do you really read the contract before signing it? I don't, I think most people don't.
In the words of lawyers, judges, and law professors everywhere, tough. You have a duty to read.
I used to rent apartments, and people would sign the 30 page document, not think twice about why an apartment lease is 30 pages long, and then bitch later when we charge them late fees (even when we have a 4-day grace period, are open until 11PM daily, and tenants can hand the RA in their building a check!).
You have a duty to read. I did have clients that read the whole damn lease and grilled me on it. Some left and decided the terms weren't for them.
NOBODY and I mean NOBODY ever decided to read it before the paid the non-refundable application fee, though.
Next time you're at the movies, try and keep an eye out for the burn in the upper right hand corner every half hour or so. First mark is the warning, second mark means that's the end of the reel.
Nowadays, there's anti-piracy watermarks too, right in the middle of the screen.
So we're getting our news on the US National Labor Relations Board making a ruling about a dispute involving a US company's policy of prohibiting posting about work to another US company's website from an Indonesian news purveyor... who quoted it from a US newspaper anyway??
However, it took almost 3 days (1800 miles), and that was traveling at around 85mph for most of the trip.
You must do a lot of stopping! I just drove 2300 miles from PA to Arizona - with my mother - this summer. The car had rather shit A/C (leaky $45 fill valve), and once you hit the plains where its so flat you can see the curvature of the earth, it's a fucking boring drive. I left on a Friday around noon and was got here on Sunday night.
I could have quite easily made it in two days and one hotel room if I didn't have a scared old lady who last was in the car with me driving when I was a teenager along as a passenger.
putting in a 16+ hour day of driving sucks, but it's not THAT bad if ya take a long break in the middle and a few others in between.
No estoy de acuerdo! Mine's a Mexican build, and it's been awesome. The worst trouble I had with it was a sheared transmission mount bolt and a blown radiator. The radiator was a bitch. It will be needing a new timing chain soon. At 200k, that's to be expected. And I think you're right about the unheated catalyst. At start, an air pump adds outside air to the exhaust charge before hitting the catalyst for about a minute to aid the cold catalyst in getting started.
The interior, however, is a different story. I'm heading out to a junkyard today to seek out a new glove box latch, a cupholder, AND a center console armrest. By the time the car is finally dead, I'll be sitting on a seat on top of the engine and the two drive wheels up front. My MAIN point was (like you saw) that basically any newer car has "creature comforts" that 30 years ago would have been unheard of or prohibitively expensive.
You're right. But, that 2000 Jetta has heated seats, heated mirrors, electric windows, locks, moon roof, front and rear ABS disc brakes, traction control, and even in 10F winter never lets a waft of anything save CO2 and water out the tailpipe. It also has four airbags, shoulder belts in the front AND back, and collision bars in the doors.
I'm with ya - cars now should be getting better mileage. They do, however, already have better creature comforts.
I think you just answered your own question! There's probably 5 mechanics within car-pushing distance from my apartment, and probably 0 that could rebuild a wankel in a few days.
Then you bike in the fucking cold, or you bike in the fucking heat. Just like you would drive in the fucking cold or drive in the fucking heat.
Uh, hi. I know you're being a troll, but rather than mod you down, I'll take the bait. I just moved from PA, where -20 wind chill occurs in the winter often enough to be a problem, to AZ, where 110F in the summer is just plain normal.
Either one sucks, and if you think riding a bike in either is just as comfortable as a car, you're an idiot.
And who the fuck wants to bike in the rain when they have to be to work?
I'm gonna guess you're one of those dicks that takes up a whole lane while riding. It's not the fucking biker's road, they aren't paying a vehicle tax. Get on the goddamn sidewalk.
In the US, this kind of thing is reported in the paper anyway. It is not a new phenomenon. It's the reason why places like the YWCA and various women's shelters exist, and why people like me went to school for social work.
There's plenty of resources out there for battered, well, anybody. However, it takes a very, very determined mind to actually go for it. Even in my very limited experience, I've watched abused persons who finally escaped a life of abuse (with their children, no less) not show up to the court hearing that would have ended the problem permanently. I've seen many more fail because they didn't plan their departure properly.
The worst ones I get to see are the ones where there's no physical abuse at all. To watch a guy take a woman and destroy her by taking away her career, credit, and social life is almost more painful than seeing a guy whoop up on a woman. At least when it's only physical abuse, that woman has other avenues.
