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All of the above plus a legacy of unreliable governments that try to hold as much control over everything as possible. Property rights don’t mean much if the government can come in at any time and seize your successful business or bulldoze a neighborhood to make room for a foreign oil company.

Wait....Wendy Williams isn’t a drag queen?

To make plans like this truly successful, African countries need to seriously revamp their Intellectual Property and Real Property laws. In many places, it is very difficult or impossible for an individual to truly own real property, own a business, copyright a business name, or patent an idea. There is little

How did Jessica Jones get to Sin City?

Did anyone else think the magician was going to turn out to be Zartana's father? The one who eventually trains Bruce to be an escape artist.

Not of they hire the prop people from Burn Notice.

It was an uzi. I’ll opened the slide and used the open action to open a fire hydrant. The CIA guy he was working with was pissed he ruined their only gun.

If you leave off the ‘ie’ in ‘selfie’ in the title, this becomes a very different article.

I’m not a big fan of the overall animation style of the show. But I was really surprised how good the storytelling got in the last half of the first season.

Also, it would have meant Gordon didn't

I make mine on a pizza stone in the BBQ. Easily gets over 600, but not 800.

Ive wondered for years where the grease comes from. When I make my own pizza at home (Alton Brown dough recipe, quality pasta sauce and shredded cheese), there is zero grease. Maybe that’s why I inhale pizzaria slices. The added grease.

At the very least, we can say that Zero Tolerance was the mechanism that allowed an individual’s prejudice to grow into a very serious incident. If anyone from the teacher to the principal to the responding police shown the slightest bit of common sense and use of discretion, the entire incident would have been

Good thing there’s always someone around to object when someone raises a tangential issue to the topic being discussed. Especially on a message board where literally dozens of other conversations on the original topic are happening simultaneously.

There’s another aspect of this story that is being largely ignored. The complete failure of Zero Tolerance policies, the moral cowardice of school administrators, and the criminalization of normal childhood behaviour.

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So, is the ride at Legoland that works just like this now an art installation?

What if they just buy a cheap burner cell and give that number to the app? And when the company texts the burner, they reply as if they were you? So that you never even know that a profile for you was created and have no way of defending yourself.

Everyone ignites the bigger issue. Gasoline is really bad for skin and eyes. And breathing in the fumes isn’t good either. Not to mention gasoline will melt plastics and synthetic fibers.

Why did anyone live in NYC in the 70’s? The city and time that inspired Death Wish and The Warriors? Son of Sam, gang violence, sky high crime rates......NYC is/was Gotham.

Wish I could find the link, but read a very interesting article from history professor in why Feudalism is superior to Democracy. I think it was done as a way if dispelling myths about Feudalism, not to say we should actually go back to it.