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I think you're missing the history point. My dad certainly had read or heard of more than one returned G.I. who, for whatever reason, picked up his own firearm and did something insane to his own family. Cops do this stuff too. Here's a recent one. Senseless tragedy made possible by the convenience of his firearm.

You're sure you would never ever do such a thing and so was your dad. But history says otherwise. And any person of normal intelligence can take the fact that such things do happen, and conclude that they might happen to the most trusted, well-meaning people, including yourself.

The government simply got used to being able to see everything at all times. Now that we can create blind spots, they are paranoid and lashing out.

Paranoid? " Lashing out "? I don't know how to break this to you, but it isn't really about you.

Paris massacre: At least 128 killed in gunfire and blasts, French officials say
ISIS claims responsibility for Paris massacre; attackers include Belgians, Frenchman, possible Syrian migrant

San Bernardino shooting: Farook tied to jihadist recruiter, officials say
The Evolving Extremist Threat - The Islamic State group’s plan to promote violence worldwide is bearing fruit.

Imam Says America, Europe Taking Muslim Refugees Will Only Help Spread Caliphate; Tells Muslim Refugees to Breed With Europeans
European Union predicts 3 million more migrants by end of next year

Anonymous declares war on city of Orlando (28/Jun/2011)
Anonymous vs. Zetas: Hackers Taking On The Drug Cartel (02/Nov/2011)
Anonymous wages war on Westboro Baptist Church (17/Dez/2012)
Anonymous Declares War on Singapore (06/Nov/2013)

Given the fallback on the last weeks hoax declaration of war on ISIS by Mexican cartel leader 'El Chapo' the media is showing that the powers of "the fourth state" given to them is not being used to inform the public but to entertain them, distracting from more important issues (and of course, to sell advertisement).

How exactly was he harmed to the tune of $15 Million?

Since when did a large award require large harm?
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I'm not aware of anybody arguing to keep out legitimate Syrian war refugees.

Ahem.

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Just in case someone is wondering, this is true, read this.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer took a measly two weeks maternity leave.

Then again, I could be completely wrong.

What like If you buy too much sudafed? http://lawstreetmedia.com/blog...

Or Hydroponics gear?
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This was posted to slashdot after the "go live" time of the app/website, but only links to articles posted prior to the launch that speculated it was a hoax.

One of the authors (Alfred Ng) of one of those articles wrote a follow up piece *after* the launch, with the actual details of what the hoax actually was (A marketing stunt) and what registered users saw when they used the app at launch...

When the website went live at 5 p.m. on Monday, the app asked users to sign in using their Tinder, LinkedIn or create a new account. It matched all users up with a fighter named Dudecati. The user wouldn't be able to do anything but type back at the automated response. At the end of it, the bot tells users:

"ok in all seriousness though you're wasting your time here," and then redirects you to the group's website.

Tilde, of course.

"We collect dot dot dot one neutrino dot dot dot every tilde ten minutes"

For intonation, check here.

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While the road leading up to the bridge is marked with large signs that read “road closed,” orange barrels and other barricades, Hussain was likely paying more attention to his GPS than the road, deputies said.

I would say it's Darwin Award time.

If only he's had a fancy Infotainment system with car diagnostics access -- it could have told him he was driving vertically on the bridge from the same outdated navigation data.

What about when your GPS tells you to turn while inside a tunnel or on a bridge?

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Yes, well, you don't lie on security clearance paperwork.

Valerie Barr didn't lie on her security clearance. They asked her whether she was ever a member of an organization dedicated to the use of violence. She wasn't and she truthfully said no.

She was accused of lying by a special agent who thought that it was funny to post jokes on the Internet about liberal college professors getting beaten up, who interviewed her without a tape recorder and who destroyed his notes after summarizing what he thought she said, or what he wanted her to say.

There are many court cases in which an investigator or other cop claims that a defendant said something during an interview, the defense lawyer finds a tape recording of the interview, which demonstrates that the defendant didn't say that at all, and the investigator was lying. The cops are never prosecuted for lying.

That just happened with James Frascatore, the New York City cop who was caught on tape beating up James Blake for no reason. Frascatore knocked Blake to the ground and injured him, the cops made up a story to claim that Blake was resisting arrest, and the video showed the cops were lying.

