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Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by Dylan16807 »

fragmede wrote: post #546
TomatoCo wrote: post #544

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A cop telling you it's okay to do something, and then getting arrested for it, might be one of the only times you can correctly claim entrapment.

So all Jessie Pinkman's got to do is ask the under cover police if it's okay to sell them meth and then they can't be arrested for it? Entrapment is reserved for the police going above and beyond, eg "sell me meth or I'll kill your dog" where it can be argued that the entrapped normally would not do the crime.

> So all Jessie Pinkman's got to do is ask the under cover police if it's okay to sell them meth and then they can't be arrested for it?

No, this is about on duty police in uniform saying it's okay.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by whycome »

fragmede wrote: post #238
whycome wrote: post #148

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I fully expect Apple to release the airTag in different form factors. They can then also sell a whole bunch of new accessories. A 'pen' form factor with replaceable AAAA battery might be perfect for myself.

They've licensed the technology, so you can get an airtag in, eg, the form factor of a credit card.

These options exist?? That seems like a better option for wallets.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by fragmede »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #581
fragmede wrote: post #546

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So all Jessie Pinkman's got to do is ask the under cover police if it's okay to sell them meth and then they can't be arrested for it? Entrapment is reserved for the police going above and beyond, eg "sell me meth or I'll kill your dog" where it can be argued that the entrapped normally would not do the crime.

> So all Jessie Pinkman's got to do is ask the under cover police if it's okay to sell them meth and then they can't be arrested for it? No, this is about on duty police in uniform saying it's okay.

Don't you know the other rule of drug dealing? If you ask an undercover cop if they're an undercover cop, they have to tell you the truth? it's against the rules for them to lie about it.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by to11mtm »

anamexis wrote: post #292
to11mtm wrote: post #226

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TBH your response makes me realize there's possibly a decent use case for bicycles with the right diameter tubing. > You can try a less reputable mechanic, but they're gonna be pissed when the cops come knocking asking about the stolen car sitting over there and you might not be going back there any time soon. So if you can't find and remove the air tag relatively quickly, what options do you have left? Probably make…

There's a bunch of bicycle accessories available specifically for hiding Airtags on bicycles. Under the bottle cage and under the saddle are two popular options.

> under the saddle

Bruh depending on where you live that means you get to track the saddle on a bike with no seat.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by webninja »

MikeRichardson wrote: post #566
mrguyorama wrote: post #509

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>that's three meals a day, somewhere warm to sleep I don't know why people always parrot this like a fact. Plenty of prisons serve only two woefully inadequate meals a day (like, Fyre festival sandwich levels of inadequate) and prisons generally have atrocious climate control. In the southern states, they don't have air conditioning and it gets genuinely dangerous for the prisoners. Some jurisdictions give the Warden…

> any dollar they don't spend, they get to KEEP I'd love a source on that.

I’ll give you a too-big-to-be-illegal example. Geogroup, now named CoreCivic. It’s the largest owner of private prisons and jails in the US. They, along with other private prison corporations, engage in far more corruption than just pocketing the extra change though. They actively lobby legislators for mandatory minimum sentences and other law changes so that America can continue to be a world leader in the highest percentage of prisoners per capita.

Their 2024 revenue was $2B.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by Alupis »

bagels wrote: post #553
Alupis wrote: post #533

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Suburbs. We get 84 squad cars showing up for noise complaints... Many larger cities don't have the budget to provide adequate police coverage. So you get this sort of "best effort" response. This is made worse with recent years of "defund the police" policies creeping into some of our larger cities. It just reinforces the Pro 2A community's saying - when seconds matter, help is just minutes away.

I live in "Suburbs" I have never seen 84 police cars respond to anything, even school shootings.

Maybe try living in actual suburbs, not "Suburbs"?

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by lobsterthief »

ianferrel wrote: post #107
MisterTea wrote: post #80

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Well look at in in terms of batteries deposited per year in the landfill: 0.1 or 1.

Two AA batteries is about 16 cm^3 of waste. 10 CR2032s is about 10 cm^3. "Number of batteries" is not the right thing to measure. Maybe volume isn't either, but it's got to be closer.

Probably volume and type of toxic materials are the best metrics

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by Slava_Propanei »

transcriptase wrote: post #479
kleton wrote: post #438

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What kind of anarcho-tyranny is that?

Wait until you hear about Canada. The crown will ruin your life by dragging you through the courts for years for something like that, then drop the charges when it’s obvious they’re going to lose as to not set any precedent to be used against them in the future.

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Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by elzbardico »

bagels wrote: post #394
elzbardico wrote: post #172

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A lot of those thiefs are not hardened criminals, because the payoff for this kind of crime is usually a small fraction of the actual value of the things stolen. Most of time it is the average wimpy addict and the reason he resort to this kind of criminal activity is preciselly because he is not ready for the violent potential of more profitable criminal activities. If you relativelly fit, and have some experience wi…

It is actually pretty stupid to try to recover things. I knew a guy that tried to stop someone from stealing his neighbor's car stereo. He was extremely fit, young, and a fighter. That didn't stop him from getting stabbed to death by the thief. You can decide your life is worth a $100 car stereo, but I know mine is worth more than that.

For the individual, maybe. For the society as a whole we could with a little more people taking risks.
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