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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by ogre_codes »

atombender wrote: post #274
ogre_codes wrote: post #268

> The death was not immediately labeled a homicide, and a Police Department spokesman said that the medical examiner’s office would determine the cause of death. Umm. I think it's safe to rule suicide out when the corpse was dismembered with a saw.

There have been cases where people have committed crimes (often on the books as "desecration of a human corpse") while trying to cover up accidents or suicides. Not saying it's the case here, but there's no point in jumping to conclusions.

You are correct. It was a poor (and in poor taste) attempt to be snarky.

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Post by objektif »

codebolt wrote: post #222
ithinkso wrote: post #197

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Turkey has the second largest military in NATO (after US) and by quite a margin

Turkey leadership may well be sympathetic to the Saudis to some extent. Freedom of press doesn't exactly seem like their biggest concern, and they have an authoritarian Muslim ruler.

Turkey is totally not friends with Saudi Arabia right now.

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Post by theduder99 »

everybodyknows wrote: post #262
agustif wrote: post #199

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Escobar owned all taxis in Medellin

Our president's former attorney owned a taxi business: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/13/610849891/michael-cohens-trou...

how desperate are you people? its over, try again in 2024 and good luck to you!

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Post by psds2 »

dopamean wrote: post #200
Naac wrote: post #180

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Probably not. There is most likely another door once the elevator opens, that also require some sort of key.

I have several friends who live in these types of apartments and all of them have apartments where the elevator opens directly into the unit. This is a common setup.

Do residents never get in the elevator with other tenants of the building? It would feel odd to open my door to complete strangers like that just because the elevator stopped on my floor before theirs.

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Post by stickfigure »

tsimionescu wrote: post #57
slim wrote: post #34

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you'd be surprised. it seems he was getting death threats because of his business. disrupting established syndicates doing business transferring large amounts of cash everyday is risky. in France for example, taxi drivers burned Ubers in protest.

Did they burn them with the drivers inside? If not, how is that comparable to killing and dismembering a human being?

Ask Jimmy Hoffa.

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Post by katmannthree »

akimball wrote: post #276
katmannthree wrote: post #117

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>you don't get these kinds of violent reactions when you disrupt a market Only in developed countries, in a lot of the world that's actually exactly what you get when you disrupt someone's market.

I worked at a small US defense contractor for a couple of years. I was not in that loop, but my impression from those that were was that this sort of thing was to be expected if you entered into competition against the wrong incumbent.

Referring to that happening in the US too or just abroad?

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Post by josephcsible »

esoterica wrote: post #284
baddox wrote: post #278

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I think there are a lot of people who wouldn’t break a window to steal from a house but who would steal from a house if they found the door key.

I really don't think so? It's an equally serious crime either way.

You're less likely to get caught using a key than breaking a window.

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Post by jacquesm »

m-p-3 wrote: post #234
dopamean wrote: post #200

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I have several friends who live in these types of apartments and all of them have apartments where the elevator opens directly into the unit. This is a common setup.

I'd get a lobby built around that elevator with an additional locked door.. or maybe I'm too paranoid.

I'd say you're spot on. Compromising an elevator can't be the hardest thing to do computing wise. It's all actuators in the end and they really don't care what gives the signal.

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Post by jacquesm »

yardie wrote: post #174
marcinzm wrote: post #108

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>that'd be geopolitical suicide Saudi Arabia seems to be doing fine last I checked.

Saudi Arabia carried out an extrajudicial killing in a small, neighboring state. This was carried out in the US. And for all intents and purposes could be considered an act of war against a state that has an unlimited war chest.

And if the United States had an actual leader they would have taken far more action. You could easily make the case that Trump's weak foreign policy stand is what enabled this murder to happen in the first place. The Saudis felt they could get away with this and in fact they did. No repercussions whatsoever.

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Post by jacquesm »

toyg wrote: post #263
yardie wrote: post #174

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Saudi Arabia carried out an extrajudicial killing in a small, neighboring state. This was carried out in the US. And for all intents and purposes could be considered an act of war against a state that has an unlimited war chest.

A superpower doesn't go to war over an isolated assassination of (with all due respect to the victim and his family) some random rich kid. Casus belli is invoked only where there was a pre-existing ambition. I don't think the US have any ambition to take over Saudi Arabia, when they couldn't even run Iraq.

You don't need to go to war. But you certainly also don't need to defend them. See how the UK responded to the Skripal case or Litivenko.
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