So hire a lawyer and sue that idiot guard for slander, tortuous interference, and filing a false police report. Seriously, don't let that little fuck stick get away with making your life difficult just because he's stupid and bored.
As long as you're paying more than 24c/kWh you'll run a net positive balance, and end up with a solar system of your own after 10 years.
Holy crap! Who pays that much for electricity? I'm in Dallas, and I just locked in a rate of 8/kWh for the next 12 months. I can't imagine paying 24/kWh, not when we typically use about 2000 kWhs in a month.
Actually, a significant number of my pregnant classmates got that way intentionally.
I'd argue that those girls were also being naive. Getting pregnant to keep a boyfriend, or just not appreciating what having children means, is definitely a symptom of naivete.
And a bunch of my high school classmates ended up pregnant years before turning 20. In short, kids are nowhere near as naive as their parents would like them to be.
You just contradicted yourself. It is exactly the naivete of high schoolers that leads them to getting pregnant in the first place.
Granted that draconian rules on keeping kids away from each other rather than teach them how to be responsible can tend to lead to that kind of naivete, but underage pregnancy is still a symptom of the kids being naive so my point still stands.
Those figures ignore the fact that the USD is the world's reserve currency, and all oil is bought and sold using USD. Because of the huge flow of dollars around the world, and because people have to have some way to store those dollars, there is much more buying demand on Treasuries than there ought to be, which keeps their yields low and their sell rate high.
This is not to say that the BR is on a strong footing, only that the USD is being propped up by its dominance of international trade. Which is coming to an end, as evidenced by this action. Once more countries start using other commodities to trade with each other, the Day of the Dollar will be over and the US will be fucked.
Same here. Pretty much every time I've been asked to sign a non-compete, I simply lined out the time requirement and replaced it with "30 days", then initialed and had the HR drone next to me initial. Nothing was ever said or done about it.
Refusing to sign a non-compete is normally a problem, but making modifications is pretty trivial.
Oh, and don't forget that a non-compete is part of the larger employment agreement. If your employer breaches your contract in some way (for example, by not paying you), you're not beholden to that contract anymore and can go poach their clients all day long.
(IANAL, this is my opinion and not legal advice, get your own for real legal advice.)
Don't bother debating with these people. They think money is different from all other commodities and somehow people react to changes in its value different than any other commodity.
Not a one of these geniuses would argue that oil becoming more valuable would somehow be bad for counties that export it, yet they'll argue all day long that a currency becoming more valuable (e.g., "deflation") is bad for the country using it and exporting it. That kind of thinking makes no sense and shows just how deep their ignorance of money truly is.
Is it just me or is the America-is-over sentiment growing by leaps and bounds lately? Not that I'm judging it, I feel the same way much of the time. But it seems more and more that this attitude is coming to the forefront of our national consciousness and yet none of our leaders have done anything to address it.
Sad times. Guess I should go check out Mandarin for Dummies from the library.
I'll go along with agreeing that no (or at least minimal) legal impediments should be put up between anyone and their access to the Internet. Whether they should be guaranteed to have it at no cost to themselves is another matter entirely.
Quick vehicles, large livable buildings and females covered in grease are not culture.
Considering that "culture" is constantly evolving, it's foolhardy and short-sighted to insist that any one thing is, or is not, part of one's culture. After all, culture is a human construct, so anything anywhere could be considered part of someone's culture.
And your last statement should be redone as: be careful how you collectivize your culture, it may become stifled and rigid eventually.
My point with all this, you really don't want the government telling you you have to embrace something as part of your culture, no matter how well-intentioned they may be.
The shitty thing is though, NZ[L] was my destination of choice to get the hell away from what's happening to the US[A]. If their government is pulling this kind of garbage, where else is left that won't step all over your right to be left the hell alone (and isn't also in the middle of a protracted civil war)?
I'm concerned about the instances where cops take bribes
A bit of a tangent, but it pertains to the larger issue of police corruption that's been enabled by granting them too many powers.
Police like to say that they're "always a cop", even when off duty. If that's the case, then why are they allowed to get paid by people they may have to investigate in the future? What if a cop on a detail is getting paid, I dunno, $2000 a month to work as a part-time security guard (while in his police uniform) at a theater, then the theater owner becomes a suspect in a crime. How hard is that cop (or his buddies) going to work to destroy that income?
It's one thing for the police to look for evidence in email, that's all well and good. The problem here is twofold: they don't have to serve a warrant to the person whose email they're perusing, and they don't have to even tell that person they're snooping around. Contrast that with if the police want to search your house, your car, or even your CPA's office. In all of those cases you at least have an idea that they're doing this, which provides some oversight on these activities.
The idea that just because my email sits on Yahoo's servers that I don't have an expectation of privacy with it is ludicrous. My will sits in a safe in my financial adviser's office (since he's also the trustee of the estate if both my wife and die, but that's another story), but I fully expect him not to open it unless he's informed by next of kin that we've both passed away. In the same way, I expect Yahoo's employees not to poke around in my email (and this is one of the reasons I don't use Google since their systems do just that to serve up ads).
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I love it when people see failures of government regulation and immediately think more regulation will fix it. Because this time, it's different.
Here's a hint: the law of unintended consequences has not been repealed.
Good luck getting them to break up a government granted monopoly.
Doesn't matter. If he's got a judgment against him, he'll never work as a security guard again. That's worth the $1000 to file suit right there.
So hire a lawyer and sue that idiot guard for slander, tortuous interference, and filing a false police report. Seriously, don't let that little fuck stick get away with making your life difficult just because he's stupid and bored.