It's a shitty, shitty, thing to watch, but don't think this twitter thing really makes it any worse. The usual advice is to tell a person to prepare for when the time comes, when they finally get pushed to far: Let the shelter know whats going on ahead of time, plant "if something happens, X DID IT" notes, make an escape bag and hide it well.
If a person really means to escape any kind of abuse, it is very possible. It does, however, require a little bit more than just a cop.
IIRC, and it's been a while, the prosecutor caught a bunch of flak. Charges may have been dropped. In the end it was just a picture of the girl's tits, not even anything "obscene" by any measure. It has, however, caused the PA legislature to consider changes to the law. I have since moved out of that dead state, but before I left, the idea was to make this type of thing a summary offense (no record) or something handled at the school level.
I cannot cite myself right now, but you should look into recent rulings passed - I don't recall if it was Congress or just an FCC rule, but cable companies are no longer permitted to disable IEEE1394 ports. I'm in Phoenix, and the Cox assholes disable them by default, but according to AVSForum and other source, a stern phone call to them gets them re-enabled. It's not quite as nice as just adding a hard drive, but you can run a little mythtv box and have better functionality than the shitbox Comcast gives you.
It was in Pittsburgh somewhere, on the other side of the state. In edition to corrupting minors (she sent the pic via MMS to her also underage boyfriend), she was charged with manufacture of child porn, and her boyfriend was charged with posession of such.
One of the maintenance men at this student housing complex I worked at when an undergrad found this weird waterproof clamshell box with a large magnet attached to it.
He handed it over to me (I was the residential director/unpaid IT lackey), and inside was a large NiMH battery pack wired to a little GPS receiver. It didn't seem to be working any longer, and plugging it into a USB socket got me nothing. Inside was a unlabelled SIM card, just a white card with the serial number on it.
I ended up tracking down the company that made the transmitter. They had some shitty amateurish website, and said they provided service to, among others, local law enforcement. I emailed them from my work email, and they never did reply. Nobody ever came to get the box, either. The local LEO was a bunch of high-school educated morons anyway, they probably figured they would be in deep shit if ever caught.
Only a GED? Buddy, it's the same as a high school diploma now. I dropped out of high school and got my GED. I was accepted to Penn State and earned two degrees there, working on a JD now.
Don't knock the GED as some lowly thing - on the educational credential scale, you and your boss are on the same level. =)
Well, they're punitive damages. How is a $300 littering on highways fine proportional to the harm caused, when they make a convict pick it up for free anyway?
I guess my first sentence was kind of wrong. My eyes are now straight. They were not so for a few years after my birth, caused by a muscular or neurological defect, and by the time it was fully corrected, my brain had decided that my right eye's image was wrong, thus giving me clear, non-doubled vision. Like I said, that eye functions just fine now, there's just a lot of, well "packet loss" on that eye. I get a clear, crisp image in that eye. It's hard to explain, but it's like looking at an image through a telescope versus seeing it up close.
You're correct. I have "strabismic amblyopia" - a lazy eye that was not corrected in time. It means my eyes are straight (well, most of the time). Unfortunately, by the time it was correctly fixed, my brain had decided that one eye would be the "correct" eye, and the other not-so-correct. As such, even though my eyesight is corrected to 20/20 in both eyes, perception in the right is not good.
The best way to explain it is that my right eye is "dumb" - If I close my right eye and drive, everything is hunky-dory. However, if I close my left and use my right, it is much more difficult to drive, even though I can see 20/20 in that eye.
Because of this, stereoscopic vision is affected. I do have depth perception, but it's not good. It certainly doesn't affect me in daily life, but 3D movies aren't as "exciting" as they are to others, and I can't catch a ball to save my life.
For me, it was because one eye had a muscle problem. However, one can end up with the same symptoms if, at an early age, one eye had significantly worse vision than the other. It can be corrected. I had to wear a patch as a kid, and would rip it off as soon as my mother was out of sight. It can even be corrected the same way as an adult, but it takes longer. Not only that, but it would be debilitating - until my brain re-learned to use my right eye equally, I would be a danger on the road!
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In the words of lawyers, judges, and law professors everywhere, tough. You have a duty to read.
I used to rent apartments, and people would sign the 30 page document, not think twice about why an apartment lease is 30 pages long, and then bitch later when we charge them late fees (even when we have a 4-day grace period, are open until 11PM daily, and tenants can hand the RA in their building a check!).
