Bob_Church

The next sunny weekend the DZO opens up the hangar, looks at the gear rack and says "uh....wait......what happened to all these rigs? Where are the three ring set?"

So if you have a sick orangutan don't pay to ship it to a vet across the country, just call it Fred and have it hold your hand.

In Seigfred Hall, the School of Art building, there was a grad student who would bring her three big hairy dogs in and let them run. She claimed they were emotional support dogs and Security wanted nothing to do with it. I was lucky, I had my own set of labs with their own ventilation, but the art students were just screwed. But she didn't have to make any arrangements for someone to take care of her pets while she was at Seigfred.

Definitely. I know at least one person who got the paperwork done for their ill-behaved dog just so they could fly with him. I'm looking forward to the vertical-video of the "emotional support" dog chasing the "emotional support" cat down the aisle. There's been at least one case of a emotional support dog attaching another passenger. It's mostly a scam.

And this package thief walked off into instant karma... and still made it off with the packages thanks to her man. http://digg.com/video/ups-delivery-instant-karma Package thief who took bad fall in Bothell identified http://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/package-thief-who-took-bad-fall-in-bothell-identified/281-512145265 The homeowner is frustrated by the loss and says one box contained a special medication. Insurance pays for some of it, but it doesn't cover replacements. The homeowner says it’s worth more than $5,000 and he doesn't feel any sympathy for the woman who fell. Now the ball is in the judges court. Does he show that this is a serious problem that needs to stop, or just give a suspended fine and a lecture.

And this package thief walked off into instant karma... and still made it off with the packages thanks to her man. http://digg.com/video/ups-delivery-instant-karma Package thief who took bad fall in Bothell identified http://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/package-thief-who-took-bad-fall-in-bothell-identified/281-512145265 The homeowner is frustrated by the loss and says one box contained a special medication. Insurance pays for some of it, but it doesn't cover replacements. The homeowner says it’s worth more than $5,000 and he doesn't feel any sympathy for the woman who fell. We need random packages that contain spring loaded shit. Or maybe just C4.

You'll do fine. You obviously have balance. I never did. Bob

Anyone watching this? It's kind of a hard slog, plot wise, but definitely worth it. I do have a problem seeing JK Simmons as anything but pure evil since the first thing I saw him in was OZ, but he's really good here as a good guy and a not so good guy. Maybe. Anyway, check it out.

The comparison of guns and autos doesn't hold up at all. Automobiles are large and we use them on public roads. When we purchase one we have to have the paperwork transferred. None of those things apply to guns and if we added the third it would just be ignored because of the first two. You probably wouldn't get to the grocery store and back in an unregistered car, but nobody can even guess how many guns you have stashed in your house or what their legal status is. It's way beyond oranges and apples.

"Same for guns. To have any sort of impact, you are going to have to restrict the rights of legal, law abiding gun owners. People that don’t own guns don’t care how much gun rights get restricted. Doesn’t affect them. They only see an upside to any gun restrictions. Derek V " And it's one thing to know who you don't mind having guns and who you don't want to but how to you put that into words so it can become law? Some of them are obvious, no teenager who just got dumped by his girlfriend, no gangbanger who gets his inspiration from hip hop, or some well off guy who's getting old and not dealing with it well. Some loser who has no other way to have his name remembered. But how do you turn those things into law? In the meantime the big 10 turn out over eight million new guns a year so the only way they're going to keep turning a profit is if everyone, even the obviously demented, have a dozen of them. Personally, I think that if we came up with a sane alternative to the War on Drugs most of the people who shouldn't have guns wouldn't be able to afford one.

The same summer that the School of Art was having all of its electrical system replaced to keep up with demand by Wife's parents moved into a retirement community in Wisconsin. I got to talking with the maintenance man about the problem and he laughed. He said that when they designed the electrical supply for the place they took absolutely everything into consideration and basically doubled that. They could put a window a/c unit in every room and each have their own personal computers, and the list went on. There's no way this could fail. Then a couple of years after that those electric carts came out. And everyone, no exaggeration, everyone got one, including Vivian. The area around the dining room looked like a storage area for a golf course. And right after dinner, every night, they all ride them back to their rooms and plug them in. And you could hear the breakers popping. They've added and rearranged to take care of that situation but now nobody says "well, we definitely won't have any problems now."

