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• On the post: Think Tank Says DHS Should Stop Laptop Border Searches

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 28 May, 2011 @ 11:56pm

  Re: Abuse of the Constitution

  True.... we need a couple of Supreme Court judges (mainly the conservative ones) removed from the bench for good and banned from practicing law in the United States.

• On the post: Think Tank Says DHS Should Stop Laptop Border Searches

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 28 May, 2011 @ 11:53pm

  Re:

  Easily monitored? Then why aren't they able to catch those pedosexuals who are trading child porn? Oh, did I bring up something that is inconvenient to your stupidity there? Too bad!

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  Christopher ( profile ), 28 May, 2011 @ 07:10pm

  Re: Re:

  The companies when they insisted on using DRM and passwords of any form, because that can only be linked to a fear of piracy.
  
  What other goddamned reason do they have? Really, illuminate us if you can think of one!

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  Christopher ( profile ), 28 May, 2011 @ 07:08pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  There shouldn't be any need for a password to change this thing. In fact, I will be blunt: it should be a easy "Push here to change lens! Confirm by pushing yes!" process where the projector does it automatically.

• On the post: Can We Kill Off This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed?

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 28 May, 2011 @ 05:22am

  Personally, I don't think morality should come into fantasy and I don't think that the law should be trying to force morality on people (not even for that "PROTECT THE CHILDREN" bullhockey reason), internet or not.

• On the post: Academic Publishers Attempting To Eliminate Fair Use At Universities [Updated]

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 01:17pm

  Re: Re: stupidity or opportunity

  There isn't any, and any judge who has not been bought and sold would rule that there is no basis in law for that.

• On the post: Congress Folds: Extends Controversial & Likely Abused PATRIOT Act Provisions For 4 More Years

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 05:59am

  Re: Re: Definition of Terrorism

  Newsflash: Once you take into account the Blue Dogs (Democrats in name only) the Senate is NOT controlled by true Democrats/liberals.
  
  Think before you post please.

• On the post: Facebook, Once Again, Says That Ceglia's Claim To Own 84% Of Facebook Is A Fraud

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 05:57am

  Re:

  Apparently you don't understand that the contract in question gave him an 84% right to the business PERIOD.... not the amount of the business that he funded.
  
  So, financing 'rounds' don't come into play here.... stupidity on the part of the people at Facebook does in that they left the contract open to this interpretation!

• On the post: Congress Folds: Extends Controversial & Likely Abused PATRIOT Act Provisions For 4 More Years

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 03:52am

  Re: Re: The Links

  It's time that those procedural tricks were banned, to be blunt. Only thing that relate to the original purpose of a bill (and this would be viewed VERY VERY small) should be allowed to be attached to a bill.

• On the post: Congress Folds: Extends Controversial & Likely Abused PATRIOT Act Provisions For 4 More Years

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 03:51am

  Re: Re: Definition of Terrorism

  Actually, Jay...... it only got as bad as it is today after the Bush Administration was in office.

• On the post: Sony's Insane Fear Of 'Piracy' Means Many Movies Now Suck In Digital Theaters

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 01:10pm

  I wonder how long it will take the Anonymous Coward to show up and start spouting BS on this subject.
  
  Perhaps this is why some theaters have specific theaters for 3D movies and others for 2D movies.

• On the post: Justice Department Threatens To Ban Flights Out Of Texas If Texas Makes TSA Groping Illegal

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 12:51pm

  Re:

  Agreed.... if it wasn't for the fact that I have never lived anywhere else and wouldn't be able to learn a new language, I would have moved somewhere else in the world already.
  
  The United States is losing it's rights slowly but surely based on the fear of terrorism and fear of pedosexuality.

• On the post: Justice Department Threatens To Ban Flights Out Of Texas If Texas Makes TSA Groping Illegal

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 12:49pm

  Re: "Justice Department Threatens To Ban Flights Out Of Texas"

  With all due respect, we do need the DOJ and the airlines, unless you like hopping on a boat and being absent from work for a month for your trip to France for that latter one.
  
  The TSA? That we do not need.

• On the post: Justice Department Threatens To Ban Flights Out Of Texas If Texas Makes TSA Groping Illegal

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 12:46pm

  Re: Re: The naked scanners and groping is a farce

  Beta, I believe you hit the nail on the head about the reasoning behind the groping/scanners.

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  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Re: The naked scanners and groping is a farce

  Beta, I believe you hit the nail on the head about the reasoning behind the groping/scanners.

• On the post: Seismologists Tried For Manslaughter Due To Earthquake

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 12:35pm

  This is one time where the European Court should step in and tell Italy "NO NO NO! You do not try people for manslaughter for failing to realize that something would happen from something else! Especially when it involves nature and trying to predict it!"

• On the post: Privacy Is Not Secrecy; Debunking The 'If You've Got Nothing To Hide…' Argument

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 09:15am

  Re:

  Usually, it goes into some BIG government database somewhere.... which is the reason why I refused when they were investigating a little girl I knew getting raped 6 years ago to give a sample unless they signed an agreement saying that after I was cleared, the material in question would be destroyed.
  
  I told them I was fine with giving them a sample for exculpatory purposes... but I damned well was not going to have my DNA sitting somewhere where someone can use the various methods they have to 'copy it', plant it at a crime scene, and get me sent to prison/jail.
  
  Yes, I sound paranoid.... but considering some of my viewpoints on some subjects ranging from sexuality to feminism being out of control today? I'm not really, and even my mother and father who don't share those viewpoints agree with me on that.

• On the post: Privacy Is Not Secrecy; Debunking The 'If You've Got Nothing To Hide…' Argument

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 09:08am

  Re: Re:

  Ah, but I have to point out that AT ONE TIME, a black man having sex with white women and men who were attracted to and having sex with men was illegal.
  
  So, that does still fit into what I posted.
  
  Until we limit out laws to what I laid out above..... we are going to have them used WAY too often to force religious and non-religious 'morality' (more like people's personal likes and dislikes) on various groups.

• On the post: India Descends Into Extreme Internet Censorship

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 09:06am

  Re: Re: India's Internet censorship

  Government doesn't really try in any country to make sure that the voting people stay uneducated, outside of the Middle East (which doesn't include India).
  
  They do try to make people get only ONE or TWO points of view (analogous is Americans only getting the liberal and conservative point of view on most subjects).

• On the post: India Descends Into Extreme Internet Censorship

  

  Christopher ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 09:04am

  Re:

  Which they should do, in my opinion.

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