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Are you worried that doing so would disincentivize long term investments? Why hold onto a stock for greater than a year if my gains will be taxed at exactly the same rate as if I had held the stock for 10 minutes? Also, I'm not opposed to taxing capital gains at higher rates - it makes sense if your primary source of income are things like stock grants because you are a high level executive at a company. But it's a shit idea if these stocks are just a part of your compensation package, or the capital gains are from your own investments.

I read the other day that Lake Mead could drop low enough to actually impact Hoover Dam's ability to make power. That's just crazy.

Let's all remember the purpose of prison is to reform and rehabilitate these people, it isn't meant for punishment.

Yeah if I was about to get stabbed by some attacker, I'd want the police officer to neutralize the threat. Shooting the knife out of her hand, or shooting her in the leg was not an option, and a taser would have maybe a 50% chance of actually working correctly.

The cop did nothing wrong in this case. If he didn't shoot the perpetrator, the other woman might be badly injured (attempted murder) or dead (murder) from getting knifed. It sucks for everyone involved in this, but come on - The police officer had no choice.

I think this is absolutely the right thing to do, mainly because so much of the funding came from the government to develop these vaccines.

/shit thread

Cheese zombies and tomato soup every day!

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Can't the Judge force them to deliberate longer if they've only been hung for a day? EDIT: I read your comment wrong. I thought you said it probably IS a hung jury.

He tweets like an illiterate 14 year old.

I was the lone holdout in the jury siding with the plaintiff on one count in a civil suit. Everyone was getting frustrated with me. What wasn't explained to the jury at the beginning, was that Oregon doesn't require a unanimous verdict (except in murder trials I guess), so we went back and forth for hours until we got told we didn't have to all be in agreement to reach a verdict.

I've sat on two jury trials, and we didn't have a transcript. We were allowed to ask the court questions from what I remember, but we didn't have a play by play of the trial.

Amazing. To understand it's physically possible is one thing - but to actually see it happen is on a whole other level.

Biden's America. My grandmother in-law was lamenting to my wife the other day on the phone, talking about how everything was much better during Trump's presidency - everyone got along and there wasn't any violence. My wife had to bite her tongue and didn't bring up the SUMMER OF RIOTS that were primarily caused by police brutality.

What I'm saying is that permit-less carry doesn't seem to have an effect on overall gun homicides or mass shootings. Are you arguing that a permit-less law in Oklahoma is having a knock-on effect in Colorado (as an example)?

I agree training is critically important with firearms. No arguments here.

The data doesn't bear out that permit-less concealed carry changes gun homicide rates. We have north of 20 states now that don't require a permit to carry, and every single prophecy of doom hasn't happened. Arizona, a state you would expect to erupt into chaos, has had permit-less concealed carry for 10 years now, and their homicide rates are essentially unchanged in that timespan.

That's exactly what it means - the payload to low earth orbit for Starship is around 150 metric tons, but there won't be enough fuel left in the starship tanks to perform the trans lunar injection burn. So the idea would be to have multiple fuel transport starships rendezvous with the lunar starship and transfer their fuel into the lunar starship until it is topped off. Once the lunar starship is full, it can then perform it's burn to get to the moon. There will then be enough fuel left over to land on the moon and take off again. As far as I can figure, it won't have enough fuel to return to low earth orbit at that point, so it would require a tanker starship to deliver fuel at the moon.

~2024ish. I don't think that's a stretch for an unmanned test landing, but I wouldn't be surprised if the first actual human mission is a year or two after that.

Talking with my wife the other day, I said it would be like if I shot someone in the thigh, and for 4.5 minutes I let them bleed out. I then put pressure on the wound for 30 seconds to temporarily stop the bleeding, and then let them bleed out for another 4.5 minutes, until they finally died. Clearly I am not responsible for their death.

In a surprising move, NASA has awarded $2.9 billion to SpaceX to develop the human landing system (HLS) for the Artemis program. It's a surprise, because there were two other contenders: Dynetics Aerospace and Blue Origin, and both of their proposals were closer to how moon landings were accomplished in the 1960s. SpaceX will develop a lunar only version of their Starship system under this contract. Interestingly, the SpaceX's bid was apparently close to 1/2 the price of the competing bids, and the company even lowered their bid in order to meet NASA's budgetary constraints. Originally, NASA planned on awarding two contracts, but because Congress didn't fully fund the HLS program, there was only enough money to fund one winner, and even still it wasn't enough for SpaceX's original bid. Humans will still launch (and return) to Earth on NASA's own capsule and rocket, and once the capsule reaches lunar orbit, the astronauts will transfer to the Starship lander. Upon completion of the lunar mission, the Starship will return to lunar orbit, and the astronauts will return to their capsule, which will then set a course back to Earth. Lunar Starship will remain in orbit around the moon.

How do capital gainz work with trading cryptocurrency?

Felony murder for the douchebag that kid was criming with.

I thought Altered Beast on Genesis was a good example of the graphical power of that system, but overall I found the game boring.