Declare bankruptcy, therefore ruining your financial future
That's particularly scary in light of the new changes to bankruptcy law. That is, it will be almost pointless to file since you'll still have to pay off everything, which I used to think was a good idea until I considered your scenario.
I was thinking maybe loser pays proportionally. That way if, as in your example, Toyota spent.001% of their gross income on the legal fees for your case, you'd pay.001% of your gross income if you lost. The only problem is that would be an unreasonable risk for Toyota if you spent, say, 500% of your gross annual income on legal fees. It would, however, be an incredibly good gamble for anyone with low income to file hundreds of frivilous lawsuits until they won one, became billionaires, and every company in the US went out of business. Until they suddenly found themselves the target of thousands of frivilous lawsuits, ad infinitum.
I think CSI "borrowed" from that documentary in one of their episodes as well. Too bad they introduce enough pseudo-science to offset any actual educational benefits of the show.
Some people deal with tragedy by laughing at it and making jokes. Maybe you don't find that appropriate, but some people don't see crying as an appropriate response either. Regardless, intolerance won't help anything.
Maybe we'll have a War on Hurricanes now! We can spend billions to build floating fortresses armed with nuclear missiles to blow the hurricanes to smithereens!! Sure, we'll have fallout and it might not even stop the hurricanes, but that's not our fault. Either the hurricanes are with us or against us. We can set up border patrols to make sure nobody's transporting any hurricanes in their shoes or pockets. Then, to distract attention from the ineffective War on Hurricanes, we could launch an all out pre-emptive surprise attack on dolphins. We'll say we thought they were planning an attack on our fisheries. Then when we find out they were eating wild fish, we'll just say they were harboring Hurricanes.
Blizzards and "sweltering summers," don't generally wipe out entire cities.
Tornadoes can occur anywhere and even in tornado alley are relatively rare. Certainly the only guarantee of being affected by a tornado is living in a trailer park in Oklahoma.
Most of the land in most of the eastern states, for example, are well above sea level, outside of flood basins, rarely experience tornados, and very rarely experience earthquakes. The possibility of being directly affected by a natural disaster will exist anywhere, but some places are inherently riskier than others.
I currently live in the South Pacific, where getting hit by a typhoon (same thing as hurricane, just what they call it in the Pacific) is a regular occurance -- in fact, there's one bearing down on us this very minute. Fortunately, we're mostly all well above sea level so flooding isn't an issue, and homes have been required to be built out of reinforced concrete by building codes since the 1960s. As a result, there were 0 deaths two years ago when we got pummeled by a super-typhoon (Class 5 hurricane) with sustained winds over 160MPH and gusts over 190. It did take two months to get the power back to 100%, but that was just a minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things.
That would only push the next disaster off for another 100 years, when the city has once again sunk.
New Orleans isn't just below sea level, it's sinking, as in present tense.
There's already perfectly good land that's above sea level, it's just not in New Orleans. I realize that in the past 100 years or so we've always been stubborn enough to rebuild a city rather than abandon it, but this might be the time to admit that mother nature is just a little more determined and capable than we are.
While the current situation is horrible beyond what I'd wish on anyone, it should have come as a surprise to no one. I can remember learning in high school that it wasn't a question of if, but when. And that was a high school in Virginia.
There's no reason a culture can't exist in a different location. You might not have the same stories to tell about who walked where and built what, but being alive and living in a relatively safe location (e.g., above sea level) is sort of important too.
I think a far better idea would be to call it a wash and rebuild New New Orleans further inland. The land under New Orleans is soft and, if I'm not mistaken, continues to sink even today. Why rebuild in an area where any number of problems could wipe out the entire city -- again? I realize there are historic resons, and sentimental reasons, and those will probably overrule the practical reasons to just leave it to nature and the archeaologists of the future. It wouldn't be the first city in history which wasn't rebuilt.
I never bought MS Office after Office XP,and I rarely ever used that. [sic]
Therefore my entire review is speculative and based on nothing more than my memory of a previous generation of software. But don't let that stop me from drawing broad comparisons such as, "In fact, I find it easier to use OpenOffice's interface than MS Office's for various things."
