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  1. Tell us if you go in the next morning and find brains exploded all over the whiteboard.
  2. Look over your shoulder, to the right. Further right. Up a bit. Smile to the camera.
  3. Get out of my brain!!!! (The only way out of the paradox is for one option (and only one option) to bethe a percentage that matches the number if options. 4 options is 25%. 5 options is 20% etc)
  4. Lithium ion. Popular where weight savings are critical, like r/c aircraft etc. Will it make your bike faster? It would be cheaper to quit eating burgers and you'll probably shed the same amout of weight.
  5. Doesn't that say a lot about us? We yell and scream about how child molestors shoudl all be skinned alive with a belt sander then rolled in salt... Then we laugh at "Pedobear" - a cartoon character respresening a child molestor. And when I say "We" I include me.
  6. Closer, but that will be appealed.
  7. Are you calling me old? I'll smack you with my Indiana Jones Atari Cartridge.
  8. In the film War Games a young hacker accidentally triggers a DOD computer to start strategizing nuclear war scenarios. It is not clear if this is a simulation or real. In the final scene the hacker teaches the computer the futility of nuclear war by having it play tic-tac-toe. The computer realizes that there is no way to win either game against an expert opponent and shuts down the war/simulation.
  9. I agree. The Penn State victims were underage children who suffered sex crimes. Tressel's victims were... Err... "Good sportsmanship" ?
  10. You answered your own question. People now know that they must report crimes of this nature and that their contract won't save them. Mandatory police reporting laws exist for many occupations. Teachers, doctors, photo developing places (people still use those??) Some states are thinking about adding IT techs to that list (if you find kiddie porn on a computer you are working on) (I drafted corporate reporting policies for a company I used ot be IT Manager at. I was very clear and all IT techs had to follow it - non-illegal porn found on a company computer was reported to me and HR. Kiddie porn gets reported to the police directly, and follow-up with me and HR.) But you have to take a step back and relaize that regardless of your prescribed legal obligation, every person has a moral duty to report a sex crime against a child to the police. No contract should ever tell you that you cannot report a crime to the police.
  11. The guy my brother caught / turned in... He was facing 800 charges to begin with. He had 37 SD cards full of pictures and videos of his crimes. My brother sent me this update about the guilty plea: I would have hoped for more than 7 years for rape of a child - however you have to consider that murder is 25 years max.
  12. He's legally blind (lost 75% of his vision due to a brain tumor when he was 10 - has severe tunnel vision, but what he sees he sees clearly) and his neighbor was much bigger. He would have lost a physical confrontation. It also would have given the abuser the chance to destroy evidence. Instead he went and called the police without the guy knowing he'd been seen. By the time the police arrived the guy had left the building and was arrested in a traffic stop - the police then searched his house and found evidence of years of abuse of multiple victims. All the evidence was set up in a way he could have destroyed it in seconds. Even if the police had knocked on his dooto serve a werrant while he was home the evidence could have been destroyed. So, controlling the understandable urge to wade in an kill someone too it from a single rape charge then a he-said-she-said for everything else - into a slam dunk case where this man will likely not ever be released from jail. The prosecutor wanted 21 years but would have required a 6yo to testify about what happened to her - they settled for 14 years.
  13. The timing sucks. SHoudln't have been done in the middle of the season. Should have been done back when the crime happened. Nobody should have covered up the rape of a 10yr old. It's like a cancer - all of the tumor must be removed if the university is to survive.
  14. My brother walked in and caught his neighbor / best friend in the act of abusing an 8yo girl. He was under no legal reporting obligation. He called the police. The man is now serving 14 years in jail. That's how you do it. Any questions?
  15. ftfy At least that's how I imagnie the conversations went. I have to assume the trustees have more info that we currently do. Police reports etc. He was not the only person fired from Penn State. It was a systemtic problem, and anyone who was part of the system that stilfed these allegations must pay the price. Are any of the JoePa suppoorters sparing a thought for the rape victims here? Just wonderin'
  16. Still, my point is valid. None of the listed options are a correct answer. A man walked up to the today and said; "Where is the other side of the street?" I pointed and said; "Over there." He said; "Well I was just over there and some jackass sent me over here."
  17. Yup - that's what I mean. There is is 0% chance that a random answer will be correct. But 0% is not an option. There is no valid answer.
  18. Scruit

    Ut-oh....

    Best bit about dating a pig is you get sex BEFORE dinner. Mmmm. Bacon.
  19. If you are insured: You pay $500 out of pocket (if you met your deductible already. That's the 250 ER fee and then the balance after the either 70,80 or 90% coverage rate, excluding the doctor who bills differently than the radiologist who bills differently from the MRI who is different from the facility charge who is different from the pharmacy charge. Then you have to figure out if the hospital is in network, if the dcotor, radiologist, MRI tech etc are in or out of network, because then it is a seperate deductible of up to 8k then 70 coverage, maybe. Then it depends on if you precertified or got a referral, and just because it is an ER visit doesn't mean you won't get you benefits reduced by 50% for not pre-certifying the visit (ask me how I know). If you haven't paid you deductible this year then it is probably $2500 out of pocket. But also out-of-network are subject to reasonable-and-customary fee limits so you may find your benefits reduced again.) Now when the EOB arrives, how do you know they got it right? You have to check against coverages and make sure something wasn't coded wrong and you got a reduced benefit because of it. If you are not insured: You pay $2500. Or you just don't pay - the rest of us will pick up the tab instead.
  20. Greetings Professor Falken. Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
  21. The answer is 0%, which is not an option. - Cannot be 25% because there is a 50% chance of picking it - Cannot be 50% becuase there is a 25% chance of picking it - Cannot be 60% becuase with 4 options the answer has to be 0, 25, 50, 75 or 100
  22. And your 20 bucks of fuel just cost you $50. Wooohoo!
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