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In the US, I was in a government office a few days ago because I was told that if instead of uploaded documents via a website and waiting 10-45 days to have them reviewed I could go into a local office and provide these documents and they would review them on-site.

So I set off on a 35 minute drive to the local office.

While the wait times were shorter in the physical building I had to chuckle when I thought they were just collecting documents and uploading them to the same online portal I was warned would take a fair bit of time, but that I needed to allow a few more days past the 45 day limit because they fax them into the same remote place periodically. Their email system for the document collecting office does not allow email attachment of documents.

My other option, I kid you not, was to used their "house" cell phone and login to sensitive accounts, bank ect. And screenshot the information and use the same web-form to upload said documents.

Oh, and covid, I could not touch the "house" cellphone but he would wanted me to write my logins in a piece of scratch paper and he could navigate for me based on my direction.

With little to no repercussions financially to the department or employee and no major career punishments, what do you propose instead?

I can't recommend them anymore. Hikvision cameras with a Synology NAS is far better in every way.

Ubiquiti cameras are way overpriced. The NVR has no real advanced functions. And their small indoor cameras are wifi only but require POE to power up. Everytime a power interrupt happens the wifi cams don't reconnect and start broadcasting their setup ssid and have to be manually reconnected. Their awesome tech support has turned into absolute garbage and can have hours long queues to only have an inexperienced person tell you they will follow up with an email. I was once a fan, but now will not install anymore of their equipment.

I was excited to bring my new fountain pen with me, on a job, outside in 105 degree weather. It was a cartridge and somehow ended up covering my head and face.

I have some multi-tenant PBXs based on Freeswitch however, I have not seen a positional audio feature in Freeswitch. Can you give more insight? Your link is the conference module and unrelated I believe.

Apple Faceshield 6 years ago

I printed my own frame and cut the shield a large plastic piece from a leftover toy package.

That being said, if I owned a commercial face mask, I would not feel bad. Hording/gouging is not equal to owning your own set of PPE.

Bug-a-Salt (2013) 6 years ago

It's such a tiny amount of salt it's negligible. Having owned one, it was a bummer when we ran out of flies. Totally worth it.

All individual rights are carved out from the default government...North Korea is closest to this ideal today..

America is not even close to North Korea in relation to human rights and freedoms, and I feel no source is required as this is just hyperbole.

Edit add words.

Personally, I'm a skeptic that 1. CBD+THC offers any additional medical† benefits over CBD used alone;

Why?

2. that it makes any medical sense to prescribe a (non-dose-controllable) plant over a pill,

Some medication, in pill form, is highly toxic.. see opiates which is a common alternative to thc for pain relief.

How did your comment reach the top?

Nowadays we have cops instead. You gave that power to the cops who shoot the person on your property instead.

This is not a great strategy for defence. You should defend yourself first if you are not able to get away. Or here in my state you may stand you ground and protect your life and property with deadly force. Anyone who truly feels in danger should not call the cops and wait for them to come shoot a stranger in their home...

Until we as a people decide liberty is worth a few deaths, it'll be a (slow, because democracy is inefficient) race to the bottom.

We have chosen. This is why cars, sugar, beer and numerous other liberties are legal.

Free choice is woven into the fabric of America. With freedom of choice the collateral death will always be present.

I disagree it is a race to the bottom as we have made life much more livable than in 1787.

Jeff, if you're still lurking in the thread -- we've chatted at the Kairos & the Arena summits. I've got the political and tech background to make an impact. If you're willing to take a flier on me, I'm all-in. Email is in my profile.

Is solicitation posts for a job after being turned down post interview a thing?

What impact (specifically) would you like to contribute to?

[dead] 7 years ago

This story follows an undocumented person who was previously deported for a felony related to stolen property.

He had been previously deported to Mexico over a nonviolent felony involving the receipt of stolen goods at an auto shop...

The person then re-entered the US and was located with the help of their social media posts.

ICE ultimately arrested the person after he “checked in” to a Home Depot on Facebook.

I see nothing wrong here.

This sounds similar to planned obsolescence, so the moral is if you design it that way, as a manufacturer, you are ok. Definitely a grey area here.

Edit: After some thought, I feel a precedent. My car has parts that don't become obsolete, they flat break requiring never ending service. Surely I can sue for fraud as the auto company has the ability to use another means. (Devils advocate)