Pinckney

The UK does it too:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/apr/25/prostitution...

> In November 2008, 20 police officers broke down Finch's front door and searched her house, taking £700 from her purse that she says had been put aside to pay the mortgage. Her laptop computer, mobile phone, driving licence and passport were also taken. No receipt was given.

> Under the Proceeds of Crime Act, the police keep 25% of any assets confiscated from raids, the Crown Prosecution Service keeps another 25%, and the Inland Revenue the rest.

http://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/...

> The burden of proof is reversed so people have to prove that any money they have was not earned through “criminal activity”

I agree that the 12th amendment doesn't allow states to void the faithless elector's vote, but it would be constitutionally permissible for them to criminalize faithless voting, would it not?

"Doomsday planning for less crazy folks" is pretty good:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

I don't think that's correct. The March 9/10 attack on Tokyo killed 88,000-100,000 people, but was an anomaly. Japanese civil defense forces adapted, and casualties were much less in later raids. A firebombing attack on Hiroshima in September probably would not have killed more than 10,000.

Regardless of whether or not they should be treated differently, the regulations as they stand now do treat them differently. If you don't like that, the solution is to change that, not to creatively interpret "wire fraud" to mean anything a jury decides is bad.

Someone linked the complaint in the comments below.

Then call your representative and tell them to pass a law that makes e-cigarettes illegal.

"IT'S NOT RICO, DAMMIT": https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...

Very few of us who own guns actually want this tech, for a variety of reasons:

* The reliability isn't there. These are weapons. They need to fire in an emergency, when the trigger is pulled, 100% of the time, or as close as is possible. Fingerprint readers don't work 100% of the time, or even close.

One of the major trends in handgun design over the last 40 years has been the adoption of striker fired guns without manual safeties. They are enormously popular. Many people are buying them because they don't want to worry about disengaging a manual safety when grappling with someone, or while injured, and while dealing with an adrenaline dump. A fingerprint reader even less reliable.

The litmus test is probably whether or not you can get police to adopt these. They're more likely to draw their guns, and likely to do so at close range, and if you can somehow make them reliable enough to satisfy police, then ordinary people are likely to start buying them too. But I don't think Police are anywhere close to accepting these.

* Nobody expects them to survive long. Guns are some of the most durable consumer goods you can buy today. With proper care, they'll easily last decades if not centuries. Consumer electronics, on the other hand, rarely survive long. I don't want to buy a gun that will be a brick in 20 years.

Optics tend to have a shorter lifespan, and gun owners accept that as a trade off because it gives them something far more capable than iron sights. And most people still opt to have back-up iron sights so that a dead battery doesn't render their gun useless. But a fingerprint reader doesn't offer much in exchange for the problems it brings.

* A large fraction of firearm purchases are by hobbyists who already own multiple guns. Smart guns aren't interesting to us, since we already need to come up with a way to secure all our other guns.

* There is a fear that once smart guns come on the market, they'll be the only thing we're allowed to buy. (New Jersey actually passed such a law in 2002). Because of this, anyone who tries to develop such a gun faces backlash. S&W tried, and the ensuing boycott nearly bankrupted the company.

* Finally, only about 1% of firearm deaths are accidental. The overwhelming majority of firearm deaths involve someone deliberately shooting themselves or others.

Falfurrias is 90 miles from the border.

The article I linked reports 1500 citizens were held for some period of time on federal detainers or in immigration detention centers over a 9 year period.

This happens constantly. Davino Watson was held by ICE for over three years.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...

Wikipedia claims glide ratios of 1:1 with efficient tracking. You'll still hit with a 90mph vertical speed, and I suspect you will compromise your ability to land on a soft point target.

Myself, I think landing head-first sounds like the best plan.

It died without a vote, and thus it's not even clear from the article who I ought to be calling and yelling at. Chiu? Presumably he pulled it because of pressure from others. Is there some way for me, as a voter, to determine which individual legislators are to blame?

The US government accepts payment for taxes in USD. Even if an American wants nothing to do with USD, and conducts all their exchanges through bartering, they will need to acquire some at some point in order to make tax payments. The value of USD can't fall to 0 as long as the federal government retains the ability to impose taxes.

Why is it that we only convict a single person of a crime?

If we accept, for the sake of argument, that we should be willing to send innocent people to prison as a deterrent, and we have three people who might have committed a given crime (with probability p=.3, .3, and .4, respectively, say), then perhaps we should send all three of them to prison as a deterrent?

I don't see why police can't simply use civil asset forfeiture seize an entire warehouse, just like they seize homes from owners who might not know that another resident was selling drugs out of it. Proving that the owner knew of the crime isn't necessary to seize an instrument of crime.

11.3 ppb would be 1.2ug per burger then, right?

> For extrajudicial killing, the US comes in a notorious third place, after Mexico and Brazil, particularly because of lethal force used by police against African Americans and other people of color.

Obviously, the US is not the 3rd worst country in the world for extrajudicial killings. What the author chooses to omit is that the report only includes data for 20 countries in this measurement.

https://data.humanrightsmeasurement.org/en/metric/extrajud-k...

Beyond that, the data used by the study is literally just a poll of non-academic human rights advocates.

https://humanrightsmeasurement.org/methodology/measuring-civ...

Personally, I'm angry as hell about a lot of things the US does civil rights wise, but the methodology and the article here are both garbage and I would be embarrassed to use either as support of an argument.

Look for an 18mm Nato strap. It looks like Clockwork Synergy makes them with the nylon keeper, if that's important to you.

You would use she/her pronouns for trans women, and he/him pronouns for trans men. Just treat trans women as you would any other woman, and trans men as you would any other man.

Generally people who prefer neutral pronouns will identify as nonbinary, genderqueer, or perhaps transmasculine or transfeminine, (although not all people who so identify prefer neutral pronouns) and you might need to ask them for their preference.

The shareholders should bear the consequences of failure, just as they reap the rewards of success.

Electrochemical machining also looks like a promising way to rifle barrels at home without specialized equipment, and can in theory be assembled with other 3d printed components.

/r/Motorcycles had this posted a couple days ago:

https://i.redd.it/59jp81szfdy21.jpg

A bicyclist likely would have lost their legs, if they survived at all.

Meanwhile, the risk of lanesplitting is that might sideswipe somebody and need to pay to get their paint fixed.

The Daily Mail is rubbish.

The old videos are still up, but they mostly stopped uploading new videos to it a while back. It was discussed in the January Q&A. They're still uploading to bitchute and full30.

The article talks about Columbine because it's the 20th anniversary and they need to fit it in, but my perception is that lockdown drills didn't become popular more recently. They cite numbers from 2016... do they have numbers for 1999-2016?

My admittedly cynical suspicion is that this has more to do with a shift in gun control strategy and less to do with safety. In the 90s, pre-Heller, gun control efforts mostly focused on handguns using the threat of street crime. With crime rates way down and handgun bans nonviable, gun control efforts have shifted to focus on semi-auto rifles using the threat of mass shootings. Lockdown drills keep children and parents fearful, which encourages voters to support gun control, even though mass shootings are statistically quite rare.

Even if they were semi, many popular optics are restricted by ITAR.

Won't this lead to a lot of lightweight material (particularly bits of the bags themselves) blowing off the landfill surface before they can be buried?

Doesn't India actually have a fairly low Gini index? Lower than any country in South or Latin America, save Uruguay.