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Same in NCAA and FIBA. The moment the ball enters the cylinder from below, it's the same as going out of bounds. Play stops and the ball is awarded to the team that did not touch the ball last.

There are plenty of companies that will sell your name, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, marital status, and relative's names. They obtain the information from publicly sold databases. I had access to one that had all that, plus the registration info for the car I drive, my estimated income, my military record, my driving record, my political party preference, and pictures of my home that had been on the realtor's website.

The scary one was when a phone center employee in the Philippines stole my wife's debit card number and then did two big Western Union MoneyGram transfers to a couple of Filipino men. That means bad actors have access to the credit companies' databases from which Western Union draws their proof of identity questions, like who holds your mortgage, where you lived when you were 10, and the make/model of your first vehicle.

If you're well-off enough to be a financial fraud target, paying a company for identity theft protection is probably well worth it. Put fraud alerts in with all the major credit bureaus too. That usually stops identity thieves from accessing your credit. If you use 2FA with your phone, make sure your telecom provider will not transfer your number to a new device without in-person authorization and authentication.

Don't know why it took them this long. Seems like such a simple thing to mount a gun to a drone. In most of these drone videos, the soldiers are standing, laying on the ground, or running in a straight line. Easy targets for a rifle.

Absentee ballot. Always worked for me in the Navy.

When you shop for a place to live, do you buy/rent nothing because nothing is "perfect"? Or do you weigh the benefits and detriments of each available option and choose the best one?

There's a clear choice, and if you need to see what voter apathy gets you, look at Venezuela. We got a second chance because the Jan 6 attempt failed. If you don't vote, the usurper might win.

Totally agree. Iran can see incoming aircraft and missiles on their radar. There would have been widespread social media reports of the missile flying over the city. These things did not happen. Where's the missile debris? That would have been the lead story on local TV news. Iranian leadership would love to tie the attack back to a missile provided by the US. That would have been their first claim if it really was due to a missile. This story sounds more like Iran belatedly trying to change the narrative.

I thought Belarus was allowing Russia to overfly its territory?

I don't expect that I will need a gun to defend myself, but I also don't discount the possibility. I'm simply prepared if it happens. We -do- have illegal pot grows, drug addicts, openly racist folks, and Proud Boys. Would you feel vulnerable if you called for help and were told it's 20 minutes away, with no ability to defend yourself?

I sincerely hope I never have to use any weapon against another human, but I'm also a realist. I'm a minority in a mixed marriage. I'm pretty vocal on the local social media where I use my real name. I never confront - I post the counterpoint. Still, I have been threatened. Thankfully, nobody followed through on the threats.

We haven't had a lot of animal attacks on humans. There was a fatal one a few months ago when two brothers were attacked by a mountain lion. One died. They weren't armed.

We do have lots of attacks on livestock. A lion took my neighbor's goats. She's one of the few who don't have a gun in the house. Called 911 when the attack started. It took almost 30 minutes for the sheriff to respond. By then the lion was gone and her 4 goats were dead. Another neighbor shot two coyotes that were attacking his chickens. Still another a mile down the road confronted a lion attacking her llama. She shot near it to scare it off, but her llama died from its injuries. Can't forget the guy who shot a rabid skunk that was chasing him a few years back. He used two magazines before he hit it. I don't live near the ranchers - they don't tend to advertise depredation incidents. But I never hear any of their neighbors complain about predators.

Democrats certainly do want to remove guns from the public. Every attempt at a handgun ban was a Democrat sponsored bill. Never saw such legislation with an exception for "real needs".

Wait...isn't Belarus a Russian ally? And Shaheds are used by the Russians. Why would Belarus want to intercept Shaheds?

You preach to the choir. Did you read my disclaimer? This is what I confront every day. It's what the Trump supporters say. I posted a few of your comments to the local social media. Wow. What a shitstorm. These are some of the replies:

Free Needles: "Let the f***** die then. Good riddance." (Yep, sounds like what Trump allegedly said)

Shoplifting: "Did you see the video of the Nordstrom robbery? Poor people don't drive nice cars." "...bring back the poorhouse" [this is a 19th century workhouse or farm where indigents were required to work] "I work at Sephora. It's entitled teenagers who steal and they are not poor." "I work the door at Walmart. People are stealing necessities. They're stealing things they can trade for drugs."

