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Comment Re:Surprised at current "least popular" results! (Score 1) 315

I think you're wrong, you have to look at the answers in relation to this specific subgroup. To take your OS-example: Yes, many of us use less popular OS'es, but most of us does not use the least popular variant. I think we can use this poll to learn, for example, what os'es people use:
Those who voted "Most popular" uses Ubuntu ("Everyone uses Ubuntu")
Those who voted "Least popular" uses Slackware ("It's difficult, therefore I'm special")
Those who voted "In the middle" uses Red Hat or Debian ("Lots of people use Debian/Red Hat, but I guess most people use Ubuntu")
Those who voted "Don't vote" uses Windows ("Linux Suxors, I win!")
Those who voted "Straight ticket" use a Mac ("This poll sucks, Mac should be at the top of the list!")

If this poll was in a regular newspaper however, most Slashdotters would answer "Least Popular" ("I'm better than most people")

Comment Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score 1) 437

You might want to remove that reefer from your mouth. Laws are put in place so that people who transgress against them can be jailed or fined. It's the courts' job to do that, not judge whether or not the laws are wrong.

You're not quite right. It's the courts job to test laws against higher laws, typically a country's constitution or international treaties such as international law on human rights. If a law is found to break with these higher laws the court may as far as I know declare a law illegal or something like that. I don't know if this law breaks anything like this but The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights includes protection against "Arbitrary arrest" and being arrested based uppon a secret law sounds like arbitrary arrest to me at least.

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