No doubt about it. Check cashing is a lucrative business. It's not just check cashing services either. A lot of pawn shops will cash your pay check for a ridiculous fee with minimal identification. Back in the early 90's I worked at a very old pawn shop in Houston for about a year. It was a terrible job that paid well but left me feeling like I always needed a shower. You basically just take complete advantage of people who are very desperate for money and who don't understand how much money you're charging them. Every Friday we'd get a flood of guys (many didn't speak English) coming in to cash very small paychecks that they worked very hard for. You would charge them 10% of what the check was and a surprising number of people were totally fine with that.
I wouldn't expect Korea to ask for the US to withdraw or want it. I think it would be more likely that in return for an end to the North Korean regime the US would come to an agreement with China that Korea would unify under the South's government, China would agree to not oppose the reunification or interfere in any way and the United States would agree to withdraw from the mainland within some mutually agreed time-frame. Essentially Korea wouldn't have a say in it.
Now I can imagine a lot would be made of the US selling Korea down the river but seriously, China borders a lot of countries and it's not like they invade their neighbors all the time. Ok, you got Nepal and then there was that little dust-up with Vietnam a while back. I mean, it's not unheard of but I think they'd keep to their word as long as the US did. There's no good reason to maintain that mess with the two Korea's anymore not from our perspective or China's. With the kind of range that aircraft today possess it's not like falling back to Japan would leave Korea hanging. a US-China conflict is going to be all aircraft and missiles anyway so seriously doubt either side wants that.
I think at this point China wouldn't have anywhere hear the concerns they had 60 years ago with a unified Korea provided that unification got an agreement from the US to withdraw from the mainland. The resulting "Korea" would be a competitor but not a military threat and it would be a competitor that was saddled with the cost of trying to absorb the North. I think that the US pulling back to Japan would be well worth the trouble of shutting down "Best Korea".
You know, I wonder if Lucas understood that the prequels would necessarily be a "fill in the blanks" excercise and tried to avert that with all that added shit that nobody liked. I don't think he's by any means as completely out of touch as many think. I think he's every bit is incompetent as your post portrays him though so I think he tried to fill out the already carved in stone narrative with bad ideas not knowing the difference between good ideas and bad ones anymore.
I imagine far more people who only wanted one track downloaded it illegally instead of buying it. I know I did. In fact a long time ago I added these guys to my "Metallica Response Plan" and downloaded their entire discography in FLAC whereupon I proceeded to give it away freely to every person I encountered who expressed the slightest bit of interest in it.
People like this slow the world down.
Aren't they actually investigating the entire village and so if 96% of the men living there have eliminated themselves as suspects it would seem that then focusing on the remaining men who could still possibly have done it would be entirely correct. They'd be looking closer at him because he as one of only a handful of people left who could possibly be guilty.
Absolutely. That's very much what I was thinking and reading my earlier comment now it almost looks to me like I kept thinking but stopped typing. That was exactly what I meant to say. Thank you.
I disagree and I'm not trying to fight about it. I just think it wasn't laughable, it was sad. "Hope and Change" sound good to a lot of people and I suspect that more people know that their government is fucked up than many of us think. They just don't know what to do about it. Red or Blue, pick your poison. Neither party is offerring any real solutions. Obama just played the outsider well enough to win the election last time and then proceeded to be just like everyone else whose run for President in the last decade or two. Everyone I know who voted for him is dissapointed in him. He should be relatively easy to throw out of office.
Exactly. This is being portrayed as some "Cool Hand Luke" scenario where he gets a night in the box "cause that's how he wants it". When you're in prison not getting to mix with other prisoners is a feature, not a problem.
Incomplete information. The team is developing a robot cat that can be operated by a tiny genetically modified mouse pilot and that can transform into a small fighter plane or combine with 14 other robot cats to make a man-sized robot that looks from a distance like a robotic "Mario".
True, but don't think for a moment that rejection of his party did not play into the vote for Obama. I live in Texas which was without any doubt going to go Republican (and will again). I generally vote Republican though I've crossed over more than once or twice. My wife and I both voted for Obama simply because we were intensely dissatisfied with what GWB had done and what we thought McCain would continue to do if elected. I'm of the opinion that the Republicans are "broken" and while I mostly don't agree with the Democrats I can't see how continuing to vote Republican ever gives them much reason to change. I voted for Obama to get his numbers up in a state he had no chance of winning in hopes that someone on the right might correctly interpret that to mean their supporters were dissatisfied.
