Subject says it all. It really is time to start taking lawyers and other bottom feeders to task. Mentally ill people should be treated for their paranoia, not have it confirmed.
And people who believe that they are something other than what they are should be treated for their delusion not given cosmetic surgery to make them look more like the thing they believe themselves to be.
My guess is that this will be marketed towards governments to protect capital buildings from drone attacks. Just recently in Japan someone managed to fly a drone with radioactive and onto the roof of the parliament building and left it there for a week before anyone found it. There have also been other such incidents involving drones, and the white house, to which the secret service have admitted they have no way to stop. These will be far out of reach of you average Joe.
They will be obligatory if you want to have a large wedding reception in Afghanistan.
So the message is "shut up and live a lie in your repressive regime"?
Be careful what you wish for. You might have to do it soon.
Yes that is exactly correct. You might not, right now, live in such a regime and you obviously have no idea what people have to go through in order to live within such a regime.
But if you are in the USA (or one of its vassal states like Canada) and you download torrents you might soon find yourself in that same position! And at that point you will learn to keep your mouth shut, live a lie and keep safe.
On the other hand, a gun has a much higher intimidation value and can be used without getting too close. This is what makes them effective tools for armed robbery - you can't stab the guy behind the counter as easily as you can shoot them, so you use a gun to intimidate and force compliance.
=Smidge=
Right, thats true. But kids carrying a knife around vs kids carrying guns around, the knives get used a lot more. Witness the UK where chavs'll stab you for a packet of crisps.
My main comment is to to do anything too big or to complicated - if you start something too big, you will probably never finish it and maintenance will occupy a disheartening number of hours.
If you like scenery, look for a copy of Model Railroading with John Allen so see what one modeler built in a suburban basement half a century ago. If your a lone wolf this is probably about as big you can sensibly make a line on your own. There is also a set of DVD's of pictures of the line," John Allen's Gorre and Daphetid Railroad", unobtainable now, but there is a torrent of them on Kat at the moment.
Note this well!
If your secret plan for model railroading is to build a secret railway line crossing the Canada/US border to export marijuana you should understand that this is really too big a project for a beginner.
Leave it to the pros like Ricky, Julian and Bubbles.
On the other hand, the notion that using the weapon won't kill the victim may make the owner more likely to use the weapon, resulting in more injuries.
Hmm... =Smidge=
A knife will be more likely to be used than a gun cos it makes less noise and attracts less attention.
I don't know, do the US count as a civilized country?
Apparently not... encouraging perjury? Thats a slippery slope for a legal system.
"You know you are innocent, we know you are probably innocent too. But if you just lie and plead guilty it'd just make everyones lives so much easier so go ahead, please lie under oath."
Thats not even a real legal system if it positively encourages such blatant disregard and disrespect for the process of law.
Pleading guilty or taking a plea bargain is entirely different than confessing to a crime. In a plea bargain, you are admitting guilt for a bartered reduction in penalty, and have a contract in writing. If you confess to police, you have no more defense. The police have no capacity to grant you leniency for cooperating, no matter what they claim. Instead, you are making it easier for the court system to convict you, by a HUGE margin. You are not only confessing that you committed a crime, but also confirming that a crime occurred. Now the courts have less incentive to offer a plea bargain, and will offer a worse deal or no deal, because they are more certain of a conviction. By confessing, you are giving away the biggest, and often times only, bargaining chip you have.
Plea bargaining (when you know you are innocent) would surely be perjury and not allowed in any civilized country? Surely?
While what you say is technically correct, you should also put this into perspective by adding that since Vietnam, the USAF has never had to fight a sustained air war against an even marginally organised adversary.
The US government has made sure that the US military has never again had to face an opponent which could actually bloody their noses. Much like a school bully.
Alright... I have nothing better to do. What metrics are we going to use to determine what is and is not a valid win in a military conflict? I will let you decide the premise.
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women.
My personal favorite F-35 issue is that the F-35B model can't fly in areas where it might be struck by lightning, because that could cause the fuel tanks to explode.
Well, lets hope the opponent doesn't start an offensive during a thunderstorm:)
They'd lose to the Mongols then cos thats exactly what Chinggis Khan did!
I'm pretty sure thats a myth. You can only do that once per fight with one 'Doom Star' and it ends the fight.
My roommate was disabled and spent years playing MOO2 (his favorite game). One Doom Star was enough to kill a planet. But he was good enough with his resources to build Doom Stars on a regular basis to use 32 Doom Stars per planetary kill for maximum overkill.
