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Comment In other news (Score 4, Funny) 706

A 7 year old was arrested for terroristic actions after tossing an airplane across the classroom and it hit the wall, knocking a "teacher of the year" plaque slightly askew. The stunt reportedly tossed the airplane without any reaction from classmates. When one of the students relayed the story to her parents they decided to call the police to warn of the anti-social behavior. When asked, Police Chief Marny Logan said "We had to take it seriously, you never when he'll switch from paper airplanes to real ones. We can't teach kids that it is okay to fly aircraft in to buildings."

In other news: using chalk to draw in the street is found to increase the risk of future graffiti crime by 43%. Children who stick objects in their nose will one day use a straw and accidentally snort cocaine.

Comment Re:again? (Score 1) 918

Sorry but I disagree.
For proper balance of powers the Constitution made the president Commander in Chief, but Congress decides when the President can invade other countries.

Until the Congressional authorization of use of force the President handle the military in any way authorized by law. When the President wants to deploy in to sovereign soil for hostile reasons the People must allow for such action via "their voice" of Congress.

If the US were being attacked, that would be a different story. But sorry, the President is not a king and unilateral actions are not what the Constitution describes.

As for your comment about impeaching: I don't think you know what that means. To impeach a sitting President is simply for the House to send the President to trial in the Senate for violating a law specifically "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" as written in the Constitution. If, as you state, the President does not need any authorization to invade other nations then there is no cause for impeachment.
Once impeached the Congress MAY vote to eject the person in office from the seat of President or take some other censure. Impeachment and removal from office are not synonymous.

Comment But they DON'T work (Score 1) 330

Any basic research will show that there is a >90% relapse rate for AA and NA participants. The relapse rate is about the same for self-recovery and almost any non-medical program.
The only ones who talk about the "success" of AA are those who have financial reasons or religious reasons to promote it.

Comment NCAA contract (Score 1) 207

If the NCAA endorsed and has a licensing deal with EA then all the NCAA has to do is change the contract with the players: You agree that EA may use you likeness and personal statistics for the purposes of creating video game characters.

Boom: you want to play NCAA basketball, you have to agree to this. Don't agree? don't play.

Comment Re:I don't know, has he? (Score 1) 365

Chevette is probably pushing things, as the argument wasn't about new vs antiquated, but different options of new and modern. So go ahead and put a Toyota V6 in the Ferrari. Most drivers wont notice the difference. In day to day use I doubt even Ferarri owners stomp on the pedal and do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds very much. I regularly see people driving exotic cars: Bentley, Aston Martin, Ferrari, etc. And they drive them just the same as every other car on the road just plugging along with traffic.

So yes... 98% of the time I bet, if you could mimic the V12's sound, the Ferarri owner would not notice the downgrade to a smaller engine.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 1) 445

All fine points except for the "someone lurking right by the door to attack you."
Familiarity breeds complacency. If you were to come home and walk around to your door and the security lights didn't come on, what would you do:
1. Call 911 while removing your self from the area?
2. Ready a weapon and flashlight then security sweep your entire property?
3. Continue along in the dark and open your door anyway?

I'd bet most people would do #3 figuring the light had simply malfunctioned and not even consider that an attacker may have disabled it to gain surprise.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 3, Insightful) 445

You should inform your landlord that motion sensor lights, and lights in general, do little to deter crime. When you provide lighting it means the criminal doesn't have to use a suspicious flashlight and draw attention to themselves.

To take it to the extreme: if lighting prevented crime then NYC and Paris would be the least crime ridden cities in the world.

Low voltage, perhaps solar/battery powered, lighting in the areas you need it would be best. Point lights, such as spots and floods, are annoying and wasteful as they need to send light from the single point outward across a distance with enough intensity for it to reflect back to your eyes which are dilated to accommodate the very bright light in the foreground which blinds you. Lower wattage lighting distributed around the area you wish to illuminate provides a much more usable light at lower intensity and dispersion levels.
You'd be VERY surprised what a few strings of LED solar yard lights will to to light up your yard completely, but not annoy your neighbors.

Comment Re:Just as intended (Score 0) 165

"...the rules automatically change."
You need to cite the law that says they change. Until and unless there is a sign or a law that ends the "residents only" parking area the area continues. You blindly assuming the opposite and ranting about it does not make your assumption correct.

Find the law/ordinance that states your case then show it to the parking enforcement agent and their manager/supervisor.

Comment Slanderous (Score 1) 976

I see a slander suit in his future. Someone puts me on a list of "dangerous guns or owners" and I'll sue. Neither my gun nor I are any more dangerous than any other object or person.
In fact, you are infinitely more likely to be run over by a dangerous car or driver while you geotag my residence.

A will be sued for the data about who made the geotag and he will be sued as a co-conspiritor to spread slander. This app has a very short life. All simply due to the wording chosen to describe the functionality.

Comment Re:the usual nonsense (Score 1) 541

It isn't the "progressives" that mandated e-verify, that was all conservatives trying to keep the brown people from working and voting.
And if the progressives had their way and there with universal health care (instead of the republican RomneyCare plan) then the hiring and firing employees would be that much simpler; a whole category of paperwork and costs... gone.

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