Your assertions (pretty much all of them in this post) are a symptom of being so far out of touch with what it means to be poor that you can't fathom the realities of being poor. All bounced checks are not a function of poor money management...in fact, amongst the very poor, one simple error that isn't your favor can trigger a host of terrible consequences. Making a sufficiently small income that being accidentally double-billed by your electric company can over-draw your account is real. Even more damaging is the case where the double-billing doesn't over-draw you, but causes the five other checks you've written for bills to all overdraw instead...at $35 each. Now, a paycheck-to-paycheck living person with no real access to additional money finds themselves $175 in the hole *AFTER* they get their money back from the electric company (which can take a full month). This is not hypothetical...this is a reality from a time in my life during which I was below the poverty line by a significant margin; and I wasn't even close to as poor as you can get, I was positively swimming in opportunity compared to many Americans.
Sometimes, people who are poor are poor because they're poor and no amount of financial management will circumvent the situations that created their current poorness so as to allow them an out. You can be born poor. Tragedy can make you poor. I do, however, appreciate the "blame the poor" mentality that your class privilege has allowed you to adopt. I know first-hand how hard it is to break the mindset of "just get a better job and manage your money better, stupid poor people".
Saying that helping others doesn't harm yourself is as stupid as saying helping others does harm yourself. Both are untrue as often as they are true. Welcome to situational decision making.
Thank you for making the point that I was going to. As far as internet research goes, wiki is great, because well written articles have links to solid citations that end up being extremely useful. It's not a source for knowledge, but it is a great compilation of facts with useful links at the end.
Thank god you ended that with the end-troll tag. I was going to respond to that tremendous bout of idiocy, until I was made aware that you were trolling. Haha, fat32 is dead. That was a good one...
A court of law found that he didn't "accidentally" do this. They found that he did this on purpose. The only "alleged" was added by him. Much like everyone else in jail, he's innocent, regardless of being proven guilty. He is a sex offender.
Umm, no. Dewalt is a brand owned by Black and Decker, but as anyone that's ever used and abused a power tool can tell you, Dewalt is NOT Black and Decker. Period.
But it would. Difficult as this is for anti-porn crusaders to comprehend, the people selling porn really have no interest in aiming their products at a) adults that aren't interested in looking at porn (small as a such a group is) and b) children.
Of course not. The porn marketers have absolutely no desire to continue to make their sales to the nearly 36% of their market (at their best estimate) that is comprised of children with daddy and mommy's credit cards. That makes sense, to me.
Mainly because then the people trying to filter porn out would have a much easier job, and their biggest opponents would, largely, not have a leg to stand on.
And everyone knows, the best thing you can do for your business is make it easier to block access to your business. Clearly the porn industry isn't all that concerned with their opponents, since their opponents haven't gotten rid of them yet. But wait! The porn industry is winning the battle, let's all congregate in one place so that the puritans can lob one "safe search" grenade and destroy access to all of them at once.
More formally, local laws *could* be implemeted saying the "porn sites" must be in.xxx, depending on whatever their local definition of "pornography" was. Personally I would have no problem with that.
Local laws? So my township could pass a law regarding the internet, and that would be okay with you? Too local? How about my county? State? Federal law regarding the internet? That makes infinite sense.
You make the system voluntary. 99% of porn sites would take advantage of that, because its better for them as well as everyone else.
Sure it is, they'll sacrifice their existing multi-million dollar domain name and have to re-earn traffic again under the.xxx tld because that's better for them.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Our forefathers realized that we would NEVER have succeeded in becoming a "free state" without access to guns... and therefore included a provision in their bill of rights securing that ability to keep and maintain weaponry in the form of a militia.
All other ancillary benefits, such as an ability to hunt or protect one's self from crime is incidental to the real reason, to overthrow tyrants. If you research quotes from our forefathers and various influential persons from our country's history, you'll see that their attitudes bear this out.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
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And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -Thomas Jefferson
This happens all over. I've fought with more small businesses about spending a little bit of extra money to test a "solution" now rather than scrapping a "solution" later than I can count. It's absurd, and it's something I'd assume advanced business degree wielding managers would understand. As a result, many places I've worked have had their own versions of 11# pencils... like printing one copy of a several hundred page document for each region to be mailed to a print shop in that region so that photocopies can be made...
No, you can't. Some bartenders will serve you "on the sly", but no... you can't. I was in the military from the age of 17 until the age of 22, and I couldn't be served with any legal regularity until my 21st birthday.
First, it's not a RIGHT. If it was a right, every single citizen of the US, regardless of age or licensed status would be eligible to drive, right? All of them? Surely, even you understand the folly of that statement.
