If you do the math that works out to over $30k a year. Not shabby at all, especially for a teacher.
We are talking about Broward County, FL. A place with a population exceeding 1 million, and an above average cost of living;
fair market rents exceeding $13000 a year, for a 1-Bedroom apartment.
At $30k a year.. you can just about cover taxes, shelter, food and water, for one adult and some basic necessities.
Arguably cable descramblers are praying on the poor.
Oh, the poor, poor cable companies....
Fireworks, tobacco and guns generally aren't, but they certainly can be dangerous if not handled properly and there are plenty of people in those businesses that are scumbags
There are plenty of people in any business that are scumbags.
I think the point was they were being unfairly targetted, not for misbehavior --- but
for being in a legal business the current administration wants to discourage
using underhanded covert methods of harassment?
Or use a word.DOC managed by Active Directory Rights Management Services, or else: encrypted with the 'require a password to open this document' option
Solicited donations, or donations received in conjunction with goods are services are not gifts for tax purposes.
Any donations that you or your business receives are taxable, unless you are a registered tax-exempt organization such as 501.3(c) non-profit. you owe income tax and self-employment tax (or other corporate taxes) on income from donations you receive minus deductible expenses, and of course, FICA, witholding, and unemployment taxes on the commissioned help.
homes aren't subject to inspection unless the health inspector learns of the location and plans a raid during the service
Most restaurants aren't likely to be inspected either. Inspections are rare, and plenty of restaurants are non-compliant and would be shutdown if they did not have a nice relationship with the regulator (or cash in sufficient quantities placed into the proper hands to make regulators look the other way); it's an entirely theoretical difference.
"Donate" ??? more get ??? more. It's an unknown cost for an unknown product.
That's not what they say. The site makes it clear that you the suggested donation, you get the full deal.
I suppose this technically doesn't preclude them from offering extras,
but you didn't show anything indicating that is what they are up to.
Any bad experience will be limited to a select few people who were allowed the privilege of paying money that day
Additionally, some of the humanities do have rules. There are rules for what is considered to be a rational argument
Philosophy is the foundation of science and Psychology IS science. Exclude Philosophy and its subfields including logic and ethics as special exceptions.
I for one would prefer to pay a reasonable, known price for a known meal at a known location with some sort of expectation as to quality and safety.
What's unknown or unreasonable about $125 a person?
Obviously, they can't go announcing the exact location of their home to the public, due to the security risks.
Sounds like a great way to avoid pesky things like health codes, regulation, the tax man, negative reviews, or even having a fixed price people can see and competitors can respond to.
No... their reputation is on the line.
They are a non-traditional venue.
This does not mean they have free reign to compromise on food safety or bypass income tax obligations.
I was gonna say, doesn't sound all the "underground" to me, unless the restaurant is literally in a basement.
It's underground in a sense that the meal is generally held in a private home,
and there's no permanent location.
At FRANK, your suggested donation (normally $125, payable in cash or credit) will include a welcome drink and amuse-bouche, a multi-course meal, and the chefs’ selected wine (or occasionally beer) pairings. Gratuities are welcome and help us keep the interesting folks around who help coordinate, serve, and socialize. FRANK generally takes place within 10 minutes of downtown Dallas (normally accessible by public transit) at a private home in a comfortable, casual, informal space.
They were showing him mercy/leniency, apparently. The FCC is not known for showing this much leniency...
perhaps because the offender was not a business/corporation.:
....
Not only do jammers prevent consumers from making emergency calls, but they can disrupt critical communications by safety agencies, the FCC said. Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies confirmed that firsthand when they pulled Humphreys over. They said their two-way portable radios lost contact with the dispatcher as they got close to the SUV.
......
The FCC imposed the maximum fine for one violation of each, which adds up to $48,000.
Because Humphreys used the jammer for so long, the fine could have been as high as $337,000, the FCC said.
guess what, cell phones don't use a single contiguous band of frequencies. Other things do use those gaps between the cell phones
The officer mentioned that when they approached the vehicle to pull it over,
their communications with dispatch got cut off, by apparent radio interference.
should they exist and they considered us a threat we would be dead already.
Pest does not mean threat.
