MichaelCollins
Only if you narrowly define 'people' to mean the tiny minority of people who are thieves, and exclude the overwhelming majority of people who aren't thieves. Thieves are safer on the street but everybody else is safer with thieves off the street. You've got your priorities skewed.
Right, pawn shops are held to a higher standard. They have a relationship with the local police and are made to keep records. Amazon is a better fence than your average pawn shop.
Of course if it's some popular in-demand book, it was almost certainly stolen. Most of the free library books I've scored are 50 year old textbooks about obscure/obsolete topics.
If Amazon were a mom and pop fence, the local cops could bust them in a sting. But Amazon is a huge megacorp, so even if the cops try to catch them in a sting nothing will stick because Amazon will claim their shear scale rendered them completely oblivious to everything and therefore not criminally culpable.
Yeah, it's bullshit.
It's not as though the thieves hire workers to do this for them. It's something they can do themselves while tweaking.
Also,
> Both the House and the Senate make their own rules,
The rules for expelling congressmen are set in the US Constitution, they don't just make it up as they go. Unless you're talking about their ability to amend the US Constitution, but that's even less likely than kicking these guys out the normal way.
The best way to get them kicked out would be to have them convicted for bribery/corruption, then you might get a 2/3rds vote to expel them.
In America, parties aren't elected and don't form governments. Accordingly, an American political party cannot kick out a congressman, much less replace one. To remove a congressman requires a two third vote (from congress, not from a political party); this never happens in the modern era without a criminal conviction as the impetus. And nether congress or a political party can simply bring in a new congressman; you'd need another election for that.
This is why I care. Criminals degrade society and we all suffer for their greed.
As if reviews exist only to give constructive feedback to property owners, rather than to warn other renters away from a bad experience!
Heh, well stated. The sun set on the British empire a long time ago. Expectations need to be adjusted accordingly.
He thinks that helping Ukraine defend themselves against a foreign invasion qualifies as "warmongering", obviously he's a Russia-aligned troll. Don't waste too much time trying to unravel his thought processes.
You've already conceded that words can hurt people (Alex Jones), so why are you trying to backpedal that now?
The FTX dam broke a few weeks ago and so far the media generally seems unenthusiastic about covering the story. Most people I've mentioned it to haven't heard of it yet; that's the media's fault.
I won't believe this guy is actually going to prison until they slam the iron bars closed behind him.
In these cases, which I think are more unusual than usual, a email can be required during checkout. There's almost never a valid reason to require a confirmed email account during account creation, before the user has even decided if they want to make a purchase.
(Receiving these emails should be opt-in. But companies often find lame excuses to ignore this preference so I prefer to not hand over my email address at all.)
In most cyberpunk media, there is a middle/upper class who have enough money to insulate themselves from the dystopian hard edge of society. They continue to live in pleasant suburbs or high-rise buildings, they buy everything they need and dutiful follow the rules and stay on the garden paths created by the corporations milking them.
The "punks" are those cast out of the garden, because they don't have enough money or because they lost favor with the corporations for some reason. They congregate in the shadows, stealing and hacking to make ends meet because they have no other choice. The people in the comfortable middle class may not even notice these punks existing; their lives are structured to shield them from exposure to the punks.
I think it's important to remember that NATO isn't an unthinking machine that executes mechanistically. Supposing Russia had been responsible for those missiles, I sincerely doubt that would have been the start of WW3. Nobody really wants that outcome, so the humans in the loop would bend over backwards to find a way to prevent that. This might mean pretending to not notice the missile strikes, or asserting they were accidents. I think both Russia and NATO would prefer Russia admitting to an accident and paying out some reparations to a full blown WW3.
WW3 happens if there's really no other choice, as perceived by NATO and/or Russian leadership.
Ideally you shouldn't require users to make an account to make a purchase at all. There should be a "guest" path for purchases. Some sites still get this right. I can buy anything from plane tickets to pizzas without having an account on the company's website. Meanwhile half the "Show HN" non-commercial toy websites I come across seem to require a confirmed email for no good reason at all (probably because the webdev is hoping his little toy website somehow becomes a real business, and then he can spam my inbox with updates about this and turn me into a paying customer.)
Off the top of my head, here are some companies that don't require me to confirm my email address when making a purchase or an account: Southwest Airlines. Dominos Pizza, Hacker News, Reddit.
If those guys don't need a confirmed email address, probably your site doesn't either.