E4 No More

FIFY

So do you think that the "security researchers" will be investigated for violating the CFAA and 18 U.S.C. 1030? Personally, I think those crimes will be ignored.

Yes, around that time there was a movement from the mindset of troops being just cannon fodder, but I kind of think of that as being more of a product of the officer's corps rather than the politicians. If you think about it, it wasn't too long before that time that the officers were lining their troops up in rows to face the enemy out in the open with the officers standing behind the wall of troops - giving them an extra measure of safety. To my knowledge, politicians weren't the ones writing letters to the family of the fallen telling them how their son died gloriously on the field of battle, but I think that came out a a sense of not wanting a mother's sacrifice to look like it was inconsequential. And many politicians of the time were once officers in the military. You also have to keep in mind that the military came out of a cast system that is still reflected in the military of today. Example: saluting officers. IMO, rank shouldn't be determined by the level of education because I've known some educated idiots - including in the military. I believe that today as a very educated man just as much as I did when I was a high school graduate in the Marine Corps.

Ain't that the truth!

When I began my journey into science I was taught that the first rule was to keep an open mind to all explanations. That's out the window when money is involved. "Publish or Perish" is a bane on the scientific world.

And how many drug recalls have come out of the scientific method? And just in case you are entertaining the idea that I'm some uneducated redneck who's just spouting off, you should know that it's a pretty good bet that I've had more collegiate level instruction in the physical and health sciences than the majority of people on TGO. You should also know that I am taking the vaccine when the VA will give it to me as it is a personal risk analysis decision.

You may equate the award with how many of the enemy that he killed, but I equate it with how many men on our side that lived because of his actions.

Probably.

Well, I'm not at all happy with the money they are sending inside the state like New York's MTA system.

I agree, but I do believe that we are in the beginning of a cold civil war.

I call it a revolution, but people who object to the spending are too comfortable in [insert reason here] to do that. For me it's being risk-adverse where my family is concerned.

In a binary system you are usually forced to vote for dumb or dumber - or the lesser of two evils, if you prefer - and not voting because of your principles is a vote IMHO.

@Erik88 $10,000,000.00 for "gender programs" in Pakistan $500,000,000.00 for Israeli defense purchases $250,000,000.00 for Palestinian aid. $101,000,000.00 for transnational threat of wildlife poaching and trafficking $2,500,000,00 for Internet freedom programs in closed societies

I agree: it's the mindset of those that do it that is the root of the problem.

I got my HCP after you did although I don't recall the exact year, I know that it was after we bought our old house in 2005, but not too long after, so the video could have certainly changed. I took the course at On Target, and having been a cop and a Marine with countless hours of shooting inside and outside of those organizations, I was pretty miffed that I was required to sit through some of the instruction. I clearly don't recall the golf club, but as you said it doesn't matter. What I remember of the car-jacking video was that it was a decent-looking blonde woman in a black sedan being jacked by a 20ish old white male. Thank you for the invite. I would take you up on it just to meet another member and audit it to see the changes if it weren't one hell of a drive for me. When we write we are using only 7% of our communication skills. That makes it easy for people to misinterpret what is written and why I much prefer deep conversations kept to face-to-face interactions. Perhaps I might be confusing the SYG with Castle: I was simply emphasizing that just because the homeowner entered the home to find the burglar that he wasn't required to retreat back out the door just because the burglar was already there. In other words, the burglar didn't break into an occupied house. What I was trying to point-out in my overall post was that the law is not always a mystery only to be revealed by a conviction via judge and jury as I interpreted DaveTN to have written. There are cases where it is very clear.

And @chances R Realizing that neither of us were police officers in this state, you and I must have had completely different Tennessee-certified HCP courses. In my course they made it clear that if someone breaks into your occupied home then deadly force is authorized regardless of whether or not they present a clear danger to you or yours. They even showed a video of a few scenarios that were presumably also state-certified. One of those scenarios was the homeowner entering his house to find a burglar who was presumably unarmed as he did not have a weapon in his hand. The scenario did not have the homeowner retreating out the door that he'd just entered, nor did it have him hold his fire because there was no weapon in the burglar's hand. The video showed the homeowner standing his ground, drawing his weapon, and shooting the burglar. They also showed a video of a car-jacking. The instructors and the videos emphasized that if someone is illegally entering your occupied home or occupied vehicle then it is presumed with statistics that they are there to do you serious harm, and deadly force is authorized. Has the state-certified training changed since I took it? If not then the state cannot sanction an action with training and then convict you for doing it. Notice that I said convict rather than prosecute because the odd thing about this country is that both our federal and local governments seem unconcerned with prosecutorial misconduct or incompetence. In this case, the first thing I'd have my lawyer do is show the prosecutor the training video. But even a clearly good shoot is still going to cost you a good amount of money unless you are comfortable navigating the aftermath without a lawyer. I'm not that naïve. If I use deadly force my first call will be to the local law-enforcement, and my second will be to my lawyer. Having come incredibly close to killing someone, (justifiably), I know how upset that made me, so I can imagine how upset I'd be if I actually killed someone. There's no way that I'm going to talk to the LEO's in that condition without my lawyer present.

We do not have a duty to retreat, (stand your ground), but we do have a duty NOT to do anything to escalate a confrontation. The question that the prosecutor and subsequent jury to answer is, did the OP escalate, or even initiate, the confrontation by flipping the bird at the horn-honker? I think that reasonable people would at most rebut receiving the finger with an FU of their own in return, and not see it as an escalation; therefore, they'd see trying to break into the vehicle as an unreasonable escalation in the horn-honker's response. Does anyone want to risk their freedom on that? When you illegally gain entry into a occupied vehicle you are "car-jacking" under the law which authorizes deadly force in this state. It is no different than you standing inside your house and flipping off someone through the window. It doesn't give that person cause to break into your house in return.

It's being disbursed between now an the 15th; not all at once. You might be a "Tail-end Charlie'!

Nope, not at all. I have no idea why it was so small.

I got $56, so not much.

In my youth the answer was both. That was until I experienced high maintenance.

No, it is not the same. The masks do not prevent you from spreading the virus; it only reduces the amount of virus spread by trapping large droplets from sneezes and coughs. A lot of viruses are emitted into the environment through the leaks around the mask. The surgical staff wear the masks to prevent large droplets from falling directly from their mouth/nose and into your open body. They scrub their hands with anti-biotic soap, wear sterile gloves, and don sterile gowns yet patients still get post-operative infections, (mostly bacterial infections). The masks do not prevent you from contracting the virus because your eyes are still exposed, The virus can blow onto your eye to be flushed into your lacrimal ducts which drain into your sinuses where it can penetrate a weakness in the mucosa to enter your cell wall. Also, most viruses enter your body through vectors - touching a contaminated surface and then rubbing your eyes or picking your nose. So the virus can escape from the mask, land on a surface, you touch the surface, and then introduce the virus into your body. This is why I rely on hand-sanitizer when I am in public and pay particular attention to what I touch and how I touch it. I don't use my fingertips to open doors, I use either my knuckle or my little fingertip to key-in my PIN for debit card use. Even though I'm mindful, I immediately sanitize my hands paying particular attention to my fingertips. I am also someone who is high risk and will take the vaccine just as soon as the VA makes it available to me.

There is a huge difference between walking around the grocery store and your surgeon standing over your OPEN body for a long period of time.

I do something similar with my WiFi: I name the SSID "NSA Surveillance" and broadcast it.

Me neither, unless I'm expecting it and they are not blocking caller ID.