In a fucking armed hostage situation you don't position yourself as an unprotected target before ringing the door bell. The only conceivable reason to do that is to have an excuse for killing someone without provocation.
You do if you want a court worthy exigent circumstance to justify murder.
That would be fun in jurisdictions where table waiting and cutting hair are licensed professions.
Or practicing orthodontia? I thought that surely once I included that I could get past the need for a </sarc>. I guess I was wrong. I wasn't really suggesting that somebody who couldn't pay their orthodontist should start tightening braces to pay it off.
Cutting hair is state licensed more often than not. So is table waiting when federal and state requirements are taken into account.
So I can sue the vending machine makers for not handling $100 bills for a $1.50 bottle of Soda Pop? Or the stores that say we do not accept bills over $20.00 In College where I needed quarters only to use the Washing Machines?
While Cash is good for all debts private and public. We don't have to accept the notes, or coins. The guy who tries to pay for his car with pennies, can be denied.
If the vending machine, store, college, or car lot presented me with a debt, then yes, they must accept cash. If they just denied service, then no.
So tell me... please... how well a business's right to refuse to accept cash would work for things like restaurants and hair stylists?
Simple. If you don't have a card, you have to wait tables or cut hair until you're square with the house. Problem solved. Things get even more interesting when you can't pay your orthodontist.
That would be fun in jurisdictions where table waiting and cutting hair are licensed professions.
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts...
So tell me... please... how well a business's right to refuse to accept cash would work for things like restaurants and hair stylists? What if the card is declined for some reason, but they still have cash as a backup?
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
If the goods or services were already provided such that the customer owes a debt, then cash must be accepted or the bill considered paid. That does not help a customer at the supermarket but if the meal has already been eaten or the service provided, then the customer owes a debt and may always pay with cash.
1) that some people were calling for ambulances when they didn't need any medical care en-route to the hospital. Ambulances aren't taxis. These people should have been taking taxis or asking a neighbour to drive them. You don't need to pay a stranger to help you. You live with others.
2) that there are some people calling uber when they should be calling an ambulance. Medical issues can get worse en-route, especially with added delays and random things that can happen -- accidents, weather, traffic, jostling, tripping, indigestion, et cetera. Expert medical professionals are a good idea when there's already something seriously wrong with you (serious enough for a hospital visit) simply to ensure that nothing else happens to you also. Like my doctor says, once you're sick, you can still get another sickness too.
So we should blame the people who lack medical degrees and are not licensed by the state to practice medicine for misdiagnosing their own condition? That makes as much sense as blaming people who rely on the expertise of banks to approve their home loans.
Do they treat kidney stones by removing an organ? They sure do with gall stones.
Women who are in a position to compare the pain between kidney stones, gall stones, and childbirth say that gall stones are the worst. I can only personally compare gall stones to being shot or having a hand mangled and gall stones were by far much more debilitatingly painful.
A good chunk of content will be taken out of netflix for Disney's own streaming service. With content being split up again and viewers not wanting to go back to cable with its appointment based viewing schedule, it looks like piracy will probably be on the rise again.
They can just take back their content from the pirates. Problem solved!
I worked in a movie theater in high school for a large theater chain and got to know one of the assistant managers pretty well. He said that they had to pay 90-92% of all ticket sales for Star Wars episodes 2 and 3 to the studios. There's a big difference between 60% and 90%. He said that the tickets paid for the building payments and utilities. The concessions paid for everything else.
When Terminator 2 was showing, the theater chain my friend worked at as a projectionist had to pay 110% of the ticket price for like the first couple of weeks. This is hardly unusual.
Disney forced the chains to put Star Wars at least 4 of their best screens, whether there was enough ticket volume or not. They'll use Fox's assets to further push their competitors out.
Fox did the same thing with Star Wars. This is not uncommon with major movies.
