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  1. Hmm. What of the possibility it’s about stopping unlawful behavior?

     

    * ’increase enforcement’ — no more warnings, and allow for expired or counterfeit tag to be allowed as a primary cause for a stop, versus treated as an included/secondary offense. 
     

    * ‘change laws’ — increase penalties, eliminate any vagueness or loopholes. 
     

    Good on ‘em. I pay for my plates and registration — not too sympathetic for people who think they can get away with not doing so. 

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  2. I had a dog that loved to ride the boat. Head out in the morning, he'd be right there, hopping around until he got lifted onto the bow. Then he'd do a Titanic, 'king of the world,' pose on the foredeck as we cruised down the creek.

     

    When we hit a fishing spot, he'd curl up under the helm until someone got a fish on -- then he'd be all anxious until the fish was netted. He'd inspect the catch, then return to his spot until the next hit.

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  3. On 4/16/2024 at 1:55 AM, The Coconino Pistolero, SASS # 72432 said:

    Since the 1980s reloading recipes and chronograph results kept on index cards organized by caliber.

     

    Medium looseleaf notebook for the firearms and shooting results are kept there.  Got to record it

    cause you will sure as shoot forget it otherwise.

     

    No fuss, no batteries.

     

    Old school

    This is my approach. Paper, no digital footprint. Something that can disappear into a shredder or handy fire. 
     

    I know some folks are fine with it and that’s okay, but I’d no sooner put anything about my firearms into any online database than I’d have a ‘digital assistant in my home, and for generally the same reasons. 

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  4. 15 hours ago, Alpo said:

    You suppose they could kill him and bury him in a dry wash, and still collect the ransom?

    To the question -- plenty of ransoms have been paid on already-dead hostages. If I'm not mistaken, the Lindberg kidnapping was one such case.

     

    It's why 'proof of life' is a thing.

     

    15 hours ago, Alpo said:

    Start with a stupid name and end up with murdering a kidnap victim. But everything in that chain of thought makes perfect sense, and one leads to the next one totally logically.

     

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  5. If traffic is flowing, getting into the exit lane then merging back in isn't such a big deal. Oops -- my bad, turn signal, right back in.

     

    If traffic is backed up, it implies stop-and-go, or at least crawling along. Then it gets hard to tell the difference between someone who made a mistake, and someone who's trying to entitle themselves to jump a bit ahead in traffic.

     

    For my part -- if traffic is backed up, and in my mirror I watch someone pull out of the line of traffic, realize they've goofed and try to get right back in -- no problem, I'll even make room. But pull into the exit lane, be-bop to the last possible point, then want back in? Hell no. Take the exit.

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  6. 55 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    You're attempting, extremely hard, to make it my fault.

    ETC: If the shoe fits . . . .

     

    What I DID do, mainly, was point out your ignoring of the retail retail corollary of the economists’, ‘No free lunch,’ rule — when it comes to providing a service, nothing happens for free. 

     

    55 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    It's the fault of the jerks that decided that I needed to do their work for them.


    Or maybe, the jerks who were trying to find a way to slow the rising cost of groceries, and save customers some money? 
     

     

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  7. 19 hours ago, Alpo said:

    That poor little funky at Walmart that has to put my stuff back on the shelf - he's getting paid to put my stuff back on the shelf.

     

    And where do you think Walmart gets the money to pay for the restocking? It gets rolled into price calculations. In other words -- the customer foots the bill, not Walmart.

     

    What isn't getting done because the clerk has to spend time trucking the basket around putting stuff back after someone's pitched a fit and walked out?

     

    How many man-hours get wasted, how many additional workers are required? What about the quality of the merchandise that has been handled, and re-handled, dumped into a basket, then shoved back on the shelf?

     

    Was some of that merchandise frozen/refrigerated goods that partially warmed before they got back into temp-controlled displays?

     

     

  8. 17 hours ago, Alpo said:

    That whole article must be a lie. Everyone knows that American troops will not fire on Americans. You hear that all the time. When the orders come down to do THIS to the civilian population and do THAT to the stadium population, and if the civilian population does not let you do it, shoot them - everybody knows that the American troops will refuse to shoot.

     

    Everybody knows that. :rolleyes:

     

    Hmm . . .

     

    Police today -- National Guard tomorrow? 

     

    States Push Bills to Allow Illegal Aliens to Become Police Officers

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  9. 4 hours ago, watab kid said:

    OK , a boat can fit in a ship ,  ill buy that , but still begs the question in the end , im an inland water guy and i use boat but i know im wrong in some cases by the words of my deceased FIL who was a submariner and knew his boats and ships larger than my boat 

    Originally submarines were smaller, conducted shallow-water/littoral ops, and were only manned when underway (e.g., Bushnell's Turtle, CSS Hunley, et al.)-- hence, they were called boats. Even after submarines became deep-water, permanently manned ships, the term 'boats' stuck.

