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Virginia § 18.2-345 was only repealed 5 years ago. Oral sex, sex in a car, and cohabitation of unmarried couples were all illegal. It was not necessarily enforced; but, the laws were still on the books.
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Even then, it's a form, such as an "FS-240." My sister was born in a U.S. Air Force hospital, which issued a "Certificate of Birth" and it was useless. For passport or any other time the government asked for a "
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A titanium bracket and bone grafts. Years and years of looking down and, to some extent, poor posture led to two discs in my neck bursting and I had three vertebra fused together. Although I am fine, now, I try and always use a separate mon
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Separate. On my personal laptop(s) I can do whatever I want. On my work laptop, things are somewhat locked down. Even if it was not locked down, keeping things separate is just a good idea. It's cleaner.
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My problem with CNN Lite is that there is no apparent way to sort the links. Right now, as I write this -- 0815, 20 August -- the top story is from 1100, 17 August. In fact, the top five stories are all form midday last Friday. The 10th sto
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No, DoD civilians just have to opt-in, it's automatic for members of the military. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/frequently-asked-questions/how-ca...
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As Sharlin says, getting into the prisons. There are other companies, like CorrLinks and AccessCorrections. (I believe CorrLinks has all of the federal prison system, in addition to some states.) These systems can work both ways or one way.
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The actual title of the article does not mention roads, probably because they "all motorized travel, including the legal use of motorboats on portions of Yellowstone Lake." >So the remote Thorofare location and radius shown her
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>Ebay stopped being a two-sided marketplace when they banned leaving buyers negative (or even neutral) feedback. What? As a buyer, I can still leave positive,neutral, or negative feedback. (I just checked.) I don't sell on eBay; so,
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I send a friend a physical copy of a letter and they own that copy. I still have a digital copy -- I use a word processor for all my letters -- so I own that copy. Does one take precedence? Can one of us "publish" the letter when
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"The Count of Monte Cristo" "The Man of Bronze" What's interesting -- to me, anyway -- are the responses that are (a) books you might not be able to pay me to read or (b) books I enjoyed, but have never considered r
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>My debt was the result, in equal measure, of a chain of rotten luck and a system that is an abject failure by design. Bad luck and the "system"? No. The author and his parents are also responsible. They should have sat down an
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Note that the date on the article is 10 September 10 2015.
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>The cost of food, and utilities is tied to usage so those costs don’t really change (fungible) based on where you live; but your accommodation does. It depends on the utility. A larger home can mean increased costs for some utilities, s
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Except she "didn't have any government-issued ID or travel permits on her." Her passport was not available for review. They let her contact her mother, who brought her passport. All that was left was for Canada to say she was
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Actually, I told them to take my name out or I'd file a complaint about going through personnel files and extracting birthday information as a privacy issue. (When that was done, they wrote down the year, as well.)
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I think "awful and incomprehensible" would depend on what they are "watching." Last year, my job moved a couple of hundred miles. I can no longer listen to the morning radio show I used to listen to; but, they are simulc
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Ours was kept in a Microsoft Word file, so there was no automatic error checking. For years, I got away with telling them it was "February 30th." I'd rattle it off so easily, no one questioned it. We got a new admin assistant
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Now, we're "Business Casual"; but, many, many years ago, we started having "Causal Fridays." I opted for a necktie showing "A Friend in Need," the painting at the top of the article.
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When my ex and I got engaged, in Waterford, Ireland, all of her friends asked to see the ring and turn it around her finger. It was some sort of tradition.
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> Next time you're in a public place, look at all the people surfing on their phone. But are they looking at the news? While I see people surfing on their phones, when I do see their screens they're texting, looking at Faceboo
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What do you know? If you want to write about what you know, do it. Even if someone else has written about it, you may write about it differently. Maybe your "voice" will reach people that didn't like another blog post about t
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This. Years ago, someone here mentioned not simply rolling out of bed and starting to work. Go for coffee, walk the dog, etc. In that vein, I switch to a blue work shirt. If I'm wearing it, I'm working. It has two pockets, so I c
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I think the title is misleading, since its' just the author that thinks there is a problem with the "Bus Test." I thought it was going to lead to a study or even the results of some forum or panel. As onion2k says, if you can
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Actually, if you fill out the form, you can mail it in or hand it to a postal clerk and skip the $1 fee. I recently had to change my P.O. Box address and could not do it online; because the credit card used for the $1 charge has to match th
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Aren't they already? Government paychecks and contractor payments are typically direct deposit or electronic funds transfer. My paycheck was deposited directly in my bank account. My contractor payments were, as well. As long as the US
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Using another projection would confuse the issue for non-map nerds. While there are problems with the Mercator Projection, it is what most people are familiar with. For example, showing a projection with Africa sized correctly with the Amer
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I see some of this "just pop by" approach in my new neighborhood. Less than a year ago, I moved to an older neighborhood, where most of the houses are old. Most of the houses on my street are about 80 years old or older. All of th
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That probably depends on the locality and age of the house. My house it 118 years old. The city's diagram shows a rectangle for the house and two smaller ones for the front and back porches. They also have no difference between the fir
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She is tenured. She brings it up in one of the tweets: “I work as a tenured professor. I make 100K a year doing that. I will never be fired. I will always have people wanting to hear what I have to say.” I'm always amused when these ty
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