Or maybe someone in power thinks that most telecommuters are goofing off at home. Plus you can't force people to attend useless meetings if they telecommute.
That's 10-12K people that now have to commute back and forth to work everyday, need real estate for offices, furniture, etc. What a waste of time, money, and energy.
Judging from what ladders look like when you buy them nowadays you'd swear they were held together with warning stickers. The only one missing is "Warning: Don't use a ladder if you are an irresponsible ass."
I am by training a baker, I am fairly good at it, (but not exceptionally so) and I left the business because it is a dead end. People buy their bakery goods from the factory and opening a new bakery shop is far to expensive and legally impossible. Zoning restrictions, a bakery works at night and produces noise and smells while by its nature it has to be in a residential area. That don't mix no more. The hygience laws have become so strict that it costs a fortune to fit out a new building and the costs (and shortage) of skilled labourers, plus the restrictions of what they are allowed to do means you need a massive amount of very expensive equipment, which because the demand for small scale equipment has plummeted is increasingly expensive.
Too bad you had to give up. Where I live some small bakers survive by becoming specialists. They make gourmet artisan breads, pies, custom orders, etc. Many also supply high end restaurants with high quality bread. They fill in the niché left open by industrial bakers. I don't know what they do about the smell but if I had to choose between the smell of freshly baked bread and car exhaust I'd take the bread.
Who the hell thought that a tape player that couldn't be fast-forwarded or rewound was a good idea? Even LPs let you move the needle around. I actually used my parent's 8-track when I was a kid (get out your calculators) and remember having to hit the track button to go to the previous track and listen for 10 or so minutes to listen to a section again. If mutiple songs were on one track you couldn't skip to the next one. It forced you to treat music as background noise since you had little control over how you listened to it. Then, like the article you quoted said, the tapes eventually would get eaten and were impossible to repair.
The Taxachusetts label is an old cliche. If you look at the numbers that take ALL costs into account (local property taxes, fees for essential services, etc) Massachusetts is one of the lowest states in terms of burdens relative to income. For instance, taxes paid by businesses in Massachusetts, as determined by Ernst & Young, have dropped from 4.5 percent of personal income in FY92 to 4.1 percent in FY02. High cost of living is because everyone wants to live near Boston. Supply and demand drive up home prices, electricity, goods & services, etc but we also have an average income much higher than the rest of the country. NH doesn't have an auto sales tax but a very high registration fee. It doesn't have an income tax but it does have high property taxes (plus the meals tax is 9%, the hotel tax is 12%, and the car rental tax is 12%). It all has to come from somewhere.
Libel, an untruthful statement about a person, published in writing or through broadcast media, that injures the person's reputation or standing in the community.
His push is coming from the usual conflict of people who pee themselves if you start talking about raising taxes but don't want cuts in government benefits or services. So the pressure is on to create pseudotaxes via fees, fines, or gambling gimmicks. Since Connecticut has the Monhegan Sun resort drawing bored old folks from MA in droves to it there has been a push to keep their money at home. The Mashpee natives then started pushing to get permission, as a recognized Native-American nation, to build a casino on their land in MA. Once it started to look like it might happen the genie was out of the bottle and talk started of opening other casinos around MA.
Now MA, like most states, has had a lottery for a while. It generates money that gets passed on to towns, mainly for schools. The lottery is run by a state agency so all of the money stays in it. If they have casinos though, most of the money will go into private hands. There is only so much cash people have to piss away on gambling so this money is going to come from, you guessed it, what they would've spent on the lottery. So the state is taking from one pocket and putting it in another except this one has a hole in it.
The response to this is the proponents say "The money will come from what would've gone to CT casinos so it won't hurt the lottery very much and we'll have the CT money too." Well, no one should expect Monhegan Sun to sit on its butt and let us take its business. It will fight and CT may agree to take less for the state. Other states like NH and ME may jump in. Competition would cut state shares and in the end more would go down the private profit drain and the state (and citizens) would lose.
All this because people can't face reality and deal with taxes.
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Just remember though, one Snickers bar is something like 200+ calories. It is still a lot easier to put calories in than to get rid of them.
I tend to lose my appetite after exercise. I practically have to force myself to eat sometimes. It is when I sit around that I usually eat the most.
Or maybe someone in power thinks that most telecommuters are goofing off at home. Plus you can't force people to attend useless meetings if they telecommute.
