The AK-47 is considerably less accurate than the M-16. Granted, CS made it far worse than it needed to be. A skilled rifleman can put shots into a paper plate at 150 yards all day.

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Ah. You actually logged in this time.

I like to sign my posts. Get used to it, New Guy.

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Chicago was within the light cone from the Washington DC disclosure when those trades were made.

You're talking network latency and not relativistic reality.

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We don't know that unless we know where the order itself originated.

By waiting until the information was public, they weren't engaged in insider trading.

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Doubt and dissent aren't caused by doubt and dissent.

People respond to personalities every bit as much as they respond to the information presented.

Instead of "All of the evidence we've ever found supports the belief that natural selection leads to the evolution of new species."

A lot of trolls say things like "Evolution is real. God is fake. Darwin fucks the baby Jesus IN THE ASS! LOLOLOLOLOLOL"

In other words, being abrasive will cause people to oppose the ideas that you support, even if you're otherwise right.

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It's not illegal to possess cash. Not even large amounts of cash. If he never saw drugs, he had no actual knowledge that anything illegal was going on. His incarceration wasn't about upholding the law, it was about making an example so that next person would know that he better cooperate with the feds.

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He's most likely talking about this case.
Hits description isn't 100% accurate but he's close enough.

http://www.slashdot.org/story/184153

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I'm not having my children's DNA available to be cataloged and searched by anyone. I'll let them decide that when they're adults.

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Perhaps not but in this context, it is synonymous with "Fucks you in the ass". Which is exactly what paypal is known to do with little provocation and even less justification.

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When I was 30, I decided that the cause of the problem was less important than the solution. The pointless nonsense that I was subjected to may have made me dislike that environment but it was up to me to further my education. So, I did.

If your meetings are busywork, then you shouldn't have them. Charting, strategy sessions, recording and reporting are not busywork. They allow an organization to be sure that resources are being spent in a most constructive manner.

What yes men like you don't seem to understand is that when we're unhappy with employment, we can leave.

It has happened to me a few times. I've left over not getting a promotion or raise that I thought I deserved. (Admittedly, I'm not unbiased in this regard) I have left over unreasonably autocratic management.

While you find ways to cope with misery, we move on and find happiness.

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Which is pretty much the same response one gets from Google when you ask them to make a traditional menu bar an option in Chrome.

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My local public school nearly killed my love of learning.

I was in the gifted program and I nearly didn't graduate with my friends. Not because I couldn't learn the material or keep up, I did that and more. I quickly became bored with pointless busy work and ended up getting into trouble. I was admitted to a state school and after a terrible freshman year, I was kicked out of academic suspension.

It took until I was 30 years old for me to recover from the damage done to my love of learning as a child. Fortunately, I was able to return to college and get my B.S. and M.S. degrees in short order but I could have easily been a statistic.

So, from someone who has experience, I say fuck Allison Benedikt. Fuck her right in her stupid ass.

I can only afford to send my children to public school but I'm doing everything possible to get them into a charter school.

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People should be able to believe or disbelieve as they wish. If I have questions, I'll ask you.

I have asked questions of my Christian, Muslim and atheist friends when I was looking for clarity on their world-view. What I don't want is to have my day interrupted with proselytizing from anyone.

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We are mostly in agreement.

Obviously, hot and heavy petting. Everyone is naked. Someone says "no", that means that it's a no. No queston about that.

"You absolutely need express verbal consent, or it's rape."

I'm going to have to disagree here.

This frames sex as something that men do to women or something that women give to men as opposed to an activity between two consenting equals.

Does he have to give verbal permission for her to not have raped him?

You cannot, in one breath, argue that the sexes are equal but in another argue that the level of responsibility in sexuality is unequal.

Moreover, it doesn't address that rape is sex against someone's will, regardless of verbal statements. If the words are all that matter, putting a knife to someone's throat and making them say "yes, you have my permission to begin sex" would absolve someone of criminal liability.

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