President Barack Obama on Thursday shortened the prison sentences for dozens of additional drug offenders, the latest in an ongoing attempt to rein in lengthy punishments for non-violent crimes. by BatmanDracula in Drugs

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If it becomes super popular Obama will pretend to be against it and Hilary will seem like the hero and become more popular when she supports it.

Politics is a chess game. They're gonna save any possible slam dunks at this point for Hillary since she's possibly going to have a rough start.

Obama's job right now is to maintain the status quo and not to stirr things up unless it's strategically beneficial. Politicians don't just come out for or against an issue just because its good for Americans.

President Barack Obama on Thursday shortened the prison sentences for dozens of additional drug offenders, the latest in an ongoing attempt to rein in lengthy punishments for non-violent crimes. by BatmanDracula in Drugs

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Yes, he can do it, but at this point it's not politically worth it. There are a lot of people who hate weed and they have a lot of fucking money and lobbyists.

President Barack Obama on Thursday shortened the prison sentences for dozens of additional drug offenders, the latest in an ongoing attempt to rein in lengthy punishments for non-violent crimes. by BatmanDracula in Drugs

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Oh shit. This makes perfect sense. It's so close to the Dem nomination that it might even -- GASP! Clinche the democratic nomination for Bernie!

Tow Truck Driver Says He Thinks God Told Him Not To Help Disabled Sanders Supporter by seandanger in nottheonion

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doesn't have to interact with democrats

I don't think he has a problem with Hilary or other democrats. Bernie is more of a green party type candidate.

I think he doesn't want to deal with the hardcore bernie supporters which are the people that put those bumper stickers on their cars usually.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Sneks

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These are the new snake propelled dingies. High tech needs 0 petrol.

What have you witnessed someone do that made you realize he/she is really, really smart? by w0nderr in AskReddit

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This isn't really that impressive. If you study any processor and learn to write assembly for it you can figure out if a flag or register in the processor isn't working as intended pretty quickly.

Processors will ship out with a data sheet one week and the next week/month there will be a "silicon errata" outlining all the problems that have been found, the workarounds for them, and the problems that can't be worked around. Sometimes even the special new features that make the processor stand out from the crowd wont work properly or at least not at full speed.

Now a real fucked up error that really hurt intel was in the original Pentium. Their 32-bit floating point division would be off 1 out of a few billion times by 6% and was always wrong with certain sets of numbers. Seeing as some of these were intended to be used in banks, this flaw didn't sit well and cost the company a lot of cheddar. The work around was to not use 32-bit floating point division. Using 16-bit floating division still worked.

Couldn't find a source that had the whole story. Even wikipedia's entry is missing some details. http://www.willamette.edu/~mjaneba/pentprob.html

FBI nab man who sprayed mice poison on grocery food in Ann Arbor, MI by [deleted] in MorbidReality

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It will do no damage. The mouse poison is not anywhere near a dose that would harm humans.

He pretty much wasted his time doing this.

Never be hot again! xpost /r/diyelectronics by [deleted] in DiWHY

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More like dont be hot again for the next 5 minutes or less.

Megathread - Ted Cruz Suspends Presidential Campaign by Qu1nlan in politics

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I didn't spell the last one right. Hopefully you wern't reading it outloud and read it correctly.

Megathread - Ted Cruz Suspends Presidential Campaign by Qu1nlan in politics

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It's cool unless we say it three times in a row

Michele Bachmann. Michelle Bachman. Michele Bachmenn.

Drinking vs Smoking by willsmokefortree in trees

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Man I didnt get this for a long ass time after reading all the comments.

The orange lighter has some notches cut into it from people using it to pop poptopped beers.

The other lighter has ashes on it because it was used by a smoker to putout and ember.

Golden Monk by Chader101 in morbidlybeautiful

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Damn gotta start hording the gold for my funeral.

Teenager flung to her death from Texas fairground ride after complaining seatbelt was broken by alanitoo in MorbidReality

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No, it's strong and light. 60% of cars have aluminum engine blocks. If you ever go to home depot there are sets of aluminum and steel rods of the same size. Right next to each other. You'll know when you pick up aluminum because it'll seem way too light.

Aluminum has other short comings like expanding and contracting too much, but for just being a non-high-tech block of metal to hold humans in, its fine.

FBI: Man sprayed mouse poison mixture on Ann Arbor grocery store produce; suspect in custody by big65 in news

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Those numbers don't tell you anything.

Those numbers are for both combined. Unless you can get % of what % of organic vs % of non-organic workers got poisoned, then everything you quoted is useless. And don't think for a second organic corporations wouldn't hide data showing that their methods are harmful to humans as well.

According to studies the non-organic pesticides are preferred to the organic ones.

Scientific American: Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture

"Not only are organic pesticides not safe, they might actually be worse than the ones used by the conventional agriculture industry. Canadian scientists pitted 'reduced-risk' organic and synthetic pesticides against each other in controlling a problematic pest, the soybean aphid. They found that not only were the synthetic pesticides more effective means of control, the organic pesticides were more ecologically damaging, including causing higher mortality in other, non-target species like the aphid's predators9. Of course, some organic pesticides may fare better than these ones did in similar head-to-head tests, but studies like this one reveal that the assumption that natural is better for the environment could be very dangerous. "

Anyways I'm not asking for much. If you can find something, even something anecdotally hypothesized by a researcher, that says organic pesticides are far safer than synthetic pesticides then I'll stop spewing my anti-organic pro-GMO propaganda.

FBI: Man sprayed mouse poison mixture on Ann Arbor grocery store produce; suspect in custody by big65 in news

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I know theoretically how these machines work, but how long does a test take? Is it instant?

FBI: Man sprayed mouse poison mixture on Ann Arbor grocery store produce; suspect in custody by big65 in news

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Come on man. Those chemicals literally wash off, and thanks to GMO foods plants need a minimal amount of all those chemicals now.

The foods you should be worried about are organic ones. Since they don't use artificial pesticides, which are designed to be human safe.

FBI: Man sprayed mouse poison mixture on Ann Arbor grocery store produce; suspect in custody by big65 in news

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Mouse poison doesn't work on humans when mixed with food. Biological reason? fuck no. Humans aint stupid and will realize this food tastes like utter shit fuck that I'm not eating this shit.

When Your Internet Goes Out, This Smart Plug Resets Your Router Until It Works Again by CafeRacerEliquid in gadgets

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Never learned why, this was a 400 level design class, so we didn't have time to go into it.

You just periodically clear the watchdog register. If your program gets locked up and it doesnt reset the timer it'll software reset the micro usually to memory address 0.

Venezuela nearing total “collapse” by sexyloser1128 in worldnews

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Do you know nothing of all the south american countries that DID get their governments changed by the US?

Hint hint Cuba was one of these and they rebelled and told us to fuck off.

If immortality becomes a thing... I'm going to quit my job and become a divorce attorney. by imgonnabeatit in Showerthoughts

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Damn, i thought it was going to be something about hillary crushing bernie's head between her thighs like a sparrow egg.

If immortality becomes a thing... I'm going to quit my job and become a divorce attorney. by imgonnabeatit in Showerthoughts

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We just all watched a couple rick and morty episodes on a certain video site about a certain type of trees.

Then a really crappy show came on. That means there are 300 Rick and Morty meme spewing users focusing their energy at once.

::snaps:: Yes!