A) only if you don't have a visa -- it's for registering you with the local police B) I was referring to handing over as a "security deposit."
I traveled extensively throughout the EU and eastern Europe (yes, after 9-11). The hotel really has no business touching your passport. The only reason they may do so is to save you the trouble of checking in a the local police office as a foreign national (depending on the state). I didn't go to Russia at all, I hear they actually do have such requirements -- but in the EU and most of eastern Europe, I would not agree.
Either way, this is tangential to the main point -- losing your passport is not exactly the end of the world.
Which one would you pick for storing sensitive information which, if made inaccessible, has the potential to prevent you from ever seeing your loved ones, your home, or any of your possessions again?
Neither?
Even if you intentionally light your passport on fire and fling it into the U.S. Embassy, you still have the right to return if you're a U.S. Citizen. (admittedly, probably after at least a few days in jail for lighting something on fire and flinging it into an occupied building.) I went to the Chzech republic once with some other students from the U.S., while we were there one of my friends made with the stupid and agreed to leave her passport with her hotel as a security deposit (do NOT do this). Naturally when she tried to retrieve it her passport was gone (stolen, they are valuable).
Was she "prevented from ever seeing [her] loved ones, [her] home, or any of [her] possessions again?" Of course not, she went to the U.S. Embassy. They harangued her for being stupid and issued her a temporary passport to get back to Italy with. Once we were back in Italy the U.S. Embassy in Rome issued her a new permanent passport. Getting her Italian Visa replaced was harder.
When you travel outside the U.S., you need to accept that you may not be able to keep to your schedule, plan for it. Book all your flights with a single airline (so that when Airline A screws up and you miss a connecting flight its their problem, not yours). Leave some vacation time (a day or two) on the return side of your trip. Don't try to sneak pot back out of Amsterdam (no, seriously, wtf are you thinking?). You have to take precautions.
But what you describe, has no connection to reality.
The greatest drawback to this approach is, the cost of transporting all that ammo.
And you answer your own question. For now, weight == incredible value. Then again -- a high powered water hose is indistinguishable for a cannon in space. (Water sprays out, freezes, and retains its velocity -- also, since no air, the droplets are likely to be spherical / ovular -- great for penetration). Then again -- water is ALSO expensive as hell to put in orbit -- but at least it has more uses and is less likely to trigger a massive explosion that destroys the ship its in.
Anyway, there are so many variables that go into that its not even funny -- do you live in a fault or no fault divorce state? How long were you married? Who brought assets into the marriage and how much? Were any source of income kept out of the marital estate?
Actual division of assets should be 50/50 in a no fault communal property state. Child support, spousal support, etc is not division of assets -- it is a new obligation beyond the termination of the marital estate.
Seriously, this is a terrible question for the/. community. You're going to get mocked, and maybe told that you shouldn't have married him/her/it if you didn't want to give him/her/it 51% of everything you own (round-up errors).
More seriously -- it's all about classifying property. Depending on state law, you may be able to retain individual ownership of some accounts / and anything business related, like a domain for a small business. Any interest you have in a company is likely to get split in half, if the company owns the digital assets then the ownership is derivative. If you have domain names you need for work, consider asking your spouse to consent to a flat evaluation at the price of registration -- create a corporation/LLC for your business identity and trasfer the assets out for good value.
I had similar issues with VZ for awhile -- there is a minimum speed and up-time in the contract -- but its very minimum, same with my comcast cable modem "up to 12" "6 guaranteed" "up to 25mbps" "6 guaranteed" -- wut?
So, yes, companies are out to fuck us. The world goes on.
Doctors are obly open to malptactice if they do not engage in the level of care that a normative "average" doctor would, and then only if the doctor's negligebce was the proximate cause of the harm.
Further, the argument you propose would probably be rejected on public policy grounds - immagine a world in which doctors could be found to have committed malpractice by allowing sick children to visit the doctor. It is facially absurd.
