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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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Hawaii is already in warning status... and I've heard that Australia and points in that region are under alert. If you live on the coast, it probably isn't a good morning to hunt for clams. The American California and Oregon coasts are just now being upgraded to *warning* from *watch*. That means evacuations will be starting -- the buoy systems are not giving us happy data.
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Takao Tsundere Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Classified
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US border town officials face gun-running charges
This might not look good for the pro-gun politicians who insist the Mexican drug wars has nothing to do with the Cartels buying guns from the US.
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Iraq Kurds protest, man tries to set himself ablaze
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNew...72A3FS20110311
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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This woman clearly has not played anything beyond Facebook games.
Social games: Evil to some, boon to makers Has she ever seen something called long-term market and short-term market? Social games are just a small short-term market bubble : saturate it with minigames enough and it will burst. Gaming companies should just set a SMALL budget for market segmentation, like how Dragon Age did with their mini Facebook game. Long term investment in the market is clearly a no-no without constant new content even for a simple game like Runescape, sure people won't have as much time to play, but they are more willing to spend that time IRL instead with minigames. The less depth a game has, the less replayability and continued playability it will generate. And without any replays or anyone playing, it'll just go bust. These things simply come and go - and they are only great for trading, not investing in.
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: classified
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That story clearly illustrates the futility of any new gun-control laws considering the people buying the guns and reselling them to the drug cartels were The Chief of Police, The Mayor, and a local politician. The police chief alone is capable of buying guns (machine guns and submachineguns) that normal US citizens cannot without special license. The current gun-control laws of the US exempt police departments and government agencies from many of the restrictions that apply to normal citizens. Therefore, new gun-control measures that would restrict what citizens can purchase or own would do nothing to curb this type of incident. The Mexican drug war is Mexico's problem, not that of the US. If the flow of guns to Mexico is really a concern of the Obama administration then they need to shut the border down completely with military force. That'll stop the flow of guns completely. They could also use the TSA's new X-ray vans to scan every vehicle going south for guns. I don't see this administration (or any politician in Washington) calling for the use of this technology on our border with Mexico--Why not? The fact is the entire "river of guns to Mexican drug gangs" is the same tired old "guns-drugs, drugs-guns" line of crap the gun-control freaks were whining about in the 1980s. The problem back then wasn't the guns it was the influx of illegal aliens, and that's the same problem now.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
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here's a better one http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110311/...sa_mexico_guns besides him there's a government agency called ATF who are 'letting the guns walk.' CBS has been better coverage on this See Project Gunrunner. Last edited by flying ^; 2011-03-11 at 14:58. |
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Obama rules out Libyan air strikes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1939521/
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: classified
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It's also a very good reason to reign in the BATFE's operations "Gunrunner" and "Operation Fast and Furious" since "95%" (more like 35%) of all drug cartel guns are of US origin and many (if not most) can be traced back to these kinds of operations. However, if we were to assume that Mexico's war with the drug cartels is a problem involving the US civilian gun-market (rather than the BATFE supplying the cartels), then its time for the US to militarize the border with Mexico and stop anyone attempting to cross illegally. That will stem the flow of weapons to the Cartels in part (though not whatever weapons sold to them via BATFE). The kind of violence these cartels are committing is terrorism by any other name (like chopping off peoples' heads, and kidnapping children to get to their parents). Since the US is involved in a "war on Terror" it is clearly time to deal with the Mexican terrorists that are flooding over our southern border with impunity.
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
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Decriminalize drugs, create ways for addicts to get their fix without creating the elicit market forces that make drug running so lucrative, when you bring in crack and cocaine into the US you see a 650% jump in profits, it's clearly the illegality of these substances and much like opiates that we already control for medical procedures these substances could easily be "legalized" destroying a lot of value of smuggling, etc. You can point to prescription pill mills and gangsters selling pain meds, but that trade in itself is much less dangerous. In the end, it's going to take more than arming the citizenry or militarizing the border.
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Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
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i wouldn't be surprise if the biggest supporter of the current laws keeping marijuana illegal are the drug lords in Mexico.
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Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 46
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All the identifiable firearms would be from the United States because those are the only ones to be registered type. All the rest of the arms would be from other countries that would not have any form of registration. Thus the news of US arms is easy to exaggerate because of this idea. The unidentified arms would not e reported since they wouldn't have been newsworthy.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 35
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Arab states back Libya no-fly zone against Gaddafi
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7270JP20110312 It's probably too late for being helpfull for the rebels's cause.
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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From Madison to DC, capitalists tighten grip
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