LordKano

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by LordKano 11y ago
Dukakis pretty much did everything wrong. He was opposed to the death penalty when the country was overwhelmingly for it. He talked about how civilians shouldn't be permitted to own guns. He was arguably soft on crime.
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I also think the idea of mass pardons for prisoners if states don't reform solitary confinement would be political suicide. He's a lame duck with less than 1 year remaining in his term. His political career is over. He has alrea
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released by way of presidential pardon. The President doesn't have the authority to pardon someone for a State crime. I suppose he could threaten to pardon federal inmates who were residents of non-compliant states before their incar
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by LordKano 11y ago
How do you explain the rampant cocaine drug wars in New York and Miami in the 1980s that killed far more Americans than they do today? Easy, the War on Drugs began in the early 70s. The murders and general lawlessness that you reference f
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by LordKano 11y ago
It certainly lowers the bar to entry. Somewhere out there, there's a kid with an idea that will one day become the next Zuckerberg or Woz. Whereas it was next to impossible for my peers to convince our parents that we needed a $3,000 c
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Self-Medication. Nicotine is a stimulant that elevates the mood almost like magic. The numbers are particularly telling if you look at schizophrenia sufferers. People with schizophrenia are about 2.5 time more likely to smoke than people wi
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by LordKano 11y ago
I hadn't heard of this case before but it'd not a surprise to me. It's completely tangential but I have taken great delight in the reaction of people to Making a Murderer. I have talked to people who are in absolute disbelief
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by LordKano 11y ago
When police officers ask me where I'm going, I say "I'm on my way to obey the law, officer." Occasionally, I'll say "I'm going to decline to answer that question, officer."
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by LordKano 11y ago
Once again you're stating the obvious to no logical effect The logic evades you, that isn't the same thing as it being absent. Both kinds restrictions are arbitrary limits placed on the institution of marriage by society. prohi
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by LordKano 11y ago
This response makes no sense. It makes perfect sense. You just don't like it. Once again, prohibition of polygamy says marriages that consist of more than two individuals are illegal, it doesn't matter who those individuals are
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by LordKano 11y ago
Polygamy is prohibited based on the total number of individuals, gay marriage prohibition is based on the identity of the individuals; it's a critical distinction as far as the protection of individual rights are concerned. So then,
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by LordKano 11y ago
The spirit of the constitution protects individual rights Do you support polygamous marriage? It's not activism to say that discrimination based on sexual orientation is unconstitutional. It's not bigotry to say that marriage
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by LordKano 11y ago
I'm rewriting nothing. I have no dog in this fight. I'm not in California. I'm not gay. I'm not currently married. I am reminding people of a recently unpopular truth. Prop 8 only happened because of judicial activism on
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by LordKano 11y ago
I agree with you. An ad may make me aware of a product of which I had not previously been but it's not going to induce me to buy something in which I had no previous interest. If I'm thinking of Widget Class X Brand A, an ad might
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by LordKano 11y ago
It's only a little bit hyperbolic. If a facility isn't providing jobs to local residents, there's no leverage to get sweetheart deals on local taxes.
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by LordKano 11y ago
To me, there's something else that seems to be the case. The emphasis on headshots in zombie preparedness. As an extension of "zombies as human surrogates" concept, there's one group of humans for whom a headshot is the
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It's very easy to do. I am earning roughly triple what I earned 16 years ago and I'm living more comfortably but I'm just comfortable. I'm not living extravagantly by American middle-class standards. I drive an 11 year o
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by LordKano 11y ago
I wonder if more toxic chemicals are necessary to recycle or to initially refine it.
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by LordKano 11y ago
In the 1990s, when Smith and Wesson made a deal with the Clinton Administration, gun buyers and sellers did something similar. We stopped buying Smith and Wesson firearms and their profits dropped like a stone. They thought that the increas
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by LordKano 11y ago
And we have a winner.
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by LordKano 11y ago
Assume you win the $800 million jackpot and lose 50% to taxes, you have $400 million left over. Gambling losses are tax deductible as expenses against gambling winnings. Going with your scenario, if you spend ~$146 million and win ~$800 m
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by LordKano 11y ago
Each ticket you purchase is an expense that will reduce your tax liability. If you spent $500 million on tickets and won $800 million, your tax liability would only be on the $300 million profit.
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by LordKano 11y ago
We had an office pool for Wednesday's drawing and one of the guys in my area declined to participate. I joked that there was now a 292.2 million to 1 chance that tomorrow, he'd want to jump off of a bridge. Fortunately for him, we
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A couple of times a year.
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I use a version of this when dealing with police. Instead of trying to act happy or friendly, I remain as level as possible. Think "Mr. Spock with a smile". I have found that even "huff and puff" types calm down after a
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by LordKano 11y ago
I don't think the bigger ones will in the short to medium term. At some point, in the distant future, it's likely that movie distribution will be radically changed. PPV and streaming from day 1 but that's highly unlikely. F
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If movies were to transition into the Steam model where the cost is brought down but has higher reach, the gross is going to go down, and so should the marketing and actor budgets of such films. Why would they? Why would a studio decide t
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Obviously, no one knows for sure but let's say that 1% of the people who went to see it would have opted out if the original stars hadn't returned... In three weeks, that is over 15 million dollars just where it's been releas
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That's called "The Unrated Director's Cut".
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I'm of the belief that the better actors are paid far too much The market decides these things. It's difficult to argue that there isn't enough profit on a movie that has grossed over 1.5 billion dollars in three weeks to p

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