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Comment Re:Wrong case for 4th amend, Customs can search (Score 1) 319

The cited article is a little ambiguous. The author refers to a "DHS officer". At no point is "TSA" mentioned.
The DHS includes both the TSA and US Customs, so it may very well have been a customs agent doing the searching.
The photo in the article is of a US Customs document and refers to "CBP officers" (Customs & Border Protection).

Comment Re:Profit (Score 1) 94

So actually, they have to do more than just cut a check. FCC Press release
In its consent decree with the Enforcement Bureau, Verizon has agreed to:
  • Pay a fine of $2 million to the U.S. Treasury;
  • Commit an additional $3 million over the next three years to address the problem of rural call completion on a company and industry-wide basis;
  • Appoint a Rural Call Completion Ombudsman within Verizon to centralize analysis of rural call completion problems;
  • Develop a system to automatically identify customer complaints that may be related to rural call completion issues;
  • Limit its use of intermediate providers, i.e., telecommunications providers between the Verizon network and the local rural provider, that are often the source of call completion problems;
  • Monitor its call answer rates to individual rural areas and conduct an investigation when rates to an area fall below a set threshold in any month;
  • Host industry workshops and sponsor an academic study on methods to detect and resolve rural call completion problems;
  • Provide quarterly summaries of its investigations to the FCC and meet periodically with Commission staff to identify lessons learned; and
  • Prepare a report to be publicly filed with the Commission at the end of the three-year compliance period.

Comment Marijuana vs. lung cancer (Score 1, Troll) 281

Google results like this one?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teenage-mind/201102/does-marijuana-cause-cancer

or this?
http://lungcancer.about.com/od/causesoflungcance1/f/marijuana.htm

At best, you can say that there are no definitive studies linking the two, but it appears that most combustibles emit carcinogens when burned.

I'm not saying that's a reason to ban marijuana, but, like with tobacco, users should really make informed choices.

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