I'm pretty sure the game mechanic was that if you have one stellar converter in the fleet you get an option when your fleet engages that you use the stellar converter to destroy the planet and theres no battle. Once the fleet has engaged theres no option to then use the stellar converter on each ship; you'd have to retreat and wait till next turn to attack and use the stellar converter.
You are correct that heavy metals are everywhere. However, we can't trust corporations to self police, so we have government set limits. It is reasonable for the limits to be more strict with respect to a product that is marketed as a replacement for all of your meals, such as Soylent. Contrast this with tuna fish and mercury content, which is considered to be at acceptable levels when eaten occasionally.
They could probably market it as being beneficial; Ayurvedic medicine makes extensive use of heavy metals... (and can also make people very sick).
I used to have a roommate who played Master of Orion 2 on his PC with an Intel Pentium 133MHz processor. His style of game play was to keep the A.I. at bay, gather significant resources, and build 32 Death Stars to systematically eliminate every planet. Every time 32 Death Stars fired upon a planet, the computer is brought to its virtual knees.
I'm pretty sure thats a myth. You can only do that once per fight with one 'Doom Star' and it ends the fight.
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Subject says it all. It really is time to start taking lawyers and other bottom feeders to task. Mentally ill people should be treated for their paranoia, not have it confirmed.
And people who believe that they are something other than what they are should be treated for their delusion not given cosmetic surgery to make them look more like the thing they believe themselves to be.
Only the fools think there is "freedom" here in the USA.
Theres heaps of freedom in the USA if you have the money to pay for it! Thats the market at work!
My guess is that this will be marketed towards governments to protect capital buildings from drone attacks. Just recently in Japan someone managed to fly a drone with radioactive and onto the roof of the parliament building and left it there for a week before anyone found it. There have also been other such incidents involving drones, and the white house, to which the secret service have admitted they have no way to stop. These will be far out of reach of you average Joe.
They will be obligatory if you want to have a large wedding reception in Afghanistan.
Your saying that there are men that love pussy so much, they change over? Seems unlikely.
More likely gay men are just as slutty as straight men. If it wasn't for women keeping us down, we'd all be getting pussy at a local park.
Its not that they love pussy, they love getting off. So they change over. Seems likely to me.
it's just reality that it's easier for women to get men than it is for men to get women.
Its also a LOT easier for a gay man to get sex than a straight man.
Thats why so many sex-addicted men become gay.
Wait wtf
"Today, the Federal Trade Commission serves an important function as a protector of both consumer and business rights."
Consumers have rights in the USA? Surely thats un-American!
And we shall be more compassionate towards jerk bigots until there is a cure for their sickness.
Sheesh so jerk bigot gays will need TWO different cures??
"I am about to be killed, tortured, or exiled," he wrote. "And I did nothing."
No, what you did was expose yourself using social media to an authoritarian, abusive government. Realize that or do not.
Victim blaming much?
Let me guess; you come from a country whose ethical standards were primarily inherited or based on Christianity?
Not everyone in the world sees victims as automatically heros just because they were victims. Christian cultures are kind of peculiar in this regard.
So the message is "shut up and live a lie in your repressive regime"?
Be careful what you wish for. You might have to do it soon.
Yes that is exactly correct. You might not, right now, live in such a regime and you obviously have no idea what people have to go through in order to live within such a regime.
But if you are in the USA (or one of its vassal states like Canada) and you download torrents you might soon find yourself in that same position! And at that point you will learn to keep your mouth shut, live a lie and keep safe.
On the other hand, a gun has a much higher intimidation value and can be used without getting too close. This is what makes them effective tools for armed robbery - you can't stab the guy behind the counter as easily as you can shoot them, so you use a gun to intimidate and force compliance.
=Smidge=
Right, thats true. But kids carrying a knife around vs kids carrying guns around, the knives get used a lot more. Witness the UK where chavs'll stab you for a packet of crisps.
My main comment is to to do anything too big or to complicated - if you start something too big, you will probably never finish it and maintenance will occupy a disheartening number of hours.
If you like scenery, look for a copy of Model Railroading with John Allen so see what one modeler built in a suburban basement half a century ago. If your a lone wolf this is probably about as big you can sensibly make a line on your own. There is also a set of DVD's of pictures of the line," John Allen's Gorre and Daphetid Railroad", unobtainable now, but there is a torrent of them on Kat at the moment.
Note this well!