Uhm . . . yes, often, almost daily. I would not describe it as "sux" so much as "adequate." I've tried to ask Siri questions, anything more substantive than "what are you wearing" hur hur, tends to get an error or she answers some other question. Speech to text is not perfect -- I have what I like to call the "foreign tongue test" -- hand your phone off to someone with a heavy foreign accent (anyone from the mid-east tends to work great) and have them speak to the the phone. The android adapts in 1-3 questions -- Siri just dies.
I will note that Obama is widely mocked for his obvious weather-vanning on this point. However, again, Santorum isn't a bigot only because he opposes gay marriage, he's a bigot because he thinks gay men having sex are the equivalent of people that have sex with dogs. He thinks that Lawerence v. Texas was wrongly decided (and therefore that having sex as a gay man or woman should be a criminal offense). He believes that gay men and women should not be allowed to adopt children. In short, he believes a lot of offensive hateful things and plans to use the power of whatever office he attains to enforce his personal bigotry on the nation.
I think Apple's goal is to get to the point where it extracts enough licensing deals out of Android manufacturers that Apple starts to make more off of Android sales then Google does. Cornering the market by extortion.
Santorum believes that Lawerence v. Texas was wrongly decided, that is to say, Santorum believes gay people should be put in prison if they have sex.
Morover, Santorum is openly hostile to allowing gay adoption. Given that Dan Savage has an adopted son, that too is a direct threat to Savage's way of life.
Santorum's intollerant bullshit goes way beyond gay marriage. That's just the level of hate it is socially acceptable to express for the time being
The quotation is also a "fallacy", if used without context. Imagine there's a party saying there should be a law that will kill you and your family, will you "defend it to the death"?
Yes, and oppose it equally -- through speech, not violence.
But there *is* not federal education policy other than that math and english must be tested. The expense isn't any kind of push-back by the text book makers, they just charge extra (a lot extra) to make a text tailored for a particular state.
Yes, California *could* do as you suggest, but California does not have a unitary politically active education committee charged with approving and amending curricula. Like most states its left to the schools.
As to why the text book manufacturers have all the power -- have you paid *any* attention to school funding issue in the last... oh... say... forever? We've never adequately funding education except very very briefly during the great society movement (really the high point for U.S. development and innovation in almost every field) when the Feds pushed a few million down from above -- other than that education has always been at best a third string after tax cuts and largesse in local and state spending.
States are fundamentally bad at organizing for longitudinal benefits -- like education -- the fear things like, oh say, being inundated by poor people looking for a better education for their children (see the many many attempts in California of the decades to limit access to public schools for recent emigrates.).
I think the best form of democracy consists of the most local form that can get the job done. Having a national army on the Federal level is going to be necessary to protect the whole country from larger aggressors, and certainly it is a bad idea to have localized foreign policy, but do we really need the Federal government to synchronize education, for instance? I'd say not, and the arguments that I hear from some people along the lines of "we can't let the hicks stop teaching evolution," or the like, I think is an invalidation of the principle of government by the People. I also feel that such polarization starts happening when individuals feel they need to become more and more radicalized to even be heard in the larger governmental venues.
You did catch that whole thing where Texas basically gets to dictate national policy on education because it writes mandates for the publishers and the publishers don't want to make multiple prints of the book -- so we all get what Texas wants. Education policy isn't nationalized by the Feds. It's nationalized by the book publishers.
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A) only if you don't have a visa -- it's for registering you with the local police B) I was referring to handing over as a "security deposit."
I traveled extensively throughout the EU and eastern Europe (yes, after 9-11). The hotel really has no business touching your passport. The only reason they may do so is to save you the trouble of checking in a the local police office as a foreign national (depending on the state). I didn't go to Russia at all, I hear they actually do have such requirements -- but in the EU and most of eastern Europe, I would not agree.
Either way, this is tangential to the main point -- losing your passport is not exactly the end of the world.
