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According to an article I read, this is supposedly the most comprehensive site on finding cheap gas, containing 185 "websites" (is that like "internets"?)
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That was NOT threatening speech. "You make me feel like killing you" is in no way the same as "I'm gonna kill you". I'd be sick of cops harassing me if I had a brain injury that made me walk like a freak too.
"he repeatedly explained to the officer that he'd sustained a traumatic brain injury in a work-related accident and was disabled, not drunk….was taken to…Hospital where the stun darts were removed from his back. A blood test…confirmed…no alcohol or drugs in his system. … Was charged with misdemeanor assault two days after… The District Attorney's Office later asked that the charge be dismissed "in the furtherance of justice." "
Yea. The DA dropped the charges because he knew their cops were full of shit.
Officer Gabriela Saavedra is a shitty cop, but Officer Donald Cline sounds like a straight-up pig for tasering a man simply for walking funny. Because in the end, none of this would have happened if Gonzalez was able to walk like a normal person.
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Yes. IBM failed to stomp out clones; Apple's ultimate fate should be NO different. Too bad Psystar went bankrupt… This is antitrust; consumers rights are far more important than Apple's "right" to mis-apply the law and prevent a fair market from occurring.
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Once again, while government regulation and licensing makes sense and is a good thing — taking away the option to make unlicensed, unregulated purchases is extremely anti-capitalist and anti-freedom.
I wouldn't expect a casual babysitter to be licensed by the state as a child caregiver, anymore than I would expect a 12yo mowing my lawn to have a license for yardwork, anymore than I would expect an old man to have a taxi driver's license if I asked him to drive me to the grocery store for $5. Similarly, I don't expect to be protected from old dangerous products at a yard sale.
If the government has any intention of getting people in trouble for what they are selling at a yardsale, that's just another strike against freedom. Another elimination against mom & pop-type commerce, and another step up for the corporate takeover of any and all commerce.
Fortunately, they say they're not doing this. But I have yet to see evidence that government can restrain itself in the long run.
May 31, 2009
June 1, 2009 at 6:55 AM
RE: yard sales: I agree yard sales shouldn’t be licensed and regulated. If a parent is buying something for their kid at a yard sale, it should be up to them to realize if it’s some unsafe product that had been recalled. Not up to the casual seller who didn’t realize that sometime in the years since they used it, it was recalled (especially if their kid survived the “dangerous” product).