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• On the post: Cops Continue To Make The Best Argument For Defunding The Police

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2022 @ 09:47pm

  I'm not going to argue with your point on gun control but, concerning this:

  Society shouldn’t make suicide easier

  Why not? If reasonably painless assisted suicide was legal those of us who have decided that we don't want to exist anymore wouldn't be as pressured to, let's say, go out with a bang. I understand that some people who would decide to commit suicide-by-cop would still make that attempt but, since the one thing that a person must own outright without the interference of others is his or her own life, why shouldn't ending that life also be a right?

• On the post: Being A Supreme Court Clerk Now Hazardous To Your Privacy

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2022 @ 09:38pm

  This is exactly what I thought when I first heard about this. The clerks need to work together on this.

• On the post: Being A Supreme Court Clerk Now Hazardous To Your Privacy

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2022 @ 09:35pm

  The 4th Amendment does require a warrant to compel the phone records but, if your employer requests them and says that you'll lose your job otherwise is that illegal? Unfortunately, in this case, the employer in question is the governmental body that ultimately decides the constitutionality of such a thing.

• On the post: The End Of Roe Will Bring About A Sea Change In The Encryption Debate

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 17 May, 2022 @ 02:47am

  I'm a man. If I have an unwanted parasite leeching off of my body I'd have the right to have it removed by a medical professional immediately. Why should this change if I'm female or if the parasite is a member of the genus homo? I'm all for the mammalian parasitism that we call human reproduction if the host is a willing participant. If not, then it's best for everyone involved for the parasite to be removed.

• On the post: Blaming Social Media And Section 230 For Mass Shootings Is Ridiculous; Stop It

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 16 May, 2022 @ 02:19pm

  It's been mentioned even in mainstream media since he was in elementary school and has existed since before he was born. (It was created in 2003.) What are you really asking here?

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2022 @ 06:44pm

  Looking at the page code, the flag as spam option seems to require Javascript. In fact, all of the rating buttons do. Without scripts, you are able to view and comment but that's about it.

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2022 @ 09:38pm

  Comment Scrubber Issues

  When using the variable page width setting, the Comment Scrubber covers the left side of the comments.

• On the post: Medical, Home Alarm Industries Warn Of Major Outages As AT&T Shuts Down 3G Network

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2022 @ 12:56pm

  Re: Re:

  Suspending the trading of a company only hurts the shareholders, not the company. That's effectively a game of hot potato where whoever is holding the stock when trading is suspended loses.

• On the post: Law Firm Sues US Citizen And Immigration Service After It Tries To Claw Back Docs Obtained Legally Thru A FOIA Request

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2022 @ 11:14pm

  Re: What does return documents mean, legally?

  Normally a "return" request for electronic documents simply means, destroy any copies you have or that you've disseminated. If that's not possible, explain why.

• On the post: New FCC Broadband 'Nutrition Label' Will More Clearly Inform You You're Being Ripped Off

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2022 @ 11:13pm

  Re:

  He nominated Gigi Sohn back in October. The ball is in the Senate's court now.

• On the post: Another Illinois Appeals Court Handles Compelled Password Production, Says There's No Fifth Amendment Issue Here

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2021 @ 10:51pm

  Re:

  Yes, they would be providing testimony. In the hypothetical you presented, authorities with a warrant would crack the safe to get at its contents rather than ask for the passcode or key.

• On the post: The US Gov't Paid For Moderna To Develop Its Vaccine; But Moderna Wants To Keep The Patent All To Itself

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2021 @ 03:36am

  Re: Big problem here

  So, I was going to say that polio isn't quite extinct. However, the last cases of wild polio were in January (one in Afghanistan and one in Pakistan) which is down from 94 in 2020. There were also 170 cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus this year (this happens when there are too many unvaccinated people in a population and the weakened poliovirus from the vaccine infects them and mutates into a dangerous form again**). That 170 figure is down from 1069 in 2020 though and so polio may really be on the verge of eradication this time. *Source who.int
  **Source polioeradication.org

• On the post: The US Gov't Paid For Moderna To Develop Its Vaccine; But Moderna Wants To Keep The Patent All To Itself

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2021 @ 03:22am

  Re: Re:

  You joke but, I'm reasonably sure that none of those fusion patents are of gravity-based hot fusion (the kind that happens in stars). Any patent like that should be rejected out-of-hand.

