What the father failed to do in this situation was draft up a contractual agreement with the other woman in this case, with her agreeing to reimburse him for any expenses or support related to the child in perpetuity.
Which would still leave him out-of-pocket until he could collect from her, but it would (probably, IANAL, your state or provincial laws may vary) be a legal arrangement.
Source: My family law lawyer (Alberta provincial and Canadian Federal law.)
Because that invites reciprocation of that attitude from other countries. Most people tend to get angry when foreigners from anywhere come into their country and intentionally disrespect the local cultural mores and laws.
I'll give you an easy, hyperbolic example:
By that same argument, how do you feel about Sudanese refugees performing female genital mutilation just down the street from where you live? How do you feel about them snorting in contempt at you when you show outrage, saying: "If a country doesn't respect my cultural norms, then why respect it at all?"
As a non-american, I will continue to financially support Wikileaks (to a modest $20 a year, they're part of my christmas charity allotment), because while you may see this as damaging to american interests, I see it as furthering the interests of the entire world. I too, have looked through a good chunk of the released documents, so far. What I found allotted to "The stuff we already knew, but here's the details" of america's dirty laundry. Meh.
Long live wikileaks. I *do*, however, hope their next big releases focus on other countries, not just the USA. The current amero-centrism of wikileaks major releases is rather disappointing, but is probably more the result of opportunity than it is country-specific targeting.
The question is, though: To whom would they be selling those gobs of bandwidth? The nature of bandwidth, overall, remains geographically fixed; you can't sell (much) of your bandwidth capacity in the united states to a company in Japan; they still need the pipes going, overall, from Point A to Customer B.
At the volumes in which they are dealing with, they don't really have a lot of customers who can conceivably use that much bandwidth. So it's definitely in their best interests to trade with them preferentially.
If the options are A) Trade to defer costs, or B) Try to sell to others and discover nobody else wants to buy a tenth of our capacity, they'll usually find that A) is a smarter business decision.
Where can I find information on these RWGS process engines and this specific means of manufacturing gasoline? In the modern parlance of our time, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I use the 22" version of those monitors, two of them, and depending on what I'm working on I use the built-in portrait swivel and switch to portrait mode at times. Particularly useful for working on projects that span four or five documents at a time.
I work for a safety management company, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies, etc.
But seriously. Let me hit the fallacy straight on the head here: Sometimes it seems like a lot of work for questionable return.
Any, any safety management system, any safety culture, lives by the motto of "What gets measured gets managed."
A safety culture is a very important thing in any industry, and most importantly, the statistics speak for themselves: Industry rates for lost time accidents are typically one third or less for companies that can demonstrate a safety culture versus those that value a "production culture". In fact, it's been proven time and again that 'safety culture' companies are more profitable than other companies, even with the loss of productivity that often comes with a well developed safety management system.
When it comes to Loss Control, one has to remember that injuries, accidents, incidents, and fatalities, all cost more than simply settlements and increased insurance premiums. Typically those costs only represent one fifth of the total cost to a company, in lost time, in investigations, in process failures, etc.
Safety culture is not only safer, but it saves a company huge amounts of money, and ends up being more profitable, in both the short and long term.
Oddly, I'm an atheist, but I think the Left Behind game's concept sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. It's a riveting theme, in my opinion. But again, it's all about that separation between fantasy and reality.
It's a hell of a fun program, especially when you convert the created forms over to Bryce3D or some other renderer, and instruct it to ray-trace the polygon in glass.
Teddy is really one of those lovely things useful for organic shapes in 3D modeling. Love it!
But you sir, are a quack, a charlatan, and a fraud, and I explicitly accuse you of vested interests in the trade and sale of medically unapproved faux-"therapies". Additionally, you deserve a right rap on the Jack Johnson!
Jumping in on number 1 there. My wife plays Guitar Hero about 3 hours a week. It's by far her favorite game in my collection. She's the one getting hardcore about wanting to buy another controller or two so she can mod it.
Yes. My wife wants to mod Guitar Hero controllers.
Trying to put a blanket statement like "deadly material" out there is bullshit. They are not selling "deadly material". They are selling chemicals. Some of these products are hazardous, some are not. Much like a Wal-Mart carries products, some that are hazardous, others that are not.
Should a mail-order power tool company require such identification and verification? Should you have to flash your identification at every gas pump, because you're purchasing gasoline? How about at every grocery store every time you buy bleach?
Instead of fearmongering, try applying reasoning. That would, in fact, be developing your grey matter, instead of relying on ignorance to protect you.
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Why exemption #9? Is that to avoid someone having an unfair advantage in mining scouting, or what?
What the father failed to do in this situation was draft up a contractual agreement with the other woman in this case, with her agreeing to reimburse him for any expenses or support related to the child in perpetuity.
Which would still leave him out-of-pocket until he could collect from her, but it would (probably, IANAL, your state or provincial laws may vary) be a legal arrangement.
Source: My family law lawyer (Alberta provincial and Canadian Federal law.)
Because that invites reciprocation of that attitude from other countries. Most people tend to get angry when foreigners from anywhere come into their country and intentionally disrespect the local cultural mores and laws.
