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8d ago
A Martian settlement would not be a sealed system without inputs or outputs, so the example of the biosphere projects is less relevant than, say, the ISS.
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8d ago
This doesn't make sense to me. Building and operating resort hotels is largely orthogonal to colonization settlement, especially where (as in the case of Mount Whitney and Antarctica) the insurmountable obstacles are legal, not technological.
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9d ago
Did you parboil? The one thing I find a little tough about brats is that if you are grilling from cold, it can be a challenging to make sure they are fully cooked before the outside over-chars. I usually parboil the brats prior to grilling, in a bath of light lager and sliced onions. That way, they're fully cooked when you put them on the grill, and the only thing you have to worry about is imparting the grill flavor and getting the perfect char on the outside for your tastes. As a bonus, you can drop them right back in the beer bath to keep warm, and they stay nice and juicy for hours. And, the onions go great on top.
Agree that a gas grill is really just a gas range that happens to be outside instead of in your kitchen. No comparison.
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9d ago
I'm not replacing the outer stops, which are rather rough and still have some old paint. The new window pushes up against it from the inside, so the caulk would, I guess, create a seal between the stop and the window. Granted, I'll also caulk between the edge of the stop and the window on the outside so maybe it's not that necessary anyways. It's just what the installation instructions say to do.
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9d ago
Working on replacing a couple of the hundred year old double hung windows in my house. Not really that challenging as far as home improvement projects go, if you order prefab vinyl pocket replacements. But I'm at the point now of being ready to install the new windows and am wondering is there is a better way to seal it on the outer stop than applying a thick bead of caulk and then working fast as hell to shim it true and square as is reasonably possible in such an old house.
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10d ago
Haha, same. I've been getting by with Polo RL Blue since I was a teenager. Question for afficionados - if you wear high-complexity scents on the daily, do you forgo underarm deodorant entirely? Or use unscented? It seems to me that they are often sufficiently strong to at least compete with if not overpower more nuanced scents.
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12d ago
Zorbathustrians, perhaps
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13d ago
Wisconsin has open court records, so you can view the case details here: https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2025CM000814&countyNo=40&index=0&mode=details#summary. It does indeed appear to be three charges of misdemeanor battery.
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13d ago
It seems that you are leaving off the very first paragraph of Section 1505, which precedes the one you posted. It reads:
Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or
It would seem to me that if they can establish the alleged facts, it clearly fits under "removes from any place, conceals, covers up". It does not contain the required element of corruption which you wrote about, just "intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance".
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14d ago
The police can go away. The power can go out. The trucks might not show up to stock the grocery store. These things can happen. People can make them happen, if they believe it to be to their advantage, and a great way to convince them of that is to make them feel that they and their families are in danger if Something Drastic Is Not Done.
I mean, the problem is I can personally take active steps in my life to overcome those obstacles. They are difficulties on a level I can immediately understand and take practical steps to remedy. I think to a lot of people those problems are a lot more tolerable than the problems created by unaccountable bureaucrats and judges with alien moral values exploiting arcane legalisms.
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15d ago
That in itself would be a pretty grave intrusion into the President's authority to conduct foreign diplomacy. If that is permissible, it would be a short distance to e.g., court-ordered economic sanctions or court-ordered economic aid.
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16d ago
Exterminator.
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16d ago
One thing you'll need is a decent switch. You can usually pick up retired enterprise switches on eBay for not too much. But you'll want something that can at least handle a variety of VLAN configurations, so you can segment your testing networks and prevent things from talking to each other that should not be able to.
You might also want to consider beefing up one of the computers (or getting a retired server) with RAM and installing Proxmox, a free hypervisor for KVM/LXC. You can then set up a VM for docker containers, and VMs for various test systems or toolkits.
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16d ago
Don't know how it is 'round your parts, but I found out firsthand that there is approximately one full-time mechanical clock repairer/restorer in my metroplex, who is also well past retirement and cannot meet demand.
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17d ago
Not quite an exact quote. Trump did not call Justice Ginsburg an "amazing man."
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18d ago
Was up north with time to kill while watching rain fall on the lake. Read Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama over the weekend. I enjoyed it, though the edition had an appalling forward. I can see why the ending was controversial, as the central mystery of the book is not resolved, but it did not bother me as much as I expected it would. Also started a novel Subsunk about various submarine rescue developments and incidents. However it was printed in 1960 and I suspect may be slightly out of date.
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20d ago
If the Court has a better plan, then they should order it and get it over with.
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20d ago
That is a problem for El Salvador to deal with. If they disagree, they can release him.
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20d ago
There are multiple meanings to "US Government is paying to house prisoners in ES". One is that the U.S. is basically paying hotel fees per prisoner to have them housed in an El Salvador prison. In this case, sure you could simply stop paying the fee and presumably El Salvador might feel obliged to release him. Another is that the U.S. is providing a block grant or something else of value of the privilege of having the repatriated nationals accepted by El Salvador at all, or as general compensation for the fact that many need to be imprisoned by El Salvador. In that case, it's not a simple matter of procedure but actual foreign policy to threaten to cut off funding over the disposition of a single individual.
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20d ago
The point is it doesn't matter what people notice and believe if they are doing it privately. In attempting to forcibly reshape reality based on the premise that these things that people noticed and believe are actually wrong, progressives force them to either have to say them publicly, which sucks, or to swallow injustice as a quasi-religious sacrificial rite.
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21d ago
If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?
The answer is that there is no such assurance from the legal system and never has been, and that it's the "lawcucks" who have fooled themselves into believing their fortresses of sand were ever strong enough to stem the tide.
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21d ago
Generally, rural areas are much easier to work with for several reasons. First, outside of incorporated municipalities, you generally only have to worry about permitting from the town or county, which generally are set up to default allow. Farmland is not especially valuable, and even inside a municipality or village, you have far fewer people to have to negotiate with, and who are generally starving for any kind of economic growth.
There are exceptions, of course. One is areas in which the state or federal government owns most of the land. In that case, your development will probably be confined to municipalities who can then afford to be a lot pickier about what they allow. Another is areas that are already wealthy and have little need or interest in further economic growth, like, say, Sedona. They will show a lot more resistance to changes that alter the makeup or vibe of the area. Combine the two and you get places like Aspen, well-established as a playground for the wealthy, with a moratorium on all new residential construction and renovation, and surrounded by unbuildable, wild, federally protected land.
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21d ago
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21d ago
On the other hand, battleships can perform a function (armored mobile very large gun batteries) that is both useful and not directly replaced by other capabilities, but they were deemed obsolete anyways. It could also be the case that something is obsolete because the special capabilities they do bring are just not worth the enormous cost.
Atmosphere does actually absorb a lot of radiation.
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