That's not the same thing as paying your fine for speeding or not registering your vehicle. You're still going to have to pay the fines and pay the lawyer.
I was merely using Mitt Romney's legal tax avoidance as a well-known example of what it means to use loop-holes in the laws. I could just as well have used any number of profitable, supposedly-US corporations that pay little or no taxes in the US, but more people are probably familiar with Mitt Romney's case.
We might ask why those loop-holes exist in the first place. If I may engage in a little Fox-News type "just asking questions", why is it that tax laws written by rich people always seem to have loop-holes that benefit rich people? Hmmmm. I'm just asking...
Riding the mass transit system without paying for a ticket is definitely a crime and in most countries, encouraging and assisting people with breaking the law is also illegal.
Political protest is not illegal in the US. However, breaking laws as a form of political protest (or as a means of generating income, or whatever other purpose you can think of for breaking laws) is illegal.
Taking advantage of loop-holes is perfectly legal and extremely American. We have always been about following the letter but not the intent of the law which is why we're still arguing about guns, abortion, and grazing fees on federal land. Mitt Romney takes advantage of loop-holes in tax laws to hide his money from US taxes by shuffling it around shell corporations in the Cayman islands. Mitt pays accountants and lawyers to set all that stuff up. The whole reason the US produces so many lawyers is to help rich people and corporations walk right up the the often fuzzy line between what is legal and what isn't.
Taking advantage of loop-holes is not the same thing as breaking laws. The people in Sweden are breaking laws by not paying for tickets to ride mass transit. The group that is encouraging and assisting them to break the law is no different that any other organized criminal gang. Now that they've invented/discovered the advantage of organizing criminal activity (duh!), I wonder what business they might get into next. I hear there's a lot of money to be made in drugs and prostitution.
" is only available used (so I cannot even support the artist by buying it)"
That's like saying you don't buy weed from your local dealer because you'd prefer to support the farmer.
Buying used supports the artist. By buying the used disc you're creating an aftermarket for the artist's stuff which ultimately enlarges the primary market because people who buy new in the primary market know they will be able to sell the item if they decide it isn't right for them or they tire of it. If you buy the disc, used or new, and like it, you're likely to play or at least recommend it to others who may then also decide to buy the artist's stuff.
I think they could have put a larger library on it relatively cheaply, but other than that, it makes perfect sense that it can't be connected to a computer network.
The purpose of smart gun tech is to allow you to carry and store the gun in plain sight where you can reach it quickly when the time comes to defend yourself, your family, and the Constitution. If you have to keep the thing locked away somewhere to keep kids and women from hurting themselves with it how long is it going to take you to get to it when you really need to defend those women and children?
Guns fans should be in favor of anything that lets them pull the trigger quicker. By enabling safe and open storage on the coffee table, the dresser, nightstand, under the pillow, the kitchen counter, the bathroom counter, your desk at work, and the dashboard of the truck, you'll never be caught without your gun within quick reach and everyone will know exactly who they should not mess with.
If you incinerate CF you put the carbon into the air.
I think the nonrecyclability of CF is one of the things that makes it more attractive. CF locks that carbon away forever. Once its buried in the landfill I'm pretty sure no one is going to try to dig it up to burn it.
In a sense, CF is the ultimate recycling of carbon. It starts as plastic (recycled?) fibers that get baked until there's nothing left but carbon. When the CF vehicle crashes or otherwise ends up being scrapped, all that carbon goes into the ground.
What would be really great is if they could extract the carbon for CF from the CO and CO2 in the air. You'd drive around in it for a while then bury it in the ground.
I want to know when I'm going to get mine from the early 90s when HP actually announced to employees that they were colluding with other tech employers to fix pay and benefits. I went to job interviews at other companies at the time and the story was always the same- no increase in pay and reset vacation time back to 10 days per year.
I don't care how many species are going extinct, there are enough unclassified species out there to keep taxonomists busy for the next 300 years.
The problem isn't decreasing diversity. It's the same problem with everything: we are getting too lazy to do the grunt work. Who wants to spend their time trying to decide where a creature fits into existing taxonomic trees when there's more "hollywood" type work to be done- you can get out on a Greenpeace boat and get sprayed with water cannons for trying to save whales, ferchrissakes. You might even get laid!
require the people carrying a gun to also carry liability insurance and carry proof of that insurance with them anytime they are carrying their gun? I hope so, but probably not.
I think that if we are required to carry liability insurance and proof thereof for something as mundane as driving a car we should require the same for carrying something that is designed specifically to kill other people.
I think the "free market" could solve the gun problem in the US in a hurry. Insurers would simply make it so expensive to carry a gun that people would have to give up on the idea.
command much larger dowry's from the parents of women who couldn't get the visa for themselves! Maybe parents of men without H1B visas will have to pay a dowry to the woman with an H1B visa to "take him off their hands". With so much money potentially changing hands some savvy internet entrepreneur will set up a match-making site with two tiers of membership- those with H1B visas will be paired with those without H1B visas. They can charge for membershaip and take a commission from the dowry! Maybe they'll even take a percentage of the non-H1B spouse's income for the first few years...
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Sounds more like having sex with 10 out of 11 to me.
The Spaniards probably did that, too.
That's not the same thing as paying your fine for speeding or not registering your vehicle. You're still going to have to pay the fines and pay the lawyer.
I was merely using Mitt Romney's legal tax avoidance as a well-known example of what it means to use loop-holes in the laws. I could just as well have used any number of profitable, supposedly-US corporations that pay little or no taxes in the US, but more people are probably familiar with Mitt Romney's case.
