Never had a problem with password resets. e-mail-based 2FA and being unable to change the attached e-mail, OTOH…

Came here to say, yeah, this has got to be about 8 years out-of-date, unless OP has zero standards.

EDIT: Okay, okay, so I missed the context on first read-through… but still, on a date within the last few months? You’ve dodged a bullet!

Actually, I came here to say this. The quartering of soldiers and seizure of weapons and property were among the biggest pain-points that led to open rebellion against the crown. Please, God, let Orange Man be stupid enough to try this.

If the victim is willing to sell the car and you just insist on being a dick who steals it, then sends a lawyer to buy it and bribe them not to press charges, maybe about two or three times the cost of the car to spare should do.

If they won’t sell it, congrats, cost goes up exponentially, involving hitmen, covering your tracks, paying their estate off and/or bribing officials. Easilly a Hundred grand or so, plus the value of the car.

If you insist on a form of theft that never makes the victim “whole” in some manner, and still want to be able to drive the thing around, you’re chopshopping the VIN, stealing plates, smuggling it out of the country(likely involving a boat large enough to transport it, a semi, and at least one illegal border crossing.

TL;DR: Stealing a car with the intention of “getting away with it” via money would almost always cost exponentially more than buying the car.

Technically drinkable wherever I’ve lived, but everyone looks at me funny if they see me filling a cup straight from the tap.

Wait, you’re not the fuzz?

It didn’t say subscription-based, but more power to you.

Depends, is this a frame job, or are you warning me not to snitch?

My original comment was more off-the-cuff than anything, but really, the system empowered neither woman. BOTH missed out on getting a proper resolution(the case was dropped) to the presumed rights of a ghost, of all things.

The woman doing the suing did so on behalf of the estate of a man. Women disenfranchising women via patriarchy isn’t “women having the rights they should”.

I despise id-pol in general, but this is basic stuff, and historical disenfranchisement NOT being used to distract from the failures of Capitalism, for once. Yes, Gloria Steinem was a CIA psyop, but that doesn’t invalidate the points feminism makes.

Shiiit … I’m just over hear in the midwest US, slightly relieved to learn that Crypo.com is based in Singapore.

That said, how the hell is Europe still guzzling this cloud kool-aide? Is a Jelly-fin, LDAP/etc, and/or Database server really so much more than cities of millions’ infrastructure peeps can wrap their minds around?

Oh right, ars is US-centric. The point of the article is to make the EU sound like helpless morons. Guess I might have to edit this comment after I read the article … nevermind, any additional nuance is down to the number of words they spent saying little of consequence. The myopia is more big-tech and cloud-centric than anything along national lines.

Anything to disenfranchise a woman.

I’m sorry, but is your problem really with fractions? In most Geometry-and-up textbooks, the units don’t really matter - they’ll almost always be decimals, unless where emphasizing fractions or conversions is the point - and you can skip those sections/problems easilly. The ratios in Trig and Polar coordinates can’t be helped - a metric degree-minute-(decimal)second angle measurement is literally just that.

Thinking about it, you might have better luck with Chemistry-oriented math textbooks, not because there’s no conversions or fractions, but because Avogadro’s number really drives home the point of how messy metric still is, outside of the finished textiles industry, and how messy any measurement system always will be. The boon of metric is more that your length, volume and wieght measurements don’t change based on context, not that it eliminates all fractions and conversions.

That said, for a more-metric-or-rather-units-agnostic take than most, look around for Byrne’s Euclid. Obviously, you can view it on that site, but its also available in pdf, epub(iirc), and print versions. The print version is just about pocketable, and the concepts are damn near the basis of all maths short-of(and encompassing)Calculous.

Sadly, in most mythos, ridiculously good looks are a pre-requisite. I’m glad you have your own ideas, but I doubt the fiction is thoroughly saturated with that concept in a world where vampires exist and would have contributed no-small-part to the zeitgeist on purpose or accident, simply by nature of their long lives. On the other hand, I didn’t call myself ugly or anything.

*Yawn. * Attacking Trumps character does nothing to convince anyone to vote for the other guy. It’s a distraction from those fascist policies which the Democratic party doesn’t really want to change, which is basically all of them.

Guatanamo was supposed to be closed TWO Democratic presidents ago, Student loans forgiven four years ago, and neither of them did much of anything for the Israeli/Palestine two-state solution backed by George W BUSH, of all people.

HOW THE FUCK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BACK ONE PARTY THAT’S BEEN GLADHANDING GENOCIDE OVER ANOTHER? Not Happening

… and that’s what the non-leftist “leftists” don’t get. There’s no point emphasising a talking point from a conversation that’s already been had.

There’s no point addressing Trump from the angle of “Well i would never vote for him because…” That’s great, but see, the rest of us asked why we should vote for the OTHER guy/gal when their party is gonna change fuck-all.

Guatanamo was supposed to be closed TWO Democratic presidents ago, Student loans forgiven four years ago, and neither of them did much of anything for the Israeli/Palestine two-state solution backed by George W BUSH, of all people.

HOW THE FUCK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BACK ONE PARTY THAT’S BEEN GLADHANDING GENOCIDE OVER ANOTHER?
Not Happening

I convert gifs where the conversion results in saved space and there’s no noticable degredation in the content. This isn’t most gifs, but I’ve encouotered more than enough to make this worthwhile, to me.

By and large, those who have bothered to convert videos to gifs don’t seem to have considered any sort of size vs quality notion; Its done moreso because whatever forum/site they uploaded to would embed gifs and not video files. Gif is efficient enough that this usually doesn’t matter, but sometimes…

Every time I consider that my near-a-terrabyte may be a little excessive, I’ll remember anon.

Then again, I keep videos to 720P or less, and convert gifs to video, so if anon’s an HD and/or 3D/Vr maniac, I could easilly have more than them, measured in playback time.

There used to be a notion in Jewish law that if a law or rule caused a bad/evil thing to happen one time in ten, it was a bad law.

Since learning of that, I’ve always wondered what the point in having a law that goes un-prosecuted more than one times in ten is. By that metric, and murder stats alone, the legal system and priorities of law enforcement in the US have been obviously and near-completely broken for quite some time. (To be clear, if we’re not dealing with murder, I don’t see the point in the concept of “law” in the first place)

Seriously, what business does the US have policing women’s healthcare and deporting ANYONE when 1 in three murderers is getting away with it?

The divisions in the red symbol remind me of the Tigris and Euphrates, one from the North and one from the East, nearly meeting around Bagdad and both contributing to a nearly-singular green belt from there South to the Persian Gulf.

I’m not sure, but the Sunni, Shia, and Kurds may be distributed in a similar pattern, allthough not-at-all deliniated by the rivers.

Apparently an eight-pointed star is a powerful symbol in Islam, but exaggerating the points like in OP’s flag is not something I’ve seen in that context.

I would second the idea that an Iraqi flag without green doesn’t sit right. Its literally the only color in their current flag I could tell you the meaning of.