The Official Status Thread
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But my point was that your state governor (I buttume that's what you've been referring to) does not really compare to our PM on a political scale.
That's true. Illinois is bigger than Croatia.
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. Illinois is bigger than Croatia.
Both in population and land area, as it turns out--by a factor of ~3x.
But I was only making the joke the way I did because no US President has yet gone to jail.
Illinois is up to 4 of the last 5, I think.
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But I was only making the joke the way I did because no US President has yet gone to jail.
Nixon almost certainly would have if he hadn't been pardoned.
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Nixon almost certainly would have if he hadn't been pardoned.
Nixon should have, except we have this silly rule that if a President is impeached their Vice President takes over. Great planning, we have to get one corrupt motherfucker out of office, let's put his second in command in charge. What could go wrong?
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Nixon should have, except we have this silly rule that if a President is impeached their Vice President takes over. Great planning, we have to get one corrupt motherfucker out of office, let's put his second in command in charge. What could go wrong?
That rule, though, was written when the President and Vice President were not a package deal, wasn't it?
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Probably, but they are still likely to become thick as thieves while working together.
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How good is your state at stopping registration fraud? How hard is it for an illegal alien to register to vote?
How effective is your workplace at preventing neutrino radiation poisoning?
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neutrino radiation poisoning
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How effective is your workplace at preventing neutrino radiation poisoning?
CLOSED RESOLVED INVALID_COMPARISON WONTFIX
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That rule, though, was written when the President and Vice President were not a package deal, wasn't it?
The 12th updated elections and the 25th updated successions. Shit's complicated.
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The 12th updated elections and the 25th updated successions. Shit's complicated.
Certainly. I CBA to check what the succession rule was before but figured it wasn't unreasonable that the second-order and so on effects weren't fully thought out.
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Status: Company just announced it's merging with a competitor. *gulp*
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Eh...if the VP was really involved, you can go after him, too. But either way, if a Congress convicts, they're probably going to have the upper hand for the rest of the term.
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Eh...if the VP was really involved, you can go after him, too.
Sure. My original buttumption was that if the VP could be of the other party he wouldn't likely to be involved, and if you could safely assume he was likely to be so, that letting him be the fallback person is fairly safe.
Given how the rest of the system was designed, I wouldn't be a bit surprised that the Founders expected the VP to regularly be from a different party (or, of course, none at all, since there weren't any at the time).
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I'm sure they thought there would be mixed parties. But then they realized how terrible that was with Adams / Jefferson. Which gave us the 12th.
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Heh yeah, nothing at all could go wrong by putting the guy in second place as the right-hand guy
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We'd have had all kinds of Sith Rule of Two crap going on, with the VP trying to kill the President and take over.
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Honestly, that may have improved things. At least C-SPAN wouldn't be so horribly boring
Mister Jones deflects the blow with his right gauntlet, but OOOOooooh he failed to account for the comeback. It looks like the sword went straight through the heart! Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Smith, the
VicePresident of the United States!
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Status: the buzzing I thought was a fly is actually a giant wasp with a stinger, now trying to coax him back outside.
EDIT he's having trouble with the whole "window/door" thing. There's an open door like 2 feet from him but he keeps ramming himself against the window.
EDIT EDIT: Ok bug I only have so much patience. I went after the bug-killer spray bottle filled with 50/50 water and dish soap. Took like 6 sprays to knock the fucker off the wall, then I hit him another 5-6 times for good measure.
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Status: Wondering why someone has to sleep with ballot papers, instead of sticking them in a safe or something
Or why they can't count them overnight like other constituencies seem to be able to? Get this farce over with quicker.
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They could get the guy that would normally sleep with them to count them!
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Status: Wondering why someone has to sleep with ballot papers, instead of sticking them in a safe or something
Is that some kind of euphemism?
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Too bad, missed the chance for so many jokes.
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Don't think I didn't notice your stealth edit.
What, peace? You bastards and your non-phonetic languages, hard to write shit "by ear" at times...
Anyway...
Status: car broke down in the worst possible spot. The bar thing that connects the gearbox to the gear handle (no, I'm not googling the proper English term) decided that staying connected is boring. Right before a steep freaking hill. Got stuck in 4th gear, and that Corsa ain't climbing that in 4th, especially after losing speed because I tried to shift down and realised it doesn't work a bit too late.
So, fun and games.
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Oh my.
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They could get the guy that would normally sleep with them to count them!
Protocols wouldn't allow it. Witnessed counts, verification of spoilt ballots et alia.
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The bar thing that connects the gearbox to the gear handle
I believe the term isselector
.Also, that's really shitty. Hopefully, it's just the rods connecting the gear stick to the selector forks; if it's inside the box itself, that's going to be a big bill…
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Status: Wondering why someone has to sleep with ballot papers, instead of sticking them in a safe or something
Because someone who's asleep can stop anyone tampering with them?
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I believe the term is selector.
It's probably just the gear linkage.
The selector is inside the gearbox
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I think it is. It just seems to be loose, really. Apparently it was temporarily fixed already (of course, nobody told me it was broken in the first place), and the temporary fix gave up. Kinda.
Since I was stuck kinda a long way away from home and was just notified that yes, it was broken already, I didn't poke around it too much, so I called for a ride. Now, if I'm stubborn, my father is twice as much - he managed to goad the thing into 1st and we got it home in the end.
Not sure what the trick was, as I said, didn't try too much, I was more worried by the fact that I got stuck in the middle of a climb and had to reverse on gravity alone to get off the road. Oh, did I mention, right before that hill is a nice 90° curve, meaning that anyone coming behind me wouldn't see me until the very last moment...
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If he got it into first, then it's possible it's a weak linkage rather than a totally broken one. However, it's also possible it's actually damaged it more; obviously, I can't say for sure, as I'm neither a mechanic nor physically present to look at the car
Personally, I'd have called a tow truck; they'd lift the car by the front wheels, so the gearbox wouldn't be put under any more stress.
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EDIT he's having trouble with the whole "window/door" thing. There's an open door like 2 feet from him but he keeps ramming himself against the window.
Buggy bug?
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This agitates me.
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Right with you on not being a mechanic. I only know the bare basics, really - some of the parts and enough knowledge to guesstimate what went wrong. I also know that I know just enough to be dangerous, so I don't poke at stuff any farther than basic shit - cooling fluid and such.
Also, I didn't expect that he'll attempt, and succeed, at getting the thing to shift. I was just trying to get home cheaply. I also wasn't alone so...
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What, peace? You bastards and your non-phonetic languages
Shit, man, we stole most of our words from your neck of the woods!
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Got stuck in 4th gear, and that Corsa ain't climbing that in 4th, especially after losing speed because I tried to shift down and realised it doesn't work a bit too late.
tack, like a sailboat!
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Shit, man, we stole most of our words from your neck of the woods!
And you done fucked up the spelling in the process!
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: Ok bug I only have so much patience. I went after the bug-killer spray bottle filled with 50/50 water and dish soap. Took like 6 sprays to knock the fucker off the wall, then I hit him another 5-6 times for good measure.
There's your problem. Use Windex on a wide spray instead.
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And you done fucked up the spelling in the process!
If you didn't write in some oddball chicken-scratch to begin with...
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If you didn't write in some oddball chicken-scratch to begin with...
What? All I have here 4 extra letters and 2 digraphs. I don't write in Cyrilic or anything. You need to cross the border on the east for that.
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Status: Polls have closed; based on exit polls, we're heading for a second consecutive hung Parliament
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Are you and @aliceif sporting matching avatars?
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Dunno. Are we?
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Just wondering; seems you've both changed at the same time