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last month a Las Vegas Police Officer was caught running away after he robbed the Rio sportsbook with his Police Department issued gun
he had robbed other casinos as well
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/las-vegas-officer-accused-robbing-casino-department-issued-gun-rcna19773
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Is robbing a casino a Federal crime?
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Is robbing a casino a Federal crime?
according to the link Armed Robbery is a Federal crime
I believe there may be some discussion among the authorities as to whether the person will be charged by the State or the Feds
armed robbery is also a crime in every State
I'm not a lawyer but I think the Feds decide whether or not to prosecute or hand it to the State based on how they regard the seriousness of it
I doubt the Feds would prosecute an armed robbery of a gas station where the robber go only $400
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https://clarifacts.com/federal-crimes-list/
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Quote: billryanI know bank robbery is a federal crime as you are stealing money insured by them, but a casino I don't see.
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Armed Robbery is federal because of the armed part. Robbery of any kind can be federal if it impacts interstate commerce.
Quote: MrVFWIW, Subaru Forester is the vehicle of choice for dykes in Portland.
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Hate speech -- Three-day suspension.
R.I.P. William Hurt - just passed - a great actor imo
was so great in "Body Heat" - one of my fave flicks
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Canaan was just a typical 16-year-old, pumping gas when he heard a disturbance across the street. A mentally disturbed man had confronted a young mother and was trying to kidnap her youngest child. A store clerk and some bystanders had tried to intervene but the suspect beat them off with a wooden stick. The suspect was covered with blood and knocking shelves over when Canaan overpowered him and wrestled him to the ground.
For his actions, he was honored by his hometown of Las Cruces, and by the state of New Mexico. A varsity wrestler, he was given special recognition by the US Wrestling Association and even the MMA world celebrated him.
Mr. Bower died in a motorcycle accident this week, at the age of eighteen. Rest in Peace.
I started watching a video of a Cessna plane whose engine failed that landed successfully at an airport with the viewpoint from inside the cockpit. Then I started following a series of other videos that showed up in sidebar with often far more unpleasant results. Crashes, recordings of people screaming in their last moments.
I don't really even enjoy flying that much anyway. I might even have a little acrophobia.
"3. Your scale weighs in pounds/ounces (lb oz), grams (g), kilograms (kg), fluid ounces (fl.oz), and milliliters (mL). Press the "UNIT" button to change the units of measurement."
Does anyone see any issue of having that list of options for measurements by a kitchen scale?
Quote: DocYesterday, my wife purchased a small, digital scale to use in the kitchen. She said that because of recipes that she had, it needed to read in both grams and ounces. When we got it home, I installed the batteries and read the rather-limited instruction booklet. I took note of one item in the list of "General Weighing Operation" steps:
"3. Your scale weighs in pounds/ounces (lb oz), grams (g), kilograms (kg), fluid ounces (fl.oz), and milliliters (mL). Press the "UNIT" button to change the units of measurement."
Does anyone see any issue of having that list of options for measurements by a kitchen scale?
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Different countries use different measurements. Also sometime one recipe might say use 10 milliliters but the product is in fluid ounces. Canada uses Kilograms while the US uses pounds. It just lets you make conversions easier.
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"3. Your scale weighs in pounds/ounces (lb oz), grams (g), kilograms (kg), fluid ounces (fl.oz), and milliliters (mL). Press the "UNIT" button to change the units of measurement."
Does anyone see any issue of having that list of options for measurements by a kitchen scale?
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Mine has separate fluid ounce settings for milk and water. Apparently, they have different densities.
A lot of serious baking recipes have everything in grams only.
Quote: DocYesterday, my wife purchased a small, digital scale to use in the kitchen. She said that because of recipes that she had, it needed to read in both grams and ounces. When we got it home, I installed the batteries and read the rather-limited instruction booklet. I took note of one item in the list of "General Weighing Operation" steps:
"3. Your scale weighs in pounds/ounces (lb oz), grams (g), kilograms (kg), fluid ounces (fl.oz), and milliliters (mL). Press the "UNIT" button to change the units of measurement."
Does anyone see any issue of having that list of options for measurements by a kitchen scale?
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No... I have a digital scale with those exact measurement options. I use them all for one thing or another. What possible issue could there be?
Quote: vegasDifferent countries use different measurements. Also sometime one recipe might say use 10 milliliters but the product is in fluid ounces. Canada uses Kilograms while the US uses pounds. It just lets you make conversions easier.
Quote: DieterMine has separate fluid ounce settings for milk and water. Apparently, they have different densities.
A lot of serious baking recipes have everything in grams only.
