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by swalkergibson 12y ago
While there are certainly wanton abuses of civil forfeiture statutes, linked to even in this comment thread, applying them here is a no-brainer. Silk Road was very clearly a marketplace for illegal drugs, and the brokerage fee that DPR coll
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
I thought the same thing. However, if he is found not guilty, then the presumption is that he was not involved and therefore would not be the "rightful owner" of the seized property anyway.
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
This is unequivocally accurate. I own three investment properties plus my own home. Each one is profitable, including the house that I live in. It seems to me that the majority of this argument is that rents will not increase. That is a fal
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
The case, in my experience, is nigh on indestructible. I have dropped it from the top of a hundred foot ice climb, thumped it in 10 foot Indonesian surf, and kicked it around in my bag more times than I can count. It is extremely durable. T
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Easy choice for me. $10M is my all time, f-you money retirement number. Invested conservatively, you get an annual income in the hundreds of thousands and no need to ever do anything work-related again. I could carve out a pretty bitchin ex
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
No doubt. This is absolutely spot-on. The other problem that exists in the US is that the "family doctor" has an incentive to pack his schedule full of as many people as he can to collect as much money as possible. If someone come
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
This is absolutely accurate. "People were generally aware of the link between overuse of antibiotics and increased resistance. Only 8% of respondents did not agree that if antibiotics are taken too often they are less likely to work in
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
The stigma is absolutely the biggest problem with the treatment of mental illness. It would be as if you went to someone with cancer and said, "Well, if you really wanted to, you could just shrink that tumor right now. You just don&#x2
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
This hits me particularly hard because I lost my sister to mental illness not but three months ago. Perhaps our society will one day treat those with mental illness the same way we treat those with cancer or ALS, with compassion and love, i
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
> People tend to minimize the lethality of mental health problems. My sister fatally overdosed on heroin in January of this year. She suffered close to a decade of a progressively worsening bipolar/depression/substance abuse lo
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Thank you. It has been a challenging couple of months. She was also a methamphetamine user (as a bipolar person she used meth when she was depressed and heroin when she was manic) and suffered no such "meth mouth" complications. T
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
As someone whose sister just died of a heroin overdose, I hope that we will get to the point that all drugs are legal. My sister died alone in a locked bedroom because of the shame and stigma associated with her addiction and related mental
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
Well, if you consider that the top decile is the reason why American factories close up shop and all of the bottom decile loses their jobs as a result of cost-cutting measures by the top decile to increase their own bonus package, then yes,
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
> In fact I've seen credible arguments that it has actually contributed to world peace significantly to have the US building up the way it has, yes, even despite the wars the US sometimes engaged in, by making it not worth it for an
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by swalkergibson 12y ago
You are correct. Perhaps I did not make my point clear. If you publicly post pictures of your new Porsche and your newly remodeled kitchen and claim that you only made $10k last year, why should that not be cause for the IRS to take a dee
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
It is not. Tax evasion is an actual crime. The IRS using public signals from social media to determine if somebody is cheating on their taxes is not the same as the NSA tracking your GPS location via your cell phone at all times.
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
Go wherever you get the most amount of free money. In fact, your position is so advantageous that it might be worthwhile to see if you can leverage them against one another to get some perks. I have no clue whether or not this kind of negot
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
I had to look it up because I could not understand the reference, but for anyone else, a Dalit is a member of the untouchables caste in India. http://www.dalitnetwork.org/go?/dfn/who_are_the_dalit/C64
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
I find that if I price myself how a real human with real skills would price that I am inundated with offers. Those places are overrun with spam, so if you can demonstrate that you are not a bot when responding to a post, you should get work
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
Then disregard that example and simply substitute it for getting sick with cancer or something if it seems too far-fetched to you, it does not seem that way to me. Regardless, medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the United
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
Ya, because the justice system is so efficient. While I wait two years for a settlement that might or might not cover all of my bills, I can fend off creditors while my FICO score goes down the drain (and that is even if there is somebody t
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
How could you possibly know what the status of any given motor vehicle accident victim's insurance or financial state is at the point of impact? I suppose I can break it down further. What if I were walking across the street and hit by
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
Ya, because I should go bankrupt due to a drunk driver slamming into me some random afternoon.
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
Give me a break. Here is a scenario for you. What if you were hit by a drunk driver on your way into work on Friday morning and end up in an extended hospital stay with multiple surgeries? The bill could rack up to several hundred thousand
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
The argument does not work in reverse. If they had more guns, there would probably be more suicides. End of story. I am not suggesting that no guns == no suicides, because that would be ridiculous. I am refuting the suggestion that having a
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
> If knives were the most common choice, should we consider them risks for everyone because they might commit suicide with them? Yes. Your argument is unclear to me. All else equal, it makes perfect sense that having a gun accessible nea
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
Do you have any scientific studies to back up any of the claims you have made here? For someone lamenting the appeals to emotion of strict gun control advocates, there is a striking lack of evidence supporting your position.
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
You are dealing in really generic platitudes that do not have any basis in fact. > In 2005, 75% of the 10,100 homicides committed using firearms in the United States were committed using handguns, compared to 4% with rifles, 5% with shot
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
> If it is a contributor then people shoot themselves BECAUSE they own the gun. That is a pretty strict interpretation of the cause of suicide. Of course, nobody kills themselves by sheer virtue of the fact that they own a weapon. > O
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by swalkergibson 13y ago
> Owning a gun does not contribute to suicide. The statistics suggest that you are incorrect. Harvard, the National Institutes of Health, and the Israeli Defense Forces all have studies that point to gun ownership actually increasing sui

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