That's an interesting point. How many people do visit Houston every year? I don't know the answer to that. It would be easy enough to Google but why bother since this is a done deal. I do know that if anything people might want to see that could or should be in Houston gets moved to say.... New York City then the number of people who visit Houston will never increase while the number of things to see in New York City will continue to grow leading to more and more people visiting New York City. Funny how that works.
People who live along the Gulf coast (save for the Florida portion) or in the center of the country get to drive to either the east or west coast if they want to see an orbiter. That seems fair right? We've only got four of the things so why waste one of them on "flyover country".
Actually, it was my experience that the police academy was an odd mix of high school bullies and the bullied. I was in law enforcement many years ago until I injured my back (at home, in no way work related or anything) and I noticed this right away. You expected to see the bullies there in some number and I guess the bullied makes sense too. What was strange to me was how they got along. The bullies accepted those same people they would have been abusing years before because they were on the same "team" so to speak. The formerly bullied felt like big men being in the company of the tough guys which changed a lot of their attitudes and not for the better. Everyone thinks police are bigots but the truth is actually worse than that. Black people think the police discriminate against them and not whites. Hispanics think the same thing. Whites think they're special and that they get better treatment. The reality though is that all cops are bigots. The only color they like is blue. To most of them "we are all equally worthless".
Cry racism all you want. It doesn't make my words racist anymore than calling these people "artists" makes them in fact artists. I'd have posted a similar comment if the story had been about pop artists but you wouldn't know that because you don't know anything about me.
Apart from the "loosing" I kind of see what he's saying. You constantly hear that it's the content owners right to charge whatever they want for the content and that's true but the reality of the situation is that nothing has value greater than what people are willing to pay for it. Someone may believe that their "whatever" is worth $12 but if nobody is willing to give them that then they're just mistaken. Most of the pirates (downloaders, not uploaders) I know (myself included) pay for their accounts without any concern for anonymity. They pay for the account for faster download speeds and the ability to download multiple parts at one time. I use iTunes as well and don't mind paying for what I want there but I buy songs, not albumes. Episodes, not seasons. Movies, when they're on sale. That I'm willing to pay something to download a file (albeit from someone other than the rightful owner or at a discounted price from a legitimate source) says that there is a price that the public is willing to pay. I just don't think that the content owners/creators are too excited at the new price point. They better adjust though because it's not going away.
I've got a 2006 GTO and I'm here to tell you that the fine folks at Holden clearly didn't get the memo about bad cars no longer being all the rage. The weird thing about my GTO (Monaro) is that the drivetrain is money in the bank. It's everything you have come to expect from GM LS engines. It's the reason you buy the car and the thing hauls ass and eats gasoline like a madman. Everything else is the problem. Owning that car has been a death of a thousand cuts experience. electrical motor in drivers mirror...glovebox latch......electrical motor in passenger mirror......stitiching in rear seats splitting.....sun visor on passengers side falls off......passenger side door lock fails to open...... it goes on and on. None of it fatal but damn, I didn't know it was possible for this many ticky-tack things to fail on one car. I'm not even mad at this point (I love the car too much anyway). I'm impressed!
Isn't it just as likely that Apple could find $1.6 billion between the cushions in the sofa in their living room?
Besides, why worry about losing billions when you could make...... mill..err, more billions than you lose? Apple will pay something and keep making money faster than the rest of us can even imagine. A long time ago I thought that would be so cool. Now I'm not so sure. Apple isn't anything like the version of this company that I pictured in this position though I have to admit that all the signs were there even back when they were struggling just to keep their heads above water.
...that the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself" Now I want to be clear that I'm not in any way advocating or calling for any violent behavior. I'm simply asking a question. Back in the 60's and 70's people used to get assassinated all the time. People would put a bullet in you for being President if they didn't like something you did or publishing Hustler magazine. They'd shoot you for trying to end segregation or just for walking down the road if you were the wrong color. I'm not talking about common murders. Those still take place with alarming regularity. I'm talking about your outraged nut-bar going off after some public figure who's made him angry and filling him full of lead.
I'm not saying anyone should do this to the freaks at Westboro. I'm saying that I'm surprised that nobody has done this yet. And ok, I'm also saying I'd go to that funeral protest in a heartbeat.
