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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
What? It happens all the time on regular cirminal cases. Movies didn't invent "informants". Immunity can mean being convicted for lesser offenses, or negotiating a less than maximal punishment.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
It's nice to see white folks be the victims of racial profiling once in a while.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Only if you are too powerful to jail
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
It's a forgone conclusion that the Constitution is inconvenient to law enforcement, so they ignore it or try to change its meaning.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
The Constitution is extremely abbreviated because it was written by hand. Your arbitrary definition of "witness" isn't more or less correct then someome else's; these terms are negotiated over the centuries with a great
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
No, he got only 2 years served. Meanwhile, steal $100 from a 7-11 and you can get 5-10years
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
In USA English, laryngitis is a common word.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Considering how unethical everything about the diamond business is, I don't see how this makes your point.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Universal Design, universal access. Doesn't matter _why_ user can't see the screen, or can only use one hand, or can't hear the phone, or....
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
I studied chemistry in college. That doesn't mean computer programming is a chemical discipline. Psychiatrists go to medical school so they can prescribe medicine without killing a patient, not because medical school has a scientifica
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Lego is not a product. LEGO is a trademark for a brick system.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
There is a legal requirement to not operate an illegal taxi service.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Waze users are following the law when they get near Police officers. Uber users are continuing illegal behavior but obstructing police visibility. Uber's behavior is more like radar jamming or putting up a barrier in front of police.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
There is no fiduciary duty to turn a profit
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
In a democracy, the voters are the ones in power
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Greater than, makes paying in cash annoying
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
How many hours will you spend at the ATM withdrawing cash? You get a better understanding of spending by feeling your wallet then by looking at your bank statements? That smells like a false pseudounderstanding.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
It's tricky but translatable. He's saying that the government was vicious as horrible, but it worked for them because they where forceful. Then he maps it back to the US, saying that we need to be forceful to be successful (presum
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Just like how Americans tolerated, even admired, their government because it delivered economic success, surely they made a hard trade in terms of issues like Black slavery. Has China's economy delivered success in excess of its democr
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
If only there were a mulitlateral trade agreement that could unite all the western and Pacific nations in a Partnership against Chinese abuses.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Why go through a long discussion of a CHT, and then end with an irrelevant implementation of a binary tree instead of a simple list or library data structure?
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
The modern leader of Russia was an active member of the government of "pre-modern" Russia that slaughtered millions of its own citizens.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
The Russian government has killed more of its own citizens than any war has.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Parent poster said they want to die (and presumably kill, for what else would risk dying?) to prevent them from _speaking a different language_ near posters's home, so I don't think killing for honor will give them pause.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Volunteers provided 95% of the recruiting target. Conscription is to fill the rest.
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
That sounds more like mandatory training (like school) more than mandatory service. You were useful useful soldiers at the end of the conscription period, when many of you volunteered to stay on
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
In a democratic society, the people are the masters, enslaved to... themselves
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
If Iraq is your model, you don't need conscription, just widely disseminate copies of the Anarchist's Cookbook for IED
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Snap is now trying to grow out of Venice because they've already businified/gentrified/grown too much and are getting a lot of local hate
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by fjdlwlv 10y ago
Glass cost 5x as much as Spectacles. It was trying to be way too much at once.

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