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  1. 12 minutes ago, naija said:

    15 minute waiting area after getting the vaccine, and then once no immediate concerns, could leave

    Able to sign up for 2nd dose appointment before leaving. Should occur on or before the 6th of June, so 21 days. They asked to make sure you can make the 2nd appointment before giving the 1st dose.

     

    Was this through Methodist?

  2. 49 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Serious question.  Isn’t this illegal?

    Here's the relevant statute:

     

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    A. During the times the polls are open and ballots are being counted, it is unlawful for any person (i) to loiter or congregate within 40 feet of any entrance of any polling place; (ii) within such distance to give, tender, or exhibit any ballot, ticket, or other campaign material to any person or to solicit or in any manner attempt to influence any person in casting his vote; or (iii) to hinder or delay a qualified voter in entering or leaving a polling place.

    B. Prior to opening the polls, the officers of election shall post, in the area within 40 feet of any entrance to the polling place, sufficient notices which state "Prohibited Area" in two-inch type. The notices shall also state the provisions of this section in not less than 24-point type. The officers of election shall post the notices within the prohibited area to be visible to voters and the public.

     

    Looks like as long as they are not within 40 feet of the entrance they are ok (even if they are a bunch of assclowns).  This probably doesn't account for the reality of voting this year due to social distancing requirements pushing people out the door in lines further away from the entrance.  Additionally, in years past, it's never been a problem because so few people would actually vote early, there wouldn't be any lines stretching out away from the entrances.

     

    Legislature might have to go back and revisit the law to take these new realities into account.

  3. 57 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

    I know this has already been covered and maybe even this tweet, but I'm stunned by the visual of the people standing in line. That's crazy... crazy good. I'm guessing it's not good news for Dotard. 

    For all those wondering about the lines of people to vote in Fairfax County.

     

    Fairfax County is the largest county in VA population wise - the next closest county is half the population.  It's a well-off county and highly educated (no humblebrag).  Over the past 10 years, the county has turned very Blue.  Its a large county area-wise so there are some diverse pockets that still go red but those are shrinking fast.  I live out in the far west part of the county and in 2018, our R-congresswoman (who disavowed a lot of what Trump stood for and was more moderate than most) lost her reelection bid by a pretty large margin.  That was the first Dem representative since 1980 for this part of the county.  Fairfax is getting closer to the close in suburbs of Alexandria and Arlington politics-wise.

    Large turnout in Fairfax is terrible news for the Republicans as it will be almost impossible to make up the deficit of votes in other parts of the state.  Not that VA going blue is a surprise - we haven't had any ads on the air here this cycle.

    One of the reasons for the long lines that's making this newsworthy is that this is the first year VA has allowed no-excuse early voting.  In the past, you had to have a reason so this is kind of a novelty for us up here.

     

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  4. 12 minutes ago, APMP said:

    You are basically guaranteed a first action in 3-5 months under Track 1. You more or less pay the cost of an OA response to skip the backlog, which can be 2-3 years in some art units. The reason the first OA is guaranteed in that time is because Track 1 buys you a final disposition (allowance or FINAL OA) within a year of filling.

    If anything, the "special" treatment given under Track 1 is a good thing for patentees. And it isn't like the old expedited examination option where you had to submit the dreaded document to the USPTO explaining differences with the prior art in your IDS.

    In theory, you're more likely to get a better (more reliable) examiner when filing a Track 1.  Examiners who screw around and have shown they can't meet the deadlines are more likely to not get Track 1s assigned to them.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Jive Turkey said:

     

    At this point what is he going to say that everybody hasn't already been hearing from him non-stop over the past month or two?  Nothing he's been endlessly prattling on about has really had any effect on the public's perception of Biden so far, so I don't see this latest stunt moving the needle either.

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  6. 1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    Only posting here because it is the most active of the politics thread. Does anyone have a Washington Post online subscription who can send me this article, or post the text in the SCOTUS thread?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/17/supreme-court-oklahoma-oil-/

    Spoiler

    A crash in prices. A round of bankruptcies. And wave after wave of layoffs.

    On top of all the turmoil Oklahoma oil producers have had to deal with since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court has added another item to that list: a landmark decision declaring nearly half of eastern Oklahoma to be Native American land.

     

    With the high court’s ruling, oil and gas drillers in the nation’s fourth largest oil-producing state suddenly find themselves operating within the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and four other tribal reservations.

