genwin

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by genwin 13y ago
Done. How long until breathing is patented?
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by genwin 13y ago
On #1, see Wikipedia: A work of the United States government, as defined by United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. federal government as part of that person's official duties."[
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by genwin 13y ago
I believe in Hawaii if such access doesn't exist, you may create it by jumping a fence or whatever. Property owners like to put KAPU (forbidden) signs alongside access paths, giving the impression that the path is forbidden when it&#x2
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by genwin 13y ago
Basic income could pay for itself with the things created by people who are doing what they want, as a result of losing their fear of falling below a basic level of living.
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by genwin 13y ago
That's why I have two conditions, the other is to no longer be borrowing $billions daily; i.e. get that cash by borrowing it.
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by genwin 13y ago
Given the online ads included in the letter, it appears they googled for "bitcoin" and used a screen grabber to copy/paste the law text. It's sad how messed up the CA gov't has gotten.
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Scientists find proof plants are capable of complex arithmetic(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by genwin 13y ago|3 comments
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by genwin 13y ago
Shit just got real. The US gov't will now respond with a strongly-worded letter.
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by genwin 13y ago
Which seems to be a trend for them. Yet another example showing that the US gov't is no longer by the people, for the people.
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by genwin 13y ago
it says lapdog
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by genwin 13y ago
You make good points. Like I said, I support a Mars colony under the right conditions. I say it's myopia to ignore a much better investment. All the benefits you name pale in comparison to the benefits (or loss savings) of paying down
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by genwin 13y ago
Do what?
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by genwin 13y ago
> because the government was found to have illegally bugged his phone Man, how times have changed. Now espionage charges apply when someone leaks that the government bugged everyone's phone.
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by genwin 13y ago
"Build jobs" isn't a good enough reason. Chairman Mao built lots of jobs by having people melt their pans to create new pans. The Great Chinese Famine came next, predictably. If the jobs create more benefit than not, you&#x27
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by genwin 13y ago
Correct. That's why every gov't worker or soldier takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution. It's up to all of us to reject obviously wrong laws.
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by genwin 13y ago
> ... even when they know that that it doesn't follow the spirit of the laws that they currently operate under, it just pisses me off. Same here. A lot of this was going on in the 2000s. I'd ask them, so if it was legal to kick
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by genwin 13y ago
I'm all for a Mars colony, if we're debt free and it's paid for with cash. We just can't afford the investment now. It really isn't a case of "can't afford to not do it". If China colonizes Mars, Amer
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by genwin 13y ago
You can always break debt into slivers. You have to cut out slivers somewhere or else the kids are doomed.
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes it will devalue it. That will still have consequences enough to want to avoid unnecessary borrowing now.
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by genwin 13y ago
Professor Langley didn't borrow $trillions and expect future generations to pay it back with interest.
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by genwin 13y ago
When we can pay for it in rainy day cash and aren't borrowing $20 a day for every taxpayer like we are now, dooming the kids, then I'll gladly support it.
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by genwin 13y ago
He'd need to get low-cost bail. To the US gov't, fair treatment is solitary confinement, waterboarding, etc.
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by genwin 13y ago
> ... the sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the jury or, if there is no jury, the court , further finds ... Why even pretend it's a gov't for the people anymore?
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by genwin 13y ago
It would also be an obvious privacy violation for the NSA to install cameras in our bedrooms, even if they promised to never watch the video without a warrant.
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by genwin 13y ago
She works for the NSA's FOIA department, hence bearing sufficient responsibility for the NSA's wrongdoing.
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes, civil servants who flout the oath they took should be just as respected as those who don't. > I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, fo
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by genwin 13y ago
The netting is a stop-gap measure until the experts can definitively prove whether the insecticide sprayed on the trees kills insects.
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by genwin 13y ago
Insecticides might be killing insects? This must be studied for a few decades, we wouldn't want to jump to conclusions.
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by genwin 13y ago
Unlikely a news junkie would've called b.s. on that. There have been numerous stories in support of domestic phone call recording over the years, like: http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/12/5791-2&
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by genwin 13y ago
You have a point. However, the game has changed. Defense attorneys will allege that reasonable doubt could be shown if only they could present as evidence the NSA data most people believe exists. Juries will more likely find for the defenda

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