In another case, he claimed that a woman was interfering with an arrest. Then her daughter's recording showed it wasn't true. http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

He was caught lying by a tape in another case. http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

This sounds like one of those stories I used to hear during the cold war, about how under Communism, people could be fired just because they knew somebody who was arrested. Now we're doing it.

And you sound like one of the Communists who used to defend the practice. Which you're doing now.

Yes, well, you don't lie on security clearance paperwork.

Valerie Barr didn't lie on her security clearance. They asked her whether she was ever a member of an organization dedicated to the use of violence. She wasn't and she truthfully said no.

She was accused of lying by a special agent who thought that it was funny to post jokes on the Internet about liberal college professors getting beaten up, who interviewed her without a tape recorder and who destroyed his notes after summarizing what he thought she said, or what he wanted her to say.

There are many court cases in which an investigator or other cop claims that a defendant said something during an interview, the defense lawyer finds a tape recording of the interview, which demonstrates that the defendant didn't say that at all, and the investigator was lying. The cops are never prosecuted for lying.

That just happened with James Frascatore, the New York City cop who was caught on tape beating up James Blake for no reason. Frascatore knocked Blake to the ground and injured him, the cops made up a story to claim that Blake was resisting arrest, and the video showed the cops were lying.

In another case, he claimed that a woman was interfering with an arrest. Then her daughter's recording showed it wasn't true. http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

He was caught lying by a tape in another case. http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

This sounds like one of those stories I used to hear during the cold war, about how under Communism, people could be fired just because they knew somebody who was arrested. Now we're doing it.

And you sound like one of the Communists who used to defend the practice. Which you're doing now.

Keep wallowing in your ignorance.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ent...

They were hired by the office of the Secretary of State, who is in fact a "layer of the government".

NO. They were NOT. The contract that they were hired under was private commercial from Bill and Hillary, probably thru their foundation, not government. from the article posted here (and as has been posted with more clarification at other places) : http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Bill and Hillary Clinton hired Platte River in 2013 to manage the email server after one originally built for her 2008 campaign broke down several times, people familiar with the email server told the Post.

Please note the word campaign, which suggests it was when she was running for President, before even being considered for SecState.

Correct, but I didn't say "removing the classification designator". I said "removing the classification" or "de-classifying". The law says you can't do so for political reasons, but let's face it, 90%+ of all classifications are for political reasons. And 100% of public declassifications are for political reasons. The rules are lip service that take a back seat to the political realities of our government.

While there is truth in this, the point is legally moot. You cant go to court and defend your theft of a car by saying that the guy who bought it did so with stolen money. Just because Hillary (in your example) would use a "it should never have been classified in the first place" defense is a weak and rather ridiculous argument. It doesnt really matter. Could it be considered as a mitigating factor in the punishment? Sure. But it doesnt mean that crimes were not committed.

Are you taking about this?:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Is that what the workers are claiming now that they've been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty? Is that the best excuse they could have come up with for abusing animals? Remember, the owners haven't been charged with anything - after this incident, they fired those workers, installed security cameras, and hired an additional supervisor. The video did exactly what it was suppose to do - fixing the problem and putting in those additional controls. This would not have happened w/o the video.

Now, Mercy for Animals wants to put them out of business, but you know what? Bettencourt's customers seem content with the actions taken and are not doing anything. This is the true lesson of free speech - people will make doomsday predictions about what will happen if you let people say whatever they want, but in reality, people make their own decisions based on the facts presented. What is truly dangerous is information control to deny us the facts to make good decisions and right wrongs.

Lets call these people A B and C.

A works for the nsa.

B is A's Girlfriend who is cheating on A with C.

C is the other guy.

A uses the nsa's database to keep track of B during the day.

I imagine that when A discovers B's calls to C's number there might be a murder.

"NSA analysts spied on spouses, girlfriend"
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

But they are just imaginary people so I suppose its ok.

And that makes it OK?

I see nothing wrong with it, actually. People want — and have a perfect right — to know, who they are about to trust with powers over them and/or their businesses. And the higher the position, the greater the powers and, consequently, the greater the extent people might go in their investigations.

