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If you don't have a monopoly on violence, then you have to compete

No, its not misleading. These dudes do NOT fuck around.

I live in Pueblo, Colorado. To be exact, I live in the East Side in whats known as a barrio/ghetto/hood. If you google Fearnowville Colorado you'll see my home. I also have a LOT of experience in hospitality and F&B and have had regular personal contact with a wide variety of immigrants. My homie Santos is an illegal from Neuvo Leon. Marianna grew up in Sonora. When I was 18 I went to prison for drug charges and made real friendships with mexican and american criminals of all stripes. I learned about ejidos, jesus malverde, mis animales, and I am intelligent. Now don't get me wrong, I'm clean and totally legit. I got kids and I don't roll with gangsters. I am respected by my peers and I earned that respect. So that's where I'm coming from. Now I gotta say you don't know much more about being a criminal than I do about Haskell. People DO disappear, and it happens a LOT. Here and there both. Here in my small southwestern town of 100,000 I can think of multiple black baggings.... once in the parking lot of a walmart, even. I know there's stats about Mexico DF that look good, but you believe the Mexican feds?

Personal anecdote: my wifes grandpa was a man named Jan Bonte. He was born in .dk, his dad was killed by nazis and he was placed in a camp. He immigrated after the war, first to .nl where he met and married his wife, and then to the US. They had a family in Colorado and after a late-life divorce he moved to Kino in the Sonoran desert for winters and came back to Colorado for summers. Because he routinely crossed the border he was ordered to mule something, and he declined. After a month of no contact we received news he died. We went to clean his remains from his house, which was gruesome after spending October in the sonoran heat after being chopped up by an axe.

Day 1 a duece n half came up with a gaggle of Mexican troops. Green uniforms, M-16s, idk if they were cops or 'cops' or what, but they gave us 3 days to gtfo.

Day 2, we picked up his ashes and had a small ceremony. He had local friends, who told us what happened and who did it.

Day 3, we were on the road

I put so many personal details because seriously: dox it if you'd like. You'll see Jan isn't counted among the victims of the drug war but it doesn't matter. The important thing is "this is how it is" and to hope it never happens to me or mine. Aqui hubo una mano negra

I don't have a point at all, I just feel I see/know an entirely different world from the average HN poster. You see alarmists clutching pearls and spreading tales - part of a bigger trend to spread fear and exagerate dangers. I see people I know and love suffer....and hope that black hand doesn't visit me.

They banned a few from this years Space Symposium in Colorado Springs already. I expect this to continue

My education was in math, and in general I find being wrong helps me get to the truth a lot quicker than not moving forward until it's 100%. None of us knows the truth yet, but slowly we're knocking out things that aren't.

Our laws are very friendly to the small homegrower, much like our laws on brewing. Nothing legally stops me and you from trading strains and seeds without telling anyone or registering anything. You can give freely if you dont charge, grow 6 plants per adult (3 budding), and all needed equipment is legal too. We've already had our first hemp crop, which was grown for as many seeds as possible, and many more acres are planned for next year. None of those strains are tracked either

Could they, legally, do anything but deny? Shareholders could sue, customers could sue, I could probably sue... seems like a strongly worded legally air-tight denial is their only practical option. Plus it might be illegal to divulge classified info

What a child like view

Linking to yourself like that is incredibly tacky

This is the time when politicians pay back their masters, before the next election gears up. This gives time between pissing people off and then having to convince them to vote for more of the same.

I wouldn't trust anything that important across a wire, and neither should you.

By attempting to prosecute the instructors, federal officials are adopting a controversial legal stance that sharing such information should be treated as a crime and isn’t protected under the First Amendment in some circumstances.

“Most certainly our nation’s security will be enhanced.”

“There are a lot of bad people out there. . . . This will help us remove some of those pests from society,”

We're letting this happen. I am so sad.

Gotta learn to love yourself, hombre, because you're stuck with you

A more current war nerd article

http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-china-joins-the-yacht-club/

The DF 21 is basically unstoppable, best long term solution inho is putting drone carriers underwater

Ctrl W? That makes my day :-D

By the time they let you know they're investigating you, they've been doing it awhile. This wasn't a friendly getting to know you, you are being investigated for federal crimes. See an attorney now, If/when they come back to arrest you it'll be a surprise.

I never heard of her. Thanks. It reminds me a bit of Ashley Turton

I studied math/physics at Colorado State Pueblo, a small school with very minimal focus on research. I would absolutely recommend it to my kids when they're deciding on a school, because having actual professors teach what they love in a dept that actually cared if the students learned was wonderful.... And the professors were happy, too.

Its all about full disclosure for ethical reasons. Can't say that about them white hats.

I feel like you're right, but there has to be more in it for Russia. Obama gets "good" PR and silences Snowden - the best possible outcome. I don't see Putin settling for just good publicity. If Putin played hardball here he would still gain massively with South America and still get the benefits you mentioned

I have learned that when you make them wonder what's in the box, they open it and find out.

Attacking the source of this article and the country of its origin contributes little to the conversation.

Don't try and blame police corruption on people complaining about police corruption and hating corrupt police, its obviously neither the cause nor a contributing factor. Just deflecting blame to the victims.

Everyone has already answered with what a countable set is, so I would just add that the answer to your second question is uncountable sets are always infinite in size. Any extremely large set would be finite and so countable.

CIA uses contractors domestically.

I wonder why Europeans feel physically unsafe here while simultaneously finding us extremely friendly. Is it just a normal reaction to being a stranger in a strange land?

I can tell when a helicopter is above me, and there is a much greater cost of operation making it impractical to use helicopters for constant surveillance in giant drag nets of innocents.

They don't want IR cameras to help people with alzheimers, they want to spy in our houses. It's insulting you would pretend to believe them. You are a weapons manufacturer, not a humanist helping the world or a scientist working to save lives. Oh and as a Canon City person, keep your sympathy for us fire victims and direct it to all the women and children already killed in the drone wars.

He should be glad its just a wiretap and not anthrax like that sent to the Prime Minister past year.

What ever happened to CryptoCat man after he discovered he had been rooted by the Canadian Intel people? He was as freaked out as could be (prudently) and then I haven't really heard about it since

So lets say, hypothetically speaking, that I know a whole lot about how prism works, and have some slides and what not and that I trust GG with them. Let's further suppose that I am unaffiliated with Facebook, unemployed by the USG, no clearance etc. Just Joe Coder the contractor who loves Freedom. Why can't I just send them to him, what do I care if the FBI knows since I'm not under an NDA or a govt employee?