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Comment Couldn't have happened. (Score -1, Troll) 569

It appears the swatting victim here was a white male gamer. I have it on good authority that white male gamers are always the perpetrators and never the victims. Therefore this story is a fabrication of the patriarchy meant to distract from the horrors being inflicted on women and people of color. Like being mentioned on twitter.

Comment Re:Oh, *BRILLIANT* (Score 1) 317

While it makes sense to have the Authorities to look at and interview the victim^Hsoftware tester, putting a 72 hour mental health hold on someone is hard.

No it isn't, at least not in Pennsylvania. You just need a mental health professional to sign a paper saying the person is a danger to themselves or others

Comment Re:2 substantial reasons to not allow cloning (Score 1) 172

No, insubstantial difference. That is, if the "bloodline" is a shorthand for real physical things, cloning does not break it. If it's some sort of nonphysical woo, sure, cloning could break it, but nonphysical woo isn't real.

If they want to make arbitrary rules for their horse-breeding game, I'm fine with that. But I'm not going to pretend they're anything but arbitrary rules.

Comment Re:Of course! (Score 4, Informative) 305

Appears to be false; the statistic of 40% relates to the percentage of American men who have been arrested by age 23, not the percentage of working-age Americans with a criminal record. It includes juvenile arrests for status offenses (e.g. truancy, underaged drinking) and also arrests for which there was no conviction.

I've been arrested (twice, even), and I do not have a "criminal record". First arrest all charges were dropped and the arrest record expunged, second arrest was for a matter not rising to the level of a criminal offense (NYC ordinance "violation"); I took adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (does not require an admission of guilt).

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