Ok, so the request for his PIN number didn't set off the alarms.
Really, this is an example of where you make the caller provide some information, then if ti seems wrong hang up and call in to the number you know.
I'm getting 5-15 calls a month from the 'credit card reconciliation center' or some such BS. I haven't listened past them asking me for my name, which if they are my bank or card company they should already know.
He did state that sometimes he drank 'too much'. No, not an admission of drunkenness. Somehow the previous 5 (or is it 6?) Investigations, one for a top secret clearance, failed to bring these defects to light.
No, I did not find that these unsupported and frankly bizzare accusations were at all credible or convincing. 'Rape train'? Really? Would that have gone unnoticed at your high school? It's shocking that this has happened, and that reasonable people would stand by and watch such fantastical accusations be considered, with not a shred of credible confirmation. It doesn't matter if you think he led a privileged life. We know of other situations where young men's lives were ruined by lies. At the least, could we have some credible corroborating testimony?
If this doesn't bother you, that this so came up at the last minute, despite being known for months, you've not considered this objectively. A pity. Our nation is descending into rage and despair, and run, if this is how it is.
"Open hatred of anyone is not acceptable in a judge."
Fortunately that's not a feature of Judge Kavanaugh's character. His righteous, justified anger, however is tolerable in a judge, especially when it's in response to accusations he consistently denies.
Innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof was not met in this instance.
"Sucralose; "a chlorinated derivative of sucrose""
"Acesulfame K "is not broken down when digested, nor is it stored in the body. After being consumed, it's quickly absorbed by the body and then rapidly excreted, unchanged"
"After digestion, aspartame is broken down into two amino acids, and methanol."
"Neotame is recommended to be used in organic food, but it could be causing neurotoxic and immunotoxic damage. These are the same concerns that have been found in aspartame."
"Laboratory rat testing in the 1970’s linked saccharin to the development of bladder cancer"
"Advantame is derived from aspartame, and has a similar chemical structure. "
Seeing the different side effects and mechanisms of these sweeteners, and the very different chemical compositions, I'm suspicious that these can all have the same or similar effect on gut bacteria. In fact, the argument starts with Acesulfame K, which is described as not being metabolized. Which is it, is A-K metabolized within the body or not?
Count me as cynical. This is not a definitive study, I bet.
And the prior example wasn't 11th hour - it was a smear campaign form the very beginning. This is technically the third example of blatant, manufactured character assassination intended to deny confirmation.
No, this is how you get recess appointments, SCOTUS impeachment hearings, and failed judiciary.
And the Democrats are more than willing to go this way, because they both crave power and believe they are unassailable in their pursuit of that power.
This goes very badly, no mater what. Either Democrats continue down this path, with the destruction of our form of government at the end of it, or the proper and correct pursuit of justice leads to their unrestrained resistance, and outright revolt.
Yes. Revolt. There is no middle ground with the Left, it's their way or death. History demonstrates this, every time.
Around here the telcos rent space on poles erected by municipal-owned electric utilities, but where I used to live those poles were in fact paid for and installed by the private monopoly utilities. They 'leased' rights fo way on otherwise public land, or came to agreements on private land.
This is first an overreach by the FCC to try and drive costs down for providers, in a way that actually need not be done.
Secondly, though local governments are not going to let revenue be denied to them.
Great stuff, let's all grab the popcorn and watch who gets the power to screw us. Again. 'Cause we are getting screwed here, somehow, by someone, no matter how this goes.
I have never had to 'throw away' a laptop after two years. Never. All have lasted longer, even the unfortunate Toshiba models. But I repaired many for clients, and mostly it was rough handling that did them in fatally. For a while it was clogged ventilation and bad hard drives. Now it's back to rough handling, since the displays are still mostly glass.
Hm. I made a living for a few years repairing laptops for clients. Yes, back then it was equal parts hard drives and display hinges. Even today you can repair a surprising fraction of the popular machines.
The thinnest and lightest, of course are a challenge. I'm waiting for my Surface Pro 3 to come off extended warranty and fail so I can try.
My Surface Pro 3 is working just fine, thank you. No need to replace it.
My dell E6440 also is doing what I need it to do. My old Asus G50-VT not so much, but it comes out of storage to solve problems whenever, and works fine.