-GiH
Learning to ride a horse is thoroughly enjoyable. You should try it.
Also -- they're not actually all that efficient when you consider the massive quantities of food and space they need to live in.
-GiH
Which one would you pick for storing sensitive information which, if made inaccessible, has the potential to prevent you from ever seeing your loved ones, your home, or any of your possessions again?
Neither?
Even if you intentionally light your passport on fire and fling it into the U.S. Embassy, you still have the right to return if you're a U.S. Citizen. (admittedly, probably after at least a few days in jail for lighting something on fire and flinging it into an occupied building.) I went to the Chzech republic once with some other students from the U.S., while we were there one of my friends made with the stupid and agreed to leave her passport with her hotel as a security deposit (do NOT do this). Naturally when she tried to retrieve it her passport was gone (stolen, they are valuable).
Was she "prevented from ever seeing [her] loved ones, [her] home, or any of [her] possessions again?" Of course not, she went to the U.S. Embassy. They harangued her for being stupid and issued her a temporary passport to get back to Italy with. Once we were back in Italy the U.S. Embassy in Rome issued her a new permanent passport. Getting her Italian Visa replaced was harder.
When you travel outside the U.S., you need to accept that you may not be able to keep to your schedule, plan for it. Book all your flights with a single airline (so that when Airline A screws up and you miss a connecting flight its their problem, not yours). Leave some vacation time (a day or two) on the return side of your trip. Don't try to sneak pot back out of Amsterdam (no, seriously, wtf are you thinking?). You have to take precautions.
But what you describe, has no connection to reality.
The greatest drawback to this approach is, the cost of transporting all that ammo.
And you answer your own question. For now, weight == incredible value. Then again -- a high powered water hose is indistinguishable for a cannon in space. (Water sprays out, freezes, and retains its velocity -- also, since no air, the droplets are likely to be spherical / ovular -- great for penetration). Then again -- water is ALSO expensive as hell to put in orbit -- but at least it has more uses and is less likely to trigger a massive explosion that destroys the ship its in.
-GiH
Define "all they own."
Anyway, there are so many variables that go into that its not even funny -- do you live in a fault or no fault divorce state? How long were you married? Who brought assets into the marriage and how much? Were any source of income kept out of the marital estate?
Actual division of assets should be 50/50 in a no fault communal property state. Child support, spousal support, etc is not division of assets -- it is a new obligation beyond the termination of the marital estate.
-GiH
Seriously, this is a terrible question for the /. community. You're going to get mocked, and maybe told that you shouldn't have married him/her/it if you didn't want to give him/her/it 51% of everything you own (round-up errors).
More seriously -- it's all about classifying property. Depending on state law, you may be able to retain individual ownership of some accounts / and anything business related, like a domain for a small business. Any interest you have in a company is likely to get split in half, if the company owns the digital assets then the ownership is derivative. If you have domain names you need for work, consider asking your spouse to consent to a flat evaluation at the price of registration -- create a corporation/LLC for your business identity and trasfer the assets out for good value.
Else -- SEE YOUR LAWYER.
-GiH.
Disagree -- you can stop /paid for/ piracy. The free shit carries on unabated.
-GiH
Heh "fail" requires a goal.
I had similar issues with VZ for awhile -- there is a minimum speed and up-time in the contract -- but its very minimum, same with my comcast cable modem "up to 12" "6 guaranteed" "up to 25mbps" "6 guaranteed" -- wut?
So, yes, companies are out to fuck us. The world goes on.
No.
Doctors are obly open to malptactice if they do not engage in the level of care that a normative "average" doctor would, and then only if the doctor's negligebce was the proximate cause of the harm.
Further, the argument you propose would probably be rejected on public policy grounds - immagine a world in which doctors could be found to have committed malpractice by allowing sick children to visit the doctor. It is facially absurd.
-GIH
I wonder . . .
Would you like to play a game?
