Lawmakers supporting the two bills baled out in droves,
bale 1 |bl| noun verb [ trans. ] make (something) into bales : they baled a lot of good hay | [as n. ] ( baling) most baling and field work have been finished.
Nevermind buying stuff like that, just turn a schlong out of a block of rubber on a lathe, drive a 6mm metal rod in through the centre and connect it to a Makita SDS drill
Bosch SDS-Max claims a higher power/weight ratio...
As cool as this is, I don't see it solving the real issue with solar panels - the expense of retrofitting them to a house/office tower. You'll still need to invest in all the inverters etc, and probably a professional electrician (assuming you like your building not on fire) to use these in any large-scale application, even if they do allow a few more locations to be used. Of course, I'd still love to just whack a couple on my packpack to charge my laptop while at uni...
Also, you need to mount your solar cells on a surface that is at an appropriate angle, and probably have no such surfaces.
Nice one-side post, err, I mean press release. According to the other side, the agreement was for a 6% commission, with the initial budget for construction at $150 million, but actual construction cost turned out to be $105 million.
You mention windows withstanding wind stronger than a ship has to withstand at sea. Your ignorance is two fold. Winds at sea are every bit as strong as they are anywhere above land. But - the wind is not the big deal. IT'S THE WATER!!!
1) Windows can be built to withstand bomb blasts, but that kind of glass is extraordinarily expensive. Aluminum is orders of magnitude cheaper.
2) You went where your mission required, even if it meant sailing straight through a typhoon. Private yachts avoid large storms.
They don't need to be institutionalized, they just need to be stopped from buying guns. Is that really too much to ask?
Adam Lanza didn't buy any guns...
Granted, the vast majority of these shooters do buy their own guns through legal channels, so trying to stop the purchase of guns by the deranged is a valid option to explore. But identifying the tiny fraction of strange antisocial people who will commit violent crimes is not as easy as it sounds...
Allow me to correct a small oversight on your part:
The Copyright Kleptocracy has more money, better liquor, better caviar, better boats, better golf clubs, better organization, and more hookers than you.
The editor, timothy, corrected the egregious errors in the submission while letting the parts worthy of commentary and debate stand. He did what an editor is supposed to do! Maybe 12/22 will be the end of the world after all, and this is one of the first signs of the imminent apocalypse!
Last I was aware, magazine safeties were pretty ubiquitous on semiautomatic handguns.
Nope. They are common, but far from ubiquitous. Two reasons:
1) Some older designs simply don't have them.
2) Some people don't want them. If you're thinking about the "lightning strikes" scenarios, then it's possible you'd suddenly want to fire that last round halfway through changing mags...
Better to limit all non-professional firearms to 3 rounds (shotgun, iirc, already are).
That's only for waterfowl hunting. Shotguns with higher capacities are perfectly legal and easy to obtain. In fact, many come with higher-capacity tubes and an insert that prevents it being fully loaded. It is then perfectly legal to remove the insert, but illegal to go duck/goose hunting with it removed.
As another point: I live out in the middle of nowhere, and according the the major telco/cable companies it's "not profitable" to provide any decent service to me. Yet, not 1 but *3* local ISP's have started up here--the newest one is close to 2 years old, the others have been around for substantially longer than that and are still in service, therefore presumably making money.
Qwest or Comcast could easily have owned the entire market here and left no room at all for these upstarts, but they just did not care.
A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offense.
Don't let bigots hide behind this kind of sophistry; forget a pardon; let's have parliament declare that the law was inhumane, unjust, invalid, and that all convictions are vacated.
Nope, I don't live in the U.K. and don't know the legal process enough to fill in the details. However, the U.S. and British system share deep roots, so I expect that our concept of vacating a conviction has some parallel there. Here, it is normally done for egregious legal error during the trial, but I am sure that it could also be legislated...
And enjoy your libel suit. Of course it won't matter if they haven't got a leg to stand on and you'll win in court because that will cost you several plane flights and 6 figures in lawyers fees.
No it won't. Two hours of a lawyers time for the response, along with copies of the invoices, will completely dispose of the matter and leave him set up for a really nasty lawsuit in return for their having filed false affidavits in support of a malicious prosecution.
