I have an application for this where I'm using 365 to 395 nm older style to attract bugs efficiently.

Come on, give us a few details. Are you collecting the bugs for research or are you using the lights as bait for your backyard zapper? Or are you collecting bugs to feed to your pet iguanas?

That's too tantalizing a statement for you not to tell us a little more.

Have you seen Win10 preview, or at least read some reviews and look at the screenshots? Because it is exactly what it is about... I mean, the most obvious change that you see once you install Win10 over Win8 is that the Start menu is back. Other changes include things like Metro apps actually running in resizable windows, and the "charm bar" is gone, and all the actions are integrated into the window title bar. Etc... basically, all things Metro are desktopified.

At long last, business is booming!

Besides, what assets does Mandriva have? The name? Not worth anything.

All he did was facilitate transactions among consenting adults.

Illegal transactions. And he got a cut from every deal made.

So arrest and prosecute the federal agent for attempted murder. He's the one who should be in jail. Not Ulbricht.

You don't think facilitating the transaction for a hitman for a percentage of the price should be a crime?

Remember, Ulbricht got a cut of the money for every single drug transaction on Silk Road. It's as if he bought a downtown building and rented it out to drug dealers (and hit men) and got a cut for every single transaction.

I know there's a belief that the Internet is a magical place where laws should not apply, because it's digital!, but that's just not how it works.

They generally don't print coupons for the first example - they just lower the price and advertise it.

Loss leaders are unethical. I can't justify them, and I'm not lured in by them. I understand how they work, why they work, and I avoid them.

Not zero, but yes, Russia is kinda lagging behind on these things. Not even just fancy stuff like thermal or NVD, but even just plain optics or red dot and holo sights (just for giggles, look up the battery life on red dot sights that are in service there, and compare to Aimpoint, or even the more expensive Chinese optics).

That's plainly not true. If you have around $5K, you can absolutely buy military grade thermal vision devices online, including eBay. Might not be the kind they put on fighter jets, exactly, but certainly the kind they issue to soldiers in the field.

They'll start slashing welfare to stabilize the budget. That's why the rhetoric about how the evil West is once again trying to destroy Russia is still in full force... so that when they start starving the more vulnerable parts of the populace, there's an established external enemy to blame.

The other option? That would be war, the ultimate excuse.

Of course #1 does not preclude #2. It might just defer it.

It's not meant to be changing minds directly. It's meant to provide a display of purported majority backing the policies, so that people who are easily swayed by the "majority must be right" argument (which are plenty) have more incentive, and to scare the minority in opposition into silence.

Weirdly there's no evidence of that claim, and the government decided not to try and prosecute for that.

Two different things. The government also decided not to charge Al Capone for murder.

The article itself mentions that five of the attempts to hire a hitman were actually scams targeted at Ulbricht

And he fell for all of them.

"Attempting to hire a hitman" is not exactly like falling for someone selling a fake Rolex in Times Square.

All he did was facilitate transactions among consenting adults.

That's what I keep saying about bookies and pimps!

Unfortunately, one of the guys with whom Ulbricht was facilitating a transaction to kill someone was a federal agent.