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Comment The biggest threat to freedom (Score 1) 85

The biggest threat to life and liberty is the State. Israel has killed more civilians than Hamas, the US has killed more civilians than Al-Quaeda.
The US constitution, despite its age, can be a strong limit on state power. But all three branches of government have to have principled people in them who are willing to enforce the constitution, not look the other way like they did during the internment of Japanese-origin Americans or the "rendition" to torture of Canadians and Americans of Arab origin.

Comment Re:For the curious (Score 1) 922

This may be a subtle distinction. He was convicted of "inciting racial hatred", but his comments seem more to be expressing racial hatred than inciting.

See them all at http://chirpstory.com/li/5261

He doesn't entice others to share his views, doesn't say anyone should be hurt (except "@UnknownCallerr yes it is you fucking cunt ! Go rape your mother!", or "@Kickthestoat go rape your dog! #Cunt!" which seem raceless)

So I think the conviction for "inciting" is wrong. He may be a racist drunk, but he didn't incite anything.

Comment Blood boiling myth (Score 1) 155

It's a myth that your blood will "boil" in a vacuum, at least while it is still within you.Your blood pressure is higher than the vapor pressure of the water in your blood. See http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html So Dave can make it across the void and kill Hal. It was science fiction, not science fantasy. tOM

Comment The problem is our clocks. (Score 1) 395

Pish, we'd have maximum sunlight if we always rose at dawn. But dawn time keeps changing. So if we redefined the day to start at dawn rather than midnite, and workday clocks were changed to always measure from there, the problem would be solved. (Yeah, penguins and polar bears WOULD have problems...)

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