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Yeah, it's a good way to get a picture of a stripper going all Whitesnake on your bike. Good luck getting the stripper glitter out though, that shit grinds its way into the leather.

Nah, I'm going to allow it.

must...resist...cockslap...for infowars link...

Dude, you realize that I really don't care, right? I know you have a family to support and I know you have a sob story and I know all this because you never.shut.up.about.it. The reason I don't care is because in spite of all that, you continue to make decisions that undermine your financial and physical safety and, by extension, the safety of your family, yet when people remind you of this and attempt to correct your error that we see like clockwork every fucking Spring, we're dismissed because you don't have the time or you can't be bothered to watch some Youtubes or read a book. You are the worst kind of squid, and you're the type of person I'll hopefully won't be reading about in a blurb some August who wrapped his bike around a guardrail at Wayne, leaving behind tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands if you're lucky enough to survive) of medical bills and your kids without a breadwinner. Yet here you are, livejournaling again, completely oblivious to your situation.

I bet we can rig up a switch to bypass the ignition entirely, keep it nice and hid-like so's the scamps don't run off with it...

I say this with complete seriousness and no hyperbole: You would have done just as well to take that money and light it on fire. Instead of saving money for that shiny new SUV, you should be putting it in a savings account for future medical bills.

Sorry, I'm plum out of fucks to give. Your cell phone bill's not going to pay itself though, but keep trolling OR so you can complain about your fucking phone bill one more time. Look on the bright side, at least you'll be able to pretend to go to the MSF with that extra time on your hands.

Fine. To fix one side means you should fix the other, and have any police officer or prosecutor engaging in misconduct to elicit that confession or intentionally ignoring evidence to the contrary stripped of their qualified immunity and prosecuted for felony perjury with mandatory minimum sentences. No arguments here.

I wouldn't say that. If the Court finds that he's mentally capable of standing trial and found guilty (which is pretty much a certainty), then, according to what I read since I'm not a Norwegian law expert, it would more than likely be possible to stack charges to ensure that he stays in jail for the rest of his life. From what I understand, apparently that's not done very often in Norway, but I think they understand just fine what kind of person they are dealing with and the impact to society if this guy ever got back out again. And if they do find that he's cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs, then he's going to get the treatment that he needs.

No, the argument that you presented to me was regarding the prison system and the treatment of prisoners, based on your experiences. Don't move the goalposts on me, bubby. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, hate me because I'm right.

First off, I never insinuated that the US should model after the Norwegian prison system. Our two cultures are radically different, and what works over there won't necessarily work here and vice versa. What I am commenting on is the monumental stupidity of someone in the United States, with it's culture of incarceration, calling the Norwegian system, with it's culture of rehabilitation, a joke. I don't need to work around prisoners to know the rates of non-violent drug offenders, forced into prisons by mandatory minimum sentencing while the legislators creating such laws cash checks from the private prison industry so they can appear "tough on crime". Regarding this: I find it equally insulting to know that there are prisoners that signed "confessions" (you can read these for starters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession#Coerced_false_confessions) that were coerced either by physical force or other means, simply to bring closure to the case. Our justice system was designed to keep innocent people out of jail and to mete out punishments fitting the crime, not to put guilty people in jail, or to throw mandatory sentences around (this should be good for starters, 55 years in jail for dealing $350 worth of pot), and any perversion of that is a huge stain on our society as a country. I see you're using the ol' "if you have a better idea..." defense. As a matter of fact, I do, and it one that just so happens to be supported by a plurality of Americans. Legalize marijuana and pull back 90% of the powers and regulations given during the war on drugs. No more civil forfeiture, no more "States vs. 17,000 in US Currency", no more stop-and-frisks, no more overflights of herbicides over sovereign nations (killing legitimate crops in the process), payoffs and dealings with international drug organizations (the Contras come to mind), and, best of all, the amount of arrests and activity through the legal system goes down by roughly 1.5 MILLION arrests per YEAR, with 500,000 of them going to prison. I'd imagine that those number encapsulate all drugs, so just imagine if you could cut that number in half. While we're on the subject of dumbass laws, you could give the Lacey Act a look, just ask this person who's crime was importing lobster tails in a clear plastic container instead of a cardboard container, in violation of a Honduran statute that the Honduran government ITSELF said in a brief to the court that is out-of-date and no longer enforced. 8 years for 3 members of the action, 2 years for another. I can go on and on, really. All I'm saying is you should take a damn good look at yourself as a country and what's happening inside of your own borders before you hate on another country's culture and morality.

goddamnit, beaten to the Real Genius reference. My hat's off to you.

This just in: Other countries have completely different ways of dealing with the incarceration and rehabilitation of inmates than the US. You know what the bigger joke is? The US has 10 PERCENT of the population, 30 MILLION people, currently behind bars in a prison system that's being used as a profit generator instead of a rehabilitation area. Maybe Norway's on to something.

