Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

Post by zapdrive » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 12:52 PM UTC

mschwaig wrote: post #62

'So we have these fingerprints, and we think they belong to this guy we already have prints on file for. Can you give us a yes/no answer if they match up?' seems like a pretty low bar for evidence. Seems like the kind of thing that could heavily skew towards telling you what you want to hear. Maybe someone else knows if it actually works like that, the writeup made it sound like that to me. I'm just some guy who saw…

Post by jokethrowaway » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 12:53 PM UTC

bunfunton wrote: post #42

aristophenes wrote: post #16

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I can partially understand that point of view for marijuana (though I think it’s important for a functional society to obey laws, and get them changed if they aren’t working instead of just breaking them based on personal preference). But the guy had been selling methamphetamine too, which is life destroying poison. Our government provides costly services for people who are incapable of taking care of themselves, and…

Meth isn’t life destroying poison sorry to inform you. I take 10mg for ADHD a day and it’s saved my life when all other alternatives have failed. I would argue the bad cases you’ve seen are from people with no self control. Why should the government be able to tell you what you can and cannot put into your own body? Better, let people do what they want as long as they don’t hurt anybody else and educate them.

Post by seibelj » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 12:58 PM UTC

kingkawn wrote: post #77

jokethrowaway wrote: post #73

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I think it would be great to remove social safety nets and a war on drugs. Social safety nets are just forcefully taking money from people creating value in society, taking a fee to keep alive government bureaucrats, and give the rest to people who don't produce value. It's an incentive to not create value and a disincentive to do so. If you want to donate to people in need, feel free to do it, just don't force the e…

Your position is fascism.

Post by jokethrowaway » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

kingkawn wrote: post #77

jokethrowaway wrote: post #73

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I think it would be great to remove social safety nets and a war on drugs. Social safety nets are just forcefully taking money from people creating value in society, taking a fee to keep alive government bureaucrats, and give the rest to people who don't produce value. It's an incentive to not create value and a disincentive to do so. If you want to donate to people in need, feel free to do it, just don't force the e…

Your position is fascism.

Post by 3131s » Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 1:01 PM UTC

hunter2_ wrote: post #92

jasoneckert wrote: post #78

What I find the most interesting about this article is that someone was able to be identified using a picture of their fingerprints. Thus, any photos posted online could be scoured for identification information. And with computer vision technologies becoming more mature, it means that regular video footage of people could identify them the same way in seconds or less using a wide variety of different visual traits.…

I wouldn't be surprised if writing style could also be used. I tend to use certain constructions and vocabulary across many of my comments. Some are under a handle with little or no link to my real identity, and some are quite the opposite. I expect someone could deanonymize the former based on correlation of writing style with the latter.