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  1. There isn't any King Edward here. There is the Duke of Windsor.
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  2. The episode is exactly why I watch DownieLive and love Mike Downie. No where else anywhere does one get to see things like this in operation AND get to see the joy and thrill that Mike displays in his face. Thanks to his expressive face, we get to share in the ride. Mike, you are not just a national treasure, but a world treasure. Thank you.
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  3. In the early 1930s, my grandparents took the SS Malolo to Hawaii for a two-week stay there. They raved about the ship for the rest of their lives, even saying the Queen Mary, which they took to the UK and back some years later, wasn't as nice.
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  4. Ok, let me absolutely crystal clear: I will never, ever, dip so much as a toe in that pool. Ever. Not. No.
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  5. I must point out, America did not side with the Allies due to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The US declared war on Japan, but not the countries in Europe. Germany, however, had aligned with Japan and, as a consequence, declared war on the US due in response to the US declaration against Japan. Only in response to the German declaration did the US declare war on Germany. The stand with the Allies was due to Germany's own actions.
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  6. Question: If, to repair a flat spot, they grind the wheel down to smooth it out, doesn't that make the wheel smaller? That is, the diameter of the wheel would be less? Given they are on fixed axels that are set at a fixed height, wouldn't the smaller wheel ride above the track?
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  7. And our friend is finally getting the recognition and respect he so rightly deserves and has earned.
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  8. So, Mike, are you saying, "Don't come a knocking, if our orb is a rockin''"?
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  9. Yes, let's imagine the cost of purchasing the right-of-way all the way from downtown Seattle to downtown Portland. We can't use the existing rails, they belong to the freight company and the HSR train needs specialized tracks to handle the stresses of the speed. So, maybe $500 billion? Then another $100 billion to build it. Thus, we now have $5,000 ticket instead of a $60 ticket. Yay! That's progress. The sad fact is the time for building HSR has passed. For long distances, jets are simply vastly faster. For shorter trips, such as this one, autonomous vehicles will do the job far more conveniently. In the 20 years or so building a HSR would take, the vast majority of cars will drive themselves. I love trains myself. I take the Capitol Corridor train frequently and used to commute to work on it. It is great, but building a replacement HSR version is simply not feasible.
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  10. What do you mean you are on vacation?!?!? You're ALWAYS on vacation. Who thinks taking a train trip with your Dad or a friend is working?
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  11. A classic DownieLive video! Has every element from hidden services like sign making and 15k gold to firefighting vehicle for the open water to museums to, and it wouldn't be DownieLive without it, a peak at the bathrooms. What a great show. I loved every minute, Mike, thank you.
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  12. The classic DownieLive video: visit to an interesting place by train with a special guest and a bathroom tour. Ticked all the boxes and was a masterpiece. Such a nice way to start the weekend, a little trip with Mike. I don't know where you are going next week, but I am already looking forward to coming along.
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  13. Objection: The children are all restored to normal through the efforts for he Oompa-Loompas. They not only don't die, but, in the end, do not suffer any harm.
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  14. The call came in at 2:27 am Pacific DAYLIGHT Time. We are still on Daylight time. We don't fall back to Standard Time until November 6th.
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  15. This video is of stunning high quality and demonstrates a depth and breadth of knowledge of the highest caliber. Not even National Geographic or Cameron himself could have produced something better. Truly an achievement, Mr. Brady. I am so grateful to watch them and to have found your channel. Thank you.
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  16. Normally, Mike, your videos leave me with a smile. Today, I was crying at the end. I miss my father so much. He's been gone five years now and I have just barely leaned to bear the loss. The happy time with your dad brought back with full force how big a hole his death left in my life. He was a train buff, with an amazing model RR in his garage (it even went across the garage door, which could still rise up and let the cars in by a special disconnect system he created), and his real life train adventures. When he visited Promontory Summit where the Golden Spike was driven in, his buddies from the train club told the managers there he was the President of California's Golden State Railroad Club. That was true, but it only had five members and they were all with him. Still, because of his "prominence," the park people let him drive the train for a bit. He favorite train was the Skunk Train in Fort Bragg, one you should consider (the steam train there reminds me of the Hogwarts Express (https://www.skunktrain.com/days-of-steam/ )). I've ridden with him four or five times and he's ridden at least 100. My favorite times were just sitting in the door of the garage in these two big, green LazyBoy recliners he had there, watch the world go by, and just talk. This is in Sacramento, so this was almost always AFTER the sun goes down. You think Texas was hot, pshaw, that's sweater weather to us Sacramentans. He'd done so many things in his life and he was a great, loving, wonderful father. Please, do enjoy all the time you can with your mom and your dad while you can. Each second is precious. Thank you for one more train ride with my dad would have felt like. Based on the name of the local paper, The Normalite, (see: http://www.normalite.com), I believe there are called Normalites. The collective noun for a group of Normalites is Normals.
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  17. I am so, so grateful you prepared this video so quickly. I have sent it to a number of friends to explain what happened. If I may, the bridge was built in the 1970s and was a marvel for its age. It really consists of two parts. There are two causeways on each side of the truss bridge, held up by modest, but closely placed, piers. The causeway is self-supporting and does not have a superstructure much above the road surface. In the middle is the truss span. The truss starts at one of the causeway piers, connects to a large massive pier, connects to another duplicate large, massive pier, and connects to a causeway pier on the other side. The ship was trying to pass between the two large piers, where the truss bridge was significantly higher above the water and far more open than the causeway portion. Those two large truss piers were protected by what amounts to large bollards. However, they were designed for the ships with half or less the mass of the Dali. They failed to provide the necessary protection for today's much larger ships. That is the main point of failure (to make the analogy popular on your channel), if the bollards were of proper strength, height, and number, they would have stopped the Dali from hitting the pier with such destructive force, just as if the water tight compartments of the Titanic had gone all the way to the superstructure, they would have kept the water from spilling over the subsequent compartments, sinking the ship as quickly as occurred. I completely agree with you about the tugs. I am absolutely sure they will be required after the harbor reopens. Another example of the rules not being updated with the increasingly large ships, just as the Board of Trade regulations stopped at 10,000 registered tons for lifeboat requirements for the Titanic.
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  18. I have travelled the Atlantic run on the QM2 and the crew gives all passages a map, that folds down to about the size of a credit card. I kept it with me at all times as the ship a bit of a puzzle to get about. A truly lovely ship and wonderful trip that I recommend to everyone. I will point out, it still has various classes with certain dinning rooms and features reserved for Queen's Grill, Princess Grill, and Britannic classes.
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  19. So, can DownieLive finally answer the question that has dogged us for generations: why DID the bison cross the road?
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  20.  @YaYa-ke1zr  The Duke of Windsor was hardly exiled, as he returned to the UK proper several times and served as a representative of His Majesty as Governor of the Bahamas. Edward was a royal duke, thus he could neither stand for election to the British House of Commons nor speak on political subjects in the House of Lords.
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  21. Objection: Things, knives included, are not "completely unique," they are either unique or they are not.
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  22. There are several other reservoirs that feed the system that are at or above capacity. There is simply not a lack of water to the system. The problem is maintaining water in the pressure tanks during such a high load. The system lacked that capacity as beyond its design.
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  23. One of the best DownieLive trips EVER! Not only did I have fantastic fun joining you, but you look transcendently happy. The sheer joy was so palpable, I could feel it through the video screen. Great job!
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  24. I have made so, so many mistakes in my life, some, I well and truly regret, others were some of the best memories of my life. I close friend of mine owned a coffee, tea, and bakery store. One day she was making her lemon bars when, unbeknownst to her, two pages in her recipe binder got stuck and she went from the lemon bar recipe to another, different recipe about halfway through. She wound up with something entirely new with lemons, almonds, and a lemon crunch topping. They made her store famous. The lemon crunch bars become the signature dish. Mistakes can advance human endeavors.
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  25. In the busy world we all live in, I rarely get the time to say thank you to the people that have made this last horror of a year bearable, if not down right fun. You are one and near the top of the list. I loved your travel videos and all the train rides before the shutdown, but your exploration of Vancouver has been one of the brightest lights of the year. Each week, you take me away to BC and to a small, little known gem. Someplace not really famous, but fun and charming. I've seen the mosaic of your childhood artwork, friendly lamas, treehouse vacations, train hotel rooms, you family and so, so much more. All of them accompanied by your cheerful, upbeat style. Even in the worst moment, such as the suicide death of your friend, you found The Light and showed it to us. I don't know where I am going now that things may be getting back to normal, but I know I will always want to have your videos along with me. Um, how did you get to drive a SkyTrain car if they are driverless?
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  26. I just want to remind you: with cross-country skiing, start with small countries.
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  27. Yes, the largest cisterns are 75,000 gallons, much like the one near my friends at Buena Vista East & Buena Vista Terrace. It is very useful for a pumper truck to get water for a structure fire. Some 100 pumps went dry due to the demand in Pacific Palisades. That cistern would supply 750 gallons to each truck at each non-working hydrant. The standard 1.75 feet fire hose , an "attack' line, uses of 120 to 180 gallons per minute, so it would last 4-to-7 minutes before the cistern ran dry. That should give you an idea of the scale of the demand placed on this system. San Francisco is about the size of the Palisades Fire and has 177 cisterns, most smaller than 75,000 gallons. If Pacific Palisades had that many, they would have run dry by the 463 fire trucks in about half an hour. The Super Scooper air plane can drop about 13,000 gallons an hour or about as much as the cisterns hold in 6 hours. There three such planes there now with more on the way. They won't dry until the Pacific Ocean does.
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  28.  @seventh-hydra  The US was helping out the UK, but was officially dedicated to neutrality. Much stuff was routed through Canada. While FDR wanted to strongly support the UK, he was constrained by an anti-war Congress. Congress declares war on Japan on Dec. 8, the day after the after the attack, but doesn't declare war on Germany until the 11th and only after Germany's declaration. The attack on Pearl Harbor completely changed the isolationist sentiment in the US, almost overnight. Had Germany not declared war, but stayed out of the Pacific conflict, the might well have been a European war and a Pacific war with little overlap.
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  29. Not to criticize the Skytrain deep cleaning crew, but one should clean from the top down, thus, they should spray down and mop last.
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  30. Your Dad's advice set to music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-70lnxjgO6o
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  31. Big Ben is the bell in the clock, not the clock. The clock, called the Great Clock of Westminster, is in Elizabeth Tower. Big Ben itself is all but invisible and isn't recognized by anyone.
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  32. At 5'7-½" tall and 330 pounds (1.71 meters, 150 kg), I displace a bit more room in a seat than I think you do, Mike. Thus, I always pay to upgrade to business class. Having travelled on Via Rail several times, I have always appreciated their emphasis on better food over more accurate departure times. I just assume the train doesn't move until the chef says the food is ready. Thank you for another slice of perfection in video. I can't start my weekend without DownieLive.
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  33. Objection! Though the Constitution does indeed require Senators to be 30 years of age when they assume office, it also requires House members to be 25, but William Charles Cole Claiborne of Tennessee was elected to the House at age 22, but was seated by the House anyway. As "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members," the chamber may seat members that do not meet the qualifications.
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  34. "(B)atteries are environmentally friendly?"  @FkCCPspiesinYT  Compared with the release of additional carbon into the atmosphere, batteries are like pure mountain spring water. Moreover, the environmental issue with the mining of the materials is mostly due to lack of regulation and greed, not an inherent part of obtaining those materials. Moreover, batteries are rapidly developing and away from rare earth metals. I'd much, much rather have a battery powered train than a diesel one.
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  35.  @SeattleSummers122  Union Pacific has a market cap of about $135 billion. We'd spend around $1.4 trillion to buy out all the rail companies. Nationalizing them, which is not close to politically possible, would be cost prohibitive and not build one single mile of new track. HSR only works economically if we do all kinds of wild, politically impossible things. This is why I say its time is over here.
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  36. I completely agree. These BoftheB videos show Mike's personality and interests so much more than some run of the mill.
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  37. "Having seen the light of day, for the last time, on the morning of April 15th, " Not to pick a nit, but the last parts of the Titanic sank beneath the waves at approximately 2:20 am. in the wee hours of the morning on April 15, 1912. At that hour, the sun would not yet have risen. There wasn't any light of day yet. Thus, the Titanic saw the light of day for the last time on April 14, 1912, as the sun set. Other than that, another simply great video, with real insight.
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  38. What is the Canadian term for boondoggle or scam? First, hydrogen is all-but universally made not from electrolysis (the process of breaking water into its component hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, NOT combining them back together as stated in the video), but is a byproduct of oil. Hydrogen puts the hydro in hydrocarbon.Thus, in widespread use, hydrogen is a carbon fuel. It just doesn't release the carbon at the point of use, but during creation during distillation. Second, Mike, while there may be a company in Quebec that makes hydrogen through electrolysis to supply this train, it is doing so at a greater cost than the hydrogen from oil. The needed electricity is much more expensive. Taking that electricity and storing it in a battery is vastly more efficient. So, the use of hydrogen costs more money, making the train more expensive to operate. Third, hydrogen is wildly difficult to store. Moving it about, from where the hydrogen is created to storing it on the train likely involves significant loss and very expensive tech. Again, moving the electricity from the dam to the train is so, so much easier by wires, most of which already exist, than building new distribution tubes for volatile hydrogen. Again, not cost effective. Fourth, hydrogen is VERY explosive. The tiniest spark can cause big explosions. Think Hindenburg. Think of that train burning in but a few minutes thanks to the hydrogen on top. A rail accident with that train could be disaster of unimagined proportions. Think of terrorists getting ahold of that much hydrogen and fashioning bomb. So, this train uses an expensive, oil-derived fuel, that is expensive to make, inefficient and dangerous to move about, and adds unnecessary and extra layers of unneeded tech. It is a Rube Goldberg train. Hydrogen is the fuel of the future and always will be. It is too impractical to be used. You got punked by some PR person.
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  39.  @EMTedroni  Hundreds of Black men have been killed by police officers for a hundred years or more, perhaps if we were so concerned about stopping that, we wouldn't have people being killed by mobs today. From what I can see, there seems to be about as many dead bodies from unlawful police action that from mob action. There isn't much to be proud of here, but I hope something good comes out of this.
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  40. Yes, a one-state solution is great for Israelis, but it leaves little for the Palestinians except for permanent and ongoing second-class status. Under Israeli law, they couldn't even marry. Thus, David is absolutely right, only a two-state solution is a solution.
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  41. My late father loved trains, model trains, real trains, train-shaped liquor bottles, whatever. He just loved trains. Sacramento, where we live, has a great train museum and he went regularly. One summer, he was traveling with his wife (my step-mom, who I adore) and his buddy from high school, Darryl. They went to Promontory Point, Utah, to Golden Spike National Historical Park. It preserves 2,735 acres of land surrounding a 15-mile stretch of the original Transcontinental Railroad (hint, hint, travel blogger). Dad was president of his local model railroaders club, the Capital City Railroad Club, which sound impressive, but was really just eight guys who got together once a month to eat snacks and play with their trains. Darryl called the press office and told them the President of the world-famous Capital City Railroad Club was coming and arranged all sort of extras. I don't know if the press office thought he was with our railroad museum or something, but they not only let Dad and crew into the cab of one of the steam locomotives they use to re-create the joining of the Transcontinental Railroad, but actually let him drive the train for a while. They gave him an engineers hat and the whole nine yards. They had a ball and Dad had the time of his life.
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  42. O*B*J*E*C*T*I*O*N!!!!: At 24:33, you state, "It is a violation of your lawyerly ethics to respond to any tribunal in a honest manner." Seriously, listen to your statement there. You basic state that one must lie. I think you misspoke there or it is one of the greatest Freudian slips ever.
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  43. Downie FINALLY got a laundry sponsor. About time. Now, zero in on the fabric softener. And I have shirts older than 1984.
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  44. I really don't know how I lived my life without DownieLive taking me to all these interesting places before I hit the subscribe button. I SO want to go along. I will be there with you.
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  45. "In reality you want to minimize the amount of legalize that you're using because you don't want to use overly complicated words and phrases." Absolutely. For the most part, you need to be understood by judges, who, from what I can tell have got to be the stupidest people on Earth. Its like all the law school graduates who were so bad as lawyers they couldn't earn a living became judges.
