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Comment Re:Reasonable expectations (Score 1) 256

The 4th amendment is suppose to protect you from government search and seizure in your own premise.

Where does it say that? All I see is this:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated

It doesn't state where you have to be to get those rights. It doesn't say you can be secure in your houses only. It lists those other things (persons, papers, and effects) precisely so the government can't wait around for you to leave your house and then search you or your stuff.

Comment Re:Reasonable expectations (Score 4, Insightful) 256

**WARNING: SLIPPERY SLOPE DETECTOR ACTIVATED**
"No one forced you to use the train/subway/bus so of course they should be able to search you" (Already happening)
"No one forced you to drive on public roads so of course they should be able to search you" (They are working on deploying scanner tech for the roadside right now)
"No one forced you to use public sidewalks so of course they should be able to search you"

Uh. I guess I'll stay in my house?

Comment Re:Activism (Score 2) 225

I heard a story about a bunch of truckers who wanted to ride slowly around DC to block up the roads in protest. (I can't think of their names to provide a link). They most certainly considered it free speech despite the fact that the thousands of people behind them on the highway have no idea what's going on. I don't know if they ever went through with it. If they did, would they have been thrown in jail for a decade and fined for all of the financial damage it caused?

That parallel seems pretty clear to me.

Comment Re:Activism (Score 4, Insightful) 225

It's a difference in views. People view blocking a street as free speech. They see people staging a sit-in as trying to raise awareness for their cause and the send a message.

DDoS, on the other hand, they view as vandalism (unfathomably severe vandalism, if these prosecutors are to be believed).

Objectively, I don't see much of a difference between a sit-in and a DDoS but that might just be because I understand what a DDoS is. Most people don't.

Comment Re:Healthcare (Score 4, Informative) 356

What? How? Explain the context to me then. I've watched the entire video and the line means exactly what you'd expect.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what...who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. ...These are people who pay no income tax. ...and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

Also, did you forget about the "You didn't build that" misquote? The line in context CLEARLY meant "You didn't build that infrastructure." Yet, the Republicans used the misquote as the theme of their damn national convention!

Comment Re:Ironic this... (Score 1) 1030

I've thought about this before too. The problem I foresee is with following the supply chain. What if another shell company does all of the dirty parts and sends the result to the company that does the final assembly in the same country? How do you follow a supply chain all the way back to the ore being pulled out of the ground when it changes hands a dozen times across multiple borders?

Comment Re:Why subsidize? (Score 1) 1030

That's because the opposite of conservative is not liberal. The opposite of conservative is progressive (usually this describes their economic positions). The opposite of liberal is authoritarian (in terms of social policies). Having no knowledge of Germanic politics, I can't know for sure if this is what he means.

Comment Re:Why can't you just go to a Gov office? (Score 4, Informative) 276

You can. Not just local government offices, but local community centers. You can also call someone with the government over the phone to help you find insurance. Or, alternatively, you can get the information directly from the insurance companies (whom you have to sign up with anyway, even when using the website).

There's an intentional obfuscation of the situation here to try and equate the roll out of the website with the roll out of the law. They are not the same thing.

Comment Re:Why put the automation in if not to use it? (Score 2) 270

The summary states that the report calls for more manual flying in the air, though. Which means using less automation. This seems like the wrong way to go about it since it gives more chances for human error. It seems to me that the better solution would be more mandatory yearly simulation time with simulations focusing on how to properly handle auto pilot failures. That way, you keep the pilots in practice without making the passengers any less safe.

Comment Re:I wish them success... (Score 4, Interesting) 186

Better yet, place a banner at the top of each page found to be edited for pay. The banner can read "Company/Person X has been found to pay to edit this article to hide the truth from you. We have reverted those changes but here is a list of things that they don't want you to know: " I'd think that this behavior would end real quick when the dirt they're trying to hide becomes the highlight of the article.

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