Remaining silent in the face of police questioning does not automatically invoke your right to remain silent.  According to this new ruling from the SCOTUS, it doesn't count unless you actually say, "I'm invoking my right to remain silent."  Until then, the cops can do anything they want to try and trick you into incriminating yourself.
Three guesses how the voting shakes out on ideological grounds, and the first two don't count.  And remember, this is the same court that decided your right to an attorney has a two-week expiration on it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Woman sues Google
Facepalm

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/index2.html]In Memory of the First Stardancer.

May 30: Jeanne's Dance (Zero-G Gymnastics presentations and competitions)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Jeanne Robinson, wife of Spider Robinson, died on Sunday. Spider's
site with the message.

"..."

Outsider is a webcomic by Jim Francis. You may have seen some of his artwork if you have the 2nd edition BESM books. That's how I found him and his site. And from there I found his webcomic Outsider.
I've actually kept this one under my hat for a long time because of Jim's GLACIAL update schedule. There was a stretch there where he didn't put up a new page for almost two years! I didn't want to recommend it and then have there be no payoff. But now he seems to have buckled down and is updating pretty consistently on a one page a week schedule.
You may still think that's slow. And it is. But this guy is a CRAFTSMAN. One of the reasons for many of the delays in one of his longer stretches was that he was designing and "building" an entire bridge set with consoles, readouts, holographic HUD displays and a panoramic projected view of space all around in the computer so that he could view and render it from any angle needed and place his hand drawn characters into it. Did I mention that all of this was for a non-human ship and he created a consistent written language so that the displays would be in that language?
Last I checked, he also still has on his website a map of local space out to about 50
light years that uses Java and that you can rotate in all angles in 3d.
Anyway, this is a very good space opera "first contact" story with some fascinating characters, political intrigue and an awesome eye for detail.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_a ... ing_r.html

Sooooo pretty......
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

Japanese plan to create robot moon base.
No word yet on whether they plan to call the main computer there Mike.
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Epsilon

Just what it says in the subject. Some serious awesome here.

Quote:The picture on the right is the same shot, but this time he connected
the two ISS images
 with a line. Given the size of both the ISS and
Jupiter, it looks like the station flew directly
in front of the planet
from Anthony’s position! Had he taken that first shot literally a tenth

of a second later, he would have had the picture of a lifetime. As it
is, it’s still way cool.

Before I finalize my tentative slotting of the drivers I'm talking about firmly into the 'dumbass' column, I'd like to know if the behavior I've been witnessing is because of cross-cultural gaps rather than actually dumbassery.
On US highways, the convention -- the rule, in fact -- is that you stay right except to pass.  Now, I won't even begin to pretend that Americans follow this rule.  They don't.  However, in general, if someone moves aside to let a faster car go by, they're doing so by moving right.  And they typically stay there, unless they're going faster than other people in the right lane themselves.  With me so far?
However, I've been noticing a lot more cars with Canadian plates on them around these parts lately, and what their drivers tend to do is the exact opposite: they stay in the left lane, and if they move aside for a faster car, they immediately jump back into the left lane... even if the right lane is empty for as far as the eye can see ahead of them.  (Many times they don't move aside and you see a long line of cars moving right, passing the Canadian, and moving left again to pass the slowboaters on the right.)
Is the convention reversed up north?

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs