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Comment Re:Anyone should be able to fly (Score 2) 213

Bullshit, you're just another stupid racist who wishes that the government would crack down on all of those horrible negros and other people of color. White people, especially white male conservatives are the last people in the world who would want to implement any sort of "honest" profiling scheme because the history of terrorism in America is overwhelmingly white, male and conservative. Don't believe me? Well how about a little terrorist organization called the KKK, which lynched thousands of black men in the early 20th century and terrorized blacks, Catholics, Jews and other minorities to prevent them from voting or moving in to certain areas or taking certain jobs. Then of course we have Tim McVeigh and his crazy militia buddies, the neo-Nazis in Idaho, Bruce and Joshua Turnidge (this story got no media coverage compared to the Boston bombing or the Fort Hood shootings), the asshole who tried blowing up the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial march in Spokane in 2011. While we're at it let's toss in all of the school shooters (Adam Lanza, Kip Kinkel, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are all white) and that crazy fuck who shot up the theatre in Aurora. Any honest look at American history shows that white people are mean, crazy dangerous fuckheads and that you should keep an eye on them lest they go batshit insane and start killing everyone in sight. Yeah, if we had profiling in America and it was honest, and not just an excuse used to fuck with people then white guys like you would spend a lot of time getting cavity searched.

Comment Re:Anyone should be able to fly (Score 4, Informative) 213

People charged with a crime often have a their movements restricted as a condition of their bail.

Yes, people charged with a crime often have their movements restricted as a condition of bail, a fact which has nothing to do with the TSA's idiotic no-fly list. See people who are charged with a crime and who have had their movements restricted have had the benefits of a little thing called due process of law and the fifth amendment to the Constitution. See, if you've been charged with a crime and have had your movements restricted that means that you've been arrested, charged in a court of law, allowed to have counsel to represent you. You can also appeal the judgment that restricts your movements, confront the witnesses against you and you have the right to subpoena witnesses to testify in your favor. You have none of this with the TSA. The TSA restricts your liberty to travel without telling you why they've done so or what evidence they used to make this determination and gives you no opportunity to defend yourself. The TSA no-fly list is essentially nothing more than the imposition of Soviet style internal passports that has nothing to do with protecting citizens and everything to do with restricting their movements.

Comment Re:This is a Constitutional tax (Score 1) 326

If the States all decided they wanted to ban free speech and private ownership of guns, they could easily pass a new Amendment completely overturning the 1st and 2nd. The only reason this doesn't happen is that it'd be extemely unpopular and because it's really hard to get all the States to agree on Constitutional changes, which of course was the intent of the Founders when they devised the Amendment process.)

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Jesus you are fucking stupid. You are so fucking stupid that you should be shot in the fucking head for writing something this stupid. Go read the Wikipedia article on "Substantive Due Process" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantive_due_process The useless racists in the southern states tried this shit back in the 1960s when they said that state laws overrode federal laws in matters relating to desegregation, interracial marriage and the like and the federal government said "Wrong fucking answer and in one case even sent in federal troops (Little Rock, AK, 1957) to get the point across. God you're fucking stupid.

Comment Re:Unconstitutional as heck (Score 1) 326

Wrong libertarian douchetard. Read Article I, section 10.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

Comment Re:Yet another unconstitutional law (Score 0, Flamebait) 326

Oh goody, a fucknut with the user name of RKBA, which probably stands for "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" lecturing us on the Constitution. Hey fucknut. Why don't you read the entire document? If you ever did that, and didn't just spend all of your time masturbating over the second amendment you might have come across this portion of the document in Article I, Section 10.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

So according to this section of the Constitution Congress can consent to grant states the ability to tax imports and exports from that state, and by imports and exports the founding fathers meant not just commerce with foreign countries but commerce with other states. Right now online merchants have a huge and unfair advantage over brick and mortar merchants because they can set up in states without sales taxes and then sell to residents of states that have sales taxes without collecting any taxes. Why don't you do us all a favor you ignorant son-of-a-whore and take one of your guns, jam it into your mouth as far as you can and blow your fucking head off.

Comment Re:Destruction (Score 1) 326

Then why don't you leave America, Libertarian douchetard? Go Galt and head off to magickal libertarian Jesus freemarketopia where there is no evil government to tax and destroy. At the very least you should give up on using the internet, which was developed by the Department of Defense and resolve to never again use GPS or to drive on public roads or highways or to use any other service provided by government since every time you do so you are implicitly giving them consent to pay for these services with taxes.

Comment Re:Unconstitutional as heck (Score 1) 326

The Constitution was not written with words and phrases having only the meaning stated in the dictionary. The Constitution is a governing document very similar to a power of attorney, and the phrases and terms used should first be considered from what the ratifiers considered them to mean.

Cool story bro. Tell us, who died and left made you the authoritative scholar as to what the original intent of the founders was. Do you have access to the same Magickal Jeezus Originalist Dictionary of Constutional intent that Antonin Scalia does?

Comment I have to wonder if news sites want the trolls. (Score 1) 298

How are news sites paid? Advertising. How much you get paid for a specific ad depends upon how many people click on it. If you want to sell lots of advertising it helps to have lots of page views. Think about this, a troll posts an idiotic comment, say 90 percent of the comments made about President Obama over the last five years or 99 percent of anything coming out of the mouths of Republicans or their buttboys, the Libertarians. Other readers jump on the troll and tell him what a fucking idiot he is, and every time they do so it counts as a page view. Sure, it's sleazy and contemptible, but it brings in the bucks the way that the old "letters to the editor" section of your local newspaper ever did, and if there's anything that the advent of the internet has done it's completely kick the shit out of the advertising supported content model used by newspapers, radio and television.
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Submission + - Infosec experts prefer iPhone over Android (boxfreeit.com.au)

sholto writes: "Why do security types prefer iPhones? Apple still wins the security contest due to a tighter app approval process, patented device-wiping technology and 'probably the most successful use of public-key cryptography in publicly controlled hardware devices'.

Meanwhile, Android users face a lag of up to six months a lag of up to six months for firmware updates on cellphones sold through carriers.
'A lot of security folks have moved away from Android for that reason alone,' says Australian data security expert Adam Pointon."

Submission + - US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case (wired.com)

TrueSatan writes: Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the suicide death of internet activist Aaron Swartz was a “tragedy,” but the hacking case against the 26-year-old was “a good use of prosecutorial discretion.” The attorney general was testifying at a Justice Department oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee and was facing terse questioning from Sen. John Cornyn (D-Texas).
Holder stated: “I think that’s a good use of prosecutorial discretion to look at the conduct, regardless of what the statutory maximums were and to fashion a sentence that was consistent with what the nature of the conduct was. And I think what those prosecutors did in offering 3, 4, zero to 6 was consistent with that conduct.”
Notwithstanding Holder’s testimony, Massachusetts federal prosecutors twice indicted Swartz for the alleged hacking, once in 2011 on four felonies and again last year on 13 felonies. The case included hacking charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that was passed in 1984 to enhance the government’s ability to prosecute hackers who accessed computers to steal information or to disrupt or destroy computer functionality.

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