They may have already obliterated us, or the last carbon-based species, by dropping their antibio weapon on mars millions of years ago, but a pocket if their adversary survived the first attempt at extermination and hasn't been detected so far.
Also.... we might be on the endangered species list now.
Is the Internet essential infrastructure? Should local governments step in to preserve equality of access?"
Yes... the internet infrastructure is essential.
That is why nobody should own or regulate it.
Personally; I would rather see the government give each internet service provider a choice whether they will be a common carrier or not. If they choose NOT to be a common carrier, then that ISP may not be a licensed telecommunications company --- that is, that company is not given the right to install or own copper or fibre optic cabling installed on any public right of way ----- in other words, this "NOT a common carrier" option should not be open to any ISP who is also a Cable company or telco.
If an ISP or cable company chooses to be a common carrier, then they are subject to network neutrality and many other regulations. They are then allowed to be a licensed telecommunication carrier, and they are then allowed to own or install fibre optic cables, copper, other data cables, and IRUs (indefeasible rights of use) for data/telecom cables in a public right of way.
BUT: they are then subject to network neutrality and other regulation.
At a bare minimum, they should be required to lease data access ("IP networking connectivity") to ISPs of all types on a fair and nondiscriminatory basis.
Remember what makes the internet work at all and work so well is that government is not involved in its administration.
Every private entity can build their own network, AND they cooperate to interconnect and form internet.
The moment the government starts owning significant pieces, they will be subject to lobbying by special interest groups
and start passing laws to regulate and control usage of it or insert web filtering to protect the children.
In other words: government ownership could be the undoing of open and free internet.
This could be much worse than what corporations will do.
After all... The internet was around and survived a long time with no "network neutrality" rules.
On the other hand: it is good and great if local municipalities own the last mile infrastructure.
Like your municipal water authority installs and owns the pipes.
As long as the municipality does not decide they want to regulate what kind of information you can view,
and start inserting web filters and censorship... which is much less likely, than if a powerful government entity
begins to own internet exchange points and other critical internet infrastructure.
potential to massively accelerate ourselves through encountering others further along the curve.
To those further along the curve.... our species might seem like pests; mosquitos to be controlled to limit our ability to reproduce and spread disease throughout the cosmos.
Like mosquitos, we can be stopped by making sure not to leave any planets around with standing water, air, or carbon based compounds in their atmosphere or near their surface.
suitcases that generate megawatts of Xrays "FOR BIRD WATCHING."
Better idea: sell them to the DHS, so law enforcement vehicles can be equipped with them in order to Xray all vehicles on the street looking for suspicious materials
Google needs to program the cars with some assholery in mind where scaring cyclists is as common as checking for the car's fuel.
Why not just have a system that captures abusive cyclist behavior on video, uses facial/body recognition to identify them, then uploads the video stream to Youtube and submits to law enforcement.
Make abusive cyclist behavior such as entering the roadway/cutting off a vehicle, an offense where the cyclist gets a ticket in the mail and loses their bicycle privileges.
At some point whether you've driven 100 million miles or 100 billion miles it doesn't matter when you haven't driven a single mile in the snow.
I'd still be interested in this car, because it never snows down south around here either.
If it does snow, everything shuts down, and nobody dare drive, anyways.
The Brazilian government has authorized the two-year trial. The hope is that the male GM mosquitos will mate with wild females and produce offspring that will die before they can reproduce .
If they die off within one generation.... then females that didn't mate with the male GM females will survive and reproduce.
The GM whizzes should be engineering mosquitos that still manage to reproduce together and with
non-GM females and have offspring that don't bite humans but still reproduce.
Also, they should compete favorably against non-GM mosquitos for mating purposes.
The mosquitos should carry bacteria that will destroy non-GM mosquito larvae
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If you do the math that works out to over $30k a year. Not shabby at all, especially for a teacher.
We are talking about Broward County, FL. A place with a population exceeding 1 million, and an above average cost of living; fair market rents exceeding $13000 a year, for a 1-Bedroom apartment.
At $30k a year.. you can just about cover taxes, shelter, food and water, for one adult and some basic necessities.
Paying too much will attract lousy teachers who just want the pay so the opposite might not be ann answer either.
