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Capco

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  1. Looking good so far! This team feels stacked. Players can make mistakes and the other 10 guys on the field usually can make up for it.
  2. This defense is looking pretty damn good.
  3. Anyone else’s signal go all twilight zone just now?
  4. Diggs got his first taste of Billsy on that drive ender.
  5. I like the approach and tempo. Exactly how the Bills need to start. Just let Allen play ball.
  6. Diggs left out to dry but that second throw was good.
  7. Flags on the opening kickoff. To be expected.
  8. Idk. In terms of a cost-benefit analysis, this costs the sheriff almost nothing but could potentially save a lot of hassle. I know, I know... everyone should know that there are no fans allowed at OBD at the moment. But as a wise man once said:
  9. This is where I'm at. On paper our team has talent at every level but we do kind of play to our opponent. I'll be pleasantly surprised with a 35-7 blowout but I expect a 17-6 type score.
  10. I’m much the same way. I put a great amount of value in common courtesy. Some of that is lost in the situations like you described above. I grew up in a rural area and still live in one. I’ve been to cities many a time, and while they do have a certain kind of almost palpable energy about them, it’s not something that I’d enjoy living in. Ultimately I enjoy peace, tranquility, and space over the benefits of being packed in like a sardine (I say that nebulously but there are advantages to living in close proximity with one another). When you know fewer people, you have more time available to really get to know those that you do know. That’s always been my philosophy on friendships and I can see how that would loosely translate to CA vs Idaho.
  11. Clements and Winfield also come to mind. I think the last one we re-signed was McGee.
  12. Politics aside, I'm very happy for you. It sounds like you made a great move. I never thought of Idaho as "the place to be" but I've also never been there. Besides the potatoes, what do you like about Idaho (aside from the political differences or things derived from them)?
  13. You do realize how much of our clothing, electronics and other products, produced by companies headquartered in some 1st world nation, come from sweatshops in 2nd/3rd world countries with minors working there, with far more innovation and technology than were present 100 years ago, don't you? https://theowp.org/reports/child-labour-shameful-reality-21st-century/ Child labor laws in the US have just driven American companies to obtain their child labor in countries that either have no/fewer laws preventing the use of child labor, or haven't the means to widely enforce the laws they do have. The desire to make money is still the driving force behind child labor to this day. However, the desire to make money is certainly not the only driver of innovation, although it can be a big part of it and as such I believe it must be balanced with the other drives in people's lives. Insatiable greed is what leads to things like child labor in a world of abundance. We aren't meant to just seek out money and nothing else; it isn't our only motivation in life or even the most powerful one. Trying to argue that child labor laws were not only unnecessary but also harmful is as ludicrous as it is stupid. If that were true then apparently you are a proponent of the removal of child labor laws as an unnecessary regulation (maybe because it is strangling free trade?). To your point, the drafting of child labor laws was maybe harmful in the sense that capitalism was the driving force behind families having to put their children to work in the first place. The do-or-die nature of unregulated capitalism, particularly the Gilded Age preceding the Progressive Era, when there were very few (if any) of social safety nets and labor laws that we have today, is what hurt those who were consumed by its insatiable greed until it was finally (although not completely) reined in. You see, no children get left on the street when there are publicly funded programs in place to take care of people who are down on their luck. Instead of "do or die," I prefer the phrase "The playing field is even: do well or don't do well. The choice is yours."
  14. That's ultimately for a jury to decide. I think coming to a city: 1) one is entirely unaffiliated with, 2) with active protests, 3) with a firearm is worthy enough to provoke an attack. It was also a nod to DC Tom tbf. I kinda miss him calling me a moron.
  15. If you read my last post carefully, then read the above chapters from Wisconsin state law, you would immediately begin to notice how his points were crafted with Wisconsin law in mind... since, you know, the incident happened in Wisconsin and Wisconsin thereby has jurisdiction. Why would you bring up Stand Your Ground when we are talking about a case in Wisconsin? Moron.
  16. At the very least, he broke the law by carrying a firearm in Wisconsin as a minor, a Class A midemeanor: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/948/60 Accordingly, he is not allowed to claim self defense under Chapter 939.48(2)(a), which reads as follows: (a) A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense against such attack, except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. In such a case, the person engaging in the unlawful conduct is privileged to act in self-defense, but the person is not privileged to resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the person's assailant unless the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm at the hands of his or her assailant. https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/939/iii/48 It's certainly not a slam-dunk case by any stretch. A jury still needs to be convinced that the necessary elements to relinquish the privilege of self-defense are met. But to say the opposite, that it is a slam-dunk case of self-defense, is erroneous at best and misleading at worst. Wisconsin does not have a stand your ground law. There is a duty to retreat unless in one's home or vehicle or workplace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law
  17. I'm so glad there's not been any child labor in the world for the past 100 years. All thanks to capitalism (and not science or technology, of course; neither can exist without the foundation that is capitalism).
  18. Nothing personal. Your post was the most recent search result for the word "capitalism" lol. Also, the point of my "America First" reference was not to suggest that you want to employ children, but rather to highlight your automatic dismissal of something because it doesn't fit your worldview. "Americans are often stereotyped as arrogant people. They are frequently depicted in foreign media as excessively nationalistic and obnoxiously patriotic, believing the U.S. is better than all other countries and patronizing foreigners." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Americans#Arrogance_and_nationalism
  19. It's usually a misdemeanor, actually. And can even be a felony.
  20. "America First" in a nutshell.
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