Assuming of course he sticks to verifiable facts, and leaves out the CEO's propensity for fucking puppies;-)
I'm not sure, but it may be that debt collection laws apply in this case; meaning you can't inform any third party about the debt, among a whole bunch of other regulations.
Nope, those laws apply to debt collectors, not original debtors. So we're back to square 1, the person claiming that name & shame is illegal just pulled that bullshit straight of his ass.
...the latest SMB routers are completely useless...
I suspect that's the core of it. Can't disagree with your other points, but for me this is why my small business will never again attempt to use a Cisco product. Web-base config software that simply did not fucking work, forcing me to try to learn the basics of IOS, and then when I did get it configured (well, I think), it still didn't work right.
Obama's words are worthless! When he was running for his first term as President, he said several times that the so-called "war on drugs" was senseless. But he let his "dog" Eric Holder loose to go after users of medical marijuana...
No, he did not. At least not in Colorado. So what's the basis of your claim?
My dad got infected by some malware a while back. He had WinXP Pro. My brothers tried to help him to no avail. He doesn't do well with keeping his antivrus and malware stuff updated. The old guy also does stuff I've told him not to do too. So he got this malware infection that told him that the FBI had locked his computer and to send $200 to a site to unlock it. He freaked out. So I installed Linux Mint 13 KDE 32-bit on his computer. He hasn't had to worry since. He likes it because its also faster. My family thinks I'm free tech support and I was getting real tired of fixing their installations. Now my brothers and uncle have installed Mint also. Life is much simpler for me now.:-)
All these people say "get him a Mac" or "get him Linux". Bah humbug! I get the good stuff for myself (I prefer Mac), and then I can give people like that a blank stare and say "I don't know nothin' about that there Windows stuff";-)
Red Herring? Since when does a mere store manager override HQ? That's an impressive stance to take.
Really? You think a store manager has to call HQ, set up a meeting with legal, and have some huge conference before he is allowed to ask someone to leave the store? No, that's not how it works.
And "she did nothing illegal". It is not illegal to go pick up a "ship to store" pre-paid piece of equipment.
Man, oh man, oh man; you're clinging to this delusion really really hard. Here's the thing, just because you do one thing in a day that is not illegal, doesn't make everything you do that day not illegal.
If that Apple store manager didn't want her there, he could have just given the iphones to her, and asked her to leave. He does not have the right to withhold hardware that was already paid for.
Well, actually if they're purchased in deliberate violation of company policy, especially using some form of deception (which we don't know in this case), he probably does have the right--of course the company would be obligated to issue a refund. And now, for the specific legal bit: if you have already been banned from a store, it is trespass, probably felony trespass, to come back, and ordering merchandise online for store pickup does not change that.
Thought experiment: go into a Best Buy and verbally threaten an employee and act like you're about tto lose it and physically assault him, get told never to come back. Go online and order something for in-store pickup. Go back to the store. What do you think will happen? What do you think should happen?
A more extreme example of course, but same principle: ordering something for delivery to a location on private property where you know you are not allowed does not confer any right to go there.
So why are you clinging so hard to this lie? Using an obvious lie to defend your position only weakens it, and is almost always a red flag that the position is extremely weak because there's no better argument. But that's not the case here--the position that the store manager and/or the police over-reacted to a minor situation is well defensible, so why not defend it based on the facts of the matter and reasonable opinions rather than a single 100% steaming bullshit assertion??? The only reason I can think of is pure intellectual laziness--is there some other reason I'm missing?
Just like last time. Or weren't you paying attention, then?
Yes, I was. Denver still has more medical marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks--about 500. (About 1,000 in the state of Colorado.) So, your point was, what, exactly?
To further compound the problem, SSNs are increasingly being used as both an identifier AND an authenticater!
Don't you get it? The new standard, instead of two-factor authentication, we're moving to half-factor authentication. Or, for the cynical, half-ass-factor authentication.
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Lawmakers supporting the two bills baled out in droves,
bale 1 |bl|
noun
verb [ trans. ]
make (something) into bales : they baled a lot of good hay | [as n. ] ( baling) most baling and field work have been finished.
