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by Zimahl 13y ago
I live in Oregon and you can get cash from the store for that receipt. Some people (homeless, poor, frugal) collect bottles and cans from public trash bins for this exact purpose. Sometimes schools have fundraisers where you drop off bags
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by Zimahl 13y ago
No, you can certainly change your mind. But there is definitely a line where something is crossed. An example is with the revelations about the concussions in football. Some parents, even ones who may have played football in their day, ma
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by Zimahl 13y ago
After I graduated college I worked for the same college doing IT for housing and dining. I worked with a fellow alumnus who was in a fraternity in the late 60s. He told a story about their fraternity running a paid bar in the basement eve
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by Zimahl 13y ago
The reference is to an episode of Seinfeld where the Kramer sub-plot is about bottle deposit returns. Kramer notices that he can get 10 cents instead of the usual 5 cents for a bottle deposit return if he can return it to Michigan. Newman
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Those docks might not be permanent structures, which probably removes any permit requirements. You might want to go this route too if you all won't be visiting much or at all during the winter months. Remove your dock to 'winter
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I see what you are saying but like you said, smoke jumpers prepare. While they might jump into hazardous conditions it is not done without a risk:reward ratio well above 'adventure'. When best laid plans fail they are forgiven be
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by Zimahl 13y ago
This. The previous comment is the reason why McCandless is such a polarizing figure. Those who prepare and go on a quest without suffering negative consequences are somehow derided for not being independent thinkers, somehow cheapened for
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Mostly I'm puzzled by the way he's emerged as a hero I tend to agree with the sentiment although I appreciate the his quest. As a side note, I can understand how someone gets into a sticky situation in the theme of adventure. A
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Would you criticize Breaking Bad because you don't see as much crack being made in more recent episodes? How fucking stupid. It's not stupid at all. The meth on Breaking Bad is not the plot, the plot is cancer-stricken man is
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I'm probably the last person on HN who hadn't seen 'Indie Game: The Movie' but an entire third or fourth of it is about the development of Fez by Phil Fish. That said, I wish Fish would make a second Fez and just not say
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Yes, any horizontal distance is the danger, but that's not generally what movies show. An example is the movie 'The Mexican'. Birdshot is somewhat powerless anyways, at even minimal distances, although I wouldn't partic
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Well, everyone has seen a movie where someone shoots around up into the air and it comes down just as fast as it went up, typically wounding someone. Obviously physics doesn't allow that but the myth remains. It's a lot like the
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Or people understand how fleeting digital creations in someone else's sandbox are. Or people just create in the real world and are looking for something else. As a software developer I wouldn't play SL because I create all day.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
You're probably going to be voted down for saying that, even though you are right. It's like loaning or selling a felon a gun - if I know they are a felon, I'm breaking the law. A bunch of sanctimonious posters on here will
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by Zimahl 13y ago
The Black Panthers also admittedly murdered cops. All the kudos go out the window at that point. The militarism makes an easy excuse for a crackdown. If you think scaring the shit out of people, threatening their very existence with viole
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by Zimahl 13y ago
It takes a very biased viewpoint to blame the Black Panthers for being violent when they only arose after decades of police brutality and lynchings and KKK terrorism. Based in California. I'm not saying that there wasn't oppres
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by Zimahl 13y ago
MLK was murdered, remember? As was Ghandi. MLK being assassinated doesn't doesn't change the fact that his focus on non-violence was more successful than the contrary position taken by the Black Panthers. I tend to believe that
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by Zimahl 13y ago
...your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. Obviously he wasn't correct otherwise MLK would've been unsuccessful.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I don't know about misogynist but he was white and was rich from his music. Lennon was a peace-loving hippie. The lyrics from 'Revolution' aren't necessarily talking about the Black Panthers, I always felt they were ta
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by Zimahl 13y ago
First, try to not be so inflammatory with your comments. At no point did I blame all black people for the behavior of the BPP or claiming that the BPP somehow set black people back. I merely stated that many of their tactics did not hel
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by Zimahl 13y ago
This. I was corrected a while ago on a different site that the Obama administration has been very two-faced about progressive MJ laws. I don't know if a lot of people are aware of that, I certainly wasn't.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
The exact type of rhetoric from a Black Panther that doesn't help his cause one iota. This is why MLK gets a national holiday and Carmichael is a footnote.
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by Zimahl 13y ago
I can't talk to the complexities of India's fight for freedom. I will say that I've worked with Indians who hold Bose in higher regard than Ghandi due to Ghandi pushing for the separation of Hindu and Muslim countries and th
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by Zimahl 13y ago
MLK decided to use peaceful civil disobedience following the lead of Ghandi. Peaceful protest doesn't lead to a majority backlash, whereas aggressive, militant tactics do. MLK and his movement are remembered for boycotts and protest
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Agreed, I thought the same way. To quote the Beatles: We all want to change the world / But when you talk about destruction /Don't you know that you can count me out But when you want money / For people with minds th
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by Zimahl 13y ago
Yet, the Republicans will trot out Carly Fiorina as an example of conservative female success. From Wikipedia: ...she stated that Palin lacks the experience to run a major company like Hewlett-Packard ... Fiorina later amended her comment,
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by Zimahl 13y ago
It's illegal to reject someone based on any criminal history as long as the person has not lied about their background. I'm not sure if you are in the US, but that's not true here. As a specific example: if the crime invol
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by Zimahl 13y ago
All of it? Why would it only be a portion? Just because you exercise the 5th doesn't mean the police or Feds have to suddenly make you comfortable. He asked for water and probably could've gotten some if he had pushed the issue,
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by Zimahl 13y ago
You don't get protection from the 5th without actually using it. He didn't have to talk to the police/TSA/FBI/DHS but he willingly did. If he simply said 'I don't want to talk' and shut up that woul
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by Zimahl 13y ago
First, Sandy Hook/Newtown wasn't terrorism. By definition it was not 'the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.'[1]. It was more of a random spree killing. As for Bost

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