It goes back even more, to the 1960s or 1970s, in the "Casino" episode of Mission: Impossible (the real one, the good one, not that crap with the self-aggrandizing Tom Cruise). They drilled into a vault and ran a vacuum to suck out all the money.
I'm the one who, by choice, hasn't been in to work since 2007. I'm the one that didn't have to work on Labor Day, or the week before, the week after, or any time throughout the whole year.
My biggest "job" is spending about 15 hours a week practicing on the dance floor.
But, please, keep coming up with your bumper sticker philosophies. You might find one that's accurate some day.
I have a wall crammed with plaques and trophies I've won as a competitive ballroom dancer.
And, to top it off, I'm a full-fledged nerd/geek who ran his own business for years, based on software he wrote and did well enough with his own programming he retired at 45.
And, before trolls start in with other comments, yes, I have a girlfriend and she does well at ballroom competitions, too.
Oh, also (and this got clipped in my previous reply), do you really think they'll let a limit like that kill the show if it's doing well? Maybe they'll say it was more a Timelord law than a physical limit. I'm sure they could make a big deal about it and create an interesting story on how he beats that limit.
I've also seen disagreements about if that means that he can only have 13 versions of himself or go through 13 regenerations. If the latter, he could appear as 14 different versions, since his first version was not from a regeneration.
Actually, in the new one, there wasn't a 3 year Doctor. David Tennant did 3 years (1 with Rose, 1 with Martha, and 1 with Donna), then did the specials.
Also, it was known (to them) from the start that Ecclestein was going to only do 1 season, so they had planned that from the start and kept it secret (they wanted the regeneration to be a surprise).
As to 13 regenerations, do you really think they're going to let that end the series? It's been stated a Timelord could theoretically live forever. I'm sure they'll find an interesting way to make surviving #13 a good story. (There's also debate whether they mean 13 regeneration events or only 13 Doctors.)
While we see him (9th Doctor) looking at his face as if it were new to him early on, there are many pictures of him that show up in the search later that indicate he's been around a good while, so it's possible they considered it to be the last of the old Doctors.
That's simple: Just get a TV from Barsoom, since they can split light into not just the regular 7 rays we know of on Earth, but the 8th and 9th rays as well. Maybe those are squant and octarine? After all, they've been aware of the 9 colors in the spectrum for thousand and thousands of years, well before John Carter ever made it to Barsoom. We still don't know what those extra colors look like.
I've seen many cases of people I personally knew who grew up knowing they had trust funds that would provide a regular income, or who inherited a large sum of money that could provide a lifetime income, or other similar situations. In many cases they turned out okay, but, in general, the younger a person was when he learned he was set up for life, the less likely he (or she) was to learn to make their own way in life.
This isn't true in every case, but I've seen it as the case more often than not.
It wasn't masturbation. I can't remember if it was in an article linked to by/. or from Google news, but the student involved was eating candy that they mistook for drugs. I can't remember the name of the candy, but it looked close enough to capsule or caplet form that the school people just assumed (intentional use of that word) that it was illegal drugs.
I hope the student ends up able to retire on the punitive damages he gets. While it's not the best for him, it'd make the school district and others think about it more. They won't ever see this based on ethics, but they might make changes based on fear of damage awards.
Do you have anything more objective than a subjective, "He looked fresh?"
Also remember, while he's not the only one like this, his background is mountain biking. He was on his own turf, so to speak.
As to the water, if you kept up and listened to what was going on, one of the biggest issues when he bonked was water. Nobody was able to get water to him when he needed it. Have you ever ridden hard and tried to keep going well after your water ran out? When you bonk due to one issue, you tend to overcompensate for it the next time out.
Why not take time to study and understand religion before replying again and just denigrating it in a way that show your ignorance of understanding various belief systems?
Anyone who watched Landis win the TdF and has followed the issue can find much more wrong with the tests than valid with them. He's been using a meter on his bike to measure his power output longer than other riders and he actually used less power in the day of that amazing catch-up ride than he did on many other days. Also, the drug he's accused of using is a blood level drug, one that provides most of the benefit over time and it builds up in the body, yet in the tests two and three days later there is no trace of it in his body at all. Also, only a few of the possible markers were there, most were not. And there's more.
Landis grew up with traditional Mennonites. His parents had to go to someone else's house to see his performance in the Tour de France because they don't even own a TV.
I get your point. I went to college in Harrisonburg, VA, deep in Mennonite territory. Many stores had hitching posts for the horse and buggies Mennonites drove, but on the other hand the lead engineer at the only non-PBS station there was a friend of mine and a Mennonite and knew electronics better than I ever will, but Landis was raised in a traditional family. One problem he had when he was younger and wanted to ride was having to always wear sweat pants when training due to their issues about modesty.
I didn't do the math to figure out how many shares had been issued, and not that it's any of your business, but at one time, yes I did own $1 million in BB stock and knew others who did.
