It's a Gmail account.

Good god no! that's the plot device for the movie screamers.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

takes on a whole new meaning.

Autonomous intelligent self propelled evolving landmines turn on humans. 'nuff said.

Nice strawman moron. "Always" - no one is saying always. But hey pretend that the economic collapse of 2008 was a good thing with all that free market gambling going on....

Really? That's why the price of 4K TVs have been going through the roof....sorry Potsy, demand for a product helps drive the cost down. When supply is limited, that's when costs go up.

Big oil opposes and end to oil subsidies. Clear enough for you.

You mean like the Republicans dismissed Condoleezza Rice's responsibility for protecting America from terrorists, ala 911.

Seriously? Exxon Mobile makes BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in NET profits per quarter and they still get a subsidy! Give me a break. The oil industry not longer needs subsidies. That's a bull shit argument for keeping the subsidies in place.

It's not a hologram. It's a video projection on angled plastic screen that makes it appear 3D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Lose completely? Mostly no. Suffer severe constraints on many of your guaranteed freedoms? Yes. That's the entire point of judicial system. You lose many of your guaranteed freedoms based on your illegal actions that harmed the community.

Unless you think that all those people in jails are having many of their constitutional rights directly violated by the state as well.

Except that you're expecting police to act like a judge in a very difficult, legally debatable issue that could go either way in court.

That's not going to happen. Granted slashdot is full of idealistic people who think this one is clear cut. Far from it.

Not at all. Soldiers are expected to obey the order, then report their superiors through chain of command.

Soldier is not expected to have extensive legal training to recognise complex "on the fence" issues. And disobeying the order gets you in military court where it will be really hard to prove the legality of the order as judges will inherently be on the side of your commander, and in war time it will be a kangaroo court after which you will likely be summarily executed to make an example. Discipline in ranks will always trump concerns like these.

Their permit said that they would not have this wanted fugitive perform. They violated the terms of their permit, so were shut down. This is pretty straightforward and they had to know this would happen - they probably wanted the publicity.

Would the police also have shut them down if they started playing clips of Roman Polanski (wanted in the US for raping a 13 year old girl) movies?

Sure, they can ban him from appearing. But "straightfoward", for effectively playing a movie by someone with an opinion they don't want heard? Yeah, I would call that straightforward - A straightforward violation of the first amendment.

Right. Prices of electricity are magical, managed by overlords in their respective capitols. They have nothing to do with actual costs of production.

In other news, did you remember that we live in a real world with limited resources, not one where electricity comes out of the socket?

P.S. Nuclear energy remains the cheapest energy source available to date per produced energy unit. That is why states that don't have to care for psychological bullshit pushed here in the West by people like you on their impressionable and ignorant public are investing heavily in them. Think China. Some of the best and toughest negotiators in the world, and people with some of the greatest power needs in the world. And they're massively investing in nuclear. If you were even close to reality with your "nuclear is expensive" claims, they simply wouldn't be doing it.