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Comment: Putting a stack of Band-Aids on a gunshot wound (Score 1) 170

by HellYeahAutomaton (#38314244) Attached to: Draft Alternative To SOPA Released

The two prevalent views in these replies fall into the a) Constitution should cover it all b) Constitution is outdated. I get that.

However, the scope of these laws are getting more and more specific and represent the same kind of tyranny (Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts) that the
  Colonists were trying to get away from. The laws however crafted, if *necessary*, need to be short and sweet. If the power granted by a new law cannot fit into one or two paragraphs these laws should be thrown out, and the representatives should go back to the drawing board.

Comment: Re:Forget is, no Republican can get that (Score 1) 713

by HellYeahAutomaton (#38265142) Attached to: USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service

The same with public transport. Unless it reaches everywhere, it isn't usable. That is why early electricity producers PAID big bucks to get everyone hooked up. But they would only do that where it made sense. Getting a line out to the farms often didn't. And so they didn't.

Society NEEDS infrastructure even in areas YOU as a person never use. That road to nowhere DOES go somewhere and those people at the end need it.

And if the need is so great, they will find a way to fill it. Take our resourceful residents of Kauai for example:
Island DIY: Kauai residents don't wait for state to repair road

And if left on their own, without forcing everyone to pay for it, one of two things would happen:
1) The people leaving themselves out in the middle of nowhere will pay a premium among (hopefully) several competing delivery firms.
2) They would move to a location more amenable to service. (Location,location, location)

Don't believe it? Go live in areas of the world where only individual interests are catered for. Somalia is nice for that.

Ah yes, the half-assed "go move to Somalia" argument. The mess Somalia was left in is the result of post WW2 intervention and the damning effects of the previous socialism that existed there and its gun toting neighbors of Ethiopia and Kenya.

"From a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion and brutal military occupation that left more than 16,000 civilians dead and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes, destroying the first semblance of normalcy the country had experienced in nearly two decades, to an ongoing U.S. war involving CIA torture chambers and drone strikes, Somalia has been ravaged by powerful nation-states, not anarchy.

But hey, let's put that all aside and just concede for a moment that Somalia is in fact some anarchist's wet dream, "a libertarian's paradise." Let's just ignore the fact Somalia was ruled by a military dictator for decades and not make the cheap point that the period preceding its current "anarchist" stage therefore indicts anyone who believes in the justness and necessity of centralized power."

See : false dichotomy of Somalia

Assaulted for wearing a hat->

Submitted by HellYeahAutomaton
HellYeahAutomaton writes "While walking out, Ron Dusavitch, a bailiff, yelled to me from behind, “TAKE YOUR HAT OFF!”

“I’m leaving, sir.” I replied.
“TAKE YOUR HAT OFF!” he repeated.
“LEAVING, sir.” I replied again, still walking out the door, minding my own business to get out of the building and on with my day. Ron had other plans.
Ron LEPT into action and RAN across the courtroom (See top left corner of video at 0:21) and JUMPED into the hallway. He tackled me by pushing me up against the wall and held me there with his hands on my shoulder and bicep.
“Take your hat off,” Ron the Hero again commanded...."

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Comment: Too many laws, too many lawyers (Score 1) 343

In software development we have a concept of refactoring: "a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior".

How do the candidates feel about refactoring all of our laws, rules, and regulations for simplicity?

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

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