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  46. Objection: I have used my casebooks in my practice. They look very nice decorating my office.
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  47. The elevator pits were lined with concrete, not "cement." Cement is an ingredient in concrete, the other two being water and aggregate.
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  48. Off to a very good start, that's for sure. I don't know where you are going next, but I bet there will be a brownie there to greet you!
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  49. I would like to know the language the CC&Rs that restricts signage on the car. Cars come manufactured with signage on them promoting the maker (Honda, Ford, etc.) and often the model. Does the language preclude magnetic signs? If so, have sign made in stackable vinyl or have it painted on.
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  50. I apologize for this, but I must firmly disagree with you. I know you are an expert, but the design of Titanic was obviously flawed. Not only did it sink on its first voyage, but one of its sister ships, even with improvements, also sank early on after only after not even two years of service. That is two out of the three ships with this design not returning their investment by a large margin. Olympic's long service only proves even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The design is a failure by any reasonable definition. That we *think* the design is good doesn't make it so. Few plans survive their first encounter with reality.
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  51. There isn't any evidence of any kind the first male speaker's look was forced on him by anyone, specifically anyone in his family. None. Yet, you make that assumption and the accuse him, essentially of hypocrisy, because he doesn't approve of pushing things on other people. Your assumption is without foundation and seem guilty of doing exactly what you are complaining about.
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  52. OBJECTION! Distinguish for me please selecting the angle, the light, the frame, and setting on the camera versus the giving the AI the the parameters for the story it generates. In both cases, the human sets up the conditions under which the device works. The comic is as much a product of human creativity as a photograph.
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  53. Exactly how deep do you plan to bury your lede? Your views are not morons and already have a strong familiarity with the Supreme Court, that whole intro is mostly wasted air. Get on with it, please.
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  54. They are running from the Canadian mafia and are in witness protection.
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  55. I was in law school when this show premiered and spent the first episode you are watching screaming at the TV how utterly unrealistic it was. I could never bring myself to watch another episode. The show is absolutely awful.
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  56. As someone who lives in a place where snow is unheard-of, how does through in your sticks pick teams? Thank you for a wonderful series. I've enjoyed every minute.
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  57. Objection: there really is an intermediate stage between closing arguments and the finder of fact making a decision, if the finder of fact is a jury, and that is jury instructions. In most cases, the jury is instructed on what they are to decide and how they are to decide it. For example CACI No. 3116 instructs the jury "'Fraud' means an intentional misrepresentation, deceit, or concealment of a material fact with the intention of depriving [name ofplaintiff/decedent] of property or of a legal right or otherwise to cause[name of plaintiff/decedent] injury." While most instructions are set by precedent or case law, there can be times when there needs to be a special instruction on a particular point and that can be a major battle between the sides. Further, the jury may send out questions for the court to answer on certain procedures or laws, and the answer to those questions can be source of many billable hours.
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  58. Mike, are you stalking my friends?!?! Last week you showed a picture of my friend Rob's house in San Francisco and NOW you showed a picture of my friends Brian and Chuck's (at 3:32) place in Palm Springs! Had I known to let them know you were coming, they've got a fabulous guest room with its own kitchenette, front entrance, and en suite. Chuck is a great cook and would have made you some of his famous home-made pasta in their outdoor kitchen while you took a swim in their pool. Sadly, because you didn't give me a heads up, you missed out. Also, the period in your quote on traveling goes within the quotation marks, not outside, even if they are not part of the quote. This is true for periods as well. Colons and semi-colons go outside, even if part of the quote. Exclamation marks and question marks go within if part of the quote, outside if not. Please see: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-life-hacks/writing/quotation-mark-rules Last, the thing Albuquerque is most known for is not hot air balloons, but where Bugs Bunny should have taken that left. Please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TUwHTfOOU
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  59.  @teutoncross3817  I am not suggesting Japan's response was irrational, but it certainly didn't help their position. The attack on Pearl Harbor was, nevertheless, foolish. The US sneaking some food and war materials to the UK and blocking steel imports to Japan is one thing, the US mobilized for total war was another thing entirely. I understand why Japan considered the attack, but not really why they did it given the obvious results. Yes, going up to the biggest, baddest dude on the school yard and hitting in the nose may earn one some street red, but it also gets the sh1t beat out of one. Putin wandering about Ukraine getting his soldiers's @sses kicked is one thing, lobbing a missile at Hawaii would be a very different thing.
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  60. As this YouTube shows, the trains going through Jack London Square go right down the street with people walking and cars driving along side, not separated by a fence, not a close as in Hanoi, but close enough for accidents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFk-yeGHn-o
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  61.  @troublewithtriton8529  I am the ultimate judge of any entertainer: the audience. However, I recognize Mike works hard and does a spectacular job. I honestly praise his work.
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  62. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%27s_Bar
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  63.  @ice3753  Yes, they have absolutely marvelous systems, but they have the legacy infrastructure. HSR is like copper wire telephone lines. One can do many marvelous things with the connection to the house if it already exists, but in places where phone lines are being installed, laying all the wire is way too expensive and installing a cell phone system is far, far cheaper. We missed the boat. Sad, yes, but a fact. HSR rail is simply not cost effective given the land acquisition and infrastructure costs.
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  64. I dearly wish you had done this video three years ago when my late father was still alive. He loved trains, big trains, model trains, Jim Beam trains, all trains. Our Christmas tree always had a train gong around the base. He once scammed his way on to the train engine at Promontory Point, Utah, and took her for a ride as the president of the Capital City Train Club (we live in Sacramento, the capital of California). He was actually the president, but the club consisted of six guys who met once a month in their various garages to eat sandwiches and play with their model trains. He travelled the US going to trains and train shows. He would have been right there with you on the engine and staying in that Caboose hostel.
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  65. A salad?!?! For breakfast?!?! As John Pinette says, a salad isn't food, it is the promise that food is coming. After that morning, you deserved a salmon Benedict with home fries (with a bit of the Benedict sauce on the potatoes), great toast with strawberry jam, and a decent-sized pot (a Brown Betty, of course) of Constant Comment, the finest tea in the world, with a nice fruit and cheese plate to finish off. Excuse me, I need to go eat.
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  66. There were so many wonderful moments in this video, but my favorite -- yes, I know it is silly -- was watching Mike's flowing long hair in the wind of the helicopter. Man, has it been a while since a haircut or WHAT?!?!
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  67.  @IzzyOnTheMove  Yes, he looks like an ad for a romance novel!
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  68. One is supposed to remove the basket, tube, and grounds before pouring and the spoon from the cup before drinking. The metal one could likely use a good cleaning before making coffee. My grandparents had a double chamber percolator ( http://www.jitterbuzz.com/furn/suncof.jpg )(from Sunbeam, btw) in their GE All Electric Kitchen ( https://retrorenovation.com/2013/04/08/ge-wonder-kitchen/ ). The kitchen was very advanced with a built-in dishwasher, a washer/dryer (one unit that washed the clothes as a front-loading washer and then dried them spinning as a dryer) and a selection of pull-out kitchen appliance cords that could be plugged in to things like the double chamber percolated. The water was kept separate from the used coffee water until it was all finished and then a vacuum grew sufficiently strong to suck the liquid back down into the lower chamber.
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  69. First, I hate to sound the alarm, but I think you may need to see a doctor. There appears to be some odd growth on your upper lip. It might be a fungal infection or molting of the skin, but you should really have it checked out soon, Michael. 😜 Second, >>sigh<<, I would rather hope a member of the Commonwealth of Nations would know high tea from low tea. High tea, despite the name, is not fancy. It is a late midday meal that is more like supper. It is called "high" tea because it is generally self-service from a buffet or highboy and would typically have meat pies and full sandwiches. Low tea is the fancy tea, served by the host from a low table, like a coffee table, to the guests, often using the family silver and fine china. Low tea would have small sweets and savories, but would be a light meal. It is generally an intimate, more formal gathering. Various hotels, catering to American ignorance, have promoted "high tea" as a formal event, when that is not really the case.
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  70.  @dionlindsay2  Mike is handsome and good-looking enough I always enjoy looking at him.
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  71. Darn I thought this was going to be a review about a clothes drier that dried the clothes by freezing them.
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  72. Another total failure in understanding "zero tolerance." It does not mean the maximum possible punishment for a breach, but means ALL breaches receive some form of punishment, even if the punish is slight. Nothing in any thing about zero tolerance suggests harsh punishment, but is to suggest all infractions are noted and punished.
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  73.  @joermnyc  Oh, come on, how hard can sneaking across the US/Canadian border be? That alone sound like a great adventure.
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  74.  @joermnyc  😋😉
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  75. Terrible video. A bunch of whining and little in the way of facts. So, structuring isn't hard to understand, it is depositing money in a way to avoid triggering reporting requirements. Did the bakery consistently make deposits below the reporting requirements and did they do so deliberately to avoid reporting. For example, if the business typically takes in $4,600 everyday and they deposit that amount every day, that would not be structuring as they are making the deposit based on the sum on hand. However, if they make $11,000 on Saturday, but deposit that amount as $4,500 on Saturday, then deposit through a drop bag another $4,500 on Sunday, when they are closed, and then a remaining $2,000 on Monday, when they are also closed, that would be structuring. The video didn't provide any information on how the money was deposited and why it was deposited that way. For all we can tell from the facts at hand, the owners may be guilty.
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  76. If I may, I agree with almost everything in your outline for peace, except for the consequences part of Gaza. The problem, as I see it, is a small, non-representative faction, even just one person, could violate the agreement and send a rocket from Gaza into Israel, bringing about a retaliation/punishment against Palestine, while blockading Gaza truly requires the vast powers and authority of the Israeli government to impose, thus truly implicating the state of Israel. Palestinians can be held collectively accountable for the actions of one member or a small group, but Israel is only held accountable when, through democratic elections, by a majority of Israelis, they violate the agreement. That is unworkable. Moreover, maintaining a blockade between Israel and Gaza would seem a reasonable first step, *IF* we could open Gaza to the Egyptian side and to the sea ports. That would allow for the economic development in Gaza without having them involved directly with Israel. I also must point out, while Hamas's original charter is anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli, Israeli governments have been rather anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim. Hamas has, however, agreed to Israel's right to exist. In 2006, Hamas signed the Palestinian Prisoners' Document, which recognized the 1967 borders. I can't find anything on the Israeli side accepting a Hamas that accepts the 1967 borders has a right to exist. Can we really have a peace framework that leaves out the ruling party of one of the parties?
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  77. Well said, sir, well said.
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  78. I am sorry, but this triggers one of my pet peeves. "If you *were* Jewish…" "Was" is the past tense of "to be." It denotes events in the past. "Were" is the subjunctive, that is something that could have been, but is not the case. Also, I think one could be both Jewish and British.
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  79. OBJECTION: And you, of all people, a good lawyer who did debate, should damn well be aware of this. Who would become President does not beg the question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy in which the conclusion is assumed as an assumption. Example: chocolate is the best ice cream because it is the best ice cream. THAT is begging the question. In you case, it RAISES the question.
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  80. Sitting on my desk holding down some papers is a rock I broke off from the rock walls when I was a kid and my Dad took the family on this train. That was about half a century ago and it wasn't as, um, plush as it seems to be now, but -- wow -- was it fun. Dad was a train buff and, as both my parents were teachers so had the summers off, we tended to just off on adventures like this. Great video as always Mike!
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  81. Objection: The phrase "force majeure" is French for "superior force". The period goes WITHIN the quote, even if is not part of the quote. My G-d, you are a lawyer, do misuse this in legal documents? I bet you use "that" to restrict verbs to, such as, "I declare that the following is true and correct." Seriously, you should have studied Elements of Style back in high school.
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  82. The first item you ate was an apple fritter, not a donut. A donut, by definition, is a small fried cake of sweetened dough in the shape of a torus. There also isn't such thing as vegetarian gravy. Again, but definition, gravy is a sauce made from cooked meat juices together with stock and other ingredients. Billions and billions of years ago, when I was in seventh grade, my class did an exchange with some Vancouver students. As part of the experience, I attended a Canadian Boy Scouts meeting. I was shocked when we started by singing, "God Save the Queen." Whoa, I was in a different country. At the end of the meeting, out came a plate of those Nanaimo bars. I loved them and have never since been able to find anyone who knew what I was talking about and I didn't know what they were called. I thought they were called Nana bars. Finally, at long last, thanks to you, Mike, I know what they are called and can order some. After a half a century, I will again taste my beloved Nanaimo bars. Thank you.
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  83. In the 34 years I have lived in my home in Sacramento, California, I have run the natural gas heat exactly 39 days, mostly only for an hour or so on those days. My gas bill is less than $30/month and is often less than $8. That is the difference between living in some place like Illinois with snow and California with near year-round sun. Now, this offset by my AC bill which is electric and is often $400/month. In the winter, when I am not using AC, my electric bill is $60/month or so. I don't care about the H in HVAC.
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  84.  @dovetonsturdee7033  That two of the three ships with this design sank, when many, many other ships have survived both collision with ice berg and a mine indicates there is a flaw, even if not apparent upon review. The stats don't lie. The failure rate is too high and outside the margin of chance.
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  85.  @dovetonsturdee7033  I am not being a fool, I am being a realist. The RMS Mauretania had a 28-year career and even the her running mate, the Lusitania went 8 years.
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  86.  @dovetonsturdee7033  The Ford F-Series is responsible for 10,845 of the some 58,000 fatal crashes in the US. That is about 1/5th of the total crashes. That clearly indicates there is a flaw in the F-Series design. Perhaps it encourages reckless driving, perhaps it is favored by people who drive recklessly, or perhaps it has a hidden flaw we can't see that causes more crashes than other vehicles, but that isn't random chance. Something is at work. There is a flaw in the Olympic class ships, too.
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  87.  @dovetonsturdee7033  I understand three is not a statistically reliable sample, but it is a sample nonetheless. However, why the ships sank shows they had fatal flaws. Titanic sank because, unknown to the designers of the day, the steel and the rivets were not suitable for the cold North Atlantic, the water tight compartments did not extend high enough. With the Britannic, the portholes did not automatically close and allowed seawater to flood the ship with a significant list. These are design flaws.
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  88.  @dovetonsturdee7033  The Olympic survived through dumb luck. The Board of Trade did not have regulations on the height of the compartments. Portholes with automatic closing were available as they were patented about ten years previously.
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  89. The Los Angeles was not at a 90° angle to her mast, if so, she would have been level with the ground. She was at a 180° angle, that is parallel with the mast.
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  90. The pumpkins are good for the trees? They don't seem to have helped the tree they were on much.
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  91. OBJECTION!!!! Hearsay is an out of court statement BEING BROUGHT IN TO COURT to prove the truth of the matter. The "being brought into court" is important.
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  92. "My brother's older than me." Except, the verb "to be" uses the subjective case for the object, so "My brother's older than I." as in "My brother's older than I am."
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  93. Objection: The doctrine of minimalism doesn't really apply here. The trier of fact really doesn't have any facts to decide. The question is one of law, not fact. What is the legal criteria to define something as a sentient being. Thus, one can argue the consequences of each side. Look at the argument raised in Roe v. Wade for example. They dealt nearly exclusively in the consequences of abortion and it being illegal. The same is very true of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka where there was testimony from psychiatrists on the effects of segregation on school children. Also, look at this year's docket, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York, where the law has even been repealed, but the effective the law is being argued.  Moreover, as there as so few facts in dispute here, this issue should have been decided by demurrer. Even if everything Commander Maddox states is true factually, that doesn't show Data isn't sentient. Data is a commissioned officer in Star Fleet. ONLY sentient beings are such, not computers or chairs. Thus, Data is entitled to all of the protections such an officer is entitled to, including not being experimented on without consent and the right to refuse medical procedures.
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  94. Objection: The case of BMW v. Gore, 517 u.s. 559 (1996) is the real limiting factor in punitive damages (it limits punitive damages far too much in my mind, but I do not sit on the Supreme Court). The case limits punitive damages, however egregious the behavior of the defendant, to not more than three times the actual damages. In order to get one day's profit, as suggested here, of $190 million, the actual damages for the loss of life would have to be just less than $64 million. That is a preposterous number the facts would almost certainly not support.