I really wish people would get it out of their head that 1,000,000 is still a magical number when it comes to money. If you want to make sure your investment keeps pace with inflation, then you can only dray $30,000 to $40,000 yearly off $1,000,000 for living and at that point, things are tenuous. You'd almost need double to retire or put yourself into that real comfort zone.
I can tell you from personal experience that it doesn't matter to them when you walk in to the store. That's speaking from personal experience, before deciding it was time to break up that huge block (they're big enough they don't have the growth potential they once had) and diversify it in other holdings.
They don't care even if you own more than a few shares of Best Buy when you walk in that door. Even if you own $1 million in BB stock, it won't make a difference how they treat you.
I've had to deal with corporations and creating and using them a fair amount recently, due to not only several of my own companies, but also to deal with estate and trust issues.
No, it's not fun to set up corporations, but it's not prohibitive to set up an LLC in, say, Delaware and also set up an irrevocable trust in the same state that owns 98-100% of the LLC. Have the trustee be your own lawyer that you hire. Yes, it costs a yearly fee, but it's not outrageous.
Then to get to you, they have to pierce the veil on the LLC, and ALSO pierce the veil on the trust, which is much harder since you may be the beneficiary, but are not the trustee, that's a third party who has autonomy. True, they will likely do what you tell them, but they don't have to.
While the trust can be sued, it is possible to not pay out if sued. For example, and we looked into this, if someone sues the trust for $1,000,000, there is no legal way to force the trust to pay out that money. The trustee can do some tricky and nasty things, like pay it out at the rate of one cent a month on checks that have to be cashed within 14 days, thus forcing the plaintiff to have to make a trip to the bank for one cent every month. I don't remember, but I think it's possible to use those checks that say, "Endorsing this check agrees to certain terms," and specify that not cashing the check leads to a forfeit on future payments. It's nasty to do it that way, but most of that is possible.
Or the trustee can just refuse to pay the plaintiff.
Yeah, I would expect that, but it's an important point that's left out. And, of course, the question is how much are they willing to pay?
Since the expense of a lawyer is significant, that leads me to think the potential income is not that high. If it were and it were me, I'd be calling a lawyer ASAP and have a license ready for me when they had the contract and check ready for me.
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entered a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
It goes back even more, to the 1960s or 1970s, in the "Casino" episode of Mission: Impossible (the real one, the good one, not that crap with the self-aggrandizing Tom Cruise). They drilled into a vault and ran a vacuum to suck out all the money.
Believe what you like.
I'm the one who, by choice, hasn't been in to work since 2007. I'm the one that didn't have to work on Labor Day, or the week before, the week after, or any time throughout the whole year.
My biggest "job" is spending about 15 hours a week practicing on the dance floor.
But, please, keep coming up with your bumper sticker philosophies. You might find one that's accurate some day.
No, she's still a chick.
Her daughters say she was always a woman.
I dance.
I have a wall crammed with plaques and trophies I've won as a competitive ballroom dancer.
And, to top it off, I'm a full-fledged nerd/geek who ran his own business for years, based on software he wrote and did well enough with his own programming he retired at 45.
And, before trolls start in with other comments, yes, I have a girlfriend and she does well at ballroom competitions, too.
Maybe he does use Ubuntu and he met a girl who is using him.
Oh, also (and this got clipped in my previous reply), do you really think they'll let a limit like that kill the show if it's doing well? Maybe they'll say it was more a Timelord law than a physical limit. I'm sure they could make a big deal about it and create an interesting story on how he beats that limit.
I've also seen disagreements about if that means that he can only have 13 versions of himself or go through 13 regenerations. If the latter, he could appear as 14 different versions, since his first version was not from a regeneration.
Actually, in the new one, there wasn't a 3 year Doctor. David Tennant did 3 years (1 with Rose, 1 with Martha, and 1 with Donna), then did the specials.
Also, it was known (to them) from the start that Ecclestein was going to only do 1 season, so they had planned that from the start and kept it secret (they wanted the regeneration to be a surprise).
As to 13 regenerations, do you really think they're going to let that end the series? It's been stated a Timelord could theoretically live forever. I'm sure they'll find an interesting way to make surviving #13 a good story. (There's also debate whether they mean 13 regeneration events or only 13 Doctors.)
While we see him (9th Doctor) looking at his face as if it were new to him early on, there are many pictures of him that show up in the search later that indicate he's been around a good while, so it's possible they considered it to be the last of the old Doctors.
It doesn't matter anyway. Slashdot was in such a hurry to get a headline people would react to, they didn't do their fact checking. He's not leaving:
http://www.digitalspy.com/cult/s7/doctor-who/news/a246624/gillan-matt-smith-isnt-leaving-who.html
Maybe so, but they still have time to deal with a high profile case like her before the sex offenders.
Hey, they don't have time for that.
But notice that they know every time Lindsy Lohan has had a drink and it shows up on her device...
That's simple: Just get a TV from Barsoom, since they can split light into not just the regular 7 rays we know of on Earth, but the 8th and 9th rays as well. Maybe those are squant and octarine? After all, they've been aware of the 9 colors in the spectrum for thousand and thousands of years, well before John Carter ever made it to Barsoom. We still don't know what those extra colors look like.
