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  1. grue
    I accepted a job offer back in the US and will be coming home next month, specifically to the SF bay area. That said, I don't yet have a place to stay while I look for an apartment or house to rent, so I'm humbly putting out a "Please, sir/ma'am?" to my fellow jumpers to see if anyone within 30 minutes or so of Richmond has a couch or piece of floor I could crash on for a short time (hopefully no more than a week or two) while I secure a place. If you have safe parking I could stuff a motorcycle into, great, but beggars can't be choosers I'm quiet, a good cook, and I'm no freeloader so let me know what you'd want in exchange! I start the position on 13 October, so I'll probably arrive on the 10th or 11th.
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    My CBR600 got stolen in February of last year, I'm -still- angry about it. Cops told me it would have been stripped down or shipped out within a matter of days, didn't even bother showing up to take a report. Ugh. cavete terrae.
  3. grue
    Candyman gonna be pissssssed… cavete terrae.
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    Down here the general rule is: the bigger the claws, the less venomous they are. Yeah well, the rule here is "if you can see it, it can kill you. If you can't see it, it's about to" cavete terrae.
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    I don't have a picture of going shopping with my girlfriend, but pretend I posted one here. cavete terrae.
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    I'm surprised that this thread has not (from what I've seen) touched much on the incentivization of hiring combat vets as police, and possible implications of that. cavete terrae.
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    What is a "drone"?

    grue replied to Elisha's topic in The Bonfire

    The sound my girlfriend and boss make when either of them want something. cavete terrae.
  8. grue
    I didn't say it proves anything. I said that if there is a god, I believe it's not all powerful, or if it is I believe that it's sadistic. It could also just get off on watching people suffer even if it doesn't actively cause the suffering. cavete terrae.
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    Until one of them goes on a killing spree that happens to include you or somebody you love. You might change your mind. It's that line of thinking that is used to pass horrible laws by exploiting fears. I am not willing to give up my life to support the illusion that our system is working, not can I expect someone else to. cavete terrae.
  10. grue
    While I appreciate your spirit, the problem I have with this is how similiar it is to returning a guilty verdict not because he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of what he was on trial for, but because he was just "A crappy person who we all felt ought to be in jail." I can understand that (your point, not the hypothetical). For me, I would always rather have a "guilty" person free than the other way around. cavete terrae.
  11. grue
    Ain't that the truth. cavete terrae.
  12. grue
    Sounds about right. I think the only disabling that would be sensible would be pre-planned with a paper trail, never after the fact cavete terrae.
  13. grue
    Yeah I suppose it's hard to afford the essentials when you're buying discounted tank, grenade launchers and drones… cavete terrae.
  14. grue
    It's not that easy, the officer should have the ability to control the video. Privacy concerns, confidentiality issues, etc. The practical technology issues as they related to departments networks. I once crashed an entire large network by storing too many video files on it. Your IT department is terrible. Officers should be able to have a supervisor or someone turn off video with a proper logged request. If they can turn off or delete to cover up malfeasance, it will happen. How many times has dash camera footage "just happened" to not be available that would exonerate someone? Sometimes it magically "reappears" later but I do not give the benefit of the doubt to the party with power to abuse. cavete terrae.
  15. grue
    Jury nullification, in fact, is one of the greatest freedoms. When the laws become tyrannical it's our duty to make sure they are fought in every way possible. I am NOT applying that to this specific case, but I can explicitly state that if I am ever on a jury for a case where someone is accused of a crime where he or she did not affect the health, liberty or property of a non-consenting adult then I am very likely going to do my best to nullify. cavete terrae.
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    I'd rather have a hundred murderers free than an innocent person in prison. cavete terrae.
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    I have found that, anecdotally, not going to shitholes has a 100% effectiveness rate in preventing losing one's head in a shithole. The more we fuck around in places that are not our problem, the more blowback we're going to have to deal with. Shitty foreign policy makes us all targets. cavete terrae.
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    Wouldn't bother me, as long as they're not impinging on my health, liberty or property (and keep the noise to a reasonable level). cavete terrae.
  19. grue
    No. I'm willing to change my mind if presented with actual scientific evidence to the contrary to an extent that it becomes the logical conclusion. That said, if there is "a god" I believe it is either not all-powerful, or is a sadistic piece of shit. cavete terrae.
  20. grue
    I'll recycle one of my previous posts on the matter: The state can and does wrongfully (and knowingly!) prosecute and get convictions of persons not guilty of the crime they are on trial for. The state cannot reverse the death penalty after it has been applied. Supporting the death penalty is thus de facto support for non-defensive homicide. I cannot support non-defensive homicide, thus I cannot support the death penalty. I'm not willing to be wrongly murdered for our shitty, fucked up system, and it would be ridiculous to expect anyone else to. _______ On top of that, the death penalty is purely based in emotion, not logic or reason, and emotion has no place in the "justice" system. cavete terrae.
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    Helps protect the police from bullshit complaints. Helps protect the public from shitty cops. Cops MUST NOT have the ability to turn off the camera or delete footage, and in cases where the camera "mysteriously" didn't work their word must be worth no more than that of the person whose accounting of events they are disputing. cavete terrae.
  22. grue
    …where babies are made, and alcohol is likely consumed. cavete terrae.
  23. grue
    The last high stakes game I raided (not a SWAT raid) had prostitutes and cocaine. It was a long time ago but the anecdotal can go both ways............... Oh NO. Not people having SEX and taking substances that only affect their own body!!!1one cavete terrae.
  24. grue
    There are myriad reasons. Finances, types of jumps, availability, reliability, and so forth. Some may apply to you, some may not. It doesn't make them any less valid of a concern for others. There's a fine line between being a concerned member of the community who wants to see people be safe, and becoming an asshole trying to impose his views on others. Yes, AADs can save lives. I'm not against them, but I'm against making them mandatory for experienced jumpers unless that decision is made at the DZO or S&TA level where jumpers can choose to take their business elsewhere if they disagree. cavete terrae.
  25. grue
    Because poor password security is everyone's problem. cavete terrae.