Quote: TigerWuNo... I have a digital scale with those exact measurement options. I use them all for one thing or another. What possible issue could there be?
Well, Dieter came closest to the point I was trying to make.
The units of pounds, ounces, grams, and kilograms are used to measure mass or weight. (To be a bit nerdy, in the case of a scale they are measures of weight, which may then perhaps be expressed as measures of mass, assuming standard gravitational effects.) Which of these units you use is typically a matter of preference (or practice of the country/region).
The units of fluid ounces and milliliters are used to measure volumes. I know of no way that a scale can measure volume, unless perhaps if you specify the density of the material, as Dieter suggested for his scale adjustment with milk vs. water. Generally, volume is measured with a spoon, cup, scoop, or similar device, not by weighing the material on a scale. Imagine using a kitchen scale to measure the volume of popped popcorn.
Quote: DocWell, Dieter came closest to the point I was trying to make.
The units of pounds, ounces, grams, and kilograms are used to measure mass or weight. (To be a bit nerdy, in the case of a scale they are measures of weight, which may then perhaps be expressed as measures of mass, assuming standard gravitational effects.) Which of these units you use is typically a matter of preference (or practice of the country/region).
The units of fluid ounces and milliliters are used to measure volumes. I know of no way that a scale can measure volume, unless perhaps if you specify the density of the material, as Dieter suggested for his scale adjustment with milk vs. water. Generally, volume is measured with a spoon, cup, scoop, or similar device, not by weighing the material on a scale. Imagine using a kitchen scale to measure the volume of popped popcorn.
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Yeah, but all that is more or less irrelevant for the kind of things people need a kitchen scale for.
According to Wikipedia, one fluid ounce of water weighs 1.040843 "weight" ounces. Another site I found says a fluid ounce of milk weighs 1.08030 "weight" ounces. Those are close enough, and not nearly enough of a variance for anyone to be concerned about unless they're doing some very delicate chemistry, in which case they're not going to be using a $20 kitchen scale from Target anyway.
pro wrestling has gotten insane - the stunts are unbelievable - and so is the punishment they must have to take to do them
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No health plan, no pension, promoters that screw you at every opportunity. Ask him and he'll tell you it is the best job in the world.
The guy on the bottom of the ladder, Sting, is in his sixties and has been at the top of the industry since the late 1980s.
Can't find any trace of him. None of the wrestlers named Apollo are him.
Rocco was so popular in the early 1960s that he was featured on a cover of Superman, wrestling the Man of Steel.
The only wrestler I can think of who I saw do a headstand on the turnstile until recently was a French-Canadian who went by Edward Carpentier( sp). He was based in Montreal but everyone toured back then.
Carpentier was in tag teams with both Apollo and Rocco, although his main partner when touring the States seemed to be Bobo Brazil.
As an aside, last month saw a 14-year-old boy get a pro wrestling license for the first time ever. Future Stars of Wrestling in Las Vegas got age waivers for the boy after he convinced the commission he was mentally and physically capable. He is the son of a former WWE wrestler and has been training since he was eight. He is about 150 pounds soaking wet.
What did they do?
one of my fave memories of pro wrestling from back in the day is that there was some old lady who you used to see at a lot of televised matches
was she real, or was she staged________?________yeah, it had to be staged
she used to stand up near the front row and got all mad at the bad guys - she used to point her cane at them and gesture at them threatening to hit them with it
what a hoot that was
Edit - I just searched and realized they revived that gimmick
here's Granny vs. the Hulkster - Granny's really mad - she starts getting on him at 0:24_______________(~:\
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used a lighterQuote: billryanFour men are in a lifeboat. One finds a pack of cigarettes but they have no matches. Minutes later they are all smoking away.
What did they do?
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Quote: billryanNope, no outside help. It is up to the men to find a way. It's a riddle.
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Gimme a few minutes.
I need to stage a photo.
Despite putting a cigarette over board...
Quote: billryanFour men are in a lifeboat. One finds a pack of cigarettes but they have no matches. Minutes later they are all smoking away.
What did they do?
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Used a lighter.
Used a pair of glasses to focus the sun.
Used a flare.
Used one of those emergency magnesium starter things.
Used a piece of burning wreckage from whatever boat they were on after it caught fire.
Used flint and tinder if this riddle takes place in the old days.
There's really all kinds of answers you could just keep coming up with...
Quote: billryanFour men are in a lifeboat. One finds a pack of cigarettes but they have no matches. Minutes later they are all smoking away.
What did they do?
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They threw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.