Of course you're going to find it easier to use the interface you use regularly, unless one of the products offers some revolutionary new concept, such as reading your mind, or automatically parsing e-mails from your boss and creating the appropriate responses. (Come to think of it, Outlook already does that for me with the Delete rule).
OpenOffice also supports all of the major features of MS Office.
I'm not sure what a major feature would be. Opening/Saving? Changing fonts? WSYIWYG? WordPad contains all the major features of Word, and it's also free.
I'm personally fine with not having a grammar checker since it has given me the opportunity to actually learn the English language instead of relying on my word processor to make my sentences coherent.
That's like saying spellcheck is pointless because you already know how to spell. Sometimes you just make mistakes which can be hard to detect, such as transposing two letters which still form a valid word, or writing a preposition twice. That said, I'd never rely on Word's grammar checking as an authoritative judge of whether or not my writing is correct.
But I guess it's a lot more fun to write things like "wipes the floor with," than it is to make a direct comparison of features which readers could actually use to make an informed decision.
Except the density goes the other way.. unlike most substances, water expands when it freezes, not when it melts. That's why you have to remember to take your drink out of the freezer before it freezes.
Most density numbers assume pure water (ice) as well. It's likely there are air pockets and debris in the glaciers which makes the volume of water even less.
They don't need to have a strip club.. some nontrivial percent of currency has fecal matter on it anyway. (In addition to the cocaine you already knew about).
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That would definately be the shock heard round the world.
That's what he meant. All one of them.
How do you get blood out of a turnip?
By garnishing wages.
We don't have debters prisons.
Right now.. but it would surprise me not at all if the current administration tried to change that.
Declare bankruptcy, therefore ruining your financial future
That's particularly scary in light of the new changes to bankruptcy law. That is, it will be almost pointless to file since you'll still have to pay off everything, which I used to think was a good idea until I considered your scenario.
I was thinking maybe loser pays proportionally. That way if, as in your example, Toyota spent .001% of their gross income on the legal fees for your case, you'd pay .001% of your gross income if you lost. The only problem is that would be an unreasonable risk for Toyota if you spent, say, 500% of your gross annual income on legal fees. It would, however, be an incredibly good gamble for anyone with low income to file hundreds of frivilous lawsuits until they won one, became billionaires, and every company in the US went out of business. Until they suddenly found themselves the target of thousands of frivilous lawsuits, ad infinitum.
3a. Produce custom clip-on "Static Man" cover for Stun Master.
I think CSI "borrowed" from that documentary in one of their episodes as well. Too bad they introduce enough pseudo-science to offset any actual educational benefits of the show.
I'm pretty sure he was joking.
"Never attribute to ignorance that which can adequately be explained by sarcasm."
-Me (Just Now)
My mistake.. I substituted "volume," in my mind when I read the word density in your post.
I can't read.
How can you post a story about a lunar penguin with no pictures?
I know penguins, and that, sir, is no penguin.
Some people deal with tragedy by laughing at it and making jokes. Maybe you don't find that appropriate, but some people don't see crying as an appropriate response either. Regardless, intolerance won't help anything.
Woah..
Maybe we'll have a War on Hurricanes now! We can spend billions to build floating fortresses armed with nuclear missiles to blow the hurricanes to smithereens!! Sure, we'll have fallout and it might not even stop the hurricanes, but that's not our fault. Either the hurricanes are with us or against us. We can set up border patrols to make sure nobody's transporting any hurricanes in their shoes or pockets. Then, to distract attention from the ineffective War on Hurricanes, we could launch an all out pre-emptive surprise attack on dolphins. We'll say we thought they were planning an attack on our fisheries. Then when we find out they were eating wild fish, we'll just say they were harboring Hurricanes.
Blizzards and "sweltering summers," don't generally wipe out entire cities.
Tornadoes can occur anywhere and even in tornado alley are relatively rare. Certainly the only guarantee of being affected by a tornado is living in a trailer park in Oklahoma.
Most of the land in most of the eastern states, for example, are well above sea level, outside of flood basins, rarely experience tornados, and very rarely experience earthquakes. The possibility of being directly affected by a natural disaster will exist anywhere, but some places are inherently riskier than others.
