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Comment Re:So let me get this straight (Score 2) 686

24% isn't "rare," nor is it such a small number that there is any utility in people raising their hands to say they are in that group.

It reminds me of the 60s. The media would have us believe that it was a "cultural revolution" that led to a bunch of liberal changes, but the history shows that most of the young people during that time actually became more conservative in response to the "revolution," leading to the War on Drugs and a general increase in criminal penalties for a wide variety of crimes associated in the media with hippies.

Comment Re:Kangaroo Court! (Score 1) 114

Adding wrongs together don't make rights.

It does not matter if what the FBI is doing is also literal fraud. It isn't, they're the ones paying the employee, not the other way around, and they clearly tell applicants about the policy.

Fraud "on the ____ people" is not legal "fraud," it is just literary hyperbole. But even if it was the same word as the legal jargon word "fraud," it simply would not help him at all.

Comment Re:You no longer own a car (Score 1) 649

Mostly true, if you're talking about modifying your own car, or a friends. Because, you're not distributing anything.

But if you're doing it as a business, the modified version is a derivative work, and it mostly belongs to them. Considering that it is proprietary, and complicated, and can ruin your engine, the mods tend to be very small, just the changing of stored tuning data. So while I don't like current copyright law, until that law changes then if you want to be able to make and share changes, you should be going with free/libre software.

Computer being in a car changes nothing.

Comment Re:Star Trek Hating Women in Command Roles (Score 1) 143

With or without a Scottish accent?

Either way it would be acceptable right now, and probably popular. But also probably less popular than mainstream Trek memes.

Sci-Fi is hard to do well, there aren't many who try to do a serial space opera. If it was a more popular genre (among producers) then we'd be seeing male captains in skirts, for sure.

Comment Re:Kangaroo Court! (Score 1) 114

If it is productive is not in any way implicated in this case.

It is like the guy that got arrested for stealing rennet from a farmer. Once the cops told he stole something useless and without resale value, he thought it lessened his crime. But it didn't.

There is no moral argument where fraud becomes less bad if you were tricking somebody with a policy you dislike.

However stupid polygraphs are, fraud is still however bad fraud ever is.

Comment Re:You no longer own a car (Score 1) 649

If they want to deny a claim that is part of my comprehensive coverage, that is possible, except that those parts cover me even if it is my fault. Most of the coverage is injury liability, and there they have to cancel the policy before the injury, or they're still the liable party. That is the flip side of the State insurance requirement; once they've sold the policy, they have a hard time denying claims. The gimmicks are way more often in the area of getting you to sign paperwork agreeing to a settlement before you're even done with the doctors and don't know yet what the damages are.

Some States suck. If you're in one, my advice, have a good Voter Initiative process. In many States we're in full control of our own laws. In my State, they didn't ask about my ECU so it can't get them out of liability requirements.

Heck, people with totally custom engines and control units still can get the required liability insurance. It is not a real thing to be denied insurance for a street-legal car unless you have accidents, lots of claims, or a bad driving record.

Comment Re:Kangaroo Court! (Score 1) 114

You're just creating straw men. *yawn*

If you offer a service to help people cheat at the marathon, and you admit that is what your service is for, then yes it makes you an accomplice to fraud.

If you agree not to do certain training, whether it is anti-polygraph training, or taking performance-enhancing-drugs, then violating that agreement in order to get or keep a job is fraud.

If you're lying in order to get/keep a job/money, that is fraud.

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