Uh, could the press release (from the Hoaxsters, no less) just be more of a Hoax?

... for you see, Revelations isn't a chapter in the Torah.

... but since it only took two transistors and a piece of chewing gum, they thought it best to keep it under wraps.

...that it ignores every command they try to give it, looks at them with disdain and does nothing but try to sit on its own keyboard.

I know quite a bit about the HIPAA, and I don't appreciate your insults. The "P" stands for "portability", and not "privacy"; The privacy rule is a very small part of the HIPAA. For instance, there's nothing in the HIPAA about an expectaction of privacy of said records in reference to criminal investigations. "Privacy" in the HIPAA deals with how those with legitimate access to your records may disclose it to other providers, business partners, etc. There are specific allowances, too, so that providers may share your records with law enforcement when required by law with regard to abuse cases/mandated reporting, etc. But nothing in it says that a warrant must be obtained in order for law enforcement to view your records. I'm sure that many facilities would insist on a warrant, and most investigators would comply. By using this judge's logic however, one could *certainly* draw the same analogy that I did in order to obtain such records without a warrant.

...your medical records aren't private, either. When you use a hospital or a doctor's office, you're not in your own home, and your records of the visit are stored at the facility. This judge is a moron.

... that this happened when the "prison source" still refers to a computer as "the hard drive"?

Inherit the Stars, by James P. Hogan, is a _fantastic_ look at *science*-based science fiction. The novel tells the story of a bunch of scientists trying to unravel the mystery of a 50,000 year old human found on the moon.

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Because, yes, it *is* a work of science fiction, but also a wonderful book with rich themes and an incredible philosophy behind it. And that we're basically living it these days doesn't hurt to make it seem more relevant.

...Sweden is under attack from the Narns, over Breen/Swedish Meatballs.

Let's just declare martial law and get it over with.

We should totally start using armed Predator drones on these fuckers. The ELF, not AM radio towers.

Don't believe me? Shine UV light on motel sheets.

Leonard Peikoff had it right on Agnostics:

"The agnostic miscalculates. He thinks he is avoiding any position that will antagonize anybody. In fact, he is taking a position which is much more irrational than that of a man who takes a definite but mistaken stand on a given issue, because the agnostic treats arbitrary claims as meriting cognitive consideration and epistemological respect. He treats the arbitrary as on a par with the rational and evidentially supported. So he is the ultimate epistemological egalitarian: he equates the groundless and the proved. As such, he is an epistemological destroyer. The agnostic thinks that he is not taking any stand at all and therefore that he is safe, secure, invulnerable to attack. The fact is that his view is one of the falsest--and most cowardly--stands there can be."

Ten Vaginas!