Require a credit card on the recipient account. That guarantees at least one 18-year-old is making the choice, and therefore the contract is valid (and everything except alcohol is an acceptable gift). Furthermore, checking IDs is a solved problem - UPS and FedEx do it all the time.
What if you want the money instead? I suppose that would come under your "management" exception? Generally, partnership firms want to keep the partners' numbers small so as to maximize income. On the other end of the spectrum, though, overtime accounts for a lot of police officers' earnings in the US. Take it away and they're hurting pretty soon.
YMMV based on state and local laws. However - and while the site is definitely not authoritative, it does at least link to the relevant laws - they are not widespread, though they do exist in CA and NY. Link
Choosing to work some overtime to earn more money is one thing
But, per silentcoder, illegal.
Lots of professionals have bursty work - you do relatively little for a long period of time, then have enormous amounts of work to do in a relatively short period of time. (CPAs are the prime example of this.) Surgeons have to work until they've done all their surgeries. And so forth.
[emphasis mine] The CSRA doesn't apply to private employers. Your local laws may apply, but I'd wager that most of those again only affect civil-service employees of governments.
To the epsilon-minus that modded me troll: The EEOC on the matter. If you're a government civil-service employee, you're generally safe, but no such rule applies to private workplaces.
A state can compel you to risk your life for its benefit. That's all. My original comment was a brief articulation of the distinction between the state and any private actor: the state can use violence at will to force you to comply with its actions, while private actors cannot.
You can only work 45 hours a week? Seriously? What about a young guy who wants to do a little overtime to make a little extra money? What about professionals, for heaven's sake?
I am not so jingoistic as to think it impossible for another nation to slide a sub into the waters 30 miles off LA without being noticed, though I do think it unlikely. But announcing that you can slip into US waters by firing an SLBM is not the way to do it if you're sane. "Can get in and out undetected" is very different from "can remain undetected after launching a missile".
I have to do my part to try to make the nerds understand that just because frat guys who got drunk every night all majored in business, it doesn't mean that actual business is easy.
I do think the business model for big content is broken in several ways, and unfortunately for us it's probably going to come back as a business with much smaller revenues. (While I'm sure parent gets this, you others might wish to consider watching a typical episode of Firefly and comparing it to an episode of Dr. Who. A shoestring-budget show for US television has higher production values than a flagship show in most of the rest of the world. That will go out the window.)
You assume that government prints the money rather than paying it out of taxes already received. After all, since this represents poverty-level existence, it's a safe bet that everyone is going to return that prebate to the government in taxes.
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See my other reply to you. Don't give your kids a credit card if you don't trust them.
at least one 18-year-old is making the choice
If you have a problem with your kid playing violent games or buying porn, don't give them a credit card and their own Amazon account.
Require a credit card on the recipient account. That guarantees at least one 18-year-old is making the choice, and therefore the contract is valid (and everything except alcohol is an acceptable gift). Furthermore, checking IDs is a solved problem - UPS and FedEx do it all the time.
Require a credit card on the account. Problem solved. Credit cards are only issued to those who are 18 or older, so some adult is approving it.
you can damn well afford to hire more people
What if you want the money instead? I suppose that would come under your "management" exception? Generally, partnership firms want to keep the partners' numbers small so as to maximize income. On the other end of the spectrum, though, overtime accounts for a lot of police officers' earnings in the US. Take it away and they're hurting pretty soon.
YMMV based on state and local laws. However - and while the site is definitely not authoritative, it does at least link to the relevant laws - they are not widespread, though they do exist in CA and NY. Link
I was thinking more of people like CPAs who work 60+ hour weeks for a couple of months at a go.
You mean that socially adept, popular kids have more sex and drink/smoke more? Who knew?
Man, it's not like it used to be. See, back 20 years ago, the way to get the chicks was to shun all contact and be completely awkward at all times.
You mean that popular students with active social lives have more sex and drink/smoke more? Who knew?
Man, things really have changed a lot in the past 20 years. Back then the #1 way to get chicks was to be a total recluse and shun all contact.
In the absence of government, "legal" isn't really a meaningful word. And the government won't stop them; it will just punish them after the fact.
Choosing to work some overtime to earn more money is one thing
But, per silentcoder, illegal.
Lots of professionals have bursty work - you do relatively little for a long period of time, then have enormous amounts of work to do in a relatively short period of time. (CPAs are the prime example of this.) Surgeons have to work until they've done all their surgeries. And so forth.
overall fairness in federal personnel actions
[emphasis mine] The CSRA doesn't apply to private employers. Your local laws may apply, but I'd wager that most of those again only affect civil-service employees of governments.
To the epsilon-minus that modded me troll: The EEOC on the matter. If you're a government civil-service employee, you're generally safe, but no such rule applies to private workplaces.
The EEOC on the matter. If you're a government civil-service employee, you're generally safe, but no such rule applies to private workplaces.
A state can compel you to risk your life for its benefit. That's all. My original comment was a brief articulation of the distinction between the state and any private actor: the state can use violence at will to force you to comply with its actions, while private actors cannot.
They can always change the law. And Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, and Finland still have conscription, at least per Wikipedia.
You can only work 45 hours a week? Seriously? What about a young guy who wants to do a little overtime to make a little extra money? What about professionals, for heaven's sake?
it's illegal to discriminate based upon political beliefs
It's not. If Karl Rove applies for a job at the DNC, he can't sue for discrimination when they don't hire him.
Your company can't kill you legally?
I am not so jingoistic as to think it impossible for another nation to slide a sub into the waters 30 miles off LA without being noticed, though I do think it unlikely. But announcing that you can slip into US waters by firing an SLBM is not the way to do it if you're sane. "Can get in and out undetected" is very different from "can remain undetected after launching a missile".
Launching them from a sub might be new
It's not.
I guess it'd be harder to destroy a mobile, underground ICBM launchpad?
Not to mention that you don't know where it is at any given time.
You don't "catch" your own subs.
I have to do my part to try to make the nerds understand that just because frat guys who got drunk every night all majored in business, it doesn't mean that actual business is easy.
I do think the business model for big content is broken in several ways, and unfortunately for us it's probably going to come back as a business with much smaller revenues. (While I'm sure parent gets this, you others might wish to consider watching a typical episode of Firefly and comparing it to an episode of Dr. Who. A shoestring-budget show for US television has higher production values than a flagship show in most of the rest of the world. That will go out the window.)
You assume that government prints the money rather than paying it out of taxes already received. After all, since this represents poverty-level existence, it's a safe bet that everyone is going to return that prebate to the government in taxes.
If distributors didn't get monopolies, they wouldn't spend any money promoting the stuff.