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New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Executive Order on Principles for Regulating the US Financial System"

464192002d7fe1c — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 02:05:11 +0000

That was exactly my point :)

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees"

464192002d7fe1c — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 01:58:04 +0000

Keep in mind also, even those people who support legalization (myself) do not necessarily believe that that means that existing laws should be ignored and unenforced. This creates a situation where police and politicians can choose, based on whatever subjective factors they want, who to prosecute. This leads to anarchy.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees"

464192002d7fe1c — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 01:56:27 +0000

"no sensible person regards as criminal"

If no sensible person regards them as criminal, they would not be crimes.

Your assertion is that the sentencing/laws are racist. I would assert that crime, itself, is racist. For whatever reason some minorities commit more crimes. Keep in mind, I'm not saying that they do it BECAUSE they are a minority. I am not saying black people are inherently more criminal because they are black, merely that based on demographics a black person is more likely to be a criminal. I do not know why that is (nor do you) and do not make any attempt at explaining it.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "The FCC is stopping 9 companies from providing subsidized Internet to the poor"

464192002d7fe1c — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 01:05:17 +0000

You assume they will be charged extra by the ISP, or more correctly that they will know about it.

It'll probably end up like most people's cable bill: a large block of charges that are mostly not understood by most people.

Also keep in mind that most services don't actually want to charge the ISPs for access to their content, they just want access. Facebook doesn't want to charge your ISP to reach you reliably, nor does Netflix, they just want to be able to do it.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Executive Order on Principles for Regulating the US Financial System"

464192002d7fe1c — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 22:43:11 +0000

Where, exactly, is that in this EO?

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Executive Order on Principles for Regulating the US Financial System"

464192002d7fe1c — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 22:42:36 +0000

> subtextually

Translation: there is nothing actually in there about removing those regulations. You (and others, MSM outlets included) are attempting to manufacture outrage.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Read the Trump administration's draft of the executive order on cybersecurity"

464192002d7fe1c — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 03:36:54 +0000

I don't think it goes either way. An argument could be made that the review ends up saying "Everything the NSA does is irrelevant, shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders".

Obviously I don't think that is actually going to happen either, but, nor do I think this means the NSA would be expanded here.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "[dead]"

464192002d7fe1c — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 01:44:17 +0000

good.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Help: Suicide note on blog"

464192002d7fe1c — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:38:12 +0000

Thanks for calling. AT&T AGAIN disabled my international calling and the group that can turn it back on only works 9-5.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Help: Suicide note on blog"

464192002d7fe1c — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:36:44 +0000

While I understand your concern. You're wrong on a number of fronts.

Firstly, as others have mentioned, you don't really have better options besides (perhaps?) trying to find/call relatives. If you call EMTs they won't report without police (for good reason), if you call a local hospital (of any kind) they will just tell you to call the police.

Secondly, police absolutely do get training to handle mental health issues and get training to specifically handle this situation. (http://www.nami.org/Law-Enforcement-and-Mental-Health/What-I...)

Thirdly, this is Canada. While I'm sure the level of CIT training penetration in the USA is not ideal, I would imagine that Canadian police are far better and will show up with Canadian bacon and maple syrup and some tim hortons coffee and make it all better.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Help: Suicide note on blog"

464192002d7fe1c — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:32:55 +0000

This is terrible, the house/neighborhood looks very nice :(

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Help: Suicide note on blog"

464192002d7fe1c — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:29:09 +0000

Yes, absolutely, and I've done it before (and been thanked for it), but if you see my other post this was posted almost 24 hours ago.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Help: Suicide note on blog"

464192002d7fe1c — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:27:39 +0000

datetime="2017-01-25T10:16:10+00:00"

which was a long time ago :( It is probably too late :(

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Goals vs. Systems"

464192002d7fe1c — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 01:19:14 +0000

I would highly suggest reading his book. He goes into this a lot more detail in the book and why systems work better than goals. The reasons are entirely psychological and revolve around tricking your brain into not being discouraged by the occasional and inevitable failure.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Super high-resolution photo of Trump Inauguration"

464192002d7fe1c — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 01:13:26 +0000

That's awesome. Anyone know what they use to take a picture like this? I really love the guy standing next to the (i presume) gigantic gigapixel camera taking a picture on his smart phone.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "For national security, Trump gets a new secure 'smartphone'"

464192002d7fe1c — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 04:45:42 +0000

I hope it can tweet.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence"

464192002d7fe1c — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:43:44 +0000

Seriously. This is such terrible backroom political manipulation. The real thing that worries me is what exactly are we using to leverage sweden to go after assange this hard. What damage has obama done to our relationship with them?

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence"

464192002d7fe1c — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:38:34 +0000

It won't be undone under Trump. If anything, he would grant immediate clemency or a pardon (though I don't expect either).

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence"

464192002d7fe1c — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:37:10 +0000

the clemency is also 6 months into the future. presumably, at that time, things will in a slightly less absurdist position for someone like him. I cannot imagine him getting anything resembling a fair trial right now. In 6 months? sure.

New comment by 464192002d7fe1c in "Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views"

464192002d7fe1c — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:47:43 +0000

I've never seen/used the raido one before but I did see/use paperplanes.

While I enjoyed paper planes, it was quite brief. I played with it for 15-20m max before I stopped. I've been watching this (on another monitor) for probably half an hour. Way more engaging and deep. Love this.