*horrified shudder*

Ah, you're right, the AC was responding to another AC who only mentioned Michael Brown, but the reference to it being "recorded on video" certainly refers to Scott.

The forensic evidence showed that Brown was facing the officer when he was shot, not that he was running away. The only question is how far away he was when the shots were fired.

You'd have to check the regulations, but the air high above your property is not considered your property. There's a certain distance above which it becomes airspace that you do not own.

Come on, man, don't bring that American League junk in here, this is Slashdot, we should be civilized!
Play real baseball -- National League or nothing.

8-12 people is not nearly a large enough sample size to make much of a conclusion about, well, anything really.

The opposite (and just as valid, heh) way of looking at it is to say "when you have nothing, you don't care about taking from others, but when you actually have something worth protecting is when you start getting protectionist about money, property, etc."

I meta-moderate every once in awhile, sadly I've never gotten in my metas one of those obvious "clearly gaming the system" situations. :( I suspect it doesn't happen that often compared to all of the -other- moderating that goes on all the time, but that when it does, it's high-profile and visible.

Freedom of speech does not mean that others are required to support your speech.
Freedom of speech means that, should they choose to, others may support your speech without government interference.

Freedom of speech does not mean that someone else has to pay for your ability to reach as many people as you can with your speech.
Freedom of speech does mean that if others agree with you, they can pay for your ability to reach as many people as you can with your speech.

When I've down-modded something for being non-factual, it's been for things that are actually non-factual and fact-checkable, as opposed to subjective statements like "Reddit has NEVER been about free speech!"

Even then, if something is factually wrong, Troll/Flamebait are inappropriate, since that wasn't the original intent. I use "overrated," especially if it was modded up, as the post is not a high enough quality to support its "high" (which might be the default) mod value.

It was a vampiric cloud of energy. One of the better Star Trek TOS episodes.

She was definitely an OSS member, but I can't find any references to her being other than a typist and office coordinator for the Allies.

I wish! It might work for that, but NBC is pretty good about getting takedowns on youtube so that you have to watch videos on their very-poorly-designed website.. which I guess is unavailable outside the US.

Not if it doesn't have the money to pay debts. Debt payments are a government expense just as valid as roads, army, health care, pensions, or anything else that the government pays for. It's only when you remove debt payment that the budget becomes balanced.

That Obama, he can't do anything right. He tries to crater the economy and now it's better than it was when he took office.