Am I now going to have to memorize a bunch of different PIN numbers for each of my credit cards?

I've got enough to remember with passwords to websites and applications, and now more numbers to remember?

I can now start to picture everyone having sticky notes on the backs of each car with the PIN number, which pretty much renders them useless, since when stolen, the thieves will have the PINs right there with the card.

AT&T takes our money and builds infrastructure in customer rich locations like KCMO, DFW, etc. Even here in the county seat where I work all AT&T can offer is DSL, or at least they did at one time. Out of town? Nevermind, all you'll get is dial tone. AT&T has done ZERO infrastructure upgrades in our rural area within the past 30 years ago or so. It is really inexcusable, IMO. But then it is becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy as fewer customers are keeping their landline phone which has prompted AT&T to run FUD ads trying to scare people into buying a landline for "peace of mind". Despicable.

The local WISP thus has no competition and is now quite slow to update anything. 512 kbps is all they can muster out to where I live and during daylight hours it's generally much slower. I guess I should be glad I no longer rely on dialup any more.

So, which part is a rant? Specifically?

Because you dared speak ill of the "Chosen One".

Please report to Room 101 for re-education.

Because traffic and diesel fumes and road noise from surface delivery are a-okay in your book?

Doesn't bother me...

Your obsession with the man needs attention.

BTW - how many billions of western dollars have been invested in Ukraine now? You can bet your ass that all those dollars are being protected with western weapons. Think about it. Some dreary backwater of a nation which hasn't figured into much of anything for almost a hundred years suddenly looks like a good "investment" to some filthy rich capitalists. But - the Kool-Aid - you've chosen the flavor prescribed by those very filthy-rich capitalists, so you believe that Putin is to blame for all the problems there.

Exactly. The sub itself is a stealth ship, that is why it was created, purely as a stealth device.

The fuckwads are the elected officials that are allowing drones to fly over your house. Those that trade liberty for security deserve neither.

Everyone knows that the military airplane became obsolete once radar was invented. Same thing here. Must be true....

Cat and mouse, as always. Stealth subs aren't a new idea (go watch Red October, one of my all time favs) and we have only scratched the surface in that area. Even in the 80s when I was in the air force, the Navy was considered the strongest leg of the Triad. That isn't likely to change soon, although the technology they use certainly will.

One year vaper, previously 20 year smoker. I've had the medical labs done to show how much damage was undone in just one year.

At 41, I can run farther and faster, keep up with young folk better than most of my non-smoker friends of the same age. 3 years ago this was not the case.

Hell, I keep my phone locked and with MORE than the default 4-digit code for just this reason, I also have my phone set to not display texts or other info on the locked home screen. Opening this and giving to them is pretty much going to be considered "consent to search". I don't care that I have nothing to hide, it is none of their fucking business.

Much like when pulled over (rarely happens), and if asked to get out of the car, I roll window up, step out and lock the car behind me. I'm not an ass to them at all, in fact I am very polite, answer as needed, and cooperate, but I do try to exercise my rights.

And...as for the opening story, it was complaining about the "patchwork" of states issuing licenses. So what? People are forgetting, that you are a citizen of your state first, and then a citizen of the US. Besides the fact that a drivers license is a license to drive first, and not issuesdas an ID (you can get one of those for that purpose), there should be no national license, or national ID. The feds have no constitutional basis for issuing or regulating such IMHO. That would be yet another stretch for them overreaching "interstate commerce".

I really, really wish...if we could as a country, is have the government basically tell me how much tax to pay (simplify this)...and then, leave me the fuck alone. Especially the Feds.

For my local/state govt, well, they are more answerable to me, and I will be more willing and answerable to them too....within limited bounds.

That's the way the country was set up, but we've wandered so far off the path over the years.

*sigh*

I was about to say that if you are in an area where it is acceptable to use shotguns (300ft from a home, in the county is the rule in NC) then yes, excellent target practice. I keep the shorter military/police grade buckshot in my combat shotgun, holds around 9 or 10 shells. But in all seriousness, these will be getting shot down, as not everyone cares what the law is, and will just pull out a gun and shoot it down even if they live in the city.

This type of thing sounds VERY similar to the folks that still posit that marijuana still has no health benefits.

FACT: Alcohol is a poison to the human body. One can fatally overdose from consumption, and it has killed millions in human history.

FACT: The cannabis plant, consumed in any form, is not harmful to the human body. In thousands of years, not a single fatality has been directly associated with its use. Its physically impossible to overdose from consuming it.

Similar? No, more like BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE.

Well, I think you're conflating toxicity to mortality.

Pot may not kill you, but I do believe there are studies showing that prolonged, continuous usage (i.e. abuse) can lead to some memory problems and possibly neuron damage in the brain?

So, I stand by what I said, most all medicines ARE somewhat poisonous, just depends on how much you do and how toxic they are in those amounts.

But in the morning I'll be sober and happy, but you will still be bitter.

Yup, I feel sorry for people that don't ever drink.

When they wake up in the morning, that is the best they will feel all day!!

;)

Folks, face it...pretty much ALL medicine or things with medicinal qualities are in some way poisonous to the system, depending on how you frame things.

It seems the teetotalers and anti-any drug other than pure O2 from God's own air system, will say about anything to defend their position that anything that can intoxicate is BAD, and cannot possibly have a single good or beneficial 'side effect'.