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Re: Costco Gun Policy

kevinkinnett — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:57:18 -0000

That may be true, but you missed my entire point, which is, there is potential legal downsides to their policy depending on the state.

Re: Costco Gun Policy

kevinkinnett — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:39:27 -0000

Interesting... Not carrying ammo or weapons may decrease the legal liability of Costco in some states, I don't know, but in general the law protects gun sellers from liability from the the actions of the gun buyer if they are sold legally. So, by not selling ammo they are missing out on any profits, however they are arguably lowering their exposure to risk and gaining goodwill of folks like you (and maybe bad will of those that do not agree).

HOWEVER, by not allowing people to carry (that are legally allowed to) at least in the state of Georgia, they are opening a can worms. If someone is injured or killed, as a result of say, a criminal attacking them on Costco's property, they or their families could sue Costco claiming that their no weapons policy opened them up to injury or death. If they can prove that the injured party (or someone else) could have prevented the situation had they been allowed to use their firearm in self defense, then Costco could easily find itself on the loosing end of an expensive lawsuit.

I imagine Costco policy is informed by the incident on a Nevada Costco several years ago. http://www.8newsnow.com/cat...

Re: Diana Eats Paleo

kevinkinnett — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:23:07 -0000

Hello this is a test

Re: Ben McMath

kevinkinnett — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:43:48 -0000

Man.... That's a really curvy railing.

Re: Ben McMath • Visiting HQ

kevinkinnett — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:03:34 -0000

Oh wow... thats cool... nice dinosaurs! Sweet Harleys! ... (gets to the last slide) ... forehead slap!

Re: Ben McMath • New view

kevinkinnett — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:57:41 -0000

Oh i was going to ask you a question about how you carry, since I got that same clip as you, are you ever on the IMs?

Re: Ben McMath • New view

kevinkinnett — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:56:27 -0000

Oh funny! (except for the guy that lost his job, I suppose) I was going to ask about what looks like that big PC tower on the right, but that explains it.

Re: Ben McMath • New view

kevinkinnett — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:50:48 -0000

Nice! Corner office? Promotion?

Re: The Snowden Index: A glance at opinions of the NSA leaker

kevinkinnett — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:58:26 -0000

How do you even know he didn't attempt to go through those 'plenty of whistle blowing channels' before?

Re: The Snowden Index: A glance at opinions of the NSA leaker

kevinkinnett — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:48:26 -0000

CNN's home page, for the last week has had very little coverage of this story, and when it does it tends to focus on Snowden himself (tending toward negative) instead of the actual content of the gross violations that he exposed. Or it covers people's opinion of him (like here) as if THAT is even news. CNN should be ashamed.

Re: http://benmcmath.tumblr.com/post/14617434576

kevinkinnett — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:59:07 -0000

I've often wondered how people in the fourth plain got their cell phones to work?

Re: http://benmcmath.tumblr.com/post/7536525091

kevinkinnett — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:55:33 -0000

Often if people had a rucdimentary understanding of the file system it would save them a lot of time and frustration

Re: Encrypted Phone Calls Are Here For A Price

kevinkinnett — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:12:26 -0000

Or ... you could just use skype which is encrypted anyway

Re: Which Do You Prefer: Gold, Silver, Dollar Bills, or Bitcoins?

kevinkinnett — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:41:51 -0000

That 1/2 mil figure was based on the current market value of what bitcoins are trading at for us dollars. You can say the same thing for the us dollar such as 1 dollar is worth so many yen, or so many yen are worth x number of euros. Take a look at the last couple of years and you'll see the the us dollar has swung in value vs other currency.

Money has no intrinsic value, it simply a means to transact something else of value. When you accept a dollar in payment for something what you are really doing is placing your trust in the us government to back that dollar should the need arise. If you accept a bit coins it means that you instead trust the mathematic and cryptographic underpinnings on which it is based.

Re: Bitterness, Anger And Betrayal At MySpace

kevinkinnett — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:42:40 -0000

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it."

Frederic Bastiat

Re: benmcmath.tumblr

kevinkinnett — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:47:02 -0000

WHAT!?!?!? I signed up for that.... really.... for the free copy of windows 7 :-)