Just to clarify a point... the University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League school... so 2/3 of the schools on this list are Ivy League. She has taught at 25% of the 8 Ivy League schools. Pennsylvania state system of higher education indeed is inferior to Ivy league, but University of Pennsylvania is not part of the state sytem of higher education. It's a private school. I have no data about
Personally I think the issue is that a $600 fine could cause poorer people to become homeless. I know people where that is their monthly income. Running a red light (where you didn't kill anyone) shouldn't result in destroying someone's life. I do not think that level of fining is correct for the level of misdemeanor. Sure if you make 100,000 a year you can probably afford it, but if you make $20,000 a year that's 3% of your yearly income, a significant portion. Society should tolerate mistakes because mistakes happen. And then police departments are incentivized to issue tickets like this despite the consequences because their budgets account for X tickets issued per month and Y% of people not even showing up to court to argue it. Oh and cops don't lie.
I don't doubt you are wrong and all, but just want to quible one logic point. Most of the this then thats you present makes sense except the people wanting to live there but unable to leading to more people wanting to visit. I'm not sure how that works? Or are you implying the visitors are not really visitors but are those people unable to live there posing as visitors?
I'm pretty sure our voting system favors popularity contests over actually credibility. Trump wins because everyone knows his name. Hillary wins a lot for the same reason. We have a generally uneducated electorate and many of our news channels don't help with this.
There is starting to be a fairly standard line in employment contracts that gives the employer ownership of things you produce in your own time even if completely unrelated to your employer's business domain. I wouldn't start my current job till they removed that line from the contract. They didn't realize how broad the line item was defined so they had no problem removing it.
Actually this is targeting digital currency that exists on cards... so I don't see how this is encouraging a move in that direction unless you're thinking the future push is for all purchases to be made on credit and you never actually have $ wealth?
I kindof doubt that the cops actually believe the cash they are seizing is being used in any crimes. They are more likely just literally stealing. Reading the article they used this law to take a cancer patient's drugs. How f***ing evil can you be?
If we grew the house precincts to that size in theory we'd get better representation at the local level. In reality there would probably be so many representatives that nothing would get done and you'd have even less of a clue who you are voting for than you do now. Do you know who is running for your current house seats and what their views are? Imagine you live in a city like New York City which by itself would need to have 280 representatives. How much air time or newspaper space do you think it would take to advertise those candidates? How likely are you to even hear a message from your candidate? There isn't a newspaper I know of that is dedicated to news on just the upper east side or of just meatpacking. And those neighborhoods may even end up with multiple seats.
I like that you are thinking of ways to try to improve the system, but I think this would be really confusing and hard to manage. I don't think most people can name even the senators that represent them and there's only 2 of those per state.
I got the full percentage one time and only one time. When I complained about getting so many awards and recognition for great performance but only ever got a 90% on my performance grade for a quarter. When I pointed this out the department director's eyes literally bugged out as he realized how pissed I was and made sure I got more than 100% that quarter. The next quarter it went back to the same and not long after I changed jobs.
You do know that local residential roads aren't always shown on state maps of roads that Rand-McNally produces, right? Those are usually only shown in city level maps. Some atlases have city level maps of major cities that are points of destination, but random borough? not really. I never saw a map of the roads in my home town until the internet. (Downtown area yes but not the whole town.)
I'd have no problem with this is roads were all built to the same specifications and funded by a large pool at federal or state level, but in reality they aren't. Residential roads are general funded by the residents in that city, town, borough, hamlet, possibly even neighborhood. So does your argument hold water if the only people paying for maintenance on that street are the residents who live on it? If 0 of your tax dollars paid for it why do you get to dictate that you should get to use it just because you paid taxes. Highways generally are funded at the state or federal level. You do pay for those. But if you're driving along highway 3.14 from City A to City Z and divert onto township C's local street that you didn't pay for with no intention of engaging with township C or helping its economy to make maintaining these roads possible what right do you really have to dictate how those streets are used?
Reasonable doubt doesn't survive jury trials usually. Most juries actually assume guilty. Even the jurors who don't sometimes give up because there are some people who are staunchly opposed to the idea that cops would arrest the wrong person. http://www.dallasnews.com/news...
I found most dickhead landlord/property managers become much more amenable whenever you pretend to have some knowledge of the relevant law. It doesn't matter much if you actually know the law for certain or not, but if it sounds like the law might be on your side they generally cave quickly. That's how I got them to finish work on my bathroom after not having a bathtub for like a month. I just called left a message with his secretary that it wasn't exactly legal to have no access to a bathing facilities for that period of time. Within 3 days the thing was fixed.
