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  1. Re:California Strikes Again on Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    I thought the government could hold lots of copyrights, and in fact gets your copyrights when they expire.

    It's called public domain.

  2. Re:A Bad Thing (tm) on Coating a Motherboard In Thermal Resin? · · Score: 1

    A little bit. Most of the heat would spread out into the water or oil through the resin and get conducted away like that.

    Theoretically.

  3. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on Coating a Motherboard In Thermal Resin? · · Score: 1

    You only need fans when the board is exposed to air. This is for immersion in a liquid of some sort. If I'm not mistaken, you can actually take a regular motherboard and submerge it in oil with no other preparation as a super heatsink without damaging it.

    A handy side effect is that you can use it to fry up some food right in your case without even having to get off of your fat ass and go into the kitchen.

  4. Re:Its cut price police - again on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    They've already given us the Community Support Officer (the plastic police) which is effectively a policeman with limited powers - and crucially a lower salary ,

    Sounds more like Fingermen to me.

  5. Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 1

    Lawyers are like parasites. Occasionally they are beneficial to the host, but they remain nothing more than bloodsuckers.

  6. Re:Greed. on Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research · · Score: 1

    Yes, let's prohibit all references to history, so we can repeat the past eternally.

    Great idea.

  7. Re:Bad precedent... on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    It's better than making everyone a criminal, and then giving the police or the district attorney's office the ability to prosecute anyone they want at their discretion.

  8. Re:Beating nerds at their own game? on Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, those must have been some damn smart monkeys.

  9. Re:No, *THESE* are slaves on Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves · · Score: 1

    $7 sounds pretty good for a crab burger with fries and a drink.

    That is, unless you meant...oh wait...

  10. Re:Bad precedent... on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    I've never been let off of a speeding ticket, and I have never jaywalked, but that doesn't matter because those aren't jailable offenses, much less felonies. Laws like this make criminals out of vast swaths of otherwise perfectly law-abiding citizens. The police can then choose to enforce the laws at their whim, using them as tools to quash political dissent, extort bribe money, or do other tyrannical things (for example check out the wiki article. It makes that very distinction.

  11. Re:Huh on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 1

    Of course, if they REALLY wanted to up their ratings, they would have an exotic dancing competition.

    By 2040 the most popular events will be figure skating and the t-shirt wetting contest.

  12. Re:Ban Freedom but dont ban freedom of speech on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    The wussification of America is proceeding apace. It won't be long until the entire country will be conquered by a guy with a whiffle bat and a stern voice.

  13. Re:Bad precedent... on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    So they can just selectively enforce the laws on the books when they think some person is immoral?

    A true Paragon of Justice you are.

  14. Re:Yes the Vatican Is So Pure & Holy on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 1

    I wasn't saying that churches are outlawed by the Bible, simply that Jesus didn't particularly want them, especially the abomination the the Catholic Church (among other money hungry "churches") have become.

    I'm also tired of old people telling me that I'm going to Hell because I don't go to church. I'm going to Hell because I eat meat on Fridays, damnit!

  15. Re:Misleading summary (shock! Surprise!) on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to go out on a limb here and say that you are using non sequitur so you don't have to give a thoughtful response.

    I'm not blaming them because the library director is "stupid" (I would say he is more gullible and/or callow than stupid, but one of these traits does not preclude the other), I'm blaming them BECAUSE THEY BROKE THE LAW. They, members of a federal agency, through deceit or misrepresentation, took city property. Using the badge to commit this crime would probably add a racketeering charge as well.

  16. Re:Yes the Vatican Is So Pure & Holy on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 1

    Yes, he built a figurative church upon the whole world. People don't light the lamp of faith and then hide it, but that doesn't mean that they gather with a bunch of other people with lamps, instead, those with the light should show the way to those in darkness.

    Of course, I'm an atheist, but I can still read the subtleties of a text, even if I don't agree with it.

  17. Re:Misleading summary (shock! Surprise!) on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    I suppose that you blame the victims of con artists and let them get off scott free too, huh? I mean they GAVE them their life savings, so it couldn't have been theft.

  18. Re:No warrant == not legitimate. on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but try asking for the contents of the cash register while having a gun, and boy do people tend to overreact!

    I was just conducting a private investigation, I swear it!

  19. Re:Illegally? on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Receiving stolen goods is a crime, as is conspiracy to commit theft and fraud (claiming to have a right to take the computers when they don't). If they took the stolen materials across state lines, then you get more counts, these ones federal.

    Just because they are the FBI doesn't mean they can just do whatever they like. Any evidence they get from those computers is tainted in any even, fruit of the poison tree and all. This is even worse, because it means that they had NO INTENT to use the information from these computers as evidence for any trial, but are at most looking for people to detain without proper cause.

  20. Re:No warrant == not legitimate. on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Doctors asking for a name to get medical records is a bit different than FBI agents on an unregulated fishing expedition with little or no oversight, and no legal recourse for the subjects of the investigation.

    He who would give up his liberties for a little safety deserves neither and loses both.

  21. Re:And if you listen closely... on Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I see the Mossad has mod points today.

    In any event, the Nazis could be said by apologists to be reacting to the systematic destruction of their economy by bankers, a profession largely dominated by Jews at the time. Of course, that is a bogus reason, and is no excuse for their actions. At most, they should have put those responsible on trial, but that obviously didn't happen, instead choosing to slaughter a whole people.

    If they had left the Jews in the ghettos for much longer, you probably would have started to see Jewish suicide bombers. Israel has kept the Palestinians largely in "ghettos" for more than half a century, and are continually clamping down, and whenever anyone resists, they roll in with tanks and bulldozers and wind up killing a bunch of civilians, especially women and children, which only triggers increased enrollment in terrorist organizations, and increased hatred towards Israel.

    If ever a group of people deserved reparations, the Palestinians are them. They have been enormously oppressed, and continue to be oppressed. The United State's support for the continued apartheid of Israel honestly dumbfounds me.

    Modded flamebait in 3...2...1...

  22. Re:Space Madness! on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would say it is more like an air force test pilot knowing about the latest top secret airplane designs. He might no know how to build one from parts, but he knows its there and he probably knows SOMETHING about its capabilities.

    This doesn't seem to be that far from the truth. It might even be straight up fact.

  23. Re:What Charging Infrastructure? on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    More like we have an industry that has insulated itself so much that the barriers for entry are higher than any domestic firm can muster, leaving a few large companies with complete control over the market.

    Of course, large foreign manufacturers can overcome those barriers, and are subjected to real market forces in their own nations, so they can run circles around the domestic manufacturers.

    If we had a real free market, we would have had electric cars long ago. But we don't have a free market, we have socialism dictated by those corporations with the best lobbyists.

  24. NEWSFLASH! on FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches · · Score: 1

    The government doesn't have your best interests at heart! News at eleven.

  25. Re:Interesting... on ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA · · Score: 1

    I wasn't arguing that it should or shouldn't be illegal to keep and bear arms (it shouldn't), I was arguing that an armed populace CAN overcome the might of the US military, and rather easily, given that the Iraqis gave them a run for their money, EVEN THOUGH guns were illegal, they are relatively poor and oppressed, etc. A nation with a gun for every man woman and child simply CAN NOT be governed without the consent of the people (or at the very least, their disgruntled apathy).

    Also, the notion that you seem to have that governments grant rights is rather disturbing. Those rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights are natural rights that are inherent and vital to human dignity and freedom. That document merely codifies them.

    And finally, the government need not support the second amendment while it is being overthrown. The very fact that it is being overthrown means that it doesn't have the power to suppress that natural right.