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by cobrausn 13y ago
Police handguns are cheap, and the cost argument is not only not viable, it is probably only being used because it sounds better than the alternative of 'we don't want the NYPD subject to such transparency and scrutiny from the pu
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I too can search google and come up with results that say what I want. Care to go into detail about these proven technologies that can power the world and replace our dependence on oil?
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Is this really the best humanity has got -- The side effect of a decades-old weapons program? You are asking the question this way hoping someone has a better answer - they don't. Nuclear is our best option for making clean and reli
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by cobrausn 13y ago
No, I don't, but I was trying to clarify the statement. A middle ground for this is difficult, because it basically depends upon determining after the fact whether or not you or anyone else in the home was actually threatened (or whet
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Well, reading this comment, I find you to be more scum than the helicopter pilot. He was eager to engage to protect the soldiers on the ground and thought he found the ones who were trying to kill them. Probably too eager, because war is
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I think he was referencing the events of the 80s because there was such a backlash to it that it led directly to events like you describe. The middle ground is dead.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I meant 'majority' as in 'biggest religion', and I wasn't counting secularism as a religion. In regards to the rest of your post, I get the feeling you would prefer if western Christians were actually more violent,
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by cobrausn 13y ago
His boss was not the guy committing war crimes.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I'm not going to argue pre-WWII Catholicism, it's about as relevant as eugenics and Aryanism (the west has changed a lot), but the violent Christians / Buddhists you are pointing out seem to be in response to violence from so
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You said it yourself with 'history of violence' - for the most part, all the Christian religion(s) seem to have left it in the past. A few fringes have hung around, but that's probably to be expected. I think it's more
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by cobrausn 13y ago
From the link: Update: Bethesda Softworks (parent company to id Software) responded with the following statement to today's news: "John has long been interested in the work at Oculus VR and wishes to spend time on that project. Th
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Wouldn't it be nice to have guaranteed power for the next few thousand years while you work on the 'eternal' solution? I don't see why there has to be an either-or here.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Actual worst case for solar: Oops, we spent $270B on solar panels that can't provide enough power.
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I dread seeing a cop on the highway when driving from Houston to Dallas and back, and I'm a law-abiding college graduate. The drug war is not being kind to the relationship between civilians and law enforcement here.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
It may not be, but considering how much we enjoy eating it, you would be unlikely to be able to get everyone to stop.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I'm thinking they should add a 'legal' page, where they can notify potential UAV pilots of laws they might break accidentally when flying these things. I'm sure there are a few regional restrictions in addition to any f
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I don't care about points (this thread is off the front page, nobody paying attention here but me and you, maybe mpyne if he's bored), but linking to a laughable opinion about pictures of fireworks (sorry 'explosive devices&#
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I corrected your assertion of 'more plausible'. Feel free to carry on, we're splitting some fairly meaningless hairs.
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It was only more plausible if you believe they would see fireworks on facebook and show up asking about pressure cookers. The fact was something in between, of course, it was computer searches but they weren't passed on from the NSA to
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Not completely. He was quick to link alternate explanations that made equally little sense but didn't make it the result of NSA data mining - such as a picture of fireworks posted on facebook causing it all, despite the fact they show
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by cobrausn 13y ago
No, it's not. It's advocating what the founders originally intended, which was a well-armed militia that obviates the need for an Army. In time of war (on American soil) they would organize like an army to fight off invaders. T
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Of the number of military members serving, what percentage do you think are drone operators? Are you still comfortable with that characterization?
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by cobrausn 13y ago
In all seriousness, do we get the edited version where it looks like they just did it for funzies or the unedited version where it looks like a horrible mistake on the part of the gunner of the Apache? The second version is actually worse.
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Phil Fish and the Internet’s war against creatives(penny-arcade.com)
130 points by cobrausn 13y ago|129 comments
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by cobrausn 13y ago
It was featured here previously on HN. I'll dig for it, and update this comment with an edit when I find it. EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK It does appear as though it was shut down the momen
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by cobrausn 13y ago
NSA programs similar to the latest (broad interception of specific types of communications) were defunded and shut down during the height of the cold war. They had more to be afraid of than we do and still weren't willing to give the
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Jury Sides with Original Madden Programmer, Awards an Estimated $11 Million(gamepolitics.com)
2 points by cobrausn 13y ago|0 comments
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Please stop doing that. Our two options are not Statism and Somalia.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You can edit your previous post instead of making a new one with the 'edit' link.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You know, saying someone recounting his personal experience of being robbed at gunpoint several times is 'spreading FUD' because you haven't (yet) seems... myopic.

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