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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Learn to pay your programmers properly.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Because the term "[free] people of colour" is a direct translation of the French phrase "gens de couleur [libres]" used in the French West Indies during slavery times to refer to free people of mixed African and European
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
You have just described the British and Japanese police. They police just fine from the crime rates.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
ALLEGEDLY trying to scam $20. Its certainly also never the police's role to decide who is guilty. For all those police knew, at the time of arrest, it was Mr. Floyd who was the victim of a false accusation.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
1. I am aware of the PCA, by guess is a bunch of other loosely written clauses in OTHER equally legal Acts of congress are used as cover to trump the PCA; 2. Once you are at secret courts, all bets are off. Sad really.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
I have bitter first-hand experience of the consequences of leaving dangerous laws on the books: e.g. shooting looters with FMJ ammunition "that everyone known isn't going to be used". I bet few us live in Ireland, but most wo
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
"I just cut a fat Czech a fat cheque"
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
IANAL and don't live in the US, but my guess from other posters is that its completely legal for the national guard to shoot rioters if the governor authorises it. FWIW: I did politely ask what the legal response to looting in US law
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
The map underestimates the actual damage that would occur by many multiples. Its both American and Russian doctrine to rain down many (often > 10) warheads on each target.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> Well, that's fucking illegal as shit. Nonsense. As far back as 1970 the infantry and armed cavalry of the Ohio National Guard fixed bayonettes to the M1 semi-automatic rifles and shot 13 unarmed students at Kent State university -
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
And Israel is about to make it a triple-play in the West Bank.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
… or when the shops have running shoes, TVs, or booze. How many book stores or fresh produce shops get cleaned out ? Don't be naïve. (Which is orthogonal to the legitimacy of the protest itself).
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Out of curiosity, in which legal system, is legally buying up stock months BEFORE an embargo is announced considered a crime? Retrospective law does not exist in civilised societies.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Absolutely - I'm the poster child for tolerance.Why would you jump to such an ungenerous assumption? Would you say, on reflection, that you followed the site guidelines by taking the most positive interpretation of my post possible?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Google 'dry sex and AIDS' first. You might have to broaden your definition of normal.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what is do the democratically passed laws in major economies actually say about the use of violence to stop looting ?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Singapore has some ideas.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
What's the right ratio?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> To me, the fact that it does that is nothing short of fascinating... Indeed, yet some people tell us we invent maths, not discover it.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Er, because I am not a supporter of unfettered free speech. But I also wont bend the definition either. That’s where the problems start.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Ok I'll bite: how is "you are free say what you want but you may have to face a firing squad" and different in experience to "you cannot say any of these things, if you do you will face a firing squad" ? The whole P
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Fair enough, but WHY? Here is a less contentious example: 1. consider a severe, long drought 2. this will damage the livelihoods of many in the hinterland - farmers and those in the small town that service them 3. many may be driven to suic
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Ok, playing systems-engineer here: we'd call those secondary COVID-19 deaths caused by the either de facto or de jure lock-downs. Why, oh why, are some people so obsessed with lowering the number of COVID-19 related deaths at every
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Just as the USA goes to extreme efforts to avoid the higher labour standards offered in Northern Europe. Always look up and down the continuum.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Sure, they just don't want my currency.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
The Otto-cycle engine in Ford Model T engine from 1908 - 1927 was the spoils for the SECOND world war? No mate, it was a rip-off.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Absolutely no mention of Florida hiding deaths for political reasons. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/20200513/coronavirus-f...
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
A military UAS. Swathes of the developing world now use Chinese UAS.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Have you ever stopped to ponder why Ford, GM, and Chrysler's four-stroke motors look ever so much like the one the Germans Nicolaus Otto, Gottlieb Daimler, and Wilhelm Maybach invented?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> So we need to protect … the old and sick … and the rest of us need to get back to work. Since you are quoting Sweden as a benchmark for wherever you may be, allow me to add another: in Africa (well South Africa at least) 40% of the fat

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