Nevermind buying stuff like that, just turn a schlong out of a block of rubber on a lathe, drive a 6mm metal rod in through the centre and connect it to a Makita SDS drill
Bosch SDS-Max claims a higher power/weight ratio...
As cool as this is, I don't see it solving the real issue with solar panels - the expense of retrofitting them to a house/office tower. You'll still need to invest in all the inverters etc, and probably a professional electrician (assuming you like your building not on fire) to use these in any large-scale application, even if they do allow a few more locations to be used. Of course, I'd still love to just whack a couple on my packpack to charge my laptop while at uni...
Also, you need to mount your solar cells on a surface that is at an appropriate angle, and probably have no such surfaces.
Nice one-side post, err, I mean press release. According to the other side, the agreement was for a 6% commission, with the initial budget for construction at $150 million, but actual construction cost turned out to be $105 million.
You mention windows withstanding wind stronger than a ship has to withstand at sea. Your ignorance is two fold. Winds at sea are every bit as strong as they are anywhere above land. But - the wind is not the big deal. IT'S THE WATER!!!
1) Windows can be built to withstand bomb blasts, but that kind of glass is extraordinarily expensive. Aluminum is orders of magnitude cheaper.
2) You went where your mission required, even if it meant sailing straight through a typhoon. Private yachts avoid large storms.
Great idea, thanks. I always test new drives, but this one had not occurred to me.
Fuck HR.
Well, hey, when I was a young lad not long out of college, that's exactly what I did to the VP of HR one night. I still have fond memories...
They don't need to be institutionalized, they just need to be stopped from buying guns. Is that really too much to ask?
Adam Lanza didn't buy any guns...
Granted, the vast majority of these shooters do buy their own guns through legal channels, so trying to stop the purchase of guns by the deranged is a valid option to explore. But identifying the tiny fraction of strange antisocial people who will commit violent crimes is not as easy as it sounds...
Yeah, I only thought of the "hookers and blow" after I posted.
Duh, yeah, I forgot the cocaine. Figures. Reflects my own preferences: a horndog with no interest in drugs ;-)
Allow me to correct a small oversight on your part:
The Copyright Kleptocracy has more money, better liquor, better caviar, better boats, better golf clubs, better organization, and more hookers than you.
The editor, timothy, corrected the egregious errors in the submission while letting the parts worthy of commentary and debate stand. He did what an editor is supposed to do! Maybe 12/22 will be the end of the world after all, and this is one of the first signs of the imminent apocalypse!
Last I was aware, magazine safeties were pretty ubiquitous on semiautomatic handguns.
Nope. They are common, but far from ubiquitous. Two reasons:
1) Some older designs simply don't have them.
2) Some people don't want them. If you're thinking about the "lightning strikes" scenarios, then it's possible you'd suddenly want to fire that last round halfway through changing mags...
Better to limit all non-professional firearms to 3 rounds (shotgun, iirc, already are).
That's only for waterfowl hunting. Shotguns with higher capacities are perfectly legal and easy to obtain. In fact, many come with higher-capacity tubes and an insert that prevents it being fully loaded. It is then perfectly legal to remove the insert, but illegal to go duck/goose hunting with it removed.
As another point: I live out in the middle of nowhere, and according the the major telco/cable companies it's "not profitable" to provide any decent service to me. Yet, not 1 but *3* local ISP's have started up here--the newest one is close to 2 years old, the others have been around for substantially longer than that and are still in service, therefore presumably making money.
Qwest or Comcast could easily have owned the entire market here and left no room at all for these upstarts, but they just did not care.
Will God pardon him?
Of course not, your obvious homophobia makes it clear that this figment of your own imagination could never pardon him.
A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offense.
Don't let bigots hide behind this kind of sophistry; forget a pardon; let's have parliament declare that the law was inhumane, unjust, invalid, and that all convictions are vacated.
Nope, I don't live in the U.K. and don't know the legal process enough to fill in the details. However, the U.S. and British system share deep roots, so I expect that our concept of vacating a conviction has some parallel there. Here, it is normally done for egregious legal error during the trial, but I am sure that it could also be legislated...
And enjoy your libel suit. Of course it won't matter if they haven't got a leg to stand on and you'll win in court because that will cost you several plane flights and 6 figures in lawyers fees.
