For example, while the USPS is not a corporation (is it?), it has a government-granted monopoly on First class mail delivery. You know that
FedEx could do it better and cheaper, but the USPS is covering its butt. If FedEx tries to do it, they get nailed by the government.
Back in January, USPS gave FedEx most (all?) of the Express Mail business. FedEx will be installing a drop box in a post office near you shortly. See story here. Or google for it yourself.
True, FedEx isn't going to be handling first class mail (yet), but even this deal was shocking when it happened.
Right-to-work means that you don't have to join a union (nor have union dues deducted from your pay if you do not belong to a union), and that if you go on strike, you can be fired.
If I remember correctly, low-threshold speeding tickets (something like 15 mph over the speed limit) are not speeding tickets but are fines for "wasting a finite natural resource".
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For example, while the USPS is not a corporation (is it?), it has a government-granted monopoly on First class mail delivery. You know that
FedEx could do it better and cheaper, but the USPS is covering its butt. If FedEx tries to do it, they get nailed by the government.
Back in January, USPS gave FedEx most (all?) of the Express Mail business. FedEx will be installing a drop box in a post office near you shortly. See story here. Or google for it yourself.
True, FedEx isn't going to be handling first class mail (yet), but even this deal was shocking when it happened.
re: Isn't this a "right-to-work" country?
No.
A list of right-to-work states can be found here.
Right-to-work means that you don't have to join a union (nor have union dues deducted from your pay if you do not belong to a union), and that if you go on strike, you can be fired.
Link it, man, link it:
The story questioning the ontological status of Pluto
And we haven't yet visited 2000 EB173, isn't 2000 EB173 good enough for you?
Barring the Everquest model, how can these principles be applied to make money off of games?
Maybe 1-900-HELP-ME numbers, for people too silly to search for "walkthrough foo"?
Visicalc all the way, man.
Mr. Ross, he dead.
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I feel like I'm forgetting one.
If I remember correctly, low-threshold speeding tickets (something like 15 mph over the speed limit) are not speeding tickets but are fines for "wasting a finite natural resource".
I think NASA might have some satellites or something. Maybe.