Quote: billryanFour men are in a lifeboat. One finds a pack of cigarettes but they have no matches. Minutes later they are all smoking away.
What did they do?
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They threw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.
Quote: gordonm888Quote: billryanFour men are in a lifeboat. One finds a pack of cigarettes but they have no matches. Minutes later they are all smoking away.
What did they do?
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They threw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.
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Winner winner, chicken dinner!
The perils of watching Batman while high as a kite.
To a punnery, go, and quickly too.
one more - pro wrestling craziness - unbelievable -
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Quote: billryanFour men are in a lifeboat. One finds a pack of cigarettes but they have no matches. Minutes later they are all smoking away.
What did they do?
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billryan,
They used a lighter.
Dog Hand
Quote: SOOPOOSeeing the wrestling stuff reminded me that I took care of an injured pro wrestler back in the day when ECW was truly extreme. I think the guy who was visiting the injured wrestler (his mortal enemy inside the ring) was good friends with the injured guy. I think it was a chair to the face…..
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I employed quite a few guys who were training to wrestle. They are a different breed. Many of them live five or six to an apartment and hustle whatever security/bouncer work they can grab. One guy who worked for me briefly but whom I stayed in touch with went by the name Kronos. His partner was Saturn.
Perry Saturn was an Army Ranger. Possibly the toughest man I ever met. This will sound fake but it is not- Perry was out looking for a late nite place to eat when he interrupted a rape. He interceded and in the course of the struggle thought he was clubbed in the back of the head and the shoulder. He wrestled the next day and as he was going thru the metal detector to catch his flight, alarms went off. He had two .25 caliber slugs in his shoulder. He'd been taking oxy for years and dropped out of sight for several years. 'The Boys" actually had a reward for anyone sighting him. One day,after being MIA for about five years he showed up, clean and sober and looking to wrestle.
the financial health of what is probably the worlds' greatest business center - Manhattan - and particularly midtown Manhattan, is threatened by employers continuing to allow workers to work from home
many stores and businesses have closed and the future of the area is uncertain
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/02/17/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-calls-for-companies-to-quickly-bring-workers-back-to-the-office/?sh=69dfaa1d48a4
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the financial health of what is probably the worlds' greatest business center - Manhattan - and particularly midtown Manhattan, is threatened by employers continuing to allow workers to work from home
many stores and businesses have closed and the future of the area is uncertain
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/02/17/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-calls-for-companies-to-quickly-bring-workers-back-to-the-office/?sh=69dfaa1d48a4
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Rezone unused office and retail spaces to residential. People get to continue to work from home and supply is increased for the housing market. Kill two birds with one stone.
Quote: TigerWuQuote: lilredrooster__________
the financial health of what is probably the worlds' greatest business center - Manhattan - and particularly midtown Manhattan, is threatened by employers continuing to allow workers to work from home
many stores and businesses have closed and the future of the area is uncertain
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/02/17/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-calls-for-companies-to-quickly-bring-workers-back-to-the-office/?sh=69dfaa1d48a4
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Rezone unused office and retail spaces to residential. People get to continue to work from home and supply is increased for the housing market. Kill two birds with one stone.
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that's the suggested idea but it requires a massive effort (construction, and legal issues) to convert a skyscraper into a residential property
it's not a quick thing - it's a slow process
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Quote: lilredroosterQuote: TigerWuQuote: lilredrooster__________
the financial health of what is probably the worlds' greatest business center - Manhattan - and particularly midtown Manhattan, is threatened by employers continuing to allow workers to work from home
many stores and businesses have closed and the future of the area is uncertain
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/02/17/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-calls-for-companies-to-quickly-bring-workers-back-to-the-office/?sh=69dfaa1d48a4
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Rezone unused office and retail spaces to residential. People get to continue to work from home and supply is increased for the housing market. Kill two birds with one stone.
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that's the suggested idea but it requires a massive effort (construction, and legalities) to convert a skyscraper into a residential building
it's not a quick thing - it's a slow process
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No doubt, Manhattan has a crapload of regulatory requirements. Might not be as bad in some other metropolitan area. Miami, for instance, where your condo might be on the verge of collapse.
I googled my buddy to read about his h.s. hoops doings
he was pretty good, not great; he was 1st team All County__________he didn't play college ball
a cub reporter for the Washington Post in his 20s covered the games and wrote some nice stuff about my buddy a couple of times
I called my buddy to tell him who that reporter was - he didn't know - neither did I until now - at that time the reporter's name meant nothing
but that reporter was Thomas Boswell_________who was to become surely one of the greatest sportswriters of all time
it was pretty cool to show him that
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