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> How about a $10 light repair ... assuming you don't want a real electrician. Well damn right, if all I want is a bulb replaced I don't want some jerk insisting it takes a ticket …

No, he won't be able to present evidence at any trial. It's much more than keeping some testimony sealed.

Sorry, but "just cut our losses" isn't acceptable to me when people are being murdered. This is the Nazi murder of Jews/etc of our time and it's everyone's obligation to handle it …

But here you imply that anyone breaking a contact of adhesion is a bad person. I literally cannot rent a suite that doesn't forbid sub-letting, even though local law forbids forbid…

Sure you can. It's a low bar. That's the point. In the absence of any possible evidence we have to work with what we've got. As for cryptic - if you can google it I don't consider …

The issue though is that your money, car, etc, is gone instantly and you're on the side of the road hitch-hiking home. No hearing, no evidence even. The fact that a hearing is part…

Not actually. It merely requires a cop. And the state has been known to kidnap your children if you try to dispute the issue.

Death cult?

"They" are also as cohesive as Anonymous.

An unjust attack on whose way of life? The girls being sold into slavery? The boys forced to fight or die? Those simply murdered? I'm pretty sure the other 99.9% are hostages, and …

The details of n+k don't matter as much. It's not just the latest, it's the latest that self-claims to be in a certain lineage, etc. Ultimate Abrahamic religion... And it has to ma…

Cutting and running does not work. We're still in Germany and Japan 70+ years later and we'll have to have that kind of roadmap if we plan to help in the middle east. And help we m…

The only objective standard possible, the words of the religions themselves, combined into one greater piece of theology. Everything is assumed true unless it conflicts a greater s…

And actually that's Mormonism anyways. They were the last to be visited by god, and had the most-recent prophet, according to whom their mortal leaders speak ex-cathedra. Mormonism…

It's only a small thing like someone firing a few rounds into a school but missing everyone is a small thing.

Not really, because the proposals aren't to go to no encryption but to go to government-backdoored encryption. To an observer you've still just a random stream of bits until someon…

The right answer? Kill Assad and help the people take back Syria. We should have done it three years ago before much of the moderate resistance was killed but it still needs doing.…

Yeah, it's still not the rape, enslavement, and murder of everyone who believes differently. Threatening to close your border to incoming foreigners is nothing like like closing yo…

The best quote I heard about the refugees is "they're fleeing the same problems and people you're worried about". I really hope we can protect refugees better than we have been. Th…

btw, I'm a supporter of unlimited (ie, not limited - I would try to encourage you to not need it though) welfare to let society say "tough" things such as "Oh well, I guess we don'…

Fwiw, not trusting climate science is like not trusting geological sciences. But sure, if you don't trust someone from the 'warming' camp, get a 'status-quo' camp person to check t…

It's more like morality is unchanged (Justify something other than: 'do unto others', without falling back on an obviously illogical subjective value system) but society's dirty ex…

I truly hope so, that means Amazon ad-networks' ads are hurting Amazon. Internalizing the externality of spam and privacy violations. Haven't you ever wish for a 'Punch Advertiser'…

I dislike the idea of government secrecy at all, but the scientists have a better case for keeping their emails secret than negotiators did to keep the TPP treaty details secret.

"Work with experts" the way you already work with accountants, lawyers, etc. Hire two and have one check the other. And no, it's not unreasonable to expect a non-technical person t…