Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

  1.  @Amberion  aw, I'm sure that they'll happily store it safely for him, for a nominal fee.
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  2.  @phillipharris8159  then demand the fine be paid by the newly bankrupted citizen, I mean prisoner.
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  3.  @jamesleung0  or he simply lost his paperwork over the course of a long life. Guess he should have his life confiscated, huh?
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  4.  @WitnessingTyranny  yep, let that unlawful arrest impact the town/county budget deleteriously and watch the unlawful actions swiftly cease or the department runs out of payroll money.
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  5.  @bengraham6015  we used to take care of such creatures with a fence rail and a bit of rope. Ride them out of town on a cold night, minus their clothing. It worked before we were a country quite effectively. Or my alternative, a grand toxic waste dump before they can notice or stop me, then good luck finding me later and no more tax payments or mortgage payments, let the bank and town fight over the toxic property.
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  6. If one can prove to the court that a Tesla has no gas tank, arrested and charged with stealing the electric car's gas tank.
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  7.  @b1gsteve251  when every SOB in office is under threat of a pissed off public replacing them, there's plenty of incentive. The incentive to the public, increased taxes to cover those penalties. It's warfare 101. Make the fight so damned expensive, disruptive and destructive to the other side that they'll beg for peace.
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  8. I'd have gone with replicating an M2 .50 BMG barrel, albeit a touch longer for the two foot footer. The footer, not being well specified being 12" thick, reinforced 10000 pound test concrete, a foot below the surface and ten x ten feet, to ensure that the box couldn't possibly tilt into the roadway proper.
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  9.  @MikesTropicalTech  I still have my military ID card, so I'm good, but if he has a veteran health ID card from the VA, he should be golden - per DHS. Still feels like I'm in some dictatorship though, where "Travel Papers" can be demanded...
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  10. Naw, there's worse. Blog, wait for a fine notice, then sue for damages over their shredding the very first amendment and enforcing their laws in other states. Just to make their stupidity cost the taxpayers of Florida significant money, hopefully enough to irritate them into voting for mentally competent individuals for a change.
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  11. There was no precedent made, the judge simply upheld a longstanding precedent. A closer example is, the employer decides to cease paying the workers completely, but wants the court to force them back to work.
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  12. First, it's one judge, not multiple judges. Second, it's a state court matter and hence, "citizens of the USA" is irrelevant, it's "citizens of Georgia". So, we'll let things play out, as the state supreme court has been informed and found sufficiently for the defense counsel to release him pending trial and that will quite annoy those jurists, as appearances of impropriety smears their bench as much as the offending jurist's bench is smeared. I wise old police sergeant was issuing police badges and credentials at the police academy graduation. Before he did, he advised all of the rookies, "Whenever you do something wrong, you not only smear your own badge with shit, you dip mine into shit as well. Please don't dip my badge in shit".
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  13. The newer models are more efficient, not more reliable. One can have both, but few would be willing to bear the much higher cost. :/ I would, largely because of having to replace the contents of fridge and freezer at the most inopportune of times. Twice.
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  14. The layout design can be copyrighted, novel construction components can as well, although they also have to comply with the standards you mentioned, as well as local and state building codes. But, the blueprint being denied to the homeowner, that's novel enough that if I were facing that, I'd have a bulldozer to remove the offending construction, then sue the living shit out of the builder and design firm for having to redo their deficient work, as with no knowledge on what I required to complete my home, as stipulated prior to purchase, the work is deficient by lack of appropriate documentation and had to be replaced at their cost - plus punitive damages. Seriously, the design plans of the home are more secret than the construction of a frigging hydrogen bomb, what an absurdity!
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  15.  @rustyrebar123  no, they have qualified immunity. So, she'll not even get an apology, just a thanks for her service, denial due to conviction for medicaid, then sat under a bridge. To then be arrested for vagrancy. Well, until she litigates, then her attorney wins.
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  16. These dealings are precisely like an incompetent armed robber. "Give me all of your money and I'll kill you!" "Don't you mean OR you'll kill me?" "No! Either way, I'll kill you." The only winner is the lawyers. I think that Shakespeare had a good point...
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  17.  @dontaylor7315  oh, I do bite. But, I reserve that for those who are exceptional, as I've never suffered fools well. For the ignorant, facts and educate treat their condition with education. But, I'm not above sarcasm or hyperbole when it suits my needs. ;) Old Army NCO, NCO's are educators first, disciplinarians last.
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  18. Well, did the same thing for a living for many years. You'd be surprised to learn how many people haven't mastered rightie tightie, lefty loosey. Or how to hammer a nail and not their own fingers. Personally, when I did have a house, I made sure it was numbered and that the curb had the address painted on it.
