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I formatted your post a bit better so it's readable on mobile devices, but I agree.

    32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's
    intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with
    Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of
    there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to
    redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire.
    Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White
    Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013"

Since the police couldn't find a record of the alleged murder victim, I'm guessing that "redandwhite" and "friendlychemist" were the same person playing a con on DPR to get some cash.

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I'd venture a wild guess that DPR knew the two were the same :) He paid off friendlychemist "indirectly" but also communicated that he wouldn't mind extreme measures to make him disappear shall this occur again.

If you keep reading, the document later details that DPR contacted this "redandwhite" person, who he contracted to kill the other person, regarding false identifications. That seems to add some doubt to your hypothesis, or at least complicates things.

He may have also lied about having paid for a ht previously for $80k to bolster his bluff.

EDIT: Or he was watching too much breaking bad and beginning to assume Heisenberg's characteristics after feeling invincible for earning $80MM

It appears to fit with his persona of being a ruthless pirate, and the language also fits the big talk idea. He was paying for the problem to disappear, and he knew that, but he talked it up for fun.

However, he went too far into his fantasy, and not too smartly, and he'll pay for it.

I have been trying to fix the formatting. Sorry about that.

I just put in two spaces like the formatting guide said. But the whole thing ended being one line.

No worries, the best way I've found to do it is to manually split the lines every 10 words or so.

    So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. 

    Is really just a collection of sentence fragments
    that all fit the same formatting. There might be 
    a better way, but I don't know it!

If you're an emacs user, prefix the line with the desired number of spaces then type M-q, copy back into your browser. That's my solution to formatting block quotes at least. Your long line prexixed with 3 spaces in emacs:

    So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile
    devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several
    places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces.

And your split-by-hand block quote:

    Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all
    fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I
    don't know it!

Vim, FWIW: Visual mode, select the lines, hit ">"

As a Vim newb (well, ok I can use it, but I'm not well-versed in its more arcane elements), how do you select lines? C-<space> in emacs starts region selection, but I've never tried to select anything in Vim.

v starts standard visual(region selection) mode.

Shift-v starts line-by-line visual mode.

Ctrl-v starts visual column mode(which is both very cool and very useful)

http://usevim.com/2012/05/16/mouse/

set mouse=a

Or startline,endline command: 10,20d

You could include an angle bracket.

> 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013"

Or an angle bracket, with an opening and closing asterisk.

This means you don't need to include any line breaks.

I've added (another) comment to the HN feature requests post asking for a real quote function, so that offtopic discussions like this can come to an end.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074

until then feel free to take this for a spin: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736

Just use fmt(1) or par(1).

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