Notably missing from Mr. Curtis' statement is anything that would prevent him, or any other "citizen candidate", from taking campaign contributions from the same special interests, lobbyitsts, PACs, and corporate interests as the usual assortment of candidates.

"Leave people alone" is a statement so broad that it is completely meaningless. It is impossible to live in a manner that has no impact on other people. The hard and real question is always where the lines should be drawn.

SInce the key is presumably only useful when it is in the same location as the lock, how does this improve security?

And yet, I heard a different Republican senator being interviewed this morning, who stated that we need to tighten restrictions on immigration to low and no skill jobs, and allow more immigration of doctors and those with technical skills.

Long ago, I decided that when you hear an opinion from a US politician, all it really tells you is who is financing their campaign. Sometimes the opinion they give is just meant to warn somebody that they haven't contributed enough.

What is your native dialect, that you have such a hard time recognizing sarcasm or irony? Obviously, the distinction was being drawn to the fact that just because it was cold in the AC's backyard (around here) doesn't mean it wasn't warmer globally (everywhere).

When I was a child, you had to live at least a mile and a quarter from the school to qualify for the bus. Everyone else walked. This was considered absolutely normal. When I was in first grade, I went with some of the neighbor kids. I was six, and this was elementary school, so the oldest kid in the group was probably 10? Crime rates in the US are much lower today than they were then. Just dumb.

Shooting is too easy to trace. Why not just close down traffic in select locations. This could be done to inhibit people getting to the polls or to punish local businesses after the fact. Plus, experience shows it's much harder to pin this on anyone. Shootings tend to leave a smoking gun.

I don't know why you were modded down. The use of caveman speak to illustrate caveman logic is actually pretty funny.

An example of what? In the context given, it seems to be an example of something that should not be regulated because it is not a pollutant. Why is it not a pollutant? What does the fact that it is produced by breathing have to do with it?

Well, shit, we create shit by shitting it. I therefore demand that you stop treating shit as a pollutant.

I'll continue to treat it as one, because I'm well aware that biological processes quite naturally produce all sorts of pollutants. But you go ahead and live by your rules.

Presumably, this discovery would be accompanied by some facts about the nature of the organisms that lived on Mars, not just the fact that they existed. It's hard to know what uses you can put knowledge to when you don't even know what that knowledge is yet.

Yep, that's why nobody submitted anything to the FCC comment filing.

Oh wait: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

"treating Windows with a WM_CLASS as DockApp as DockApps."

Well, if it walks like a DockApp and talks like DockApp, it's probably a DockApp.

P.S. - I like words better when they actually say things.

Blah Blah Blah Blah... there is an obvious and easy solution to this. Just license everything to all Netfilx customers, instead of regionally. The value of the content that is regional probably adds up to less than the cost to police these stupid rules. In fact, there is more than a decent chance that there would be a net savings to Netfilx and their customers, and a net gain to all content providers.

I actually read Mr. Tyson's post. I found no hamstering in it. Your problem appears to be with Slashdot characterizing it as an "explanation". In fact, it didn't contain any explanation about the motives or meaning of the tweet. Perhaps it is time to stop blindly believing what the news media feeds you, including Slashdot's slapdash editors.