My wife's HP G62 she's convinced is pus, it won't print more than 5 pages of a ppt file at a time, and it loses edits.
And the newly acquired mid-2013 MacBook Air is purely marvelous, cheap and totally functional on Mojave.
New PC hardware is a little like new cars. Depreciation and marginal improvement in performance and/or comfort doesn't justify the purchase price.
0. I already pay fees. Just say I need to pay more, because, well, I'm actually using it?
1. Distance fee? From where to where? I know, that's obvious. So do I pay for the trip from the content provider's servers to my device, and what if it's poorly routed? On purpose? Or were you thinking RFC1149 distance?
2, 3. QoS is a thing. We have to pay more for a better QoS? Why not discount those who don't need so much, like email users...
4,5. Um now we're redesigning TCP, swell, What could go wrong with this?
6. Hop counts, sure. Not like even that minimal overhead will cause problems.
I'm still convinced that first, ISPs that also have competing businesses (Cable cos for instance) have a significant incentive to not treat Netflix and other similar providers 'fairly', or even 'well'; second, all ISPs have incentives to charge as much as they can for whatever they can, so competition is the only answer; and lastly, where other wireless solutions were flawed, Band 71 has some potential. This will be interesting to see how the rollout is received, once it's conquered rural areas, the fight for urban business will be brutal.
I rented an apartment in an old water-powered mill building, where even the historic flood I lived through did not cause any damage. Even the telephone wiring was above even the worst scenario flood level. I know, I helped remove load coils so DSL would work, and then clean up much old terrible Nynex craft so ISDN would work.
Yeah. After 150+ years of operation, with no water in the working spaces, and another 30 years as an apartment complex, still it was never flooded. But I don't dare look at the flood mapping, because it's right there, next to the river, with the channel still below it, and FEMA undoubtedly used 'detailed methods' to determine the risk. That phrase is key. Remember it.
Being farmland it probably didn't flood. Now that it's developed and paved, drainage is the problem. Or to put it more succinctly, drainage design has placed my home in a manufactured flood zone... First world problems.
You did read where my property was classified as being in a flood area AFTER I PURCHASED IT, right?
The line of such clever people asking me why I bought in a flood plain, why I didn't look into this before buying, why I live in a flood zone, are so missing the truth. After 3 years property was included in new flood mapping done by FEMA. I'm in by 6" of elevation. Most of my neighborhood is included as well.
No one recalls any past flooding. This is FEMA's assumption that we are at a 1% risk in any year of flooding, or, as it's usually described, within a 200-year flood zone We are in an AE zone, barely 3 lots from the edge of the zone. Further, AE means the government has determined that "predicted flood water elevations above mean sea level have been established". We live several hundred miles from ocean... Officially, FEMA states that AE zone risks are determined by 'detailed methods'.
If we were actually flooded we would have to rebuild according to *local floodplain zoning ordinance*, and I don't know if local ordinances are dictated by or required to confirm to federal standards...
My premium is a little over $500/year. I'm one of 250+/- additions to the flood zone in 2015, in Gilbert AZ alone.
And it's my personal opinion that FEMA jiggered the data to include many lower risk homes to gain premiums from a larger population and replenish the funding.
I'll pay possibly $50,000 in premiums over 100 years, but if I suffer a flood earlier, well, all I get out of that is the opportunity to rebuild with flood prevention measures as part of the tenant rebuild - probably raising the foundation and grade, possibly by 12" or more. That's a surprisingly expensive proposal.
Oh, please remember, I didn't buy into this, this was done to me 3 years after I purchased the property. And there are no records of any flood in this neighborhood in 20 years, and before that it was farmland, no records since the town was Incorporated...
They should have used pigskin. It feels better, and it would enamor us to an entirely different population that already hates us enough to kill. Nothing lost.
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Ok, so the request for his PIN number didn't set off the alarms.
Really, this is an example of where you make the caller provide some information, then if ti seems wrong hang up and call in to the number you know.
I'm getting 5-15 calls a month from the 'credit card reconciliation center' or some such BS. I haven't listened past them asking me for my name, which if they are my bank or card company they should already know.
Apple Watch Series 4 was introduced in September this year. DST doesn't change until November.
How is this already a problem? Testing?
