The microphones have all been checked, so we should have no more issues. Carry on.

In! I love surprises!

Not sure how I feel about this descriptor

Norfolk VA

Do you not like the phrase or the concept?

Why not both?

http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html

Looks like the Lincoln, Washington, Truman, and maybe GHWB are currently in Norfolk.

A while ago I asked in the LC thread that I was running for the city council of my small town (~25k people) and asked whether there was any interest in an AMA.
There didn't seem to be any, but starting November 1st, I will be city councilman GermanGuy. I might write about things in the LC threads in case anything interesting happens.

Make a blog about it? Might get some interest that way

Congrats! Is that a full-time job or something you do on the side?

Herzliche Glückwünsche!

Pretty cool GG!

Thank you and Dankeschön!
It's on the side. In My regular job I teach English at a high school. I will get a small "salary" that is supposed to reimburse expenses and lost (potential)wages. Depending on what committees I'll be on, that's going to be between 100-200€. I'll have to donate 40% of that to my parties reelection fund.

I'd be interested to read about it from time to time (I'm Dutch btw). Of which party are you a member?

I am a social democrat (SPD). We are (and were before the elections) the biggest party in the council, but it looks like this time there is going to be a "fixed" majority of three other parties (CDU/FDP and an "independent" group of voters). Before the election there wasn't a fixed majority, but my party most often cooperated with the green party. Due to changes in the number of seats with some of the parties that isn't possible anymore. Things are a little more compilcated by the fact that the mayer (who is directly elected) is a member of my party.

The first thing on the agenda (after determining membership in committees etc.) is to pass the budget for next year. We'lll see how that works out and I guess that is going to determine a lot of how people are going to work together initially.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...icle-1.2813633

I guess that West Point needs its own safe space.

why go?

Dude at my work got fired this week for stealing like 100 brass bearings. They cost the company $44k and he sold them for like 900 dollars for scrap. We got them back before the scrap place melted them down, the idiot sold them to one of two scrap dealers in town and used his own id and was on camera at the scrap place. It probably took the police like 45 minutes to nail down the case. The worst thing is this dude is a pretty hard worker and probably works like 10-20 hours of OT a week. Dude probably makes $70k a year and he steals 900 dollars worth of scrap metal? Come on dude wtf. And of course now he's totally ****ed because he isn't getting charged with stealing $900 dollars worth of scrap, he's getting charged with stealing $44k worth of parts and tools.

Drugs, tho.

$9 each for scrap? how big are these bearings???

They weigh ten pounds each, maybe six inches in diameter

Those are some big heavy balls

No, not those kind of bearings, these are plain journal bearings

I'd like details on how one casually steals a half ton of bearings. Did he smuggle them out one by one in a backpack? Did he do a late night heist and load them all in his truck?