• On the post: U.S. Prepares To Spend $42 Billion On A Broadband Problem It Can't Accurately Measure

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2021 @ 01:57am

  Re: "By any measure this is a good thing"

  You seem to be one of the (many) people who misunderstands how money works from the point of view of the issuer of said money. Every dollar that the US government issues is spent on something. That's how new dollars enter circulation. Taxation, on the other hand, removes dollars from circulation effectively destroying them. If you have a perfectly balanced federal budget, then you've managed to remove exactly as many dollars as you added that year from circulation. Even worse, if you have a surplus then you've removed more dollars than you added that year! If you do either of those things and the population using the currency is still increasing then there are either no new dollars for any currency users (you, me, local/state governments, corporations, etc.) to keep or (in the case of a surplus) fewer dollars to go around than we started with. The federal deficit is the number of dollars that the government created that they haven't removed from circulation. Those are the dollars that all of us currency users have in our pockets, bank accounts, and investments. While inflation is a worry in the long term, as long as there are still sufficient goods and services for the number of extant dollars to chase, the economy won't collapse.

• On the post: GOP Claim That Biden FCC Nom Gigi Sohn Wants To 'Censor Conservatives' Is AT&T & Rupert Murdoch Backed Gibberish

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2021 @ 01:06am

  Re: Re:

  Only one of the two infamous Koch brothers is still alive. David Koch died in 2019.

• On the post: Minneapolis Man Acquitted Of Charges After Mistakenly Shooting At Cops Sues Officers For Violating His Rights

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2021 @ 01:23am

  Re: Re:

  Even if a homicide is found to be justified as those were, it's still the intentional killing of one human by another. That is, by definition, murder even if no crime has been committed.

• On the post: Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia's Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2021 @ 05:04pm

  Re:

  Unfortunately, this isn't only a metropolitan US policy. In Oklahoma, police have (or at least they had at one point) devices to pull money off of gift cards and prepaid debit cards.

• On the post: Forget 'The Kids These Days'; It's The Adults And Their Moral Panics To Worry About

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2021 @ 10:34pm

  Re:

  For your first point, just a few days ago a 17-year-old girl was {shouted down at a school board meeting](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10148303/Gay-student-sharing-experience-bullying-shouted-woman.html)* (by an adult) while she was speaking about being bullied at school over her sexual identity (she's gay). As to the second, if you don't allow people without children into school board meetings for "lack of standing" do you also not tax them to pay for education? Remember taxation without representation was a major reason for the creation of the United States in the first place. *Sorry about the Daily Mail link, while I read it elsewhere, this was the first one I found in my search just now.

• On the post: Most People Probably Don't Need A VPN, Experts Now Advise

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2021 @ 11:08am

  Sometimes Even Americans Need VPN's

  My ISP blocks certain legal websites that use services other than Cloudflare for DDOS protection. To access these sites, I have to use a VPN (since Spectrum is the only broadband option available to me).

• On the post: Court Tells Child Sexual Abuse Investigators That The Private Search Warrant Exception Only Works When There's A Private Search

  

  R.H. ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2021 @ 02:13pm

  Re: the courts are drawing a funny distinction

  There was no privacy intrusion by Google because of two things. One the user, by way of Google's Terms of Service, agreed to let Google look at their attachments. Two, Google is not the government so they aren't limited by the Fourth Amendment. What the court is saying is that until some being with a mind (let's use the term "person" from here on out) looks at the evidence, no search (as defined by the Fourth Amendment) has occurred. This means that if no person at Google or the NCMEC actually looks at the images, no private search has yet occurred and the police need to get a warrant before looking at the forwarded images themselves.

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