     

    ETA: The U.S. Navy. Sometimes it's centuries of tradition unimpaired by progress.

  10. 26 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    The circumference of the earth is 25,000 miles but if one does not fly a maximum circle around the planet it will be a lot less, but still a lot of miles.

    Besides -- isn't the Fortress of Solitude somewhere in the Arctic?

     

    Superman probably got a few tips from Santa Claus on negating the effects of atmospheric friction during hyper-sonic flight.

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  11. Before I get flamed for this, understand -- it's nothing personal to anyone here. I respect y'all's opinions on self check-out, but just have a different perspective.

     

    Never really had a problem with self-checkout. If keeping costs down translates to better prices, then so be it. But then, I'm also the guy that grabs a cart from the lot on the way into the store since I'm going that way anyway (besides, I like to ride the cart across the parking lot sometimes --  especially if I can do it in full view of a mom with some eight-ten year old kids).

     

    Downhill On A Shopping Cart ...

     

    Store with self check-out run on average twice the shrinkage (i.e. -- theft) that stores without it do. Part of that's error, part of it's intentional. I hear people talking about taking the 'employee discount' when they go through self-checkout and wonder how that's much different from the person who just tucks it under their jacket. And the clerk who checks the receipt at the door? Store policy. He or she's not making it personal with me, and I figure getting personal and being a jerk to the clerk isn't going to make my day any sweeter. If it does, I think it says something about me, not the clerk.

     

    I try to avoid giving store people a hard time -- I can't get away from the idea that they are my neighbors and even if it's a national chain, the clerk putting in a day's work lives somewhere within an hour's drive of me. I might not know 'em personally, but we're all in this together.

     

    It IS frustrating when the self-checkout machines don't work as they should, and the clerk isn't able to help. But I've seen the clerk-run checkouts malfunction also, and when that does, just watch the line of people who back up waiting for either the clerk to figure it out, or the head cashier to come, or the store manager.. Think they're any happier that they've waited in line and then get of stuck there while the one machine they've committed to gets sorted out?

     

    Some store clerks do get rude with customers and there's really no excuse for that, but they're probably not rude with the first customer who bitched at them. If a clerk gets a measure of me being an ass, it's likely that the the next customer they deal with gets exposed to my attitude as well.

     

    I haven't always had this attitude about the self-checkout issue -- maybe I'm just mellowing.

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  12. Didn't misunderstand a thing. But as so often happens, there were actually two questions:

     

    Question 1:

     

    5 hours ago, Alpo said:

    If the arsonists actually succeeded in burning the house down, so now it is just a vacant lot, and they built a new house on the vacant lot, do you think that people would think the new house is haunted and evil . . . ?

     

    Answer 1: Don't know anything about your dream people, so we can't answer for them. Dream them up again and ask them yourself.

     

    Question 2:

     

    5 hours ago, Alpo said:

    . . . or would the burning it down have gotten rid of the evil of the house?

     

    Answer 2:

     

    4 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:

    Different manifestations require different cleansings. 

     

    ETA: I was going to suggest something about a dead cat in a graveyard at midnight after an evil person had been buried, but then I remembered that was a cure for warts.

  13. Depends on what was buried in the ground beneath it. 
     

    Also, is there any running water nearby?

     

    Was it a doppelgänger, a funnel, a haint, a revenant, an orb, interactive ectoplasm, or a simple audible?

     

    Different manifestations require different cleansings. 

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  14. On 4/7/2024 at 9:30 PM, watab kid said:

    until we start shooting at each other ill refrain from calling it a civil war

     

    Clausewitz would say that in war shooting is not necessary -- it's just what happens when other strategies don't get the job done.

     

    ETA: By way of explanation -- Clausewitz referred to combat (the actual shooting) as the 'cash transaction of war'. In business, you could scheme, maneuver, pressure, make deals, etc. all you wanted to, but if push came to shove, you had to be able to back your play with cash on the table (or in the case of war, back your politics with combat in the field). 

     

    Clausewitz looked at war as multi-dimensional, and felt that a lot of war happened without actual shooting. So just as the Cold War involved a lot of non-violent strategies (e.g., 'containment') between the major powers, some would argue that the current Cold Civil War makes use of non-violent strategies between the two major alignments.

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  15. The statue was donated by Luxembourg — no skin off U.S. taxpayers’ nose, other than distinguishing the UN as hostile to the 1st amendment. 
     

    The property it is on is owned by the UN. U.S. Constitution does not apply. 
     

    I’d prefer to solve the issue by just getting rid of the UN — it has become a political cat’s paw for anti-democracy nations whose primary goals reflect a desire to restrict western democracy and redistribute the wealth of capitalism. 

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