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by Evolved 11y ago
I agree but that wasn't what the previous post asserted so I was replying to their hypothetical situation.
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by Evolved 11y ago
I should have clarified I'm assuming worst case scenario where a cop shoots a civilian and kills them. The camera malfunctioned so the cop couldn't prove that for X reasons the civilian was a deadly threat then the cop is charged
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by Evolved 11y ago
It is called the Tueller Drill and the distance is 21 feet. Within 21 feet, a knife-wielding attacker stands a very good chance of stabbing the defender due to the time it takes the attacker to cover 21 feet vs. the defender unholstering, a
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by Evolved 11y ago
"One example where the U.S. seems to be getting it right is high-speed chases" If true, that may be because they are usually video recorded by news channels. If a civilian is injured during the chase, there's lots of dramati
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by Evolved 11y ago
All rights are worth fighting for even if they don't affect your life. The reasoning behind this should be pretty clear in that the individual rights tend to help protect the others much like chainmail. Maybe each individual link is no
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by Evolved 11y ago
subsidy noun sub·si·dy \ˈsəb-sə-dē, -zə-\ : money that is paid usually by a government to keep the price of a product or service low or to help a business or organization to continue to function : a grant or gift of money: as a : a sum of
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by Evolved 11y ago
Can they really do this if you're just upgrading the phone and signing a new contract since you're not required to choose a new plan? If you were absolutely required to choose a new plan when you upgradethen how can people with un
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by Evolved 11y ago
hustle - verb (used without object), hustled, hustling. 3. to be aggressive, especially in business or other financial dealings. 4. Slang. to earn one's living by illicit or unethical means. The hustle part of what I said has to do wit
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by Evolved 11y ago
intopieces - I can't reply to your comment so I'll post my reply here. There are different terms and benefits. They're not exactly alike. What you're saying is, essentially, "The salesman tried to sell me something
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by Evolved 11y ago
I assume Apple store employees don't try to sway people into Next when buying in the Apple store?
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by Evolved 11y ago
intentionally selling you a defective product masked as a new one. signing you up for something and then changing the terms. - fraud And here again, the math behind the swindle claim doesn't add up. You are still paying the retail p
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by Evolved 11y ago
It seems what AT&T are trying to do is stop losing money to subsidizing phones since other carriers (T-mobile, for example) are doing this. If this is the case then why not just discontinue the subsidization of phones at the $199, $299,
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by Evolved 11y ago
Unless my (read: everyone whom this affects) bill(s) actually drops by a corresponding amount of $ then this Next doesn't seem worth it. Many of us pay $200 for a phone and the rest is subsidized by signing the contract for 2 years. Wh
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iPhone Unicode bug crashes Messages app and forces iDevices to reboot(businessinsider.com)
2 points by Evolved 11y ago|0 comments
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by Evolved 11y ago
All these news outlets reporting on it are claiming he made the plane fly sideways which is bullshit because the only person making this claim is him. You'd think the pilots, airline, passengers, etc. would all have at some point made
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Hacker Chris Roberts Allegedly Said He Hacked Airplane's Entertainment System(businessinsider.com)
2 points by Evolved 11y ago|2 comments
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by Evolved 11y ago
Would a solar furnace be hot enough to incinerate the nuclear waste so that it is much safer to dispose of?
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by Evolved 11y ago
That's more of a Hobson's choice than a negotiation since you are not negotiating in good faith if your game plan is to leave if you don't get what you want. The objective is for both sides to start with what they want and ma
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by Evolved 12y ago
Maybe it's just me or maybe I have too much time on my hands but I really enjoy messing with the scammers. This is most entertaining when done with sound bites from movies. Also, the IRS wants their money much much more than they want
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by Evolved 12y ago
In practice this would take longer than the 27 million years stated assuming 2 things: that the computer doing the guessing doesn't try passphrases it has tried in the past and that the user changes their password at least 1 time (more
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by Evolved 12y ago
Paying to get rid of ads since you chose a free app that is supported by ads over a paid app isn't nearly the same.
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by Evolved 12y ago
If AT&T is using this for advertising then I wonder what net effect it would have to take advantage of the no data cap on home Internet and serve them up a heaping helping of contradictory data. If you automate a process to search anyth
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by Evolved 12y ago
My favorite is when Jaime Sin (a Cardinal) visited Rome and the headline was, "Cardinal Sin in Rome!"
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by Evolved 12y ago
A dissolvable wet wipe doesn't seem all that feasible as what is it supposed to take to make it dissolve? A dry wet wipe that you wet and then wipe with which then dissolves is...toilet paper.
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by Evolved 12y ago
The founding fathers were some incredibly smart gentlemen and had already invented and innovated quite a few things so as they had already witnessed and created so much already you can bet your bottom dollar they thought and knew that thing
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by Evolved 12y ago
Fun fact: the fact that boron carbide is used and happens to also increase hardness of the watch band is interesting as boron carbide is the most common type of base ingredient in armor plates for soldiers due to its hardness which results
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by Evolved 12y ago
fresh/freSH/ adjective 1. not previously known or used; new or different. 2. recently created or experienced and not faded or impaired. What exactly makes these local foods qualify as "fresh" yet something imp
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by Evolved 12y ago
The movie buff in me enjoys the fact that a lot of this can be summed up with 2 quotes from Iron Man 1. "Tony Stark: Well, Ms. Brown. It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got. I guarantee you the day weapons are
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by Evolved 12y ago
This has positive benefits such as companies like FN opening up shop stateside thus providing jobs to Americans. If I remember correctly, FN is now the largest small arms producer in the U.S. even surpassing Colt as far as supplying arms to
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by Evolved 12y ago
I understand the point you're trying to make but unfortunately it isn't an accurate comparison. However, I do think you've got something here because I question whether building F-22s at $150mil per plane plus the costs of ar

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