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Comment Re:So when will this actually happen? (Score 2) 372

Many of those things that the poster stated came from scientists, not the media until they picked it up. Much like that poster, I also remember "all the rainforests will be gone by 2000," "Canada will be a desert because we're cutting down all the trees." And if I go get my grade school notes from the 1980's I can find more. Including the source of them. Usually out of some scientific journal.

Comment Meanwhile ... (Score 1) 227

... 17 light-years away, an alien civilization is deciding how best to respond to these microwave 'chirps', obviously generated by some intelligent race.

Boy are they going to be dissapointed when they discover it was a bunch of absent-minded scientists with a worn-out oven. "Keep looking, Qwrgplv. There still might be intelligence out there."

Submission + - DEA steals life savings of innocent man

schwit1 writes: In another example of civil forfeiture, DEA agents confiscated the life savings of a man heading to California based on no evidence.

There was no evidence of a crime, the man was never charged, but three weeks later he still has not gotten his money back.

Sean Waite, the agent in charge for the DEA in Albuquerque, said he could not comment on the Rivers case because it is ongoing. He disputed allegations that Rivers was targeted because of his race. Waite said that in general DEA agents look for "indicators" such as whether the person bought an expensive one-way ticket with cash, if the person is traveling from or to a city known as a hot spot for drug activity, if the person's story has inconsistencies or if the large sums of money found could have been transported by more conventional means.

"We don't have to prove that the person is guilty," Waite said. "It's that the money is presumed to be guilty."

Read the whole article. This is entirely unconstitutional. The fifth amendment to the Bill of Rights expressly forbids the taking of private property "without just compensation."

Comment Re:Saw it in person (Score 1) 54

In space vehicle rescue systems, goal is typically to direct both lift and ejection acceleration force to the horizontal rather than vertical vector in relation to the human body. We have a far greater tolerance of such short term high G loads, one of the reasons being that it doesn't stress the spine in the way you describe.

Comment Re:God damnit (Score 2) 114

Correct. Like all EU directives, it sets the common limits and each country decides how to implement the directive within the limits of the directive.

However the fact remains that copyright directive that synchronised copyright laws has already been passed and implemented in member state legislatures. The problem presented by OP does not exist.

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