TFA also says the CDAA opposed it as well, for being "too vague." This could be a genuine issue. For one, it could have unintended secondary effects (such as being open enough to be abused in ways it was never intended), or itself be ruled unconstitutional for being too wide-sweeping in its vagueness. This is just speculation for now as I try to dig up more info.

For that matter, I'm not sure of the utility of a state law reaffirming the Constitution's constitutionality. But it could be interesting to see what this one dissenter is all about.

Well unfortunately, whether intentionally or not, by criticizing only one side you're implicitly exculpating the other by omission. Same had you only mentioned Bush, since both have played their parts in this issue. Not that I disagree with what you said, only that you may have muddied your message with that closing paragraph. Consider this a stylistic suggestion rather than an argument.

I wasn't trying to imply that orcas aren't intelligent. My objection was over the irrelevant ranking.

Yeah, the ad hominem was uncalled for. That doesn't make him right though. Cognition is a complex field, and "my species can beat up your species" serves no purpose in understanding either species.

And btw, orcas aren't near relations to dolphins, they are dolphins.

Apologies for the insult, was pissed about something else when I came across your comment, and "x species is smarter than y species" is one of my pet peeves.

Aww, and you were doing so well right up until you had to do the red-vs-blue baiting.

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I'd warrant that both are more intelligent than you, even though I know better than to suggest intelligence is a linear scale.

RMS, easily. His foot fungus is like spinach is to Popeye.

Modded "Troll" for pointing out a couple facts? Never change, Slashdot.

...in that most of userland was already available freely for him to use, and BSD's free release was delayed by court cases.

Animals, most likely.

I can't imagine even a long drop hanging being painless. Think how it'd feel to have your shoulder knocked out of alignment, then imagine that sensation in your neck instead. Consider that the brain can survive for about ten minutes without oxygen, even if unconsciousness would come somewhat sooner. Breaking the neck simply cuts off the brain from the rest of the body and halts its movement--it doesn't instantly kill everything from the noose up.

I'm not interested in joining the death penalty debate, simply putting forth the notion that motionless does not equate painless.

Nowhere it the Constitution are those rights declared. You're thinking of the Declaration of Independence. Life, liberty, and property can be taken away with due process of law, and nowhere are you guaranteed happiness or even its pursuit.

They can be good in some situations, where the worker is someone with no real power and is easily abused. I'd rather not go on too much of a tangent here though, so it suffices to say the topic of unions is not a black-and-white situation.

Heh. But I've run into my fair share of good cops, and I appreciate them all the more with every new report on the bad ones.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/1...

The good ones may be a dying breed. I'd rather not hasten that by mislabeling them.