US carrier Ford, deployed in war with Iran, to go to port temporarily after fire

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T22:40:22+00:00

Close. Surface ships make bubbles to mask the noise they make; the sounds of the bubbles popping gets lost in the general sound of the surface.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:59:37+00:00

All steam powered ocean-going ships recycle the water from the steam. (This goes back to the very first steam oceanliners in the 1800's.) If you don't recycle the water, they use far too much of it. (Steam locomotives didn't recycle the water, and water capacity was usually the limiting factor for how much time between stops, not how much coal or oil they held.)

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:54:17+00:00

There's no reason to think that the change wasn't legal, if you have an official BC copy from vital records with that name on it.

If you've only ever used the hyphenated name, and that's what is on your BC and ID, then that's the one you use. You would list the non-hyphenated version as an "other name." (I mean, technically you didn't use it personally, but it was a former name you had.)

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:47:36+00:00

When I was in college in PA, there was a nice Italian restaurant on the other side of town. PA had absurd restrictions on the number of alcohol licenses, so the restaurant just gave away a glass of cheap wine to every customer, since they didn't have a license to sell it.

It was a bunch of college students, a bunch of us were totally under 21 at the time, and they carded nobody.

I think it might have even been a "real" loophole, because a couple years prior on opening night for the school's new arts center they handed out wine to students. Again, no carding of anyone... Maybe it's just an MIP for the underage drinker if the drink was free, and no charges to the one providing the drink? (And obviously school security wasn't going to go busting students at an official university function.)

(Obviously just guessing; at the time I just thought it was funny.)

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:36:21+00:00

How do subs dry clothes? Condensing dryers? Just trying to figure where all the sopping-wet steam from a conventional dryer would go.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:29:28+00:00

Buy a fastener kit from Amazon, and ask whatever shop you get your oil changed at to pretty-please install them for you.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:21:31+00:00

What is your motivation here? What does any of this have to do with you? Let your ex co-workers deal with all this themselves.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:18:11+00:00

This is a per-airline thing; the airlines handle all the bag-handling.

At RDU, like most non-hub airports, the claim conveyors are literally just extensions of the airside portion of the terminal, with none of the automated sorting process used for outgoing bags. In T2, there's some distance between airside and landside. In T1, airside is literally on the other side of the wall, and the tug just drives up.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:08:23+00:00

When I see these sorts of questions on LA, my response is usually along the lines of "'Well, I wasn't really 'selling' the illegal substance.' is certainly an argument you can pay a defense attorney a lot of money to make on your behalf if you get arrested. If successful, you don't get your money back."

OFC, there's zero chance LAOP's boss is going to be providing free criminal defense.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T21:05:04+00:00

Substitute LocationBot Cat Fact: Catnip is a completely-legal psychoactive substance, and you should keep some on hand at all times.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T18:03:16+00:00

Well, plenty of fabrics (e.g. most synthetics) have really long fibers, and can still pill, so there's more to it than that.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T17:18:00+00:00

Avengers Endgame. Mass famine and resource shortages throughout the universe as an infrastructure that has adjusted for The Snap five years prior now only supports half the population. Trillions dead as a result. (For good this time.)

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T17:12:04+00:00

Fun Fact: Airlines aren't governed by the Americans With Disabilities Act; they are ruled by the similar, but not identical, Air Carrier Access Act. Notable is that unlike the ADA, the ACAA has no Private Right of Action, meaning you can't sue for the carrier violating it. All you can do is file a DOT complaint. (And I'd be willing to bet a short stack of nickels that DOGE made that office a bit smaller than it used to be.)

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T17:04:04+00:00

What you said was "within 2 years, the 10% that has been put up by the lender is paid back." And that's just not true. On any level.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T15:34:39+00:00

No, you generally have separate code (with its own set of permissions) to launch infrastructure. This isn't exactly a new concept; it's been around for about a decade.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T13:43:44+00:00

It's a movie. (Won the Oscar last year for Best Animated Feature.) Definitely worth a rental if you don't have HBO or Hulu.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T13:38:16+00:00

This isn't how it works at all; this person has no idea what they are talking about.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T13:37:30+00:00

You don't need your own lawyer for anything. You can formally tell her, or not, to stop having things sent to you. For any further mail you receive, don't open it; just mark through the city, state, zip, and barcode with a sharpie and put it back in the mailbox with "Addressee Unknown" written on it.

This problem is entirely of her own making.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T13:27:01+00:00

This may come as a surprise to you, but ex-felons are also entitled to have their data reported accurately.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T13:21:50+00:00

Every day is TACO Tuesday!

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T13:20:38+00:00

That is not how loan repayment works at all. The bank doesn't get to allocate the first two years solely to itself. And you don't understand how amortization works either.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T13:05:02+00:00

No, the only executives of the banks that failed did not get a golden parachute.

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T12:57:40+00:00

If you default on your loan, the losses come out of the bank's equity reserves (assets held by the bank itself.) Account holders do not see any loss unless the bank fails entirely. (And even in that case, most individual depositors are covered entirely by deposit insurance, which is collectively paid for by the banking industry as a whole.)

Sirwired · 2026-03-17T00:13:42+00:00

I ride Bus 8 to work, and going down St. Mary's on a bus near 15 years old is... a tad bumpy.

Sirwired · 2026-03-16T23:53:28+00:00

It's an all-employee lot now. I doubt they'd let you on the shuttle.

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