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Member since January 29, 2005

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    Alex Alex

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  1. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

    1.0.2 (Mar 23, 2005)

    Version 1.0.2 discontinued ZIP packages and only provides buggy and completely unnecessary setup files.

    Great browser, if you can install it, that is.

  2. Comment - DHS: Expect your computer to be seized without suspicion

    1.0.2 (Aug 31, 2009 - 5:44 AM)

    As long as our schools are still successful in indoctrinating children that "we live in a free country" everything will be fine. Perception is the reality. Most Americans think they live in a free country and that's all that matters.

  3. Comment - Windows XP SP3 runs browsers 13% faster than Windows 7 RTM

    1.0.2 (Aug 16, 2009 - 10:05 AM)

    It's a pity 7 is slower than XP, but at least it is faster than Vista. There are no architectural differences to warrant wide speed gaps between XP/Vista/7, like unprotected memory model of Windows 95/98 line.

  4. Comment - iPhone prototype suicide case had previous violations, says Foxconn

    1.0.2 (Jul 29, 2009 - 4:24 AM)

    Apple is building itself a wonderful reputation. People are dying now because of Apple's insistence on enforcing secrecy whatever it takes.

  5. Comment - Media goes crazy over Amazon deleting '1984' from Kindle, but 99-cent ebook was illegal copy

    1.0.2 (Jul 28, 2009 - 4:21 AM)

    "It does nothing to limit or define the rights of "the People". Nothing. Zip. Zilch."

    Of course it doesn't. I've agreed with that statement from the begging yet you kept asserting it again and again. It doesn't define rights. I've agreed with it many times. It does however define legal rights.

    Just like people who get upset when one calls bible "just a book", there are quite a few who get similarly disturbed when one calls constitution "just a law". Many people find it difficult to think rationally when it comes to "religious" subjects.

    However issues are divided between different laws (i.e. one defines "limits of the government" if you insist, while the other defines outlawed behavior) and however different laws are called (i.e. constitution, act, regulation, decree, etc.) they are all still just laws and together they define legal rights (not the courts, which is the statement that started this discussion).

  6. Comment - Media goes crazy over Amazon deleting '1984' from Kindle, but 99-cent ebook was illegal copy

    1.0.2 (Jul 27, 2009 - 12:37 PM)

    "Swerving me back into the Constitution=law claim again.. Grrr..."

    You don't agree that Constitution is a law?

    Constitution, like any other law defines legal rights. It defines legal rights of people and it defines legal rights of entities like government. And it is not about amount of limits imposed. If an imaginary constitution would say that it is legal for anyone to do anything, it would still be defining legal rights.