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  95. The town has every legal right to take private property for public purposes, such as a passive park, as long as the pay fair market value. There isn't a case here. IJ shouldn't waste resources fighting a well-established Constitutional principal such as eminent domain.
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  96. Objection. Oh! My! G-d! Objection. Court clerks are not the grease that makes courts work, they are the sand that gums everything up. From you can't file that because it isn't two-hole punched at the top while sitting at the window with a two-hole punch right there to we can't accept that because you didn't fill in section 3 when section 3 is clearly labelled to be filled in by the court. I once spent twenty minutes arguing with a court clerk who had just handed me my approved fee waiver, but then would not take the documents I wanted to file without the fee (I finally managed to get a supervisor who told me she would accept it this time rather than admit her clerk was an idiot). Now, with the excuse of COVID, they don't even answer the phones. I recently filed an ex parte motion to serve by publication and, after four weeks, finally reached someone who told me those motions take SIX MONTHS to process. All there is to do is confirm the proper number of attempts at service and location have taken place and there really is a case. They should take more than a day. The assignment wasn't due in two hours, it was due two hours ago. Reading comprehension is important.
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  97. Let me state very clearly, I am an unmarried gay man in his 60s as well as a Yellow-dog, Bernie voting liberal Democrat market socialist. David, you seriously need to think about why you are not married when you have a child and a long-term romantic and life partner. Marriage is not a contract. Those who think it is do not know what a contract is, nor what marriage is. Marriage forms a family, a very different legal entity from both a partnership, a corporation, and single individuals working together on something. Marriage provides protection for economically disadvantaged partners. That is one of the main reasons I fought so hard for same-sex marriage. We don't live in a society where one person can pretend they became economically successful completely on their own and not be forced to share some of that wealth, if not half, with their spouse. Marriage gives you a set of real rights if something happens to your spouse. When I was in my twenties, I was deeply, madly in love with a man I lived with. We set up our household, bought furniture together, opened a joint bank account, all the stuff couple do. He was mortally wounded in a fire and took a month to die. His mother barred me from the hospital. She entered our home while I was at work and took everything she thought belonged to him. She emptied our joint account, including the money for rent. She wouldn't tell me where he was inurned. None of that would have happened if we'd been married. While you may rightfully suggest much can be mitigated by good estate planning, which at 25 and 22 we did not have, determined relatives can even overcome that. There is even worse for your child. Under the Married Couple Rule, the parentage of a child born to a wedded couple is safe from challenge save by anyone not in the marriage. Being married ensure a child has protection of inheritance and other legal rights due to being born within a marriage. I beg of you to reconsider and get married if you truly want a life partnership.
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  98. What does ViaRail have against people that assist those in wheelchairs? The "seat" looks about a bare, minimal, and uncomfortable as it could be except if it had spikes on it. Good to see the trains were tested in the winter and those cold snow days. How do they handle Canadian summers? Can they make it through fire?
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  99. OBJECTION: For Pete sakes, did you write this one when you were drunk or high? Senators are members of Congress. Congress is BOTH the House and the Senate. Thus, there would be members of Congress, but there might not be members of the House. All House members are Congress members, but not all Congress members are House members.
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  100. Objection 1: I don't believe a law requiring Presidential candidates to reveal their income tax forms would be Constitutional as it adds requirements to those listed in the Constitution at Article II, Section 1, Part 5, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." Nowhere does the Constitution allow to add additional requirements or mention tax returns. I think the only way to require the release would be to amend the Constitution and doing so is not worth the benefit. If people really want the returns, they can punish the candidate by not voting him into office. Objection 2: I believe Congress won an outright victory in Trump v. Deutsche Bank. There is much precedent about requiring Presidents to comply with subpoenas in civil or criminal cases, but almost nothing (in fact, I would say nothing) about complying with Congressional subpoenas as, until Trump, Congress and the President have always worked things out between themselves and not involved the courts. The Supremes had to make law and did a very good job, putting forth very reasonable standards Congress will meet in the case. Yes, the Congress will likely not the returns before the session ends, but I firmly believe the next session of Congress will again ask for them and the returns will be submitted. The real objection (question) I would like to ask is why these kinds of cases take so friggin' long? I think US courts are wildly lazy and the Supreme Court here even more so. Nine people, with at least two clerks each, and a couple of secretaries, handle about 100 to 150 cases out of the some 7,000 cases appealed to it each year. Is there a law firm anywhere in the US with nine partners and 18 associates that only handles 150 cases a year that isn't in or headed to bankruptcy? With two people helping me with research and proof reading, I could write one of these opinions a week without breathing hard or staying up late. For example, on August 28, 2019, the Parliament of the United Kingdom was ordered to be prorogued by Queen Elizabeth II upon the advice of the prime minister, Boris Johnson. By September 24th of the same year, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, their equivalent to our Supreme Court, rendered a decision against the prorogation. The case was heard in the court of the first instance, appealed, and ruled on by the Supreme Court in less than TWO MONTHS. Trump v. Deutsche Bank took more than a year. In the recent case on employment rights for LGBTQ people, TWO of the plaintiffs died the case took so long. The court managed to override the trial court on a death penalty case in a week ignoring the harm to the appellant (death), but allowed MONTHS if not YEARS to go by in these things. Why? Why does the courts take SOOOOOO long? And don't tell me you lawyers need time to prepare and respond to briefs. I work for lawyers, if you guys don't wait until the last minute to do something, you wait to the last second. Anything longer than a week is wasted. The whole process needs to be sped up.
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  101. OBJECTION!!! I can't believe you just said what you said. "Freedom of speech does not apply to private companies, generally speaking." You are confusing the concept of freedom of speech with the rights provided by the First Amendment. While the two promote a similar philosophical idea, they are not synonymous. Freedom of speech is the concept that people should be able to freely speak their minds without reprisal, while the First Amendment limits itself to prohibiting reprisal by the government. However, I can still post political signs on my lawn, even over the objection of my HOA, because of freedom of speech, not the First Amendment. A specific section of the Davis-Sterling Act here in California protects my ability to do so. The First Amendment does't protect that right, but the protection is part of the general idea of free speech. Moreover, Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, (1980) 447 U.S. 74, supports the protection of free speech even in a private shopping mall. Free speech protects more than the First Amendment does. So, yes, freedom of speech also applies to private companies and society's laws and the Terms of Service agreements determine what is protected when. Censorship does not have to be done by the government. Censorship is, by definition, "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security." It doesn't matter if the censorship is done by the state or a private entity. Sometimes censorship is a good thing and sometimes it is not, but, again, where we want to draw the line by both government and private entities is a choice, but the censorship is imposed by other things than governments. Moreover, in the early days of the Internet, despite what you think, there were very strict rules about all sorts of content. Advertising, for example, was strictly prohibited. The Internet, in its early days, was a government-run, private communication system for use by the government, including the military, government contractors, certain universities, and think tanks. It was mainly email, but other things were transmitted and was designed to provide emergency communication during an attack on the US. Each subscriber had a specific person responsible for the content that the subscriber produced and regulated who could be on it. That is why email is so easy to spoof as the system was designed thinking the administrators would know and regulate everyone they gave an email account to. When private bulletin boards began to migrate to the Internet after it was opened to the general public is when the problems you describe began, but that was long after the Internet began.  Lastly, Trumps tweets, for the most part, come from his private account, not a government account. Thus, there isn't any reason he couldn't be sued now while he is a sitting President for defamation or something else based on his tweets. See: Clinton v. Jones, (1997) 520 U.S. 681. I don't want to be rude and I think very highly of your work, but I think this video was rushed and demonstrates a lack of time for sufficient research.
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  102. Natives say, "Oranto"?
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  103. Objection: Serving the Devil is an obvious task and one Federal prisoners have told Federal marshals for generation. The marshals just need to go to hell. I would think the judge would be aware of this. Also, btw, if Satan wanted to claim protection as a foreign prince, that is for him to assert, not for the judge to assume.
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  104.  @SirHC888  There wasn't any failure by the mayor or the governor. There simply is not the funds to clear the dry brush from the area during this unusual drought. Usually, the area would have recently experienced a rain storm as this is the rainy season there. There are steep canyons and bluffs there that cannot be easily kept in order. As a Canadian, you may not remember all the stories of Reagan going home to his ranch in Santa Barbara to clear bush. This area is similar but hillier than his Santa Barbara home. With winds at 100 mph, stopping embers from going everywhere is simply not feasible.
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  105. Natural gas and propane are considerable less disreputable. I've sat in many a dark room warmed by propane when the electricity was knocked out and am grateful for a ready alternative. My step mother lives in Portola, CA, and at least once, if not several times, she is without grid-provided electricity for several days. She now has a propane powered backup generator that kicks in keep certain things running, including the microwave, refrigerator, TV, Internet, and several crucial lights. I don't see the electric grid replacing this alternative anytime soon.
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  106. I, too, don't know where you are going next, but life is about the journey, not the destination. So, wherever you go next, I want to be there with you. Thank you, again, for a wonderful video, beautiful scenery, and just a tiny smidgen of life philosophy.
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  107. To paraphrase the almond farmers near me (Blue Diamond is here in Sacramento), a bag a week is all we ask. Great episode, one of your best. Hell, they're all great.
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  108. Today I did something I never, ever wanted to do and never, ever really want to do again. My best friend of 30 years had lost her battle with cancer. She barely made it, but she took her death with dignity medication and died as I held her hand. We had a Zoom meeting where her friends and family gathered to tell her how much they loved her. She then drank the cocktail and as we (me, her doula, her only child, and his wife) held her, she quickly passed into a deep sleep, then a non-responsive coma. Fifty-five minutes later, she entered immortality. I know this may seem way off topic, but eight hours have passed and I've just sat here numb. I decided to watch your video and thought of those wonderful places. Joyce would have loved them so. Thank you, Michael. You added a good thing to a not great day. I hope I never lose someone again.
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  109.  @uzlonewolf  Several of the homes were inherited from the parents, as with Jeff Bridges, so the tax amount was set to the 1978 value.
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  110. You may want to mention the service is only available in Canada. There are not any departures or destinations out side of Canada. This is a bit limiting, particularly for this Californian.
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  111. Objection: IF most large law firms are in lock step with the salaries for first year associates, could this not be a violation of the Sherman Act on price-fixing?
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  112. OBJECTION! Action by the Security Council does NOT take the consent of all five permanent members, as you stated. It requires a permanent member not object, a rather different thing. The resolution on Korea is the best example. As Wikipedia puts it, "United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 was a measure adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on June 25, 1950. The resolution condemned the "armed attack on the Republic of Korea by forces from North Korea", (sic) while calling for "the immediate cessation of hostilities" and for "the authorities in North Korea to withdraw forthwith their armed forces to the 38th parallel". The measure was adopted by a vote of 9 support, none opposed, and one abstention. The resolution passed since the Soviet Union was boycotting the UN for recognizing Republic of China as China." The Soviet Union didn't agree, they just weren't there to object.
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  113. I am not blind. I am not deaf (though, having to listen to some clients for hours, I sometimes hope), I am not wheel chair bound. While not exactly athletic, I have a full set of senses and movements available to me. That said, I have many friends not so blessed and I applaud this effort to make this channel more accessible to all. I wish our society start with the idea of being accessible, but I am glad you are getting there. All my support for this.
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  114. What we got here is anti-Myth Busters. It is all theory -- what SHOULD happen -- and no what actually happened. Great job on the theory and truly fascinating, but all for nought without real-world testing of the transmission and data cohesiveness tests. Sad, so close to greatness just to miss the mark.
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  115. Hydrogen COULD be produced by electrolysis, but it is not (with the exception of Iceland). Hydrogen is a fossil fuel, putting the "hydro" in hydrocarbon. Hydrogen is a by product of the manufacture of gasoline and diesel. Hydrogen keeps on fossil fuels.
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  116. So, I watched a video you did on making one's own teleprompter with an iPad. It allowed you to write a script and then read it while looking at the camera. It was interesting. One of the advantages of your writing in advance is you are significantly more cogent and organized. This video was a bit of a ramble. Perhaps you may want to give the subject another try with a more prepared text. I get your point about the heaters. I understood it in the first video. I agree with you about heaters. I even understand how frustrating the heater displays are (I am a grammar person and go crazy over all the cashier line signs that read, "Ten Items or Less.") The thing you have to realize is most of the time most people are stupid. Fully ONE HALF of the American population has a below average IQ (you know that). Although there is not any evidence P. T. Barnum actually said, "There's a sucker born every minute," the idea is closely associated with him. You were clearly born the minute in-between. You are smart. To borrow from Lady Gaga, you were born that way. It is your burden, to understand thing that others do not. I know you want to teach. My parents were both teachers and they were happy to really reach only two or three students a year. You are doing good and doing it well.
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  117. @PARTY HAT I think one can be slightly more prepared even for a second channel.
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  118. You are always a sharp dresser, but that orange tie for Halloween is simply wonderful. Simply perfect.
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  119. Objection! I rise to remind my learned colleague of the duty to complete a rescue. There are many people to whom one does not owe a duty. Walking by a swimming pool, I spot a person unknown to me drowning in the pool. I don't owe them a duty of rescue. I may walk on by, as the song says. However, if I walk over to the pool and toss the person a rope that they clutch on to, I have a duty to now complete the rescue and reel them in. I can't drop the rope and retreat. The police in Uvalde undertook to rescue and protect, then stopped midway for an hour, forty minutes. Not only did they not rescue or defend, but they prevented others from doing so. I suggest, unlike the police office who took the report and then went to dinner allowing the children to be killed, the officer in that case did not undertake a defense or rescue. I don't think firefighters can drive up to a burning home, hook up their hoses, and then do nothing. An EMT cannot pull up in an ambulance, load up the injured party, and then go to lunch, they must treat and go to an emergency department with all due haste. Once undertaken, the rescue or defense must be completed as a reasonable rescuer would do under same or similar circumstances. At least, if I were the attorney in the Uvalde case, that would be my theory of the case.
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  120. I understand No Effort November, but when December comes around and you can once again put some effort into things, instead of just asking questions, which I know you did in honor of the late Alex Trek, you might make some phone calls, perhaps many, many phone calls to find out why Sharp stopped making microwaves with this technology and why it didn't spread to other manufacturers. You are clearly smarter than the average bear and a reasonable investigator. For those of us who really do wonder "why?" please find out. I would love a microwave that worked as your grandparents unit. Some people see things are they are and ask why and others go find out why.
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  121. Hydrogen cars are the future and always will be. First and foremost, virtually ALL of the hydrogen available in the world, Canada included, is produced as part of fossil fuels. Hydrogen puts the "hydro" in "hydrocarbons." It is a part of the oil industry, not a clean fuel. Can it be produced by clean means, electrolysis? Yes, but it is not economically efficient to do that except in Iceland. Second, hydrogen is wildly explosive, several times more explosive than gasoline. You think the bombs terrorists make with diesel fuel and fertilizer are bad, wait till you can see what they do with hydrogen. Having hydrogen widely and generally available is not just asking, but begging, for trouble. So, a hydrogen car doesn't help with global warming AND it arms terrorists with better explosives. No thank you. The cars are a terrible idea.
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  122. Just recently -- I write this in October of 2021 -- the "repair" work has caused the building to sink even more. I love The City and enjoyed living there years back. It has a wonderful night live, art scene, restaurants, and weather. However, politics there is fierce. Anyone with half a brain would realize the building should be condemned and torn down. Period. No repairs, no subsidies, just get rid of the thing before tragedy happens.
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  123. i don't know how to state this in the form of an objection. Sorry. Just yesterday, a 92-year old German man was convicted of accessory to some 5,232 murders back when he was 17 and a guard at Stutthof Camp near Danzig. It was the fist camp outside of Germany. The intervening 76 years was legally irrelevant the judge said. What this young man did was perfectly legal at the time, though clearly wrong. Will we being trying these Federal officers for crimes against humanity and accessory to murders and kidnappings in 50 or 70 years? The passage of time is legally irrelevant. Will we bring to justice those that assist the Trump administrations in perpetrating these crimes?