Oh, wait. Apple doesn't actually test stuff, but somewhere in the rest of the world someone does...
He did state that sometimes he drank 'too much'. No, not an admission of drunkenness. Somehow the previous 5 (or is it 6?) Investigations, one for a top secret clearance, failed to bring these defects to light.
No, I did not find that these unsupported and frankly bizzare accusations were at all credible or convincing. 'Rape train'? Really? Would that have gone unnoticed at your high school? It's shocking that this has happened, and that reasonable people would stand by and watch such fantastical accusations be considered, with not a shred of credible confirmation. It doesn't matter if you think he led a privileged life. We know of other situations where young men's lives were ruined by lies. At the least, could we have some credible corroborating testimony?
If this doesn't bother you, that this so came up at the last minute, despite being known for months, you've not considered this objectively. A pity. Our nation is descending into rage and despair, and run, if this is how it is.
"Open hatred of anyone is not acceptable in a judge."
Fortunately that's not a feature of Judge Kavanaugh's character. His righteous, justified anger, however is tolerable in a judge, especially when it's in response to accusations he consistently denies.
Innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof was not met in this instance.
From a variety of sources:
"Sucralose; "a chlorinated derivative of sucrose""
"Acesulfame K "is not broken down when digested, nor is it stored in the body. After being consumed, it's quickly absorbed by the body and then rapidly excreted, unchanged"
"After digestion, aspartame is broken down into two amino acids, and methanol."
"Neotame is recommended to be used in organic food, but it could be causing neurotoxic and immunotoxic damage. These are the same concerns that have been found in aspartame."
"Laboratory rat testing in the 1970’s linked saccharin to the development of bladder cancer"
"Advantame is derived from aspartame, and has a similar chemical structure. "
Seeing the different side effects and mechanisms of these sweeteners, and the very different chemical compositions, I'm suspicious that these can all have the same or similar effect on gut bacteria. In fact, the argument starts with Acesulfame K, which is described as not being metabolized. Which is it, is A-K metabolized within the body or not?
Count me as cynical. This is not a definitive study, I bet.
And the prior example wasn't 11th hour - it was a smear campaign form the very beginning. This is technically the third example of blatant, manufactured character assassination intended to deny confirmation.
No, this is how you get recess appointments, SCOTUS impeachment hearings, and failed judiciary.
And the Democrats are more than willing to go this way, because they both crave power and believe they are unassailable in their pursuit of that power.
This goes very badly, no mater what. Either Democrats continue down this path, with the destruction of our form of government at the end of it, or the proper and correct pursuit of justice leads to their unrestrained resistance, and outright revolt.
Yes. Revolt. There is no middle ground with the Left, it's their way or death. History demonstrates this, every time.
And sadly this is going to happen every 3 years.
So be prepared for this unacceptable and damaging intrusion. Every 3 years.
This project was started in 2006...
Sure. no numbers, but that's no problem...
Around here the telcos rent space on poles erected by municipal-owned electric utilities, but where I used to live those poles were in fact paid for and installed by the private monopoly utilities. They 'leased' rights fo way on otherwise public land, or came to agreements on private land.
This is first an overreach by the FCC to try and drive costs down for providers, in a way that actually need not be done.
Secondly, though local governments are not going to let revenue be denied to them.
Great stuff, let's all grab the popcorn and watch who gets the power to screw us. Again. 'Cause we are getting screwed here, somehow, by someone, no matter how this goes.
That was 2008. Oh, wait, the trackpoint was actually a ball...
Mine doesn't. Your ancedotal proof is invalidated.
SO, everyone, start keeping score.
I have never had to 'throw away' a laptop after two years. Never. All have lasted longer, even the unfortunate Toshiba models. But I repaired many for clients, and mostly it was rough handling that did them in fatally. For a while it was clogged ventilation and bad hard drives. Now it's back to rough handling, since the displays are still mostly glass.
Hm. I made a living for a few years repairing laptops for clients. Yes, back then it was equal parts hard drives and display hinges. Even today you can repair a surprising fraction of the popular machines.
The thinnest and lightest, of course are a challenge. I'm waiting for my Surface Pro 3 to come off extended warranty and fail so I can try.
My Surface Pro 3 is working just fine, thank you. No need to replace it.