Can you be sure that what is ok today will not be considered racist and derogatory to some group in the future and that society won't consider that your opinion on the matter has changed or become more enlightened since then? I already see this in the current political theater. Bernie Sanders wrote an article 50 years ago (I'm not going to bother looking up the exact date but I remember it being long ago) that had some content that is considered derogatory towards women, and I've heard about that several times during the election when the thrust of the article was about women rights using thoughts and language from 50 years ago. (Some of those thoughts are downright wrong but I don't believe he thinks the same way now based on the thrust of the article.) On the other side we see Trump being accused of being contrary because of his change in stance on certain views. Our society doesn't forgive. Let's say you were found guilty of a crime (whether you committed it or not doesn't matter), from this day forward everyone will believe you committed that crime and that you are just a criminal even if you try to reform and this application allows people to easily see that as your top ranked search result even if you change your name.
I actually do think the movie is fantastic, I just wouldn't want people trying to pull that kind of stuff in reality since no human is perfectly predictable especially when pushed to the edge like that.
It also led to the main character shooting his brother and jumping off a roof. I know that was also part of the "gag", but honestly you can't just shake that shit off. If you fully decided to take your life like that it is REALLY hard to come back from it. There's also no telling the way in which someone will snap. It could have been that he would start shooting anyone he felt was involved rather than commit suicide and if he didn't see them die from bullets he could start beating them to death with a blunt instrument like the gun. Personally it might lead me to even greater social mistrust and isolation. The level of fucked up of the "prank" perpetrated in that movie is only surpassed in movies by the "prank" in Anger Management as far as I'm concerned.
Now if you're simply saying that everyone involved in the prank should be working together then I'm a bit more with you, but the mark needs to be able to laugh in the end, not suffer psychological damage.
How does a new person enter this system? Say a new baby is born and the baby eventually grows up but has no income so how does he invest into the system to become an owner? For the sake of simplicity let's say this is a child whose unknown mother died during childbirth so he's an orphan with no way of inheriting anything.
You probably don't realize you're advocating for literally making people insane. Humans are social animals and need stimulation or our brains will make stimulation for us. Some of those ways it creates stimulation would make it impossible to reenter society. What would you prefer jails to be? Punishment centers that breed insanity or reform centers that correct aberrant behavior? Studies point to punishment centers not actually helping reduce crime, but in my opinion they probably are cathartic to the victims of crimes.
Wouldn't the air resistance of the obese person be greater than the thin more aerodynamic person? We should set this up as an experiment. Throw thing people and fat people from planes and see which ones hit the ground first.
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Just to clarify a point... the University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League school... so 2/3 of the schools on this list are Ivy League. She has taught at 25% of the 8 Ivy League schools. Pennsylvania state system of higher education indeed is inferior to Ivy league, but University of Pennsylvania is not part of the state sytem of higher education. It's a private school. I have no data about
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I think you are underestimating how devastating invalid parking tickets can be. I like John Oliver's take https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Personally I think the issue is that a $600 fine could cause poorer people to become homeless. I know people where that is their monthly income. Running a red light (where you didn't kill anyone) shouldn't result in destroying someone's life. I do not think that level of fining is correct for the level of misdemeanor. Sure if you make 100,000 a year you can probably afford it, but if you make $20,000 a year that's 3% of your yearly income, a significant portion. Society should tolerate mistakes because mistakes happen. And then police departments are incentivized to issue tickets like this despite the consequences because their budgets account for X tickets issued per month and Y% of people not even showing up to court to argue it. Oh and cops don't lie.
I don't doubt you are wrong and all, but just want to quible one logic point. Most of the this then thats you present makes sense except the people wanting to live there but unable to leading to more people wanting to visit. I'm not sure how that works? Or are you implying the visitors are not really visitors but are those people unable to live there posing as visitors?
Mexico already has. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm pretty sure our voting system favors popularity contests over actually credibility. Trump wins because everyone knows his name. Hillary wins a lot for the same reason. We have a generally uneducated electorate and many of our news channels don't help with this.
There is starting to be a fairly standard line in employment contracts that gives the employer ownership of things you produce in your own time even if completely unrelated to your employer's business domain. I wouldn't start my current job till they removed that line from the contract. They didn't realize how broad the line item was defined so they had no problem removing it.
Actually this is targeting digital currency that exists on cards... so I don't see how this is encouraging a move in that direction unless you're thinking the future push is for all purchases to be made on credit and you never actually have $ wealth?
I kindof doubt that the cops actually believe the cash they are seizing is being used in any crimes. They are more likely just literally stealing. Reading the article they used this law to take a cancer patient's drugs. How f***ing evil can you be?
If we grew the house precincts to that size in theory we'd get better representation at the local level. In reality there would probably be so many representatives that nothing would get done and you'd have even less of a clue who you are voting for than you do now. Do you know who is running for your current house seats and what their views are? Imagine you live in a city like New York City which by itself would need to have 280 representatives. How much air time or newspaper space do you think it would take to advertise those candidates? How likely are you to even hear a message from your candidate? There isn't a newspaper I know of that is dedicated to news on just the upper east side or of just meatpacking. And those neighborhoods may even end up with multiple seats.
