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The appointment time is your allotted window to visit with the IO. You'll need to arrive early enough before that to have your paperwork examined. I believe there are dual queues once you've had your papers checked. I may be mistaken, but I recall the number call screen in the waiting area having two rosters. You must inform the checker of papers that you have an appointment to confirm your arrival to be entered into the appointment queue, otherwise you'll be entered into the random-dude-wandered-in-off-the-street queue.

The pilot?

Nothing rayciss about spitting contests. We held watermelon spitting contests at our county fair in Virginia. You want rayciss? The Scots hold haggis hurling events at their highland games!

How so? Viruses don't just wander around on their own. They attach themselves to water/dust/fluids which then move them along from one host to the next. A mask or condom or gloves prevent passage of the media carrying the virus. This isn't that hard to understand. It's the dust/pflegm carrying the virus that is airborn, it's not a big ol' ball of virus. Now consider a barrier stops movement of fluids carrying the virus, in BOTH relative directions. source: https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/indoor-air-and-coronavirus-covid-19 Infected person's mask stops most droplets going out. Uninfected person's mask stops most droplets coming in.

The average pore size in a condom is ~5 microns. HIV virus is 120 nm, which is ~0.12 microns. Jinkies! That wee, tiny virus should just be bursting through, right? So how could condoms effectively prevent HIV? It works like this. Virus is miniscule but doesn't migrate on its own, it needs a host media for transmission. A barrier that prevents the host media from passing through also prevents the virus from passing.

Concrete materials yard. Get a medium water/sever pipe coupling. 85cm diameter, 35cm width. Should cost about 125 baht.

A lot of what you find in China is simply copy-&-pasta. Hotel/restaurant manager wants additional items on the menu, looks through some western foodie magazines, rips out a few pages, and hands them to his "chef" to recreate. The "chef" will make a dish that looks like the item in the photo. Spaghetti made with ketchup? Well, it looks right............

What does the contract you signed say about penalties for breach of contract? If there are penalties in the contract you agreed to, and the school is "threatening" to use the methods you agreed to, then there is no "arbitrary" control over your life. Would you not sue or contact government agencies to require the school to pay your salary if they failed to do so? Should that be considered arbitrary control of the institution's finances?

Cool story, bro! But TIT, and you simply have one anecdote.....your experience on one particular day in one particular district at one particular office with one particular IO who consumed one day's particular breakfast.

Depends on how your system is designed. Ours has the main storage tank and pump feeding the house separate from the yard faucets. When power goes out, we lose water in the house, but still have water pressure in the yard. House outlets are situated close to or higher than the water tank level, so little to no head pressure without the pump. Garden outlets are connected directly to the government supply.

I assume it's like a house fan. Turn it on and it blows a constant stream of air. Turn it off and wind drafts will flow through and turn the blades. Neither the unpowered fan nor the unpowered water pump lock the blades when not in use.

Yes, the hydraulic head in the big 700-1000 liter storage tank next to your pump is pushing water through the pump even when the pump is off. You'll get some flow, much less than when pump is running, from outlets lower than the tank water level or parts of the system still charged with water. (If that's not the way it's supposed to work, then my pump may be defective also.)

I assume you mean the valve between the storage tank and the pump. If so, yes, water will continue to run through the pump as long as there is head in the tank. When I do pipe repairs, I have to remember to turn the pump off AND turn off the the supply valve from the main storage tank. Lopburi is talking about a system with a smaller pressure tank between the pump and the house intake that maintains a more constant pressure. That one has a pressurized bladder. Not all systems have a pressure tank. Mine does not. I'm not sure, but I think the pressurized tanks are more common on systems drawing water from wells.

Prop 113 was approved by the voters and signed into law by the governor of Colorado in 2019. It's law. It may or not take effect in the next election, depending on how many other states wish to subvert the constitution.

That quote was not from the Colorado Supreme Court decision. That quote was not from an active federal judge. You did not cite a source, apparently implying with the second paragraph that was from the court decision. Trump was impeached and acquitted, thus I'm sure the Supreme Court will overrule this. And the people will be able to defeat Trump in a fair election. Democracy.

It's spot on. Using legal tactics to subvert the system. Trump had a trial in Congress and was acquitted. Now we let the people decide.

I don't want to disenfranchise the majority of Colorado voters. I don't agree with their selection, but I respect their choice. I, Shirley, hope Texas doesn't use this underhanded method to steal MY vote against Trump.

Under Prop 113, if Brandon gets 90% of the Colorado vote, and Trump barely gets the national popular vote with 50.01%, Trump would gain all 9 of Colorado's electors.

Colorado has ensured that their votes are no longer significant. They can save themselves the expense of a state campaign and election by simply rubber-stamping the outcomes of New York and California. Doesn't matter if 99.9% of their votes go to candidate A, if candidate B is popular on the coast. You can virtue signal all you want by changing the rules in Colorado, as for now, odds are a democrat will win the Colorado vote. The new law won't change the outcome of where Colorado's electoral votes will go. For now. But wait until the glove is on the another foot! When Trump, or some other republican wins the national popular vote, they'll be happy to accept the electoral votes of democrat-leaning Colorado, potentially giving them the (p)residency. Actions have consequences. You can try to rig the system, but sometimes the underlying factors radically change.

The electoral college system is defined by the constitution. You remarked "an electoral college win while losing the popular vote, isn't democratic." Okay, fine. In that case, submit an amendment to the constitution.

In that case, we can.........democratically............change the constitution. There is a defined process to do so. Or we can subvert the constitution because the other guy might benefit.

There ya go! Godwin strikes. Maintaining the electoral college emboldens nazis! If Brandon gets 75% of the Colorado vote, but Trump gets 50.25% of the national vote, then Trump gets all of Colorado's electoral votes, disenfranchising 75% of Coloradoians. Pure popular vote means candidates will campaign only in New York and California. Flyover votes don't count. No point at all in holding sham elections between the Appalachian and Rockies, as the election will be decided on the coasts. Me? I want the right to vote against Trump in the next election, like last time around.

I'm okay with an impeachment process where Trump was acquitted, whereas some are not, and are resorting to court shopping to get a temporary win. Virtue signaling win, as Colorado grants all 9 electoral votes to one candidate, with Brandon easily taking the state last time around. On the another hand, in the unlikely event a majority of the population (or a majority of the electors) choose Trump, democracy wins. Interestingly, Colorado recently passed a law to grant all electoral votes to the candidate with the largest national vote count, effectively disenfranchising Colorado voters. Under Colorado's Prop 113, if Brandon wins the popular vote in Colorado, but Trump wins the national popular vote, then Trump gets all of Colorado's electoral votes. "Sir, we had to destroy democracy in order to save it.....because Trump could'a won."

Why do you want to relieve me of my right to vote for the candidate of my choice? Why do you have against democracy? ......By the way, I voted for Brandon in the last selection.

Has Trump been convicted of insurrection? Last I heard he was impeached, but acquitted. Are we not putting the cart before the ham sandwich?