My dell E6440 also is doing what I need it to do. My old Asus G50-VT not so much, but it comes out of storage to solve problems whenever, and works fine.
My wife's HP G62 she's convinced is pus, it won't print more than 5 pages of a ppt file at a time, and it loses edits.
And the newly acquired mid-2013 MacBook Air is purely marvelous, cheap and totally functional on Mojave.
New PC hardware is a little like new cars. Depreciation and marginal improvement in performance and/or comfort doesn't justify the purchase price.
So do Macbooks.
Albeit in a VM. If you make them. Clearly they are crap, running Windows.
Oh wow. Like iPhone XS etc...
Actually, my favorite game works terrifically on my Surface Pro 3. And my Surface Pro 3 works very well thank you.
Yeah, it's a great game.
0. I already pay fees. Just say I need to pay more, because, well, I'm actually using it?
1. Distance fee? From where to where? I know, that's obvious. So do I pay for the trip from the content provider's servers to my device, and what if it's poorly routed? On purpose? Or were you thinking RFC1149 distance?
2, 3. QoS is a thing. We have to pay more for a better QoS? Why not discount those who don't need so much, like email users...
4,5. Um now we're redesigning TCP, swell, What could go wrong with this?
6. Hop counts, sure. Not like even that minimal overhead will cause problems.
I'm still convinced that first, ISPs that also have competing businesses (Cable cos for instance) have a significant incentive to not treat Netflix and other similar providers 'fairly', or even 'well'; second, all ISPs have incentives to charge as much as they can for whatever they can, so competition is the only answer; and lastly, where other wireless solutions were flawed, Band 71 has some potential. This will be interesting to see how the rollout is received, once it's conquered rural areas, the fight for urban business will be brutal.
I rented an apartment in an old water-powered mill building, where even the historic flood I lived through did not cause any damage. Even the telephone wiring was above even the worst scenario flood level. I know, I helped remove load coils so DSL would work, and then clean up much old terrible Nynex craft so ISDN would work.
Yeah. After 150+ years of operation, with no water in the working spaces, and another 30 years as an apartment complex, still it was never flooded. But I don't dare look at the flood mapping, because it's right there, next to the river, with the channel still below it, and FEMA undoubtedly used 'detailed methods' to determine the risk. That phrase is key. Remember it.
Not here. High plain, good drainage, before paving it was fine. Lower elevations around here, yes.
True, but no records from well before that.
Being farmland it probably didn't flood. Now that it's developed and paved, drainage is the problem. Or to put it more succinctly, drainage design has placed my home in a manufactured flood zone... First world problems.
You did read where my property was classified as being in a flood area AFTER I PURCHASED IT, right?
The line of such clever people asking me why I bought in a flood plain, why I didn't look into this before buying, why I live in a flood zone, are so missing the truth. After 3 years property was included in new flood mapping done by FEMA. I'm in by 6" of elevation. Most of my neighborhood is included as well.
No one recalls any past flooding. This is FEMA's assumption that we are at a 1% risk in any year of flooding, or, as it's usually described, within a 200-year flood zone We are in an AE zone, barely 3 lots from the edge of the zone. Further, AE means the government has determined that "predicted flood water elevations above mean sea level have been established". We live several hundred miles from ocean...
Officially, FEMA states that AE zone risks are determined by 'detailed methods'.
If we were actually flooded we would have to rebuild according to *local floodplain zoning ordinance*, and I don't know if local ordinances are dictated by or required to confirm to federal standards...
My premium is a little over $500/year. I'm one of 250+/- additions to the flood zone in 2015, in Gilbert AZ alone.
And it's my personal opinion that FEMA jiggered the data to include many lower risk homes to gain premiums from a larger population and replenish the funding.
I'll pay possibly $50,000 in premiums over 100 years, but if I suffer a flood earlier, well, all I get out of that is the opportunity to rebuild with flood prevention measures as part of the tenant rebuild - probably raising the foundation and grade, possibly by 12" or more. That's a surprisingly expensive proposal.
Oh, please remember, I didn't buy into this, this was done to me 3 years after I purchased the property. And there are no records of any flood in this neighborhood in 20 years, and before that it was farmland, no records since the town was Incorporated...
They should have used pigskin. It feels better, and it would enamor us to an entirely different population that already hates us enough to kill. Nothing lost.