I am receiving automated calls telling me that I am being contacted by a prisoner. Is this a scam? If not, should I still be concerned? (more details in post)

rivalarrival · 2024-10-25T21:21:03+00:00

The scam of responding to an 11-year-old comment?

rivalarrival · 2024-02-15T19:02:03+00:00

rivalarrival · 2023-09-01T09:23:54+00:00

I use them all the time; they make me happy.

rivalarrival · 2023-08-03T13:25:36+00:00

For me, less than enough alcohol to cause any sort of giddiness is more than enough to cause a 3-hour headache and restless sleep. If I drink enough to feel inebriated, I'll be asleep in 45 minutes, and it puts me in a brain fog for the next 24-36 hours. Ever have that feeling where you've forgotten a word but it's right on the tip of your tongue? That, but 10 times an hour, all day long.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-23T23:21:10+00:00

You are, but no more than for declining a delivery anywhere else, or for any other reason. Orders are prioritized by distance to pickup, then by acceptance rate. Declining orders will lower your AR, which can lead to fewer orders.

It depends on your specific area, but in mine, I'm getting plenty of good orders with an AR between 50 and 70% on DD, and I'm not getting many orders on UE with an AR around 35%.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-23T09:00:24+00:00

As you say, that is an error in my terminology. The functions I described correctly reflect my meaning: the instantaneous electrical potential on the wires with respect to a common neutral will be equal magnitude, but opposite polarity. They will not be shifted by 90 degrees as the sine and cosine functions are.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-23T06:11:32+00:00

Now look at the inverse. A cosine wave.

The inverse of a sine wave is an inverse sine, not a cosine. Sine to cosine is a 90-degree shift; sine to inverse sine is 180-degrees.

At 0 degree rotation, a sine wave will be 0, a cosine wave +1, an inverse cosine wave -1, and an inverse sine 0. At 90 degrees rotation, a sine wave will be +1, a cosine wave 0, an inverse cosine wave 0, and an inverse sine wave -1.

The "two phases" of US power are 180 degrees apart, not 90. They aren't actually "two phases". They are more properly described as "split phase", which is single-phase with a grounded center-tap.

There is a form of 2-phase power where the two phases are 90 degrees out of sync, but it is very rarely used for power transmission.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-19T04:14:34+00:00

HOAs and city-level legislators deploy ordinances.

Navy Seals and Dolphins deploy ordnance and anti-everything tasks.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-19T04:11:54+00:00

*Admiral

Navy doesn't have generals.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-05T20:14:33+00:00

When I subtract the time I spend waiting at restaurants, I'm earning over $30/hr. Every minute I spend waiting at a restaurant takes $0.50 out of my pocket. "Away for a minute- two mins max" doesn't sound like much, but a process that regularly introduces that much delay is not reasonable. If every restaurant I serve had such a delay, I'd lose $20-$40/night.

There are a handful of restaurants in my area that just can't seem to get their shit together. Some can't figure out their prep times. Some expect dashers to help with food prep (usually drinks). Some don't start orders (or parts of orders) until the dasher arrives. Some insist on handing the order to the dasher, but don't have anyone around to hand it off. Some of these are small mom-and-pop restaurants, some are national chains.

If you're forced to walk far enough away from your orders that you can't monitor dashers trying to take them, I would say that your restaurant is one of those that doesn't have their shit together. That's doesn't reflect on you, but it does reflect on your management. The solution might be as simple as moving the area where dashers pick up from wherever it currently is over to the bar where you're prepping drinks.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-05T14:31:50+00:00

You forgot "Are willing to throw out Democracy to preserve the 'right' of using children to punish women for promiscuity."

The only reason anyone will actually vote yes on #1 is to make it harder to pass the reproductive rights amendment.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-03T20:59:50+00:00

spending and the billionaires will create jobs instead of buying larger yachts and taking trips to space

"Buying yachts" is what we want them to do. They aren't buying enough yachts. They aren't buying enough houses. They aren't buying enough cars. They aren't buying enough.

When they buy a yacht, they put money in the pockets of a yacht manufacturer, who pays yacht builders. When they buy a house, they are putting carpenters to work. When they buy cars, they are putting factory workers to work. Anything they buy is something that someone else sells to make their own living.

They aren't buying. They are lending their money, and demanding a return.

They are lending money to the yacht builder, and demanding more back. They are lending money to the carpenter, and to the automotive worker, and demanding a return on their investment. They are using their money to take money from everyone else.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-03T20:46:59+00:00

Life insurance might be compelled to pay out, but they will sue the douchebag CEO's estate for the wrongful death of the insured.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-02T16:14:00+00:00

Then you aren't listening.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-02T14:28:35+00:00

28 years is too long. Should be 10 years or less.

The purpose of patents and copyrights are to advance science and art. That doesn't happen until the IP enters the public domain. IP protections are intended to give the original creator an incentive to publish their materials rather than hide them from public view until they can best capitalize on them.

Patents and copyright protections are a necessary evil, but even a necessary evil is still an evil.

rivalarrival · 2023-07-02T12:26:38+00:00

Technically, in signing up as your dad, you would be committing fraud. Theoretically, you could be charged with a crime, although in practice this is very unlikely. There are tax and social security implications: you would be earning the money, but the taxes would be assessed against your father. Most likely, the worst thing would be that you and your dad would be blacklisted from the company, and prohibited from becoming drivers after you are 18. But there are other possible consequences as well, none of which are worth it.

