Last time I moved, I outrageously had to pay for the move myself without company support. It cost me $3k to move across the country, plus gas. If you're spending 30k, pay me 20k, I'll go into the moving business, and save you 10k.
A number of years ago I had a heroin case in Hayward. They had a warrant where the snitch, known, in polite terms, as a “confidential informant” with the obligatory history of reliability in past snitchings and who was a good citizen and such said there were two packages of heroin in a cereal box in my client’s kitchen. One weighed one pound and the other a half pound. Cops came in with a warrant and sure enough easily found the heroin and that’s what the packages weighed.
Me: So officer did you wait until you got to the station to do the weighing or did you use the scale that was there and which is now in evidence.
Cop: I used the scale there
Me: but that’s an Ohaus scale isn’t it
Cop: yes
Me: and it is graded in grams isn’t it
Cop: yes
Me: so you did the math in your head right
Cop: yes
Me: so how many grams are in a half pound
Cop: [absolute silence]
me: let me help you out here. Let’s say there are about 28 grams in an ounce. So how many grams in a half pound
Cop: [silence continues]
Me: ok. Let’s make it easier. Let’s say there are 16 ounces in a pound. So how many grams in a half pound [more silence – but now the jury is laughing]
Me: ok let me help you out a little more here. If a pound has 16 ounces how many ounces are in a half pound [more silence – juror yells out “8”. Jury laughs].
Me: look if there are 28 grams in an ounce and juror number 3 helped you out by telling you there were 8 ounces in a half pound, how many grams were in what you tell us was a half pound. Now I walk up to the bench and snatch a yellow pad and pencil. “May I, your honor.” Here officer. Here is a pad and pencil. Now write down 28. Remember that’s one gram. Now you learned from juror number 3 that there are 8 oz in a half pound so you simply take 28 and multiply by 8. OK, what’s the number. [very long painful silence]. DA, who is now a judge and was an especially vicious DA, asks for a recess. He comes over to me but trips over his big box of files [now jury is in hysterics].
By the way, my guy is on trial with his much younger cousin. Cousin is about to go to trial on a dead bang 4+ pound cocaine case. The DA says if they both take a year in county jail he’ll dump the cocaine case.
Ran across a case while out in Alberta, where a large municipal owned community pool had a SCADA system for chlorine control, measurement, temperature control the whole 9 yards. Was sitting open on the internet, someone fucked around with it and hi-shocked the pool. Luckily the old guy who was used to the mechanical system for decades, had the habit of doing checks every morning with a kit "just to make sure." Otherwise there would have been a lot of burned 4-6 year old kids and likely their moms that morning. And that's the shit that rarely makes the news, just think of the ones that don't.
Suffering Chlorine poisoning or getting burns from Chlorination *LITERALLY* requires there to be more chlorine in the pool than water. You can theoretically overchlorinate a pool, but...not really.
And if you drained 1000' from Lake Michigan, it would be gone. Why not use an argument that even remotely resembles the actual situation? Drawing off 3.3 million gallons of water will reduce the lake level by less than a wavelength of visible light. What is a legitimate argument is that there are rules and processes that have to be followed to make such a draw. And so far, it appears that Foxconn followed the proper procedures. And even if you extrapolate this precedent to some ridiculous level, it still isn't that big a deal.
Actually, that's the contention with the groups opposing this - that Wisconsin is violating a multi-state and international agreement not to draw off water from Lake Michigan, and in doing so, if it gets away with it, it opens the door to everyone else doing it. Add 50 other companies drawing off 7 million gallons per day, with typical efficiency and corner cutting - how many years until Lake Michigan is a contaminated swamp?
Apparently the ones trying to mandate restaurants accepting cash because plastic discriminates against credit-card-less people don't realize that plastic also comes in the form of pre-paid credit cards (same as cash), gift cards (lesser, but as good as cash).
They still accept cash, but your cash needs to be loaded on a piece of plastic.
I've bought books on my favourite web-comic series but at no point would I consider buying a blood-stained comic-book even appealing. The only way it would make sense would be if it was horror or something nasty in subject but for regular comics an artist or writer's signature with a good pen is good enough. I mean really what's next Stan Lee's half eaten sandwich wedged in there or something?
Not noted here is that like all things, academia requires moderation and balance.
The tradeoff for pursuing a micro-scale specialty in a specialty into a doctorate is that you're missing a balanced education, perspective, worldly experience, and the things that help an adult mature into adulthood as a tradeoff.
