LordKano

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by LordKano 11y ago
It's kind of an interesting story how the military didn't really want the Bradley in the first place but it was forced upon them by congress and they had to find a use for it. I have a relative who was in the mechanized infantry b
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by LordKano 11y ago
IANAL but I don't see how it could be illegal. There's no misrepresentation. Both the "buyer" and the "seller" know what is going on and agree.
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by LordKano 11y ago
The way I see it, piracy was easier 12 or so years ago. The rise of P2P, in the days before regulatory sanctions and when user tracking was less sophisticated, you could get nearly anything on P2P.
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by LordKano 11y ago
I don't get it either. That article hits the issues why I won't buy one. I'd much rather have a plain old dumb tv and a smart device attached to it. With the same tv, I have been through a Chromecast, a NeoTV, a Roku 2 and a
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by LordKano 11y ago
There isn't much that is subjective about paying the appropriate amount for the services and programs you benefit from. Again, you used a subjective term "Appropriate". You are attempting to present subjective opinions as o
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by LordKano 11y ago
As I mentioned upthread, I think not everyone shares your view of state. That's alright. Not everyone has to share my view. You seem to view the state mostly as an enemy, a higher power you need to fight to extract some goods for yo
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by LordKano 11y ago
Both of these are immoral. Therefore, not paying your fair share (note that I didn't say "legal share") is immoral. Fairness is subjective. Morality is subjective. Legality is objective. It's not "fair" that
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by LordKano 11y ago
No, it doesn't fix the problem and it creates several others. That's the biggest problem with all of these quick-fix new tax ideas, the proponents never think them through. 1. What jurisdiction does one country have to tax assets
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by LordKano 11y ago
When the tax laws become too burdensome, people simply leave. Look at this. New York's tax burden is so great that it was economically advantageous for this man to pay someone to keep track of the number of days he spent in New York ju
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by LordKano 11y ago
Taxing wealth suffers from the same problem. People who have a lot of wealth will move that wealth to places with the lowest tax burden. Basically, the truly wealthy will start living in luxury apartments while shuttling their wealth to the
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by LordKano 11y ago
Taxes are not a moral matter. Taxes are a legal matter. Governments are amoral entities. I'll clarify because the last time I said this, it was misinterpreted... Governments pass, enforce and obey laws. It is beyond the scope of govern
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by LordKano 11y ago
I have no moral duty to provide anything to the government. I have legal duties. Do those employees, who are based in the UK, pay taxes on their income?
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by LordKano 11y ago
You could also see it as paying your dues, or even as doing your part in maintaining your society. My duty is only to pay the minimum amount I am legally obliged to pay. Not one cent more. Well, that's the point of having a state.
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by LordKano 11y ago
The state is occasionally my adversary and occasionally my ally. When it comes to the question of how much of the money that I earn must be surrendered to prevent me from going to jail, the state is my adversary. Taxes are routinely used to
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by LordKano 11y ago
But some of these tax avoidance schemes are only legal because tax authorities do not have the number of staff needed to investigate and prosecute all of them. There is a difference between something that is legal and something that is il
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by LordKano 11y ago
And I disagree that the "western diet" has anything to do with our wins against malnutrition. Western technological advancements have pretty much everything to do with our wins against malnutrition. Without question, there are s
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by LordKano 11y ago
It's a shame that people need to be reminded of these. For some reason, people tend to see the past through rose-colored glasses.
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by LordKano 11y ago
A lot of people advocate cannabis as a cure for cancer. I remind them that Bob Marley died from cancer.
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by LordKano 11y ago
100% is a reasonable goal. Victims and Eyewitnesses can and do make mistakes. Security footage can show someone who looks like a suspect but DNA (when properly tested) provides irrefutable proof. In many cases, especially old cases for whic
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by LordKano 11y ago
We also understand that people will say anything to get the torture to stop. When the intelligence community let it be known that Khalid Sheikh Muhammad confessed to planning 9-11, the response from the public was tempered by the almost uni
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by LordKano 11y ago
Precisely. The view that anything my side does is OK because it's my side is the kind of nationalism that can turn ugly very quickly.
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by LordKano 11y ago
I'm not trying to minimize the excesses taken by some Allied troops but the big difference was that these excesses were just that, excesses and not policy as in the case of the Japanese forcing women into sexual slavery or giving child
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by LordKano 11y ago
The idea that you cede the moral high ground when you use torture seems to have been forgotten. I don't care if it works. I grew up believing that we were "The Good Guys" and under no circumstance is it ever acceptable for th
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by LordKano 11y ago
Ah, I get it now. You're just looking to argue. Feel free to carry on without me.
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by LordKano 11y ago
I want to remember. I want to verify the amount of ever withdrawal before it happens.
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by LordKano 11y ago
The comment to which you replied was mine. Yes, I approve of it. Without the ability to compel him to receive medical attention, my friend would have died.
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by LordKano 11y ago
It could have been a lie but it wasn't. We can play that game all day. Even if the cops had heard him, the doctors who treated him wouldn't know if the cops were lying. The judge, who had the final say about extending his observat
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by LordKano 11y ago
People can and have been sentenced to death because of lies told to the police.
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by LordKano 11y ago
He is my friend. There's very little that I won't do to help a friend who is truly in need.
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by LordKano 11y ago
I don't do automatic payments. I won't do automatic payments. It doesn't benefit me so I don't do it. They day after payday, I sit down and determine which bills are due and I pay them electronically. It doesn't mat

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