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by nirvana 15y ago
I hate to disagree with you, but we already have a constitutional amendment, as well as the key text of the constitution itself. The federal government is not given the power to pass whatever legislation it wants, so long as congress votes
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by nirvana 15y ago
Assuming SOPA, et al, are defeated, there is some real news here: 1. The government(S) have decided that anonymity on the internet, is not a god given right. 2. There is a battle going on. Defeating SOPA at best will produce a delay. The
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've been using Fenix lights for years. We have several L1Ds among us. I love the multi-mode of them, flashing, including SOS, etc. Since these are rechargable we have enerloop batteries that we can recharge using the computers USB port.
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by nirvana 15y ago
Kickstarter can say whatever they want in their FAQ. It doesn't change the law. It doesn't change the contracts they signed with Amazon. It doesn't change the contract Amazon signed with the credit card companies. It doesn't change the F
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by nirvana 15y ago
We're both right. He's making good progress for a flashlight that was at the state of development it turned out to be, its just that I didn't pledge to fund a flashlight at that state of development. If I'd known what I know now, I would
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by nirvana 15y ago
>These are projects, not products. You're making a donation, not buying something. That this was a sale isn't a question of perspective, but the legal fact of the matter. The project I funded advertised itself as "pre-sales". It was n
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by nirvana 15y ago
Yes. Backers on kickstarter are not sophisticated startup people. They're regular consumers. Most kickstarter projects are ones that appeal to them, and are also low tech. If a project expects a lengthy development process they can say it
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by nirvana 15y ago
I got burned by a kickstarter project. Like others, I naively believed that they were at least an above board outfit. I also appreciated that Amazon was the payments service because I believe they are above board as well. I fell for the "
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by nirvana 15y ago
If he'd travelled to the USA and committed a crime, that would be one thing. But he's a British citizen in Britian. He's not subject to US laws, he's subject to British laws. If the British government can't be bothered to protect its citiz
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by nirvana 15y ago
Since this article talks about the constitution, I wanted to quote the preamble to the bill of rights. Since this set of amendments was enacted, as part of the deal to get the constitution passed, it is illustrative of the perspective of ri
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by nirvana 15y ago
In East Germany, toddlers and grade schoolers were required to go to the bathroom together, with no partitions between the toilets. Privacy was irrelevant because individualism was irrelevant. Even extending into bathroom habits the commun
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by nirvana 15y ago
I think there are two purposes to the TSA. One is to make people feel safe, as you mentioned. The other is to get people into the habit of having their rights routinely violated by "government agents". It is a form of conditioning, and it
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by nirvana 15y ago
Is there any verified info showing a backdoor in Apple iOS? From my brief reading it sounds like the person writing the memo may not be able to distinguish between surveillance of the carriers and putting backdoors into the devices themselv
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by nirvana 15y ago
Consider this hypothetical: You don't like the idea of at-will employment. How do you feel about the idea of being able to quit your job at any time? You're relying on your employer for an income, this is true, and thus being fired in a way
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by nirvana 15y ago
There is an emphasis on hacker news and in the startup scene on VC funding. But I think this is a mistake. The mission of a startup is not to get VC funding. The mission of a startup is to get product-market fit. Angel funding or some ot
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by nirvana 15y ago
First off, Wikipedia is not a credible source. It is controlled by a group of editors who are leftists, and in many cases factual corrections are undone by them simply because they disagree with the editors politics. Secondly that page agre
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by nirvana 15y ago
To claim that Ron Paul endorses murdering homosexuals because some random religious guy who does, endorsed his campaign is a lie. That's like saying Ron Paul is pro-choice because I'm pro-choice.
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by nirvana 15y ago
Check out Moniker. They have a no-nonsense policy and are in the business of protecting domain owners.
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by nirvana 15y ago
Insurance companies don't buy judges. This is really just nonsense. The thing is, judges work for the government, this means, no matter how illegal a law is, they will always take the government side of it. For example, the constitution do
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by nirvana 15y ago
You're lying. That's why you're being down voted.
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by nirvana 15y ago
These are not credible at all. These are, when its all said and done, lies used to paint Ron Paul. The very interesting thing is, why? What is the motivation of such people to bash Paul as a homophobe when there's decades of actions on hi
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've seen assertions he supported the DOMA, but he didn't vote for it, so he couldn't have supported it very much. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1996/roll316.xml Further, he supports human rights in virtually every context, including marriag
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by nirvana 15y ago
His name does not appear on the vote for the Defense of Marriage Act. Please give us an example for your claim he supported it. Apparently he didn't even show up to vote for it, so much was his "support": http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1996/r
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by nirvana 15y ago
We're talking about websites blacking out their own pages, or advocating that their customers call up their representatives. Are you meaning to endorse congress restricting or regulating such influence? I'd see that as a far worse threat th
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by nirvana 15y ago
And call me unreasonable if you like, but if this thing passes, and they haven't gone nuclear (or some variation thereof), as far as I'm concerned, they are endorsing it. There are a few times when you have to take a stand. This is one of
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by nirvana 15y ago
Why would you need to incorporate in Chile in order to stay? The initial visa is for a year, right? I'm curious because we're planning to stay the full year, and may stay a second year if we can get a renewal.
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by nirvana 15y ago
We're preparing to move to Chile in February to start as part of the next class. I see a couple of these blog posts along the lines of "well my 6 months are up, I'm outta here!". That seems like such a tragedy to me. I've been to Chile be
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by nirvana 15y ago
Love the subscription packs and the friction free signup, but once I'd picked a pack, I wanted to go back and add another pack to my set of subscriptions... but couldn't figure out how, probably because this is an MVP. When looking at my su
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by nirvana 15y ago
This is a great article and it reinforces for me, the importance of the concept of "ramen profitable". If you're Ramen profitable, you're putting essentially all of the profits you could be making into growing the business. You're not runn
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by nirvana 15y ago
Unfortunately, every registrar in the USA has, essentially, a "morality" clause imposed upon it by the US government. I'm not just talking about ICE seizures of .com domains, but also state judges ordering that domains be seized without re

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