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No doubt about it. Check cashing is a lucrative business. It's not just check cashing services either. A lot of pawn shops will cash your pay check for a ridiculous fee with minimal identification. Back in the early 90's I worked at a very old pawn shop in Houston for about a year. It was a terrible job that paid well but left me feeling like I always needed a shower. You basically just take complete advantage of people who are very desperate for money and who don't understand how much money you're charging them. Every Friday we'd get a flood of guys (many didn't speak English) coming in to cash very small paychecks that they worked very hard for. You would charge them 10% of what the check was and a surprising number of people were totally fine with that.
I wouldn't expect Korea to ask for the US to withdraw or want it. I think it would be more likely that in return for an end to the North Korean regime the US would come to an agreement with China that Korea would unify under the South's government, China would agree to not oppose the reunification or interfere in any way and the United States would agree to withdraw from the mainland within some mutually agreed time-frame. Essentially Korea wouldn't have a say in it. Now I can imagine a lot would be made of the US selling Korea down the river but seriously, China borders a lot of countries and it's not like they invade their neighbors all the time. Ok, you got Nepal and then there was that little dust-up with Vietnam a while back. I mean, it's not unheard of but I think they'd keep to their word as long as the US did. There's no good reason to maintain that mess with the two Korea's anymore not from our perspective or China's. With the kind of range that aircraft today possess it's not like falling back to Japan would leave Korea hanging. a US-China conflict is going to be all aircraft and missiles anyway so seriously doubt either side wants that.
I think at this point China wouldn't have anywhere hear the concerns they had 60 years ago with a unified Korea provided that unification got an agreement from the US to withdraw from the mainland. The resulting "Korea" would be a competitor but not a military threat and it would be a competitor that was saddled with the cost of trying to absorb the North. I think that the US pulling back to Japan would be well worth the trouble of shutting down "Best Korea".
You know, I wonder if Lucas understood that the prequels would necessarily be a "fill in the blanks" excercise and tried to avert that with all that added shit that nobody liked. I don't think he's by any means as completely out of touch as many think. I think he's every bit is incompetent as your post portrays him though so I think he tried to fill out the already carved in stone narrative with bad ideas not knowing the difference between good ideas and bad ones anymore.
vacuum cleaners bent on the destruction of the human race?
The record store died long before iTunes son. Go talk to Walmart about that issue. Other than that little detail "as you were".
I imagine far more people who only wanted one track downloaded it illegally instead of buying it. I know I did. In fact a long time ago I added these guys to my "Metallica Response Plan" and downloaded their entire discography in FLAC whereupon I proceeded to give it away freely to every person I encountered who expressed the slightest bit of interest in it. People like this slow the world down.
Aren't they actually investigating the entire village and so if 96% of the men living there have eliminated themselves as suspects it would seem that then focusing on the remaining men who could still possibly have done it would be entirely correct. They'd be looking closer at him because he as one of only a handful of people left who could possibly be guilty.
You're right.
Absolutely. That's very much what I was thinking and reading my earlier comment now it almost looks to me like I kept thinking but stopped typing. That was exactly what I meant to say. Thank you.
I disagree and I'm not trying to fight about it. I just think it wasn't laughable, it was sad. "Hope and Change" sound good to a lot of people and I suspect that more people know that their government is fucked up than many of us think. They just don't know what to do about it. Red or Blue, pick your poison. Neither party is offerring any real solutions. Obama just played the outsider well enough to win the election last time and then proceeded to be just like everyone else whose run for President in the last decade or two. Everyone I know who voted for him is dissapointed in him. He should be relatively easy to throw out of office.
Exactly. This is being portrayed as some "Cool Hand Luke" scenario where he gets a night in the box "cause that's how he wants it". When you're in prison not getting to mix with other prisoners is a feature, not a problem.
Incomplete information. The team is developing a robot cat that can be operated by a tiny genetically modified mouse pilot and that can transform into a small fighter plane or combine with 14 other robot cats to make a man-sized robot that looks from a distance like a robotic "Mario".
True, but don't think for a moment that rejection of his party did not play into the vote for Obama. I live in Texas which was without any doubt going to go Republican (and will again). I generally vote Republican though I've crossed over more than once or twice. My wife and I both voted for Obama simply because we were intensely dissatisfied with what GWB had done and what we thought McCain would continue to do if elected. I'm of the opinion that the Republicans are "broken" and while I mostly don't agree with the Democrats I can't see how continuing to vote Republican ever gives them much reason to change. I voted for Obama to get his numbers up in a state he had no chance of winning in hopes that someone on the right might correctly interpret that to mean their supporters were dissatisfied.