That's 10-12K people that now have to commute back and forth to work everyday, need real estate for offices, furniture, etc. What a waste of time, money, and energy.
Dr. Towlie will see you now.
My testing appointment was yesterday? Oh man...
No, but they can't keep the damn unicorns out of the lab.
Judging from what ladders look like when you buy them nowadays you'd swear they were held together with warning stickers. The only one missing is "Warning: Don't use a ladder if you are an irresponsible ass."
I don't see too many people lugging their desktops to Starbucks and leaving them vulnerable while they use the can.
He is one step away from becoming an old man screaming "Get outta my yard you damn kids!"
Too bad you had to give up. Where I live some small bakers survive by becoming specialists. They make gourmet artisan breads, pies, custom orders, etc. Many also supply high end restaurants with high quality bread. They fill in the niché left open by industrial bakers. I don't know what they do about the smell but if I had to choose between the smell of freshly baked bread and car exhaust I'd take the bread.
Who the hell thought that a tape player that couldn't be fast-forwarded or rewound was a good idea? Even LPs let you move the needle around. I actually used my parent's 8-track when I was a kid (get out your calculators) and remember having to hit the track button to go to the previous track and listen for 10 or so minutes to listen to a section again. If mutiple songs were on one track you couldn't skip to the next one. It forced you to treat music as background noise since you had little control over how you listened to it. Then, like the article you quoted said, the tapes eventually would get eaten and were impossible to repair.
It is a good thing he didn't try to make his living mainly off of his music.
I'm not sure that I want a return to the Permian period.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Easier than remembering the alt-xxx code but not as easy as hiding behind an Anonymous Coward comment.
Oh man, I can see it now. After school video game competitions with "angry video game parents" complete with fights in the stands.
"He was hacking! Are you blind! Put my son in on this level! That other punk team killed my son!"
I would guess that it is more likely (and will become more common) with fathers who grew up with video games themselves.
We all saw what happened when Homer tried to play that boxing video game against Bart.
I know it is "cliché" but I couldn't be bothered to call up the character map for one letter.
Plus I assume you wouldn't want to use the LN2 as a coolant directly. Then you'd have condensation problems.
Ummmm, it is YOUR burden to prove something is true. Sort of like saying "Oh yah? Prove UFOs DON'T exist!" It is the basis of the entire legal system.
The Taxachusetts label is an old cliche. If you look at the numbers that take ALL costs into account (local property taxes, fees for essential services, etc) Massachusetts is one of the lowest states in terms of burdens relative to income. For instance, taxes paid by businesses in Massachusetts, as determined by Ernst & Young, have dropped from 4.5 percent of personal income in FY92 to 4.1 percent in FY02. High cost of living is because everyone wants to live near Boston. Supply and demand drive up home prices, electricity, goods & services, etc but we also have an average income much higher than the rest of the country. NH doesn't have an auto sales tax but a very high registration fee. It doesn't have an income tax but it does have high property taxes (plus the meals tax is 9%, the hotel tax is 12%, and the car rental tax is 12%). It all has to come from somewhere.
Libel, an untruthful statement about a person, published in writing or through broadcast media, that injures the person's reputation or standing in the community.
His push is coming from the usual conflict of people who pee themselves if you start talking about raising taxes but don't want cuts in government benefits or services. So the pressure is on to create pseudotaxes via fees, fines, or gambling gimmicks. Since Connecticut has the Monhegan Sun resort drawing bored old folks from MA in droves to it there has been a push to keep their money at home. The Mashpee natives then started pushing to get permission, as a recognized Native-American nation, to build a casino on their land in MA. Once it started to look like it might happen the genie was out of the bottle and talk started of opening other casinos around MA.
Now MA, like most states, has had a lottery for a while. It generates money that gets passed on to towns, mainly for schools. The lottery is run by a state agency so all of the money stays in it. If they have casinos though, most of the money will go into private hands. There is only so much cash people have to piss away on gambling so this money is going to come from, you guessed it, what they would've spent on the lottery. So the state is taking from one pocket and putting it in another except this one has a hole in it.
The response to this is the proponents say "The money will come from what would've gone to CT casinos so it won't hurt the lottery very much and we'll have the CT money too." Well, no one should expect Monhegan Sun to sit on its butt and let us take its business. It will fight and CT may agree to take less for the state. Other states like NH and ME may jump in. Competition would cut state shares and in the end more would go down the private profit drain and the state (and citizens) would lose.
All this because people can't face reality and deal with taxes.