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  124.  Mauris  The kidnappings are not legally justified. The officers are not suggesting any charges or providing any probable cause. They are not citing, providing court dates, or any due process. I have access to PACER, provide me any citation for any court dates for arraignment stemming from these kidnappings. The actions are entire illegal, but conducted under the color of authority. With such lawless and uncontrolled behavior, can murder and torture be far behind, The Nazis started with broken windows and ended with mass, systemized murder.
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  125. Not to be rude, but Amtrak does not service San Francisco by train. It does run a bus from San Francisco to Emeryville, which is where you clearly departed from. I do think the route you road in this video is one of the most beautiful in the world. "Sacramento and other small towns"? Sacramento has a half million people in it and that is the City alone.If the side-to-side rocking motion bothers you, sit in the lower level, it is far less down there.
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  126. Francis Scott Key did not really write the American national anthem. He wrote a poem, "Defence of Fort M'Henry," that was set to music about a week later. The song with Key's lyrics became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner." It very, very slowly gained in popularity as an unofficial anthem, finally achieving official status more than a century later under President Herbert Hoover.
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  127. I also notice the lifeboats seem to be placed much lower on the cruise ships than on the passenger liners. They look only six or eight stories above the ocean.
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  128.  @bearalohalani  The only swimming you would do while aboard the QM2 is in the swimming pool and you can stand up in it and walk out. It isn't that deep.
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  129. A business may use small claims court IN CALIFORNIA to sue for up to $5,000 (other states have very different limits, Kentucky limits the amount to $2,500, while it is $25,000 in Tennessee and Delaware). However, winning doesn't get the victor the money. It gets them a judgment that then needs to be collected on. If the client has the money, particularly in a bank account somewhere, collection is trivial, but from a poorer client, one who isn't paying simply because they don't have the money, collection can be far more work than it's worth and can spread over years. Moreover, your contract needs to have a several included features that most people don't put in their contracts. Do you have merger clause? A liquidated damages clause? A loser pays clause? What about force majeure? Do you even know what these things are? Late fees? Interest? Unless what you are making is law, you likely don't have the training to write your own basic contract; pay for a lawyer to do it. You may well be better off having your lawyer sue on your behalf EVEN IF the amount is low provided you have the right clauses in your contract. There are also alternatives to suing that may be more suitable. I picketed a client to obtain payment, for example. Adam is a little glib about his answer.
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  130. Why would a crew member risk going through a closing water-tight door when they could just walk up stairs to escape the compartment? It seems very dangerous compared with the simple task of climbing stairs. Given the understanding, I assume, the ship was designed to deal with hits directly head on, but was limited in the damage it could take to the side (4 compartments), why did the crew try to turn the ship without any certainty they could get the ship well free of a side collision? While Titanic was able to turn aside to a significant degree, particularly for a ship her size and mass, trying to get by the ice berg seems a risky proposition when a head on collision was a near certainty of survival. Lastly, how are compartments "water tight" if they don't have a lid? Clearly, anyone could see water could, as it did, go over the top into the next compartment.
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  131.  @pc_buildyb0i935  "If you think Titanic's design was faulty," Of course I think the Titanic design was faulty.It sank on its first voyage. By any measure, that is a faulty design.
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  132.  @pc_buildyb0i935  I didn't suggest the ship should be unsinkable, I stated sinking on the first voyage out shows a clear issue. Moreover, improvements were made to the sister ships, so there was a flaw to be fixed.
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  133.  @pc_buildyb0i935  Air plane designs are changed all the time not due to some disaster. Yes, they are certainly changed due to a disaster, but new designs come out without having been forced. We don't know if ships had previously been sunk due to side swiping an iceberg because the radio telegraph wasn't invented. Ships simply disappeared, cause unknown. Facts are facts, the Titanic sunk on its maiden voyage and that shows a very serious flaw.
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  134. You know, when I find a good person to watch my house while I am away, I ask them year after year. My last one took care of my house and dogs every year for 23 years. She passed away a few months ago and I so miss her, but I will miss her even more this Labor Day when I go away and have to try out a new house sitter. If I lived someplace cool, like in the middle of a great park, I'd ask you, Mike, but I have a rather ordinary townhouse in an ordinary part of Sacrament, which is a rather ordinary town (and, right now, not at all cool, it will be over 100°F today). On the other hand, those nice folks living in the park may well invite you back next year. They can take vacations without any fears about their beloved home with your around (or both of you). Love Tru Earth, thanks for the discount code. It is SO HARD to remember!
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  135. Objection! One does not "accept" service. It isn't a choice. A housekeeper, for example, can't tell the process server, "I don't accept service." If substitute service is available, the server can drop it at the housekeepers feet for all that matters. One doesn't accept or reject service. However, whether delivery to the served person counts as proper service is a whole different matter. Personal service means the documents must be given to the person directly (or dropped at their feet). In one famous case, service was deemed effective when the server tossed the documents to the object person 15 feet at a railway platform. Once one is aware of the documents, one is effectively served. In California, substitute service can be served on a person apparently 18-years or older and apparently in charge at the known dwelling of the object person.
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  136. My problem is I would have to bust into Canada first. I would feel very safe traveling there as you folks seem to be taken COVID seriously and doing what is necessary. Here in the states, where I am, people are sanitizing their hands, wearing their masks, or observing social distancing. Here I would not feel safe. So, I stay home and watch DownieLive.
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  137. I wish you had mentioned the famous sinking of the Poseidon, in which a rogue wave turned the ship completely upside down and the ship stayed that way. As your video makes clear, the calamity of the Poseidon is utterly fictitious, whichever of the various movies you watch (I prefer the 1972 Poseidon Adventure myself) pushing the ship upside down would be well nigh impossible and having it stay that way impossible. The momentum would carry her past the halfway point and the ship would correct itself to place the centers of gravity and buoyancy in their proper order. It might take on enough water to sink it once it was righted and the damage would be horrific, but the ship wouldn't stay upside down.
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  138. G-d bless you, sir, G-d bless you. "Literally" does not mean "figuratively."
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  139. If you are going to do this in Fahrenheit, why are your charts in Centigrade? They show numbers followed by a C. Perhaps if you move the compressor from the bottom to on top of the fridge so the heat disappoints above the fridge (say, like as with the GE Monitor).
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  140. With apologies to Devin the LegalEagle, I think he is wrong. I don't think he can represent Nolan as he is clearly a participant in the crime. Please see: Evidence Code 956 EC – Exception [to the lawyer-client privilege]: Crime or fraud. (“There is no privilege under this article if the services of the lawyer were sought or obtained to enable or aid anyone to commit or plan to commit a crime or a fraud.”)
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  141. One suggest I have is one and your done when it comes to shooting someone. Unless directly ordered to fire at someone by a superiors officer, any police officer who fires his gun at a person, even if fully justified, is then relieved of duty and terminated. While many good officers would unfairly lose their jobs, I believe this would give police officers a real, concrete incentive to not fire their weapons. I think they would truly and fully explore other courses of action first. If, however, a situation arose where the danger was so great, then they could fire. They would just then be on to another line of work. I also think this would mean officers would not become inured to shooting at human beings. Think of it as term limits for police. Yes, term limits keeps politicians from serving forever, but it also ends the careers of many good politicians. There is not a right to be a police officer. It is a sacred duty, where society entrusts a few with ability to act violently in society. That trust must not be broken.
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  142. One doesn't need magnetized pans, one needs pans that are ferrous, that is affected by magnetic fields. Most non-metals are not and only some metals are. Aluminum is not, for example, and aluminum pans would not work on induction. Most pans have layers of different metals, one of which will likely be ferrous. If the pans are old and lost the information on them, one should test them on an induction surface. The magnet test can do, but one really wants to see the affect on the bottom of the pan, not the sides. The real test is to check the pan in use.
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  143. Mike, as medical doctor and well-known TV and Radio personality, Dr. Dean Edell ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Edell ) said repeatedly, "Vitamins make for expensive pee." His father vitamin manufacturer in the 1940s and 50s, so he was very familiar with the game. If you have a specific vitamin deficiency, your doctor can tell from a blood test and proscribe accordingly. If you feel still the need for supplements, a cheap, simple multivitamin will give you everything you need for around $10 for a three-month supply versus Athletic Greens price of $300 for the same. Multivitamins are cheap. My point is your sponsor is a scam. You've had some great sponsors. I swear by Tru Earth. Drop this sponsor like a hot rock on a hot summer's day. I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
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  144. There is something funny about a commercial for Downy Wrinkleguard Liquid Fabric Conditioner in the middle of a DownieLive video. Good match between artist and sponsor. Of course, I also like a travel blogger who can't now travel so covers his hometown. I just love these stories about Vancouver. When I was in 7th grade, which was shortly after the letter Q had been invented, we took a class trip to Vancouver, BC. I thought it so magical and so unbelievably clean. Even the streets were clean.
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  145. Customer Service does not exist to help a customer receive service. It exists to explain to the customer why they aren't going to get any service.
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  146.  @russelldevaney7001  Changes the time of the police response by an hour. More importantly, demonstrates a real lack of attention to detail and accuracy.
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  147.  @russelldevaney7001  I do. One of my favorite t-shirts reads "Grammar Police: To Correct and Serve." News reporting should strive to be accurate, particularly in the details.
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  148.  @russelldevaney7001  I am concerned he gets EVERY fact correct, not just the big ones, but the little ones, too.
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  149. I am very sure you get thousands of requests, so, naturally, I have one, too. According to family lore, my grandparents for, their honeymoon, travelled on the Matson Line's SS Lurline in 1934 from December 22–27. Strapped to the deck was a Lockheed Vega owned by Amelia Earhart, who was also on board. The voyage prepared her for the record-breaking Honolulu-to-Oakland solo flight she made in January 1935. My grandmother became very close to Ms. Earhart and they wrote back and forth until Ms. Earhart went missing in 1937. Additionally, the SS Lurline was halfway from Honolulu to San Francisco on December 7, 1941, carrying a record load of 765 passengers, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The ship's alleged reception of radio signals from the Japanese fleet became part of the Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory. She arrived safely on December 10, traveling in a zigzag path under radio silence and blacked out at night. She soon returned to Hawaii with her Matson sisters, the Mariposa and Monterey, in a convoy laden with troops and supplies. Despite all this, I don't think she is particularly famous to anyone save those in my family. Nevertheless, here on the West Coast, the Matson line is somewhat famous, if only for the Filoli House and Gardens (www.filoli.org), and I think this is one of the more prestigious lines. My grandparents always spoke well of her.
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  150. Sitting on my bookshelf is my original 128k Macintosh I purchased with my then roommate Michael Martin from Macy's on Market Street in San Francisco back in March of 1984. It still runs and I have the original MacOS 1.0 System disk (most used v1.1). What the hose didn't mention was the case had the signatures of the original Mac team, including that of Jobs, molded into the plastic. Mike and used it for years, upgrading to a MacSE when it came out. I have so many happy memories of all we did with that little computer. It was a joy. Mike passed away in late 1987, not long after we acquired the SE, so I always picture us working on the original.
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  151. Objection: There is a US District Court case in Santa Ana under Judge Josephine Staton concerning the use of the Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa as a coronavirus quarantine site.
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  152. Has any computer reconstruction company attempted to correct for the damage?
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  153. Just want to brag for a moment, my friend Rob lives in the white building in the middle of the row of tall buildings at 2:46 on Hyde Street at Lombard.
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  154.  @noseboop4354  A battery based on sodium chloride, basic table salt, replacing lithium is already getting ready to into production. We have nuclear power already, just not a specific type, while battery technology is beginning to move forward in leaps and bounds. There is much money to made in improving batteries, not so much nuclear power production.
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  155. I would like to take this opportunity to drive a stake through the heart of the "three stations" myth. NBC started as a network in 1940 with ABC and CBS in 1948. However, in 1948, there were only 35,000 televisions and a total of 37 stations in the whole country. National Educational Television, which later became PBS in 1969, began broadcasting in 1954. By 1954, there were 26 million, but that was still only 55% of households in the country. So, only one out of two families had the "only three stations" situation. From 1954 on, there were FOUR networks: NBC, ABC, CBS, and NET (what is now PBS). I am 65 years old and by the time I can remember TV, there were four channels. I don't know how old you are, but you look younger than I am or have great genes, but I am willing to bet there were four channels when you started watching, too.
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  156. For the love of G-d and all things Holy, how many times are you going to say, "New York Attorney General Letitia James"? One doesn't need to repeat the name in its entirety every, single time. Once said, you can move on to "James." We know who you mean. We know what her position is. You've a bad case of the Sheldon Cooper.
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  157. Objection: the felony murder rules is, if one commits an inherently dangerous felony AND, during the course of that felony, someone DIES (not gets "killed") one is guilty of first degree murder. Thus, if one holds up a liquor store with a gun, but runs away and is chased by a security guard, who dies from a heart attack due to the exertion of running after one, that is first degree murder because someone died, though they were not killed.
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  158.  @Moleoflands  If one is going to explain the working of a legal principal, one should use the correct definition, not just one that applies to the specific case.
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  159. I must challenge the statement many people died aboard Titanic's lifeboats. From the records I can find, only three people died aboard the lifeboats and they were among the nine people rescued from the water after the ship had sunk. They were already suffering from hypothermia and could not be saved aboard a lifeboat. As far as I can tell, not one single person who went from the Titanic onto a launched lifeboat died during the night.
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  160. Objection! The election is November 3, 2020, not November 2, 2020, see time code 24:42.
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  161. I don't know if I believe in reincarnation or not, but if I do come back, I want to live a Mike Downey life and go on adventures like these. You live, the life, Mike, you really do, from living in the only house in a park, to now traveling by train the beautiful Canada. I don't know what you will do after this, but I want to follow along.
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  162. I am not sure that lawyer is correct. First, while one COULD make more money investing the lump sum, follow ups with past lottery winners suggest they don't actually achieve that goal. Many lose the entire amount. If one hasn't been good at investing, then having much more to invest isn't going to make one better. Do you know how to make a small fortune in the stock market? Start with a large fortune. Also, I am not sanguine about signing the ticket until one has spoken to a lawyer. I plan to set up a trust to accept my billion dollar winnings and one needs to sign correctly for that to happen. Moreover, if one loses the ticket, the finder likely won't be able to collect on it unless he can show he bought it. One can claim the ticket with proof of purchase.
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  163. For the Love of G-D and all things holy, could you pease STOP BURYING THE EFFING LEDE. All the caveats and parentheticals in stating your conclusions swamp the conclusions. Stop it. Say the limitations AFTER you've told the story and made your point. Put your geekdom away and be a showman.
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  164. Now that you've covered subtitles, are you going to cover the supertitles used in the Met movie theater broadcasts?
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  165. It doesn't beg the question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy where the conclusion is assumed in the question. For example, chocolate is the best ice cream because the best ice cream is chocolate. That is begging the question. What you did was avoid answering the question.
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  166. Pubs are great, but they have great trouble taking one from London to Calgary.
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  167. What is oddly left out of this piece is the end of US v. Paramount, (1948) After all Disney plans to build whole towns now. What this YouTube video needs now is a sequel discussing the end of the decree. After all, sequels are where the real money is.
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  168. Objection: I didn't go to law school until I was 57. I loved every minute. It was the time of my life, my happiest days, and so much fun. Yes, it was tons of work, but it was interesting work.
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  169. Having worked with young people in my neighborhood, I now support abortion to the 87th trimester.
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  170. Yes, Pete's being gay is a factor and one to take cognizance of (yes, one may end sentences with prepositions). The US has never elected a woman President. We've never elected an Asian as President. Kamala Harris is a ground-breaking candidate. We need a safety on the ticket to re-assure those that aren't thrilled with all the change, but don't want to see Trump destroy our country. Biden won because he was an old white guy. Unfortunately, he was too old a white guy. I think some like Sen. Mark Kelly is a great and solid choice. He comes from a swing state that he helped swing. He has prior military service. He was an astronaut. His wife, former Representative Gabby Giffords, was nearly killed in an assassination attempt. He is both a strong Second Amendment supporter AND pro reasonable gun controls. Harris-Kelly would be a strong ticket. Harris-Buttigieg would be great, but likely self-defeating. With so much at stake, stopping Trump is more important.
