Random Rants
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Raccoons have invaded my attic. This happened back in the spring and we thought we drove them out. Now that cooler weather has arrived, they have returned. We're going to have to have them killed this time.
Can you kill them legally in the U.S.? Up here in the Great White North, it is ILLEGAL to kill these SOB. We can only trap them, then move and release them somewhere. Worst if they have young ones around, the mother goes beserk if you go near them. My uncle (and he is an American and lives in Wiscousin) told me he just pull out his gun and shoot them when he sees them on his property.
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It's legal to kill everything in Texas.
OK, maybe not everything, but as far as I know, it's legal to kill raccoons. The pest control guy told us last time that kill traps might be our only option. The racoon evaded the "humane" trap, which he said meant that it had been trapped and released before, thus learning to avoid them.
Home ownership is just one pain in the ass after another.
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To be clear, I'm not going to be shooting at raccoons in or around my house. I'm hiring a pest control company to trap/remove them. Whether they leave the house live or dead is up to the raccoons, but they will be leaving.
As for firearms laws, Texas is, not without controversy, a "Castle Doctrine" state. Whether that's good or bad is a debate for another forum…
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Game 2 had Anand's weird blunder, and now an even weirder game today. Carlsen either spent the whole game re-finding the best book moves or spending too much time going through the alternatives, and then when he simply slips out of the book for one move, it's not like he drifts: he is lost instantly. So many of championship re-matches devolved into similar long-winded games of cat-and-mouse preparation and produced very paranthetical games over the long term.
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I have to work on:
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I normally work 4 days a month… -
Its just a parttime job to buy IH gear, if I get more money and pass a limit, I have to pay full taxes and stuff like that…
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I could need those day offs to do all my school stuff… Didactic analysis, methodological discussions and other artsy fartsy stuff like that.
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concepts boston is taking fecking long to send one reply. and i've already sent them 4!
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Citibank is a fucking joke. On their corporate cards, they have really bad password complexity restrictions, I mean criminally bad, should literally be illegal for a financial institution. Then on top of that shit sandwich, they inhibit paste into the username and password fields, making it hard to use a password manager. So in effect they are pushing people to use guessable passwords. Did I mention they're a goddamned bank? And the cherry on top, it's not letting me in because it claims I have another open session. First of all, why would that matter? Secondly, the fact that they can't tell that I don't in fact have another session open is pretty damn disturbing.
This institution simply doesn't meet the bar–they shouldn't be allowed to operate online as a bank until they improve their security posture. I really wish we'd stuck with Amex.
Always thought it might be urban myth or something and was never quite sure… That’s really interesting, thanks Chris! 
