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  • School Resource Officers can't charge kids with felonies only a prosecutor can do that. A cop can arrest someone. Now you might think I'm being pedantic but I think it is an important distinction. Many times we blame cops and completely over look the fact that some of the blame lies with the prosecutor.

  • What's a common occurrence in your hobby that you think shouldn't be?
  • enjoying wine can be a hobby (wine connoisseur)

    Just because alcoholics attempt to justify the fact that they want to get drunk whenever they want to by "tasting" wine doesn't make it a hobby. It just makes it sad.

  • What's a common occurrence in your hobby that you think shouldn't be?
  • A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done for enjoyment ... Participation in hobbies encourages acquiring substantial skills and knowledge in that area.

    Source: Wikipedia

    Now can you explain to me how smoking weed gives you substantial skills or knowledge?

  • Waiting in a queue to see a Web site
  • That actually makes the most sense. It makes you queue because there are only so many tests they can administer at a time. So if the website is offline for maintenance it allows those that tried to access the website first to have their spot saved. Rather then forcing everyone to try and get on the website at once when the matinenece window ends. Now I kinda wish more websites that have limited sign ups did this.

  • Malaria
  • I always thought it was more to do with the fact that their youngest son had just turned 18. So he was probably moving out of the house to college. There is a big culture here in the US to "stick it out for the kids until they move out" mentality. So I just thought that is what they were doing.

  • Trickflation
  • Wait a minute are you telling me that their isn't a sugar fairy dumping copious amounts of sugar into my tea when I turn around?!?

    Please tell me it ain't so. Then I might actually have to take accountability for my actions and I can't do that.

  • That gourmet luxury blend...
  • It is also required in America. The FDA requires it except for small business. Also the EU wouldn't even let this have the word "Honey" in the name at all. I'd assume that the retail business above doesn't reach the threshold of 500,000 so can request for an exemption of nutritional labeling.

  • Recursion
  • I mean you are given one of those when you are born or when you officially swear in as an American. But it is always nice when our officers do some community out reach like this.

  • The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation
  • Alright this sent me down a rabbit hole so I'm going to try to and summarize really quickly.

    1st, VESA requires a membership but in reality you need a company that has a vested interest in what VESA does. So you have to pay a huge due to be apart of it. This is quite BS according to me, the fact that they can do this and still claim to be an open standard. Source

    2nd, VESA never tried to implement a royalty based off the Display Port Standard. The company that did that was MPEG LA, LLC, they aren't affiliated with VESA. Rather this company is a patent pool company that attempted to enforce their clients (such as Sony) licensing fees. They seemed to have backed off of this back in 2016 as the last patent used was for the Display Port Standard 1.4. Source

    3rd Content Protection was necessary if you want wide spread adoption. Companies aren't going to want to do business with you if you allow for their IP to be ripped. As well, VESA is just a collection of companies that have voting shares in the company. So those corporate features are just par for the course.

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