This isn't an example of a nanny state, it's an example of a police state.
One often overlooked factor for energy saving or generating investments is that money saved is equivalent to a tax-free income.
Don't trumpet that fact too loudly or the taxman will find a way to call cost savings "income" and tax you on it.
The phrase is "neck of the woods". Just sayin'.
As long as you're paying more than 24c/kWh you'll run a net positive balance, and end up with a solar system of your own after 10 years.
Holy crap! Who pays that much for electricity? I'm in Dallas, and I just locked in a rate of 8/kWh for the next 12 months. I can't imagine paying 24/kWh, not when we typically use about 2000 kWhs in a month.
Actually, a significant number of my pregnant classmates got that way intentionally.
I'd argue that those girls were also being naive. Getting pregnant to keep a boyfriend, or just not appreciating what having children means, is definitely a symptom of naivete.
And a bunch of my high school classmates ended up pregnant years before turning 20. In short, kids are nowhere near as naive as their parents would like them to be.
You just contradicted yourself. It is exactly the naivete of high schoolers that leads them to getting pregnant in the first place.
Granted that draconian rules on keeping kids away from each other rather than teach them how to be responsible can tend to lead to that kind of naivete, but underage pregnancy is still a symptom of the kids being naive so my point still stands.
Yes.
I'm thinking this might be the perfect material to make solar sails out of.
People viewing money as a way of storing value is very bad for the economy.
You clearly don't know what you're talking about since, by definition, money is a store of value.
Those figures ignore the fact that the USD is the world's reserve currency, and all oil is bought and sold using USD. Because of the huge flow of dollars around the world, and because people have to have some way to store those dollars, there is much more buying demand on Treasuries than there ought to be, which keeps their yields low and their sell rate high.
This is not to say that the BR is on a strong footing, only that the USD is being propped up by its dominance of international trade. Which is coming to an end, as evidenced by this action. Once more countries start using other commodities to trade with each other, the Day of the Dollar will be over and the US will be fucked.
Same here. Pretty much every time I've been asked to sign a non-compete, I simply lined out the time requirement and replaced it with "30 days", then initialed and had the HR drone next to me initial. Nothing was ever said or done about it.
Refusing to sign a non-compete is normally a problem, but making modifications is pretty trivial.
Oh, and don't forget that a non-compete is part of the larger employment agreement. If your employer breaches your contract in some way (for example, by not paying you), you're not beholden to that contract anymore and can go poach their clients all day long.
(IANAL, this is my opinion and not legal advice, get your own for real legal advice.)
Don't bother debating with these people. They think money is different from all other commodities and somehow people react to changes in its value different than any other commodity.
Not a one of these geniuses would argue that oil becoming more valuable would somehow be bad for counties that export it, yet they'll argue all day long that a currency becoming more valuable (e.g., "deflation") is bad for the country using it and exporting it. That kind of thinking makes no sense and shows just how deep their ignorance of money truly is.
Is it just me or is the America-is-over sentiment growing by leaps and bounds lately? Not that I'm judging it, I feel the same way much of the time. But it seems more and more that this attitude is coming to the forefront of our national consciousness and yet none of our leaders have done anything to address it.
Sad times. Guess I should go check out Mandarin for Dummies from the library.
I'll go along with agreeing that no (or at least minimal) legal impediments should be put up between anyone and their access to the Internet. Whether they should be guaranteed to have it at no cost to themselves is another matter entirely.
Quick vehicles, large livable buildings and females covered in grease are not culture.
Considering that "culture" is constantly evolving, it's foolhardy and short-sighted to insist that any one thing is, or is not, part of one's culture. After all, culture is a human construct, so anything anywhere could be considered part of someone's culture.
And your last statement should be redone as: be careful how you collectivize your culture, it may become stifled and rigid eventually.
My point with all this, you really don't want the government telling you you have to embrace something as part of your culture, no matter how well-intentioned they may be.
I felt the same way when I read Facebook and Zynga's prospectuses.
The shitty thing is though, NZ[L] was my destination of choice to get the hell away from what's happening to the US[A]. If their government is pulling this kind of garbage, where else is left that won't step all over your right to be left the hell alone (and isn't also in the middle of a protracted civil war)?
You do realize that "blowjob" can be a generic term for any kind of oral sex, right?
YMMV, but "cute" != "hot".
I'm concerned about the instances where cops take bribes
A bit of a tangent, but it pertains to the larger issue of police corruption that's been enabled by granting them too many powers.
Police like to say that they're "always a cop", even when off duty. If that's the case, then why are they allowed to get paid by people they may have to investigate in the future? What if a cop on a detail is getting paid, I dunno, $2000 a month to work as a part-time security guard (while in his police uniform) at a theater, then the theater owner becomes a suspect in a crime. How hard is that cop (or his buddies) going to work to destroy that income?
It's one thing for the police to look for evidence in email, that's all well and good. The problem here is twofold: they don't have to serve a warrant to the person whose email they're perusing, and they don't have to even tell that person they're snooping around. Contrast that with if the police want to search your house, your car, or even your CPA's office. In all of those cases you at least have an idea that they're doing this, which provides some oversight on these activities.
The idea that just because my email sits on Yahoo's servers that I don't have an expectation of privacy with it is ludicrous. My will sits in a safe in my financial adviser's office (since he's also the trustee of the estate if both my wife and die, but that's another story), but I fully expect him not to open it unless he's informed by next of kin that we've both passed away. In the same way, I expect Yahoo's employees not to poke around in my email (and this is one of the reasons I don't use Google since their systems do just that to serve up ads).
They use a GUI interface in Visual Basic, duh.