seems like a logical progression to me. it makes sense that the US military would counteract its relative manpower shortage with lots of hightech equipment. (conversely, some military forces counteract a relative equipment shortage with lots of manpower)
I would agree with you that the "for the articles" thing is not entirely a joke, based on the few issues I've read. I think it's part of them being relatively high-class porn.
I'd agree that's part of the appeal of lesbian scenes - they tend to not be so harsh. Some straight scenes exist in this category, but they're harder (pun intended) to find.
Society/civilization depends on men who act like men and women who act like women. You were born a male, you are a male. If you won't live up to that, it's your problem. If you can't live up that, it's your genes' problem. If a few percent are cast by the wayside, whether or not through fault of their own, so be it. Tough shit.
http://www.wheresgeorge.com/ a game based around tracking circulation of US paper currency enter bill information into the site database (denomination, date, serial number) as well the postal code of your current location. Entries are timestamped. If someone has entered that bill before, you see its past travel history. If someone enters that bill later, you get an update on its future travels. Many entered bills are marked with the site URL
Similar sites exist for some other currencies. For example, there isn't one for the Romanian leu, but there is for the euro: http://www.eurobilltracker.com/
I recently saw a TV police procedural where a youth basketball coach was abusing his players, giving them hush money and stopping the hush money after the statute of limitations ran out. (they still got the guy because the statute of limitations hadn't really run out.)
yes, various comments in this thread point out CU networks as alleviating CU branch location issues. I often use $2 bills instead of $1 bills or $1 coins. I search through piles of $1s for collectibles. (many of the $1s I do spend are some of the leftovers from these searches) I find many WheresGeorge bills as a side effect of those two activities. I enter them as well as starting off bills myself
I meant stuff like swapping cash for the same face value in other cash. I don't have experience with the check-cashing issue. When I get paper checks, I take it to the bank where I have an account, rather than the bank it was drafted on, even if the bank it was drafted on has branches nearby. Since I don't have paper checks handy, I could ask them what they _would_ do.
yeah, the apartment complex I stayed in this summer had a website where you could set up recurring billing or make one-time-payments. Granted, this was a big real estate company. Not sure if small-time landlords would have this set up.
most banks are open for a few hours on Saturday, opening at a usual time and closing sometime in the early afternoon. I think CU's are like this too. some retail locations (such as grocery stores) have in-store bank branches. those are even open Sunday, and have extended hours the other six days of the week.
WheresGeorge revolves around circulating cash, so taking that up as a hobby leads to using cash more often. However, Visa and/or PayPal are still useful for most online purchases.
heh, last time I dealt with paper checks was when people gave me college-graduation gifts. (A few gave cash, and I received a couple gift cards) They were local friends/family that brought me the stuff in-person. However, I've rarely if ever had problems with sending/receiving cash through the mail. Just use a small number of bills (not necessarily a small dollar value), and package them well. The cash would probably be well-packaged inside a card (or plain cardboard/ regular paper for that matter)
Many regular banks _are_ all over the place. However, many are quite regionalized, with a lot of branches in some areas and none in others.
This year, I had a summer job out of town. I have accounts with a couple banks common in my hometown but neither of them had branches where I was staying. (and vice versa - a couple banks common in that area are nonexistent in my hometown)
Some things that helped alleviate the problem: Direct deposit (insert negative comments about paper checks here) Debit card cashback (Many retail stores offer this. I found it useful as a substitute for ATMs or withdrawal slips) Banks willing to make change and handle other straightforward requests for non-accountholders, particularly relevant to me as a currency collector and a WheresGeorge addict.
I'm a currency collector and a WheresGeorge addict, so I visit banks very often, complete with unusual requests. So I suppose retail service is more relevant to me than others.
Do you have any problems with the folks at your credit union branch(es)? I honestly wouldn't know either way. CU's won't do even simple stuff for non-accountholders, so I don't have any experience with the personnel save for a negative impression. I have gotten accounts at some regular banks that I initially visited as a non-accountholder.
of all the issues with big banks, retail-location customer service doesn't seem to be one of them.
In general, the cheap version of something is sometimes satisfactory, sometimes not.
Some people do approach secular concepts with quasi-religious fervor. Extreme socialists and extreme capitalists would both be an example, as well as various noneconomic concepts.
Godwin's Law simply says that the longer an internet discussion gets, the more likely a Nazi reference becomes. It's also about giving your military personnel stimulants, so this Godwin seems on-topic.
The US could have annexed all of Mexico after the Mexican-American war, but decided to take only northern Mexico (land that became the following states: all of California, Nevada and Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, some of Colorado and Wyoming)
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seems like a logical progression to me. it makes sense that the US military would counteract its relative manpower shortage with lots of hightech equipment. (conversely, some military forces counteract a relative equipment shortage with lots of manpower)
excepting Alice ... but then we're talking rape, not regular theft
Had to do a little Googling, but it seems Velex appreciates this move by Campbell's the food company, and buys accordingly: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-42740224/campbells-gay-soup-ad-causes-storm-in-a-bread-bowl/?tag=bnetdomain
I would agree with you that the "for the articles" thing is not entirely a joke, based on the few issues I've read.
