towelr34dy

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by towelr34dy 8y ago
"Tipping Policies" "deceptive tipping policies" Huh... Somehow I think if I set up a tipping jar for the government and kept the majority of the funds, it would be quickly called 'stealing'. Actually, I think i
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Personally I'm surprised. Whenever I've heard of the arrest of high profile suspects , there is almost always some smart plan to get the person before they can engage in violence. This is done to get them to cooperate and get the
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
I'm guessing they probably didn't have any instances where they didn't pay themselves by 'accident'.
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Read the other apologists. They quote a 3% deviation from sentencing guidelines. Sentencing guidelines for Aaron were 6-7 years. A single wire charge on max penalty could be 20. All you need is one judge who saw WarGames to want to make an
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
As a fellow pessimist, I thank you for such a well written piece. To add to this: I'm pessimistic that any of my individual efforts will succeed... I have 0% doubt that if I keep trying eventually something will work for me. I see ever
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
>0% != 0%
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Ah tzs again. Let me quote you: "lot of reporting said he faced 30 years... Actually, he was looking at maybe 6 or 7 years if things went as favorably as possible for prosecutors." So let me ask again, last time you didn't an
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Remember the original comment only said that people plea because of the big threat. It is a big threat. And given the fact that you probably wouldn't take a 1:33 chance on Russian roulette, it seem it is a big threat to you. But not wh
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Your 6-7 years is 'probably'. PEOPLE DO GET MAXIMUM. It happens. Therefore you saying it doesn't won't change anything. Your equating low probability with no probability. This is a false equation. Have some intellectual
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
So you are saying: Judges never convict people to the maximum sentence? I'm sorry, your point isn't very clear. It's a bit muddled. Or are you saying that his probably of being sentenced to the maximum was low? If so, how low
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
When you say "he was looking at maybe 6 or 7 years if things went as favorably as possible for prosecutors" Do you know this for a fact? Because the way I understand it is, he was facing multiple decades in prison IF all charges s
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
I've done it to 40-50 internet companies. My experience is internet companies don't collect debt the way you describe. It's the offline companies that do (ISPs, gyms, utilities, banks, etc) Edit: they also need to inform you
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Only for certain things. My experience is anything primarily offline, they collect: gyms, ISPs, gas companies, etc. Anything primarily online? They don't. Netflix, hulu, most credit card subscriptions that are VC funded (I've done
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
So much this. I LOVE paypal as a user because of it. All my subscriptions go through it and if it isn't offered via paypal, I'll reconsider. I love to see a list of all my subscriptions with the ability to unilaterally cancel my s
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Because you do want it. Organized labor has introduced customs that you benefit from and take for granted. All you have to do is look at the difference in quality of life that came before and after the changes we obtained from organized lab
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
It sounds like your post is arguing without actually contradicting anything I said. I mean, your post basically is: Why can't we all just get along. While it's a noble feeling, the reality is society is fractious, and for complex
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
The article mentions something in passing that I think is important: Potential and Value The article only mentions it once. We live in an increasingly globalized world where our individuality can have an ever smaller impact on the enormous
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
There is a difference: If A, then result would NEVER be realistically contested If B, then result COULD be realistically contested No one would argue that if the vote were stay, we'd be seeing it again. It wouldn't happen. Not eve
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
You are 100% spot on. Advertising for gambling should be treated as vice advertising and heavily restricted. Like tobacco, pot, casino, horses or others.
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
> Or is this a standard "prohibition creates criminal opportunity" issue? I'd say it's a bad idea because... and hear me out... people will still have lottery. I present as evidence to my argument the prohibition on d
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
I can provide at least a half dozen studies that prove it does work. You can't provide any that prove it doesn't. Even the few that you posted seem to be at the least, pointing to a possibly effective situation. Mentioning increas
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Because we all have vices. Should we accept them openly and be proud of having vices? No. Should we be tolerant of other people's vices? Yes. Basically: having vices is bad, having vices doesn't make you bad. Vices should not be a
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Have you been to Portugal? The stigma of a heroin user is strong there. You know why? Because we don't want heroin users. I'm a libertarian. 100% in favor of allowing people to own their own body (i.e. they can put in whatever the
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Addiction to opioids is also partly genetic. Should being a heroin addict be fine? The healthy while fat movement specifically tries to remove a stigma that IMO should not be removed.
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Yeah, see, no one is bothered by that because no one is saying: Be proud of your true heroin addicted self. Show it to the world. IF they don't accept your heroin addiction THEY ARE wrong. See. If any movement said that, I'd be ag
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Expect fat people can eat KFC in the open. Fat people aren't being sent to jail for being fat. Heroin addicts are being judged and looked down on. No one is fighting that. No one is saying 'be proud ye heroin addicts'. I have
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
You are stretching VERY far. There is a segment of the population that is addicted to a substance that is illegal. They die because they hide to satiate their addiction. If fast food were illegal, and fat people sat under bridges eating fas
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
The key difference: Social stigma. HAES seeks to remove stigma. Safe injection sites don't. Both being fat, smoking cigarettes or being a heroin addict are things to be, at the least, slightly ashamed of. *exceptions go out to anyone w
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Every bit of research I've seen contradicts this. I'm talking about NHI in the UK and several peer reviewed papers which seem to support safe injection sites as being a cost effective way of dealing with social addiction issues (w
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
The HUGE difference is that one is asking to use resources in a smarter way (safe injection sites). They are not destigmatizing drugs. I've been to countries where there are 'tolerance' zones. But that doesn't mean there

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