Just asking, since unless you were on the jury or in the courtroom every day, what you know about this case amounts to precisely DICK, since all you know is what the transparently biased media has been feeding you.

So, unless you were on the jury, your opinion is worthless, and you should just shut the fuck up right now.

Don't get too far ahead of yourself. When my kids were in public school, their math tests were graded full credit for the right answer, and partial credit depending on how "close" they got to the actual right answer, or if it was just a dumb mistake that resulted in the wrong answer.

It was entirely possible to get a B in a math class never having arrived at a single correct answer. That's the point where I pulled them out of the public school system. I'm just glad I got them out in time.

IMHO, no, you are not. You are a "Comp-E."

I don't hire "Comp-E" people for "EE" positions, and vice versa. They are completely different. It really chaps my ass because I did my Undergrad and Masters in Electromagnetism and Remote Sensing, and my degrees say "Electrical and Computer Engineering," so everyone thinks I know something about computers. Heh.

They really should maintain a firm distinction between the two, and maybe even put Computer Engineering in with Computer Science.

I don't see how violating the constitution is in any way necessary for the administration of OSHA, SSA, NTSB, EPA, or any legitimate function of government.

I have a big host at home that plays the role of my Firewall/Router (pfSense), Fileserver (OpenIndiana), Media Center PC (Linux/XBMC with GFX card attached via VMDirectPath), Workstations (Linux), APRS iGate/Packet Machine (Linux with sound card attached via VMDirectPath), and whatever else I feel like messing with.

Works like a charm, and cuts down on the power bills bigtime.

This is precisely what they intended, with "selective enforcement" being the tool of oppression.

A tyrannical State makes everything illegal, but "lets it slide" for friends of the State. I just read "Three Felonies a Day" by Harvey Silverglate, and it was a real eye opener. You would be amazed at all of the stuff that we do every day and take for granted as being legal, that isn't, and could result in federal prison should the State decide it.

The title of the book basically says it all - the average American unwittingly commits three serious felonies every day of their lives.

The key is to stick to your original stated goals, and not to expand them just because you get a bunch more money.

People knew what they were buying with the KS, so there was no reason to radically up-scope the mission, especially to the point that the mission became unobtainable.

If you don't want to be publicly embarrassed and humiliated and lose any credibility you have by being exposed as someone who lies, cheats, steals, and violates your Citizens' rights, then don't lie, cheat, steal, and violate your Citizens' rights.

You know, it seems fairly simple to conceive of some kind of storage medium for solar energy that is cheap, easy, and environmentally sound. If only there were a way to gather up immense amounts of solar energy and store it in some medium that had a reasonably high energy density, was easy to store and cheap to maintain in storage, and where it was quite easy to extract the stored energy, that could even be stored as solid fuel. If only there were a way to easily manufacture such a fuel locally, at or near the point of consumption, and even better, without the use of harsh chemicals and boatloads of energy.

It's too bad nothing even remotely like that exists today.

Laws are for us, not the government.

Now make it 800,000 lbs of plane, pax, and luggage, and do it in 5 hours or less east to west.

Then you'll have something.

It is illegal to obscure your identity in a public place, because it is illegal to interfere with the investigation of a crime. Since almost all criminal investigations involve looking for a missing suspect, obscuring your identity prevents law enforcement determining whether you are the suspect, and therefore in doing so you are committing Obstruction of Justice.

At least, that will be the government's reasoning in arresting people as "terrorists" who wear masks in public.

Go to work for a Booze Allen or a Grant Thornton or another big consulting firm that does contracting for the military. Brush up on your EE skills, take the FE exam, and later become a PE.

If the Laws of Physics are getting in the way of scientific advances like this, then that's something we need to get Congress to take a hard look at in the coming years. /tic