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Comment Re:Census Violates the 5th Amendment (Score 1) 311

I guess if someone is dumb enough to list "Drug Dealer" as his occupation rather than "Unemployed".

To be worried about the Census Bureau having your name, age and address is stupid, Law Enforcement can already get it from the IRS, SSA, or state DMV databases, and that's just a few and they are likely much more up-to-date than the Census Bureau's data.

Comment Re:What's the hype? (Score 1) 215

Last I checked, no one has to jailbreak their Linux install to run their own applications. You can in fact unpack the source, compile and run just about any software from within ~. One only needs root to install it globally.

Repos generally only provide supported packages and are not a walled-garden. In fact many distros make it trivial to create custom repos.

Comment Re:How else they gonna do it? (Score 4, Informative) 461

Except that the longest distance in Great Britain is ~600 miles North to South, that is roughly distance from New York City to Cincinnati. It is still another 2100 miles from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. The amount of coordination required to get all of that escort in place to move nuclear material from coast-to-coast means just about everyone would know when these trucks were moving.

Comment Re:Blah (Score 5, Insightful) 725

>>>Always good to see uneducated crazies are all over the world.

Always good to see people who are intolerant of Christians. If you can be tolerant of gays, and tolerant of people speaking ideas you disagree with, why can't you be tolerant of Muslims, Jews, and Christians too? They have as much right to "pursue happiness" as anybody else, even if you disagree with their religious philosophy.

Maybe it's because gays just want to enjoy the same rights that you enjoy; whereas Muslims, Jews and Christians want to remove the rights they feel disagree with their beliefs.

Their right to "pursue happiness" stops when they try to impinges on the rights to pursue happiness by others.

Comment Re:Neflix != Amazon, and postal service == bad (Score 1) 504

Umm, no that would be the worst possible outcome. The reason that there is a monopoly on first-class mail is to help the USPS be profitable. The USPS delivers mail to everyone, not just to urban areas with high distribution area. For-profit companies would pick-and-choose their delivery area much like the cable companies as well phone companies do with Internet services.

The higher cost of delivery for rural areas is subsidized by the lower cost of delivery and still costs less than 50 cents for most letters. I think it is unlikely FedEx or UPS could handle the volume the USPS does and make it as low cost for the consumer.

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