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Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 459

while this sounds like the recent, growing, rampant, ignorant islamo-phobia, i'm inclined to think it's a tongue-in-cheek proposed reaction to saudi's representatives stating that homosexuality and beer are offensive.

i too find religion offensive, counterproductive, and sometimes outright dangerous, and if governments continue to play such a large roll in handling gTLDs it's the religious gTLDs that should be disallowed (but not .saudi, .sa)

Comment Re:Be realistic (Score 1) 162

Most of people who've put you into this mess are senators and regulators who've since bailed and retired on their multi-million-dollar golden industry jobs.

Get kickbacks, Profit. Insider Trade. Profit. Allow derivative trading with no regulations. More profits. Allow unlimited campaign contributions from corporations. More profits. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat...

What? People are no longer buying the mass-produced junk we're importing from the Tea Party? Sorry about that. Guess it's time for me to bail...

there, i fixed it for you...

Comment Re:Just another reason... (Score 1) 385

while i agree this is the way it should be. there is recent federal precedent where they forced a defendant to supply the decryption passcode for her laptop even after she claimed 5th amendment rights.

this is even more egregious w/ regards to phones which at the moment don't have as much access to encryption, let alone hidden partitions, etc.

Comment Re:Bias (Score 2) 619

I have evidence that DEFFENDER produces and distributes meth.

how's that feel?

in the article case the evidence in question DOES violate the law. laws for unreasonable search and seizure.
if only the US were more strict about issuing search warrants, and more restricted when they do...

in my above example, my statement may fall under freedom of speech. it may also fall under libel. either way it's certainly inadmissible. but that won't matter much if they get a broad warrant and find a gimp tied up in your basement, will it?

(IANAL, and i have no evidence against this upstanding citizen)

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 507

there is ALSO scientific/professional data showing that the economic costs are only short term and in incentives. this can be offset by taxes on the producers of CO2. building a new energy infrastructure will produce millions of NEW skilled jobs and billions of dollars in NEW revenue.
but right now our government is run by special interests who have a fully vested shares in keeping the petroleum and natural gas funding as is.

Science

The Proton Just Got Smaller 289

inflame writes "A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."' Would this indicate new physics if proven?"

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