The "opposition research" is just another facet of this. If it is legitimate for all of us to study, how Donald Trump parted with his ex-wide 30 years ago before we hire him, it is certainly legitimate for a would-be employer to check criminal history of a candidate, or inquire, whether he has done something, which may betray certain things about his character or judgement. Did he torture animals? Is he prone to binge-drinking? Has he burned the national flag? Is he a racist, sexist, or communist?

So long as private employers' hiring decisions remain their own, they ought to remain free to base them on whatever considerations they please — with the specific (if regrettable) restrictions imposed by the law, of course.

Well clearly I'm not going to have such studies to hand, not sure how you would study such a thing

Well, you made a wide-reaching statement about a certain fact. If you can not cite anything to confirm the fact, your statement remains unsubstantiated and the "fact" — highly suspect.

there is inbuilt racism / nationalism in CV selection

I can believe that — and in my not-so-humble opinion, those concerns ought to remain up to the employer as well. Both from the principled standpoint — being free must imply freedom to be wrong, as well as practical — the war on thought-crimes, waged in this country since the 1960-ies, is even less winnable than the coterminous war on drugs.

And to think these same idiots was to do the same to teachers.

100% Correct, this isn't a punishment that will prevent Apple from doing exactly the same thing further down the road.

Damages should be punitive, like what's happening in Sweden, where fines are directly linked to income.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Just to be a bit pedantic.
While the driver were indeed a Swedish national, the infraction, and the fine, happened in Finland.
Finland recently changed their laws to make their speeding ticket fines (and possible other fines) proportional to the perpetrators wealth.

100% Correct, this isn't a punishment that will prevent Apple from doing exactly the same thing further down the road.

Damages should be punitive, like what's happening in Sweden, where fines are directly linked to income. http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Small towns have fewer negros so they don't have the crime problems

What was the last time you were in a small town?

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I'm so glad you cleared that up for us.

Analogy fail. You should have used the pirate bay for a better example.

Try making some bomb threats or death threats, or perhaps make some offers to buy or sell drugs using one of those service providers and see how well that turns out for you. Silk Road was designed specifically for black market / illegal transactions. Ulbricht even called himself "Dread Pirate Roberts". If you can't tell the difference between eBay and Silk Road - well then I suppose these words are lost on you.

Governments worldwide that are marching to fascism want encryption banned.

Encryption is but a tiny side-show in the global march towards Collectivism — the coin, of which Fascism and Socialism are indistinguishable sides. As predicted long ago:

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

— Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Paris, May 27, 1788

It starts with concern for the poor, that inevitably causes the government to undertake support of the downtrodden with various "War on Poverty" initiatives.

A few decades and trillion-dollars into it, there are not only millions of recipients of the dole, there are also tens of thousands of government officials involved in distributing it. The combination makes it impossible to stop the foolish undertaking — it may be reformed and rearranged, but it can not be ended.

And then comes the idea, that, if we must support the unsuccessful among us, we should try to prevent them from doing (what we consider to be) stupid things: take drugs, drive too fast, eat fat (no, not fat, sugar!). Right here on Slashdot, the idea that our self-imposed responsibility for others allows us to control their actions, is alive and well.

And then government types begin to deliberately rearrange things to be able to attach their own strings to various incentives you can not refuse. The first example of this was, probably, the imposition of federal speed-limit by mandating, that States receiving federal Federal highway funds implement them.

The most recent example here is the federal take-over of education loans, which allows the Administration to better control, what the colleges teach and what students do. Because it raises the tuition costs so much, fewer and fewer students will be able to forgo such federal aid and will be forced to accept it — with all of the strings attached to them and the colleges they attend.

Compared to these aspects of the Collective increasingly controlling the Individual's life, use of encryption is of little to no consequence. Maybe, a new Republic in Antarctica, on the Moon or Mars will take the lessons of our errors to heart — the way our Founding Fathers studied those of the Romans...

Ah, "good" ol' Media Matters! When the chips for Bill and Hill are down, they'll come throught!

NYT reporter: Misdirecting on Clinton stories is what Media Matters "exists to do"

Bombshell book 'Clinton Cash' to get up to 8 revisions, publisher says

... Amazon has emailed those who'd purchased the e-book version that an "updated version" is available.

"The updated version contains the following changes: Significant revisions have been made," the alert reads.

HarperCollins, which published the book, played down the changes.