I've seen many cases of people I personally knew who grew up knowing they had trust funds that would provide a regular income, or who inherited a large sum of money that could provide a lifetime income, or other similar situations. In many cases they turned out okay, but, in general, the younger a person was when he learned he was set up for life, the less likely he (or she) was to learn to make their own way in life.
This isn't true in every case, but I've seen it as the case more often than not.
They (the school people) just assumed the capsule/candy was an illegal drug -- they didn't even give him credit for possibly taking medication.
It wasn't masturbation. I can't remember if it was in an article linked to by /. or from Google news, but the student involved was eating candy that they mistook for drugs. I can't remember the name of the candy, but it looked close enough to capsule or caplet form that the school people just assumed (intentional use of that word) that it was illegal drugs.
I hope the student ends up able to retire on the punitive damages he gets. While it's not the best for him, it'd make the school district and others think about it more. They won't ever see this based on ethics, but they might make changes based on fear of damage awards.
Do you have anything more objective than a subjective, "He looked fresh?"
Also remember, while he's not the only one like this, his background is mountain biking. He was on his own turf, so to speak.
As to the water, if you kept up and listened to what was going on, one of the biggest issues when he bonked was water. Nobody was able to get water to him when he needed it. Have you ever ridden hard and tried to keep going well after your water ran out? When you bonk due to one issue, you tend to overcompensate for it the next time out.
Why not take time to study and understand religion before replying again and just denigrating it in a way that show your ignorance of understanding various belief systems?
Anyone who watched Landis win the TdF and has followed the issue can find much more wrong with the tests than valid with them. He's been using a meter on his bike to measure his power output longer than other riders and he actually used less power in the day of that amazing catch-up ride than he did on many other days. Also, the drug he's accused of using is a blood level drug, one that provides most of the benefit over time and it builds up in the body, yet in the tests two and three days later there is no trace of it in his body at all. Also, only a few of the possible markers were there, most were not. And there's more.
Landis grew up with traditional Mennonites. His parents had to go to someone else's house to see his performance in the Tour de France because they don't even own a TV.
I get your point. I went to college in Harrisonburg, VA, deep in Mennonite territory. Many stores had hitching posts for the horse and buggies Mennonites drove, but on the other hand the lead engineer at the only non-PBS station there was a friend of mine and a Mennonite and knew electronics better than I ever will, but Landis was raised in a traditional family. One problem he had when he was younger and wanted to ride was having to always wear sweat pants when training due to their issues about modesty.
I didn't do the math to figure out how many shares had been issued, and not that it's any of your business, but at one time, yes I did own $1 million in BB stock and knew others who did.
I really wish people would get it out of their head that 1,000,000 is still a magical number when it comes to money. If you want to make sure your investment keeps pace with inflation, then you can only dray $30,000 to $40,000 yearly off $1,000,000 for living and at that point, things are tenuous. You'd almost need double to retire or put yourself into that real comfort zone.
I can tell you from personal experience that it doesn't matter to them when you walk in to the store. That's speaking from personal experience, before deciding it was time to break up that huge block (they're big enough they don't have the growth potential they once had) and diversify it in other holdings.
They don't care even if you own more than a few shares of Best Buy when you walk in that door. Even if you own $1 million in BB stock, it won't make a difference how they treat you.
I've had to deal with corporations and creating and using them a fair amount recently, due to not only several of my own companies, but also to deal with estate and trust issues.
No, it's not fun to set up corporations, but it's not prohibitive to set up an LLC in, say, Delaware and also set up an irrevocable trust in the same state that owns 98-100% of the LLC. Have the trustee be your own lawyer that you hire. Yes, it costs a yearly fee, but it's not outrageous.
Then to get to you, they have to pierce the veil on the LLC, and ALSO pierce the veil on the trust, which is much harder since you may be the beneficiary, but are not the trustee, that's a third party who has autonomy. True, they will likely do what you tell them, but they don't have to.
While the trust can be sued, it is possible to not pay out if sued. For example, and we looked into this, if someone sues the trust for $1,000,000, there is no legal way to force the trust to pay out that money. The trustee can do some tricky and nasty things, like pay it out at the rate of one cent a month on checks that have to be cashed within 14 days, thus forcing the plaintiff to have to make a trip to the bank for one cent every month. I don't remember, but I think it's possible to use those checks that say, "Endorsing this check agrees to certain terms," and specify that not cashing the check leads to a forfeit on future payments. It's nasty to do it that way, but most of that is possible.
Or the trustee can just refuse to pay the plaintiff.
Nothing's bullet proof, but this is pretty close.
Yeah, I would expect that, but it's an important point that's left out. And, of course, the question is how much are they willing to pay?
Since the expense of a lawyer is significant, that leads me to think the potential income is not that high. If it were and it were me, I'd be calling a lawyer ASAP and have a license ready for me when they had the contract and check ready for me.