We might ask why those loop-holes exist in the first place. If I may engage in a little Fox-News type "just asking questions", why is it that tax laws written by rich people always seem to have loop-holes that benefit rich people? Hmmmm. I'm just asking...
as it is in the US. Your point is?
Riding the mass transit system without paying for a ticket is definitely a crime and in most countries, encouraging and assisting people with breaking the law is also illegal.
Breaking SOME laws is not wrong, but breaking ANY law IS illegal.
Can you point out where such insurance is sold? I have never heard of it.
Political protest is not illegal in the US. However, breaking laws as a form of political protest (or as a means of generating income, or whatever other purpose you can think of for breaking laws) is illegal.
Taking advantage of loop-holes is perfectly legal and extremely American. We have always been about following the letter but not the intent of the law which is why we're still arguing about guns, abortion, and grazing fees on federal land. Mitt Romney takes advantage of loop-holes in tax laws to hide his money from US taxes by shuffling it around shell corporations in the Cayman islands. Mitt pays accountants and lawyers to set all that stuff up. The whole reason the US produces so many lawyers is to help rich people and corporations walk right up the the often fuzzy line between what is legal and what isn't.
Taking advantage of loop-holes is not the same thing as breaking laws. The people in Sweden are breaking laws by not paying for tickets to ride mass transit. The group that is encouraging and assisting them to break the law is no different that any other organized criminal gang. Now that they've invented/discovered the advantage of organizing criminal activity (duh!), I wonder what business they might get into next. I hear there's a lot of money to be made in drugs and prostitution.
would be charged with criminal conspiracy.
" is only available used (so I cannot even support the artist by buying it)"
That's like saying you don't buy weed from your local dealer because you'd prefer to support the farmer.
Buying used supports the artist. By buying the used disc you're creating an aftermarket for the artist's stuff which ultimately enlarges the primary market because people who buy new in the primary market know they will be able to sell the item if they decide it isn't right for them or they tire of it. If you buy the disc, used or new, and like it, you're likely to play or at least recommend it to others who may then also decide to buy the artist's stuff.
I think they could have put a larger library on it relatively cheaply, but other than that, it makes perfect sense that it can't be connected to a computer network.
Nope. Not so bad at all.
The purpose of smart gun tech is to allow you to carry and store the gun in plain sight where you can reach it quickly when the time comes to defend yourself, your family, and the Constitution. If you have to keep the thing locked away somewhere to keep kids and women from hurting themselves with it how long is it going to take you to get to it when you really need to defend those women and children?
Guns fans should be in favor of anything that lets them pull the trigger quicker. By enabling safe and open storage on the coffee table, the dresser, nightstand, under the pillow, the kitchen counter, the bathroom counter, your desk at work, and the dashboard of the truck, you'll never be caught without your gun within quick reach and everyone will know exactly who they should not mess with.
If you incinerate CF you put the carbon into the air.
I think the nonrecyclability of CF is one of the things that makes it more attractive. CF locks that carbon away forever. Once its buried in the landfill I'm pretty sure no one is going to try to dig it up to burn it.
Bike frames aren't made from pure aluminum. They are made from alloys. Almost nothing is made from pure aluminum, certainly nothing structural.
My 1996 vintage Cannondale Super V1000 MTB is still going strong.
Thousands of aluminum aircraft are still in the air after >30 years use.
In a sense, CF is the ultimate recycling of carbon. It starts as plastic (recycled?) fibers that get baked until there's nothing left but carbon. When the CF vehicle crashes or otherwise ends up being scrapped, all that carbon goes into the ground.
What would be really great is if they could extract the carbon for CF from the CO and CO2 in the air. You'd drive around in it for a while then bury it in the ground.
I want to know when I'm going to get mine from the early 90s when HP actually announced to employees that they were colluding with other tech employers to fix pay and benefits. I went to job interviews at other companies at the time and the story was always the same- no increase in pay and reset vacation time back to 10 days per year.
Time to LAWYRUP !
Hmmmm.
Church!
Outstanding gibberish! I doff my proverbial cap to you, sir!
I don't care how many species are going extinct, there are enough unclassified species out there to keep taxonomists busy for the next 300 years.
The problem isn't decreasing diversity. It's the same problem with everything: we are getting too lazy to do the grunt work. Who wants to spend their time trying to decide where a creature fits into existing taxonomic trees when there's more "hollywood" type work to be done- you can get out on a Greenpeace boat and get sprayed with water cannons for trying to save whales, ferchrissakes. You might even get laid!
require the people carrying a gun to also carry liability insurance and carry proof of that insurance with them anytime they are carrying their gun? I hope so, but probably not.
I think that if we are required to carry liability insurance and proof thereof for something as mundane as driving a car we should require the same for carrying something that is designed specifically to kill other people.
I think the "free market" could solve the gun problem in the US in a hurry. Insurers would simply make it so expensive to carry a gun that people would have to give up on the idea.
command much larger dowry's from the parents of women who couldn't get the visa for themselves! Maybe parents of men without H1B visas will have to pay a dowry to the woman with an H1B visa to "take him off their hands". With so much money potentially changing hands some savvy internet entrepreneur will set up a match-making site with two tiers of membership- those with H1B visas will be paired with those without H1B visas. They can charge for membershaip and take a commission from the dowry! Maybe they'll even take a percentage of the non-H1B spouse's income for the first few years...
Wow! The possibilities boggle the mind!
impact productivity?
Why does Windows require rebooting almost every time it does an update?
Why does linux only rarely need to reboot after an update?
(all?) cars still use those goddammed thermoelectric switches to control the flashing of turn signals?