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I read the article. He robbed 4 people, with a handgun. The robbery for which he got caught he tapped a person with a gun and waved it around, demanding more and more.

"Then Michael asked for his wallet. When he found that it was empty, he tossed it back into the car. Then, as the police report recounted, Michael “tapped Smith’s left knee with the gun and said he was going to take the car.” "

It's misleading to classify this--as the relatives do--as an "attempted car jacking". It's not like he said "give me your car", got a no answer, and walked away. This was an armed robbery.

His family seems angry at the "white" neighbors who called the police and when he robbed them as a youth. But it's early interventions like this that _should_ have served as a warning sign to his family. It didn't. They're just angry that someone would dare call the police for an $11 robbery.

Not if your source if income isn't there, or if needed amenities aren't nearby.

"Housing" and the housed population that lives within my city (Sunnyvale) is not a net negative.

> In fact, you're benefiting through increasing home values (for which you are not taxed due to Prop. 13)

This is completely untrue. I have a house in 94087 where I live about 7 months/year (the other 5 months are in Tel Aviv, where it's also very expensive!) I own the house, bought in in 1989. I don't benefit at all from increased house prices. It just makes everything more expensive.

And even under Prop 13, my property tax goes up 2% a year. That's more than inflation.

I don't benefit at all from the "increased value" in my house. If I could, I'd tear down the house and build a 2-family house on the property. But even if zoning laws allowed it, the house would be reassessed at current market value, and it wouldn't be worth it to pay $32,000/year in property taxes alone. (I've looked into this to the extent of hiring a real-estate lawyer to see if it's feasible).

If there were no prop 13, people would be forced out of their homes because specu-vesters would drive the prices up making just the taxes affordable.

The solution is to BUILD MORE HOUSES. Build apartment buildings. Close by so people can walk or take existing mass transit to work. And allow people with single family homes to tear them down and build 2-family homes without being reassessed.

True, but the most likely cause is hemorrhoids! Still, this should never, ever, be ignored.

Oh we know why! It's just not acceptable to talk about it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3311490/

Asking people to take responsibility for this one simple thing is taboo.

(I have a Colonoscopy just last week as part of a routine exam at my age. The procedure really isn't that bad. A couple hours on the toilet during the prep, and that's about the worst of it).

Quite a bit! A number of discussions in the Hebrew Bible:

https://torahlive.com/articles/halacha-teachers-articles/201...

It's called "Pe'ah" (corner) and it's in the Hebrew Bible.

See http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/961516/jewish/...

It applies to grain harvest and fruit trees and is taken very seriously here in Israel.

Sometimes sites are "punished" for aggressive / misleading "SEO" tactics.

Ahh! Violet! I miss her.

I saw all sorts of attempts to pwn me when I was there this year!

Exactly. I don't think the guy who said "nobody uses a burner phone" has ever been to DEFCON. And given that phones cost $10.00 why not?

If people are on iPhones, they're on their old one.

Most people at Defcon use a "burner phone" (a cheap supermarket feature-phone) while there. Nobody who is sane would turn on their work phone anywhere near the Defcon conference. I go there every year with a throwaway phone and laptop.

So nobody will see a text message in a timely manner, unless they knew the burner phone number.