You have a duty to read. I did have clients that read the whole damn lease and grilled me on it. Some left and decided the terms weren't for them.
NOBODY and I mean NOBODY ever decided to read it before the paid the non-refundable application fee, though.
Next time you're at the movies, try and keep an eye out for the burn in the upper right hand corner every half hour or so. First mark is the warning, second mark means that's the end of the reel.
Nowadays, there's anti-piracy watermarks too, right in the middle of the screen.
That's where I got the AggRite reference from. =) I'm a first-year law student, and I'm from Pennsylvania.
They said the binder was 100% non-toxic. which is only a small percentage of the product (as filler is the rest, up to 80%).
To see another example of "green" being a fib, look up AggRite construction/pavement aggregate.
Ah, OK.
Well, at least we still use logic sometimes around here.
So we're getting our news on the US National Labor Relations Board making a ruling about a dispute involving a US company's policy of prohibiting posting about work to another US company's website from an Indonesian news purveyor ... who quoted it from a US newspaper anyway??
You must do a lot of stopping! I just drove 2300 miles from PA to Arizona - with my mother - this summer. The car had rather shit A/C (leaky $45 fill valve), and once you hit the plains where its so flat you can see the curvature of the earth, it's a fucking boring drive. I left on a Friday around noon and was got here on Sunday night.
I could have quite easily made it in two days and one hotel room if I didn't have a scared old lady who last was in the car with me driving when I was a teenager along as a passenger.
putting in a 16+ hour day of driving sucks, but it's not THAT bad if ya take a long break in the middle and a few others in between.
No estoy de acuerdo! Mine's a Mexican build, and it's been awesome. The worst trouble I had with it was a sheared transmission mount bolt and a blown radiator. The radiator was a bitch. It will be needing a new timing chain soon. At 200k, that's to be expected. And I think you're right about the unheated catalyst. At start, an air pump adds outside air to the exhaust charge before hitting the catalyst for about a minute to aid the cold catalyst in getting started.
The interior, however, is a different story. I'm heading out to a junkyard today to seek out a new glove box latch, a cupholder, AND a center console armrest. By the time the car is finally dead, I'll be sitting on a seat on top of the engine and the two drive wheels up front. My MAIN point was (like you saw) that basically any newer car has "creature comforts" that 30 years ago would have been unheard of or prohibitively expensive.
You're right. But, that 2000 Jetta has heated seats, heated mirrors, electric windows, locks, moon roof, front and rear ABS disc brakes, traction control, and even in 10F winter never lets a waft of anything save CO2 and water out the tailpipe. It also has four airbags, shoulder belts in the front AND back, and collision bars in the doors.
I'm with ya - cars now should be getting better mileage. They do, however, already have better creature comforts.
I think you just answered your own question! There's probably 5 mechanics within car-pushing distance from my apartment, and probably 0 that could rebuild a wankel in a few days.
Yeah! My 2000 Jetta /can/ get 35MPG on the highway now, and that thing has 200,000mi on it!
Wow, Steve looks like an absolute friggin fruitcake in that picture.
Nice suspenders, douche.
Well, most manslaughters are more violent and torturous than murders. And those guilty of manslaughter usually get less punishment.
Uh, hi. I know you're being a troll, but rather than mod you down, I'll take the bait. I just moved from PA, where -20 wind chill occurs in the winter often enough to be a problem, to AZ, where 110F in the summer is just plain normal.
Either one sucks, and if you think riding a bike in either is just as comfortable as a car, you're an idiot.
And who the fuck wants to bike in the rain when they have to be to work?
I'm gonna guess you're one of those dicks that takes up a whole lane while riding. It's not the fucking biker's road, they aren't paying a vehicle tax. Get on the goddamn sidewalk.
I always thought that episode was kinda funny. Tomatoes already contain nicotine!
In the US, this kind of thing is reported in the paper anyway. It is not a new phenomenon. It's the reason why places like the YWCA and various women's shelters exist, and why people like me went to school for social work.
There's plenty of resources out there for battered, well, anybody. However, it takes a very, very determined mind to actually go for it. Even in my very limited experience, I've watched abused persons who finally escaped a life of abuse (with their children, no less) not show up to the court hearing that would have ended the problem permanently. I've seen many more fail because they didn't plan their departure properly.