So what if you attract them? It's your HR team's job to only hire on qualified individuals who are passionate about teaching.
"Will attract the wrong people" is a lazy excuse.
It will also attract the right people!
In fact... it will just attract people.
THIS is how you really do addition in hardware.
Arguably cable descramblers are praying on the poor.
Oh, the poor, poor cable companies....
Fireworks, tobacco and guns generally aren't, but they certainly can be dangerous if not handled properly and there are plenty of people in those businesses that are scumbags
There are plenty of people in any business that are scumbags. I think the point was they were being unfairly targetted, not for misbehavior --- but for being in a legal business the current administration wants to discourage using underhanded covert methods of harassment?
This is all well and good until you have http://legit.example.com/viewurl.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmalicious.example.com
they're work in a perfectly legal field that the government doesn't like is justice?
No, it's tortious interference with business relationships.
Encrypt your attachment with PGP before sending.
Or use a word .DOC managed by Active Directory Rights Management Services, or else: encrypted with the 'require a password to open this document' option
They bypass taxes by calling things donations.
Solicited donations, or donations received in conjunction with goods are services are not gifts for tax purposes. Any donations that you or your business receives are taxable, unless you are a registered tax-exempt organization such as 501.3(c) non-profit. you owe income tax and self-employment tax (or other corporate taxes) on income from donations you receive minus deductible expenses, and of course, FICA, witholding, and unemployment taxes on the commissioned help.
homes aren't subject to inspection unless the health inspector learns of the location and plans a raid during the service
Most restaurants aren't likely to be inspected either. Inspections are rare, and plenty of restaurants are non-compliant and would be shutdown if they did not have a nice relationship with the regulator (or cash in sufficient quantities placed into the proper hands to make regulators look the other way); it's an entirely theoretical difference.
"Donate" ??? more get ??? more. It's an unknown cost for an unknown product.
That's not what they say. The site makes it clear that you the suggested donation, you get the full deal.
I suppose this technically doesn't preclude them from offering extras, but you didn't show anything indicating that is what they are up to.
Any bad experience will be limited to a select few people who were allowed the privilege of paying money that day
That's enough to get a bad review.
Additionally, some of the humanities do have rules. There are rules for what is considered to be a rational argument
Philosophy is the foundation of science and Psychology IS science. Exclude Philosophy and its subfields including logic and ethics as special exceptions.
What's left?
How much are the emails of your competitor's best salesmen worth to you?
How do you know who your competitor's best salesman is? Why don't you just hire them with an offer they can't refuse?
I for one would prefer to pay a reasonable, known price for a known meal at a known location with some sort of expectation as to quality and safety.
What's unknown or unreasonable about $125 a person?
Obviously, they can't go announcing the exact location of their home to the public, due to the security risks.
Sounds like a great way to avoid pesky things like health codes, regulation, the tax man, negative reviews, or even having a fixed price people can see and competitors can respond to.
No... their reputation is on the line. They are a non-traditional venue. This does not mean they have free reign to compromise on food safety or bypass income tax obligations.
Really? Isn't FBI bound to pursue possible CFAA violations?
As soon as you can show $10,000 in damages from one instance of cheating, perhaps.
I was gonna say, doesn't sound all the "underground" to me, unless the restaurant is literally in a basement.
It's underground in a sense that the meal is generally held in a private home, and there's no permanent location.
At FRANK, your suggested donation (normally $125, payable in cash or credit) will include a welcome drink and amuse-bouche, a multi-course meal, and the chefs’ selected wine (or occasionally beer) pairings. Gratuities are welcome and help us keep the interesting folks around who help coordinate, serve, and socialize. FRANK generally takes place within 10 minutes of downtown Dallas (normally accessible by public transit) at a private home in a comfortable, casual, informal space.
3,000 ms latency?!
Try 36000000ms latency.
guess what, cell phones don't use a single contiguous band of frequencies. Other things do use those gaps between the cell phones
The officer mentioned that when they approached the vehicle to pull it over, their communications with dispatch got cut off, by apparent radio interference.
should they exist and they considered us a threat we would be dead already.
Pest does not mean threat.