If your secret plan for model railroading is to build a secret railway line crossing the Canada/US border to export marijuana you should understand that this is really too big a project for a beginner.
Leave it to the pros like Ricky, Julian and Bubbles.
So my WWII era flamethrower is ok then?
I was thinking these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
would be awesome to install at the top of a driveway in Canada... to clear snow.
On the other hand, the notion that using the weapon won't kill the victim may make the owner more likely to use the weapon, resulting in more injuries.
Hmm...
=Smidge=
A knife will be more likely to be used than a gun cos it makes less noise and attracts less attention.
"well-regulated" meaning, what? Be specific.
As I understand it 'Well regulated" meant that their guns had been tested and checked out ok.
I don't know, do the US count as a civilized country?
Apparently not... encouraging perjury? Thats a slippery slope for a legal system.
"You know you are innocent, we know you are probably innocent too. But if you just lie and plead guilty it'd just make everyones lives so much easier so go ahead, please lie under oath."
Thats not even a real legal system if it positively encourages such blatant disregard and disrespect for the process of law.
Pleading guilty or taking a plea bargain is entirely different than confessing to a crime. In a plea bargain, you are admitting guilt for a bartered reduction in penalty, and have a contract in writing. If you confess to police, you have no more defense. The police have no capacity to grant you leniency for cooperating, no matter what they claim. Instead, you are making it easier for the court system to convict you, by a HUGE margin. You are not only confessing that you committed a crime, but also confirming that a crime occurred. Now the courts have less incentive to offer a plea bargain, and will offer a worse deal or no deal, because they are more certain of a conviction. By confessing, you are giving away the biggest, and often times only, bargaining chip you have.
Plea bargaining (when you know you are innocent) would surely be perjury and not allowed in any civilized country? Surely?
Well, the US has certainly killed more enemy than they have lost in all of those military actions.
Drone pilots don't get to hear the lamentation of the women... at least I don't *think* the drones have an audio feed...?
While what you say is technically correct, you should also put this into perspective by adding that since Vietnam, the USAF has never had to fight a sustained air war against an even marginally organised adversary.
The US government has made sure that the US military has never again had to face an opponent which could actually bloody their noses. Much like a school bully.
Alright... I have nothing better to do. What metrics are we going to use to determine what is and is not a valid win in a military conflict? I will let you decide the premise.
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women.
THATS a valid win in a military conflict.
My personal favorite F-35 issue is that the F-35B model can't fly in areas where it might be struck by lightning, because that could cause the fuel tanks to explode.
Well, lets hope the opponent doesn't start an offensive during a thunderstorm :)
They'd lose to the Mongols then cos thats exactly what Chinggis Khan did!
I'm pretty sure thats a myth. You can only do that once per fight with one 'Doom Star' and it ends the fight.
My roommate was disabled and spent years playing MOO2 (his favorite game). One Doom Star was enough to kill a planet. But he was good enough with his resources to build Doom Stars on a regular basis to use 32 Doom Stars per planetary kill for maximum overkill.
I'm pretty sure the game mechanic was that if you have one stellar converter in the fleet you get an option when your fleet engages that you use the stellar converter to destroy the planet and theres no battle. Once the fleet has engaged theres no option to then use the stellar converter on each ship; you'd have to retreat and wait till next turn to attack and use the stellar converter.
You are correct that heavy metals are everywhere. However, we can't trust corporations to self police, so we have government set limits. It is reasonable for the limits to be more strict with respect to a product that is marketed as a replacement for all of your meals, such as Soylent. Contrast this with tuna fish and mercury content, which is considered to be at acceptable levels when eaten occasionally.
They could probably market it as being beneficial; Ayurvedic medicine makes extensive use of heavy metals... (and can also make people very sick).
They do warn people, its on their site and everything: https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-...
So why are these heavy metals in the stuff? Is it ayurvedic medicine or something??
I used to have a roommate who played Master of Orion 2 on his PC with an Intel Pentium 133MHz processor. His style of game play was to keep the A.I. at bay, gather significant resources, and build 32 Death Stars to systematically eliminate every planet. Every time 32 Death Stars fired upon a planet, the computer is brought to its virtual knees.
I'm pretty sure thats a myth. You can only do that once per fight with one 'Doom Star' and it ends the fight.
Now you don't even have to even click a link to get on A List!
Doesn't matter. The NSA considers all Firefox users to be extremists anyway.
Given how unsecure firefox is I'd have thought the NSA would prefer everyone use it...