I currently live in the South Pacific, where getting hit by a typhoon (same thing as hurricane, just what they call it in the Pacific) is a regular occurance -- in fact, there's one bearing down on us this very minute. Fortunately, we're mostly all well above sea level so flooding isn't an issue, and homes have been required to be built out of reinforced concrete by building codes since the 1960s. As a result, there were 0 deaths two years ago when we got pummeled by a super-typhoon (Class 5 hurricane) with sustained winds over 160MPH and gusts over 190. It did take two months to get the power back to 100%, but that was just a minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things.
That would only push the next disaster off for another 100 years, when the city has once again sunk.
New Orleans isn't just below sea level, it's sinking, as in present tense.
There's already perfectly good land that's above sea level, it's just not in New Orleans. I realize that in the past 100 years or so we've always been stubborn enough to rebuild a city rather than abandon it, but this might be the time to admit that mother nature is just a little more determined and capable than we are.
While the current situation is horrible beyond what I'd wish on anyone, it should have come as a surprise to no one. I can remember learning in high school that it wasn't a question of if, but when. And that was a high school in Virginia.
Something like 30 people alone died in a building that blew over, and you obviously can't blame that on the flooding.
Actually it collapsed when it got hit by the storm surge, which is flooding; just from the ocean instead of a lake or a river.
What we must not do it build the damn city back the way it was. Yes, it will probably be cheaper right now. It won't be cheaper in the long run.
Exactly. Which is why they should do the cheaper AND rational solution: Rebuild elsewhere.
There's no reason a culture can't exist in a different location. You might not have the same stories to tell about who walked where and built what, but being alive and living in a relatively safe location (e.g., above sea level) is sort of important too.
I think a far better idea would be to call it a wash and rebuild New New Orleans further inland. The land under New Orleans is soft and, if I'm not mistaken, continues to sink even today. Why rebuild in an area where any number of problems could wipe out the entire city -- again? I realize there are historic resons, and sentimental reasons, and those will probably overrule the practical reasons to just leave it to nature and the archeaologists of the future. It wouldn't be the first city in history which wasn't rebuilt.
I never bought MS Office after Office XP ,and I rarely ever used that. [sic]
Therefore my entire review is speculative and based on nothing more than my memory of a previous generation of software. But don't let that stop me from drawing broad comparisons such as, "In fact, I find it easier to use OpenOffice's interface than MS Office's for various things."
Of course you're going to find it easier to use the interface you use regularly, unless one of the products offers some revolutionary new concept, such as reading your mind, or automatically parsing e-mails from your boss and creating the appropriate responses. (Come to think of it, Outlook already does that for me with the Delete rule).
OpenOffice also supports all of the major features of MS Office.
I'm not sure what a major feature would be. Opening/Saving? Changing fonts? WSYIWYG? WordPad contains all the major features of Word, and it's also free.
I'm personally fine with not having a grammar checker since it has given me the opportunity to actually learn the English language instead of relying on my word processor to make my sentences coherent.
That's like saying spellcheck is pointless because you already know how to spell. Sometimes you just make mistakes which can be hard to detect, such as transposing two letters which still form a valid word, or writing a preposition twice. That said, I'd never rely on Word's grammar checking as an authoritative judge of whether or not my writing is correct.
But I guess it's a lot more fun to write things like "wipes the floor with," than it is to make a direct comparison of features which readers could actually use to make an informed decision.
Except the density goes the other way.. unlike most substances, water expands when it freezes, not when it melts. That's why you have to remember to take your drink out of the freezer before it freezes.
Most density numbers assume pure water (ice) as well. It's likely there are air pockets and debris in the glaciers which makes the volume of water even less.
They don't need to have a strip club.. some nontrivial percent of currency has fecal matter on it anyway. (In addition to the cocaine you already knew about).
I'd just use the same technique I used as a kid to keep my sister from eating my food...
Just lick all of your M&Ms before you place your bet.
You're such a nerd.
So y = r^3/3. And if you determine the rate of change in this curve correctly, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.