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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
With this detail, it's now only a question of when, not if, this story gets made into a movie.
If she were to marry Snowden in a sort of Citizenship Marriage, would that qualify him for refugee status (if not citizenship) in Russia?
Sounds like a publicity stunt on her part though.
edited 5th Jul '13 12:03:36 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.On the Fireworks stuff:
Yeah, it's fucking bullshit in my state. When I was growing up we would have these huge block parties out in the street, where everybody would pool their fireworks together and have one big show and food and drinks, they were a lot of fun.
Now, almost nowhere in my county is allowed to sell fireworks except a little town in the styx on the outskirts.
Ironically enough, I was lighting shit up right on the beach with some reserve officer friends who said I bought awesome fireworks. Our PD thankfully has more common sense than our county and state law, they were like "fuck it, it's in sand right?"
I live near a golf course where they have a fireworks show every year. Like, close enough I can see them from my house. We're not supposed to set them off in street here, though. Not that that ever stopped Dad from buying sparklers and those tiny ones when he felt like it and he saw a stand. Or the asshole neighbors from setting them off right in the damn yard instead of across the street in the park area last year.
We live in a quiet area, so we don't exactly get a lot of cops patrolling the area on the fourth.
This Atlantic Wire article shows that things like the PRISM thing take time.
One of the big things it points out is that the Patroit Acttook 45 days after 9/11 to be put into law, and that was with a good portion of Congress on Bush's side, and considering our political climate, it may take longer than that.
RE: Fireworks: A single spark can easily set off a fire. We need to make sure people don't start the next great fire/wildfire killing people and destroying lives by recklessly fire them off.
We could find public places to fire them off over water or a single spot which firefighters can watch and easily put one out if something happens.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."I like how my town organized it, they sort of went under the noses of the county authorities which banned fireworks, and unofficially designated a few spots on the beach for us to use by digging a roughly 40 square foot circle of stamped down sand. Ain't nothing to catch on fire there, so no worries.
My parents live in Indiana. It's legal there as long as you stop by 9 pm most nights save for midnight on the 3rd and 4th of July and 2 am on New Years. Even then, you aren't really going to get cited after that unless your neighbours file a noise complaint.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickEconomy adds 195K jobs in June; official jobless rate steady at 7.6%
I like how Americans set off fireworks and get drunk at the same time en masse roughly every six months. :V
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Interesting. It does sound like a mess, but on the other hand, it's freaking explosives. I'd be very concerned if there wasn't a lot of regulation.