I raise you a Mila Kunis. I gotta believe she'd be a wilder lay than Natalie.

Jesus H. Tittyfucking Christ, THIS. I still have my hi-vis yellow camelbak that I bought specifically for this, I would be more than happy to lend it out if someone is a little short on funds. You're going to be CRAWLING for a good long time, and between the heat from above and the heat from below, you're going to need some fluids.

Impending zombie hordes? Fuck that, it's cold outside!

At an extra $81 for vanity plates, he must really like big government since he's giving a lot more to it than he's required to.

All speech isn't protected. You can't verbally threaten the President, you can't yell FIRE! in a theater, you can't intentionally threaten another person, etc. As for the Second (why always with the Second? You realize there are a bunch more amendments, right?), I think the NRA is doing a bang-up job enforcing those rights, so much so that it's up to us dirty hippies to ensure that the rights that the NRA is trampling on to ensure that the Second is upheld are equally as protected. You know, the other 26 amendments. Sorry, had a rant there. So you want to know if I think that govt should be limited. I tossed this around a bit, and my answer is that I think government's function should be to tend to the needs of its people. When you turn on your faucet and water comes out, that's government. When you have wired high-speed Internet access out in the boonies, that's government (mandated telco's to run lines out there). Streetlights, fire departments, medics, public defenders, judges, sanitation workers, bus drivers, building codes, air traffic controllers, a protective military, research scientists, I can go on and on. Government should ensure the protection of it's people from all threats, both foreign and domestic, while ensuring that the most fundamental of needs are met like the right to be healthy, the right to personal defense, the right of free speech/press/association and all that. I'm going to stop here since I don't want to turn this into a "what would you do with a new Constitution" since I feel like we've already been down that road before.

Man's got a point. I loves me some city livin', but it doesn't fit well with motorcycles. As a moto rider? SoCal (Northern San Diego, never been but heard tons about it) for the weather aspect, or Portland for the good mix of city and kickass roads, but the weather usually sucks for riding.

And yet throughout the entirety of this nation's history, I'd argue throughout the entirety of modern human history, people have had differences of opinion over the same texts/laws/ideas/art/color/time of day/sloths/orangutans/breakfast cereals. This is expressly the reason why the Court system came into being. You can't lock down a law or piece of legislation, delineating exactly what you mean and how you mean it on paper, especially since some things that would be applied to it later can't possibly be imagined while the law is being written. Intent is always open for interpretation. If you would like a system of laws that is rigidly enforced with expressly delineated viewpoints that allow really no room for interpretation, I welcome you to take up a Orthodox religion like Orthodox Judaism, or a more orthodox version of Islam, like Sunni perhaps. I understand that Sharia law is pretty well locked down, as is the Torah after all these thousands of years. It is because you and I have differing opinions and have a dialogue about them that we can truly understand what the meaning and context of things are. That's why informed discourse and civil, informed debate are so important to the future of the country, and of Western society as a whole. If your opinions and beliefs never get challenged, then you're basically in an echo chamber and never grow as an individual.

Fixed for clarity since, let's be honest, that's the crux of your whole argument.

You forgot fascist. I fix.

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I'm not fucking joking, I'm not enabling you to go back out and wrap yourself and your bike around a guardrail. You want to put your shit back together, you either pay someone (and hopefully the cost would force you to start listening to the mountains of experience that exist on OR), you acknowledge that this may not end well for you and sell the bike, or you hack it together and keep rolling the dice when you go out there and hope it doesn't hit snake-eyes. Honestly, I really hope the latter isn't the case, but suffice it to say we've seen behavior like this before and it rarely ends well. Either way, I've given about all the advice I'm going to give to you.

Not at all. For the last few years we (and by we I mean primarily but not exclusively Occupy Wall Street) have been SCREAMING that large banks are literally bleeding you (and by you I mean both individuals and small business, but mainly individuals) dry with fees, charges, unnecessary overdrafts, shady processing algorithms, the list goes on and on. All the while, we've been pointing towards an entire market of smaller banks without these fees/charges, who actually give a shit about their customers, some even engage in profit-sharing, offer better rates, and are overall a better experience both on you as a consumer and the local bank. Our response from the conservative (I hate to lump everyone together like this, but let's call a spade a spade here) crowd? Paraphrased, I think it went something like "goddamn socialist hippies!" Now that a large national bank has terminated dealings with a firearms affiliated business, the response from that crowd (just judging from the comments of the article) is now something like OMFG WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK!1!!1111!! Personally, if it were up to me, Brian Moynihan (CEO of BoA) can eat a super-sized bag of dicks while surrendering half of his profits to the SEC on trading and banking violations on top of all the other bullshit that went down in 2008/09, and that goes double for Citi, Goldman, and all the rest of the bigun's. I merely find it interesting that the people that are blowing up won't move their bank accounts when it's in their own economic self-interest to do so, yet when someone even peripherally touches on their guns, all hell seems to break loose.