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  171. As Bilbo Baggins says, "“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures." As his book makes clear, adventures are rarely actually fun or in the least bit comfortable, BUT a train ride IS an adventure, with all the beauty, excitement, mishaps, and trials along the way, yet it is safe, comfortable, pleasant, and a joy. You are so right, Mike, it is what is between A and B that is fun. That is true for one's whole life. It isn't getting there to the end, we will all get to the end soon enough (perhaps too soon for some), but the measure of one's life isn't the end, but what happened along the way, what was between A and B. Thank you so much for these videos. I know you are looking for merch ideas, so how about a DownieLive face mask with your smile on it. That way, we could see you great smile even when you aren't eating. BTW, I used to take the train from SF to Sacramento to visit my parents. It is about three hour trip and the train was once 26-hours late pulling in. I left Friday after work and didn't get to my parent's house until late Saturday night.
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  172.  @DownieLive  I'd buy one, at least, and likely two more Christmas gifts. I think gifts of DownieLive merch make the best gifts, don't you?
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  173. OBJECTION: While the Constitution does states, in pertinent part, the President, "shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences (sic) against the United States," it does not say only Federal crimes. It says crimes against the United States. The states are part of the United States. Thus, crimes against one would be crimes against the whole. Is there any case where the Supreme Court has limited the President's power to just Federal crimes? Has any President tried to pardon someone for state crimes and the court's overturned the pardon? I think not. Thus, the answer is we don't know, but our best guess is.
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  174. Dome Car: as I always say, "the closed mouth don't get fed." Always ask, if you don't speak up for yourself and state what you really want, no one is likely to do it for ya.
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  175. I, too, am a huge L&O fan. The knock-offs aren't really L&O. The schtick of L&O is the first half is the police investigating and the second half the prosecutors in court. The first half establishes certainty and the second half brings up all the doubt. I was horrified at this episode. It was awful. A C grade is a kindness, based, I assume, on its 20-year reputation, but the show has sunk below water. The following episodes are just as bad. I must also point out the defense attorney opened the door for the confession by directly asking Det. Cosgrove about how he knew where the gun was. She opened the door to the answer. Even IF the prosecutors had stipulated to not introducing the confession, something I agree is utterly implausible, they can't bind the witness from answering the question honestly and truthfully. The ADA didn't ask about it, the defense did. They can't then complain they got a truthful answer. Why would the defense ever ask that stupid question!?! Me, this L&O is a solid F and the rest barely get above D.
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  176. Objection: absolutely nowhere in the record is there even a hint Congress considered the current situation of photographers taking pictures of people as they go about their private daily live and forbidding their use. Taking a photo of a celebrity on the red carpet at a premier is one thing, taking a picture while shopping at Whole Foods is quite different. The court needs to provide a privacy exception. The person in the photo must be useable by the people in the photo, even for commercial use. The photographer doesn't gain control of your image be cause they take a picture of you.
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  177. My good find Mike, the US is going though an orgy of destruction and ruin. Half the country is deliberately running off a cliff, ignoring their history, responsibility, and even reality itself. I am sorry. I am ashamed what my country is doing. Yes, what a spectacular thing this could have been. My apologies.
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  178. This was, by far, the best legal analysis of a legal movie I have ever seen. My law school actually did use My Cousin Vinny in our trial advocacy class and it had been my favorite for years because it rang so true. This is a remarkably good video, one of the best things I've ever seen on YouTube. May I humbly ask for a review of Witness for the Prosecution. Witness is a 1957 American film co-adapted from an Agatha Christie story, directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, and Elsa Lanchester. While it employees somewhat dated English law, it is still a masterpiece. Even if you don't analyze it, I think you will enjoy watching it.
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  179. Congratulations!
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  180. This whole time you've been saying, "ChekTV," I've been hearing, "CzechTV" as in Czech Television from the Czech Republic. I've wondering why the former Bohemia was so interested in Canada. Prelude to an invasion? Envy of the vast, spectacular Canadian landscape? Just wanted to work with Mike? Can't wait to watch the series and also to have you back. Great work, Michael.
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  181. The new set looks like you bought it off a lawyer commercial, but, if you insist on showing off books, please put them properly on the shelf. Books should be shelved with their spines at the outside edge, not two or three inches back from the edge. The space in front creates a great spot for dust to gather. Second, the spines are easier to read to find the right book, if the spines are at the edge and the light can reach them better.
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  182. Objection: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory takes place in the UK, not the US, and, thus, would not be governed by the Federal Labor Standards Act. This lack of applicability of US law applies throughout.
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  183. As a native California and regular user of the Amtrak Capitol Corridor train, I must let everyone know you absolutely, positively DO NOT get to San Francisco on the Zephyr. The closest you do come is Emeryville, which is across the bay in a different county from The City (our nickname for San Francisco). You can take an Amtrak bus across, but the train doesn't get there. Personally, I get off in Richmond (and the Zephyr also stops there), which is a combined BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)/Amtrak station. One can depart the train and then take a short walk to the BART platform and take BART directly into The City. It is nicer than the bus and one has a choice of several BART stations in San Francisco. The Amtrak bus will only let you out at the Transbay Transit Terminal, though the Terminal is directly across from the leaning Millennium Tower (The 58-story, 645-foot tall Millennium Tower is now tilting 26 inches north and west). Welcome to my state and, if you need anything -- rides, advice, home-cooked meal -- please call on me.
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  184. Here is a great video on why hydrogen cars are not the cars of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88v-WvqzeQ
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  185. The treatment of this kids clearly violates Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971) and the convictions should be overturned. The officer overstepped his authority and should be dismissed.
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  186. Objection: incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial. Prisons, in fact, do tack on time for breaking the rules. It happens hundreds of times each and every day across the country. The revoke awarded "good time" credits. That is, for the most part, why there IS credit for good behavior. It gives the prison a very big stick to keep the prisoners in order. The prosecution as a crime of every prisoner who broke a rule would be very burdensome, if not impossible. Moreover, the revocation of good time is administrative and, thus, has a much evidentiary standard. It is so low, in real life, as to be non-existent. The prison says a prisoner did something, he gets his time revoked with about as little due process as can be imagined. A prison break would not cancel the parole hearing, but it would almost certainly result in a denial. Additionally, parole hearings are not typically a one-time thing. They reoccur at some interval, typically two years. So, the prisoner could be denied this time and then get it next time. Charles Manson was denied parole 11 times. Patricia Krenwinkel, infamous for her role in the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate and six others and the oldest prisoner in the US, has been denied parole 15 times. The parole board would not grant parole directly following an egregious rule breaking, at the next hearing, after context has developed, it may well grant parole., BTW, while a decision is rendered in the name of the board, it is really a staff member who holds the hearing at the prison, if one is actually, the decision is made after reviewing the file.
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  187.  @BigEightiesNewWave  The work is being done and the money has been paid according the schedule set for work completion.
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  188. OK, the voice of my mother, the English teacher, is making me post this. "Unique" does not take superlatives. Something isn't "very unique," it is just "unique." "Unique" means, "one of a kind." Something can't be very one of a kind. Second, if there are two elevators with the open top design, one of them isn't unique. There are two and, remember, "unique" means "ONE of a kind." Whew, the voices in my head are quite now.
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  189. Things are not "very unique." "Unique" is digital, either it is unique, that is one of kind, or it is not, meaning there two or more alike. As for Netflix recommendations, I really like Ozarks and a new season was recently released. It is really old now, but I loved Merlin. Pay extra, stay on the boat, you look so happy there.
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  190. A gender reveal party in and of itself is not inherently dangerous or likely to start a fire. My nephew recently had one with his wife where they cut a cake and the interior color revealed the sex of the fetus (male). It was a perfectly charming day with family and the couple's young friends. I am not entirely sure it was worth the drive to Bakersfield, a place I don't see a reason to exist, but they seem to like it and that is where they live. I attended a party a few years ago where the women tossed a ball to her husband and, after he hit it with a baseball bat, it broke into pieces spilling blue dust. Perhaps we could just eliminate parties with explosives, gender reveal or no.
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  191. Would you please explain why three ships are necessary for transatlantic service. I can see two, one going east while one is going west, but what is the third one doing? Wouldn't four be better, the one east bound could be traveling while the previous one was being loaded with coal, and the same for the west-bound pair.
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  192. There isn't a municipal water system in the world designed and built to supply this kind of disaster. Blaming government officials is purely partisan and in poor taste.
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  193.  @liamz.6245  HSR may well be the fastest option, but fastest isn't the sole criterion. The SST was the fastest plane, but it wasn't economical. There just weren't enough people willing to pay the greater cost to go that fast. Same here. HSR simply costs too much now. I strongly supported the HSR project here in my home state of California, but it now runs from Bakersfield to Modesto, rather than SF to LA and is triple the original estimates. The line will never be completed to reach SF or LA, let alone San Diego and Sacramento. We Californians are throwing money at it and we can't get it done. Now try this between two different states!
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  194.  @moartrainz4242  I don't think G-d cares. He is everywhere at all times, so thus, doesn't need to travel.
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  195.  @bubbledoubletrouble  The government of Shanghai already owns the right of way. The right of way is the single most expensive item and is what makes most HSR prohibitively expensive.
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  196.  @yaash4123  I don't believe they are "suddenly" going to be a thing. I think they will benefit from competition and iteration like most engineering. Five years ago, the cars were terrible, today they work in controlled environments, in ten years, we will take them for granted like smart phones.
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  197.  @TohaBgood2  The land being purchased so far is in some of the cheapest places to buy land in California and it is already way over budget. The average home price in Bakersfield is $384,077 while the average home price in Santa Clara is $1,728,670. In San Francisco, it is $1,633,651 and for LA the price is $1,004,807. The average lot size in Bakersfield is a little less than half an acre, about 21,070 square feet, while in San Francisco, it is 2,713 square feet. So, CAHSR is now buying 8 times the land for a quarter of the price. Government doesn't own the tracks between Seattle and Portland. It would be improving the tracks belonging to someone else, who may very well not want them "improved." The tracks are for freight traffic and engineered for such, not faster, lighter passenger trains. Even getting to higher speed rail is impractical. Seattle land is TWICE the national average. How does the government buy all this land for a new system or acquire the tracks from the existing railroad that needs them for a vital shipping route? How?
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  198.  @TohaBgood2  So, we are going to build a new track from Seattle to Portland avoiding urban areas? Have you looked at a map how far the urban and suburban areas of Seattle and Portland extend from their downtown?!? One almost to Olympia from Seattle before leaving behind expensive urban and suburban homes and assuming the tracks avoid intervening towns, which greatly limits the utility, one starts up again around Vancouver. Also, that assumes the intervening farm land is cheap, which is hardly the case. All of this to create a workaround I5 that is a very good alternative for autonomous cars.
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  199.  @xxTheminemanxx  Yes, we went down different paths. Frankly, despite the charm of trains, I think we ultimately made the right choice. Auto, particularly autonomous ones, provide a flexibility and comfort unmatched by any other form of transportation. Unless one stays at the Hotel Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, a train ride typical ends with a car ride. If I take the Capitol Corridor train to SF, the trip ends on a bus from Emeryville to SF. I drive to the Sacramento train station to depart. The main fault with cars, having to drive them, is going away.
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  200.  @roboko6618  The Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express has a $5,000 ticket and tickets that cost even more. Second, as I have noted before, the Europeans and the rest of the world have a legacy passenger rail service to build on. We really don't. They own the right-of-ways, we do not. Our rail system is set up for freight transport.
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  201.  @Kevbot6000  I didn't in any way suggest it was representative. You wrote flatly there wasn't any train with such a ticket price. That was wrong. There is such a train. This is exactly the problem I have with people who advocate for HSR in the US, you don't think things through. You wave you magic metaphor and everything works out. Except, of course, it doesn't. HSR isn't economic feasible here.
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  202.  @Kevbot6000  Another straw man argument. I never suggested HSR had to be profitable. Over all, airlines aren't. Public services, however, should be cost effective. Vaccines don't have to make money, but they should be cheaper and save more lives than without them (and they are WILDLY cost effective, aside from public sanitation, they are the single most effective medical expenditure we can make). Autonomous vehicles on I5 between Seattle and Portland will carry EIGHT times the number of people for FAR less money. I love trains. I'd rather take a train than drive or fly. I often DO take a train rather than drive or fly. However, I don't confuse my person preferences with good public policy.
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  203.  @mondoman712  Except, of course, the owner of those tracks doesn't want them with tilting tracks because they use them for freight. The only way really good passenger rail works is to own the tracks and that is impossibly expensive. Again we get the wave the magic wand to make it work line of expanded passenger rail.
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  204.  @mondoman712  The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution forbids the government just taking it. The government is required to pay fair market value and the right-of-way are worth billions. While tilting freight trains do exist, they are not common and cost real money. They also impose real restriction on the way freight must be loaded. The US companies don't want to go the extra expense for something that doesn't benefit them. Again, HSR isn't going to happen in the US. Get used to it. There are just too many real-world impracticalities.
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  205.  @loljewlol  Exaggerated construction costs? How much do you think acquiring right-of-way from Seattle to Portland is going to cost?!? The HSR in California was going to be $9 billion when we voters approved it. The latest estimate is $105 billion. Do you think Seattle to Portland is going to magically be way cheaper?
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  206.  @davecooper3238  Trying reading the comments. We can't do it here because the expense of acquiring the right-of-ways is too expensive. The right-of-ways in Europe and Asia were acquired decades ago and not always with compensation. The time for trains has past in the US. We will use autonomous vehicles for shorter trips and jets for longer ones.
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  207.  @davecooper3238  No, that isn't what I wrote. I wrote we can't acquire right-of-way cost effectively here in the US. The right-of-ways in Europe and Asia were acquired decades ago at reasonable cost or without any cost. That isn't possible in the US. The land costs through major metro areas are wildly expensive.
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  208.  @davecooper3238  With very rare exceptions, the high-speed rail lines are built parallel to ordinary lines in Europe and Asia. If you look at photos of the HSR tracks, you can see the older tracks a few meters away. There are times when the HSR tracks are elevated along the right-of-ways to prevent them from crossing over streets or farm areas. The high speed of the trains make them dangerous at ground level along certain routes. HOWEVER, the HSR tracks are still running in the pre-established right-of-way. The British tracks were nationalized in 1948 when they were in the worst shape and greatly in need of repair, thus cheap to buy. French rail lines were national ten years previously in 1938. Japans were about the earliest in 1908. Most of these happened when the private companies were on the verge of collapse and needed funding. Had the US acted in 1970 when Penn Central filed bankruptcy, we would have HSR today. Instead, we split off the unprofitable passenger lines and let the profitable freight business AND THE tracks stay with the private companies. We'd have been even better picking up all the major railroads in 1893 during that financial panic. Nevertheless, your thesis that HSR trains in Asia and Europe travel mainly on completely new right-of-ways is erroneous. There are a few, but not many. There are new tracks, but not new right-of-ways.
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  209.  @davecooper3238  Given I am a gay man, no, I do not have a wife, but my longest relationship was with a wonderful man who worked for VIA Rail. I have also travelled extensively and try to do so by train. I like trains. I have commuted by train. I watch DownieLive because of trains. All you need to do is look at the photos of HSR and you will see the track next to older lines. Do they diverge at times? Yes, but not often and typically not by much. I am not going to bother discussing this further. Neither of us will persuade the other and I can't find any reliable data online either way to provide. From my own experience, rail lines travel through well-establish and long standing corridors with the HSR lines added along side. On many of my trips I've looked over at the banked HSR tracks from my local train and vice versa. If you can find the budgets for these new HSR lines being contemplated, you can see how little money is allocated toward acquiring right-of-ways in Europe and Asia. I will simply say there will not be a LSR or even faster speed rail between Seattle and Portland in the lifetime of your children, if ever. Should we each last 100 years, I will be the one to post, "I told you so." That is about as far as this discussion can go for now.
