I think I made a PIN for mine somehow. I forget the details, but I did end up using at Spec's and the ATM, and both of those would have asked for a PIN.
tl;dr;strangely specific,...
Sure, you can be under investigation and extorted at the same time. But from what I read (not everything) it sounds like the 'extorters' weren't threatening to publicize anything, they just said they could make it go away for $$$. And they would have just taken the $$$ of course. I call that 'fraud' not 'extortion'.
It seems like this is kind of a Why Not Both? situation. Matt was being investigated, and somebody else found out and tried to hit up Matt's dad for money. Though 'attempted con' seems a much better description than 'extortion'.
I doubt that the plants would be idle for years at a time. It sounds weird to talk about generating plants that are normally not used, but if they are normally used then they are not really surplus capacity. Ideally, I think, there would be a pretty liberal use of special conditions where ERCOT calls up these plants, so they can at least keep things in working order. And I would presume that BH wants to be able to spool up in minutes and sell electricity if the price goes to $8K again.
I do not think that there is ANY evidence that this virus was not naturally occurring. And in any case, that would have nothing to do with whether it could be eradicated completely.
A new analysis suggests that 'Ouamuamua is a chunk of nitrogen ice that had been knocked off some extra-solar Pluto-like planet, and ended up our way.
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-scientists-extra-solar-oumuamua.html
There has been at least one more extra-solar visitor, namely an interstellar 'comet' named Borisov I2/2019. Unlike 'Ouamuamua, this was was going so fast there was no doubt it was interstellar ('Ouamuamua was just over the speed limit), but this one seemed to look and act like a normal comet, at least as much as I read about it.
Good god. The Texas GOP governors just keep getting worse and worse and worse. We go from W, how do you do worse than W? Rick Perry! How do you do worse than Rick Perry? Why Greg Abbott is how. How do you do worse than Abbott? Well, Sid Miller or Allan West would surely qualify there.
Understood, but it will mean that they also will not have to deal with former customers who also do not want to deal with MAGAts who refuse to wear a mask.
If I was giving advice I would recommend US AGE which are liquid and come in a convenient variety of sizes.
If I was doing it myself, I'd more follow RDCane's advice and get a variety of ex-money gold when it is available for not much more than melt. I think a lot of USA gold coinage is also available near melt. There is really a large amount of this gold so pretty nice pieces should be available like this. Then I would have fun collecting something pretty while saving in a physical form.
You might check the mintmarks to see if you have a more valuable variety. On the 1858 quarter is should be on the back Just above the QUAR DOL. Either a letter S or O or nothing. The S seems to be worth more. There are actually 3 different kinds of dollar coins from the 1870s so it is hard to say about those without pics.
If you boil it and then let cool, does it stay cloudy, or some solids settle, or does it turn clear? If air bubbles I would expect it turns clear then look and smell fine.
Bahia Honda State Park is really pretty. I think you can rent sea kayaks there, which looks like it would be awesome. It was too crowded when I was there though so there were no kayaks available for me.