A lot of this reminds me of something that comes up on the geeks list now and then. Some of the people on there live in large cities and have been involved with computers from day one. One guy literally wrote OS10 then retired from Apple. The big difference it that there's no fervor here, it's not a debate, just an honest question. "Why do film distributors still produce DVDs? Everything that's released is available for streaming so who needs them? They've never been to a rural area where a lot of people are still on dialup and even the broadband tends to be too slow, and they sure as hell haven't ever gone into a Walmart in a small town. If they had they see walls and walls of DVDs with people buying them constantly because for around here it's a very cheap form of entertainment. I see this same thing in the gun control debates. "Why don't you do this?" when more often than not it's been done for years, but nobody pays attention and it can't be enforced. It's a classic case of "we have to do something, this is something, so let's do this" and it doesn't really matter if it just complicates things without helping. Or even makes it worse, which is pretty much always happens when you make laws that the public will ignore and the government can't enforce.

I wish I could help you out with advice but I've been divorced twice since I started and there was one rough patch in this marriage when I was trying to get my Gold Wings within a short time.

I just did.

"You're simply ignoring factual evidence of the efforts to reduce auto fatalities of ALL ages. " And you're ignoring a lot of people working very hard to do something about gun violence in the US. Is it working? This is a huge country that's awash in guns, so who knows how bad it would be otherwise? The job won't be finished until there are no more gun deaths, but that doesn't mean we haven't accomplished anything towards that goal and it sure as hell doesn't mean that some people aren't trying.

Not one 500 pound person. It's more like trying to eliminate obesity in general.

So then, just bury your head in the sand and say "nothing can be done"? Bullshit. America put men onto the moon. This is a much smaller problem. Just like the moon program it only takes the will to git'er done. My saying that we have to somehow limit the number of guns before we can make any progress is burying my head in the sand. If you're wanting me to wave a magic wand and make them disappear in a puff of smoke then I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you. And If you think that the number of guns in the US is a smaller problem than Apollo I think you're out of touch with the situation.

And this points out one of the biggest problems with trying to control them. They found ten guns in this guy's house and car. And that's not all that unusual. Add that to the fact that businesses are stamping new guns out daily like they were cd players and you can see why any form of control that doesn't do something to deal with the number of guns is doomed. There are just too many of them and too many sources for getting them.

Coal and Solar are two very different types of energy generation. You comment implies that you can just replace coal with solar. You cannot. Coal is base power generation and should be replaced by zero carbon emitting nuclear power plants, but instead are being replaced by marginally better natural gas plants. Natural gas energy plants do expel less CO2, but it takes fracking to make it cheap enough to be a replacement for coal. Putting a tariff on solar panels (many of them subsidized by the Chinese govt.) does improve the position of solar panel manufacturing Tesla's (Solar City) division. I think this is a good thing. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/trump-solar-tariffs-manufacturing-renaissance#gs.KXR7k58 And the argument that Trump is just doing this to boost coal isn't that clear case your initial post on this thread pretends it is. I know it's more sci fi than anything but I've always wondered about tidal force. Not the ocean sort, but very large fulcrums that would be lifted or shifted sideways by tidal force release then that energy as they are allowed to slowly return to their starting point.

I wonder if they had a similar sign. "Do not use while aircraft is is on tarmac" Yeah, wouldn't that be embarrassing? I remember those signs on some Italian trains even 12-13 years ago. Or imagine DEA rushing the plane as it sits there and a key of cocaine drops out of the toilet right in front of them. Oops. This story is from a friend who is a long-time boater: He was out water-skiing in one of his boats one morning with a GF and another couple. The female partner of the other couple began complaining she needed a restroom. He told her the SOP was to hop in the water, hang on to the side of the stationary boat, and take care of business. "No, no! I can't do that! It would be too embarrassing!" So she held it in as they headed to the nearest marina where he needed to put fuel in the boat. Now this marina had a dock at the shore, which was elevated about 3 feet above the water. On top of the dock was a gas pump, and (conveniently) a restroom right there on the dock. So little Miss Bashful disappeared in the restroom. A few moments later, the people still in the boat noticed a stream of water appear under the dock, followed by: "Plop...plop...SPLASH!" When she reappeared a few minutes later, and returned to the boat, she found her boat-mates folded over in hysterical laughter. This one is hard to believe but I saw it myself. I was working in Pomeroy Ohio in the early 80s and we went to the brand new Pizza Hut. And I do mean Pizza Hut, not some local knockoff but a real Pizza Hut. Pomeroy is a river town and you had the option to eat outside on nice days. There was a set of steep wooden steps down to a dock with a roof and tables. This was Pizza Hut's, with their sign on it and everything. And right next to the dock, right about head level when sitting at one of the tables eating, was a four inch white pipe coming out of the ground. And every time someone flushed the commode in Pizza Hut's bathroom it would plop out right there, at face height. The EPA got word of it and made them switch over to real, legal, sewer system, this was even reported in the paper, but how did they ever think they could get away with that, let alone that it was a good way to get customers to come back?