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  19.  @egondro9157  what a fascinating invention out of whole cloth! You do realize that we document history and we record laws? Corporal punishment was outlawed in the US military in 1869. I joined in 1981, but served with Vietnam War veterans and was trained by them. What was known to happen back from WWII onward until the '80's at latest was an occasional "we'll take the rank off and discuss this behind the barracks", which basically turned into, if the subordinate won the fight, he'd find out quickly that that rank never did come off. The rest of the "agressive, confrontational and tough" is pure blather, especially "officers are supposed to be gentlemen", as officers end up fighting as well, then and now. Why do you post about shit that you know nothing whatsoever about? At least I served for 28 years!
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  20.  @voiceofreason-ct1nm  detecting that which cannot be present isn't a mistake, it's a lie. Something cops are infamous for doing, even getting caught lying under oath without repercussions that'd land mere mortal men in prison.
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  21. Why waste soldiers time? Just give them a ride on the M1911 express.
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  22. Been getting around one per month over the past four months. Marked each one as spam, report and the app automagically deleted them.
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  23. It makes me lose faith in our nation, to be brutally honest.
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  24.  @falxonPSN  yeah, I was scratching my head on the geography pretty hard, from my apartment in Harrisburg, PA. That's just a lot of rearranging the state's geography to make the suggested route work! I think the folks in Erie would be a bit surprised to see Pittsburgh turn up next door.
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  25.  @atomicsnarl  next to Jimmie Hoffa, who remains alive and well. I actually saw many flying saucers over the years. Boy, were we thankful when that incessantly fighting couple moved out.
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  26.  @VideoArchiveGuy  because over time they do recoup their costs. They don't pay what they bill, if you think that, you know nothing whatsoever about business! Still, for an office building or better, complex, I'd be getting competitive bids from multiple providers and cable humping crews. That always lowers the end costs and for such properties, the companies will bid in for the contract.
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  27. When did the fourth amendment only apply to half of the nation?
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  28.  @littlejohn-pi7kk  no drawbacks? A false positive results in full suit alert and check, a false negative results in dead service members. Equal reward results in no expectations by the dog than being rewarded for doing what it was trained to do, without bias. But, you know how much about EOD in the military and their canines? Worked with them much? Which end of a ring main do you interrupt first?
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  29.  @richardross7219  M821 were mortar carriages. M812 was the 5 ton. My DA form 348 had "5 ton and below", SEE Combat Engineer (Small Emplacement Excavator, basically a Case front loader in front and backhoe in the rear deck of a Benz small truck), M113, Stryker, a few other odds and ends. We started with two models of 5 ton, one with a manual transmission, the other with automatic. Licensed on both. We had skid resistant tape on top of the bumpers to prevent slipping off on dew. That CARC paint is slicker than snot with the morning dew on it! Your M821 was part of the M809 series, which were replaced with the M939 series. Did see one get stuck in 1992, blizzard dropped 3 feet of snow, one inattentive driver got the floorboards hung up on the snow bank on the side of a road. Thankfully, a friendly civilian with a wrecker helped pull him out, shaking his head the whole time. Oh, both used the same spec Cummins engine. Wikipedia has a nice article on each, the M809 and M939 series.
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  30. Is a jack normally found inside of a house? What chemicals does one use to change a light bulb, which requires significant disassembly? Screw it, I'll just do what's worked for me, avoid California. Too expensive and invasive, nonsensical laws in some communities. And well, my house is notable for having all kinds of "odd" tools, which would decidedly make my home use of said tools unlawful.
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  31.  @b0rd3n  as Steve himself has often said, "You can sue a ham sandwich, doesn't mean you'll get anything out of it". In this case, the reasonable person hypothesis is the best test. After all, if the insurance company was liable for the injury of an STD, would they also be liable for an unwanted pregnancy and rearing of the resultant child? Absurd, but that line of non-reasoning would then be valid. Although indecorous, I'd have probably played "Hit the road Jack" after reading the decision to dismiss...
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  32.  @michaellowe3665  in other words, disabled people need to avoid LV. No problem, there are inclusive communities with casinos. Although, if that view were officially reinforced further, a number of important military bases in Nevada would end up on the BRAC short list. But hey, you want the Nevada Test Site back, don't you?
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  33. That's entirely crazy talk, that whole welfare clause only being for government and big business or some other hand wave.
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  34. Nope, send it to the bar and have them either disbarred or the bar association accepts the disgrace in the eyes of the populace.
