Impeaching for something that isn't a crime would be a terrible precedent. How would a President even know whether something he's doing is impeachable or not, if he can be impeached for something that's legal? Fortunately, I don't think it's true. Surely there has to be a crime for somebody to be im...

MangoMan wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:21 amThis is true. It is shocking that the other candidates are so far left that he apparently remains the only viable option in the general election.

Perhaps that's the opening Bloomberg spotted?

mathjak107 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 2:30 pm I keep nothing in the box that i shouldnt so it’s a moot point

Not sure it's entirely moot. They have a broad discretion to determine what's allowed and what isn't. What if they determine what you have in there isn't collectible enough?

From the agreement you sign You agree not to use the box to store money, coin or currency unless it is of a collectable nature, and you assume all risks and hold the Bank harmless of any loss or alleged loss of said money, coin or currency. You further agree not to use the box for any dangerous or ...

If they see you doing it they will turn it over to authorities to find out why you are breaking your agreement and trying to hide cash and gold knowing it is forbidden . In addition to dualstow's question of how, I'm wondering what authority would care about this, and exactly what the remedy would ...

This sounds like a complete disaster for privacy, but it's an interesting idea. WiseOne (or Adam... Any other MDs?), it seems like automatic transcription of conversations would free up a lot of time you spend writing up notes. How big a deal could this be? https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/02/amazon...

In Spanish and other Latin-derived languages, an "-a" suffix indicates the feminine. A group consisting entirely of Hispanic women are said to be "Latina". When there's at least one man in a group, it goes to the default "Latino". This means that there isn't a way to de...

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:01 am An NPR reporter used "Latinx" as if it's in the dictionary and not a totally made-up word to satisfy the P.C. police.
If you can't say Latino, maybe use Latin.

How is that pronounced out loud? Does it sound like "lynx" or like "DirectX"?

I used to carry one of those mini swiss army knives on my keychain. Super useful, but unfortunately I've lost all but one of them to the TSA because I keep forgetting to take it off before traveling. So the last one sits in a drawer. I'm a big fan of keeping tools handy though! Thanks to how insane...

By default, only images are allowed to be attached, and those only to posts not to PMs. I've loosened things up so that documents can also be attached (including PDF), and allowed attachments to PMs.

That would be great fun. I hate to be a stick-in-the-mud, but with my lift right now if it isn't in Austin, then I probably can't go. Don't plan around me if it needs to be somewhere else. If it can coincide with West Virginia in town to play the Longhorns (which I think will happen next season) the...

I think a year or two ago there were enough members in New York City to have a get-together. Sophie was there, and I think bedraggled; I forget who else.

What I do not recommend is Googling for something like "PP party" in your local town. There are some things you can't unsee.

They're also mentioned in the Aeneid, which is about Trojans who survived the war and escaped to eventually found Rome. It's an origin story for Rome itself! Pretty neat. Think about this: the Aeneid is an ancient epic poem. And it was written a thousand years (a THOUSAND years) after the Iliad and...

12) On the first page of the book he quotes from Homer's Illiad poem (never read it). One mythological woman in it has six heads with teeth that would make JAWS seem tiny while she had six ferocious dogs around her waste. The other mythological woman swallowed whole oceans and then caused whirlpool...

12) On the first page of the book he quotes from Homer's Illiad poem (never read it). One mythological woman in it has six heads with teeth that would make JAWS seem tiny while she had six ferocious dogs around her waste. The other mythological woman swallowed whole oceans and then caused whirlpool...

Xan, I find your posts and board personality to be nothing but pleasant and enjoyable. So let’s put this in the category of I respectfully but strongly disagree and leave it at that. With a nod toward you being correct on the flag history. I did take consolation in knowing apparently I’m not the fi...

Lesson: never let anyone else "manage" your domain for you. Register it yourself. Isn't this true of most things in life? No one else is as invested as you are, as is likely to mess it up. I keep a personal domain for email, and use KolabNow as a host. One day I'll just set up my own mail...

...any number of things could have killed their kid, and if they had cared enough, they could have prevented it. True, but those other things didn't. In this case, it was the actions of the officer that triggered the outcome. Agree that the parents made a poor choice, but I also believe that those ...

Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance Obscure articles like this are what make Wikipedia great, but they are also most at risk under the current bureaucratic calcification. At some point, someone replaced the entire article with copy-paste text from a book. That triggered a bot that...

Not letting the officer off the hook here, but it probably actually is criminally negligent in the part of the parents for the baby not being properly fastened in the vehicle. The officer chose to speed, and the parents chose not to bother fastening their baby. The parents might deserve more blame, ...

Grant was magnanimous at a personal level, but he had no love for the ideals of slavery or the people who favored them by the time the civil war ended. The war changed him and Lincoln, it made them LESS tolerant of slavery. The latter part of the quote was my intent for posting. Bad is bad and the ...

(2) Signed up for protonmail, paid version. I still use gmail, but it's nice to have something alongside it. Gmail-to-gmail is now encrypted, I believe. Email as it goes from one server to another is typically encrypted, but it's of limited help. If both servers support encryption, it'll work, but ...

vnatale wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:18 amI felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall

Meaning, he didn't feel at all like rejoicing.

Is there a particular program you guys recommend to encrypt cloud based files? I use Diskcyptor to encrypt local drives, but not sure if/how that would work for individual files that would be uploaded to the cloud. GPG is probably the default tool for encryption that I would use. I don't have any e...

Tech is right: if you want to keep it private, you have to encrypt it yourself. Are you saying that portals provided by investment firms and CPA firms and the like may not be secure? Vinny That's certainly possible, yes. But in general, anybody who has encrypted something is also able to decrypt it...