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by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:12 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 425

Re: Charlotte Shootout

More GPT to describe the way things are currently done: How Warrants are Served with Potentially Dangerous Suspects Yes, warrants generally need to be served in person. The process of serving a warrant involves law enforcement officers presenting the warrant to the individual named in the document, ...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 425

Re: Charlotte Shootout

Possibly so. But governments all over the world are trying a variety of ways to handle criminals and other social ills. Those who discover a better, but previously unconventional way of going about things, are not generally those who are defending the older way of doing things. My suggestion may no...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 425

Re: Charlotte Shootout

Ernie wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:31 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68925453

4 Officers killed.
I'm really sorry that their lives needed to end this way. I wish there was much less evil in the world.
I agree. This feels kind of close to home for me.

Evil is not a new thing.
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 425

Re: Charlotte Shootout

When our military clears houses in Iraq or Afghanistan, often the lead guy faces extreme risk of death due to being the first guy in. Making an effort to identify friend or foe before shooting increases the likelihood of getting shot. Hypothetically, if they had an armored car, what would they have...
by Bootstrap
Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:19 pm
Forum: MennoLight
Topic: Neither leisured foreigner ...
Replies: 3
Views: 167

Re: Neither leisured foreigner ...

Do any of the examples on this particular mug actually violate the rule? I don't think the rule prohibits "cie" as a sequence.
ohio jones wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:44 pm Image
by Bootstrap
Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Rampaging Horses in London
Replies: 10
Views: 301

Re: Rampaging Horses in London

Despite the obviously clickbait title, I clicked on this thread to see what "Rampaging Horses in London" was about.

It was ... about rampaging horses in London. Really. Wow.
by Bootstrap
Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:42 am
Forum: Other
Topic: How accurate do you find this map?
Replies: 12
Views: 356

Re: How accurate do you find this map?

The label "where you go on the way to somewhere better" ... I don't think I can apply that to any place I've ever been, once I have really spent time there. I think whoever made this map should spend the next few years getting to know those places.
by Bootstrap
Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:52 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: How accurate do you find this map?
Replies: 12
Views: 356

Re: How accurate do you find this map?

Szdfan wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:30 pm
Bootstrap wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:50 pm I just spent the week in Colorado on a work trip.
Where were you?
Colorado Springs
by Bootstrap
Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: MennoLight
Topic: Neither leisured foreigner ...
Replies: 3
Views: 167

Neither leisured foreigner ...

Neither leisured foreigner seized the weird height.

The feisty poltergeist feigned sovereignty, but the freighter's reindeer perceived deceit.

How many words can you think of that break the rule "I before E except after C"? Can you make up sentences of such words?
by Bootstrap
Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Poll: Who will win 2024 Presidency?
Replies: 112
Views: 3287

Re: Poll: Who will win 2024 Presidency?

barnhart wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:51 pm I don't see that President Trump will spend a single day in prison.
And it's hard to imagine Trump not being on the ballot. Even if convicted of a felony.