Uhm . . . yes, often, almost daily. I would not describe it as "sux" so much as "adequate." I've tried to ask Siri questions, anything more substantive than "what are you wearing" hur hur, tends to get an error or she answers some other question. Speech to text is not perfect -- I have what I like to call the "foreign tongue test" -- hand your phone off to someone with a heavy foreign accent (anyone from the mid-east tends to work great) and have them speak to the the phone. The android adapts in 1-3 questions -- Siri just dies.
-GiH
Clearly I am devastated by your opinion of me.
They're also buried in patent applications -- the system feeds the disease accelerating the deviancy of the system.
Not so, he's been "evolving." New York Magazine (opinion).
I will note that Obama is widely mocked for his obvious weather-vanning on this point. However, again, Santorum isn't a bigot only because he opposes gay marriage, he's a bigot because he thinks gay men having sex are the equivalent of people that have sex with dogs. He thinks that Lawerence v. Texas was wrongly decided (and therefore that having sex as a gay man or woman should be a criminal offense). He believes that gay men and women should not be allowed to adopt children. In short, he believes a lot of offensive hateful things and plans to use the power of whatever office he attains to enforce his personal bigotry on the nation.
-GiH
A key concept in patent law is that you cannot patent an idea, only its implementation. Apple has taken that and thrown it out the window. -Adam
I think Apple's goal is to get to the point where it extracts enough licensing deals out of Android manufacturers that Apple starts to make more off of Android sales then Google does. Cornering the market by extortion.
+2 Correct.
Also, that "most people's view" crap is over. Gallup.com - Majority of American's Favor Legal Gay-Marriage
Bigotry isn't as popular as it used to be.
-GiH
Santorum believes that Lawerence v. Texas was wrongly decided, that is to say, Santorum believes gay people should be put in prison if they have sex.
Morover, Santorum is openly hostile to allowing gay adoption. Given that Dan Savage has an adopted son, that too is a direct threat to Savage's way of life.
Santorum's intollerant bullshit goes way beyond gay marriage. That's just the level of hate it is socially acceptable to express for the time being
The quotation is also a "fallacy", if used without context. Imagine there's a party saying there should be a law that will kill you and your family, will you "defend it to the death"?
Yes, and oppose it equally -- through speech, not violence.
-GiH
But there *is* not federal education policy other than that math and english must be tested. The expense isn't any kind of push-back by the text book makers, they just charge extra (a lot extra) to make a text tailored for a particular state.
... say ... forever? We've never adequately funding education except very very briefly during the great society movement (really the high point for U.S. development and innovation in almost every field) when the Feds pushed a few million down from above -- other than that education has always been at best a third string after tax cuts and largesse in local and state spending.
Yes, California *could* do as you suggest, but California does not have a unitary politically active education committee charged with approving and amending curricula. Like most states its left to the schools.
As to why the text book manufacturers have all the power -- have you paid *any* attention to school funding issue in the last... oh
States are fundamentally bad at organizing for longitudinal benefits -- like education -- the fear things like, oh say, being inundated by poor people looking for a better education for their children (see the many many attempts in California of the decades to limit access to public schools for recent emigrates.).
er ... right?
I think the best form of democracy consists of the most local form that can get the job done. Having a national army on the Federal level is going to be necessary to protect the whole country from larger aggressors, and certainly it is a bad idea to have localized foreign policy, but do we really need the Federal government to synchronize education, for instance? I'd say not, and the arguments that I hear from some people along the lines of "we can't let the hicks stop teaching evolution," or the like, I think is an invalidation of the principle of government by the People. I also feel that such polarization starts happening when individuals feel they need to become more and more radicalized to even be heard in the larger governmental venues.
You did catch that whole thing where Texas basically gets to dictate national policy on education because it writes mandates for the publishers and the publishers don't want to make multiple prints of the book -- so we all get what Texas wants. Education policy isn't nationalized by the Feds. It's nationalized by the book publishers.
-GiH