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  210.  @davecooper3238  I didn't write you physically couldn't do HSR on totally new alinements. I wrote you didn't because of the huge expense. You used existing corridors for the new tracks, tracks that met the needs of HSR. I have very specifically wrote new infrastructure was built to accommodate the needs of HSR. What you don't do and you just wrote the same thing, is acquire entirely new right-of-ways. You piggy back on existing ones. Your examples support exactly what I wrote. We in the US don't have those existing right-of-ways and would have to acquire them now at a unsupportable expense. THAT is why HSR is doable in Europe and not here in the US.
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  211.  @davecooper3238  Other than the US, I have ridden trains more in the UK than any other country in the world. I love the UK. I love the people, the food (yes, I love British cooking), and the country side. I don't drink coffee, even, but tea (Constant Comment is my favorite) and I have Brown Betty under a tea cozy on my desk. Most of the HSR rail tracks I've observed in the UK travel along already established corridors. Some have replaced the tracks entirely, some have not. Given how well established British trains are, I wouldn't be surprised if there are now entirely new and previously unestablished right-of-ways being created as you have likely used up reasonable existing paths. However, they would be the exception not the rule. However, GB is only some 700 miles long and my state of California is 760. No part of GB is more than 75 miles from the sea (or the Channel). We have cities longer than 75 miles. California is only one of fifty states and not even the largest geographically. There are some 10,000 miles of rail track in the UK and it provides for extensive coverage (at the systems height in 1914, there were 20,000 miles, so there may well be right-of-ways without tracks available for expansion all over the place). That would allow for two sets of tracks from Juneau, Alaska, to Miami, Florida, but not much else. The distances in the US are much more suitable to private cars and planes than in the UK (private cars are common there, too, but the majority of your cities were really built with them in mind as are many American cities). The UK nationalized the railway system in 1948 and took over all rail right-of-ways through an act of Parliament in 1947 after having taken physical control in 1939 as a war measure. The best the US managed was to take over passenger service without the right-of-ways in 1970 after the system had mostly fallen apart.  What I am trying to make clear is your extraordinary and wonderful system is due in large part to decisive actions taken early and created circumstances that are not reproducible here. Not at all. We couldn't pass a nationalize the military bill through our Congress even though the Federal government already owns the military because the word, "nationalize" is in it. You DID nationalize the railroads (though it was a Labour government). Suggesting the US could use GB as a model is like suggesting I follow in Pavarotti's footsteps for a singer career though I sing like a wounded duck. Can you find some similarities? Yes, he and I were/are fat. There are many similarities between the GB and the US, but none that matter here. I don't think you are lying, but I think you are wrong about the central question in this very, very long debate. There cannot and will not be a HSR train between Seattle and Portland. There are a couple of good spots for them in the US, but not many and not out here in the West. Look at California's HSR and tell me if you and I will EVER be able to board a HSR train in San Francisco and ride it to LA, though that is the plan (you can't even board a slow train from SF to LA, but must cross The Bay to Emeryville to get to LA). We won't. China does not need to worry about paying for existing right-of-ways as they are not required to pay compensation nor do they in most circumstances. That is not an option here in the US or the UK.
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  212.  @frafraplanner9277  Yeah, labeling something. That's a good counter argument. Calling national health care "socialist" doesn't make it bad.
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  213.  @davecooper3238  HS1 was built in two parts, section 1 and then section 2. I road them at different times so my experience of them is as two different trains. They really aren't, but they were very different rides in my life.
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  214.  @davecooper3238  Yes, but Compulsory Purchase is the same eminent domain and works the same in the UK. The Government takes the land, but it must compensate the owners for the fair market value. What is "fair market value" is subject to substantial disagreement depending on the view point and, therefore, subject to much litigation. I assume the average Brit is about as happy having his home taken as the average American.
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  215.  @davecooper3238  The Wiki article, under route, specifically says there were two sections that opened at different time. How am I mistake?
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  216.  @davecooper3238  Compared to the Chester to Liverpool Central ride, it is faster than Stargate travel.
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  217.  @consisepepper73  Why? For what? Your comment is out of left field.
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  218.  @consisepepper73  Well, he isn't the first and won't be the last. Nothing upsets people like speaking the truth.
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  219.  @WhereWeRoll  You clearly haven't taken a bus if you think the experience of riding one is in way comparable to traveling in your own automobile.
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  220.  @meebie  Those other countries heavily subsidize their train ticket prices. Also, the cost to obtain the necessary right-of-ways would be astronomical. Moreover, there isn't any evidence the train would have a significant number of passengers unless we greatly subsidize the price of a ticket.
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  221.  @meebie  The country close to being carbon neutral are very small, not a good model for us. We are going to produce all those cars anyway, as people replace their current vehicles. The emissions, as opposed to other environmental costs, are minuscule to construct an EV compared to the lifetime carbon emissions of an ICE vehicle. So, we ARE going to replace virtually all of the current vehicles over the next twenty years, they will be autonomous by the end, and they will be the preferred means of travel.
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  222.  @TheUrbanGaze  Because most of Europe nationalized the railroads decades ago and own the right-of-ways. They don't need to spend money to acquire the necessary property. I've written this about 40 times here. Could you do me a favor before posting another totally obvious question that I've answer dozens of times already? Go back and actual read what has already been written rather than thinking you're the first schmo to think up the oh-so-devastating question. I wish this didn't sound so snarky, but I am totally bored with this whole topic because I've answered everything already many times. Don't bother me again unless you have something original to contribute.
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  223.  @iliashdz9106  For the 9,000th time in this discussion.: The California project escalated out of control because of the land costs (the right of way). Yes, lawsuits didn't help and some major inefficiencies added to the burden, but the French are not known for cheap projects either and the land is the expensive part. California hasn't even begun to purchase the necessary land into the Bay Area or into LA. The French already own most the land on which they built most of their HSR system. The cost of buying the land between Seattle and Portland would be astronomical.
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  224.  @iliashdz9106  Short answer: Yes, of course. Long answer: The average cost per square foot of land in Seattle suburbs is $333.29/square foot. Close to that in Portland suburbs. Lets go with $300/square foot for length of the line. The minimum right of way is 40 feet but most modern systems use 100 feet or so for access roads and safety. That makes the right of way $30,000 per foot. Downtown Seattle to Downtown Portland is about 175 miles or 924,000. To make things easy, lets make it 925,000 feet times the $30,000 per foot, or 27,720,000,000. That is $30 billion dollars for the average cost of land ignoring the considerably more expensive land in the cities of Portland and Seattle. Not add in land inflation, speculation, and the eminent domain costs, we are staring at $100 billion just to get the right of way. Now let's start building the thing ten years from now, because it will take that long to acquire all the land (one of the things most people don't realize about eminent domain is the government can get the land relatively quickly and start using it while settling on the price and the lawsuits, but the environmental impact suits in two different states and Federal claims, ten years easily). Just look at how much the initial estimates in California escalated just to get the useless part built.
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  225.  @iliashdz9106  The big benefit of HSR of fast speed is lost if we slow the train down to work on existing tracks. I don't know if you've ever taken the train from Seattle to Portland, but almost none of the existing tracks now run through low population rural areas with open land. I doubt there is an available stretch as long as 100 miles of open land between the two cities unless one goes very far east. Doubling the travel length at twice the speed isn't much of a gain. I suggest the current Amtrak train is about as nice and as fast as we could manage without significant lengths of new track. The number of people currently using the train is about a tenth those using planes.
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  226.  @iliashdz9106  The existing tracks between Bakersfield and Merced, the current HSR build in California travel mainly through suburban areas because most of the strip between the two cities is highway 99 or Interstate 5 and housing development has followed along the roads. To take the train out into the rural areas and then back in to the towns along the route would add significantly to the length. The West Coast did not control for urban sprawl and, therefore, there are long stretches of homes between towns.
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  227.  @iliashdz9106  Have you ever even driven highway 99 between those towns? The areas between are nearly an unbroken strip of development.
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  228.  @iliashdz9106  Except, of course, Highway 99 more or less follows the long existing rail line that connect the valley agricultural towns. Notice, btw, Pixley is just down from Tipton and is the town mentioned in Green Acres and Petticoat Junction.
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  229.  @henryhui7045  That HSR is infrastructure doesn't give it a pass in cost-benefit analysis. HSR will move far fewer people for far more money than autonomous vehicles. There just isn't the benefit to make them worthwhile except in very rare places in the US.
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  230.  @darthmaul216  Tell that to the High Speed Rail Commission here in California. Do you know how mach land for right-of-way costs?
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  231. "Why is that going to cost so much; it's just pushing a few buttons?!?" "Because I know the right buttons to push, knowing that is what costs to much."
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  232.  @DownieLive  He was a very fun guy. He was a DI in the US Marines, the football coach for the local jr. college, and collected everything from 1959 Cadillacs to Jim Beam bottles to Erector sets. When I came out to him, he set me up on a blind date with one of his gay football players. He had poker nights and block parties. Because both my Mom and Dad were teachers, we had the summers together as a family and went on adventures together. I miss him and Mom every single day. I urge you to enjoy every minute with your folks while you can. Keep up the great videos. They are truly a G-d send in these times.
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  233. Forgive me for commenting, but I notice your hair is getting a little long. I understand, in these times, how difficult keeping ones sartorial appearance crisp can be, but I have a suggestion that would put the longer hair to good use. One of my classmates in law school grew his hair all term and then had it cut off and sent it to a non-profit that made wigs for kids with cancer. What cancer kid wouldn't love a wig made from real Mike Downie hair?!?! You can read more at www.WigsForKids.org/donate-your-hair .
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  234. Objection: The old adage aside, studies have shown that those who represent themselves have, in some situations, a better outcome than those represented by an attorney. The work of Julie Macfarlane of The National Self-Represented Litigants Project has some interesting published studies. Simple divorces in family law seems to show the best outcomes with significantly lower costs and without discernible impact on outcomes. Criminal law seems to suffer the most. Certainly small claims courts across the country demonstrate every day one can represent oneself in court very adequately. Landlords also represent themselves in eviction cases without seeming harm. I wouldn't suggest someone attempt a tobacco class-action lawsuit on their own, but getting back $500 for a slipshod repair job seems perfectly reasonable.
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  235. Except this is a route of about 180 miles that would be 2-½ hours by autonomous vehicle and relatively easy and far less costly road improvements. Autonomous vehicles will be here in five year, ten at the most, while the train upgrades are 20 years off. An average of 274,000 vehicles per day already travel on I5. Even assuming only ONE passenger per car, far lower than the actual usage, that means 274,000 people per day travel I5. Amtrak single most used route is the NortheastDirect with about 24,000 daily passengers. That is not even 10% of the automobile traffic on the I5 route currently. Dollar for dollar we get far better increase in carrying capacity by improving auto lanes that train tracks. Plus, autonomous vehicles leave when you want from where you want, go to where you want, bring far more stuff with you, including passengers that add directly to carrying capacity. We could have autonomous buses on this route far sooner and for far less money than trains. There are already fabulous buses available between NY and DC for as little as $22 (please see: https://www.washny.com ). Make them autonomous and you have all the aspects of the train for little more than the rolling stock, plus it is far more scalable. Sorry, HSR, or even higher speed rail, isn't going to happen. There is not the political will or the demand and the alternatives are vastly better. This is sad, but facts are facts. Not. Going. To. Happen. Here. Not. Mike can answer this, but I think this is the longest single thread on DownieLive ever. What do you have to say, Mike?
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  236.  @YaBoiScrumpo  The gobbledygook about mining material for batteries and such is such nonsense. Do mining lithium make a mess? Yes, but it can be cleaned up and regulations can stop it from happening. You put your finger on the heart of the matter and my very point, "ail travel went under in the 70s and hasn't recovered to date." It simply can't recover because Amtrak doesn't own the right of way and purchasing it now is wildly cost prohibitive. I am not arguing rail travel isn't nice, I am arguing it isn't practical in our country. It is like trying to build a canal network now. The conditions that made both work are gone. Autonomous vehicles are all upside. They are going to do nothing buy get better, faster, cheaper, and easier. Trains are already at their limit. I think we need an award from Mike for the longest running thread. Maybe he could take us all to lunch in Vancouver, BC. I'd drive up for it.
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  237.  @bluevortex1045  A boat is often defined as a hole in the water into which one throws money. Trains are black holes that suck in vast sums of money. Roads are not profitable, but they have a dedicated funding source, gas taxes, from users to maintain them. There is losing money and sucking up vast sums. Look I am all for improving as we can. I love the Coast Starlight and ride it to and from LA several times a year. I hope to take the Zephyr to Chicago someday. I am not sure anyone is planning autonomous trains.
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  238.  @bluevortex1045  Autonomous vehicles would likely be privately owned as they offer a profitable business model that doesn't need subsidies, as do passenger trains, but they don't require personal ownership. Just as I can now rent a vehicle for a day or a few weeks, I could rent an autonomous vehicle. I currently own a small car that I use daily, but I rent a more appropriate vehicle several times year when I am taking a large number of people or hauling material. I just rented a U-haul truck last week. I have never needed to transport 100 people, but I can charter a bus if I ever do. I can drive from my home in Sacramento to San Francisco by car in an hour, forty minutes, excluding traffic, but the train, at best, is two hours, forty minutes. I have had traffic on both with the train taking, by far, the longest. The question here isn't should we get rid of the trains we have, but should we pour hundreds of billions in to building new HSR trains. You think spending the $104 billion estimated to finish the HSR now being built will increase equity? Really?
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  239.  @bluevortex1045  Thank you, sincerely, for letting me know. Yes, gas taxes are a small part of supporting automobiles, but they are a major part of the roads. For the most part, people support their own vehicles and that process makes a profit. I am all for subsidizing the Zephyr and the Coast Starlight. I strongly support the Capital Corridor trains. However, if I were a homeless guy or even living in a van down by the river, as Chris Farley would say, I think I'd rather a hundred billion housing for supporting low income housing rather than the same amount for the California HSR project.
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  240. Canada does NOT have common law marriage. SOME provinces recognize common law cohabitation, but that is not considered marriage, thought it does come with some rights and responsibilities. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage#Common-law_marriage_vs._cohabitation
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  241. So, a typical summer day in Vancouver is going some place else (Squamish, BC)? Sounds like one here in Sacramento where we escape the heat by going to Tahoe. And THIS is what you do when you get to the top of the peak and THIS is the music you play. Don't you know popular culture?!?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZCO40Zwt00
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  242. This video sounds like it was made to discuss what would happen IF Biden dropped out and got reworked to fill in now that Biden actually has.
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  243. ObjectionL Tommy's statement as to why he believes in Santa Clause is not hearsay. Hearsay, by definition, is an out of court statement being brought into court to prove the truth of the matter. In this case, the prosecutor's statement about Santa Claus is not being introduced to prove anything, but to explain Tommy's first-person believe in Santa Clause. It explains Tommy's thought process. Thus, not hearsay.
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  244. My grandfather had an amazing house built in the 1920s in Red Bluff, California. It sat on the river that runs through town on a high bluff, but also at a bend in the river so it looked down one part of the river. Great spot. When it was first built, the lot extended out to the middle of the river and the builder ran a pipe down to just above the river bed. The pipe would suck up cold water from the bottom, run it up to the house's basement, and run it by an evaporative cooler. In very dry, very hot Red Bluff summers, it was a remarkably good way to cool the basement. I spent many a summer afternoon down there play cards, reading books, and listening to the radio. My Grandmother was a SF Giants fan and would sit transfixed by the radio, clearly imagining every part of the game being broadcast on the radio, yet in the cool of her basement. By the early 1960s, very large, 220v through-the-wall air conditioners were installed and the popularity of the basement began to fade. Eventually, the state bought river and its banks through condemnation the, the pipe fell into disuse, and the magically cool basement's allure faded. In the late 1970s, force central air was added and even the great wall units fell silent (except I would run the one in my room because I liked it really cold).
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  245. Stupid question: why isn't the compressor, the thing that actually condenses the gas into a smaller space called the condenser (at about 2:00) and the tubes that release the heat into the atmosphere called the heat exchanger?