Catalytic Converter Theft: "Dude, I run [the local salvage yard]. Guy showed up last month trying to sell me a trunk load of catalytic converters. Called the cops, and they arrested him. He lives on ****** in a big house. Yeah, it's his." (I checked this against local arrest records. A man was arrested at the location of the yard for felony theft. Looking up his name in the county property records which indicate he does indeed own a house at the address given.)

Guns (this was the biggest response): "Bet this guy never lived in the country." "...he probably thinks it only takes one shot to put down a bear. LOL" "You've read about my neighbor. Got in a gunfight with two guys trying to steal his cattle. Good thing he packs an AR." "Who the heck is this guy? I can tell you one thing. He's never served on active duty in a warzone. In Afghanistan it took over 300 rounds to put down two bad guys."

There are a lot more, but my fingers are getting tired. You can see what I'm up against. Can't say that I'm against the gun comments. I've had to track a deer almost 2 miles after I shot it. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Go watch some of those Brazilian shooting videos. Guy getting plowed by pistol shots, his severed carotid artery is decorating the walls, and he still manages to kill the security guard and run out of the bank before dropping dead in the street. There's a reason the cops shoot until the suspect stops moving. Armed people are dangerous until you hit something vital, like the brain or heart. Also, you can be a great target shooter until the target starts shooting back. Learned that's true from playing paintball with only eye protection. When pain avoidance kicks in, aim goes out the window.

But I'm sure you've heard all the justifications for gun ownership. Personally, I think we have a long way to go before any bans. How about mandatory psychiatric testing, particularly anger management? Release of all prior medical history, including psychiatric episodes? Making owners responsible for crimes committed by their unsecured guns? But the biggest one to prevent mass shootings - gotta prove you have at least 3 others who call you "friend". Almost every mass shooter was a loner. Don't hit us gun owners with another "one-size-fits-all". Because if Trump is assassinated, I need my gun for the civil unrest (maybe war) that will shortly follow. Laws mean nothing under those conditions, and I'm a marked man.

I live in a county that covers 80 miles from end to end. A lot of it is single lane roads with 25 mph speed limits - not because it's residential, but because the roads are windy roads through the mountains. From the highway, it takes me 10 minutes to drive to my home. There are other homes further down the dead end road that would easily take 20 minutes to get to. Some homes in the remote areas take 40 minutes to reach. Our deputies aren't lazy. They're limited by their number (about 20 per shift) and the topography.

The official homeless site is a vacant field next to the county offices and shelters at either end of the county. The homeless don't like it there because it's right down the street from the Sheriff's office and the Highway Patrol. There was a plan to turn a nearly vacant strip mall next to one of the unofficial homeless sites into a shelter, but it turned out to be cheaper to raze the old building and build a new one specifically designed as a residential shelter. Evidently, old stores don't have the infrastructure to support living accommodations, like showers and toilets. But there was a huge NIMBY opposition from the homeowners behind the mall. There were claims that other towns were giving one-way tickets to their homeless with the county seat as their destination. A lot of it was BS - most of the homeless are locals. There was an article citing the guy who was "mayor" of the unofficial campsite, calling out the local families who had abandoned a member to the streets. But the opposition was enough to defeat the measure. So we still have the vacant lot that many homeless refuse to use, and they get moved from campsite to campsite when there are too many complaints.

We have plenty of water. That's not the problem. The rest of the state is hurting for water and wants to take ours. We have huge reservoirs paid for by county taxes that full of snow melt. The state wants us to give up that water "for the good of the state". Nobody is sure how they're going to transport that water, but again, it's the "one-size-fits-all" thinking that people here hate.

One person I talked to put it this way: "Trump pisses off the Democrats, and that makes me happy!" There's a lot of Democrat hate here. I warn them about cutting off their nose to spite their face, and weighing the lesser of two evils. The only thing that seems to be getting some traction is that Trump says he's for gun rights - now. But if a few more people take pot shots at him, he may change his mind. Reagan did. He ended up backing the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban. It didn't happen until well after his presidency, but then he only got shot once.