When Iron Giant came out my local multiplex showed it only one day a week at about 10-11am on Saturday. That's it. All the employees including management said the same thing, "If we don't do this then Disney won't give us their next big animated release."
It works the other way also. Edward's Theaters in southern California would refuse to show a movie unless they got it exclusively within their area for a couple of weeks before other theaters were allowed to show it.
They are crippling IPv6 for one reason and one reason only. They have an existing investment in IPv4 addresses that they rent for profit or can sell,
No, they're just lazy and cheap. It costs a lot to ensure all of the devices and software involved work properly with IPv6. Telcos are full of legacy gear and apps.
AT&T went out of their way to block IPv6 tunnels before they started charging for IPv6 "upgrades". One of the justifications they gave was that otherwise their customers could get static IPs without paying.
How is it worse that the USA's mysterious "no-fly" lists or the TSA groping everybody who wants to travel somewhere in the USA?
I noticed the other day that all forms of non-local travel in the US including buses and trains now require government approved identification. The exceptions are taking a private vehicle in which case you need a driver's license if you drive or walking.
I'm missing the distinction between throttling and fast-lanes?
It is the same difference as when the government cannot constitutionally fine you so instead taxes everybody and then gives the favored rebates on their taxes.
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In a fucking armed hostage situation you don't position yourself as an unprotected target before ringing the door bell. The only conceivable reason to do that is to have an excuse for killing someone without provocation.
You do if you want a court worthy exigent circumstance to justify murder.
My point is that all professions are licensed one way or another. Some are more obviously licensed than others.
That would be fun in jurisdictions where table waiting and cutting hair are licensed professions.
Or practicing orthodontia? I thought that surely once I included that I could get past the need for a </sarc>. I guess I was wrong. I wasn't really suggesting that somebody who couldn't pay their orthodontist should start tightening braces to pay it off.
Cutting hair is state licensed more often than not. So is table waiting when federal and state requirements are taken into account.
I'm thinking more The Orville with badges and the coffee shop not serving anyone with over 500,000 down votes.
I was thinking more World of Tanks where others can kill you once your badge turns blue.
So you go out of your way to facilitate tax fraud. Fantastic.
When enforcing compliance costs as much if not more than the taxes raised? Absolutely.
So I can sue the vending machine makers for not handling $100 bills for a $1.50 bottle of Soda Pop?
Or the stores that say we do not accept bills over $20.00
In College where I needed quarters only to use the Washing Machines?
While Cash is good for all debts private and public. We don't have to accept the notes, or coins. The guy who tries to pay for his car with pennies, can be denied.
If the vending machine, store, college, or car lot presented me with a debt, then yes, they must accept cash. If they just denied service, then no.
I wish the U.S. had a healthy government.
That is a Crazy Eddie solution. Forget it.
So tell me... please... how well a business's right to refuse to accept cash would work for things like restaurants and hair stylists?
Simple. If you don't have a card, you have to wait tables or cut hair until you're square with the house. Problem solved. Things get even more interesting when you can't pay your orthodontist.
That would be fun in jurisdictions where table waiting and cutting hair are licensed professions.
As you said..
So tell me... please... how well a business's right to refuse to accept cash would work for things like restaurants and hair stylists? What if the card is declined for some reason, but they still have cash as a backup?
How well would it work? It would not work.
Plenty of places don't take cash. Like the DMV for example. Check or card only.
How does that work with a fine? Are fines somehow not considered debts?
It is also illegal.
Nope, it's not.
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.
If the goods or services were already provided such that the customer owes a debt, then cash must be accepted or the bill considered paid. That does not help a customer at the supermarket but if the meal has already been eaten or the service provided, then the customer owes a debt and may always pay with cash.
1) that some people were calling for ambulances when they didn't need any medical care en-route to the hospital. Ambulances aren't taxis. These people should have been taking taxis or asking a neighbour to drive them. You don't need to pay a stranger to help you. You live with others.