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  246. WOW! Love the new series. Can't wait. I'll be along by video the whole way!
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  247. In my home in Sacramento, California, the ground orientation indicates the outlet is switched. Several rooms, mostly bedrooms, have outlets that are controlled by a switch near the door. Those outlets are ground up. BTW, you should look into the British standard outlets and plugs. They are much safer.
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  248. If I may summarize, the lifeboats were not well-thought out. They were too high up and created a real danger coming down with passengers. The system for moving was jerky and did not include either electric winches or breaks on manual ones. Seems to me, Holland and Wolfe needed, in addition to the other safety measures, to fix the lifeboat launching so the system work well. Even if Titanic had last 8 hours, not 2, and the California arrived hours earlier, the life boats were still a dangerous way to ferry the passengers and crew to the other boat. Holland and Wolfe, for all its noted concern, skipped a basic, fundamental requirement: actual working lifeboats. Only 18 of the 20 boats were launched with half their capacity. The seas were not rough, the weather calm, and the best the system in place could manage was half capacity. That simply isn't good planning.
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  249. Objection: The FBI caught the Watergate burglars!?!?! What? The burglars were caught by Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate complex and not a member of the FBI. BTW, he played himself in the 1976 film All the President's Men.
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  250. The reason bodies, mostly coffins, are buried six feet deep is to be deep enough the freeze-thaw cycle and the water table does not force the coffin back up again. The problem with New Orleans is the water table is so close to the surface AND so deep, that burying someone below the table isn't practical. The harm to the bodies is irrelevant as the whole point is for the bodies to decompose, but having decomposing bodies in one's water table can be a public health hazard. Hence, bodies are kept above ground and decompose in reusable vaults.
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  251. I bit of a departure from your typical format, but first rate nonetheless. Nice to see you outside and showing an existing ship. I wish you had gone onboard and shown us more of the new ship, but the contrast between the two ships was absolutely fascinating, particularly the way you tell the tale. First rate job.
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  252. Until I bought my iPhone, I never owned an MP3 player. I used the CD MP3 system to play music in my car (a Honda Accord, btw, the model up rom the Civic). My thought was why buy an MP3 player when I can use my CD players? Of course, I still have my vinyl collection from days when that was the main format.
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  253. Objection: Filing fees are not particularly expensive compared with the fees charged by expert witnesses or depositions. The Most expensive filing fee I know of is for an action brought under Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996, P.L. 104-114, 110 Stat. § 785 (1996) of $6,548. Yep, over six THOUSAND dollars. However, a standard lawsuit filing fee in Tennessee in a trial court is $100.00. Why even Mr. Baylor could afford that.
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  254. I understand you live in a cold climate. I don't know why, you seem capable of moving, but your choice. However, I don't need heat pumps to get warm. In the some 30 years I've lived at my home, I've turned on the heater for a total of 33 days. Total. I probably could've put on a sweater. However, staying cool is the issue here. You don't really analyze the cooling benefits or whether ground- or air-based pumps are best in both moist, humid climates and dry hot climates such as I live in. Thus, I think there is a need for a fourth video.
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  255. Objection! The problem is the entire reservation system violates the 5th and 14th Amendments by providing special privileges to certain American citizens based on their ancestry. Tribal "nations" are not in any way, shape, or form sovereign. They are entirely and utterly creatures of Congress that can be eliminated by the passage of a simple bill. They are like the FBI or the Post Office, something created by Congress that can be eliminate by Congress. The tribes are not like France or California. Congress can pass all the bills it wants, both France and California continue to exist. Congress cannot revoke California's sovereignty, nor can Congress split California into smaller states. As the tribes are completely Federal creatures, neither the President, nor Congress, can make treaties with them any more than they could with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The legal maximum is one cannot contract with oneself. Moreover, as these tribes are not actually nations, whatever they are called, they cannot have citizens and cannot have rights from their nation. Congress can certainly create clubs called tribal nations, but they cannot make the members of the club not subject to Oklahoma state law. A postal worker who hits his spouse is guilty and punishable for spousal abuse under state law despite his employer even if Congress were to pass a law saying letter carriers cannot be guilty of spousal abuse. The Federal government could retain the land as Federal property and even retain jurisdiction over the land just as the do Yellowstone National Park. However, all US citizens on Yellowstone property are equal and subject to the same Federal law, not a special subset based on their ancestry.  Thus, once the tribes stopped being actual sovereign nations and became creatures of Congress, the treaties ended. Another example would be Palestine. Palestine has ceased to exist as a functioning government and country. It has been conquered by Israel. Any treaty with Palestine is now null and void. Moreover, Palestinians cannot claim they are not subject to Israeli law, but only Palestinian law. I am sorry. The tribes and their members were treated horribly. They were cheated, robbed, killed, and basically had everything taken. No one today, however, walked the Trail of Tears and Death.  The Supreme Court should declare the entire tribal system unconstitutional and make any tribal members subject to the same laws as any other state citizen.
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  256. A wonderful video as is par for the course with Mr. Brady, but you did leave an unanswered question: was the propeller found by Jack 'Cadillac' Grimm actually one from Titanic? If so, he could honestly claim credit for the first find.
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  257. The recorder of deeds is not at fault. Their job is to see if the document conforms to the necessary legal standards, such as wording and if all necessary information is present. They are not to investigate a deed. If a improper deed is filed, a simple quiet title action is all that is required, something lawyer should have known. I can't speak to Missouri, but such actions are quick here in California.
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  258. Actually, the law does work like that. A jury is perfectly able to draw an inference about the quality and value of the testimony of a witness. A former attorney for the accused who was has pled guilty in the same case would have a different value of testimony than a guy Trump road up with in an elevator who didn't know him, but testified Trump admitted to wanting to subvert the election.
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  259. The Lisa lived on a Macintosh XL.
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  260. Officers do not have a duty to prevent injustice. They have a duty to prevent the law from being broken, however. The two are rather different things.
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  261. Is there any other Sedition Act of 1798? If it is the only one, can't we just call it the Sedition Act?
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  262. "Universities like Berkeley or University of California"? Berkeley IS part of the UC system. Berkeley was really the first of such schools.
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  263. Let's start with the actual text of the applicable part of the Fifth Amendment, "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." The text does not limit the taking to just eminent domain, which is one way to "take" a property, nor does the text suggest the government must take title. The test the Amendment clearly states is if the property is taken. Nothing about that taking requires it be permanent, change the nature of the property, even for how long. The police clearly took the property when they denied the family entrance. The police controlled who entered and what was done with the property for some 19 hours. By any reasonable understanding of taking, that qualifies. Moreover, the idea that police power is an exception has been under consistent attack (see: Wegner v.Milwaukee Mutual, City of Minneapolis 479 N.W.2d 38 (Minn. 1991) and Steele v. City of Houston 603 S.W.2d 786 (1980)). Moreover, the Third Amendment to the Constitution places restrictions on the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent, forbidding the practice in peacetime. The Founding Fathers demonstrated a clear preference against the government using others property without consent and compensation. By exempting police power, the police do not have any reason to take into account the effect their actions may have, nor to balance their goal with other factors that have weight. For example, in this situation, there simply doesn't exist any reason the police needed to break windows, explode doors, or take any action other than surround the house and wait for Mr. Seacat to exit. Waiting might have taken a few days or weeks, but any damage would be on Mr. Seacat. There wasn't an urgent reason to append him immediately, only a reason to prevent his escape. Lastly, the due process clause is violated by the police department placing the burden of its actions solely on the family. The family didn't do anything, yet are being made to bear the burden of the entire affair that was for the good of the whole community. Because the benefit is for the community as a whole, the community as a whole should bear the cost.
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  264. You made *fewer* episodes, not less. "Less" is for uncountable things, while "fewer" is for things that can be counted.
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  265. Objection! Giant, huge, Tom Cruise or Al Pacino style objection! This case has been misused by law professors since it was written and the court was clearly bribed by the railroad to come up with some yahoo theory to clear it. The problem in this case is not about the person getting on the train, but the fact the scale fell on Mrs. Palsgraf. This is classic Res Ipsa Loquitur: The scale shouldn't be able to fall over on a person on the platform. This isn't an issue of zone of danger, and where Judge Cardozo goes off the road, it is the classic breach of a duty that causes harm. The railroad had a duty to prevent the scales from being able to topple over, they breached that duty because the scale did topple over, it caused harm to Mrs. Palsgraf. This case is only used to teach about the zone of danger because it is the case where Judge Cardozo made up the facts to fit his pet theory to find a way to find for the powerful and rich railroad. The guy, the fireworks, the push, all of that doesn't matter. The question is why does the railroad have a big, heave scale on the platform where it could topple over onto someone.
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  266. What they do have in Germany are trains that run on time.
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  267. Someone at CCN should know the map is not VERY unique. It may well be unique. Unique means there is only one of the thing and there can't be very one. This is basic grammar people.
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  268. Fun fact: White Out, the previously ubiquitous correcting fluid for correcting typewriter mistakes, was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, who invented the first correction fluid in 1956 while working as a typist in Dallas, TX. She also gave birth to Michael Nesmith of the faux rock group, the Monkeys.
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  269. I am a Volt owner, 2nd generation owner and I am not sure I will ever sell my car. It is simply a wonderful car (and I owned three Honda Accords in a row before). I have to questions: 1. Do you think I will eventually be able buy a replacement battery for my Volt that would provide a longer range? I would love to have a 60 or 80 mile range. 2. If, as you suggest, a car with a 100-mile range handled 99% of people's needs 99%S of the time and, using the Volt concept, when those people then have the rare need to go longer, they would then purchase gas, would there be sufficient demand to keep gas stations open, or enough stations that there would be enough to provide a practical back-up fuel? As we move to electric vehicles, the need for gas will go down and that means that infrastructure will need fewer and fewer stations to meet the demand for a given area. Eventually, the demand will drop below the efficient distance for reaching the station for the alternative fuel. Food for thought.
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  270. Objection! There are actually three legal terms: Idiot, imbecile, and moron. An idiot is the worst of the three, as idiots are so defective the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years. Imbeciles are those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years. Morons are the highest functioning, as their mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
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  271. The ignominious end to the great SS United States is terrible symptom of this once great nation now being eaten away and destroyed by rot from within. I am so ashamed of my country that the resources could not be found to restore this ship to her glory and to keep her afloat. I fear, my good friend Mike Brady, you in Australia may be the last real holdout of civilization, much like Stanley Kramer's 1959 film One the Beach as the darkness of greed and stupidity spread ever further.
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  272. Objection! Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, your Honor! (see: Perry Mason). Biden DID win in a landslide. He won a greater popular vote percentage than any challenger to an incumbent President since FDR beat Hoover. Biden won more votes than anyone running for President ever has. He beat Trump by some 20% in the Electoral College. By any measure, Biden won in a landslide. As for the Senate, the most likely outcome at FiveThirtyEight was either a 50/50 Senate of 51/49 for Democrats. The 50/50 is still a very real possibility.
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  273. OBJECTION!!! Dean Chemerinsky is the dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, not Irvine. While he was the founding dean of UC Irvine School of Law, he left for Berkeley. As January 1, 2018, L. Song Richardson became the dean of Irvine, having assumed the role of interim dean on July 1, 2017. At the time of her appointment, she was the only woman of color to lead a top-30 law school. On July 1, 2021, she became the 14th president of Colorado College. Currently, Bryant Garth is the Interim Dean; Irvine doesn't have a dean at this time. One a side note, when I was in law school, I discovered a math error in the 4th edition of his con law textbook. I called his office and asked to speak with him. Much to my amazement, I was connected to him and told him what I found. He was very pleasant and had copy of his book handy (which greatly impressed me, if I ever write a legal text book that gets as widely used, I would carry it with me everywhere, even to the bathroom). He looked at the page in question. After some use of the calculator, he agreed with me and told me he'd correct it in the next version. Sure enough, the 5th edition, the current version, has been corrected. So far, I believe this is my biggest contribution to Constitutional Law.
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  274. Objection. Evidence must be relevant and, as Picard objects, Data strength is not relevant to his capacity as a sentient creature. As Picard states, there are many sentient creatures with vast strength. Unless the evidence is relevant to Data's sentience, it should be excluded. Minor quibble, given the proceedings are recorded three-dimensionally and available for playback in the holo suite, as demonstrated in other episodes, the judges head nod may well be record and sufficient by this point in time. Also, one could as the court to take judicial notice of the facts of the tensile strength of the steel just as it could the time of day or any other well-known fact. Same is true, btw, when Vinny states grits takes 20 minutes to cook. He wouldn't need an expert, but could rely on the general known fact to all in the courtroom. If you really want to review a Star Trek proceeding, my I suggest the episode "Court Martial" from the original series. Simply dreadful, particularly when he law professes how much he prefers books. Legal reference books are cumbersome and not at all convenient.
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  275. Objection: There isn't any such person as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Roberts is the Chief Justice of the United States, just a Trump is, sadly IMHO, the President of the United States. He can be Chief Justice Roberts, but no one is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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  276. Who would have standing to challenge a corrupt pardon? What "injury in fact" would someone suffer that someone else received a pardon? Even the victim of the pardon receiver's crime wouldn't be harmed in any real way because the person was pardoned.
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  277. Do we have to wear a "Live" baseball cap while filming?
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  278. Hint: when introducing a term of art, such as "Proffer" to lay people, one needs to be careful about the pronunciation and to say it slowly and carefully. At the least, don't rush by it. When Glen says the word, it sounds much like "proper" than "proffer." The Closed Captioning contained "proper," btw, the pronunciation was so confusing.
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  279. Connecting "three of the fastest growing cities" is utterly meaningless. Who cares? How many people need to get between those cities? Not many. Worse, the distance of 119 miles, the distance they are connecting, would be FAR easier to traverse by car or bus. Unless the system connects to either LA or SF, it is utterly pointless.
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  280. How can you possibly advertise a video with "facts" about the Titanic and then call the ship a cruise line?!?! Are you out of your minds? Pleasure cruises were not even a thing in 1912, except for millionaires on their private yachts. Titanic was a passenger liner, the second of a planned three to make the run from Southhampton to New York on a regular schedule like a passenger train. How can I believe ANYTHING else you say if you don't even understand that basic, rudimentary understanding? Do you call a pork chop a steak? Do you call a TV a radio? Do you think a "Mayday" is a day in May? What gives here?
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  281. Objection: Two, actually. First, the vote is not two-thirds of the Senate, but two-thirds of the Senators present. Two-thirds of the Senate would mean the vote is now at 67, regardless of the number of Senators in the chamber, while, in fact, if there are only 80 of the 100 Senators present, the officer can be removed with the vote of only 54 votes. Second, removal from office is NOT the only penalty that can be imposed. The Senate may also vote to bar the person from ever holding Federal office again. Currently, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla, is a member of Congress holding Federal office, but he was impeached as a Federal judge some years ago. However, while the Senate removed him as a judge, it did not impose the additional restriction of baring him from Federal office. Hence, he was able to run for and serve in Congress.  In the law, details matter.
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  282. What about the "‘Heart of the Ocean’"?
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  283. As usual, Levin posits a Straw Man Argument. No says if you are poor, don't go to college, etc., you won't succeed. They say one stands a considerably better chance of financial success finishing high school, finishing college, learning the skills for a profession. Those two are completely different statements and Levin argues against the obviously false one. Rick succeeded, but not going to college hardly helped him along.
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  284. Objection: Is LegalEagle, aka Devin Stone, any relation of Roger Stone, thus perhaps possessing a familial conflict of interest?
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  285. If I may, you are confusing, IMHO, revenue with profit. Of course the wealthy brought in the most revenue. With fares reaching beyond several years average wages, naturally that brought in the most revenue. However, those passengers were very expensive to transport using far more space than the cheapest passengers. There were 709 third class passengers (and it could accommodate 1,100), more than First and Second Class combined (324 and 285, respectively), yet they occupied far, far less space, only parts of three decks. Third class passengers required far less crew and ate less expensive food. You, far better than I, can calculate how many third class passengers Titanic could have held if the entire ship were third class and you will see how much more money the vessel would have made.
