Yes. He's charged "with one count of wire fraud, 10 counts of commodities fraud, 10 counts of commodities manipulation, and one count of “spoofing,” a practice of bidding or offering with the intent to cancel the bid or offer before execution."

Quit exaggerating; it was only a 600 point slide. That's only $180,000,000,000, or 5.5% of the 30 most important companies in the U.S..

Actually, I'm surprised the guy is still alive; they must be hoping to recover some of the money before they off him.

Incorrect.

Military bases are not subject to normal law, they are operated under the UCMJ. The detention camp is a military prison located on the grounds of a U.S. Naval base, which was established as a coaling and naval station under the Cuban-American treaty of 1903. The U.S. leases it from Cuba for $4,085/year, and has since 1934 (prior to that, back to 1903, it was $2,000/year).

In this case, the Federal government derives its authority from treaty, not from the Constitution.

Which Obama then signed into law in order to obtain the powers granted the executive branch under Patriot II.

Just order everyone the hell out, and it won't matter what's in the appropriations bills, will it? As soon as the detainees hit U.S. soil, it's game over as far as denying them constitutional rights.

It'd look like the Works Progress Administration from the New Deal era following the great depression of course, but with minimum bidder, rather than an actual attempt to guarantee jobs for people who would otherwise starve to death, because a WPA infrastructure project can be restarted over and over again every 10-15 years and create more blue collar jobs than it would if the building, roads, and dams were built to last 75 years instead of just 15.

In other words, big government boondoggle to create ditch digging jobs for people not qualified for other jobs.

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And for that, instead of a useless war on terror, we get a useless train which no one wants to ride because the security theater and speed make it more of a PITA than the airline. It might be a fun vacation trip exactly once, particularly if they are maintaining the "free train rides if you blog about how great it was, even if it wasn't". Maybe twice, if you take the ride back as well.

High sped trains in the U.S. usually aren't.

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http://chi.streetsblog.org/201...

The typical PETA reaction to "rescued animals" is that, having been domesticated, they should be euthanized. Not sure how the NhRP intends to handle emancipated chimps; one would expect that they have a larger plan that, them having legal rights, would not result in euthanizing the animals.

Gitmo is not *in this country*.

The entire *point* of Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay detention camp) is its extraterritoriality, and the fact that non-U.S. citizen detainees there are thus not afforded constitutional protections. That's *precisely* why Gitmo exists, and it's *precisely* why no president has, or will, honor their campaign promises to close the thing. It's too damn useful. Obama could close it tomorrow, if he wanted to, by fiat, by issuing an executive order. He is commander in chief of the armed forces, which is who runs the place. He won't: it's too damn useful.

I think if you have one company in a city that had the delivery franchise, and sold delivery services to everyone who wanted delivery services via drone, you could probably make it work, especially if you had limited flight corridors, they were rather silent, and you automated the traffic control. I think you'd also want delivery lock boxes that standard box sizes got delivered into, and the ability to text an access code to the recipient for them to collect their package - and oly theirs - from the lock box.

In a suburban setting, you might be able to avoid the lock box, and it'd be an excellent replacement for "waiters on wheels" or similar concierge/courier food delivery (and likely cheaper).

Eat my shorts.

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Given that I also wrote much of the init.c in FreeBSD, you probably failed to fix that for me. :p

Actually, that one did. It resulted in both "Gulf War Syndrome", and a pretty big scandal where Monsanto brokered the deal to sell the machines to manufacture chemical weapons to them from a German company, said deal routed through France. But nice try.

PS: Plus we sold them the Sarin the used against their Kurdish separatists directly, so we knew they had it at one time, and were just hoping they hadn't used it all up so we could say "Aha! Stockpiles!".

"It will produce 50 million gallons of water per day and will provide 7% of the potable water needs for the San Diego region."

Cool. Now you only need to build another 14 of them to satisfy the water needs of the area...

Maybe robots could build desalination plants?

It''s pretty damn sure that humans never will; they'll plan them, and then shelve the plans, over and over. At least robots are single-minded enough to actually do the work.

It was definitely a "fuck you, this is a phone; this is not another fucking Newton".

Full disclosure: I was an Apple Core OS kernel team member at the time. I wrote 7% of the kernel that runs on the things.

That's a misdemeanor.