I currently live in Sydney, Australia and I’m trying to send 2 bottles of wine to the US, specifically New York and Tenessee for my Dad and my Brother In Law as Christmas presents. Is there anyway to get around some of the laws prohibiting wine shipment? What’s the best way to go about this? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Acutally I’ve been told that it’s illegal to ship through the US postal service. There are no laws in Australia with regard to shipping out, in fact I have a postal grade shipping box made specifically for wine, so there’s no issues there. I’m mostly just concerned about the laws in the US.

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I’m meeting his parents this weekend for the first time. I want to make a good impression with a small gift. Flowers, chocolate and wine aren’t going to work for this family. I’m drawing a blank. Any suggestions?

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I have been all around my local area (D.C./Baltimore), and have found an abundance of foreign wines - Australian, Italian, Spanish, South African, ect. But for the life of me, I don’t think I have found a single bottle of French. Is there a reason for this (…something that has to do with freedom fries perhaps?)? It is odd that I can’t find wine from a country that is known globally for their wines, but I can from countries which are not known at all (Chilean anyone?)

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I know that they are now serving beer & wine, but can you still bring liquor for mixed cocktails?

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I am working an engineering internship where we were taught SAP and use it regularly.
The computers we use are old, and are set up so that 4 (four) users can use one tower.
That being said, if one of these other idiots has a lot of windows open or has 15 tabs of Face Book open in their browser, it slows the system down considerably.

Since some of the transactions are specific to the company, I can’t just install a new version of SAP on my laptop, but rather I feel that I need to "Pirate" the software installed on the computer I use, then transfer the data onto Linux (Ubuntu) and install it using wine so that I get the exact same setup.

This ONE computer the FOUR of us use is almost always at 80% load, and uses about 2.5Gb of memory out of the 3Gb available. I’m sick and tired of telling people to log off Face Book so that I can do my work.

I’m going to ask the IT team for help, or if they will give me a version to use during my internship here.

Regardless of what they say, if this is possible, I would like to know how to do it even if it’s just for the fun of knowing it, whether I use it or not.

Thanks for any help.
Basically I want to steal software from windows and install it on linux.
I know it’s illegal which is why I won’t do it on the company computer without permission,
But I will do this on my computer at home with the software I HAVE paid for.

Any info, and/or helpful google searches would be great.

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I’m just curious about other people’s practices. It’d be fun, yeah?

Here’s mine in a strictly solitary ritual.

1. Cast the circle
2. Call in the presence of the Old Gods
3. Bless the cakes and wine
4. Pray to the Goddess and God
5. Partake of *some* of the food and drink
7. Thank the Old Gods / "stay if you wish go if you must"
6. Open the circle and take the rest outside as libation and offering to the Gods.

(I usually like to do a simply self-blessing right before doing this). I do this all skyclad with candles and no electrical lighting.)

- Why is "skyclad" a misspelled word?
edit "simply" to "simple"

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I can’t remember the name of the food show on NPR, but I heard about a wine called Rude Boy, on whose label is a hunky guy’s torso in shorts or boxers. The pants disappear when the wine is chilled to the proper temperature (or maybe just chilled). Trying to find this for friends turning 40 but shops in our area say they can’t get it.

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I’m planning a trip to wisconsin with my boyfriend but we don’t know in which area of wisconsin to stay or how to schedule one tasting tours. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Also, are there any shuttles available? or should we rely on a designated driver? Are there any hotels that you know of with that service?

Thanks!

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