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The tax break is not a preference for religion, it is a preference for tourist attractions. The breaks go to anybody building any tourist attraction of any kind. That doesn't mean religious people can't take advantage of it when building tourist attractions. Nor does it mean you can't build a religious based tourist attraction.

By your logic, priests can't get home loans because the interest is tax exempt. Wiccans can't visit state parks because taxpayer funds built them.. Or maybe you're saying that the State of Kentucky can't even have state parks because Wiccans revere nature... either way, you're wrong.

Anybody and everybody gets to take advantage of state parks and tax breaks, regardless of their religious affiliations.... without violating either the State or US Constitutions.

The other option being: read the story.

Per her source, the deletion of data while she was using it was a warning. Warnings don't work that well when they're less obvious to the user. (I think Tom Clancy actually invented that move originally).

Knowing tech, ya, her story sounds like fiction. But then again a few years ago, so did dragnet surveillance, warrant-less/trial-less asset seizures, and drones executing US Citizens without trials With stuff like that, the known illegal spying, secret courts, secret laws, and fighting terrorism for the sake of the children, who could have predicted most of what is going on these days besides the likes of Grisham & Clancy?

"shall hold their Offices during good Behavior".

Doing nothing, i.e., not doing their job, is not "good behavior". They would be removed, as has been done before, because they are not appointed for life.

But I guess actually understanding such language is the job of a pedant.

Ah yes of course. When you can't so much as provide a Constitutional reference to support your claim, just reiterate the claim and call people names. Dolt.

When the courts are deciding that the Constitution does not apply, then they are absolutely, 100%, NOT going with what the drafters of the Constitution intended. The basics of how things work is: The people have all the power; the people choose to give up some power that is specifically enumerated in the Constitution. Very simple fact: Any power not delegated to the feds is reserved for the people & states. Nowhere in the Constitution does it so much as imply that sections can be deemed, by the Federal Government, to not apply. There is nothing ambiguous about "Congress shall make no law...". There is no question about the definition of the word "abridge". Hence the 10th Amendment specifically stating that any power not given to the Feds IS NEVER THEIRS. Nobody gave the Feds the power to decide which speech is protected and which is not, because such a distinction is not made in the Constitution. (I left the judge argument behind because it was a bad choice for my point. The judicial powers, as I understand them, do include adjudicating the constitutionality of laws & actions because of Article III, Section 2: "The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution ..."

Freedom of Speech is a very simple, clear cut example. "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." It is that simple. No law does not mean "some laws", "some times", or "some situations". It doesn't matter what Common Law says, or tradition, or the church, or your own moral code. If some other duty or requirement of Congress puts them in a position where they need to curb speech, then the only Constitutional course of action is something else. Anything that does not violate the 1st Amendment. Absolutely any argument used to ignore one section can be used to justify anything else. The most popular argument used is as presented by Justice Holmes, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic". Sounds reasonable, right? Well, "The most stringent protection of due process would not protect a Japanese man walking free in 1942 and causing a panic" Now internment camps with no trial or crime committed are perfectly Constitutional as well. Oh, well, 50 years later we decided they're not, right? We paid reparations to them, so its all ok now, right? Except for the fact that it never would have happened if people didn't arbitrarily ignore other sections of the Constitution.

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It is The People's job, or perhaps the State's, to decide if abridging our freedom of speech, including yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, is Constitutional.

Since the 10th is being ignored, then who the fuck cares what the rest of the Constitution says? The Constitution says that no law can abridge the freedom of speech. But we now have definitions of what is "protected speech" and what is not. Some of it is covered by the Constitution, and some is not. Same with guns, and trials, and warrants, and everything else in there. The "Supreme Law of the Land" only applies when the Supreme Rulers of the Land decide it does... which means it, including the part you quoted, is as valueable as King George's pinky swear to not abuse the colonies.
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Welcome to earth, citizen.

The explanation was modded +1 Funny... I think the nobel prize committee is already here, modding slashdot.

Absolutely agreed. I had an Advantage before my Freestyle. I don't think mine had rubber function keys, but like the freestyle, if it just had slightly better klacking I think it would be perfect for me.

And since my tendinitis isn't anymore... it is a trade up. Sorry M. :(

Of course not. I'm sure the DA will offer 6 months in federal prison & a felony record shortly before they hang themselves.

I would rather they see their world crumble around them. I want them to see there is no future for their kind. I want them to despair so fully and completely that they cannot handle the thought of continuing to exist being so out of place. I want them to want to kill themselves to relieve themselves of the shame of knowing the rest of the world will move on, better & brighter, regardless of what they've done or tried to do. I don't want them to know failure, for failure requires an understanding of success. I want them to know their presence was utterly and completely irrelevant.

R'lyeh is Rising!!!

Better yet: two counts of wire fraud and 11 violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution and supervised release.

I think the agent in question & his bosses all hanging themselves in their bedroom would be acceptable to me as well.