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by omegaham 11y ago
It doesn't help that drone pilots are treated absolutely miserably by the command. I had a friend who transferred from our electronics tech job (which was extremely laid-back and stress-free most of the time) to work in a UAV command,
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by omegaham 11y ago
No, because the vast majority of people driving are obeying the law (or at least are committing very minor crimes). In contrast, the vast majority of people on Silk Road were buying and selling illegal goods. It boils down to intent. If you
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by omegaham 11y ago
"If the police have to come get you, they're bringing an ass-kicking with 'em."
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by omegaham 11y ago
I was given the impression that all therapy for addiction has a pretty poor record. If there was something that actually got good results, everyone would be using it. Unfortunately, brains are complicated, and everyone's brain is dif
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by omegaham 11y ago
I think that it might be possible to set up a dark market (and even then, it's unlikely). The problem is making money off of it. You have to spend the money somewhere, after all. And unlike cash, which is very difficult to trace, spe
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by omegaham 11y ago
Er, you're drawing a completely ridiculous parallel. If AT&T made a Text 81841 For Guns and created an anonymous infrastructure for arms dealers to sell guns to gangsters, yes, they would be in trouble. Here's another example
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by omegaham 11y ago
I don't think that qualifies as entrapment. In general, entrapment is when the police convince you to commit a crime that you wouldn't have committed otherwise . So, if you want to kill your wife, and your friend (FBI agent) happ
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by omegaham 11y ago
This is a great point. My poison of choice is the rowing machine. A good erg piece is hard . The correct pace makes you think, "Shit, I don't know if I can do this" at the halfway point and makes you beg for a quick death at
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by omegaham 12y ago
> The kid's lawyer likely contacted the eff / press to make the officer back off a bit. In the end, the kid is going to get off with a slap on the wrist and a bit of disdain for the officers of this country. I think this is bot
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by omegaham 12y ago
Couldn't it be "contained" (it would break out eventually, as it would slowly suck in the container, but it could at least be contained for a period of time) and launched on a solar escape trajectory? Very, very expensive, bu
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by omegaham 12y ago
It definitely wasn't Scotland, but I saw a video on a "You Rage, You Lose" thread where they had animal rights protesters going up to hunters on their own land and yelling at them for killing deer. The hunters tried explainin
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by omegaham 12y ago
I knew someone growing up who simply could not eat venison for this reason. For him, it was a reminder of poverty; it was the only meat that his dad could get, and they ate it every day because they could barely afford mac and cheese. I fou
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by omegaham 12y ago
Yep. A buddy of mine growing up had large numbers of feral dogs and cats running around. Solution: Dishes of antifreeze everywhere. There were too many to shoot, but antifreeze was cheap and effective. He said he had trouble sleeping becaus
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by omegaham 12y ago
I was always under the impression that you want to put punctuation inside quotation marks. The only exception is in programming, as you don't want to put punctuation inside strings. Looking into it a little bit more, apparently the Bri
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by omegaham 12y ago
Pedantic correction: It's "CATS." :)
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by omegaham 12y ago
Remember that the general direction of the market right now is upward. This means that these day-trading algorithms need to beat the typical rate of return for, say, a diversified index fund. Many of them don't.
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by omegaham 12y ago
But a large number of other countries in Europe have similar gun control, and they don't have the assault rates that Britain does.
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by omegaham 12y ago
They'll make it back with the increased business. You're having a large number of people come to Germany, make friendships, and learn the language. Some will stay. Some will do business with German companies even when they move ba
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by omegaham 12y ago
What's surprising about certain cities is how close the ghettoes are to rich areas. Most people expect there to be a gradual decline in quality from the rich part to the poor part, but there are often dramatic cutoffs. You can literall
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by omegaham 12y ago
He mis-wrote it. The Netherlands is significantly less, but not by an order of magnitude. US per 100000 people: 715 Netherlands per 100000 people: 428 For reference, England is 986, Sweden is 1029, Australia is 1017, Belgium is 891, and Jap
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by omegaham 12y ago
Are things getting better? I can definitely understand this mindset, and I feel like once momentum starts building, people get behind it and start believing in a better tomorrow. I'd feel a lot more hopeless if things were stagnating o
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by omegaham 12y ago
Page 9 is the relevant graph for burglary on the Civitas pdf. The US is right in the middle. One thing I'm surprised by is the ridiculous level of assaults committed in Britain. What's going on there?
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by omegaham 12y ago
And most of them happen in concentrated areas (inner city), which means that the vast majority live in safe areas. If you aren't living in Gary, Indiana or somewhere similar, it's pretty silly to be scared of burglary. Perfectly r
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by omegaham 12y ago
You can be averse to losing something of monetary value and take sensible precautions to avoid losing them, (don't leave your wallet unattended, don't walk through a bad part of Camden at night, etc) but home defense seems to be a
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by omegaham 12y ago
The vast majority of people in the US live in safe neighborhoods. Burglary and home invasion are some of the least common crimes committed. The reasons are that it has a very real chance of getting you killed, the prison penalties are steep
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by omegaham 12y ago
We have two dogs. By far the best deterrent that you can get. The alarm goes off when someone approaches the house, let alone tries to open anything. You can't sneak up on them. They're also furry and warm, which is a plus. One
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by omegaham 12y ago
No, it's more of seeing James Earl Ray having a massively hard time in the mountains and saying, "That gives me an idea - there are people who will volunteer for this!"
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by omegaham 12y ago
At the extreme end, one thing that they'll do is become a slumlord - have noncompliant housing that isn't registered. Yes, it's illegal, and the penalties are severe if the person is caught. But it's an option. And if th
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by omegaham 12y ago
If you have to, you can subsidize food costs for the poor later on. Right now, the subsidy is going to the wrong place.
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by omegaham 12y ago
The first people to be hit by the price increase will be the farmers of water-intensive crops. The people will be paying much, much less. The current situation is due to aggressive subsidy of agriculture. Get rid of the subsidies, and the p

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