Clearly, I'm late to the party (not unusual), but am I the only one who noticed that the mother is quoted as saying she is 'working to put it behind her'? For those too lazy to click.. ...the mother had allowed teenagers to drink and smoke marijuana in front of her before they played the game of (naked) Twister and she had sex with an 18-year-old in the bathroom. She then allegedly returned and used her sex toys in front of the teenagers and showed her daughter photographs of her having sex with her boyfriend, Augusta Crime reported. Later, when she was asleep, she felt the 16-year-old having sex with her, the sponsor said. The girl later told her mother that she felt guilty because his 10-inch penis was too big for her, so he had to have sex with her mom instead, according to a police report. Damn. One of the strangest things about this, to me, is that people have actually reached the point where they think they can improve things by taking something like this to social media. Yeh, that's going to help. It's like that great poster says "now would be a great time for a big old cup of shut the f... up."

I don't understand why you are so concerned about the coal miners but not anybody else losing their jobs? It's a great little bite-sized talking point, but lets be honest - there aren't that many (comparatively) coal miners, but the political pressure that argument seems to have is way out of scale... To me it's a great representation of how you parrot sound bites that you think score points for your side without actually having any understanding of the issue yourself. To make things clear - ALL of fossil fuels represent about 55% of the total employment in the power generation industry (according to the 2017 USEER). It's not like fossil fuels are 95% of the employment in the industry and so deserve weighted consideration... As of Feb last year there were just over 50,000 coal miners in employment. Now, compare that to solar. Again, taken from the USEER "Just under 374,000 individuals work, in whole or in part, for solar firms, with more than 260,000 of those employees spending the majority of their time on solar. " Why are you so concerned about 50,000 people but not 300,000? It doesn't compute. Edit: source: https://energy.gov/downloads/2017-us-energy-and-employment-report Of course the numbers are low. That's the problem. By moving all the manufacturing overseas we've also moved coal mining there. The low numbers are the problem. It's the ex-jobs that people worry about. I don't take any comfort in knowing that now the coal is being mined under nightmare conditions and burnt with no attempt at pollution control.

The tariffs are a start, but what we really need is an addition to our environmental laws that says that if this product was manufactured in a way that would be illegal in the US then you can't sell it here. Why pass all of these laws to protect the environment then import products that weren't made in responsible ways? As it is we're killing the planet and the US middle class at the same time. And I know that America is known for not being as geographically smart as other countries but still, do these people think China and India are another planet and all the poisons they'e just dumping won't affect us eventually? Why only this product then? Why not all products? Do you understand why rare earth metals are not produced in the US despite large reserves of the ore.? Do you understand where large amounts of your recycled trash is processed and why? Or how about your Iphone, do you know what it would cost you if it were made in Indiana? The US and other western countries have long outsourced their dirty work to third world countries. Do you like your leather motorcycle jacket? Tanning leather is very toxic. That's why we ship all our raw cowhide to India and have them poison their ground. Be careful what you wish for. I have no idea where you got this "only the one product" statement from. I certainly never said it. As for why all products need to be treated this way, I think the rest of you post explains that well enough. If people working themselves to death and more babies born with birth defects are what it takes to produce ever cheaper electronic stuff and cut rate leather coats for us Great While Bwana's in the west I'd rather pay more. As for costs, we're going to pay it one way or another, sooner or later. Whether it's for increased security to protect us from the people we exploit after they get fed up with it or the costs of removing those chemicals from the water, we'll pay. And then some.

The tariffs are a start, but what we really need is an addition to our environmental laws that says that if this product was manufactured in a way that would be illegal in the US then you can't sell it here. Why pass all of these laws to protect the environment then import products that weren't made in responsible ways? As it is we're killing the planet and the US middle class at the same time. And I know that America is known for not being as geographically smart as other countries but still, do these people think China and India are another planet and all the poisons they'e just dumping won't affect us eventually?

An exception to the thing about AADs being useless is that it changes the amount of time a jumper has to shake it off and start functioning again by a huge factor.