I'll give you an easy, hyperbolic example:
By that same argument, how do you feel about Sudanese refugees performing female genital mutilation just down the street from where you live? How do you feel about them snorting in contempt at you when you show outrage, saying: "If a country doesn't respect my cultural norms, then why respect it at all?"
Etc. Etc.
Seconding this.
"Starfish" and "Blindsight" are brilliant, dark pieces of claustrophobic sci-fi. I'm stunned that neither has been optioned for movies yet.
Uh, don't you mean "Where that big light will be eight and a half minutes from now"?
I was way more excited about this until I realized I'd misread "psychics" as "physics". Sigh.
And what about those of us who already had our G+ accounts deleted for refusing to use our real names?
That's nice.
What's this plaxinum you speak of? I'm very curious.
As a non-american, I will continue to financially support Wikileaks (to a modest $20 a year, they're part of my christmas charity allotment), because while you may see this as damaging to american interests, I see it as furthering the interests of the entire world. I too, have looked through a good chunk of the released documents, so far. What I found allotted to "The stuff we already knew, but here's the details" of america's dirty laundry. Meh.
Long live wikileaks. I *do*, however, hope their next big releases focus on other countries, not just the USA. The current amero-centrism of wikileaks major releases is rather disappointing, but is probably more the result of opportunity than it is country-specific targeting.
The question is, though: To whom would they be selling those gobs of bandwidth? The nature of bandwidth, overall, remains geographically fixed; you can't sell (much) of your bandwidth capacity in the united states to a company in Japan; they still need the pipes going, overall, from Point A to Customer B.
At the volumes in which they are dealing with, they don't really have a lot of customers who can conceivably use that much bandwidth. So it's definitely in their best interests to trade with them preferentially.
If the options are A) Trade to defer costs, or B) Try to sell to others and discover nobody else wants to buy a tenth of our capacity, they'll usually find that A) is a smarter business decision.
I swear to god I'm going to write a script for my browser that blocks loading any page with the word "boffin" in it.
Anywhere I can get a SERIOUS interpretation of this event that isn't busy self-fellating over how gigglingly clever it's own writers are?
Where can I find information on these RWGS process engines and this specific means of manufacturing gasoline? In the modern parlance of our time, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I use the 22" version of those monitors, two of them, and depending on what I'm working on I use the built-in portrait swivel and switch to portrait mode at times. Particularly useful for working on projects that span four or five documents at a time.
The plural of anecdote is not "fact".
As the kids would say, sounds like "epic lulz" for Anonymous, if there's no control against adding email addresses to such lists.
I work for a safety management company, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies, etc.
But seriously. Let me hit the fallacy straight on the head here: Sometimes it seems like a lot of work for questionable return.
Any, any safety management system, any safety culture, lives by the motto of "What gets measured gets managed."
A safety culture is a very important thing in any industry, and most importantly, the statistics speak for themselves: Industry rates for lost time accidents are typically one third or less for companies that can demonstrate a safety culture versus those that value a "production culture". In fact, it's been proven time and again that 'safety culture' companies are more profitable than other companies, even with the loss of productivity that often comes with a well developed safety management system.
When it comes to Loss Control, one has to remember that injuries, accidents, incidents, and fatalities, all cost more than simply settlements and increased insurance premiums. Typically those costs only represent one fifth of the total cost to a company, in lost time, in investigations, in process failures, etc.
Safety culture is not only safer, but it saves a company huge amounts of money, and ends up being more profitable, in both the short and long term.
Dark, hard science fiction from that man. Check him out at http://www.rifters.com/
Starfish, Blindsight, and a few other titles, all with tons of hard science, all with good stories (and dark) to match.
Oddly, I'm an atheist, but I think the Left Behind game's concept sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. It's a riveting theme, in my opinion. But again, it's all about that separation between fantasy and reality.
"I hear hissing in my suit! I hope it's a snake!"
"What? You hate snakes!"
"When you're in a spacesuit and you hear hissing, you damn well hope it's a snake!"
(with apologies to the online comic Freefall)
It's a hell of a fun program, especially when you convert the created forms over to Bryce3D or some other renderer, and instruct it to ray-trace the polygon in glass.
Teddy is really one of those lovely things useful for organic shapes in 3D modeling. Love it!
I ought to be modded Redundant for this...
But you sir, are a quack, a charlatan, and a fraud, and I explicitly accuse you of vested interests in the trade and sale of medically unapproved faux-"therapies". Additionally, you deserve a right rap on the Jack Johnson!
Jumping in on number 1 there. My wife plays Guitar Hero about 3 hours a week. It's by far her favorite game in my collection. She's the one getting hardcore about wanting to buy another controller or two so she can mod it. Yes. My wife wants to mod Guitar Hero controllers.
Trying to put a blanket statement like "deadly material" out there is bullshit. They are not selling "deadly material". They are selling chemicals. Some of these products are hazardous, some are not. Much like a Wal-Mart carries products, some that are hazardous, others that are not.
Should a mail-order power tool company require such identification and verification? Should you have to flash your identification at every gas pump, because you're purchasing gasoline? How about at every grocery store every time you buy bleach?
Instead of fearmongering, try applying reasoning. That would, in fact, be developing your grey matter, instead of relying on ignorance to protect you.
Where can I get this carbonation device? Online ordering anywhere?