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by zkms 10y ago
Another technique is to get a diver to bolt on (or otherwise attach) a container full of drugs to the hull of some regularly scheduled cargo ship and use another diver to detach it when it arrives at the destination.
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by zkms 10y ago
There's been cases of people trying to use "air cannons", sometimes mounted out of modified vehicles, to send drugs over the border: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/2-teens-fac... b
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by zkms 10y ago
There's lots of money to be made thanks to prohibition, which means that the criminal organizations involved can afford illicit submarines and tunnels and aircraft.
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by zkms 10y ago
AFAICT the codename for the SIM-card-finding operation on drones is "GILGAMESH", here's a few things about it: See https://theintercept.com/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/ and https:&#x2
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by zkms 10y ago
The easiest defence is to temporarily kill all the radios (wifi, bluetooth, LTE) while someone is entering a password.
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by zkms 10y ago
I strongly concur -- as a millennial who has been without adequate housing a few times, falling housing prices and rising housing supply (the latter tends to be a necessary condition for the former) is extremely good.
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by zkms 10y ago
> Dont write off your self medication as non-trivial. It gave you the space to gain the coping skills you needed and this is a clinically observed effect in classic ADHD patients, not jusy people who think theynhave ADHD. mmmmm yes I con
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by zkms 10y ago
> I do not think that ADHD as diagnosed in most people is a real disorder. Undiagnosed and untreated ADHD (which is underdiagnosed and untreated in adults and especially in women) can be a debilitating condition that will fuck your life
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by zkms 10y ago
cop bytes, is that the same thing as when police exaggerate "street value" of seized drugs
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by zkms 10y ago
Collective planning is not inherent to communism and communism doesn't inherently restrict the sort of market forces that enable "creative destruction".
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by zkms 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz88nsWL4kw there's also similar sorting machines for larger items (tomatoes in this case) that use mechanical paddles instead of air bursts to shoot down unwanted items. Speaking of air
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by zkms 10y ago
the "frameshift" thing is almost just like executing intentionally misaligned instructions to get a ROP gadget you need
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by zkms 10y ago
That multiple involved people were totally willing to suspect/blame Heather is rather more troubling to me than the actual act of sabotage (if only because a tendency to assume that such sabotage is self-inflicted can let culprits get
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by zkms 10y ago
Opioid prohibition ruthlessly selects for opioids that have the highest effectiveness per unit volume -- because traffickers want to make the most profit on uncut material for the same amount of risk.
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by zkms 10y ago
I feel like someone functions better with their regular, stable dose of pharmaceutical-grade opioids in them -- I don't have any medical or moral issue with that at all. It's honestly...a lot like the hair dryer anecdote in http:
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by zkms 10y ago
Opioid use is not inherently dangerous (indeed, long-term pharmaceutical-grade opioid use is remarkably safe does not cause organ damage, unlike alcohol). There are several actual circumstances where opioid use gets dangerous to life and th
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by zkms 10y ago
This reminds me a lot of Parabix ( http://parabix.costar.sfu.ca/wiki/ParabixTransform ) -- does anyone know what the status of parabix is today? Is it a thing that is still potentially useful / is it actually used i
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by zkms 10y ago
Have you considered adding support for download-accelerating strategies like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11842517 ?
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by zkms 10y ago
> re-using old PCI-express connectors. actually it's PCMCIA connectors (which have nothing to do with PCI express)
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by zkms 10y ago
What causes real-world problems with leap seconds is actually unrelated to the nasty interactions of metrology and solar time -- it's a specific and avoidable problem with how NTP (and many OSes/languages) represent time -- it&#x2