Second, under the "implied consent" laws that almost every state uses, you did consent to a BAC test any time one is requested of you. If you refuse, they don't TAKE your license, you acknowledge that you will not uphold your end of the bargain, therefore, they do not uphold your end. I don't know what state you live in, but in NY, VA, MI, and GA, the implied consent issue was CLEARLY spelled out in the driving instruction manual, on the wall at the DMV/Secretary of State, and on paperwork that I was expected to have read or at least understood PRIOR to my accepting the license.
They have a right, you agreed to it. If you don't like it, go turn in your license and drive anyway... it's your right, isn't it?
Untrue. If I'm on the network with the sender of an email, that email, in all of its unencrypted glory, actually swings by my network card on its way into the ether. If I take a peek while it's there, shouldn't that be legal under the same logic that makes dumpster diving legal?
Holy crap, they're $102US for Tropical weight slacks. For that price I could buy about 5 or 6 pairs of Old Navy Tropical weight slacks. I could buy 4 or 5 pair of Dockers. That means, if these things last me 5 years, they would have JUST paid for themselves, they'd have to last 6 or 7 years to begin to save me a penny; because I can get a solid year's wear out of a pair of kakhis.
Their socks however, might be a decent idea. I might be ordering a pair of those.
I have a similar set up, with an enclosed system to the left of my television, to include a PC that runs much of my music and PVR capabilities. Unfortunately, I also have two small children, along with the fact that my wife takes care of a very small child during the day.
We went ahead and removed the glass and taught all the children not to touch the equipment. Problem solved. I think I've had a problem exactly TWO TIMES, in which a child touched the stereo. Hell, I have a bigger problem with drunken friends tripping into it then children playing.
The important thing is that all people are equal before the law. Being rich, or famous, or friends with the Mayor shouldn't give you any special privleges.
But being blind or deaf should, right? Okay, my sympathies to those with a disability, but the ADA is NOT right, in my opinion, when it comes to web access. The ADA doesn't specify that those with disabilities need 100% complete access to every facet of the business. How do I know this? From resturants that are wheelchair accessible, but have a section that is up a set of stairs. Now, a wheeled person cannot get up there, but they still have access to plenty of seating, so no harm done. If a blind person can't use the web site, then they should call the 800 number, and no harm done. Southwest policy (in addtion to NWA), states that those with disabilities that use the call center do NOT get charged the surcharge that you or I would. So what's the problem?
After we sell this company, with any luck, I'll have the money to essentially "retire" at 27 and get a job as a Journeyman Union Electrician here in Detroit. Sparkys are always needed, and I've been doing it as a hobby for some time. I could work light hours (about 20 hours per week) and make reasonable money, enough to live on, so I can save my "sales" money for down the road. That's what I want to do when I grow up. Quite frankly, 10 years in IT is long enough for me:)
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Your assertions (pretty much all of them in this post) are a symptom of being so far out of touch with what it means to be poor that you can't fathom the realities of being poor. All bounced checks are not a function of poor money management...in fact, amongst the very poor, one simple error that isn't your favor can trigger a host of terrible consequences. Making a sufficiently small income that being accidentally double-billed by your electric company can over-draw your account is real. Even more damaging is the case where the double-billing doesn't over-draw you, but causes the five other checks you've written for bills to all overdraw instead...at $35 each. Now, a paycheck-to-paycheck living person with no real access to additional money finds themselves $175 in the hole *AFTER* they get their money back from the electric company (which can take a full month). This is not hypothetical...this is a reality from a time in my life during which I was below the poverty line by a significant margin; and I wasn't even close to as poor as you can get, I was positively swimming in opportunity compared to many Americans.
Sometimes, people who are poor are poor because they're poor and no amount of financial management will circumvent the situations that created their current poorness so as to allow them an out. You can be born poor. Tragedy can make you poor. I do, however, appreciate the "blame the poor" mentality that your class privilege has allowed you to adopt. I know first-hand how hard it is to break the mindset of "just get a better job and manage your money better, stupid poor people".
The off button is apparently me taking off my pants.
Saying that helping others doesn't harm yourself is as stupid as saying helping others does harm yourself. Both are untrue as often as they are true. Welcome to situational decision making.
Yes?
You were told wrong.
Thank you for making the point that I was going to. As far as internet research goes, wiki is great, because well written articles have links to solid citations that end up being extremely useful. It's not a source for knowledge, but it is a great compilation of facts with useful links at the end.
Thank god you ended that with the end-troll tag. I was going to respond to that tremendous bout of idiocy, until I was made aware that you were trolling. Haha, fat32 is dead. That was a good one...
A court of law found that he didn't "accidentally" do this. They found that he did this on purpose. The only "alleged" was added by him. Much like everyone else in jail, he's innocent, regardless of being proven guilty. He is a sex offender.
Umm, no. Dewalt is a brand owned by Black and Decker, but as anyone that's ever used and abused a power tool can tell you, Dewalt is NOT Black and Decker. Period.
