you don't know who your vote counted for.

  13. Re:big numbers? on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 1

    It's not computers we don't trust, it's the people controling those computers. There is no proof and no recourse to know if your vote was ever counted without a paper trail. If I can get a recipt for a donut, I should get one for my presidential vote.

  14. Diebold on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not just any company, a company run by a senator. "In 1996, Hagel became the first elected Republican Nebraska senator in 24 years when he did surprisingly well in an election where the votes were verified by the company he served as chairman and maintained a financial investment. In both the 1996 and 2002 elections, Hagel's ES&S counted an estimated 80% of his winning votes." This from an interesting article at http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

  15. Am I a Monkey or a Dog? on When Purchase Recommendations Go Bad · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that the assumtion of victimhood, based on the color of my own skin is not racism against myself?

  16. Re:Maybe on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good job. Next time bill for a four hour minimum. If you can fix it in ten minutes when they were stumped for days, you should at least be able to take the rest of the day off.

  17. Re:Ya Know What They Say? on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    Would that be the middle management suck-up with the nicer car, nicer house, hotter girlfriend, more vacation time, and better parking spot? Maybe you should listen to him, he seem to be on to something.

  18. Re:Remember Hamlet in 15 minutes? on Literature Teeters on the Edge of a 'Gr8 Fall' · · Score: 1

    "but unless you're partial to Old English" Shouldn't the kiddies learn proper modern english first?

  19. Re:Resistance is futile on Former Apple Exec Speaks Against DRM · · Score: 1

    audio output into A/D Converter = copied

  20. Clear this one up for me. on Former Apple Exec Speaks Against DRM · · Score: 1

    "So the artists who are good enough to sign with labels do so, and the labels remain the most likely source of music with the potential of mass appeal, because the only performers not signed with them are the ones who were either judged to be not good enough" -Good enough meaning marketable enough? (Ashley Simpson) or talented enough?(but not young and pretty enough)

  21. Re:France does not have multicultural tolerance on French Riots Lead to Crackdown on Blogs · · Score: 1

    So if you don't want to be "French" don't move to France. Let the French have their country. If these other diverse cultures are so great why do the countries they originated in suck so much? If you want dress, speak, and act like an Algerian, go live in Algeria.

  22. where they draw the line on French Riots Lead to Crackdown on Blogs · · Score: 2, Informative

    A different Wired article explains the official line between free speech and inciting violence. "The Council of Europe has adopted a measure that would criminalize Internet hate speech, including hyperlinks to pages that contain offensive content." "Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors."

  23. mod parent up on School Power Over Student Web Speech? · · Score: 1

    for a group that hates government intrusion as much as /. I'm suprised that this is the first post that really suggests that the students stand up for themselves without whining to the courts.

  24. Re:Personal Experience on School Power Over Student Web Speech? · · Score: 1

    Follow the flow of the money. The teachers work for the students, why does everyone forget this? Exercise your capitalist power and the admin will step right back into place. Provide the service they are paid for and otherwise STFU.

  25. Are you serious? on Archimedes Death Ray · · Score: 1

    Um, did you just question the construction ability of the Ancient Greeks?