15% down. Property tax rates here are nuts. I'm happy that this year I managed to contest it (based on the new value of my house being 160k) down to $4800/year.

I only wish property taxes were in that realm in my area. I pay $700ish/mo on mortgage (of about 150k) and an additional $600/mo in property tax. I'm in the Mid-West FWIW.

If you hide essential facts regarding yourself, it is a 5th amendment issue (not a crime).

Um...that's exactly what most military secrets are. Many of them are dangerous for people to know (think Japanese cryptography and their knowledge that we could break it based on a leak). Not all, but plenty enough that people should be held accountable for releasing information that could be foreseeably dangerous to national or personal interests.

Dang typos...you'd think I'd had one too many. Thankfully I'm at home on my laptop trolling fark instead of driving either way.

That was supposed to be * compulsory

Well...an engineering minded person might pressurize a tank of their breath and install a vaccum system in the car (for the blow, blow, blow, suck test). The pressure exerted by a healthy persons lungs is not exactly difficult to replicate, nor is the uneveness of a person's breathing.

I'm not against these devices, but anyone who feels current technology is foolproof is ... well ...

I do wonder though, whethter the effect of cumposory breathalizing of the enitre public (going to happen IMO) will do with actual DWI rates. Will this become the new hacked iPhone/WII?

I'll rest comforably knowing that even though it's coming, the likelihood of retroactive enforcement will work just as well as the seatbelts in my 1948 Dodge truck (that don't exist) or my 1970 Plymouth Barracuda's emissions standards.

My point only being that with how many millions of cars on the road, it's only going to stop those that are willing to be stopped.

Well, to satisfy one of your requests. The state of IL requires 120 hours of wheel time for a license and most of the EU is quite a bit more restrictive than that.

Then again, I don't know too many assholes who weave in and out of traffic back and forth in large cars

I'm sure this is in the replies, but I've called the cops on more than a few people that, from behind, were driving dangerously to the point that I was certain they were wasted. Turns out they were texting.

WTB the text interlock device, PST.

Yep, people are great at deductive reasoning while they are drunk ... oh wait --- i see what you did there.

I'll have to apologize for not being clear from the get-go. I'd assumed that the argument being made in the first person made it clear that it was my subjective opinion. Virtually any absolute position has to, IMO, be taken as subjective prose.

If they'd given me video recording (available on 3Gs), multi-tasking (again on the 3Gs), or any of the other productivity increasing features I'd upgrade. As is, I think the cydea option will be the way to go (got my video recording and flash at least).

I fully agree that it is a subjective argument, but Apple has a history of ignoring older hardware even when it is still capable of a feature. I'm thankful that there is an active community (and court decision) that lets me take advantage of these features.

What would you classify as useful features offered in iOS4 for the 3G (not the 3Gs)? ... I don't count 'folders' among them.

Nope, verified on my 3G as an issue (jailbroken and restored), and since there are zero new features (other than poor performance) in iOS 4, they'll have to come up with a more compelling argument for me to patch the thing.

I get the broad strokes - though in the brief readings I've been doin since your original post; wouldn't a treatise or accord be given the full weight of law (in the US)? If not something like the ICC couldn't exist (which does request, on occasion, the extradition of citizens; though not all countries have given up their soverign powers in all respects). I'm still slightly confused as to how the soverign power of a nation to impose laws can affect it's citizens when they are outside of the soverign territory...but I guess that's another issue.

It seems an interesting subject that I will have to educate myself more on. I did find the US Supreme Court Case Yahoo!, Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Les Racisme et L'Antisemitisme 169 F. Supp. 2d 1181 (N.D. Cal. 2001) rather interesting for the discussion on the comity of nations and the rare instances that it would be ignored.

Anyhow, thanks for providing real value to a thread (rare on /. sometimes) and correcting my misinterpretation on border crossing.

Interesting...I'd actually like to read some of the relevant court cases if you have them handy. I travel abroad fairly extensively and always operated under the assumption that before being allowed into a country I was covered by international law (or in the case of the EU, the EU constitution) ... but not necessarily offered full protection under the individual country's constitution.

I do remember a while back this coming up on /. regarding border protection confiscating laptops ... whatever was the legal fallout from that since that seemed to be a clear-cut violation of the due process clause?