orbenn

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by orbenn 7y ago
Happy? :)
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by orbenn 8y ago
In that case you're robbing the people who own the corporation (shareholders). They're the victims, not the corporation itself. A corporation is owned by people. It is not "made of" people like some grotesque colossus.
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by orbenn 8y ago
If you get in a car accident, no one counts your car as a victim. This is the same thing.
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Whitehouse petition to update the PACER system for the modern web(wh.gov)
1 points by orbenn 14y ago|0 comments
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by orbenn 14y ago
"Unfortunately, we can't just order a batch and inject Bertrand. We need to get FDA approval, and we'll need Genzyme's cooperation. Even though his disease is life-threatening, his seizures are worsening and he continues to lose white matte
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by orbenn 14y ago
A lot of people assume that making all research that included federal grant money free to the public would be unilaterally good. I like the idea in general because I actually like to read scientific papers sometimes, but my primary interest
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by orbenn 15y ago
At first I was annoyed that you spelled shemales wrong, but then I tried reading it again.
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by orbenn 15y ago
Didn't work for me in Chrome, but it worked in IE. Figures eh?
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by orbenn 15y ago
What is SOPA and why should you care about it? Short serious video: http://youtu.be/1ngRPuXpCIw Long sarcastic video with a British accent: http://youtu.be/JhwuXNv8fJM
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Whitehouse.gov petition to veto SOPA(wwws.whitehouse.gov)
497 points by orbenn 15y ago|81 comments
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by orbenn 15y ago
What's SOPA and why is vetoing it important? Short serious video: http://youtu.be/1ngRPuXpCIw Long video with lots of sarcasm and a great British accent: http://youtu.be/JhwuXNv8fJM
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by orbenn 15y ago
Real drug lords are part of the 1%. Most 1%'ers only work in one industry or a few related ones. US policy is less about who would benefit from legalization (everyone) and more about who would suffer. If prohibition were ended there would
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by orbenn 15y ago
The US police/government/courts are less corrupt and have more resources to crack down on the more visible violence. There is more violence in America than most people realize. It's considered mundane so you don't see it in the news as much
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by orbenn 15y ago
If we assume drug lords are in it for the money and/or power they'd cut their losses ASAP. For any of them that are really in it for the thrills the time would depend on their reserves, but I doubt it'd last longer than a few months for any
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by orbenn 15y ago
True. Luckily it's a much smaller market to begin with since most of the population drinks and only a relatively small fraction is interested in drugs besides marijuana. I'm not really worried about the employment angle because cartel jobs
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by orbenn 15y ago
They'd have the capacity for a moment, but they'd have lost their primary source of income. Human trafficking and extortion don't come anywhere near the risk/reward ratio or volume of drugs. Some of the cartels would go legit to become drug
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by orbenn 15y ago
Legalize all drugs and all of this ends tomorrow in the blink of an eye.
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by orbenn 15y ago
That would be true if owning bitcoins had intrinsic value, but they only have value in terms of the things they can purchase, so no. Bitcoin maturity will actually cause bitcoins to decrease in value as inflation in the rest of the economy
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by orbenn 15y ago
This is stupid. If the elephant is going to be shot by a warden anyway, WHY NOT let some rich american shoot it? Why does it matter WHO shoots the elephant? It doesn't! If you want to argue about whether the elephant SHOULD have been killed
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by orbenn 16y ago
And from what I hear Boxxy is the queen of /b/ http://images2.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/4642541/QUEEN-OF...
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by orbenn 16y ago
this is the kinda thing that makes you think "shit, I've gotta teach myself to use proxies and then sign up!" I mean, who doesn't want to be part of something that's specifically directed ONLY by what's the most fun?