Being an academic isn't intrinsically harder than other fields - but it allows one to bypass a lot of peer bonding, and teamwork, and behavior that balances these issues.
Comcast Corporate Speak: Let us double dip and force paid prioritization, but we'll only do it with limited services restricted to all the things we wanted paid prioritization for in the first place.
As if it wasn't obvious even at the time that Trump was vastly more corrupt and much more of a liar than Clinton.
How do you qualify that? Your shit doesn't smell as bad as my shit? They're both shit, they both stink, and whether one stinks more than the other is a matter of perception.
FTFA: It's an opportunity for chinese schools to upgrade their art education.
"Xu Guangyu, chairman of Beijing Kaiwen and a choral singer in college, said the two institutions can operate in harmony. He runs K-12 schools in China and said Westminster could provide the knowledge to help upgrade arts education for his students. Xu said he won’t cut Westminster’s budget or staff. Westminster’s programs include master’s degrees in choral conducting, sacred music and organ performance, and notable alumni include Dorothy Maynor, founder of the Harlem School of the Arts, and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, incoming music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
“They can set up our entire music curriculum and bring all kinds of exchange opportunities,” Xu said. “It’s pretty difficult to find these musical resources.”
Its easy to profit when your customers are jail and prison inmates with no means of making or receiving calls except on $3.00 per minute pay phones that the prison gets a kickback from.
We're supposed to believe that the ruling reduced robocalls? And that they might pick up in volume?
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but robocalls from spoofed numbers have been out of control for years. Neither this rule, nor any other rules are doing anything about them.
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Re-training to what? What is that magical low-skill job that isn't going to be replaced by robots soon?
That would be state or federal employee.
Last time I moved, I outrageously had to pay for the move myself without company support. It cost me $3k to move across the country, plus gas. If you're spending 30k, pay me 20k, I'll go into the moving business, and save you 10k.
The Infamous Cop Math:
A number of years ago I had a heroin case in Hayward. They had a warrant where the snitch, known, in polite terms, as a “confidential informant” with the obligatory history of reliability in past snitchings and who was a good citizen and such said there were two packages of heroin in a cereal box in my client’s kitchen. One weighed one pound and the other a half pound. Cops came in with a warrant and sure enough easily found the heroin and that’s what the packages weighed.
Me: So officer did you wait until you got to the station to do the weighing or did you use the scale that was there and which is now in evidence.
Cop: I used the scale there
Me: but that’s an Ohaus scale isn’t it
Cop: yes
Me: and it is graded in grams isn’t it
Cop: yes
Me: so you did the math in your head right
Cop: yes
Me: so how many grams are in a half pound
Cop: [absolute silence]
me: let me help you out here. Let’s say there are about 28 grams in an ounce. So how many grams in a half pound
Cop: [silence continues]
Me: ok. Let’s make it easier. Let’s say there are 16 ounces in a pound. So how many grams in a half pound [more silence – but now the jury is laughing]
Me: ok let me help you out a little more here. If a pound has 16 ounces how many ounces are in a half pound [more silence – juror yells out “8”. Jury laughs].
Me: look if there are 28 grams in an ounce and juror number 3 helped you out by telling you there were 8 ounces in a half pound, how many grams were in what you tell us was a half pound. Now I walk up to the bench and snatch a yellow pad and pencil. “May I, your honor.” Here officer. Here is a pad and pencil. Now write down 28. Remember that’s one gram. Now you learned from juror number 3 that there are 8 oz in a half pound so you simply take 28 and multiply by 8. OK, what’s the number. [very long painful silence]. DA, who is now a judge and was an especially vicious DA, asks for a recess. He comes over to me but trips over his big box of files [now jury is in hysterics].
By the way, my guy is on trial with his much younger cousin. Cousin is about to go to trial on a dead bang 4+ pound cocaine case. The DA says if they both take a year in county jail he’ll dump the cocaine case.
How did law enforcement solve crimes before smartphones were a thing?
You're making a lot of assumptions there.
Ran across a case while out in Alberta, where a large municipal owned community pool had a SCADA system for chlorine control, measurement, temperature control the whole 9 yards. Was sitting open on the internet, someone fucked around with it and hi-shocked the pool. Luckily the old guy who was used to the mechanical system for decades, had the habit of doing checks every morning with a kit "just to make sure." Otherwise there would have been a lot of burned 4-6 year old kids and likely their moms that morning. And that's the shit that rarely makes the news, just think of the ones that don't.
