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by Pinckney 12y ago
I honestly find the idea of spending decades of my life in a prison facing daily verbal and physical abuse from guards and inmates to be far more terrifying than death. No, you can't un-execute somebody, but you can't give someone
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by Pinckney 13y ago
>Going to Mars to backup humanity has the real, bona-fide potential to save more lives than any amount of Earth charity; I really find this morality baffling. As I see it extinction level event would be a tragedy on account of the deaths
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by Pinckney 13y ago
>Also to me the sending of a letter "via lawyer" seems fairly suspicious, adding some air of legal legitimacy to the claims without actually suing Newsweek or taking action that would open the issue up to real legal discovery.
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Some googling suggests that this is fraud, and that the courts will recognize what you're doing and refuse to discharge such credit card debt. E.g.: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/will-bankruptcy-rid-c...
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Airplanes have been known to fly for hours with sleeping or otherwise incapacitated pilot(s). Helicopters do not fly for hours with sleeping pilots.
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Any engine worth using will produce large amounts of waste heat, which the ship will need to reject somehow. The most plausible option seems like large radiators; efficiency is as the fourth power of temperature, so it is very desirable to
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Sounds a bit like the mess that is the Up Front reprint: http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/160421/item/2750333#item27...
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by Pinckney 13y ago
I helpfully told them that I used theobromine weekly (in the form of chocolate).
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Entering into a marriage to evade immigration laws specifically made a felony by statute. (8 U.S.C. § 1325). http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
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by Pinckney 13y ago
>a serial killer He's merely a parallel killer.
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by Pinckney 13y ago
>Bond was charged with violating chemical weapons treaties for using chemicals to kill her husband's mistress' lawn (amongst other things). This is a little misleading. The NY Times reports that Bond placed poison on Haynes&#x2
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by Pinckney 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julin_Bristol
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Murder has a specific meaning, and is distinguished from other forms of homicide by the presence of intent. None of the many links you have provided concern murder charges.
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Deimos is a better place to refuel. http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_deimos_water_company....
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Someone did that in the UK. He was only ever caught because a background check for a promotion revealed he was married to someone on the no fly list. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/02/uk_immi
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by Pinckney 13y ago
They did a few things differently. Because their thrust was relatively limited, they made several short burns at perigee to raise their apogee in successive stages. Essentially, it was more efficient to fire their engine several times very
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Many flight attendants were vocal about their opposition. https://www.change.org/petitions/tsa-do-not-allow-knives-on-... http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/06/business/la-fi-tsa-a
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Ion thrusters have atrocious thrust to weight ratios. You can slap more ion thrusters on, but that adds mass linearly. You can't scale up voltage much, or you get current arcing across the acceleration region, and you can't add mo
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Xenon is actually pretty expensive. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=581982
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Yes, I know. I'm fairly confident it's the form tedunangst referred to, and to travellers, the distinction is mostly academic, since they're both handed in at customs.
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by Pinckney 13y ago
The I-94 form asks such questions as "have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Naz
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by Pinckney 13y ago
No, the ITN isn't the only way to travel, and it's not what MOM is using. It's just doing a Hohmann transfer, which is just about the most basic orbital maneuver possible. The ITN is the clever, sneaky way to travel between p
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by Pinckney 13y ago
>The program was also designed to give E-Sports employees full administrative access to users’ computers; they could access files, capture screen shots, track mouse movements, and monitor computer activity even when users weren’t logged
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by Pinckney 13y ago
It was a French group, La Fondation de l’Attentat du DC10, that put up the memorial. There's no indication that the cost of the memorial was anywhere close to $170 million. I suppose you can argue that we should never build memorials,
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by Pinckney 13y ago
>First, when shot once, a large fraction of people will stop their aggression, e.g. Trayvon Martin is the most recent famous example. Is this really how we ought to be doing public relations?
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by Pinckney 13y ago
I think one problem that's mostly overlooked is the difficulty of getting people to use desktop email clients. Particularly in my younger generation, we've grown up with webmail, and switching to desktop clients is a major switch.
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Some sort of disk buffer, maybe?
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by Pinckney 13y ago
Probably related to this: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
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by Pinckney 13y ago
this line of reasoning seems like the least of our concerns in a discussion centered around firing ammunition into the clouds Well you'd use birdshot, obviously. How does the author think people hunt ducks?
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by Pinckney 13y ago
I think the point that's overlooked here is that the offenders aren't the clever apps that would be impossible to write without javascript. Go ahead and write those. I'm happy for you, really. The problem is pages that requir

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