I wonder, if someone accidentally plows down and kills a pedestrian, or accidentally walks out with something in their hand forgetting to pay for it, do you think they are as guilty and should be punished the same as someone who committed planned deliberate murder or robbery?


What is the bad policy? Government recognition and protection of marriage contracts?


Lol!
No. They pass a repeal every few months. Senate is majority Democrats (it only seems Republican controlled because filibusters made 60%+ votes a requirement), and obviously Obama will veto any attempts to get rid of his signature legislation.

 

Let them eat cake.

With beers.

Of course. Bongs are often just plastic or glass. They just have to hold water. Only the part where weed is burned needs to be metal, and I've seen those funnel-shaped parts get swapped around between different bongs easily.

There's definitely an issue with the IRS thing and the AP thing. And even with the drone thing, the VA thing, the Guantanamo thing, the war in Afghanistan thing, etc. But there's nothing there regarding Fast and Furious and Bengazi. Take a peek outside foxnewsiverse.

I'm hoping to use the Gyft app to the full extent.

How does one regulate a home-made RepRap? Someone should make a LOTR-themed quickmeme about this.

Well, besides aluminum tubes, my local Home Depot and Lowes also has stainless steel tubes, as well as tube shaped steel spacers for bolts/nuts, and a slew of other crap. I'm sure once people start tinkering, they'll figure it out.
Thanks for the info on the Al tubes btw.

The head of the IRS has resigned (aka was fired), even though he likely had nothing to do with this, since he was somewhat newly appointed, and this started years ago. So... there you go.

I still think the point of the Liberator being all plastic was more for show, to demonstrate that you could make an entire gun just from the 3D printer. If, or rather when, this gets picked up by other developers who start tweaking it, I wouldn't be surprised if a "useful" mass production version of it will be full of easy to find store-bought parts. I'm still curious how much more effective and safe this gun would be if the barrel was designed to hold and reinforce a hollow, cheap aluminum rod, for instance.

If I sell you a piece of shit rust bucket of a car, and claim that it's a good car without any problems, I would be lying and committing fraud. Hell, even if it was legal, I would be lying, committing fraud, and being a general scumbag who should lose all trust for ever.
When you are insider trading, you are selling piece of shit stock to someone while telling them it's a good stock without any problems.

The article is pretty much all right, except they use a rise in share prices in their example. I wonder what their example would have been like if the trader at the bar overheard bad news?

So, who went to jail when IRS targeted Martin Luther King? Or for having them audit Paula Jones under Clinton? Or when they targeted John Birch Society under Kennedy? Or the slew of political opponents under Nixon and a slew of liberal organizations and churches under G W Bush? It's as if this is a new thing.

Since this has started back in 2010, I'm going to put on my tinfoil hat and come up with a theory. What does Obama have to gain from targeting Tea Party groups? Answer is almost nothing. On the other hand, establishment Republicans have considered the Tea Party a huge threat from the start. Tea Party does populist politics and astroturfing really well, attracting common Joe Shmoe, but pick really awful, terrible candidates. Most of the Tea Party candidates that won primaries in 2010 were downright fucking nuts, and most of them didn't win, because they only appealed to the loony fringe. Republicans fought them during the primaries, and were always under a threat from the Tea Party of being primaried in otherwise safe "red states," which would divide the vote, and cause the state to turn blue (which actually happened in 2010). So, some high ranking Republican Senators and/or House members secretly instructed the IRS to target Tea Party groups, and make it as hard for them to raise money and participate in politics as possible. As a result, they were able to regain a lot of the seats they lost in the 2012 elections. And if they get caught, they can just blame it on Obama, since it would be "obvious" to everyone that he is the "Scary Black Man™ who is only in office because he cheated, and he is the only one with incentive to attack Tea Party I mean Republicans."

I'm sure that's not what happened, because I doubt politicians are smart enough to think up of something like that, but this theory would make much more sense than Obama wanting to target the Republican's third party black sheep himself. Of course, major political parties NEVER screw with politics by attacking their own fringe or supporting the fringe of their opponents. Except that time Democrats attacked the Green party and Republicans ran adds supporting them in every election...

How about a community centered around a specific business (like a guild) that members subscribe to, which provides education to the member's children in hopes that those kids will grow up and work for that business. The quality of education this guild provides will directly affect how well it can compete against other guilds.

One thing I've learned in life, business, and politics, is it's all about incentives. You get your incentives aligned right, and everything will be OK. If you don't, or depend on the wrong ones (like altruism), things will go bad, eventually, guaranteed.

Here are some
Lifted restrictions granting Cuban Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send remittances to the island
Eliminated subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans
Expanded hate crime law in the US to include sexual orientation
Extended Benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees
Reversed 'global gag rule', allowing US aid to go to organizations regardless of whether they provide abortions
Signed New START Treaty - nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia
First president to endorse same-sex marriage equality
Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women
Reversed the policy of barring media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base
Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system
Ended Bush administration's CIA program of 'enhanced interrogation methods'
Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage


Don't really have a problem with any of that..

How's this? http://whattheheckhasobamadonesofar.com
Not all of it is good. Like the slew of regulations. But the student loan thing, the nuclear reduction thing, the pro-gay things and pro-women's rights things, and the pro-science things were good. There are definitely a lot of things that he did. That's likely part of the reason he got reelected.

It worked in the video. Also, if you add a hole to slip a small laser pointer into, that would make the gun a hell of a lot more effective. You'll probably never even need to fire it.

I think the coolest thing to do in San Jose will be hanging out with other bitcoiners at local bars and restaurants. It won't matter which bars and restaurants, since hanging out with will be the important part.

I left SL before I found Bitcoin, and haven't been back since, so I don't know about that. I doubt that can be enforced, anyway, since, at least within the game, SLL is traded person-to-person, too.


It was 2 pizzas for 10,000. And without an easy way to exchange BTC for fiat, thus allowing many more users and businesses to join, there's an extremely good chance that 10,000BTC would let you buy maybe 4 pizzas instead of 2 today. Being able to swap BTC for oter currencies is one of the features that gives it its value.

Really? Because Lindens have a HUGE Linden to USD exchange market, and business owners that have to pay for their land plots and expenses in dollars pay very close attention to the Linden <=> USD exchange rate before setting the prices they are willing to sell stuff to. Were you around during the Linden crash, when the currency hyperinflated over the course of a week or two?

That's, uh, actually extremely easy. All you are printing is a tube, a battery holder, and a place to attach wires to launch the rocket. Even rockets are easy, as long as you have the chemical propellant and explosives. Guided rockets, that's a different story.

Barnacle_Ed, one problem with that: University A will be making much higher profits, and thus will have a much bigger marketing fund, which it will use to convince Joe and Jane that they need to go to their university and buy their degrees. Current example of such travesty are Phoenix and Streyer universities.