    About a quarter of Oklahoma’s recent oil and gas wells and around 60 percent of its refinery capacity now lie within the territory of five tribes — the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole.

     

    Perhaps more importantly, the network of pipelines pumping crude to and from Cushing, Okla. — a crucial oil terminal for the Keystone XL — spider-web across the redrawn reservation borders.

     

    Instead of dealing with business-friendly regulators from the state of Oklahoma, oil producers may soon have to contend with both tribes and the federal government, which often manages land for Native Americans.

    “The reality is that there’s something potentially that could be very detrimental to the oil and gas industry,” said Dewey Bartlett, a former Tulsa mayor who runs Keener Oil & Gas Company, a five-person oil and gas production and exploration firm with most of its wells now in Indian country.

     

    With Americans driving and flying less during the viral outbreak, U.S. oil prices have dropped by a third since the start of the year. Oklahoma’s shale fields, where extraction costs are relatively high, are among the hardest hit during the pandemic. One of the state’s biggest energy firms, the fracking pioneer Chesapeake Energy, has already declared bankruptcy.

     

    The 5-to-4 decision, written by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and joined by the court’s liberals, ostensibly deals with criminal law for the ancestors of those forced to march the 19th century Trail of Tears into present-day Oklahoma.

    But the majority opinion writers acknowledge the ruling raises big questions over taxation and the enforcement of environmental rules across those 3 million acres — ones that may take years to settle.

     

    “In reaching our conclusion about what the law demands of us today, we do not pretend to foretell the future and we proceed well aware of the potential for cost and conflict around jurisdictional boundaries, especially ones that have gone unappreciated for so long,” Gorsuch wrote in McGirt v. Oklahoma. “But it is unclear why pessimism should rule the day.”

     

     

    In a teleconference organized by the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma trade group soon after the July 9 decision, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter (R) sought to reassure oil producers that their business wouldn’t be upended and the state would keep their interests in mind.

     

    Robert Sullivan Jr., an independent Tulsa-based oil producer who once served as Oklahoma’s energy secretary, took comfort in Hunter’s comments. “Oklahoma has been a very good place to do business,” he said.

     

    Still, after having dealt with federal restrictions to protect an endangered beetle while drilling in Indian country, which could hold him up for months at a time, he says his big fear now is federal regulation.

    “One of the things we were concerned about in the McGirt aftermath is that we, being Oklahoma producers, would lose the source of regulation from one place, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, and start getting regulated by somebody from Washington,” he said.

    Brook A. Simmons, head of the petroleum alliance, said he was concerned about retaining property rights for existing owners. “Our focus, really, is just making certain that our members continue to have a stable, predictable regulatory and tax environment,” he said.

     
     

    On Thursday, Hunter and the five tribes came to an agreement for a legislative proposal to Congress that would give the Native American groups the right to collect taxes and grant them some authority over anything deemed to threaten the “welfare” of a tribe — a potential, though not certain, opening for environmental regulations.

    The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma said it needed to study the agreement more before commenting.

    Elizabeth Kronk Warner, dean of the University of Utah’s law school, said a major consequence for oil producers on the reservation may be two layers of taxes — one from the state and another from the tribes.

    “The biggest impact there would likely be taxation,” she said.

     

    And the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other federal agencies may end up getting new authority to run clean-air programs within tribal territory and, crucially, to renew right of way grants for existing pipelines. Seven major crude oil pipes cross into Creek territory.

    Oklahoma’s Republicans in Congress are eager to pass a version of the proposal from Hunter and the tribes. But congressional Democrats, concerned about climate change, may not be if doing so denies Joe Biden, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, leverage over the state’s oil and gas activity.

     

    “A differently disposed White House could create hurdles to the smooth transfer of regulatory oversight,” said Kevin Book, a managing director at the research firm ClearView Energy Partners.

     

    And even if President Trump wins a second term, environmentalists are increasingly joining with Native American groups to protest and sue to stop pipeline projects — most notably Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.

    The Creek Nation is cautioning that no final decisions have been made about what they will ask of Congress. “There’s a lot of work to be done before we know what that looks like,” tribal spokesman Jason Salsman said.

    But in the past, the Oklahoma tribes have asserted their rights over natural resources.

    In 2011, the Chickasaw and Choctaw sued Oklahoma City for withdrawing water from Sardis Lake. They settled out of court.