2) that there are some people calling uber when they should be calling an ambulance. Medical issues can get worse en-route, especially with added delays and random things that can happen -- accidents, weather, traffic, jostling, tripping, indigestion, et cetera. Expert medical professionals are a good idea when there's already something seriously wrong with you (serious enough for a hospital visit) simply to ensure that nothing else happens to you also. Like my doctor says, once you're sick, you can still get another sickness too.
So we should blame the people who lack medical degrees and are not licensed by the state to practice medicine for misdiagnosing their own condition? That makes as much sense as blaming people who rely on the expertise of banks to approve their home loans.
In Germany, everybody is required to carry health insurance.
Why not just require that nobody get sick or injured?
In practice, the improved outcome from ambulances is usually lost as you can often be in the ER well BEFORE the ambulance even gets to you.
The improved outcome for either is lost if you have to wait in the ER for hours.
Taxi service has always been piss-poor, much of that being due to the medallion system. It is one of the few real examples of bad regulation.
It is one of the many examples of good regulation ... for the industry being regulated once it captures the regulators.
Kidney stones are way worse than gall stones.
Do they treat kidney stones by removing an organ? They sure do with gall stones.
Women who are in a position to compare the pain between kidney stones, gall stones, and childbirth say that gall stones are the worst. I can only personally compare gall stones to being shot or having a hand mangled and gall stones were by far much more debilitatingly painful.
A good chunk of content will be taken out of netflix for Disney's own streaming service. With content being split up again and viewers not wanting to go back to cable with its appointment based viewing schedule, it looks like piracy will probably be on the rise again.
They can just take back their content from the pirates. Problem solved!
I worked in a movie theater in high school for a large theater chain and got to know one of the assistant managers pretty well. He said that they had to pay 90-92% of all ticket sales for Star Wars episodes 2 and 3 to the studios. There's a big difference between 60% and 90%. He said that the tickets paid for the building payments and utilities. The concessions paid for everything else.
When Terminator 2 was showing, the theater chain my friend worked at as a projectionist had to pay 110% of the ticket price for like the first couple of weeks. This is hardly unusual.
Disney forced the chains to put Star Wars at least 4 of their best screens, whether there was enough ticket volume or not. They'll use Fox's assets to further push their competitors out.
Fox did the same thing with Star Wars. This is not uncommon with major movies.
When Iron Giant came out my local multiplex showed it only one day a week at about 10-11am on Saturday. That's it. All the employees including management said the same thing, "If we don't do this then Disney won't give us their next big animated release."
It works the other way also. Edward's Theaters in southern California would refuse to show a movie unless they got it exclusively within their area for a couple of weeks before other theaters were allowed to show it.
They are crippling IPv6 for one reason and one reason only. They have an existing investment in IPv4 addresses that they rent for profit or can sell,
No, they're just lazy and cheap. It costs a lot to ensure all of the devices and software involved work properly with IPv6. Telcos are full of legacy gear and apps.
AT&T went out of their way to block IPv6 tunnels before they started charging for IPv6 "upgrades". One of the justifications they gave was that otherwise their customers could get static IPs without paying.
How is it worse that the USA's mysterious "no-fly" lists or the TSA groping everybody who wants to travel somewhere in the USA?
I noticed the other day that all forms of non-local travel in the US including buses and trains now require government approved identification. The exceptions are taking a private vehicle in which case you need a driver's license if you drive or walking.
Encrypting the entire download is a waste of resources for both the server and client.
Decreasing processing costs means that the encryption and decryption are an insignificant use of resources.
design a single application that works with a touchscreen or mouse and trackpad
So ... it will only work with a touch screen because that will be the least common denominator?
Why do we even have keyboards now? Let's deprecate them also.
I'm missing the distinction between throttling and fast-lanes?
It is the same difference as when the government cannot constitutionally fine you so instead taxes everybody and then gives the favored rebates on their taxes.