It is not that surprising, given that the executive branch has determined it has the right to kill anyone, anywhere on earth, for secret reasons, based on secret evidence.
Yes. Which is why the clerks in a head shop are careful to explain the pipes and bongs are for tobacco use only, and the customers are urged to play along.
If the defendants advertised carefully, they may have a legal leg to stand on.
When you are offering for sale a product or service that could be operated adjunct to a criminal offense, you'd be wise to do the CYA in triplicate.
Ever seen a circuit board fried from an electrical surge?
Happens all the time when relying on the multi-plug surge arrestor for one's delicate equipment. They sell a much better unit that takes the place of two breaker spaces in the main panel, for under a hundred bucks.
Oh. And wouldn't you know it? There's no surge arrestor in your organic brain.
Undoubtedly, rereading all those comic books made it likely you scored high on the SAT, but nevertheless left an impression that every lab accident could result in superpowers.
Ah, to be naive again.
People always speculate they would like to return to an earlier version of themselves, if they could know what they know now, but forgetting the the awesome sauce of youth is inexperience.
Yes. One positive feedback loop you can thank the Snowden revelations for is the ease with which this information is disseminated as likely fact rather than tin hatter tripe.
The common saw is Necessity is the mother of invention.
If we stipulate that banning a popular substance increases its value exponentially, and agree there are many who will equate profit with necessity, it is no surprise whatsoever that there exist blokes willing to play the risk/reward lotto.
We borrowed the athletic department's t-shirt gun for testing when we were spit-balling this around.
Most of the employees in Research and Development that we selected for testing were more interested in firing small packages at the guys on the zip line...so you know, being a government contractor, we killed the zip line dev.
How can you argue with logic like that? These focking tards in law enforcement.
It is not okay to use the same, tired old memes to justify continued use of Orwellian surveillance techniques.
You TLAs have proven, time and time again, that you cannot be trusted to wield this type of power responsibly. I would prefer a little less safety in exchange for more freedom.
The good news to take from these discussions amongst governments is that there is a recognized problem from the West all the way to China.
The age-old problem persists, however, in that it is difficult to muster the political will in an individual nation if the measure of negative economic impact is greater than nil.
You can blame the system for creating disincentives toward pollution control, but it boils down to educating the populace. Unfortunately there is just enough denier science out there to keep citizens with short attention spans occupied.
Indeed. Once again engaging in Missile Diplomacy. Sigh!
The theory is that this sort of military action makes a point in response to ISIL's activities.
Ironically, the Sunnis and Shia in the region were better kept in check under Saddam's former regime, than they ever will be in a post-invasion government. Western policy makers seem to have a difficult time understanding this, but there is no separation of church and state for these people.
Ask yourselves but one question... do you see a single thread, such as this, over there, promoting both sides of the argument equally without censure? There is but one true great nerd site. I'm posting on it.
No, it's not okay, but it's the technical equivalent of reverse engineering an innovative technology once you have your hands on it.
Working backwards from a known result, even Maxwell Smart et al can arrive at a credible explanation for where the information came from legally.
These methods of surveillance are no better than wet pig shit. Violating the rights of several thousand to track one "interesting" individual is precisely the opposite of how this is supposed to work in a modern, free society.
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It is not that surprising, given that the executive branch has determined it has the right to kill anyone, anywhere on earth, for secret reasons, based on secret evidence.
so like pedophiles and terrorists, a group we can invoke whenever we wanna get shit done.
The march towards abridging of inconvenient individual rights always begins at the most loathsome.
Sympathizer, communist, witch, traitor, pedobear, terrorist... sell whatever's the current Beelzebub.
If the defendants advertised carefully, they may have a legal leg to stand on.
When you are offering for sale a product or service that could be operated adjunct to a criminal offense, you'd be wise to do the CYA in triplicate.
It doesn't make you more social so much as it makes everyone else at the party more interesting.
Happens all the time when relying on the multi-plug surge arrestor for one's delicate equipment. They sell a much better unit that takes the place of two breaker spaces in the main panel, for under a hundred bucks.
Oh. And wouldn't you know it? There's no surge arrestor in your organic brain.
Thank you!
the weather was turning thundery
You mean you talked like that before?
Ah, to be naive again.
People always speculate they would like to return to an earlier version of themselves, if they could know what they know now, but forgetting the the awesome sauce of youth is inexperience.
Yes. One positive feedback loop you can thank the Snowden revelations for is the ease with which this information is disseminated as likely fact rather than tin hatter tripe.
/vertise much?
If we stipulate that banning a popular substance increases its value exponentially, and agree there are many who will equate profit with necessity, it is no surprise whatsoever that there exist blokes willing to play the risk/reward lotto.
if it's cold, windy, and dangerous it is also more practical to wreck nine drones to get the medicine there than it is to wreck two manned aircraft.
I think that's true because getting the second pilot in the air after the crash would require some uber-level persuasion skills.
Most of the employees in Research and Development that we selected for testing were more interested in firing small packages at the guys on the zip line...so you know, being a government contractor, we killed the zip line dev.
A ten dollar bottle in Anchorage sells for $240-$325 in the villages with alcohol restriction.
Seems like it would be silly to risk narcotics-like penalties in court when the liquor markup is that substantial.
Citation?
Everything's national security over here.
Smugglers are probably wringing their hands in anticipation, but hell, every advancement seems to have some tangential consequence.
Look to the innocent use of black powder for fireworks.
It is not okay to use the same, tired old memes to justify continued use of Orwellian surveillance techniques.
You TLAs have proven, time and time again, that you cannot be trusted to wield this type of power responsibly. I would prefer a little less safety in exchange for more freedom.
Though it has been suggested by some that you cannot work out your brain to improve its performance, I have never believed this to be the case.
In my experience, constant problem solving improves one's cognitive abilities.
The age-old problem persists, however, in that it is difficult to muster the political will in an individual nation if the measure of negative economic impact is greater than nil.
You can blame the system for creating disincentives toward pollution control, but it boils down to educating the populace. Unfortunately there is just enough denier science out there to keep citizens with short attention spans occupied.
The theory is that this sort of military action makes a point in response to ISIL's activities.
Ironically, the Sunnis and Shia in the region were better kept in check under Saddam's former regime, than they ever will be in a post-invasion government. Western policy makers seem to have a difficult time understanding this, but there is no separation of church and state for these people.
Ask yourselves but one question... do you see a single thread, such as this, over there, promoting both sides of the argument equally without censure? There is but one true great nerd site. I'm posting on it.
...which proves that the Ju/'hoan invented the door handle.
And were passingly familiar with the hook.
When they got home, the hook was still in the door handle.
Working backwards from a known result, even Maxwell Smart et al can arrive at a credible explanation for where the information came from legally.
These methods of surveillance are no better than wet pig shit. Violating the rights of several thousand to track one "interesting" individual is precisely the opposite of how this is supposed to work in a modern, free society.