     

    Ultimately, all that uncertainty weighs heavily on oil producers and their financial backers when making decisions about where to drill next.

     

    Bartlett, the former Tulsa mayor, has had to shut in about a quarter of its 100 or so wells because of the drop in oil prices since the coronavirus pandemic began.

    He said he worries investors may be less interested in working with drillers in eastern Oklahoma — especially when similar opportunities exist in the western half of the state and across the border in Texas.

    “There would be that overlying concern that would be in addition to the investment itself in an industry that is somewhat risky already,” Bartlett said.

    Already at least one company — Houston-based producer Alpha Energy Inc. — is warning investors it faces potential legal risks in itsleasing of 3,400 acres in the state.

     

    “The impact of this decision on title to the lands and leases included in the Project is uncertain at this point, and the Company will continue to monitor developments concerning the effects of this decision,” the company said Wednesday in a note to investors.

     

     

     

    As all these issues are worked out with yet more court cases, the uncertainties for Oklahoma oil producers are likely to linger longer than the coronavirus crisis — unless Congress acts.

    “This will be a very, very lengthy process,” Bartlett said. “Several decades, I would think.”

    Correction: An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect job description of Elizabeth Kronk Warner. She is dean of the University of Utah’s law school.

    Here ya go.

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  7. Used to work for sprint in retail and business sales.
    Here's the catch to this to sum it up, confirmed by friends still there.
    The line is free.... for 12 months. Most reps leave that part out / you don't read it in the fine print / they don't even know it has a 12 month timer.
    It must be an additional phone line. Cannot replace a current phone line or be used for tablet/watch/hotspot etc. New number, new phone line.
    Must be on a phone you own outright, either bought at POS or BYOD. Can't lease a phone on that line. 
    *** Additional kicker. You can't cancel ANY lines during that 12 month period or you will waive the free promo and owe for however many months that line was active at $30/mo. 
     
    All this is, really, is a game to increase subscriber numbers with low/no use new lines (makes stock look better) and build in future retention incentive for the next year via cancellation penalty that nobody really is aware of, including the people you talk to on the phone or in store. (keep sub numbers high. people either forget about the line and it goes up $30/mo and they don't notice, or they cancel early then get talked out of it to avoid that penalty)
     
     
    That's a different promotion. The free line promotion clearly states in the advertising and in the contract that the line is free for the life of your sprint account. As long as you dont cancel any lines for the first year, you get to keep the free line indefinitely. This was a targeted promotion.

    They were also offering a separate free service promotion that was in fact limited to year of free service.
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  8. 16 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    What a coincidence... That's the face is I make when I hear some of the things Joe's said the last couple months. That is when he's allowed out of the ward.......errrrrrr..... back out on the campaign trail.

    What face do you make when someone proposes to the American people that taking bleach would be a good idea to battle coronavirus?

  9. 1 minute ago, Doc Reeves said:


    so I’m assuming his Twitter was hacked. 
     
    or he’s given public cause to resign the presidency. 
     

    intresting times

    Check the date on it....Irony from 2014

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  10. Sorry but the web site seems pretty shady. 

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    Sani-Spritz Spray is approved for use on hard non-porous surfaces to kill and deactivate viruses like CORONAVIRUS.

    That tells me that it hasn't actually been approved for Coronavirus but rather "viruses like" Coronavirus.

     

    Later on it says

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    Approved for use on hard non-porous surfaces against emerging pathogens and can be used against 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)*

    which once again tells me it isn't approved for coronavirus.  And just because it can be used against coronavirus doesn't mean it is effective.  Furthermore, there isn't anything indicating what the little * means next to 2019-nCoV.

     

    Not saying this is necessarily the case here, but there are a lot of scammy websites out there trying to capitalize off of people's ignorance/fear/whatever with all kinds of snake oil.  I don't see anything on here indicating FDA approval for any of the claims made.

  11. I'm not talking about guilt or overall fairness. It's fraud.
    • A  misrepresentation
    • Of a material fact
    • On which the recipient relies
    • To the recipient's detriment or damage.
    In the scenario posed, the poster advocated dummying up a 1040 to prove something so he received more money.
    All that other shit out the window, that is classic common law fraud.
    That's all I said.
    Your legal analysis ability sucks.
    So what's the penalty for "common law fraud" and who is going to prosecute that?
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