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by slapshot 13y ago
Those would seem to be the most important people to understand why they think transit isn't fitting their needs. It could be that (1) they are wrong and just don't understand the system, or (2) the local transit system actually f
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by slapshot 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Ganges By any reasonable measure, yes, almost every U.S. river is substantially cleaner than almost every Indian river. Take fecal coliform bacteria. They grow in poop an
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FAA Likely to Relax Mobile Device Rules on Takeoff(venturebeat.com)
2 points by slapshot 13y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 13y ago
Are we reading the same text? > Of course, one downside is that it’s not ideal for people with families. Some of the best people I’ve ever worked with have kids, and unfortunately wouldn’t be able to do this. I could only imagine the out
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by slapshot 13y ago
> I don't think children alone are the problem In fact, advertising a job position as "not for people with families" is usually running a pretty big labor law risk--especially if you're currently based in the Bay Area
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by slapshot 13y ago
> PayPal must reverse the transaction and eat the loss because it was against their policies for the transaction to ever have taken place It's far from clear that PayPal must reverse forbidden transactions. In fact, the behavior se
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Lawsuit filed against Kickstarter for killing book project(crowdfundinsider.com)
1 points by slapshot 13y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 13y ago
See also "Ivory Coast" versus "Côte d'Ivoire" and plenty of other place names that exist in between localized and non-localized versions. Some people say "Ivory Coast" others say "Côte d'Ivoire&
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Bradley Manning To Be Sentenced Wednesday(nytimes.com)
1 points by slapshot 13y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 13y ago
Icahn saying that a company is undervalued isn't meant as idle chatter. He has in the past repeatedly tried to buy out companies that he has thought to be undervalued. It seems shockingly unlikely that he'd try to LBO Apple, but
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Proposal would let ride-sharing firms operate in California(latimes.com)
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by slapshot 13y ago
Trail of Tears, internment of the Japanese during World War II, slavery, suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, Tuskeegee...
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New York Times silently edits its "lost all credibility" line(newsdiffs.org)
139 points by slapshot 13y ago|31 comments
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by slapshot 14y ago
This is an oft-repeated line that is entirely false. Ben & Jerry's ice cream spent decades turning down good business deals to stay true to their ideals. The Chicago Cubs notoriously refused to play night baseball games at home for de
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Tesla predicts first quarterly profit(latimes.com)
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by slapshot 14y ago
> When a flight attendant tells you to not take pictures, its obviously for security/terrorism concerns. Not necessarily. A plane is a crowded, cramped environment and other passengers (such as myself) might not want to be photographed
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by slapshot 14y ago
There's some weird causality here, seemingly suggesting that Prozac caused an increase in depression. >"Prozac was introduced in 1988, and we all know what happened then. Depression went from a relatively rare condition (affecting well
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by slapshot 14y ago
It seems like the producers of stock photography have a library to do this; there's a button on each stock photography page that will do it for you, but I can't find source code for it. You just have to enter a sixteen-digit string and a M
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by slapshot 14y ago
The left would require that pro-violence sites be blocked, the right would require that child porn sites be blocked, and everyone would complain about access to "terrorist" sites. And the RIAA would get involved. Having a single governmen
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by slapshot 14y ago
Federal prosecutors (like Carmen Ortiz) are not elected. Carmen Ortiz was appointed by President Obama in 2009. The rest of the prosecutors in her office were hired as part of the civil service system and are insulated from politics. Feder
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by slapshot 14y ago
> to see that they were some ultra conservative bible toting rebels is... Bizarre. Or Mother Jones is trying to set up a strawman of them as being homophoboic bigots without realizing that they were actually protesting [1] the then-cont
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by slapshot 14y ago
Is there some level of irony in asking people to take legal risk in order to upload content to a legal research service you charge money for? [1] [1] http://www.plainsite.org/pro/index.html
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by slapshot 14y ago
The site is a little unclear: it appears he wasn't prosecuted for the "2 girls" video, but rather "hours of videos in which females engaged in sex acts involving human waste and animals." [1] His Wikipedia page lists some of the titles tha
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by slapshot 14y ago
> more jail time than robbing a bank This meme of "more jail time than robbing a bank" needs to end. The federal penalty for possessing a firearm while robbing a bank is a mandatory minimum of 5 years and a maximum of life in prison. T
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by slapshot 14y ago
As one of the comments on that page points out, the trail of evidence to Cooley is rather weak: some of the Intellectual Ventures companies are registered with an address of "4401 Eastgate Mall" in San Diego, CA, and Google says that Cooley
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by slapshot 14y ago
Again, there are other statutes that make life in prison the maximum penalty for child sexual assault in California. The rape statute you quote expressly says that the 9-13 years you quote is stacked on top of the general crime of sexual a
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by slapshot 14y ago
If you want to get really technical, those are the federal penalties for armed bank robbery. Under state law, plenty of states have maximum sentences of life for armed robbery in general. Here's Virginia's law allowing a life sentence for
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by slapshot 14y ago
That's simply not true. "Possession of a firearm in furtherance of a bank robbery carries a minimum statutory sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of life imprisonment consecutive to any other sentence, plus a $250,000 fine." [1]
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by slapshot 14y ago
Any attorney Aaron hired would be able to read the sentencing guidelines manual (it's published in a convenient softcover version that any federal criminal attorney has on his/her desk) and inform Aaron that the maximum realistic sentence w
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by slapshot 14y ago
No, the _maximum_ sentence under the Constitution and the statute was 35 years. The sentence he was likely to receive was 6 months if he took the plea bargain (and there are rumors that a no-jail plea was considered), or less than a year i

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