Suffering Chlorine poisoning or getting burns from Chlorination *LITERALLY* requires there to be more chlorine in the pool than water. You can theoretically overchlorinate a pool, but...not really.
Now if Facebook would just disable the other 2.2 billion accounts, we'd be getting somewhere.
Theater and smoke signals. Which US enforcement agency do *you* think believes that the law applies to them?
Maybe.
Maybe.
If you drain 10' of water
Reductio ad absurdum.
And if you drained 1000' from Lake Michigan, it would be gone. Why not use an argument that even remotely resembles the actual situation? Drawing off 3.3 million gallons of water will reduce the lake level by less than a wavelength of visible light. What is a legitimate argument is that there are rules and processes that have to be followed to make such a draw. And so far, it appears that Foxconn followed the proper procedures. And even if you extrapolate this precedent to some ridiculous level, it still isn't that big a deal.
Actually, that's the contention with the groups opposing this - that Wisconsin is violating a multi-state and international agreement not to draw off water from Lake Michigan, and in doing so, if it gets away with it, it opens the door to everyone else doing it. Add 50 other companies drawing off 7 million gallons per day, with typical efficiency and corner cutting - how many years until Lake Michigan is a contaminated swamp?
Apparently the ones trying to mandate restaurants accepting cash because plastic discriminates against credit-card-less people don't realize that plastic also comes in the form of pre-paid credit cards (same as cash), gift cards (lesser, but as good as cash).
They still accept cash, but your cash needs to be loaded on a piece of plastic.
Or you can eat elsewhere.
This summary starts by assuming that the information is important, and that the inability to clearly define that piece of information is bad.
The article does not explain why knowing the precise amount of coastline *is* important.
Because it probably isn't that important.
Just bloody masturbate. Rant rant rant.
Spoken like someone who's never put their dick in a woman's mouth.
I've bought books on my favourite web-comic series but at no point would I consider buying a blood-stained comic-book even appealing. The only way it would make sense would be if it was horror or something nasty in subject but for regular comics an artist or writer's signature with a good pen is good enough. I mean really what's next Stan Lee's half eaten sandwich wedged in there or something?
No...
First, blood stains.
Second, poop stains.
Third, bloody poop stains.
"Non-Tech Businesses Are Beginning To Use AI at Scale"
And....no they aren't.
Not noted here is that like all things, academia requires moderation and balance.
The tradeoff for pursuing a micro-scale specialty in a specialty into a doctorate is that you're missing a balanced education, perspective, worldly experience, and the things that help an adult mature into adulthood as a tradeoff.
Being an academic isn't intrinsically harder than other fields - but it allows one to bypass a lot of peer bonding, and teamwork, and behavior that balances these issues.
Comcast Corporate Speak: Let us double dip and force paid prioritization, but we'll only do it with limited services restricted to all the things we wanted paid prioritization for in the first place.
Personally, I pledge my faith in Dogecoin.
You're a fucking idiot then.
As if it wasn't obvious even at the time that Trump was vastly more corrupt and much more of a liar than Clinton.
How do you qualify that? Your shit doesn't smell as bad as my shit? They're both shit, they both stink, and whether one stinks more than the other is a matter of perception.
Updated privacy policy that no one reads.
THAT'LL FIX IT.
FTFA: It's an opportunity for chinese schools to upgrade their art education.
"Xu Guangyu, chairman of Beijing Kaiwen and a choral singer in college, said the two institutions can operate in harmony. He runs K-12 schools in China and said Westminster could provide the knowledge to help upgrade arts education for his students. Xu said he won’t cut Westminster’s budget or staff. Westminster’s programs include master’s degrees in choral conducting, sacred music and organ performance, and notable alumni include Dorothy Maynor, founder of the Harlem School of the Arts, and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, incoming music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
“They can set up our entire music curriculum and bring all kinds of exchange opportunities,” Xu said. “It’s pretty difficult to find these musical resources.”
It is GE. =D
Police said the the car was doing 38 mph in a 35mph.
Google street view shows this strip is 45 MPH.
There's contention on the speed limit in the press.
Its easy to profit when your customers are jail and prison inmates with no means of making or receiving calls except on $3.00 per minute pay phones that the prison gets a kickback from.
We're supposed to believe that the ruling reduced robocalls? And that they might pick up in volume?
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but robocalls from spoofed numbers have been out of control for years. Neither this rule, nor any other rules are doing anything about them.