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Comment Re:Cheap (Score 5, Insightful) 458

$5000 might be reasonable for a bit of work copying some data to some disks, but it is not nearly enough to cover being known as an evil traitor everyone in the world. His reputation is now destroyed and is essentially unemployable in any company or organization that cares about its own image.
 

Comment Re:Funny results reporting (Score 1) 1073

This isn't going anywhere. I've already shown that you distorted your opponents position and shown how your accusation of falsehood, is in itself, false.

I don't know how you can maintain that "It's not equal" and "It doesn't exist" are logically the same statement, but if you are that devoid of understanding and so belligerent that you must constantly hurl undignified accusations and insults at anyone who dares to disagree with you, I can only conclude that it is pointless to discuss this further.

Comment Re:Funny results reporting (Score 1) 1073

I stated very clearly that your statement contained both a formal and informal fallacy.

Sure you did, however, that's not a proper argument. You are supposed to actually say which fallacies and how they apply. Otherwise you're no better than a little child who screams "I'm right and you're wrong because I said so". Which, considering your behaviour to date, isn't actually surprising from you.

Douche.

Once again, this in unbecoming behaviour from someone who wishes to present himself as a model for rhetorical argument. Rather than hurling insults because you can't form a coherent argument, you should just admit that you were wrong.

Comment Re:Funny results reporting (Score 1) 1073

I wrote:

He didn't claim they were unbiased, he claimed they weren't equally biased.

He wrote:

I hate to break it to you, but it isn't equal.

You wrote:

Arguing that one is more [biased] so the other can't be [biased] is foolishness at it's finest.

and

Please don't claim strawman when presenting an absolutely false statement.

Your argument is clearly a strawman because the OP said they weren't equally biased and you accused him of saying they weren't biased at all. It's obvious that you failed to understand what was written before you and then you descended into belligerence and profanity to conceal your failure. Clearly, you are a paragon of rhetorical argument.

Comment Re:Pretty awesome precedent, actually (Score 1) 1073

He, under oath, swore to enforce laws passed by her constituents. It isn't her job to determine where something in unconstitutional or not.

Contrary to what the AC wrote, the AG was enforcing the law. She has chosen, however, not to continue arguing with the courts after they have ruled the law unconstitutional. Given your conviction that "It isn't her job to determine whether something is unconsitituional or not" she has already fullfilled her obligation by defending the law in court once. There courts judgement is, in her professional opinion, fair and there seem to be no obvious grounds for appeal that are likely to succeed.

People always complain around here about a theocracy and this sounds like a pure theocratical power grab by the AG.

From this sentence, it appears that you do not know what a theocracy is because the sentence simply doesn't make sense, given the facts of the case.

Why have an amendment that the people of california vote on that can so easily be refuted?

Why indeed, I wonder why the Prop 8 supports, many of them from Utah, even bothered to spend so much money getting an obviously discriminatory law passed.

As bjdevil said earlier, this is WRONG. He should be at least impeached. At least. And this is a BAD precedent. Next thing you know some other law will get passed and the AG will say, "hey i don't llke that law, *screw it!, I am not going to enforce it.

That would be a bad precedent but as far as I am aware, that is an entirely fictional scenario that has nothing to with the present case, where the AG defended in court the legislation constitutionality, lost, and accepted the court's verdict.

Comment Re:Funny results reporting (Score 1) 1073

Arguing that one is more red so the other can't be red is foolishness at it's finest.

That's actually a strawman argument. He didn't claim they were unbiased, he claimed they weren't equally biased.

You should make an effort to be more intelligent than them, learn to spot rhetorical fallacy, and learn to discuss topics without easy to read fallacies.

You really should not throw stones in your glass house.

Comment Re:Good ... (Score 1) 1073

Just like Communism and Libertarianism work until you add people, I don't think your simple workaround has a chance in hell of working once it's actually exposed to irrational people. Here's the thing I realized nearly a decade ago, no lesbian bridezilla is ever going to be content with a civil union. Her childhood fantasies are about the perfect wedding, not a "civil union". And if you try to tell her she's not allowed to have her marriage, she will gut you like a fish before you can get the words "civil union" out of your mouth.

The emotional attachment is to the word marriage. Changing the name won't satisfy anyone who's already up in arms about not being allowed to marry (they'll just see it as continued discrimination). Worse, your plan will upset a lot heterosexual formerly married couples, and would give the populists something really big to rant about. They'd be all over the blogosphere, the TV, the radio and the newspaper screaming mad over how you (personally) stole the marriages of millions of decent Americans. You could become the most hated man in America.

Additionally step 4 is counter-productive. Religious ceremonies should have no impact on the state. Instead during or after the ceremony the couple signs the paperwork for their civil union and it gets sent to city hall for registration. Which, I think, is exactly what happens now.

So what you've done is incurred great cost in changing the words used, pissed off a lot of people who are going to vote to rescind your changes and you've accomplished nothing at all other than creating a lot of very angry people who hate you (specifically) and you've guaranteed that your political party won't be elected again for a generation. Is it really worth all that to try and appease a group who, if you plan actually succeeded, would simply start complaing that gays should be allowed to have civil unions?

Comment Re:Good ... (Score 1) 1073

Unfortunately, nobody seemed to want the federal government to start talking about civil unions, so now the federal government has adopted the second of two equally incorrect (incorrect because the federal government should not be allowed to opine on things related to sexual preference between consenting adults) stances on marriage.

Wouldn't the proper thing be for the Federal Government to simply recognize the marriages authorized by the states?

Comment Re:I've been using Android on one for a while (Score 1) 247

As the other commenter says, you're really comparing apples to ..well, sticks here. A tiny, slow device with hard power limitations is going to be fairly jerky and stuttery for many tasks. But as you also say, that doesn't mean they're not useful for a lot of stuff.

A modern Android phone or tablet is a completely different beast from your neat USB stick. Of course, the price and power requirements are completely different too. We have both Android and Apple devices aplenty at home, so I've had plenty of opportunity to compare. Overall, there's no longer much of a usability difference between them; what matters for ease of use is mostly what you're used to already.

But of course, for some tasks and some situations the openness of Android does make some things much easier on that platform.

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