"The changes that Amazon is referring to as significant are actually quite minor. We made 7-8 factual corrections after the first printing and fixed a technical issue regarding the endnotes. This global fix may have made the changes appear more extensive than they were," HarperCollins spokeswoman Joanna Pinsker said in an email.

Hmm ... Amazon ... Bezos ...big donor to Democrats as I recall.

Well, I guess we'll see what emerges over time.

These apartments are

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You seems to misunderstand how police budgets work. They don't have the money to go after every crime, and they especially don't have money for crimes that no one cares about (black on black crime for example), But, if you somehow catch the attention of someone higher up in the department and they think they could get a career promotion from busting you, then you better believe they have hundreds of thousands at their disposal to catch you with.

Industry will vanish along with cellphone ban
Savvy entrepreneur sees school cell phone bans as opportunity - runs mobile rental space for gadgets
More Unpredictable Side Effects of Technology: Cell Phone Storage Trucks for Students
Businesses make $4M off NYC students by holding their cellphones during school NYC Plans To Lift Ban On Student Cellphones In Schools

Non-black people are attacked by police every day.

Really? You see any riot police in paramilitary gear in the below pictures? Any white "thugs" getting shot in the back while running away? Hell, if you're white, you don't even have to run away. White guys have walked into movie theaters armed like Rambo and murdered a bunch of people in cold blood and the police take them alive and make sure they don't bump their head on the cruiser door when placing them in the back seat.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

https://www.google.com/search?...

You can not possibly believe that interactions between police and white people are anything like interactions between police and black people or hispanic people. Let me ask you this: You hear about any white people who have been shot and killed in police custody with their hands handcuffed behind their back?

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You seriously think that would stop the mob from having him stripped of any emeritus position he holds ?

Hell the left doesn't let people on it's side so much as talk to people

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We're not talking about censure. We're talking about inclusion. Muslims are exposed to plenty of bigotry and hate every day from the people in their communities without special events with cash prizes from organized hate groups. Yes, they're even exposed, from their perspective, to near-continuous blasphemy. Do we really need an event to send the message "the people here hate you so much that we're holding a party intended to upset you and further isolate you from our community"?

If you want fewer extremists, integration is the best approach. By isolating them, belittling them, and then provoking them you're creating the problem you're pretending to solve. This is true for any group of people, of course, not just Muslims, as we've recently seen. Oppressed groups tend to fight against oppression.

Oppression also tends to promote group unity. It's why you see so many groups seek any excuse to believe their oppressed, or look for opportunities to show some form of oppression. You've very likely seen this from both Christian groups and atheist groups. You've also seen how it calls the rank-and-file to sometimes violent action.

I'm amazed at the nonsense posted here. It's like seeing Klansman claim that if they burn enough crosses and hold enough marches "them **** will learn their place!" It's foolish and counterproductive. (Unless, of course, your real goal is to further oppress them. Hmmm...)

yes several individuals who set up this event are (unlike the Charlie Hebdo staff) known asshats.

Is it really okay for you to support the actions of "known asshats" if you don't actually join the club? How does that work? "I'm no Klansman, but those asshats sure do a good job! Keep it up boys!" What does that say about you and your beliefs?

In other news, medical research slowly comes to a crashing halt in test phases. Millions of people die due to reactions which were not seen in simulations. Environmental moonbats everywhere cheer.

Chimps aren't used much in medical research. Mice are used far more often, especially for pharmaceuticals. I know. I worked for a drug discovery startup for five years. Clinical trials go from lab, to mice, to humans, typically over a period of years. There are a ridiculously few situations where a chimp would be needed, and those get less likely every year. Now, the cosmetics and personal hygiene industry, that's another story and is much more unpalatable when it comes to the use of chimps.

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CAUTION: Please wait until noise has receded before checking your mail.

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So some guy gets his life ruined by a conspiracy to file false allegations. It's not like the conspirators will be charged with any crime - that might discourage future "victims" (invented or otherwise) from coming forward, right? So why not grant total anonymity to the consipirators with an app like this so that even the *idea* of justice for false-accusation conspirators can never come up?

This disgusting witch hunt needs to end. Feminism 3.0 must die.

You must have grown up a long time ago, in a school district far away. Today teachers have to buy their own supplies, out of their own personal funds.

I grew up in the 70's and early 80's.

