In the headline, "pledging to 'murder' shoplifters" is a restrictive participial phrase modifying "texts." Restrictive elements are not offset by commas.

Somewhere in Middle America?

Metal Slug series

Mechwarrior series

Myst

Microsoft Flight Simulator series

Mario Kart series

Mario Party series

Master of Orion series

Marathon series

Mother series

Monster Party

Executive Decision?

Y

UN life expectancy at birth in USA: 79.30 years

UN life expectancy at birth in EU: 81.50 years

UN life expectancy at birth in Hong Kong (world #1): 85.51 years

Connections
Puzzle #473
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But did you know
That when it snows
My eyes become violet
And light that you shine
Can be seen?

No.

You can't do that.

If premeditation was a requirement, 2nd degree murder would not exist.

Premeditation isn't required for murder charges.
Malice aforethought is.

Everyone's Sauron Here

Point of fact, I'm not bobs_monkey, the originator of the rhetorical tone. Fax in healthcare continues to survive well past its prime because there is an inherent loophole: analog data transfer is functionally unsuited to encryption. This allows fax to be operated at a "best effort" level of security. There are handling protocols that are meant to keep traditional fax transmissions as private as possible, but these are layer 8 processes with limited enforceability. Beyond that, traditional fax represents a pathway around requirements on encryption while still meeting HIPAA compliance standards.

FOIP is an improvement, but it still allows for interoperability with a traditional fax machine connected to a POTS line in some GP's office that they're unwilling to part with. That means the FOIP user can only be confident of the transmission being secure on their side. I can't speak to the overall adaptation of FOIP in hospital systems, but I do know that there are non-isolated instances of hospitals still relying on traditional fax as opposed to adopting a cloud-fax solution. Hell, there are still major hospitals using SL-100s as their primary phone switches.

I don't even want to get into codec mismatches, because that falls out of scope when it comes to a privacy discussion.

Long story short, achieving HIPAA compliance is a low bar with regards to fax, and if that were to change I believe we'd see fax disappear (finally!) shortly thereafter.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the fax loophole does need to be closed.

Mine flails typically reverse over minefields by design for that very reason, so I interpreted this one as doing the same. If not, then yes, driving across the field with the contraption behind the truck would be a short, joyless trip.

Non-credible. Purpose-built mine flails are on the borderline of credibility already. In this configuration, you'd need at least a class IV hitch to handle the tongue weight, probably a class V when you factor in the force imparted by the motion of the flail. That's not even taking into account how much power is needed to properly swing the chains with enough impact to detonate a significant portion of the mines.

And if there happens to be an AT mine or two in the mix, the whole ill-advised experiment becomes an unappealing art installation.

Funny thing, that...

Nearly a third of Aussies claim Irish heritage. And a lot of those families ended up there because of, you guessed it, the Famine.

That's just a "best by" date. You can still eat it, though it might taste a bit stale.

Couldn't agree more. They used the form provided to them. Withholding ballot access based on a technicality smacks of disenfranchisement.

How many more times can you beat this horse? It's thoroughly dead. Whinging about it as much and as repetitively as you have chosen to makes you seem less "concerned citizen" and more "entitled snot."

Finish clutching your pearls, then curate your own feed. And stop expecting everyone else to do it for you. Your sensibilities won't always line up directly with the world around you, but repeatedly haranguing someone else about it won't solve matters for anyone.