jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
The People have traditionally accepted/embraced police state tactics and brutality to fight "the war on drugs" because they fear drugs. Without that embrace of irrational fear, we would have never given the police the tools
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They apparently got a warrant, but the "searches" were performed in the wrong jurisdiction and after the warrant was expired. That a warrant could be issued for such a thing is a problem in itself; the judge that saw fit to sign t
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The complication rate for colonoscopies seems to be lower when they aren't in there to cauterize/cut stuff, but you are right, there are still inherent risks with the procedure itself. It is absolutely mind-boggling that anybody
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The kernel isn't actually that large. It should be sub-GB for the foreseeable future iirc. Single git repos get stretched to their limits when companies try to put 10-20 years worth of sourcecode from every single project they ever ha
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General anesthesia, typically used for colonoscopies, has a mortality rate. It isn't common in hospitals, but it does happen and isn't dismissible when you are considering that the procedure was done without consent and without a
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When we allow fear to consume us, when we embrace and encourage fear instead of being ashamed of cowardice, then this is the sort of thing that becomes justifiable. The shear magnitude of the irrational fear of drugs is dumfounding, and
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Because he "appeared to be clenching his buttocks" . There should be criminal charges for everyone involved in doing this to this man, including the doctors at the second hospital they went to. The doctors at the first hospita
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If you try to hammer a nail with a crowbar, you are going to experience some difficulty. Large projects like Android get along swimmingly on git because they have structured themselves such that git is the right tool for the job. If Androi
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It should probably be pretty trivial to roll together a TimestampMod equivalent using a similar methodology as git-notes. Hell, just store a git-note for every commit in a non-standard ref; each note would have a printout of the tree and c
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I doubt many people favor CDs over usb drives because they fear that somebody might rewrite the image on the media in the minutes between writing the image and actually sticking it in the other machine and using it. In fact, it isn't e
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The idea is "Can I, the end user, do this without the banks knowledge or cooperation?"
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You don't need to replicate all of the functionality that activex has. You just need to emulate the behaviour from the banks point of view of whatever their particular activex does. Maybe the ActiveX rewrites a bunch of files with ad
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How could a discussion about the causalities inflicted during no-knock swat raids possibly exclude the fact that so many of these raids are completely unjustified? That's like trying to discuss drunk driving without talking about al
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> there's basically 1 of 2 scenarios: What utter bullshit . Here are just a few more: 3. You're a presumed "bad" person, but a no-knock raid is completely unwarranted. They shoot your fleeing dog in the back. 4. T
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> The real problem lies in dog owners not taking care of their pets the way they should. Failing to train your dog to never bark or otherwise become excited when somebody kicks in your front door in the middle of the night is "no
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The purpose of involving doctors would be to ease the consciences of the other torturers, and to extend the amount that anyone could be tortured to the medical limit. Those doctors should have refused, and run straight to the media. Yes, r
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by jlgreco 13y ago
As another example: Henry Wirz was tried, convicted, and executed for running Camp Sumter (the POW camp near Andersonville, Georgia). As far as I know, nobody was ever tried for what happened at Elmira Prison. Elmira Prison had a 25% mort
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To clarify, are you actually asking why should they, or why do they?
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Probably analogous to leaving fake angel dust on the counter in the bathroom of a club, then arresting anybody who tried to snort it.
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Yes. When I have my phone resting on a flat surface in front of me (say, a bar) I use the outside side of my pinky to scroll. I find it very natural since when my arms are in a neutral position in front of me, my palms are facing inwards
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Apparently I have very narrow thumbs...
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It won't do the word "computer" either, though it does do "compute".
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I wouldn't say that a loophole needs to be unintentional. I would describe a loophole as a deliberate or accidental ambiguity in a law that allows others to circumvent the intent of the law. Either way, I don't think it is techn
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Quite right. In fact, you don't need to look any further than the first section of the 13th amendment to find recognition of the fact that there is little to no distinction: "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
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I had a card with a barcode on it that I used in public school in the US for lunches.
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They didn't actually name the person, so that is unknowable. My uninformed impression however is that while many people may unjustly get the "sex offender" label (for example, somebody who got caught pissing in an alley behin
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The thing about "startups fail often" is that it seemingly creates a situation where nobody can ever be proved wrong, only correct. Success can happen and signals competency, but failure never signals anything negative? I thin
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I think that is actually a Greenwald quote: 'In an email to Reuters, Greenwald condemned the British government for labeling his partner's actions "terrorism." "For all the lecturing it doles out to the world about
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Exactly. To the extent that he wasn't involved in journalism, he also wasn't involved in the disclosure, or threat of disclosure..." . That is to say, if he wasn't participating in journalism, then how can it be said t
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It is cheaper, but probably not by as much as you might think since many people are transitioning to SSDs which set us back several years in terms of price and capacity. My case is extremely non-typical, but my current primary computer has

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