I think it's part of them being relatively high-class porn.
I'd agree that's part of the appeal of lesbian scenes - they tend to not be so harsh. Some straight scenes exist in this category, but they're harder (pun intended) to find.
"if she gets pregnant, I'll be long gone" was how I read that
is that supposed to be sarcasm, or do you figure such contact would Improve my attitude?
TBH, sometimes more exposure (not that kind of exposure) has simply annoyed me further
can't define it, but know it one sees it ... or doesn't see it.
Society/civilization depends on men who act like men and women who act like women. You were born a male, you are a male. If you won't live up to that, it's your problem. If you can't live up that, it's your genes' problem. If a few percent are cast by the wayside, whether or not through fault of their own, so be it. Tough shit.
I saw that as sarcasm about American English versus British English. Granted, some Americans can't write correct American English either.
http://www.wheresgeorge.com/
a game based around tracking circulation of US paper currency
enter bill information into the site database (denomination, date, serial number) as well the postal code of your current location. Entries are timestamped.
If someone has entered that bill before, you see its past travel history. If someone enters that bill later, you get an update on its future travels.
Many entered bills are marked with the site URL
Similar sites exist for some other currencies. For example, there isn't one for the Romanian leu, but there is for the euro: http://www.eurobilltracker.com/
I recently saw a TV police procedural where a youth basketball coach was abusing his players, giving them hush money and stopping the hush money after the statute of limitations ran out. (they still got the guy because the statute of limitations hadn't really run out.)
I use purple. ;)
yes, various comments in this thread point out CU networks as alleviating CU branch location issues.
I often use $2 bills instead of $1 bills or $1 coins.
I search through piles of $1s for collectibles. (many of the $1s I do spend are some of the leftovers from these searches)
I find many WheresGeorge bills as a side effect of those two activities. I enter them as well as starting off bills myself
I meant stuff like swapping cash for the same face value in other cash.
I don't have experience with the check-cashing issue. When I get paper checks, I take it to the bank where I have an account, rather than the bank it was drafted on, even if the bank it was drafted on has branches nearby. Since I don't have paper checks handy, I could ask them what they _would_ do.
yeah, the apartment complex I stayed in this summer had a website where you could set up recurring billing or make one-time-payments.
Granted, this was a big real estate company. Not sure if small-time landlords would have this set up.
most banks are open for a few hours on Saturday, opening at a usual time and closing sometime in the early afternoon. I think CU's are like this too.
some retail locations (such as grocery stores) have in-store bank branches. those are even open Sunday, and have extended hours the other six days of the week.
WheresGeorge revolves around circulating cash, so taking that up as a hobby leads to using cash more often. However, Visa and/or PayPal are still useful for most online purchases.
heh, last time I dealt with paper checks was when people gave me college-graduation gifts. (A few gave cash, and I received a couple gift cards)
They were local friends/family that brought me the stuff in-person. However, I've rarely if ever had problems with sending/receiving cash through the mail. Just use a small number of bills (not necessarily a small dollar value), and package them well. The cash would probably be well-packaged inside a card (or plain cardboard/ regular paper for that matter)
Many regular banks _are_ all over the place. However, many are quite regionalized, with a lot of branches in some areas and none in others.
This year, I had a summer job out of town. I have accounts with a couple banks common in my hometown but neither of them had branches where I was staying. (and vice versa - a couple banks common in that area are nonexistent in my hometown)
Some things that helped alleviate the problem:
Direct deposit (insert negative comments about paper checks here)
Debit card cashback (Many retail stores offer this. I found it useful as a substitute for ATMs or withdrawal slips)
Banks willing to make change and handle other straightforward requests for non-accountholders, particularly relevant to me as a currency collector and a WheresGeorge addict.
I'm a currency collector and a WheresGeorge addict, so I visit banks very often, complete with unusual requests. So I suppose retail service is more relevant to me than others.
Do you have any problems with the folks at your credit union branch(es)? I honestly wouldn't know either way. CU's won't do even simple stuff for non-accountholders, so I don't have any experience with the personnel save for a negative impression. I have gotten accounts at some regular banks that I initially visited as a non-accountholder.
of all the issues with big banks, retail-location customer service doesn't seem to be one of them.
In general, the cheap version of something is sometimes satisfactory, sometimes not.
Some people do approach secular concepts with quasi-religious fervor. Extreme socialists and extreme capitalists would both be an example, as well as various noneconomic concepts.
As Napoleon said, "An army marches on its stomach".
Godwin's Law simply says that the longer an internet discussion gets, the more likely a Nazi reference becomes.
It's also about giving your military personnel stimulants, so this Godwin seems on-topic.
The US could have annexed all of Mexico after the Mexican-American war, but decided to take only northern Mexico (land that became the following states: all of California, Nevada and Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, some of Colorado and Wyoming)