Don't be silly. It boils down to "who has the most money". The "best lawyer" (just like any other prostitute) is ALWAYS for sale

Better yet, how about a tiny tiny tax on each trade? We bitch and moan about deficit this and tax-the-rich that, how about we tax the fuckers who are causing the problem for the behavior that's causing the problem? If financial markets weren't such a short-term crapshoot, and we really DID care about "long-term" capital gains, we wouldn't have the boom-and-bust economy we've been living in.

Golf clap.

Yes, it's absolutely true. You (EVERYBODY) is required to supply "Secure Flight Passenger Data" (SFPD) either 72 hours before flying, or when booking the ticket, if departing in less than 72 hours. You just supplied this information for your recent trip, else you would not have been allowed to fly. You are required to give:

Name (as it appears on government-issued ID the passenger plans to use when traveling)
Date of Birth
Gender

Here's how American Airlines, as an example, implements it.

From the TSA website

The airline submits this information to Secure Flight, which uses it to perform watch list matching. This serves to prevent individuals on the No Fly List from boarding an aircraft and to identify individuals on the Selectee List for enhanced screening. After matching passenger information against government watch lists, Secure Flight transmits the matching results back to airlines so they can issue passenger boarding passes.

In other words, YOU are required to tell the government you plan to travel, and they get to decide, in advance, whether you can. Assuming you're not, in their own words, on any "government watch lists".

You can read all about the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

You're missing the point. EVERYONE is required to notify the government in advance before they fly.

You mispelled *Republican* asshats, which is the part someone calling him "Glorious Leader" needs to be reminded of.

It's so much worse than that. It means that you are required by law to notify the government at least three days in advance before you plan to travel (by air) from state to state.

Nah. It's only CONSUMERS who are forced into these binding arbitration contracts, i.e. the card holders. There's zero probability that the card issuing bankers will be forced to put up with what they inflict on the public.

LOAD MOAR

Burn it with fire, sprinkle the ashes with holy water and rock salt and bury them in the Love Canal.

That's the problem right there.

Dear DICE:
We're not "your audience", we're your CONTRIBUTERS. You're just the chalkboard we have our discussions on. Shut the fuck up, display a few ads, and stay the fuck out of the way.

You should be happy for the ones who died and don't have to look at beta any more. You should probably kill the rest of them and put them out of their agony.

Well, YOU may think you're Slashdot, but Dice thinks you're "our audience" - you know, the people who come here for the stellar, dupe-free, award-winning editing of up-to-the-minute tech stories.

Nope. They think it sucks balls, too.

THAT's the problem right there. They think we're the AUDIENCE and not the CONTRIBUTERS.

NEWSFLASH: We don't come here for the stellar editing, we come here to make and read and reply to each other's comments. YOU'RE not supplying the content, WE are. Display some ads and stay out of the way, or expect most of us to "migrate" to another site.