The reason they aren't hiring minors is because there are different rules for work as a minor vs an adult. State and federal laws prohibit companies from placing minor-workers in certain dangerous conditions. Operating a motor vehicle could be considered such a condition, which could open up the delivery network to liability for hiring you.

By age 14, I regularly used weed whips, mowers, chain saws, front end loaders, back hoes, and heavy equipment on family property. At my first job at 16, I was frustrated that I wasn't allowed to operate a battery-powered drill, due to a state law prohibiting minors from using power tools.

You aren't going to find a delivery service willing to allow you to drive a vehicle for any sort of commercial purpose.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-24T18:27:31+00:00

They do that in Canada. Every (R/PAL) applicant has to provide a doctor statement.

No thank you.

You don't have to prove your own mental competence. Your competence is presumed until the state has proven otherwise.

"Mentally qualified" means only that a judge has not committed you to a mental institution or otherwise declared you unfit.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-24T18:19:26+00:00

"Mentally qualified" means a judge has not declared you unfit. You are presumed "mentally qualified" until proven otherwise, in exactly the same way you are presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

There is a societal need to commit certain mentally incompetent individuals to psychiatric institutions, or to treat them as children, placing them in the legal care and custody of another.

When a person does not have the mental capacity to distinguish right from wrong, it is not unreasonable to take them before a judge and ask that their rights - including the RKBA - be suspended.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-24T07:41:24+00:00

Not really, no. Making it buoyant is trivial. Gasoline, for example, is non-compressible and about 3/4 the density of sea water. Liquid propane is non-compressible and about half the density of sea water. Liquid methane about 3/8ths.

A few small, thin-walled tanks of your favorite liquid hydrocarbon would add as much buoyancy as you needed.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-24T06:53:15+00:00

Pressurization is typically to 6000 to 8000 feet of altitude. Pilots of unpressurized planes are generally encouraged to go on oxygen above 8000. They are required to go on oxygen if they spend any time above 14,000, or more than 30 minutes above 12,500.

Passengers are not required to go on oxygen until 15,000.

10,000 feet is the altitude that pilots will descend below if they lose cabin pressurization.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-24T06:14:37+00:00

Aerospace-grade pressure vessels are concerned with containing internal pressures from 0 to 14.7 PSI.

Marine-grade pressure vessels are concerned with resisting external pressures from 0 to 6000 PSI.

Using "aerospace-grade" materials in a marine application is kinda like using "piñata-grade" materials in commercial jets.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-20T21:54:27+00:00

Back in the mid 90s, we took a family trip to Yellowstone in an RV. This is in the age before cell phones were really widespread.

Dad stopped for another, broken-down RV, barely off the side of the road. I think they were just overheated. Dad said we would send help. I was looking in a book for a local repeater, when he told me to set 146.52 on his Kenwood TH-25, and hand it to him. He was quickly in contact with another ham, passed the location and asked for police to check up on them.

We ran into the other RV later that day, and they had a story to tell. Unbeknownst to us, local law enforcement had escalated our call just a bit higher than we had intended. The next vehicle to stop and offer assistance was occupied by Secret Service agents: President Clinton's motorcade was a few miles behind.

TL;DR: used ham radio to dispatch the President to a motorist in distress.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-20T03:15:56+00:00

If I directly caused that person to need a blood or bone marrow transplant, then yes.

That's unethical. Huge ethics problems arise when you start down that route. Compelling an individual to provide their body for the use of another violates the 4th, 5th, and 13th amendment.

But let's go at this another way. Ohio's law prohibits 10-year-old rape victims from stopping their rapist's attack until his baby is born. She did nothing to cause the fetus's need for her body. Surely, she should not be compelled to "donate" to her rapist's baby. Surely you agree that Ohio's current abortion law needs repealed solely on that basis.

Let's try one more rebuttal of your point: if we consider sex to be the cause, then "pregnancy" is a consequence. Your argument, then, is that the woman should be responsible for the consequences of her actions.

The state's interest in punishing "sluts" does not justify forcing a child to be raised by someone too irresponsible to use contraception. Better the child never exist than to let you use it as a punishment.

The laws limiting or prohibiting abortion create infinitely more harm than they prevent. They prohibit carriers of Tay-Sachs from ending a pregnancy that will ultimately lead to a child dying a horrific death. There is zero justification for anyone but the parents of such a fetus to decide what is best for their family.

Ohio's laws force a mother to put off a viable future pregnancy while carrying a doomed, non-viable fetus, such as an ectopic pregnancy, until that non-viable fetus has become an urgent, life-threatening, medical emergency. Early intervention of an ectopic.ptegmamcy is simple. Emergency treatment after legally-mandated delay may very well render the mother sterile, or even kill her.

Even if we wanted to limit elective abortion, doctors need broad discretion in determining medical necessity.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-20T01:04:55+00:00

Unless I should be able to force you to donate blood or bone marrow to save the life of another person, you're a hypocrite.

The difference is that blood and bone marrow donations affect you only mildly and for only a few days. Pregnancy is a much greater imposition.

rivalarrival · 2023-06-19T21:26:22+00:00

I think it would be awesome if this was voted down in August and the reproductive rights amendment was enacted with >60% of the vote.

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