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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. You just make a hatch on both ends. One bolts from the inside, the other from the outside. The hatch being the proper shape is probably more important than the torque, as the intense water pressure probably puts more force on it than the bolts. But even then, a torque wrench isn't that hard to pack.
  2. There are a few submersibles that have made the trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench that also have manipulator arms. It might be possible to mount some sort of spool on one and run a tether up to the surface. They'd be dead by then for sure, but it would be a cool project to see if it is possible.
  3. We had a hail storm about a month ago that took mine down for me. I'm assuming the roofers will take care of what is left of the clips.
  4. Ain't nothing wrong with a smallish but fiesty and not annoying dog. I had a dog several years ago that was supposed to be a long haired chihuahua puppy, but her hair was pretty wirey and she looked like she was sired by some sort of schnauzer. She wasn't yappy or annoying (although I did catch her barking at a bald eagle hanging out in a pine tree in the back yard when I got home one day) and was a great little dog. She even got run over by the mail lady's jeep and was just fine after a couple of weeks. Nothing wrong with a little dog like that.
  5. Yeah, I'm not sure what I was thinking, given that this is a federal case. I think I was thinking that the due process clause being reinforced by the fourteenth amendment would negate some of the arguments about colonial prohibitions on gun ownership by slaves or freed men (the government actually tried to argue that recently) because the preceeding thirteenth amendment, but somehow wires got crossed and I was distracted with work and the heat. Anyhow, I assume you read my previous post, so I would argue that the vagueness doctrine which is derived from due process clearly applies, given the power it allows law enforcement to selectively enforce it. And I believe that there was even a recent case in which a judge ruled that even a one time use of a controlled substance would be sufficient, which makes selective enforcement even more probable. But the bigger issue to me, is that even under Heller, flatly prohibiting any user of a controlled substance such as marijuana from possessing an arm that was involved in any way with interstate commerce is defacto stripping that person of a fundamental right without due process, which means strict scrutiny should be applied. I don't think there is anybody on this board who would say that the government has a compelling interest in stripping cancer patients of their second amendment rights unless they fundamentally disagree that it is actually a right.
  6. I'd bet if you looked at the statistics about the racial identity of those who get charged with lieing on a 4473 you'd see a pretty significant racial discrepancy. It's a vague law that doesn't define who someone who is a "user" of controlled substances is. In practice, it is a tool that allows law enforcement to discriminate against whoever they choose to. It is also a tool used to fish for other crimes in a discriminatory manner. They can open an investigation and fish for evidence of other crimes, and then conveniently drop charges on the violation of 922(3)(g) so that the defendant doesn't have good standing to challenge it.
  7. Couldn't they ping Morse code in the area. Like, "bang if you aren't dead?"
  8. Would you even need Bruen, though? McDonald v Chicago confirmed that second amendments rights are incorporated by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. That might be enough by itself, but with Bruen it would definitely be a pretty good shot.
  9. Well, to be fair, if you decide to drop a duece you can look out the port hole.
  10. Yep, under federal law it is illegal to purchase a firearm if you are a user of even marijuana, and Joe probably want to keep it that way. Challenging that probably doesn't sound too appealing to him.
  11. Well, his lawyers have stated that they intend to argue that the law he broke was unconstitutional under the Bruen decision, so maybe it had something to do with not having the son of the POTUS arguing against the laws that POTUS supports in federal court.
  12. I'm sure that those slaves in Delaware, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Indian Territory who were still enslaved on Juneteenth felt the same... But on a serious note, the reason it makes sense to me is that it grew organically into what it is now. But we do need to do a better job of informing people what exactly Juneteenth is and what it did and didn't do.
  13. Hopefully them have some system in place to drop the ballast as quickly as possible if they lose communication and can't reestablish it and they are just floating around the surface waiting to be found, but based on the videos of the sub, that doesn't seem likely.
  14. Just have like an epipen full of viagra for the airbags.
  15. It makes sense to celebrate it as a national holiday because it was already being celebrated throughout much of the country. If it had not spread throughout the country, then the ratification of the 13th amendment would make more sense. But even then, it was not until the summer of 1866 that the slaves owned by all of the five civilized tribes were freed.
  16. I would like to imagine that we have something capable of retrieving things down that deep, but if we did the official story would be that the submarine was found on the surface somewhere.
  17. There are none. That kind of stuff happens all the time and always exacerbates things when there is a shortage.
  18. My little brother mailed the metal crate that one of these came in back from Afghanistan to make a grill out of or something like that. The whole thing was pretty much just covered in postage stamps.
  19. Also, and I'm not a huge follower of soccer, but I think the US has a huge advantage in the next ten years versus El Tri. We have a massive base of kids playing academy level soccer in this country right now, and our system is set up to where we promote talent. If a player is good, they will likely get recruited for the next level because we as a country generally reward talent. Mexico, on the other hand, is a bit of a pay to play type country. At least according to my BIL who grew up there. If you are good, you still have to pay the right people to move up the chain. So while we have a talent pool from a population of over 330 million people that gets promoted based mostly on merit, Mexico has a talent pool from a population of about 127 million that gets promoted based on how much your family can pay the coaches or how connected they are.
  20. Same here. So Mexico was basically AFC Richmond playing Manchester in early season 3 of Ted Lasso?
  21. I guess he figured the same for the stock?
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