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Poll continue to show support for Trump slipping among active military members.

The 1930 act did not make cannabis completely illegal, only approved merchants/doctors could possess and distribute it.  I imagine that, like a lot of “morality” type laws in Japan at the time (and since, really) as long as you do it quietly in your home you were probably fine, but punishments were harsh if you were…

You clearly aren’t super well-read on the history of the Opium Wars nor upon the history of the British Empire forcing people to buy their stuff. I’ll keep it brief: China had declared opium illegal multiple times over the course of fifty years prior to the first Opium War and the emperor of China had sent a letter to…

Originally it was more of a societal control mechanism.  Keeping the warrior class busy with all sorts of ceremony and ritual helped prevent them from focusing on rebelling against the Shogunate.

I agree that the American view on the “war on drugs” had a big effect as well, but it’s not quite true that these drug laws all came into existence post WW2. The Cannabis Control Law was made in 1930 originally for example, though it was strengthened in 1948.  However, it’s worth noting that for the samurai class…

You kinda left out one major reason: Western Imperialism. While the Americans didn’t force opium on Japan the way the British did with China, a historian by the name of Mineta Fuko and a handful of other Japanese scholars wrote an account of the first Opium War that was widely distributed among the Japanese nobility…

Here’s the difference: Both of those guys accessed data. I agree the law should be changed...but by the letter of the current law both of those cases were illegal, regardless of your feelings on the matter.  The security researcher in this case did not download any data, and the website owner confirmed that the…

I’m not.  To be clear, as far as I can tell, the researcher didn’t actually access anything private; this is all stuff publicly available when you download the app and/or access the website.  It’s all public.

So, I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding of US law is that if you actually break into something without permission, you are doing something illegal, even if you don’t take anything. To be clear here, the researcher did not break in at all; he just pointed out that this is all completely open and anybody could break…

You know what’s better than a gunblade? A gunlance.

Everything he accessed is open to the public, and he didn’t pull any non-public data out. No crime was committed. This MAGA hat guy was so dumb he basically left the front door wide open on his dumb web app. The researcher didn’t have to do anything more than the IT security equivalent of saying “your front door is…

Here’s the sad thing: this dude will be a legend with some Birmingham residents. He probably doesn’t have to buy his own pint again for a year at least, this city voted for Brexit (albeit by a slim margin, but still) and the “good old boys” aka old white people who “remember” when “football used to be tough” will give…

Tankers are generally pretty old, as this report notes the average tanker age is 20.6 years:

But the women also get benefits and the men do not.  The women also get paid a salary, regardless of whether or not they play a single game in the season, the men are treated like freelancers and only paid if they play games.

So...here’s the thing: the men and women aren’t paid in the same manner and that makes matters complicated. The men are paid on a per game basis; if they aren’t brought in to the team, they aren’t paid. If you get injured playing for your club team and can’t make that big tournament? No cash, US Soccer doesn’t care as…

If there was a nuclear disaster in my city I sure as shit wouldn’t return. Are you fucking crazy? I’d wind up looking like this this poor bastard:

Generally speaking, lootbox changes shouldn’t change much in terms of gameplay; typically those are developed by two different departments.  This appears to be a straight-forward case of Bioware/EA lying about what sort of content would be in the final game.

Speaking from experience here:  Sometimes they get the landing strip.

Mar-a-lago isn’t far away...