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  286. I have long held the opinion that California Superior Court judges are subpar and wildly ignorant of the law, but one would hope they would know English grammar and syntax. The phrase would be "who's richer than WHOM," the objective case. Good grief.
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  287. Absolutely marvelous, a fascinating look at a great movie. Thank you. You raise an interesting point that I have never seen discussed or properly answered. Ship had life boats for decades, even not centuries before the Titanic. Nevertheless, even after Titanic, the boats are kept impossibly high on the ship, some 10 or 15 stories about the waterline. I have completed The Crossing several times on the QM2 and I don't think people who haven't seen such ships understand the scale. They are HUGE, and taller than most buildings. Why are the lifeboats placed in such a precarious and dangerous location. I, too, am afraid of heights, and the idea I would step on to a wiggling boat, held in place by a wiggling davit, 100 feet in the air, then to be lowered that distance the boat sways and bangs into the ship, swaying in the wind, seems remote at best. Why not place the boats much further down, perhaps only 3 stores above the water line, keeping them behind a netting or screen to slow the movement. The whole lifeboat system seems poorly designed and not thought out. Why would ships keep using this insane system at such a tall height?
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  288. Really? How did you hear about it? Are you there in Pacific Palisades?
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  289. Just today, I renewed my membership with the ACLU. It was only $35, all I could afford, but they are one of the organizations standing between us and dictatorship. I would now like to ask a very incendiary question: could someone defend themselves against a charge of murder by using the necessity defense if they were to kill President Trump. I truly believe Trump represents a clear and present danger to the our Republic. Every day he is in office, our living Constitution dies a little. I do NOT advocate killing him, nor would I myself take such an action, but how many times can he order innocent people beaten, gassed, flash-bombed only so he can commit blasphemy? Many people talk about a Second Amendment solution, if someone were to actually do that, do they have a defense?
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  290. Objection: as to the failure of the electrified fence. The failure is due to Nedry's interference with the computer system. The system would not have failed BUT FOR Nedry's actions. Therefore, the causal link between the Park and the damage suffered is broken.
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  291. You video leaves out that the pressure tanks that maintained water and pressure could not be replenished quickly enough. Their supply pumps and lines simply lacked the capacity to carry sufficient water to them at or above the rate the water was being used. There isn't any evidence there was insufficient water available to the system as a whole as there are multiple reservoirs that feed the system and are at or above normal. The planned loss of one reservoir did not impact the water supply. Lastly, the idea the $17 million cut has any bearing is simply ludicrous. The fire started some seven days into the year and I doubt the firefighters lost their training and knowledge in that week they did not have access to training such that they couldn't fight fires. The fact you cited, the system demand was at four fold the normal load for a sustained period of time, is the reason some of the hydrants went dry. Most did not, but this system was not built nor designed to carry sufficient water to fight a wild fire, it was to supply water for homes and fight a few structure fires. Due to the high winds, the fire could not be fought by air in the early hours when such water drops would have been most effective. The major limit on the system right now is simply the number of firefighters available and the equipment to support them. Some have been working for 96 hours. Relief from out of the LA area, some as far away as Canada and Mexico are now arriving to provide relief and staffing.
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  292. Forgive me and I don't want to be rude, but this description of why successful films lose money is utter and complete hogwash. Yes, it might have been the answer in the 1960s, but not much later than that. Actors have agents and unions. They negotiate terms. What agent would allow their client to sign a "net profit" deal knowing full well such profits will never materialize? Maybe Stallone gets hoodwinked into the first Rambo or Rocky movie with a net-profit contract, but there were five (5!) Rambo movies and EIGHT (8!) Rocky movies. Are you seriously suggestion Stallone kept signing these ridiculous contracts not knowing he was going to get cheated? Yes, the studio may own the rights to Rambo and Rocky, but they ain't making one of those movies without Stallone. If they tried, Stallone could hit the talk show circuit and bury the picture in horrible publicity. Moreover, IF Fox really did sign a deal lowballing the price of House with their own company Hulu, they be violating the law. Contracts must be performed in good faith. Fox would have to negotiate the price for the rights in good faith. Their failure to do so is why the arbitrator ruled against them. That requirement to perform in good faith is why any studio that practice such self-dealing would quickly get sued out of existence. A few punitive damage awards on top of hundred million dollar damage awards would stop this nonsense quickly enough. Do you really think people like Stallone and stars of his proven box office even NEED studios for projects? Stallone doesn't need to make Rocky 9, he can make Mocky 1 about a down and out boxer, who gets a life-changing fight and succeeds against all odds. Most of these big stars don't get paid by studios anyway, they own companies that make deals with studios and the companies get paid. Mr. Whistler, you really need to go deeper into this and find out what the real answer is. Your current one is a nice fairy tale, but little more. I call FAKE!
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  293. Objection!!!! The idea arbitration is a neutral party that will treat each side fairly is absolutely false and why arbitration should not be permitted. First, companies keep track of arbitrators and know which ones find for them and which ones don't. Even one single ruling in favor of the consumer is enough to get an arbitrator blackballed. Because arbitrators are paid for by the companies and only are paid when they work, this practice of banning pro-consumer arbitrators means they are quickly out of a job. Thus, arbitrators have a financial stake in the outcome. Second, the opinions are not published, so an arbitrator can find for the company using one reason, and then use the opposite opinion to support the company in the next. There isn't a consistent application of law. Arbitration is, therefore, arbitrary and capricious. Lastly, there really isn't an effective method of challenging the decision on the merits. Thus, unreasonable rulings go unchallenged. Arbitration is a clear violation of the Seventh Amendment depriving the parties of a jury trial. Sorry, arbitration is anti-consumer. The best proof of that is that companies seek to impose it.
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  294.  @ArlanKels  I want to be very clear: I don't know Mr. Stone, have never met or communicated with him in anyway and don't, to my knowledge, know anyone who has, BUT the guy owns his own firm. Before that, he was a senior associate in litigation for a large firm in LA. He has been out for 12 years and has been, by any reasonable measure, wildly successful. PACER and Lexis show him associated with a stelar client list. Given all that, he has likely paid off his school debt some time ago and is socking away some real money. I can't find out if he is married, but he would be an incredible catch. Seriously, he is very good looking, has good taste, and sense of humor, and a cute doge. What more could anyone want?
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  295. If I may be so bold, glass is not "fragile," It is brittle, that is a sharp blow can break it. However, glass becomes stronger under pressure, up to a certain limit, so is an excellent material for ship windows. My question is why do portholes open inward. The seal would be better and less likely to let water if they would open out, so the pressure helps keep them closed. This is why airplanes doors open out (though they can then be made to swing inward by using mechanisms to fold them partly). The air pressure in the cabin makes the door impossible to open.
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  296. Nothing sounds more DownieLive than, "We're heading out with the Royal Canadian Marines." If it was on a train, would have been a grand slam.
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  297.  @joermnyc  But wouldn't the fine be in Canadian Dollars? Isn't that like Mexican Pesos? 😀😜😝
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  298. Command-shift-4 will get you a screen shot of anything.
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  299. No, you're wrong, Brian. Removal to Federal Court would not give Trump any power over the case. While the case would be in Federal court, the prosecution would still be by Fani Willis. Moreover, he would not be able to pardon himself as the conviction would still be a state conviction. The removal statute only provides a forum that would have few local biases, such as Southern states trying to prosecute Federal officers from enforcing voting rights statutes in the '50s and '60s. The Federal judge would be able to more closely examine the jury to weed out biased jurors and to make more unbiased rulings on trial issues.
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  300. Objection! Most Federal prisoners do not wear orange jumpsuits and, unless Stone is kept in AdSeg., he won't be. Most likely is a green shirt and pants, though most camps and FCIs, which is where Stone is likely to go, wear khaki pants and shirts.
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  301. Impeachable conduct is what ever 218 members of the House agree to vote it is (thank you former president Ford) and removal from office happens whenever ⅔ of the Senators present agree. Period. I don't care what legal scholars suggest, that is the simple, basic truth. The more important question now is can Trump be convicted, removed from office, and banned from holding future office if his term has already ended?
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  302. I am just shooting in the dark here, but could one send power through optical cable by using the light to create electricity at the end with photovoltaic cells?
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  303.  @garrysorbie1948  No ifs, and, or buts about it, we are going electric. We will build the chargers as we going.
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  304.  @warpedone4963  "How much land is needed for the wind turbines or solar panels." An insignificant and trivial amount. There are some 3.7 million square miles in the US. One square mile will deliver
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  305.  @mikesimmerson8331  Complete the scenario. As prices go up, new production comes online to meet increased demand lowering prices. Demand for electricity is higher today than 100 years ago, but it far cheaper in constant dollars than in 1920.
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  306.  @AkioWasRight  Yeah, Germany is not having any problems with their fossil fuels right now as they try to stop importing Russian supplies. Lithium, like most materials that experience a surge, has seen an increase in price. However, as used in batteries, it is fully recyclable and we are moving to batteries that don't use it.
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  307.  @Noneyabiz001  You will. The question is not if, but when. 15 years from now, the problem getting fuel, the high cost, the ease of electrics, and the regulatory burden will force all but the super rich to convert.
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  308.  @warpedone4963  They could use the roofs of the 60,000 homes to provide the vast bulk of the power for those homes. They could also use nuclear power. They could build a damn. They could use geothermal. They are many, many alternatives.
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  309.  @Nathan-xx5wt  Both are useful and should be used. Just recently, March 29th, wind turbines generated more electricity in the US than was provided by nuclear and coal power, than 2,000 gigawatt-hours.
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  310.  @waynerenee3809  Industry existed long before fossil fuels and will exist long after its use is discontinued. The government won't "force" you, though it most certainly could, it will simply make using fossil fuels ever more uneconomical. There are Amish who still plow their fields with horses, but that isn't what modern farms do. They will all convert to EVs as EVs become the more economical choice.
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  311.  @waynerenee3809  Really? Coal has been used since 1200? Really, oh wow. I didn't know. Of course I know that and, yet, it is still used today. The widespread and increasing use of coal by an ever growing population supportable by the industrial revolution is why we can trace the climate change issue to fossil fuels. The temperature changes follow the rise in CO2 in the air following the increasing use of coal. Man has burned wood before that. The problem happened when we reached the point we were releasing more CO2 than we were sequestering. At first, the difference was small and relatively trivial, but by the previous century, it was significant and increasing almost asymptotically. That we do burn coal doesn't mean we should be. We need to move to the post industrial economy based on electricity created by renewable and green generation sources.
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  312.  @waynerenee3809  "You people"? You mean us informed, science-based involved voters who are trying to save the planet? Yes, since before even 1962's The Silent Spring, I've been warning about environmental dangers.
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  313. Objection!! Of course one can yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater. The case where that is from is Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), where Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic (emphasis added)." The key here is "falsely" yelling, not just the yelling. However, Scheneck was overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), replacing the "clear and present danger" standard of Scheneck with the "imminent lawless action" standard. I also must say, the "beyond a reasonable doubt" is of dubious use if different juries can come to different conclusions. It is supposed to an objective, not subjective standard. As an example, I point to the Scott Peterson case where there isn't even an official cause of death for Lacy Peterson, let alone a finding she died from a homicide, but, nevertheless, Scott was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt of Lacy's murder. I just don't see how there isn't clear reasonable doubt.
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  314. Objection! While the Senate Rules may have the Chief Justice of the United States preside, the rule would not overrule the Constitutional provision the Vice President is the Senate's presiding officer (See: Article 1, Section 3, Part 4, "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate.") However, Article 1, Section 3, Part 6 states, "When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside." Thus, the Senate Rule just restates what the Constitution provides, it does not make the rule itself.
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  315. Objection! At the time this video was made, two states (Washington and Louisiana) allowed for conviction with less than unanimous verdicts. This practice was changed in Louisiana in 2018 with the adoption of Amendment 2. The Supreme Court recently ended the practice in RAMOS v. LOUISIANA (2019).
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  316. Mike, even an old queer like me knows, you can claim all you want this is like a date night and you've taken Nicole to a fancy restaurant, you STILL need to take her out on a real date night AND to a fancy restaurant. You don't get out of that just because you took on one of the nicest flights in the world. Sorry, you are still on the hook, date night awaits. Nicole deserves it. Great video, makes me want to fly to London just for the experience.
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  317. Question: can I skip the ads? I don't want to cut into your income, so I've been watching them, but now YouTube is putting Trump ads in. As a Canadian, you may not be aware of what a complete and utter d1ck he is and I just don't want to watch ads for him. I will if it makes you money, but seriously, can I skip them? Tugboat all the way. It was great and the food looked awesome.
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  318.  @DownieLive  Thank you. I so enjoy your channel I would, if it helped, watch those ads, but am so grateful I don't have to.
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  319. Go to Germany, very friendly people, well organized country, great food. French desserts look pretty, but German one's taste better. Street vendors sell the best sausages at wurst stands. All around best country in Europe.
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  320. Objection! The checkmark in question that verifies a page as real is WHITE, not blue. It is a white checkmark in a blue circle.
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  321. Their issue, which is covered at all by this very superficial and inadequate story, is a reverse of the Bacchus Imports, Ltd. v. Dias, 468 U. S. 263 (1984), where the Court invalidated a law which advantaged local production by granting a tax exemption to certain liquors produced in Hawaii. Here, the state is advantaging out-of-state residents at the expense of local ones. I think they have a good case. Owners of vehicles in California should be treated equally.
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  322. Objection! There are not any "charges" pending against Flynn. He plead guilty and, based on that plea, the judge has already found him guilty. They aren't charges any more, they are convictions.
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  323. I realize my favorite ship is much too modern to catch your eye, but having been the only ocean liner I've ever travelled on, the great RMS Queen Mary 2 is my all time favorite. The week onboard remains the one of the great events of my life.
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  324. Objection: Isn't saying, "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit" equally lapsing into argument? Moreover, Picard doesn't object to have statement removed from the record.
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  325. No, you threw away the plastic grocery bag. Clearly, you don't have a dog.
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  326. Yes, for today, the screen refresh is very slow and the ability to review an entire document seems barely functional, however, compared with what was available at any reasonable price back in that day, this was wiz bang super fast. Creating letters or papers this was way was hours faster. Before I moved on to my Apple II, I had something similar to this typewriter and I remember feeling like I was living on Star Trek with it. It TYPED my papers WITH THE REVISIONS! How could ANYTHING be better?
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  327. Having a Bosch dishwasher, I looked and, yep, there didn't seem to be a pre-rinse location for soap. Then I noticed a small grill that connected to the soap container. From what I can tell, without tearing out my dishwasher and installing a window, water, during the pre-rinse cycle, enters through the grill, travels through a short, molded tube into the soap compartment, and carries away some of the soap. I checked this theory by powering down the dishwasher after the pre-rinse cycle and opening the soap compartment. Even with the dreaded tablet, the outer coating had broken down and that implied water had enter the compartment and also left (as there wasn't water in there when I opened it). If I my be permitted to theorize, I suggest Bosch has figured out people aren't putting soap in the pre-rinse soap compartment and many people use the tablets, so have an engineered a system to work anyway in spite of people not doing as instructed. Just as Pierre de Fermat had a solution for his Last Theorem, but the margin of the book was too narrow to contain it, I believe the proof of my theory is too difficult to fit into my kitchen. I leave it to you, my esteemed teacher.
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  328. I am on the order of three time your age and grew up with dishwashers. My grandmother had one in her GE All Electric Kitchen that really was a tub and was loaded from the top. From a wee age, I was taught to wash the dished clean before putting them into the dishwasher. There simply aren't any food particles of any kind on the dishes I put in. The whole point of the dishwasher isn't to pre-clean, but simply to sanitize. I am shocked, shocked like Captain Renault at Cafe American over gambling that one would use a dishwasher to wash dishes alone.
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  329. "It" does NOT "beg the question." Begging the question is a fallacy of logic, as is Straw Man or Slippery Slope. It is the fallacy of assuming the conclusion to argue for the conclusion, e.g., "Chocolate ice cream is the best flavor because chocolate is the best flavor." Also, many of the flourishes and details found on Victorian homes were machine manufactured and ordered from a catalog.
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