Of course I'm not sure what you are trying to get at with the rest of your post. Are you suggesting that every school district within the United States is government by the same loons as one or two school districts in a specific state? Do you realize that it is the state's job to fund schools and often the local political subdivisions do it through property taxes. Do you realize that school districts and even city wide schools are not the same even in the same states or county within that state?

Of course I'm left wondering if this has anything to do with your first linked story.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/exclusive-school-officials-lose-356m-special-education-funds-article-1.1912801

Your second link is even more interesting. There you present a teacher who is crying that because he wants to run outside the box and accepted lesson plans, he has to purchase supplies to do so on his own. Sure it would be nice if everything was free, but it's sort of his own doing there.

You must have grown up a long time ago, in a school district far away. Today teachers have to buy their own supplies, out of their own personal funds.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Teachers spending $500 out of own pockets for kids' school supplies: union poll
Pens, paper — the basics — are what hard-pressed teachers are laying out their own cash for, says the union. City educrats, with a $24 billion education budget, say, 'hard-working teachers should not have to pay for supplies.'
BY Ben Chapman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, March 2, 2014, 6:54 PM

City schools are so strapped that teachers are buying the basics with their own money, a teachers union poll released Monday shows.

On average, public school teachers will spend almost $500 of their own cash this year on pens, paper and other instructional materials.

Even with its $24 billion education budget, the city doesn't always deliver the basics, teachers union president Michael Mulgrew said.

"It was the teachers who were holding the schools together -- with the tape that they bought, it seems," Mulgrew said.

Roughly half of 800 randomly selected teachers who responded to the 2013 survey said that their schools do not have a curriculum for the state's tougher new Common Core standards.

Teachers also said the Internet connections in half of their schools were either too slow or too unreliable to support instruction.

City educrats said they were working to get teachers a cash infusion.

"Hard-working teachers should not have to pay for supplies out of their own pockets," said Department spokesman Marcus Liem.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story...
Teachers Spend Own Money for Supplies
Aug. 31
By Maria F. Durand

Bruce Hogue is always looking for ways to make teaching science more interesting.

But the money he uses for the boxes of Cheerios, Bran Flakes and Total needed for one his experiments usually comes out of his pocket.

“As a science teacher, I have an official budget, but that is usually gone by the beginning of the year,” says Hogue, who works in suburban Denver. “When I want to do a science lab, I usually pay for it all on my own.”

Hogue is one of the millions of teachers across the country who are shelling out their own hard-earned cash to pay for books, pens, pencils and other basic supplies that schools have provided in the past.

In short, treat them like fucking professionals.

I guess that works if you're a pimp.

In strangely relevant news this week: Nevada brothel seeking paid testers; men, women, and couples for quality assurance. Fucking professionals, indeed!

Number 5 is applicable if you rephrase it:
5. My religious liberty is at risk because:
A) Members of my faith can be forced to create something endorsing activity my religion prohibits with legal repercussions if they refuse. (Colorado)
B) I am now prohibited from forcing people with beliefs contrary to my own to create something their religion prohibits. (Indiana)

This is directly applicable to what is happening:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion...

The customer, named Bill Jack, also wanted Marjorie Silva to add “an image of two men holding hands, covered in a big, red X.” ... We're not doing this.... Jack has filed a religious-discrimination complaint

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the bakers in question are not refusing service to a type of people — they are refusing to be party to a type of message.

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[Judge] Spencer ordered Phillips to bake cakes celebrating gay marriage for any other parties that ask for such a cake in the future.

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An Oregon bakery will have to pay a gay couple up to $150,000 for refusing to bake them a wedding cake ... pay up to $75,000 each

100 years is relatively recent.

Last month is genuinely recent. That's when ISIS burned around 45 people. Then they stuck it on YouTube. They've also are in the process of committing genocide and allegedly selling human organs on the black market.

No where in the world is a bastion of righteousness.

What was the point of making that observation? I find it interesting how people are more concerned about a light case of hypocrisy in the US than a vile organization like ISIS. It's a pretty remarkable case of moral blindness.

100 years is relatively recent.

Last month is genuinely recent. That's when ISIS burned around 45 people. Then they stuck it on YouTube. They've also are in the process of committing genocide and allegedly selling human organs on the black market.

