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Comment Re:I like John Dvorak. (Score 1) 299

I give him credit for having a reliable game plan. If he needs page views, he bashes Apple and gets at least one fact wrong. Word will spread among The Apple Faithful(tm), and they'll read his work and argue it endlessly, not realizing or caring that every click lines his pockets. He has done this for at least a decade.

Comment most of the people here can make a computer lie (Score 1) 388

I want to go back to voting with punch cards. It's cheap, simple (unless you're a retiree in West Palm Beach), there are less opportunities for shenanigans, and there's an archive to go back to for a recount rather than "oops, district 733 crashed; they don't count this year".

Comment back of the envelope calc (Score 1) 221

(A (Campaign contributions) * B (number of years of service) ) + ( C (cost of jobs given to friends/relatives ) - D (their actual productivity) ) + E (speaking fees paid to the senator after the senator's retirement) = TCO Now subtract TCO from the gains from favorable legislation and you'll see that your average senator can be a real bargain. Collect them all!

Comment Re:Guilty? (Score 1) 296

I won't consider him guilty until he's convicted, and maybe not even then. He had to know as soon as he gave up anonymity, something like this would happen to him. The powers that be will ruin him as much as they can, as publicly as they can, both as a warning to others and as a distraction from the truths he helped reveal.

Comment Re:99.999% false positives? (Score 1) 376

Even a false positive might only be false after the fact. In this case, I think if the cops showed up asking about the curious searches that they a) wouldn't have gone through with it and b) might have been busted for possesion even if they still would have.

The female doesn't seem to have been arrested yet but the boyfriend has. I'm expecting a breakup.

Comment Doesn't matter that he won. He lost. (Score 5, Insightful) 278

He lost 11 months of freedom and overall two years of his life fighting bullshit charges. He had to move in with his parents, his girlfriend left him (she got arrested too), I presume he's no longer employed, and two years later he has nothing to show for it but a hollow victory in court. The government got what they wanted out of him: He's a warning to others of what they can do to you even if you've done nothing wrong.

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