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Comment Re:It is alarming for a judge to say this (Score 1) 584

The possession of self-loading firearms cannot be something the Framers envisioned as one of our natural rights, because they were not invented before 1776. Legal and safe abortions cannot be something the Framers envisioned as one of our natural rights, because it was not invented in 1776. Blacks voting and going to school cannot be something the Framers envisioned as one of our natural rights, because it was not invented in 1776.

I could go on. Point being, the constitution is a living document, it gets extrapolated to present day life, and "Framers" don't get the last say.

Submission + - Federal judge says no right to secret ballot (denverpost.com)

doug141 writes: A Colorado county put bar codes on printed ballots in a last minute effort to comply with a rule about eliminating identifying markings. Citizens sued, because the bar codes can still be traced back to individual voters. In a surprise ruling, Denver U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello said the U.S. Constitution did not contain a "fundamental right" to secret ballots, the citizens could not show their voting rights had been violated, nor that they might suffer any specific injury from the bar codes.
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Submission + - Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Smartphone Charging Coming in 2013 (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: The search for a hydrogen based cell phone charger is over as ROHM, Aquafairy and Kyoto University have developed a hydrogen based fuel cell that is capable of charging a phone in about 2 hours. Electricity in the compact and portable fuel cell is generated by producing hydrogen through a chemical reaction that involves calcium hydride sheets and water. The fuel cell generates approximately 4.5 liters of hydrogen from the calcium hydride sheet that is less than 3cc in volume thus providing 5Whr of electricity. ROHM said that the new fuel cell operate in ambient temperatures making it suitable for day to day use with smartphones, tablets, other portable devices.

Comment possible without violating causality (Score 1) 867

if compressing the space in front of you ALSO compresses the time dimension of spacetime, causing you to travel faster through time as well, keeping you in your light cone. Travelling this way would not be any different from the conventional way (and enjoying lorentz time contraction while you do so), except instead of rocket propulsion you have wave propulsion.

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