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Comment Re:So let me get this straight-- (Score 1) 337

In Michigan, they do it a bit differently.... If you are getting a new plate from the dealer, they put a temporary plate in the back window that gives them time to process all the paperwork and get a valid plate from the state for that vehicle. In all other cases, you have a "transport exception" - the way it was described to me is as long as you have the paperwork showing you just bought the vehicle, you can transport it from the place of purchase to your home without a physical plate attached. In my case, I bought my new car roughly 45 minutes from home, and the plate I was transferring was on my old car at home (it wasn't worth enough to bother trading it in). I left the dealer, drove home, and moved the plate onto the new car.

Comment Re: Why single out Google? (Score 1) 110

And if I remember correctly, it was the same government (or at least different people in the same chairs) that mandated those GPS trackers be put into phones, under the argument that E911 needed it to transmit your location to first responders. So, they're now deciding to complain about an issue they created...

Comment Good, Now... (Score 1) 69

...go after the idiots that have sent me two text messages from random cell phone numbers lately saying someone is fraudlently accessing my Verizon account, and providing a [RandomIPAddress]:8080 address hidden behind a URL shortener to try and get me to "verify" my information to prevent my account from being suspended.

Comment Re:Value? (Score 1) 164

The only thing the management agent does is handle the "auto-renew" for you. I manually create LE certificates for a domain we use for work (and would do more for our remote access panel, but LE has made the decision not to allow creation of certificates without a domain, so our server that is only available by IP gets left out). Other than the certificate data itself, we have nothing special installed on our server.

Comment Re:Console? (Score 1) 89

I've had a Switch since day one, and I've had a total of 3 updates:
  • "Day one" system update that enabled eShop and other features
  • Update to enable SD card storage(maybe that was just because I put an SDXC in it, not sure)
  • "Day one" update for Zelda (not sure what it did, but it was there)

For what it's worth, none of these updates took more than 2-3 minutes to do. Would the system have been usable without them? Most likely (except for maybe the SD card one). So are there updates? Yes. Is it a "required" type of thing, where you basically always need a connection to be able to use it? No.

Comment Re:Any possibility that sunscreen causes cancer? (Score 1) 210

I've had this discussion with people in the past, and personally, I feel that there's a big difference between an increase in cases of autism (or anything, for that matter), and an increase in DIAGNOSED cases of autism. In the past 10 years (or so), our understanding of the signs of autism has greatly increased, which would then lead to a increase in the number of cases. Does that mean we're doing something to cause that increase? Not at all, it just means that we have a name now for what's "wrong" with those kids that 15-20 years ago were just labeled as "weird" or worse.

Comment Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum (Score 1) 456

Speaking from experience, restless leg syndrome shouldn't be on your list....I'd never had an issue with what is commonly known as RLS in the past, but after being put on a new medication, I developed symptoms of it....when the medication was changed, the symptoms went away.

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