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Land line telephones will be allowed, but only in a little phone outhouse in the yard.

I bet he didn't even have a phone book to read.

This is NonCredibleDefense. So it's true if it would be funny if it were true.

Ukraine gave up those nukes in exchange for security assurances. If Russia is going to go back on its assurance, then Ukraine should be able to go back to the nukes. Fair is fair.

As a former SSR that held nuclear weapons on its territory before 1968, they even oughta be free and clear with respect to the non proliferation treaty.

You forgot the "... Or I'll break your kneecaps."

When you enter the United States, customs "inspects" all the stuff you're bringing back. If it's more than $850 worth of stuff, then you have to go to the cashier and pay a tax.

The tax is a percent of what the stuff is worth. The percent rate can depend on what type of goods it is, and what country it's coming from. There are massive tables to look this stuff up.

The stuff you carried out of the country and are now bringing back with you doesn't count toward the $850 limit.

If you're shipping stuff in but not traveling with it, there is no exemption. Tax applies right away. You also have to hire a guy called a broker to help you with the CBP paperwork and to submit payment.

So let's say somebody is importing sugar from the Caribbean, and there's a tariff. They have to pay a percent to the feds every time they ship in some sugar. They raise the price they charge on the sugar to cover that. Then sugar from Louisiana looks more attractive on the store shelf because it's cheaper.

Who pays? Whoever is shipping the goods in pays, but they make it up by charging more for the imported products.

Why do it? Usually, you want to make some domestic industry more attractive by raising the price of the foreign competition.

In the sugar example, sugar is more expensive to farm in Louisiana because people get paid more, and the equipment is more expensive. If there wasn't a tariff, people might stop farming sugar in Louisiana entirely. That might make some people sad. On the other hand, all Americans would be able to pay less for sugar without the tariff.

An unlawful boarder should be secured in the brig. That's the kind of common sense anti-piracy policy I can get behind.

Carpenter square would really do a lot here. Lots of low level wood workers fail to grasp the utility of the square.

If you think you want to be more prepared for a nearer-peer conflict, you might want to get your B2 crews some real combat sorties. Kind of like a college football rent-a-win game before the conference season starts.

It's a risk because the Spirits are basically capital ships of the air, but it may be a worthwhile trade-off.

"Executive Time", also known as watching Fox News while eating fast food and lobbing tweet bombs.

The cool thing is that thanks to the NSA and public key cryptography, the chain of authentication goes all the way down the chain of command.

When the guys in the silo get that Emergency Action Message and authenticate it, they can have confidence that it was issued under the authority of the President, or at least the holder of the Presidential biscuit.

And we all know Lemmy likes wizards.