The worst ones I get to see are the ones where there's no physical abuse at all. To watch a guy take a woman and destroy her by taking away her career, credit, and social life is almost more painful than seeing a guy whoop up on a woman. At least when it's only physical abuse, that woman has other avenues.
It's a shitty, shitty, thing to watch, but don't think this twitter thing really makes it any worse. The usual advice is to tell a person to prepare for when the time comes, when they finally get pushed to far: Let the shelter know whats going on ahead of time, plant "if something happens, X DID IT" notes, make an escape bag and hide it well.
If a person really means to escape any kind of abuse, it is very possible. It does, however, require a little bit more than just a cop.
IIRC, and it's been a while, the prosecutor caught a bunch of flak. Charges may have been dropped. In the end it was just a picture of the girl's tits, not even anything "obscene" by any measure. It has, however, caused the PA legislature to consider changes to the law. I have since moved out of that dead state, but before I left, the idea was to make this type of thing a summary offense (no record) or something handled at the school level.
I cannot cite myself right now, but you should look into recent rulings passed - I don't recall if it was Congress or just an FCC rule, but cable companies are no longer permitted to disable IEEE1394 ports. I'm in Phoenix, and the Cox assholes disable them by default, but according to AVSForum and other source, a stern phone call to them gets them re-enabled. It's not quite as nice as just adding a hard drive, but you can run a little mythtv box and have better functionality than the shitbox Comcast gives you.
It was in Pittsburgh somewhere, on the other side of the state. In edition to corrupting minors (she sent the pic via MMS to her also underage boyfriend), she was charged with manufacture of child porn, and her boyfriend was charged with posession of such.
One of the maintenance men at this student housing complex I worked at when an undergrad found this weird waterproof clamshell box with a large magnet attached to it.
He handed it over to me (I was the residential director/unpaid IT lackey), and inside was a large NiMH battery pack wired to a little GPS receiver. It didn't seem to be working any longer, and plugging it into a USB socket got me nothing. Inside was a unlabelled SIM card, just a white card with the serial number on it.
I ended up tracking down the company that made the transmitter. They had some shitty amateurish website, and said they provided service to, among others, local law enforcement. I emailed them from my work email, and they never did reply. Nobody ever came to get the box, either. The local LEO was a bunch of high-school educated morons anyway, they probably figured they would be in deep shit if ever caught.
Only a GED? Buddy, it's the same as a high school diploma now. I dropped out of high school and got my GED. I was accepted to Penn State and earned two degrees there, working on a JD now.
Don't knock the GED as some lowly thing - on the educational credential scale, you and your boss are on the same level. =)
Yeah, but then they take it out of their account to pay for their stay =)
Well, they're punitive damages. How is a $300 littering on highways fine proportional to the harm caused, when they make a convict pick it up for free anyway?
I guess my first sentence was kind of wrong. My eyes are now straight. They were not so for a few years after my birth, caused by a muscular or neurological defect, and by the time it was fully corrected, my brain had decided that my right eye's image was wrong, thus giving me clear, non-doubled vision. Like I said, that eye functions just fine now, there's just a lot of, well "packet loss" on that eye. I get a clear, crisp image in that eye. It's hard to explain, but it's like looking at an image through a telescope versus seeing it up close.
You're correct. I have "strabismic amblyopia" - a lazy eye that was not corrected in time. It means my eyes are straight (well, most of the time). Unfortunately, by the time it was correctly fixed, my brain had decided that one eye would be the "correct" eye, and the other not-so-correct. As such, even though my eyesight is corrected to 20/20 in both eyes, perception in the right is not good.
The best way to explain it is that my right eye is "dumb" - If I close my right eye and drive, everything is hunky-dory. However, if I close my left and use my right, it is much more difficult to drive, even though I can see 20/20 in that eye.
Because of this, stereoscopic vision is affected. I do have depth perception, but it's not good. It certainly doesn't affect me in daily life, but 3D movies aren't as "exciting" as they are to others, and I can't catch a ball to save my life.
For me, it was because one eye had a muscle problem. However, one can end up with the same symptoms if, at an early age, one eye had significantly worse vision than the other. It can be corrected. I had to wear a patch as a kid, and would rip it off as soon as my mother was out of sight. It can even be corrected the same way as an adult, but it takes longer. Not only that, but it would be debilitating - until my brain re-learned to use my right eye equally, I would be a danger on the road!