That's an interesting point. How many people do visit Houston every year? I don't know the answer to that. It would be easy enough to Google but why bother since this is a done deal. I do know that if anything people might want to see that could or should be in Houston gets moved to say.... New York City then the number of people who visit Houston will never increase while the number of things to see in New York City will continue to grow leading to more and more people visiting New York City. Funny how that works. People who live along the Gulf coast (save for the Florida portion) or in the center of the country get to drive to either the east or west coast if they want to see an orbiter. That seems fair right? We've only got four of the things so why waste one of them on "flyover country".
They're going to build it completely out of Nan. It will be fast and delicious!
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Actually, it was my experience that the police academy was an odd mix of high school bullies and the bullied. I was in law enforcement many years ago until I injured my back (at home, in no way work related or anything) and I noticed this right away. You expected to see the bullies there in some number and I guess the bullied makes sense too. What was strange to me was how they got along. The bullies accepted those same people they would have been abusing years before because they were on the same "team" so to speak. The formerly bullied felt like big men being in the company of the tough guys which changed a lot of their attitudes and not for the better. Everyone thinks police are bigots but the truth is actually worse than that. Black people think the police discriminate against them and not whites. Hispanics think the same thing. Whites think they're special and that they get better treatment. The reality though is that all cops are bigots. The only color they like is blue. To most of them "we are all equally worthless".
Cry racism all you want. It doesn't make my words racist anymore than calling these people "artists" makes them in fact artists. I'd have posted a similar comment if the story had been about pop artists but you wouldn't know that because you don't know anything about me.
Isn't that like saying "Cheeseburger Physicist".
Apart from the "loosing" I kind of see what he's saying. You constantly hear that it's the content owners right to charge whatever they want for the content and that's true but the reality of the situation is that nothing has value greater than what people are willing to pay for it. Someone may believe that their "whatever" is worth $12 but if nobody is willing to give them that then they're just mistaken. Most of the pirates (downloaders, not uploaders) I know (myself included) pay for their accounts without any concern for anonymity. They pay for the account for faster download speeds and the ability to download multiple parts at one time. I use iTunes as well and don't mind paying for what I want there but I buy songs, not albumes. Episodes, not seasons. Movies, when they're on sale. That I'm willing to pay something to download a file (albeit from someone other than the rightful owner or at a discounted price from a legitimate source) says that there is a price that the public is willing to pay. I just don't think that the content owners/creators are too excited at the new price point. They better adjust though because it's not going away.
I've got a 2006 GTO and I'm here to tell you that the fine folks at Holden clearly didn't get the memo about bad cars no longer being all the rage. The weird thing about my GTO (Monaro) is that the drivetrain is money in the bank. It's everything you have come to expect from GM LS engines. It's the reason you buy the car and the thing hauls ass and eats gasoline like a madman. Everything else is the problem. Owning that car has been a death of a thousand cuts experience. electrical motor in drivers mirror...glovebox latch......electrical motor in passenger mirror......stitiching in rear seats splitting.....sun visor on passengers side falls off......passenger side door lock fails to open...... it goes on and on. None of it fatal but damn, I didn't know it was possible for this many ticky-tack things to fail on one car. I'm not even mad at this point (I love the car too much anyway). I'm impressed!
300HP, it is for to laugh! Nothing less than 400HP will do.
Isn't it just as likely that Apple could find $1.6 billion between the cushions in the sofa in their living room? Besides, why worry about losing billions when you could make...... mill..err, more billions than you lose? Apple will pay something and keep making money faster than the rest of us can even imagine. A long time ago I thought that would be so cool. Now I'm not so sure. Apple isn't anything like the version of this company that I pictured in this position though I have to admit that all the signs were there even back when they were struggling just to keep their heads above water.
...that the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself" Now I want to be clear that I'm not in any way advocating or calling for any violent behavior. I'm simply asking a question. Back in the 60's and 70's people used to get assassinated all the time. People would put a bullet in you for being President if they didn't like something you did or publishing Hustler magazine. They'd shoot you for trying to end segregation or just for walking down the road if you were the wrong color. I'm not talking about common murders. Those still take place with alarming regularity. I'm talking about your outraged nut-bar going off after some public figure who's made him angry and filling him full of lead. I'm not saying anyone should do this to the freaks at Westboro. I'm saying that I'm surprised that nobody has done this yet. And ok, I'm also saying I'd go to that funeral protest in a heartbeat.