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Linhasxoc Since: Jun, 2009
#57701: Jul 4th 2013 at 8:04:19 PM

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.

midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#57702: Jul 4th 2013 at 8:14:01 PM

yeah, how dare the feds regulat a business where if shit goes wrong exploding shit might hit civillian homes.

deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#57703: Jul 4th 2013 at 8:16:23 PM

It doesn't really affect them, here. Colorado has way more stringent stuff. More specifically, they're pretty much banned from sale. Mainly because we're on fire every summer, and there's no need to help it along.

Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#57704: Jul 4th 2013 at 9:42:46 PM

In Nebraska atleast they could have MORE regulation. People are losing houses to those fire lantern things.

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#57705: Jul 4th 2013 at 9:57:07 PM

Yeah, last time I was in Nebraska for the 4th, it was way too crazy for a place known for prairie fires.

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#57706: Jul 4th 2013 at 11:00:25 PM

Ever seen a fireworks factory explosion?

Schild und Schwert der Partei
Ringsea He Who Got Gud from Fly-Over Country,USA Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
He Who Got Gud
#57707: Jul 4th 2013 at 11:17:23 PM

Everyone and their mom shoots big, powerful fireworks from their backyards in the middle of Suburbia here. Even during the drought.

The most edgy person on the Internet.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#57708: Jul 4th 2013 at 11:23:22 PM

I guess it's less of a problem in suburbia than in forests.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#57709: Jul 4th 2013 at 11:39:31 PM

[up]You say that, but, even suburbia has it's wasteland and pokey bits nobody really notices. Until it goes up in flames. tongue

Get too dry, and it goes up big and fast too quickly to counter.

deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#57711: Jul 4th 2013 at 11:48:12 PM

...When did real life turn into a James Bond film?

Meklar from Milky Way Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
#57712: Jul 4th 2013 at 11:54:05 PM

Shortly after it turned into a dystopian cyberpunk novel, I guess.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#57713: Jul 5th 2013 at 12:03:20 AM

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

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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#57714: Jul 5th 2013 at 12:19:21 AM

That, or (acceptable-degrees of) Bad Boy really turn her on. His situation is one that will have the odd lass fling herself at him, regardless of hidden agendas. tongue

Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#57715: Jul 5th 2013 at 12:22:32 AM

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?"

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#57716: Jul 5th 2013 at 12:54:57 AM

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.

midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#57717: Jul 5th 2013 at 8:08:26 AM

a russian spy?

Dear god, The Black Widow is real.

she's even got the right hair color.

edited 5th Jul '13 8:09:11 AM by midgetsnowman

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#57718: Jul 5th 2013 at 9:50:37 AM

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."
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#57719: Jul 5th 2013 at 10:18:16 AM

@tclittle: The Snowden article's comment on Congress moving glacially at the best of times is, I'm afraid, a distinction without a difference. The fact that Congress couldn't pass a resolution stating that the sky is blue means that Congress is unable to effectively exercise legislative oversight.

Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#57720: Jul 5th 2013 at 10:24:36 AM

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.

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#57721: Jul 5th 2013 at 10:32:21 AM

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. Dick
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#57722: Jul 5th 2013 at 10:39:05 AM

Economy adds 195K jobs in June; official jobless rate steady at 7.6%

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#57723: Jul 5th 2013 at 10:39:13 AM

Someone lit a tree on fire in North York. They launched a firework from under the tree.

Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
#57724: Jul 5th 2013 at 11:12:35 AM

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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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#57725: Jul 5th 2013 at 11:18:48 AM

You probably haven't seen Aruba at New Years. They shoot off fireworks for a week straight, including in the day.


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