No it won't. Two hours of a lawyers time for the response, along with copies of the invoices, will completely dispose of the matter and leave him set up for a really nasty lawsuit in return for their having filed false affidavits in support of a malicious prosecution.
Assuming of course he sticks to verifiable facts, and leaves out the CEO's propensity for fucking puppies ;-)
I'm not sure, but it may be that debt collection laws apply in this case; meaning you can't inform any third party about the debt, among a whole bunch of other regulations.
Nope, those laws apply to debt collectors, not original debtors. So we're back to square 1, the person claiming that name & shame is illegal just pulled that bullshit straight of his ass.
...the latest SMB routers are completely useless...
I suspect that's the core of it. Can't disagree with your other points, but for me this is why my small business will never again attempt to use a Cisco product. Web-base config software that simply did not fucking work, forcing me to try to learn the basics of IOS, and then when I did get it configured (well, I think), it still didn't work right.
Obama's words are worthless! When he was running for his first term as President, he said several times that the so-called "war on drugs" was senseless. But he let his "dog" Eric Holder loose to go after users of medical marijuana ...
No, he did not. At least not in Colorado. So what's the basis of your claim?
My dad got infected by some malware a while back. He had WinXP Pro. My brothers tried to help him to no avail. He doesn't do well with keeping his antivrus and malware stuff updated. The old guy also does stuff I've told him not to do too. So he got this malware infection that told him that the FBI had locked his computer and to send $200 to a site to unlock it. He freaked out. So I installed Linux Mint 13 KDE 32-bit on his computer. He hasn't had to worry since. He likes it because its also faster. My family thinks I'm free tech support and I was getting real tired of fixing their installations. Now my brothers and uncle have installed Mint also. Life is much simpler for me now. :-)
All these people say "get him a Mac" or "get him Linux". Bah humbug! I get the good stuff for myself (I prefer Mac), and then I can give people like that a blank stare and say "I don't know nothin' about that there Windows stuff" ;-)
Red Herring? Since when does a mere store manager override HQ? That's an impressive stance to take.
Really? You think a store manager has to call HQ, set up a meeting with legal, and have some huge conference before he is allowed to ask someone to leave the store? No, that's not how it works.
And "she did nothing illegal". It is not illegal to go pick up a "ship to store" pre-paid piece of equipment.
Man, oh man, oh man; you're clinging to this delusion really really hard. Here's the thing, just because you do one thing in a day that is not illegal, doesn't make everything you do that day not illegal.
If that Apple store manager didn't want her there, he could have just given the iphones to her, and asked her to leave. He does not have the right to withhold hardware that was already paid for.
Well, actually if they're purchased in deliberate violation of company policy, especially using some form of deception (which we don't know in this case), he probably does have the right--of course the company would be obligated to issue a refund. And now, for the specific legal bit: if you have already been banned from a store, it is trespass, probably felony trespass, to come back, and ordering merchandise online for store pickup does not change that.
Thought experiment: go into a Best Buy and verbally threaten an employee and act like you're about tto lose it and physically assault him, get told never to come back. Go online and order something for in-store pickup. Go back to the store. What do you think will happen? What do you think should happen?
A more extreme example of course, but same principle: ordering something for delivery to a location on private property where you know you are not allowed does not confer any right to go there.
So why are you clinging so hard to this lie? Using an obvious lie to defend your position only weakens it, and is almost always a red flag that the position is extremely weak because there's no better argument. But that's not the case here--the position that the store manager and/or the police over-reacted to a minor situation is well defensible, so why not defend it based on the facts of the matter and reasonable opinions rather than a single 100% steaming bullshit assertion??? The only reason I can think of is pure intellectual laziness--is there some other reason I'm missing?
Anyone in the word can write your return address on an envelope and mail it to him. So explain to him that email is the exact same way.
Just like last time. Or weren't you paying attention, then?
Yes, I was. Denver still has more medical marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks--about 500. (About 1,000 in the state of Colorado.) So, your point was, what, exactly?
To further compound the problem, SSNs are increasingly being used as both an identifier AND an authenticater!
Don't you get it? The new standard, instead of two-factor authentication, we're moving to half-factor authentication. Or, for the cynical, half-ass-factor authentication.