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  • Brexit + economic carnage + small country with little heavy industry -> please let us sit one round out to dig our way out of that fucking economic shambles and then we'll be right back on the Climate train handing out HS2 lanyards.

  • I'm not a physicist (read "couldn't do the maths“) but MOND feels closer to an natural, organic explanation than Dark Matter. Are there planets formed from Dark Matter? Are there elements and dark molecular structures?

    Please can I have a motorcycle made of it?

  • He's going down for a long time, and personally I think he's an over-confident, misguided fool.

    But I don't think he's a crook, in the sense that he originally set out to be dishonest from day one.

    I think his well-intentioned, cocky plans turned to shit when he found himself playing a game of cryptopoly with other people's real money and landed on the "Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass 'Go'. Do not collect £200“ square.

    I feel ever so slightly sorry for him. His entire life is now fucked.

  • Wow what a detailed, well-written and fascinating response. Thank you for writing that, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

    It would almost be worth putting #2 to the test, just to see what would happen. As you mention it would be a legal minefield.

    Interestingly (and I guess this is the same in the US?), it's illegal to open someone else's mail. For sure Law Enforcement could get around that, but they would need a court warrant and you'd have to pity the judge whose desk that landed on.

    The law states:

    84 Interfering with the mail: general

    A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, he—

    intentionally delays or opens a postal packet in the course of its transmission by post, or intentionally opens a mail-bag.

    I think that if the package was innocuous (i.e. didn't have

    <b>

    Jeff's Gun's By Post

    </b>

    emblazoned on it with a drawing of a strutting Texan blowing the smoke from his revolver), then it could be tough to find “reasonable excuse" to open the package.

    Joking aside, if the recipient was a known member of forums promoting hatred or violence then it could be considered reasonable to make at least a cursory examination based on "why was this package received from from there?".

    It's legislation with good solid intent (IMHO), but it's so vague that it can't cover everything.

    Nor yet anyway.

    As we come from different nations, our feelings on the matter may differ and I don't really want to discuss that. But thank you, you've made it easier to understand the context.

  • Brit here. I have a couple of questions:

    1. If they aren't firearms, then what are they sold as? Replicas?
    2. If they aren't sold as weapons, does that mean someone could import one into my own country?

    (I have no intention of doing this, in case this triggers some GCHQ bot and my home ends up like Waco but without all the tiddies)

  • Your point is a valid one, so I'll answer it. Initially I did use Google. I was overloaded with a mash-up of sites from which it would have been difficult to resolve right from wrong. As this doesn't relate to my country I'd have simply moved on.

    Instead, I feel much more informed from all the considered, well-written responses which people were kind enough to write here.

  • I agree with this. I used nicotine lozenges to wean myself off cigarettes and this was successful.

    However, I did notice as a side effect that they helped me concentrate on complex tasks.

    So, although I don't use them daily, I leave a pack lying around just to suck on in the same way I might use a cup of coffee to sharpen up in the morning.

    I genuinely believe this does me no harm. I think the debates started to get heated when inhalation is involved.

  • Thank you. But I'm still not sure I get it. Could you maybe give an example of what kind of lie or fear mongering would make people want to say:

    "No, I don't want the constitution to recognise that there were an indigenous people here before us."

    That seems like an unarguable fact, isn't it?

    I'm sorry, I don't mean to put you on the spot but since you were kind enough to take the time to give an overview, it makes me hungry for more detail!

  • I mean, you couldn't be more right. This is aid-point zero.

    This conflict couldn't be more zany if it tried. Russia will be asking the moon for aid next. At least India have got something up there which Russia could steal, melt down and make into an Arquebus or something.