Comment Never ever trust the police or the law. (Score 3, Insightful) 798
They are not there to protect you, never have been never will be.
Comment Re:Butterfly (Score 3, Funny) 158
except it's a butterfly dropping dead from the lack of breathable air.
Comment Re:Polution tax (Score 1) 158
My answer is to put a 500% tax on all US companies that do not manufacture their products in the USA.
Comment Re:Polution tax (Score 0) 158
That is not how the USA works.
The proper USA response is....
WAR ON CHINA!!!!!
and it will be really good for our economy, it will bring back manufacturing to the USA as well.
Comment Re:What was their argument? (Score 1) 423
Only the ones that bought more house than they can afford. your home interest has to EXCEED $10,000 to be deductible outside the standard deduction. If you are middle class and living in a 1,000,000 home... you are not really middle class. Over $150K a year is "upper class" as you are in the 10%
Comment Re:Revolt? (Score 1) 818
I have a major squirrel problem.
Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge 798
An anonymous reader tips news of an incident in a Pennsylvania high school in which a student, Christian Stanfield, was being bullied on a regular basis. He used a tablet to make an audio recording of the bullies for the purpose of showing his mother how bad it was. She was shocked, and she called school officials to tell them what was going on. The officials brought in a police lieutenant — but not to deal with the bullies. Instead, the officer interrogated Stanfield and made him delete the recording. The officer then threatened to charge him with felony wiretapping. The charges were later reduced to disorderly conduct, and Stanfield was forced to testify before a magistrate, who found him guilty. Stanfield's mother said, "Christian's willingness to advocate in a non-violent manner should be championed as a turning point. If Mr. Milburn and the South Fayette school district really want to do the right thing, they would recognized that their zero-tolerance policies and overemphasis on academics and athletics have practically eliminated social and emotional functioning from school culture."
Update: 04/17 04:36 GMT by T : The attention this case has gotten may have something to do with the later-announced decision by the Allegheny County District Attorney's office to withdraw the charges against Stanfield.
Update: 04/17 04:36 GMT by T : The attention this case has gotten may have something to do with the later-announced decision by the Allegheny County District Attorney's office to withdraw the charges against Stanfield.
Comment Re:Revolt? (Score 1) 818
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I win then...... and yes it's very fun to shoot.
Comment Re:Structure vs Outcome (Score 1) 818
Second amendment is there for personal defense and to fix corruption and oppression, NOT stupid. You can not fix stupid.
At least not at the rate stupid is breeding these days....
Comment Re:Hardly surprising (Score 2) 818
There is only one way to fix it. and most people are not really interested in going that far.
History has proven that it is the only way to fix that problem.
Comment And the people respond with.... DUH.... (Score 2) 818
Anyone that has had any real American history education knows this. Back in the 80's when I was in college that was taught to us in the American history classes, it was intentionally built that way. Just like how the founding fathers did not do all that Independence stuff out of the goodness of their heart, all of there were filthy wealthy and were trying like hell to protect their wealth.
Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation 98
An anonymous reader writes "Google has a huge research budget and an apparent willingness to take on huge projects. They've gotten themselves into autonomous cars, fiber optic internet, robotics, and Wi-Fi balloons. But that raises a question: if they're willing to commit to projects as difficult and risk as those, what projects have they explored but rejected? Several of the scientists working at Google's 'innovation lab' have spilled the beans: '[Mag-lev] systems have a stabilizing structure that keeps trains in place as they hover and move forward in only one direction. That couldn't quite translate into an open floor plan of magnets that keep a hoverboard steadily aloft and free to move in any direction. One problem, as Piponi explains, is that magnets tend to keep shifting polarities, so your hoverboard would constantly flip over as you floated around moving from a state of repulsion to attraction with the magnets. Any skateboarder could tell you what that means: Your hoverboard would suck. ... If scaling problems are what brought hoverboards down to earth, material-science issues crashed the space elevator. The team knew the cable would have to be exceptionally strong-- "at least a hundred times stronger than the strongest steel that we have," by Piponi's calculations. He found one material that could do this: carbon nanotubes. But no one has manufactured a perfectly formed carbon nanotube strand longer than a meter. And so elevators "were put in a deep freeze," as Heinrich says, and the team decided to keep tabs on any advances in the carbon nanotube field.'"
Comment Re:How do you do your taxes? (Score 1) 386
When I was single and didn't make much money, I used to do my own taxes, on paper, and mail them.
Then I started making more, and started paying a guy recommended by my father to do them for fifty bucks.
Then I got married, and my wife decided that she would file them instead of spending the money, which had gotten to a hundred by then.
Then my wife salary rose, and we went over the cutoff point for using the website she had been using.
So now, I am again doing my taxes on paper, except that I am filing earlier, because my wife gets antsy about it.
Something's wrong with this.
Comment Re:Criticizing behavior takes time (Score 1) 575
Video games are trivial to get published.
It really depends on the genre because the more locked-down platforms handle some genres better than PCs. Party games, fighting games, and cooperative platformers really need two to four players holding gamepads and looking at one screen. A PC can technically do those, but in practice, desktop or laptop PC's monitor isn't big enough for more than one person, and I'm told few people are aware that they can use virtually any HDTV as a PC monitor. The touch screen that ships with a mobile device makes certain genres hard to control as well, as I discovered when I repeatedly failed to make a certain jump in the demo of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure on my first-generation Nexus 7 tablet.
ObMicrosoft: Look at the drama surrounding updates to Fez .
Submission + - Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants to "Fix" the Second Amendment (washingtonpost.com) 1
CanHasDIY writes: In his yet-to-be-released book, Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, John Paul Stevens, who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court for 35 years, believes he has the key to stopping the seeming recent spate of mass killings — amend the Constitution to exclude private citizens from armament ownership. Specifically, he recommends adding 5 words to the 2nd Amendment, so that it would read as follows:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”
What I find interesting is how Stevens maintains that the Amendment only protects armament ownership for those actively serving in a state or federal military unit, in spite of the fact that the Amendment specifically names "the People" as a benefactor (just like the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth) and of course, ignoring the traditional definition of the term militia. I'm personally curious as to what his other 5 suggested changes are, but I guess we'll have towait until the end of April to find out.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”
What I find interesting is how Stevens maintains that the Amendment only protects armament ownership for those actively serving in a state or federal military unit, in spite of the fact that the Amendment specifically names "the People" as a benefactor (just like the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth) and of course, ignoring the traditional definition of the term militia. I'm personally curious as to what his other 5 suggested changes are, but I guess we'll have towait until the end of April to find out.
