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bluewing,

The general risk assessment is that medical personal don’t know as much about firearms as Law enforcement - and LEOs don’t know much. And you generally have other things to do that are more important than causing a negligent discharge in the ER.

Beside, do you really want to trust the Triage Nurse with a loaded firearm?

bluewing,

It’s harder to learn for many people than you might think. There are 1000’s of different kinds of types and models many with subtle differences from one another from one year to the next. Nor do you know just how mechanically sound that gangbanger’s gun is either - what parts might be broken, missing, or badly modified.

It’s probably not worth the risk when you can just place it in a lockbox and call the cops to deal with it.

bluewing,

IF you run across a firearm on a patient, (which is really isn’t a common thing), it gets placed in a lockbox and then locked into a “safe room”. Chances are good there be a cop there in a short order anyway due to the patient having been shot by a gun.

bluewing,

At the least, someone might be getting to the head of the line quickly…

bluewing,

You have no clue about medical liability do you.

bluewing,

A good number of European cities and countries have tried Linux and open source software in the past. They use it for a few years and then they have almost always have quietly gone back to MS Windows and Office products.

As much as I enjoy using Linux, (and no, I don’t use Arch), and open source for my own needs, I would be willing to bet after a few years, this German state will quietly move back to Micosoft products again.

bluewing,

There’s a pork chop in every bottle!

bluewing,

Unless you can tell the turn signal has been activated without looking and can hear it function, (and if you turn off your radio, you can actually hear the flasher unit work also), I would argue a capacitive switch provides little to no touch or sound feed back just like the touch screen on your phone. And needing to look else where to visually verify, then you have taken your eyes off the road and potentially can find yourself injured or dead in an accident.

bluewing,

You and me both on the Telsa. I ain’t spending that kind of money to think I’m cool. At half the cost, I’m in. Until then nope.

You maybe correct about the aim of the law. But I’m leaning more towards a not very well written regulation created by people who pay someone else to do the driving for them.

bluewing,

Like many things political, you start doing outside political killings from another country, pretty soon you can find yourself dead as a political leader. It’s playground tit-for-tat rules.

Plus, unless you are prepared for a “You break it, you buy it” situation, can and always will get something worse. See: the Middle East at this moment in time.

Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”...

bluewing,

Meta didn’t “give” anybody shit. They sold that access. Do you see the difference?

As always, users are the commodity.

bluewing,

The easiest way to solve the editorial issue for a lot headlines like this is to simply ask a teenager to read it. Their reaction will tell you if it’s correct or not…

bluewing,

In a different form than they do now. We have, and still do, genetically modified them to their current and future state. We’ve been selectively choosing and breeding plants for many millennia. Corn, beans, and tomatoes didn’t much look like what you buy in the store today.

So, how did they survive? Plants grow, plants die, and the rotting plant material gets returned to the soil. Add in a few dead critters, a bit of fire, and some rain, and Baby you gotta stew going!

We still do that even today. Gardeners often compost things like food scraps to grass clipping to create small scale “natural” fertilizers and work that into their gardens.

If you are a 'Murican you will have been taught that Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how grow food and hunt. Because you know, them Pilgrims was a bunch of City Slickers that didn’t know how to survive in the “wild”. There weren’t no Piggly Wiggly’s or Aldi’s around. They were taught how to grow the Three sisters - Corn, beans, and squash together for best yields. The beans, (legumes), fixed some nitrogen into the soil, the squash plant provided shade cover to limit the growth of “weeds” that could choke out the plants you did want and to hold moisture and keep the soil cooler so the corn, and beans would grow better. The Native Americans also understood, that adding some dead animal matter will also boost your yield. As did most any early farmers.

These days, we need to grow food crops on a very large industrial scale. And yields need to be vastly increased to provide enough for everyone to eat. To do that we need to create better varieties of plants that can withstand the high growing stresses from high density planting with more disease and bug resistance all while producing greater and greater yields. This does require the added use of fertilizers and even pesticides to reach the desired yield goals.

bluewing,

I think I read a CNN blurb article that insinuated that they don’t want to really go after Trump’s real estate. But they will if necessary. Because it’s a lot of work and delays to do, due to other creditors having liens so they feel that the return on the effort won’t be good enough.

They want the cash and liquid assets they can more easily get and convert first. And if they get those assets, then Trump will probably need to sell a chunk of his real estate to cover his loans and all his creditors can then start fighting over the carcass.

bluewing,

The issue become, Can I get to a rental place? Do they have something to rent to me suitable for my use? Will they even rent to me? How do I get the vehicle back to the rental place? Can I afford the high cash outlay right now?

It’s not so easy to rent a car. There are lots of hoops to jump through.

bluewing,

Sometimes having tinnitus can save you a lot of money. I can’t hear shit, but I ain’t paying $1000’s for a stereo cable.

bluewing,

Which is fine until Grandma wants to print out all the selfies and other photos our Grand kids send her. Then, that black and white anything won’t cut it. And I can’t afford a photo quality laser printer…

bluewing,

She has multiple digital frames. But she still wants to print some out. Grandma’s will Grandma…

bluewing,

There nearest grocery store that might offer that kind of service would be at least a 200 mile round trip. And while we are old enough to remember sending real film to film labs for developing and then waiting weeks to get something back, she’s not very interested in doing so anymore. To her the cost is not worth the inconvenience of waiting anymore.

And frankly, some arguments are not worth having. In marriage, you need to pick your fights.

bluewing,

And promptly forget it the day after they no longer need to know it…

bluewing,

This is the start of something beautiful!

bluewing,

You leave potatoes out of this. They are literally the food of gods and glorious when fried!

Edit: I grew up on a farm next to a small river in Minnesota called Pomme de Terre. And due the light sandy soil, it was excellent for growing pomme de terres and sugar beets.

bluewing,

Probably Compiz could do that…

bluewing,

Brand new trackballs can sometimes have some stick-slip. But they “wear in before they wear out” with use. Popping the ball out and cleaning it with warm soapy water and a rinse helps a lot. And whenever the ball feels sticky a wash is in order.

My current Logi tech ball mouse had a tiny defect in the ball that a minute’s worth of 1000 grit wet/dry sandpaper fixed. It’s now rolls like it’s running on air bearings.

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