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Sure, if you could borrow government/Fed money to give the loans, have the loans written down, then foreclose on the homeowners and hold the homes till you could sell at a good profit.

Trump may have been right, but not in the way he thought…

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Hope “Sweden were cowards” Solo and the swimmers “let’s go on a drunken rager than lie about it” both acted like ugly American idiots.

It’s funny that people were much more annoyed with Gabby Douglas (classy young lady) not gesticulating appropriately to honor a ditty about a torn up rag.

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It’s still customary in the US in some places. Taxi hit my car a few years ago, put a scratch in it. Driver offered me $200 cash to make the thing go away. $200 buys a lot of touchup paint 🙂

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An acceptable compromise would be strong crypto + cloud storage. Cloud storage would prevent theft of the data. But encryption-at-rest (with keys unknown to the provider) would prevent anyone other than the victimized party from using the footage without permission.

i.e. the scum at Google or the government wouldn’t have a pipeline into millions of camera feeds.

As far as people getting away with crimes, even heinous ones, I consider it the price of a free society. We can’t eliminate all crime, solve all crime, etc, nor should be try. A society where crime doesn’t exist (short of pure anarchy with no laws to break) would be unacceptable in other ways.

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Not really: there would still be witness testimony without cameras.

This being said: I’m not opposed to surveillance. Want to put a camera up in your place of business or home? Be my guest.

I’m opposed to CENTRALIZED surveillance i.e. the footage being available to scum in government or large corepirations (Google, etc) by default. Gas station owner with camera and DVR: good. Dropcams sending footage from millions of cameras to Pappa Google: bad.

Same with cameras on streets operated by police without strict restrictions on data retention time. Dashboard cameras, on the other hand, are a good thing.

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If the story is true, hope the other two athletes spend some quality time in a Brazilian jail before being fined and deported.

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All markets are somewhat cyclical … a “crash” is just an opportunity. Of course the bumping up against debt-to-income limits they mention doesn’t necessarily bode a crash, just an inflection point where home prices will rise roughly with incomes vs rising faster. (Assuming fairly constant rates.)

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I think that’s the human way. Many liberals look down on midwesterners, conservatives, religious people, abstinent people, etc. Everyone does it, the only question is toward whom.

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^^^

Or at least mess with them in ways that don’t make them feel threatened, but hurt them all the same. Be slow to do business with them. Do work for them … poorly. Make snide comments to someone walking with you when you pass a cop.

Basically, make their lives a tiny bit less pleasant. Micro-aggressions, as some libs put it, add up.

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Read a site like Free Republic. Sadly similar nonsense is said all the time — FBI/SS involvement would likely require a direct threat. Problem is that some unhinged person might actually listen to Trump, vs most posters on certain sites are shouting to an empty room.

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No, it’s worse. The cops you mentioned killed a lady playing a crime victim. The good guy or girl.

If they can’t be bothered to triple check if a gun is unloaded, why not use a wooden gun or squirt gun?

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Pay cash, don’t carry a e-leash, cut the antenna on your car. Generic Morons ceases to care once you cancel your subscription. Better yet, don’t give hoot, pollute, drive an older smog-exempt diesel car with next to no eelectronic geegaws.

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Uber/Lyft are evil — they’re basically a conspiracy to replace private travel with “renting,” tied to a credit card and identity, and where your travel info is recorded forever in a database. The surveillance state’s cum-stained wet dream.

Bike more, Uber less. Biking is also good for weight loss.

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njtosd – we’re not talking about numerical scores but about percentile. If nearly everyone gets prep courses, it shouldn’t make a difference to their % rank.

This being said, I know plenty of people who scored in the 1400s and 1500s in the 90s without prep classes.

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Thanks, but I’d rather drive a Miata than a Ferrari.

And “my kid is an attorney with next to no debt, about to buy his first house” is a lot more brag-worthy than “my whelp graduated from Hah-vahd, $200,000 in debt and is beholden to a decade or two of working 60 hours a week with one week off per year.”

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