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In my submittal, my reasoning also included the fact that the change to “Gulf of America” didn’t follow the official process.

The place to protest this isn’t Google.

We need to have everyone propose a name change to the official body in charge of place names, the US Board on Geographic Names.

Unfortunately, one of the rules on name changes is “Changing a name merely to correct or re-establish historical usage is not in and of itself a reason to change a name.”

On the other hand, they also say “The most important consideration is local use and acceptance,” so the sooner we act, the better.

That’s like saying all cars are meant for the racetrack or all knives are made for spreading butter.

I own several guns, and none of them are so I can kill. My over/under shotgun is designed for skeet shooting. My 22 pistol is for plinking. My precision rifle weighs 30 pounds with its optic, so is incredibly impractical as a weapon.

Then what they need is to no longer be in the relationship.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.

The numbers have to come from somewhere, and we all know how good police are at making accusations against them go away.

So the reality is going to be much, much worse.

Sax.

It’s the devil’s instrument now that he lost his fiddle.

They’ve been putting super flexible screens in phones for years. They’re usually just sandwiched in glass for protection.

That’s how we got all those curved bezelless displays.

Not that specific one, but I did have a fly fuck up a selection in photoshop a few times before I just unplugged the USB connection to the monitor.

Not as bad as the IR touch screens. They had a IR field protected just above the surface of the screen that would be broken by your finger, such would register a touch at that location.

Or a fly landing on your screen and walking a few steps could drag a file into the recycle bin.

Yesterday I woke up near Dallas, went to Houston for family stuff, went back to Dallas for different family stuff, and had to be at work at 8am this morning in Austin.

I think just going to work is less work.

Watched this movie the other day for the first time in forever.

When I was little, I thought Joe Pesci was the evil burglar. But holy cow, Daniel Stern is a monster. Joe Pesci steals a few things. Daniel Stern floods the houses and ruins lives for laughs.

The Microsoft Zune had a y2k9 bug caused by a lingering clock issue from leap year from the extra day in February 2008 that caused them to crash HARD on Jan 1, 2009. I remember It being a pretty big PITA getting it back up and running.

I’ve got dozens of guns and a heck of a BBQ setup.

We can do both.

But until the insurance problem is solved, it may be better for the victims of the families not to call it terrorism.

They’re going through absolute hell. Last thing they need is an unexpected loss of a 6-figure insurance payment.

This is a legit argument. If the purpose of the killing is to intimidate other insurance companies, it’s terrorism, and almost all insurance companies have an exception for terrorist attacks.

It’s also why we shouldn’t be as upset when mass-shooters aren’t called out as terrorists by law enforcement and politicians. There’s insurance implications.

Depends on your dataset, confidence, and margin of error.

Assuming that 95% of billionaires will act similarly and 750-ish total billionaires in the US, if you want to have 99% confidence and 1% margin of error, you’ll need a minimum sample size of around 600.

We really should be thorough. For science.

That, and it’s a health insurance company.

They can offer whatever rewatd they want. Their entire business model is based on promising to provide money before refusing to cough it up.

“Delay” and “Depose” were apparently written on the shell casings.

“Delay. Deny. Defend.” is a common health insurance company mantra about denying service long enough that people die so the company doesn’t have to pay for the Healthcare they’re entitled to.

Insurance pre-authorization for medical care should be outlawed. If a doctor orders a procedure, the insurance company shouldn’t be allowed to say “no.” But they are because our system is super fucked.

You just need to be more careful.

I’ve never been wrong about anything online. How could that even happen?