I like that you are thinking of ways to try to improve the system, but I think this would be really confusing and hard to manage. I don't think most people can name even the senators that represent them and there's only 2 of those per state.
Yeah this is probably the last time Tesla offers Goodwill since it bit them back so badly.
I bet you could make more money if you looked someplace else.
I got the full percentage one time and only one time. When I complained about getting so many awards and recognition for great performance but only ever got a 90% on my performance grade for a quarter. When I pointed this out the department director's eyes literally bugged out as he realized how pissed I was and made sure I got more than 100% that quarter. The next quarter it went back to the same and not long after I changed jobs.
You do know that local residential roads aren't always shown on state maps of roads that Rand-McNally produces, right? Those are usually only shown in city level maps. Some atlases have city level maps of major cities that are points of destination, but random borough? not really. I never saw a map of the roads in my home town until the internet. (Downtown area yes but not the whole town.)
I'd have no problem with this is roads were all built to the same specifications and funded by a large pool at federal or state level, but in reality they aren't. Residential roads are general funded by the residents in that city, town, borough, hamlet, possibly even neighborhood. So does your argument hold water if the only people paying for maintenance on that street are the residents who live on it? If 0 of your tax dollars paid for it why do you get to dictate that you should get to use it just because you paid taxes. Highways generally are funded at the state or federal level. You do pay for those. But if you're driving along highway 3.14 from City A to City Z and divert onto township C's local street that you didn't pay for with no intention of engaging with township C or helping its economy to make maintaining these roads possible what right do you really have to dictate how those streets are used?
Reasonable doubt doesn't survive jury trials usually. Most juries actually assume guilty. Even the jurors who don't sometimes give up because there are some people who are staunchly opposed to the idea that cops would arrest the wrong person. http://www.dallasnews.com/news...
Jesus. That sucks. In my case I couldn't repair it as it was beyond my capabilities. The bathtub had literally started to fall through the floor.
I found most dickhead landlord/property managers become much more amenable whenever you pretend to have some knowledge of the relevant law. It doesn't matter much if you actually know the law for certain or not, but if it sounds like the law might be on your side they generally cave quickly. That's how I got them to finish work on my bathroom after not having a bathtub for like a month. I just called left a message with his secretary that it wasn't exactly legal to have no access to a bathing facilities for that period of time. Within 3 days the thing was fixed.
Can you be sure that what is ok today will not be considered racist and derogatory to some group in the future and that society won't consider that your opinion on the matter has changed or become more enlightened since then? I already see this in the current political theater. Bernie Sanders wrote an article 50 years ago (I'm not going to bother looking up the exact date but I remember it being long ago) that had some content that is considered derogatory towards women, and I've heard about that several times during the election when the thrust of the article was about women rights using thoughts and language from 50 years ago. (Some of those thoughts are downright wrong but I don't believe he thinks the same way now based on the thrust of the article.) On the other side we see Trump being accused of being contrary because of his change in stance on certain views. Our society doesn't forgive. Let's say you were found guilty of a crime (whether you committed it or not doesn't matter), from this day forward everyone will believe you committed that crime and that you are just a criminal even if you try to reform and this application allows people to easily see that as your top ranked search result even if you change your name.
I actually do think the movie is fantastic, I just wouldn't want people trying to pull that kind of stuff in reality since no human is perfectly predictable especially when pushed to the edge like that.
It also led to the main character shooting his brother and jumping off a roof. I know that was also part of the "gag", but honestly you can't just shake that shit off. If you fully decided to take your life like that it is REALLY hard to come back from it. There's also no telling the way in which someone will snap. It could have been that he would start shooting anyone he felt was involved rather than commit suicide and if he didn't see them die from bullets he could start beating them to death with a blunt instrument like the gun. Personally it might lead me to even greater social mistrust and isolation. The level of fucked up of the "prank" perpetrated in that movie is only surpassed in movies by the "prank" in Anger Management as far as I'm concerned.
Now if you're simply saying that everyone involved in the prank should be working together then I'm a bit more with you, but the mark needs to be able to laugh in the end, not suffer psychological damage.
How does a new person enter this system? Say a new baby is born and the baby eventually grows up but has no income so how does he invest into the system to become an owner? For the sake of simplicity let's say this is a child whose unknown mother died during childbirth so he's an orphan with no way of inheriting anything.
Because federal prisoners aren't in prisons?
You probably don't realize you're advocating for literally making people insane. Humans are social animals and need stimulation or our brains will make stimulation for us. Some of those ways it creates stimulation would make it impossible to reenter society. What would you prefer jails to be? Punishment centers that breed insanity or reform centers that correct aberrant behavior? Studies point to punishment centers not actually helping reduce crime, but in my opinion they probably are cathartic to the victims of crimes.
Wouldn't the air resistance of the obese person be greater than the thin more aerodynamic person? We should set this up as an experiment. Throw thing people and fat people from planes and see which ones hit the ground first.