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So previously, there was a law that said "it is a felony to carry a firearm in public, except as follows...", or something to that effect.

Now there is no such law.

I sincerely don't understand how you can view the removal of a law as "bigger government."

What gun laws do you think Idahoans, of all people, want to see expanded?

You're mistaken. The KLM plane took off when it was not cleared, and they collided at 260km/h.

Has there ever been any successful privately issued non-backed non-crypto currency?

They'll just move to another platform. If Google banning such content is good, isn't passing laws to require websites to ban such content better?

Musk says he anticipates this being a public-private partnership.

>If public opinion continues to move in that direction then sure, regulation will get stricter. That's the way it should be.

To many of us, that's akin to suggesting that freedom of speech should be curtailed if public sentiment is against it.

We really do see arms as a basic human right, right up there with speech and religion and assembly.

This is a terrible idea. Leaving aside the backstop issues, your living room does not have sufficient ventilation to safely shoot relationally.

>I think it's much more important to manage the access to ammunition. After all, a gun is only actually dangerous when it's loaded. Sure, a gun that isn't loaded can still be used to threaten people (because even then it demands attention and the utmost respect) or even pistol-whip them. But it is very unlikely to be used to kill anyone or anything.

This isn't really workable. One of the primary ways criminal gangs acquire firearms here in the US is through "straw purchases", where they have someone with a clean record go purchase a gun for them.

This works fairly well for them, but has its limits: if guns you've purchased later turn up in crimes, you're likely to face pointed questions. You can't do this too often without putting yourself at serious risk.

But straw purchases of ammunition are almost impossible to track. If the buyer is asked to account for their ammunition, they can simply claim to have shot it all already.

Meanwhile, it adds great expense to ammunition (My local stores mark up their ammo nearly 100% already, and it will become worse next January once it's illegal for me to order ammunition online). And because criminals actually use very little ammunition, this cost falls almost entirely on legitimate target shooters and hunters, who are the ones shooting tens of thousands of rounds a year.

These maps literally show Atlantis resurfacing out of the middle of the Atlantic ocean.

Earth stays far, far more hospitable than Mars even after absolutely colossal asteroid impacts.

The entrance is V shaped, and is fitted with pumps at the bottom.

The vault is 130m above sea level. It's not going to flood even if the arctic and antarctic both melt entirely.

The Soviets kinda spoiled it for everyone when they smeared one of their reactors all over Northwest Canada.

I don't know why you would use an RTG instead of conventional fission reactors.

Would admin@spamcop.net be more effective?

Asking about bubble sort is a terrible question, though. Bubble sort is a bad algorithm by virtually every measure relative to the alternatives. You might as well ask candidates to implement bogo sort.

If you pull the loops of a standard shoelace knot, you wind up with a square knot. Do the same with Ian's secure shoelace knot and you wind up with a surgeon's knot.

Doesn't affect my logic. Tragedy of the commons.

I'm curious, were these actual truffle dishes? Or were they simply flavored with truffle oil? Because truffle oil, is by most accounts, awful.

True. But their car seemingly has not been located; that suggests they didn't stop at a well frequented trailhead.

One possible scenario is that they suffered a mechanical breakdown in a remote road or wash, similar to the Death Valley Germans. If they had, say, a 5 gal jug of water in their car (as one should, if headed into the desert), they could survive much longer if they remained with the car, did not eat, and did not exert themselves.

Priority obviously needs to be locating the car, which aerial searches are pretty good for.

Merely being aware of the tragedy of the commons won't make it go away.

Thanks. Obviously not a format I play.

Kind of.

Standard is the most popular format, and has the lowest power level of the major constructed formats. Cards are only legal in standard for about 1 year. Most cards that are played in standard aren't powerful enough for Modern, Legacy, or Vintage, so once they rotate out of standard, their value drops.

Siege Rhino, for instance, lost 80% of its peak value by the time it rotated out in April.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Khans+of+Tarkir/Siege+Rhin...

Modern is funny. It's non-rotating, but has a fairly aggressive ban list. No big deal if you play casually, but it's possible to drop $1-2k on a T1 deck, only to have a key card banned a year or two later, or for the meta to shift and your deck to be hated out of the format.

Legacy, Vintage, and EDH are generally more stable.

Yes.

I like Netrunner because I feel you're less constrained by your draws. You can run aggressively with an empty board, forcing the corp to spend money on their defenses. You can spend actions digging for cards you need.

Draws still matter, of course, but it's less common for me to feel like I'm trying to top-deck answers in Netrunner.

The modern stack is so much more sane than the old batch based system. You can still do plenty of interesting things with it, like casting Blessed Alliance during the end of combat step to get rid of Giest of Saint Traft, or casting Infernal Tutor, then holding priority and cracking a Lion's Eye Diamond, or responding to an O-ring trigger with another O-ring for a permanent exile, or burning somebody out in responding to a lethal mana-barbs trigger.

Netrunner is very interactive.

Parent was referring to duel decks, which are a specific product. I agree with them: proxying a $10 deck is generally a waste of your time.

Generally speaking, the cheap decks people start the game with aren't very interesting to pilot. They don't have enough removal, which is one of the primary ways players interact with their opponent's board. They definitely don't have boardwipes, which means just playing the best creature in hand each turn is usually the right play. They typically don't have much card selection. And most complexity is concentrated at higher rarities, so these decks tend to have simple cards.

That's not to say that all cheap decks are boring, or all tournament decks are interesting, but cards like, say, Duskwatch Recruiter, Dromoka's Command, or Despise, for example, just offer more choices than Craw Wurms or Grizzly Bears.

Regarding what others have said:

Damage not going on the stack was a good change IMO. Sacrificing Mogg Fanatic was always the right play; now it's less obvious. I agree with akud on detention sphere vs. O-ring.

Hexproof over Shroud was a mistake; with that said, they seem to have figured that out, and we're getting cards like Pristine Skywise or Dragonlord Ojutai instead.

I'm sad to see Protection be replaced by Indestructible. Morph/Manifest and DFCs show that they're not entirely shying away from complex mechanics.

Absurd results aren't what you want, since they're readily dismissed as localized, and people could believe that hacking had no effect on the overall result. You want to prove that hacking took place, but subtly, so that people can imagine it was widespread.

More effective would be to preselect a precise number of votes for a few machines in a swing state, with totals just 3-4 percentage points higher than what polling indicates for that precinct. Email a few journalists before the election: "I'm a engineer working to hack the election for Clinton, but I'm sickened by it and I want to blow the whistle... attached are encrypted tallies for the voting machines we compromised in precinct XXX. I know we have a team in YYY and I think in ZZZ, but I wasn't able to get data for those machines out. Decryption keys will follow Nov 15th."