Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[entropy]

Agree. Doesn't appear to be a place to avoid, if a true picture


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[Dr. Strangelove]

Damning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency on Russia's track program. Comes just two days before the decision will be announced if Russian track will be allowed to participate at the Olympics. It'd be pretty much a joke if they're allowed

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/15/russian-rio-olympic-hopes-recede-wada-report

[Ghengis Jon]

I closed the link to the chapter I was talking about, but would be glad to re-find it and post a link if you would like to see it. The chapter provided a very detailed look on the subject of black market weapons and, indeed, the authorities in all regions I mentioned struggle with it.

Yes, please post the link (or email it to me).

[Mike]

Damning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency on Russia's track program. Comes just two days before the decision will be announced if Russian track will be allowed to participate at the Olympics. It'd be pretty much a joke if they're allowed

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...de-wada-report

Given that the Olympics is a complete joke, they will be allowed to compete.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Jon, here's the link to Chapter 4 of the on-line book Firearms and Violence, A Critical Review (2004).

http://www.nap.edu/read/10881/chapter/6

[lineygoblue]

If the anti doping agency allows Russia to compete in the Olympics, then Lance Armstrong's Tour du France victories should be reinstated, and he should be allowed to race again, if he chooses.

[THE_WIZARD_]

uncharacteristically cogent

[iam416]

Along the lines of what we've been discussing:

[Wild Hoss]

Where do you draw the line? Nearly everything may be used as a weapon. Tim McVeigh packed a Ryder truck full of gasoline and 5000 lbs of ammonium nitrate used in agricultural fertilizer and blew up a Federal building in Oklahoma.

...and there is a lot more regulation on sales of those chemical components now.

[hack]

Along the lines of what we've been discussing:

Not illegal in Turkey, but if you can prove you are gay you are exempt from military services. I never met the person in charge of verification, but I imagine that would be a job none of us would want to have. Except for OP.

[SeattleLionsFan]

And to leave Russia as neutral is a bit of a reach.

[iam416]

Well, look, it's a rough graphic -- it's not illegal in Turkey or Russia and "relatively neutral." And the graphic conveys a clear summary of the world re homosexuality, nitpicking aside.

[SeattleLionsFan]

I disagree that it is nitpicking, but a line has to be drawn somewhere. I would have drawn it a bit differently, but I don't think it makes the overall point less valid.

[iam416]

Yeah, well if your categories are "gay marriage/gay unions, jail or death for being gay, everything in between" then you'll have some variance in the "gray". I reckon Australia is probably way better than Turkey and Russia even though they're in the same group.

I guess the better way to view the graphic is to not even label the "gray" areas.

[Mike]

Professor Buchanan,

Where do we stand on policy action to combat loan wolf terrorist attacks on US soil?

As far as I can tell over the last several hundred posts since the Orlando shooting we have collectively come up with exactly zilch. Or at least no suggestions that won't encroach on constitutional and civil rights to varying degrees. This forum has a greater amount of intelligence than Congress so I'm not hopeful that Washington will get anything done.