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  35. Too late. Google's search quality has been declining for half a year, with many errors that look suspiciously like chatbot AI induced errors. While all are eager to latch onto "hallucination" for the term, the closest medical term is a common thing in those with dementia, confabulation. It's precisely the same issue in a human that happens with the AI. Never happened, but was ginned up by a badly confused brain that looked for a memory, couldn't find it, so invented it for the occasion, unknown to the owner of said brain. Although, in this case, it was like the attorney handed a 9 year old the case, then asked the 9 year old if their work was good, then vouched for it unseen. The court cannot accept the excuse, as the attorney is an officer of the court and accepting such a bogus excuse would undermine the credibility of the court itself and by extension, all courts.
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  36.  @michaelshrader5139  refused depositions and subpoenas is contempt of court. Declined under specific grounds, the courts may well allow. Even in the strange, exotic foreign land of Texas. ;)
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  37. The law also touches on property rights. Social media companies are not the government, so censorship actually isn't possible, given the legal definition of censoring. Were the concept expanded, one literally could never throw a guest out of your home during a party for verbally starting altercations.
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  38.  @jamesbehrje4279  and the prostitution for pressing such charges - using very real fire. After all, the covids might've kidnapped the kids and fed them to thunderstorms infested with venomous snakes with the space aliens supervising or something. Sherman obviously took it too easy on Georgia and reconstruction was halted far too prematurely.
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  39. Maybe you need to fertilize with a few pounds of yellowcake. It'll take care of the "offending" garden and everything in the neighborhood being blighted by something they can't easily detect. Well, unless they're looking for uranium... Still, it's a common enough element, present in most granites. :P
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  40.  @kevmontgomery4849  I'd have settled for the farmer tilling the manure into the soil and call it a day after I reseeded.
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  41. Let's see, you've announced it, so that's premeditated murder, abuse of a corpse, concealing human remains, unlawful burial of human remains. So, you have property open for someone else to squat in while you're enjoying life in prison. Compared to say, going to a district magistrate and filing an eviction of an unlawful occupant on your property and having the law remove them.
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  42. It's even uglier. How is he to retire? He'll never be able to save enough in a 401k or social insecurity, so he'll work until he drops dead.
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  43. It's literally the same with a dementia patient, where it's called confabulation. Entirely unconscious, but a very real phenomenon.
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  44. I'll just say, windows for showrooms are rather expensive... I'd be eating dinner with a judge though, so obviously I'd know nothing whatsoever about what happened.
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  45. Well, they don't want to put the pothole installer out of work.
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  46. Had more than a few wheelchair bound individuals who insisted on doing it themselves. Pissed them off when I got the door for them, to no end. Then, I explained, someday, it'll be me and I'll appreciate the effort. Nearing that now, literally. So, I do appreciate the door holding and still hold the door for those less fortunate. Park in my space, do enjoy finding your valve stems beside your tire. I'm a nice guy, just not all that nice. Do wonder how your spare got flattened as well. Picking locks is a hobby... And being a Dad, I know, sometimes one has to be a dick.
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  47.  @KameraShy  which is precisely why they have courts. In many cases, those older agreement and treaties were replaced by the EU accords.
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  48.  @susanfender307  sir, hell! I work for a living! ;)
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  49. @Richard Cranium that'd be my wife and I. Our kids are grown and have homes of their own. So, we don't need 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, den, mud room, rec room, separate laundry room, main engineering, auxiliary engineering, photon torpedo room, electron microscope room, 50 shades of plaid room and my guns don't need their own damned room. So, tell me I need to essentially build a McMansion, enjoy the nation's newest cobalt-60 repository. With many open sources to deter trespassers. For those ignorant of cobalt-60, it's a rather hard gamma radiation emitter. If any leaks into the water table, guess they'll need a majority of residents well over 50% complaining about the blue glowing water. Or put up with a town full of large green angry residents... ;) If I can't get the NRC permit, which is iffy, storing and composting castor bean mash from the castor oil companies would suffice. I'm sure that one of the most toxic biotoxins around would degrade quickly... In short, be a dick and a damned nightmare for the town.
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  50. The Army used to have the arms room access control list posted on the vault door, complete with the CO's social security number. I had a word with someone at division, since there was no real interest at the union level and I had ran into that person one day and mentioned it. They talked to someone upstairs, who called Big Army, who changed the guidance. What should have been used is the EDIPI, aka their "serial number", which is prominent on the ID card, as well as in their digital signatures. A couple of years later, I took a civilian job overseas on one of our bases and became the IASO for our base (information assurance security officer). Managed to keep us out of a major network mess from a foreign APT (advanced persistent threat), all from just ensuring everything was properly configured, the laws and policies being followed. Ugly mess, glad to not get jammed up by Buckshot Yankee. Those afflicted got tons of work and additional hours cleaning it up, I went home on time and a normal workload, all from doing a little bit more work initially.
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