10428 pts ยท June 7, 2012
I'm going to chime in and agree with those mentioning online games. Some of the organization that goes into Eve Online can seem absurd.
Langley, British Columbia. Is that the correct one? 2/2
Ah, my mistake. Sorry about that, didn't even notice the different last names. The only Leonard Pelletier I'm finding is the man from 1/2
Case, I doubt marijuana possession was the most significant charge. Unless there's a different Leonard Pelletier, in which case my bad. 2/2
Leonard Pelletier's sentence is for first degree murder, for the shooting of two federal agents. Regardless of anyone's opinion on the 1/2
by the time middle ages came around, it was nearly universally accepted among educated Europeans that the Earth was round. 2/2
To expand on that for the curious, in the third century BCE, Eratosthenes gave a very accurate measure of the Earth's circumference, and 1/2
Obviously this isn't to underplay the negative effects of colonialism on native peoples, just pointing out slavery isn't the best example.
Slaves themselves were generally prisoners of war or their descendants. Some colonials purchased slaves, but in relatively low numbers. 2/2
We certainly do, but for accuracy's sake it should be mentioned that most slave owners in what is now Canada were native themselves. The 1/2
I'm getting the impression this is a weird choice?
Popular accessory and it was only a matter of time before the armor versions got outright ridiculous. 2/2
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/assets/0708/0000/0077/100_9177_edited1_mid.jpg Well, not balls specifically, but codpieces became quite the 1/?
stop at limiting only the laziest/most obviously questionable individuals. 5/5
Require a check. "Background checks, unless you feel like traveling a little bit" is hardly a worthwhile law. Regulate or don't, don't 4/?
legal option so easy even someone who shouldn't have any right handling a gun can pick one up. Or, I guess make it clear you don't 3/?
Is that huge of a privacy issue. There'll always be people who slip through, or go through illegal options, but no reason to make the 2/?
Probably just a cultural thing. I personally don't feel like restricting private sales/forcing people to go through a registered dealer 1/?
easily check if you've got your firearms license in many states. If there's no convenient way to back up the law it's not really doing much.
Something more than "Don't sell if they're from out of state or you suspect they're not legally allowed to own a gun." Not like they can 1/?
Fair enough. I wasn't disputing the "dealers" part, just pointing out they did include gun shows, which really ought to have some oversight.
They mentioned gun shows, and many states allow people to sell to other attendees without a background check, unless that's changed recently
Continue, and forcing them to hide their business completely only makes the almost inevitable crimes against them harder to investigate. 3/3
Countries where it's been legalized, for example. Still, I think the attempt itself's worthwhile. As it stands now, prostitution will 2/?
No worries about the timing. As for difficulty, I'm sure it's very tough to do right. I've heard of spikes in human trafficking in some 1/?
A life expectancy of 60 wasn't particularly unusual through many periods if you managed to make it to about 15. 2/2
While you're not wrong (modern medicine's great) the average life expectancy was mostly brought down by infant mortality. If I recall 1/?
Not showing some moderate version of a group counts and "anti-religion," especially when that group barely features at all. 2/2
How was it anti-religious? I guess the only religious group it really showed was some bigoted Christian sect, but I wouldn't say that 1/?
Heartbreaking. 5/5
I'm going to chime in and agree with those mentioning online games. Some of the organization that goes into Eve Online can seem absurd.
Langley, British Columbia. Is that the correct one? 2/2
Ah, my mistake. Sorry about that, didn't even notice the different last names. The only Leonard Pelletier I'm finding is the man from 1/2
Case, I doubt marijuana possession was the most significant charge. Unless there's a different Leonard Pelletier, in which case my bad. 2/2
Leonard Pelletier's sentence is for first degree murder, for the shooting of two federal agents. Regardless of anyone's opinion on the 1/2
by the time middle ages came around, it was nearly universally accepted among educated Europeans that the Earth was round. 2/2
To expand on that for the curious, in the third century BCE, Eratosthenes gave a very accurate measure of the Earth's circumference, and 1/2
Obviously this isn't to underplay the negative effects of colonialism on native peoples, just pointing out slavery isn't the best example.
Slaves themselves were generally prisoners of war or their descendants. Some colonials purchased slaves, but in relatively low numbers. 2/2
We certainly do, but for accuracy's sake it should be mentioned that most slave owners in what is now Canada were native themselves. The 1/2
I'm getting the impression this is a weird choice?
Popular accessory and it was only a matter of time before the armor versions got outright ridiculous. 2/2
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/assets/0708/0000/0077/100_9177_edited1_mid.jpg Well, not balls specifically, but codpieces became quite the 1/?
stop at limiting only the laziest/most obviously questionable individuals. 5/5
Require a check. "Background checks, unless you feel like traveling a little bit" is hardly a worthwhile law. Regulate or don't, don't 4/?
legal option so easy even someone who shouldn't have any right handling a gun can pick one up. Or, I guess make it clear you don't 3/?
Is that huge of a privacy issue. There'll always be people who slip through, or go through illegal options, but no reason to make the 2/?
Probably just a cultural thing. I personally don't feel like restricting private sales/forcing people to go through a registered dealer 1/?
easily check if you've got your firearms license in many states. If there's no convenient way to back up the law it's not really doing much.
Something more than "Don't sell if they're from out of state or you suspect they're not legally allowed to own a gun." Not like they can 1/?
Fair enough. I wasn't disputing the "dealers" part, just pointing out they did include gun shows, which really ought to have some oversight.
They mentioned gun shows, and many states allow people to sell to other attendees without a background check, unless that's changed recently
Continue, and forcing them to hide their business completely only makes the almost inevitable crimes against them harder to investigate. 3/3
Countries where it's been legalized, for example. Still, I think the attempt itself's worthwhile. As it stands now, prostitution will 2/?
No worries about the timing. As for difficulty, I'm sure it's very tough to do right. I've heard of spikes in human trafficking in some 1/?
A life expectancy of 60 wasn't particularly unusual through many periods if you managed to make it to about 15. 2/2
While you're not wrong (modern medicine's great) the average life expectancy was mostly brought down by infant mortality. If I recall 1/?
Not showing some moderate version of a group counts and "anti-religion," especially when that group barely features at all. 2/2
How was it anti-religious? I guess the only religious group it really showed was some bigoted Christian sect, but I wouldn't say that 1/?
Heartbreaking. 5/5