They may have already obliterated us, or the last carbon-based species, by dropping their antibio weapon on mars millions of years ago, but a pocket if their adversary survived the first attempt at extermination and hasn't been detected so far.
Also.... we might be on the endangered species list now.
Is the Internet essential infrastructure? Should local governments step in to preserve equality of access?"
Yes... the internet infrastructure is essential. That is why nobody should own or regulate it.
Personally; I would rather see the government give each internet service provider a choice whether they will be a common carrier or not. If they choose NOT to be a common carrier, then that ISP may not be a licensed telecommunications company --- that is, that company is not given the right to install or own copper or fibre optic cabling installed on any public right of way ----- in other words, this "NOT a common carrier" option should not be open to any ISP who is also a Cable company or telco.
If an ISP or cable company chooses to be a common carrier, then they are subject to network neutrality and many other regulations. They are then allowed to be a licensed telecommunication carrier, and they are then allowed to own or install fibre optic cables, copper, other data cables, and IRUs (indefeasible rights of use) for data/telecom cables in a public right of way.
BUT: they are then subject to network neutrality and other regulation. At a bare minimum, they should be required to lease data access ("IP networking connectivity") to ISPs of all types on a fair and nondiscriminatory basis.
Remember what makes the internet work at all and work so well is that government is not involved in its administration. Every private entity can build their own network, AND they cooperate to interconnect and form internet.
The moment the government starts owning significant pieces, they will be subject to lobbying by special interest groups and start passing laws to regulate and control usage of it or insert web filtering to protect the children.
In other words: government ownership could be the undoing of open and free internet.
This could be much worse than what corporations will do.
After all... The internet was around and survived a long time with no "network neutrality" rules.
On the other hand: it is good and great if local municipalities own the last mile infrastructure. Like your municipal water authority installs and owns the pipes.
As long as the municipality does not decide they want to regulate what kind of information you can view, and start inserting web filters and censorship... which is much less likely, than if a powerful government entity begins to own internet exchange points and other critical internet infrastructure.
potential to massively accelerate ourselves through encountering others further along the curve.
To those further along the curve.... our species might seem like pests; mosquitos to be controlled to limit our ability to reproduce and spread disease throughout the cosmos.
Like mosquitos, we can be stopped by making sure not to leave any planets around with standing water, air, or carbon based compounds in their atmosphere or near their surface.
suitcases that generate megawatts of Xrays "FOR BIRD WATCHING."
Better idea: sell them to the DHS, so law enforcement vehicles can be equipped with them in order to Xray all vehicles on the street looking for suspicious materials
The question of the viability here is how much of a blood source are humans
Some mosquitos have evolved the ability to lay eggs without taking a blood meal. There are some non-biting mosquitos that have evolved.
Google needs to program the cars with some assholery in mind where scaring cyclists is as common as checking for the car's fuel.
Why not just have a system that captures abusive cyclist behavior on video, uses facial/body recognition to identify them, then uploads the video stream to Youtube and submits to law enforcement.
Make abusive cyclist behavior such as entering the roadway/cutting off a vehicle, an offense where the cyclist gets a ticket in the mail and loses their bicycle privileges.
and if it can get itself into traffic with a fast turn, it can turn a T-bone collision into a rear-ender, shifting fault to the other driver.
Except that the incident will be on video/computer record, showing the rapid turn, which will prevent fault from being shifted.
Colliding in the rear does not automatically assign fault to the vehicle in the rear.
At some point whether you've driven 100 million miles or 100 billion miles it doesn't matter when you haven't driven a single mile in the snow.
I'd still be interested in this car, because it never snows down south around here either. If it does snow, everything shuts down, and nobody dare drive, anyways.
The Brazilian government has authorized the two-year trial. The hope is that the male GM mosquitos will mate with wild females and produce offspring that will die before they can reproduce .
If they die off within one generation.... then females that didn't mate with the male GM females will survive and reproduce.
The GM whizzes should be engineering mosquitos that still manage to reproduce together and with non-GM females and have offspring that don't bite humans but still reproduce.
Also, they should compete favorably against non-GM mosquitos for mating purposes. The mosquitos should carry bacteria that will destroy non-GM mosquito larvae