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Comment Re:Co-Conspirators? (Score 2, Insightful) 188

Bullshit. The courts only "agree" because he took a plea bargain. You can't actually take anything of value from that, esepcially in a country where the law is structured to allow major trumping up of charges if one refuses to take a deal.... even people who believe they are innocent often plead guilty in the face of that.

Comment Re:Don't plead guilty (Score 2) 188

ROTFL you mean an underpaid, overworked public defender who doesn't barely have time to actually represent you? yah that works real well. Public defeders are barely adequet for a plea bargain most of the time. Shit a friend of mine had one and when he sat down with her she hadn't even bothered to look at his case.

This "justice system" is 99% scam jobs program

Comment Re:Don't plead guilty (Score 5, Insightful) 188

reminds me a lot of a guy who lives in NH. He was a pot dealer who was a member of a local political group that the feds wanted to keep tabs on. So what did they do? They offered a heroin dealer a wrist slap if he would help nail the pot dealer.

The pot dealer gets nabbed, and told he will be given a sweetheart deal if he spys on the policitcal group...he says no so they railroad the fuck out of him to make an example of what happens when you don't act like the sniveling peon you are.

Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 677

I guess one needs to actually work for you to find out why its crap.

I don't work with C much but generally speaking, that looks really clear and easy to follow to me. The case
itself may be simple enough to use a return statement directly in place of the goto but, if you needed to do any further massaging of the output that was common to all/most return paths, that goto seems like a fine way to do it to me....or do you want to put that in yet another function and let the compiler handle optimizing/inlining if need be?

Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 677

I was wondering that too, but, there is another one.... what if the real issue was simply Djikstra's underestimation of how obvious the pitfalls with goto are.

Its easy to accidentally cut yourself with a knife, its also easy to see the danger and most people learn to use one without cutting themselves pretty quickly. The pitfalls are easy to see, and making mistakes causes pain.... much like Goto.

The problems with it are easy to see if you just use it a few times. I learned to use goto in applesoft basic, after my first session of learning C, it was obvious I would never want to use goto again.

In fact, after learning a bit of C, it was far less obvious that I would want goto at all than that I would generally not.

Comment Re:Projector (Score 1) 330

You know, I never gave it too muich thought but, I have really good vision (better than 20/20). So while I have never been up close and personal with a real movie house screen, from my seat, with the projector off, I have noticed they seem to not be flat white but appear to have lots of holes in them. I wonder now if what I was noticing was some feature fordealing with contrast.

Comment Somewhat but no. (Score 1) 135

Actually the numbers themselves are almost meaningless but are a nice general gauge, especially when they are user reviews.

The correct way, I think, to use them is to look for a few high scores, and then read the low and medium score reviews. Are the 1 star reviews people who don't even like this type of game? Thats actually a GOOD sign of a decent game.

Are the 1 star reviews complaining about bugs and play control? Watch out.

Overall though, after checking this stuff out, I almost always watch at least the first 5-10 minutes of gameplay walkthrough before deciding to buy. I hate being duped by cutscenes.

Comment Re:Good get his accomplices too (Score 1) 327

Sure but that 62% isn't exactly justifying their existance either....in fact.... it points to a deeper reason why we shouldn't have them.... the people who decide what is and isn't law, and who decide when they get used or not, those people are clearly not responsible enough to have such an ability at their disposal.

Comment Re:Silk Road did sell weapons, ID theft (Score 2, Insightful) 79

Well forged IDs are not necessarily used for a crime with a victim, they don't have to be in a real persons name, and if a bank account is all thats opened well. A person using a fake id to rent servers, who pays up front for the service isn't victimizing anyone.

As for weapons....lol I wonder if any were even sold. I bet that entire darkweb site was just cops buying stuff from cops trying to sting eachother.

Also, weapons are a persons right to bear, the US constitution recognizes that as a right more fundamental than itself saying the right "will not be infringed". So as long as he is being tried in the US, any weapons charge would be hypocritical and unconstitutional (which of course, means it will happen because, we are not actually a nation of laws)

Comment Re: Totally not thriving (Score 3, Insightful) 79

Only thing I ever bought on such a site myself was some hard to find but otherwise legal (might have been amt? been a while). These drugs tend to move in darker circles because they are legal to posess but not to sell "for human consumption", and tend to be made illegal once they get discovered, that is, if they get at all popular.

Same experience though, saw product, placed order, sent bitcoin.....got product as advertised.

Comment Re:Tor Project Should take some responsibility (Score 3, Insightful) 79

Bullshit. I ran an exit node for quite a while and look at me, posting here, with no convictions for anything other than driving with a license I didn't realize had expired (which, IMO is a petty thing to haul a person into court over, the entire justice system really is a jobs program).

So nice try but, the only reason I stopped running an exit node was the hassle involved from anti-spammers. Even though my exit node didn't allow exit on port 25 or any other mail related ports except pop and imap.... even though.... sometimes the operators of other mail servers get a bug in their ass about accepting mail from a tor exit node.

Comment Re:Super idea! (Score 1) 175

But he is an american, the only thing illegal is to be charged with a crime by a prosecutor. He doesn't even need to do anything for that, shit, he could be killled for "resisting arrest" without even a reason for the original arrest, just that he "resisted" (having skin tension for the bullet to break probably enough resistance too)

So does it really matter when we aren't even a nation of laws arguing what the law may or may not be? I mean its fun to pretend we have a justice system and laws but, lets be honest, they don't actually matter. If they want to kill you or imprison you they will whether you did anything or not, and if they don't want to imprison you, it doesn't matter if you tossed a flashbang in a childs crib....you are not guilty of anything.

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 77

Except the experience I have had seems enough like his description, and enough different to think maybe its different in different areas. Last time I used a cab it was about half as he said, they operate exactly as they have since the 70s, its a manual call in operation and if they are busy it just rings because the other end is just a guy taking calls and dispatching...for the 4 cab companies that all have the same address and phone number in my city.

OTOH I have only once had a cabbie who didn't know where to go without needing a GPS.

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