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Comment Re: Invisible hand (Score 2, Insightful) 536

So providers shouldn't provide services to black people, because they make poor customers when you make then eat in the alley?

Or phone and electric were built to serve all, even in a particular customer was served for a loss, so why do you think that Internet is less of a fundamental service than electricity or roads or water or phone?

Comment Re:Sort of redundant (Score 1) 113

All this information could also be legally found out by following a person around.

Nope.

Guess you've never heard of computers, searches, and automated agents.

I'm confused. How does a computer help someone follow me around? The cost to follow a person loosely would be $50k minimum, more likely $150k. To follow a person more tightly (follow them if they know and are trying to lose you) is going to cost more than $1M per person followed per year. That's why the police loves it. They can track everyone in the area for one low cost.

Comment Re:How fucking tasteless (Score 1) 341

A non-combatant in a country you are at war with is not an enemy, and deliberately killing them is murder. Go take a look at the massacres of Vietnam and how those were treated at the time and as history.

Though, bombing a tank factory and killing a non-combatant janitor is not murder, as you targeted a military target and the death is collateral damage, not a murder. Dresden and the Tokyo bombings killed lots of civilians. Hiroshima was a military target, killing 20,000 Japanese troops. That there were 2 times that in dead civilians doesn't make it murder.

But Nagasaki was a terrorist target. It was smaller, and had only a token military presence. The targets were "civilian" facilities that were making war implements. The factory that made the primary torpedo used in Pearl Harbor was destroyed, as were other factories and metal works. But almost no military were killed. The point was to terrorize the Japanese into surrender. Hiroshima "should have" caused a surrender, which was given with unconscionable conditions. It was a mass killing of the main Japanese force assembled to repel an American invasion from the south. But the Japanese wouldn't give in. So Nagasaki was proof that any place left so far (mostly) untouched would be reduced to a parking lot before an American invasion would lose American lives fighting the Japanese on home soil. It may have been necessary to end the war and killed far fewer Japanese civilians than an invasion, but it was still not a military target.

Comment Re:Cruise control? (Score 1) 287

Solenoid driven systems on GM cars from the '80s wouldn't engage under about 35 mph (could be higher or lower, based on the car, it was a mechanical system, not electronic). Modern purely-electronic systems will usually engage at any speed, though some will have a minimum speed. I haven't checked my 2010+ vehicles for cruise performance. It's a non-issue.

Comment Re:turn-about isn't just fair-play, it's PROPER pl (Score 1) 765

Contrary to what you say, you can be aggravating and you can even try to deliberately aggravate people without breaking the law! Think of those "god hates fags" morons. That's pretty much as hateful, stupid, and aggravating as you can get, but it's still protected speech.

"fighting words" and "incitement" are illegal acts in many places, and there's a fine line for what are illegal words.

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