1. It only reduced the telescope efficiency by 1%
2. The original report from 1970 is still up!
This is the video that made me aware of the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cw_bDbEqA
(this is true)
Incidentally, NH licence plates are stamped out by prison inmates.
Now THAT is cruel and unusual punishment, right there!
Edit: For those not well versed in NH plates, the state motto is embossed on each and every number plate. (This may be the case for every US state, for all I know)
Nope. What the jurisdictions choose to write on plates varies, often for a fee you can have something different, either of your choice (within limits) or from some limited selection.
Famously DC has plates quipping about the "Taxation Without Representation" which was notionally the reason the United States wanted independence. The District of Columbia of course does pay federal taxes but does not receive proper democratic representation in exchange, exactly the situation the colonists complained of and with exactly the same retort offered in response†.
[This is a very small hypocrisy compared to say declaring that "All men shall be free" and continuing to literally enslave some of them for example]
† The Congress insists, just like the Westminster Parliament, that these tax payers are represented, but virtually, with the entire institution actually somehow representing their interests. If this strikes you as poppycock for Westminster, it should feel no different closer to home.
Those who choose to live within the federal district have a privilege others in the United States do not have: direct physical interaction with and influence over the individuals composing the federal government. It makes sense to me that the privilege is balanced with a lack of representation in the Senate and House. Note that they do have representation in the Electoral College.
It also makes sense to me to retrocede the majority of the current federal district back to the state of Maryland.
No permit for carrying, no duty to inform, no "no guns" signs for buildings that carry any legal weight beyond trespass. NH allows guns in bars, Texas does not. NH you can still protest with guns, which is rare in most states after the 1960s era civil rights protests with guns. Texas nominally prohibits carrying guns for 5 yrs after a violent offense, NH does not. Etc etc.
If you want real ‘wild west’ living, the closest you’ll come is Nevada (except for Clark County), Wyoming (except for Jackson), and Alaska (except for Anchorage). A few other places too.
Late 18th to early 19th c. people with compassion and insight opened sanitariums to provide care for folks with brain disorders. Much of the care was truly revolutionary and helpful. Some of it was other things. The public was impressed and inspired.
The founders died off and institutions continued on without their vision. The public lost interest; funds waned but need did not.
By the 1980s institutions were no longer safe or caring. The public had moved on. Few in power knew or cared.
Politicians saw funding streams they could grab w/o risking reelection and forced our MI population into homelessness.
We're still there. My 5 state institutions are dangerous hellholes. Homeless are everywhere here.
source: w/o long-term inpatient care, wife left the family to become homeless
>We're still there. My 5 state institutions are dangerous hellholes. Homeless are everywhere here.
Implies that "Homeless are everywhere here" wouldn't be the case if the institutions were good. I disagree. I believe that if the institutions were good there would still be homeless people, unless somebody declares to be living on the streets to be a mental condition that warrants forced institutionalization.
OPs view is that lack of MI (A) results in homelessness (B). You're taking that further and making the argument that the existence of homelessness (B) implies lack of good institutions (A) - an argument OP didn't make.