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Comment Re:You cannot destroy data, harmless or not ... (Score 1) 319

Actually it has everything to do with it.

Nope, it has nothing to do with it as he is literally not being charged with a crime related to a border search. That's not the article the prosecution went with. When you search without warrant or without cause you're not in the process of taking lawful possession of anything. This isn't my view here, this is the prosecution. They themselves are declaring it has nothing to do with it.

Actually the above accurately repreents that section:

The part of the section you are ignoring is that of taking lawful possession. But I'll throw you a bone here, let's assume the government did follow a specific process to lawfully possess specific data, let's make that up and move on to:

"The statute lists examples including knowingly destroying, damaging, wasting, disposing of, or transferring property. It also includes taking “any other action” with respect to the property or records.

This will be an interesting test case for this law, because as far as anyone is concerned he didn't do *anything*. He wasn't even in possession or control of the device at the time. And before you come up with some bullet proof case for him to be found guilty, note that actual lawyers, legal professionals, have opined on this and all have concluded it is the greyest of grey areas with no clear indication of where this can go, and have also concluded this kind of case could make it up to the supreme court as a result.

Do you want to share your legal qualifications and write 20 pages of justification for why you think you are right? If so, I'm all ears (well... eyes, unless you have a legal blog or something).

This is an interesting case, and everyone with a law degree seems to agree the government will have an insanely difficult case to prove that the statute applies, and then an even harder case to prove that he violated it.

Comment Re: uh no (Score 1) 105

I'm sure you're right, but when? The vikings conquered it at one point. The Mongols demanded tribute from parts, and conquered other parts. At one point Lithuania held at least the Ukraine. Most modern states don't really have a long history. I think there was a period where Poland was the aggressive empire. Saying "throughout history" is just wrong.

Comment Re: Fuck Trump (Score 1) 247

There are direct replacements for diesel and gasoline which we know how to make and which we absolutely could use to replace our transportation fuels without switching to EVs. And you can just read about them on the Internet, they are not secret.

If you don't care enough about a subject to learn about it then don't make declarative statements about it.

Comment Re: Fuck Trump (Score 1) 247

Absurd generalizations? Wut?

On what basis? It's unquestionable that the political left in the US has both:
- fought nuclear tooth and nail since the 1970s
- is clearly the most concerned (panty-wetting fear in other words) with climate change.

There is no sane person that can dispute those assertions, gaslighter.

"ignoring the fact that your tech isn't actually the only fossil fuel alternative out there" I said LITERALLY NOTHING about that. Nothing. Are you asserting that expanded nuclear WOULDN'T have reduced hydrocarbon emissions substantially, or... are you just afraid to admit that?

I think wind and solar are great; they weren't meaningfully part of the conversation 45 years ago, which is what I rather specifically referenced.

I feel like you might not be getting enough oxygen. I made a single irrefutable assertion and you go off on irrelevancies as if they matter.

Comment Re:Fuck Trump (Score 1) 247

I'll agree that is sure didn't make things better, but those are temporary changes, and, e.g., EVs still have the problem of how to charge them if you don't have a garage...which LOTS of people don't. That really needs to be solved.

It's hard to find any good thing to say about Trump, but this was already a problem, and he didn't make it much worse. Blame him for other things. You won't need to look very hard.

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