Of course not. The porn marketers have absolutely no desire to continue to make their sales to the nearly 36% of their market (at their best estimate) that is comprised of children with daddy and mommy's credit cards. That makes sense, to me.
And everyone knows, the best thing you can do for your business is make it easier to block access to your business. Clearly the porn industry isn't all that concerned with their opponents, since their opponents haven't gotten rid of them yet. But wait! The porn industry is winning the battle, let's all congregate in one place so that the puritans can lob one "safe search" grenade and destroy access to all of them at once.
Local laws? So my township could pass a law regarding the internet, and that would be okay with you? Too local? How about my county? State? Federal law regarding the internet? That makes infinite sense.
Sure it is, they'll sacrifice their existing multi-million dollar domain name and have to re-earn traffic again under the
It is spelled "naïveté".
All other ancillary benefits, such as an ability to hunt or protect one's self from crime is incidental to the real reason, to overthrow tyrants. If you research quotes from our forefathers and various influential persons from our country's history, you'll see that their attitudes bear this out.
This happens all over. I've fought with more small businesses about spending a little bit of extra money to test a "solution" now rather than scrapping a "solution" later than I can count. It's absurd, and it's something I'd assume advanced business degree wielding managers would understand. As a result, many places I've worked have had their own versions of 11# pencils... like printing one copy of a several hundred page document for each region to be mailed to a print shop in that region so that photocopies can be made...
Frustrating.
You're right, you're right... I surrender.
I just built a faraday cage over my head... that seems to have solved the problem.... kinda
No, you can't. Some bartenders will serve you "on the sly", but no... you can't. I was in the military from the age of 17 until the age of 22, and I couldn't be served with any legal regularity until my 21st birthday.
First, it's not a RIGHT. If it was a right, every single citizen of the US, regardless of age or licensed status would be eligible to drive, right? All of them? Surely, even you understand the folly of that statement.
Second, under the "implied consent" laws that almost every state uses, you did consent to a BAC test any time one is requested of you. If you refuse, they don't TAKE your license, you acknowledge that you will not uphold your end of the bargain, therefore, they do not uphold your end. I don't know what state you live in, but in NY, VA, MI, and GA, the implied consent issue was CLEARLY spelled out in the driving instruction manual, on the wall at the DMV/Secretary of State, and on paperwork that I was expected to have read or at least understood PRIOR to my accepting the license.
They have a right, you agreed to it. If you don't like it, go turn in your license and drive anyway... it's your right, isn't it?
Untrue. If I'm on the network with the sender of an email, that email, in all of its unencrypted glory, actually swings by my network card on its way into the ether. If I take a peek while it's there, shouldn't that be legal under the same logic that makes dumpster diving legal?
If you are considering a move to the greater Detroit area in Michigan... I hear my job is opening up soon.
I'm like, 5'11", 230lbs... Everywhere I go is too damn hot for heavy pants and hot cotton long sleeve shirts. :)
Maybe when I lose some weight, I can consider normal clothes.
Holy crap, they're $102US for Tropical weight slacks. For that price I could buy about 5 or 6 pairs of Old Navy Tropical weight slacks. I could buy 4 or 5 pair of Dockers. That means, if these things last me 5 years, they would have JUST paid for themselves, they'd have to last 6 or 7 years to begin to save me a penny; because I can get a solid year's wear out of a pair of kakhis.
Their socks however, might be a decent idea. I might be ordering a pair of those.
I have a similar set up, with an enclosed system to the left of my television, to include a PC that runs much of my music and PVR capabilities. Unfortunately, I also have two small children, along with the fact that my wife takes care of a very small child during the day.
We went ahead and removed the glass and taught all the children not to touch the equipment. Problem solved. I think I've had a problem exactly TWO TIMES, in which a child touched the stereo. Hell, I have a bigger problem with drunken friends tripping into it then children playing.
But being blind or deaf should, right? Okay, my sympathies to those with a disability, but the ADA is NOT right, in my opinion, when it comes to web access. The ADA doesn't specify that those with disabilities need 100% complete access to every facet of the business. How do I know this? From resturants that are wheelchair accessible, but have a section that is up a set of stairs. Now, a wheeled person cannot get up there, but they still have access to plenty of seating, so no harm done. If a blind person can't use the web site, then they should call the 800 number, and no harm done. Southwest policy (in addtion to NWA), states that those with disabilities that use the call center do NOT get charged the surcharge that you or I would. So what's the problem?
You must be using some other definition of the word cool that I'm unfamiliar with
After we sell this company, with any luck, I'll have the money to essentially "retire" at 27 and get a job as a Journeyman Union Electrician here in Detroit. Sparkys are always needed, and I've been doing it as a hobby for some time. I could work light hours (about 20 hours per week) and make reasonable money, enough to live on, so I can save my "sales" money for down the road. That's what I want to do when I grow up. Quite frankly, 10 years in IT is long enough for me :)