StrangeSox

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 26, 2012 -> 12:46 PM) A criminal in a hoodie confronts you demanding your wallet. You have an option to turn and run or, just like in the movies, you reach into your jeans to get your wallet and pull out a 9mm. \ fwiw this is a pretty dumb move unless you're actually trained in hand-to-hand self defense. Much safer just to give over the wallet.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 26, 2012 -> 12:25 PM) I don't understand why you keep arguing this. It's simply not true. Yeah, there's the reasonable person standard to be met here. The problem is that, more often than not, these scenarios have two witnesses, and one of them is dead.

Some more legal blogging on Florida's SYG law: http://balkin.blogspot.com/2012/03/standin...d-floridas.html

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 26, 2012 -> 12:20 AM) Soooo if you have an Android phone, and you're typing "a nap" but you miss the space and type "anap" the phone will autocorrect it to "anal." Resulting in the following message I sent: "I need to take anal really bad right now." it corrected "fiance" to "gonads" for my wife recently, resulting in the message: "Sorry, can't go out tonight. My parents are having a party for my uncle and his gonads"

Hello? Uh, hello? Hello, Dmitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? [pause] Oh, that's much better. Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then, as you say we're both coming through fine. Good. Well, it's good that you're fine, and — and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. [Laughs] Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. [pause] The BOMB, Dmitri! The hydrogen bomb! Well now, what happened is, uh, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well, he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little...funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing. Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes...to attack your country. Well, let me finish, Dmitri. Let me finish, Dmitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri? Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello? [sounding hurt] Of course I like to speak to you! Of course I like to say hello! Not now, but any time, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened. It's a friendly call. Of course it's a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn't friendly,...you probably wouldn't have even got it. They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. [pause] I'm sorry too, Dmitri. I'm very sorry. All right! You're sorrier than I am! But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are Dmitri. Don't say that you are more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we're both sorry, all right? All right.

Now I'm going to have nightmares again

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 25, 2012 -> 09:02 PM) And this was the most asinine comment in the thread, especially considering they're more inspired by Hitler and King Minos. Seriously, know what you're talking about before you're "sure" of something. Especially considering the book came out before Obama was elected, or else I'll go ahead and say 1984's villains are clearly based on Bush/Republicans. ^^^ trolled

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2012 -> 11:45 AM) For a great laugh, go watch Bob Pisani on the BATS IPO disaster day. I thought you'd appreciate this graphic from zero hedge:

He also has a pretty thorough post going through the legal issues around lethal self-defense laws: http://volokh.com/2012/03/24/lethal-self-d...ssor-exception/ It's a long read but interesting.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 22, 2012 -> 11:53 PM) But the law itself says you can't arrest unless you're absolutely certain you can prove your case. The law is pretty clear that arrest is only appropriate in extreme circumstances. I wanted to follow up on this. This is similar to Eugene Volokh's (UCLA law professor, libertarian/conservative blog host and occasional NPR commentator) take:

Also I just read the book this afternoon. There us obviously political undercurrents in the story, but drawing direct analogies to relatively recent us political narratives seems kinda stretching it. It isn't a blatantly obvious allegory like animal farm or something.

Take this b. Hussein Obama talk to the right thread!

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 25, 2012 -> 12:54 PM) not going to work. i'm not voting obama, no matter how much ridiculous name calling goes on. Kkkeep it up mr. stormfront

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 25, 2012 -> 10:50 AM) The media is trumping the story as they know they need to work it into their pro-Obama election narrative. They will work the story into "everyone who doesn't vote for Obama is a racist" theme. We have seen this sad exploitation technique before. It also distracts from the fact that Obama has been a huge failure as a president. racist spotted

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 24, 2012 -> 05:00 PM) Or instead, young adults. Not everything is politics. the politics of the hunger games world is like the central plot point, though

this seems like 1984: people will just project their personal philosophy onto the story.

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 24, 2012 -> 10:43 AM) I'm wondering what image the Heat were going for when they originally took that photo? Tough guys that will beat you, or angels here to serve and protect? lostfan needs to get in here and post his terrifying picture.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 24, 2012 -> 10:20 AM) I'm just hoping Martin ends up being at fault so everyone who jumped on this thing looks like a moron. Why, though?

Derrick Smith: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/d..._n_1342261.html He should be removed from office and replaced assuming he's found guilty, but this is a slightly different situation in that he wasn't found ineligible to have been on the ballot in the first place like in the Indiana case.

There's a witness statement that the police eventually took that the witness claims was only two or three lines long. It doesn't contradict Zimmerman's story thanks to it's brevity, but that doesn't mean it confirms it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 23, 2012 -> 07:09 PM) I don't understand this either. Players hate it so much but every time it comes time to do a new CBA, they agree to it, actually they don't even try to negotiate it out. They were already lining up to get f***ed hard on everything else, they probably know it's a lost cause.

We've also got TNC highlighting some recent rulings in Florida that seem completely ridiculous applications of SYG: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archiv...justice/254900/ To me, it seems that if the law keeps resulting in ridiculous circumstances, it's a bad law.

Alright, props to Lebron, Wade and the Miami Heat for this: edit: it's an old photo but it was retweeted in support of the Martin family

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2012 -> 02:11 PM) Which you might lose...even though you shouldn't? No thanks. I've sat on jury duty, and trust me when I say you NEVER want to leave it up to a modern jury via testimony and evidence. You're better off having a law that's clearly written you can hide behind than to leave it in the hands of a bunch of people that don't give a s*** about anything other than going home. It was one of the most disappointing and infuriating times of my life how much none of them gave a s***. You mean it's not like 12 Angry Men?

I had no idea what you were talking about, so I found this article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/...ses-apple-halt/