(c) The Postal Service is authorized and directed to permit the transmission in the mails, under regulations to be prescribed by it, of live scorpions which are to be used for purposes of medical research or for the manufacture of antivenom. Such regulations shall include such provisions with respect to the packaging of such live scorpions for transmission in the mails as the Postal Service deems necessary or desirable for the protection of Postal Service personnel and of the public generally and for ease of handling by such personnel and by any individual connected with such research or manufacture. Nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed to authorize the transmission in the mails of live scorpions by means of aircraft engaged in the carriage of passengers for compensation or hire.
The mailing of scorpions is limited by the restrictions in 18 U.S.C. 1716. Under this limitation, scorpions are mailable only when sent for the purposes of medical research use or the manufacture of antivenin. Scorpions are nonmailable under any other circumstances.
Live scorpions are mailable only if EACH of the following conditions is met:
Must be for delivery only within the continental United States.
May be sent only by surface transportation.
Must be sent only for special purposes of either:
Medical research use.
Manufacture of antivenin.
Must be properly packaged prior to mailing, as follows:
Live scorpions is packed in a double container system, with each receptacle closed or fastened in such a way as to prevent escape.
Inner receptacle is made of material that cannot be punctured by a scorpion.
Inner receptacle is marked “Live Scorpions.”
Cushioning material is used to prevent shifting of the inner receptacle.
Design of packaging is of sufficient strength, as required in 522, to prevent crushing of the mailpiece or escape of the contents during normal Postal Service handling and transport.
Address side of mailpiece is clearly marked “Live Scorpions.”
Interesting slide. Only 12% of ALL YOUTH appears to be qualified to serve in the Armed Forces. That is a discouragingly LOW number. Kind of makes me think of the woes Russia is going through at the moment vis a vis the Ukraine War. ?Wonder how many would be unqualified were we to be attacked. You guys might be resting your future prospects on us old guys.
Not quite. That may be the case under the current Leftie-favoring rules where the privileged offspring of nomenclatura parents are partying at colleges. But those spawn constitute the 11% who should be first in line to serve their country, or at least to serve Zelensky and his 10% co-conspirators. With great privilege comes great responsibility.
It is a reasonable guess that the non-college student 12% Qualified-Available for Military Service are a crucial part of keeping the country going, such as it is. Those are the fit healthy smart young guys on construction sites and assembly lines. Keep them on the job, and let the college kids (transgendered, female, and male) go to the front lines.
Oh, I don’t disagree with what you say. Trouble is, most of those mopes in school will be exempted from any draft were one to be imposed, and they would probably make poor soldiers if inducted. There has to be a certain amount of pluck to go to war, and I rather doubt they have it. Even in my graduating officer class there was one jackass who didn’t go with the plan and had family pull strings to get him assigned to an embassy in Europe - so he “missed” going to Nam.
Starlink suffers global outage after pushing a software update.
Turns out it was due to an expired security certificate in the ground station systems. Let’s hope the Starship telemetry downlink certificate is up-to-date for the orbital test flight.
Imagine the class action lawsuit against “eyes in the back of their” smart phone companies. Of course, the likelihood of such a class action lawsuit is mitigated by the fact that they, unlike Musk, are actually in power due, in large measure, to their surveillance. Just keep tabs on anyone who might be able to execute on a class action lawsuit and dirty trick them.
United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
No. 21-2475
JOHN M. KLUGE,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
BROWNSBURG COMMUNITY
SCHOOL CORP.,
Defendant-Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division.
No. 1:19-CV-02462 — Jane Magnus-Stinson, Judge
ROVNER, Circuit Judge. John M. Kluge brought a Title VII
religious discrimination and retaliation suit against Brownsburg Community School Corporation (“Brownsburg”) after
he was terminated from his employment as a teacher for refusing to follow the school’s guidelines for addressing students.
These are the only countries in the world who grant diplomatic recognition to the Republic of China (Taiwan), a country of 23.9 million people, GDP (purchasing power parity) of US$ 1.62 trillion, and whose governance is ranked “Free” by Freedom House with a score of 94/100 (by comparison, the U.S. is ranked “Free” with 83/100, and Red China “Not Free” with 9/100).
At around 12:30, when she first gets in the car to start it, it looks like she will accidentally drive it into the garage… the look on the guy’s face is priceless…
Great little car - it’s apparently for sale for 200,000 Bidenbucks.
A Salesforce spokesperson confirmed the sublease to SFGATE Tuesday afternoon, noting that it was part of the layoffs and office reductions announced in January. That announcement, which resulted in the decimation of 7,000 jobs globally, also resulted in the exit of Salesforce-owned Slack’s San Francisco headquarters in February.
The six floors of space now up for sublease, according to a pamphlet from real estate giant Cushman and Wakefield, constitute more than 104,000 square feet. The top four floors of 350 Mission, plus the fifth and sixth floors, are up for grabs and come with amenities such as a “fully functional coffee bar” and a slew of boardrooms and “high-end” presentation floors.
Salesforce’s intention to cut back on its San Francisco real estate footprint has been evident since even before the dramatic January announcement. Within the past year, the company — San Francisco’s largest private employer — has listed half of its space at Salesforce West at 350 Fremont St. for sublease and six floors at Salesforce Tower, in addition to the Slack headquarters move. In 2021, Salesforce listed half of its footprint in Salesforce East.
