Lying by implication and omission is "doing nothing wrong?" Did they or did they not push a perfectly functional car onto the set implying it was broken? Did they or did they not suggest it had a range problem? These can not be dismissed away by "independent reviews". Particularly if Top Gear's producers paid for that review. (see what I did there?)

You're underthinking this. Blacks are ARRESTED for more crimes than others. But studies have shown the arrest rate is disproportionate to the actual crimes being committed. Especially drug related crimes.

You failed to mention that your "biofuel" furnace emits massive particulates into the atmosphere and contributes to cancer, heart attacks and other health problems for mammals. Not to mention that you're releasing carbons in minutes that it took nature dozens if not hundreds of years to collect in that biofuel source.

Sorry, but you deal with Microsoft at your peril. It is in their DNA to "steal", misappropriate,, strong arm, and every other dirty trick to disadvantage technical partners and they do it to this day. Ask Nokia how they feel about their business prospects. Or the legions of companies that have experienced the same rapacious partnerships.

Ask HP how they feel about MS potentially buying Dell?

Oh, and lest we forget, the legal suits against Linux are still winding their way through the courts and it was MS chief in the background backing those suits.

I am in agreement with Admiral Akbar.

Except that we've already seen in the space of 40 years, the Republicans have done exactly what you've written. They've passed all manner of laws that restrict women's rights and have moved this country very much on the path towards fascism driven by a military industrial complex.

Tyranny must be resisted whether it is political ideology or corporate bloodsucking. Ubuntu is playing into Microsoft's hands.

But, in the bigger picture, aren't we moving towards a post-pc world?

yes, considering that property is a creation of the state. It can't exist except for some governing authority. Randians never seem to get that...

I wouldn't be too sure about that...

You could argue that the "encrypted" file IS what is on the hard drive and the document they are looking for DOES NOT EXIST. The court is asking the defendant to transform the file into something else.

If this were a file cabinet with reams and reams of random text, are you seriously going to compel someone for the cipher to transform that into an incriminating document? It literally doesn't exist.

What is a threat to the integrity of the police IS the misconduct that has been documented by citizens. The antidote is sunshine in the form of accountability provided by these documents.

Ladies and Gentlemen: I give you the Blue Scholars track: Oskar Barnack ~ Oscar Grant -- The salient line in the lyrics is: Shoot the cops - take your camera out your pockets and shoot the cops.

http://bluescholars.bandcamp.com/track/oskar-barnack-oscar-grant

In the everything you need to know you can learn from Star Trek department our gallant crew on a mission to establish diplomatic ties with a planet discover that this planet has been at war with their neighbor for 500 years. No visible damage to the planet is observed. Then the kicker is revealed that they have been fighting this war by computer game. The casualties voluntarily walk into disintegration chambers.

Kirk in his weekly quest to disregard the prime directive arranges to show his captors what real war is about. They either suffer the destruction and horror of real war or sue for peace.

The danger here is that by deploying battlefield robots like these, we take the inherent danger and horror of war down to an antiseptic alternative that is palatable.

you can also be detained without charge for a period of time. I think its 72 hours. They need to have some probably cause however.

An Explosion you say. Well at least Pullman Washington is in the middle of no where. :-p

Well, let's see. In the Federal Republic of Germany they disallow the depiction or trading of "Nazi" paraphernalia and have laid claim on the term "Gmail". In the French Republic, they will take away your Internet privileges if you share your stuff with others. In the United Kingdom, there are a number of behaviors that are listed as "hate speech" and are severely punishable. Each of these conditions would be considered strange or wrong under the American idea of Free Speech. But at the same time, we have severe restrictions on what language or what is "decent" to be viewed or heard on the "public airwaves" in the United States. Rightly or wrongly each country decides for itself what are the bounds of acceptable behavior.

umm, I think you're confusing the Articles of Confederation with our present Constitution. The present Constitution while acknowledging powers reserved to states, is also recognized as enabling a strong central government which was tested by a civil war. The States rights argument is over.