No where in the world is a bastion of righteousness.

What was the point of making that observation? I find it interesting how people are more concerned about a light case of hypocrisy in the US than a vile organization like ISIS. It's a pretty remarkable case of moral blindness.

Stories of regular cab drivers sexually assaulting riders:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/12/tourist_says_cab_driver_raped.html/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-brooklyn-woman-recounts-traumatic-rape-taxi-article-1.2101285/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-alleged-victim-recounts-rape-cabbie-article-1.1772138/
http://www.local10.com/news/fort-lauderdale-cab-driver-accused-of-rape/29941056/
http://globalnews.ca/news/1801977/taxi-ride-leaves-woman-shaken-police-investigate-sexual-assault/
http://fox4kc.com/2014/10/01/woman-claims-cab-driver-robbed-raped-her/

It seems that meeting the licensing requirements doesn't magically protect passengers from drivers. As a side note, meeting strangers who advertised in traditional newspaper classified ads doesn't provide any magical protection over meeting strangers who advertised on craigslist. Also, Teslas don't actually catch fire more than any other kind of car. Media sensationalism is exactly what it says on the label.

Stories of regular cab drivers sexually assaulting riders:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/12/tourist_says_cab_driver_raped.html/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-brooklyn-woman-recounts-traumatic-rape-taxi-article-1.2101285/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-alleged-victim-recounts-rape-cabbie-article-1.1772138/
http://www.local10.com/news/fort-lauderdale-cab-driver-accused-of-rape/29941056/
http://globalnews.ca/news/1801977/taxi-ride-leaves-woman-shaken-police-investigate-sexual-assault/
http://fox4kc.com/2014/10/01/woman-claims-cab-driver-robbed-raped-her/

It seems that meeting the licensing requirements doesn't magically protect passengers from drivers. As a side note, meeting strangers who advertised in traditional newspaper classified ads doesn't provide any magical protection over meeting strangers who advertised on craigslist. Also, Teslas don't actually catch fire more than any other kind of car. Media sensationalism is exactly what it says on the label.

So we can have stories like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
and this
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At least they had a gun and were safe....

Anyone want to share a story about when a civilian with a gun really saved the day?
I've asked before so please dont post stories about the "authorities backing down" because squatters were armed, or other such posts.

Just a story about Bad guy with gun, good guy with gun and the story ends well.

Demonstrating how easy it is to manufacture guns with modern equipment shows the futility of trying to stop it with simple restrictions, such as the silly shipping restriction. As a related example, some people in the US think that a useful answer to gun violence is stronger rules on who can purchase guns and how they are registered/tracked. That's just ridiculous when any yahoo can whip out an unregistered gun this fast. (Our yahoos are similar to your chavs, but with even worse outfits)

The US is close to having a gun for every single citizen. It will take more than any of these "think of the children" laws to make that go away. And media hysteria here is actually leading to more gun sales. We had a spike in talk of banning "assault weapons" again a few years back, whatever that means. The only result of that was a giant increase in AR-15 sales.

Nobody is stopping people in the US from doing business with mega. Send an international money order. People do it all the time. And if you trust them so much, you can always send cash.

It's not so much trust in the business on the other end that keeps me from sending cash through the mail, it's all the people in the middle that are handling the cash-filled mail. The business has a huge incentive to not rip off their customers since a customer that doesn't get what he paid for will soon be an ex-customer.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
http://www.wickedlocal.com/art...

If postal workers knew that every envelope addressed to Mega had cash in it, they'd be a huge theft target.

No, it's back to the 1940s. The (Islamo)fascists are the threat. Once again Jews are forced to flee Europe under threat of death, and Mein Kampf (long a popular book in the Middle East) is going back on the shelves in Germany. The point is to arrest the next sabotage / attack / terrorist cell that land by sub / plane / self organizes. "Papers, please"? Not so much.

Brooklyn men who wanted to join ISIS had plans to shoot President Obama, bomb Coney Island: FBI - Thursday, February 26, 2015
Al-Shabaab threatens malls, including some in U.S.; FBI downplays threat - February 21, 2015

Hmmm, what's all this then?

Abbott: Australia to strengthen citizenship laws to combat terror - February 23, 2015

Last I heard, Australia wasn't located anywhere near Moscow.