He has no relationship with the town in question. He doesn't live in its jurisdiction. He could choose to subscribe to their fire service, or not. He chose not, and by doing so took a gamble. He lost.
Presumably the town doesn't offer it to the entire county, only to those who live just outside the city limits. I mean, if you can't swing $75 a year for fire insurance, how the hell are you supposed to pay $75 a year in extra property tax?
Copyright law in its current form is constitutional, but I don't like it. There's no need to add the hurdle that the recall needs to be over the constitutionality, as opposed to the sheer objectionableness, of the law.
And whoever modded me flamebait and him interesting needs to get out more often as well. Seriously. The people of this country are great.
Some of my friends are conservative Christians who home-school their kids to "keep them out of government schools". Some are liberal atheists. They're all good people, even if they don't agree on politics, and to pretend that the only thing standing between the USA and the Third Reich is the all-wise hand of the federal government makes no more sense than pretending that our society will collapse if you can't pray every morning in public schools.
Building your own computer can be fun, and it will get you premium performance for a good price, but it's in no way going to save money for the low-end machines that most people buy. You can buy a basic Dell for $300. Unless you enjoy putting things together a lot (valuing your time spent at less than zero), there's no way that it's cheaper to buy the parts and put it together yourself.
When it came out, manufacturers were putting out underspec'd machines with buggy drivers shoehorned in. If you got a machine that was designed for Vista, instead of XP, you probably have had a good experience. I certainly did on the one machine I've had that ran Vista.
Forget $50 single licenses, give people the Mac deal - pay $50 and you can install it on five machines in your house. (Maybe make it $100, because MSFT doesn't have that hardware revenue stream.)
I was arguing that demanding that states find a federal law unconstitutional in order to repeal it is pushing it too far. If a majority of state legislatures don't like a law, that should be enough.
Why should states have declare a federal law unconstitutional to get it repealed? Just pass an amendment allowing a simple majority of state legislatures to repeal a law. It would go a long way toward correcting the imbalance between state and federal governments.
Pretty much every Arab nation in the ME has a good reason to want to shut down Iran - the Persians have been dominating the Arabs for millenia. Don't ever rule out the possibility that Iraq/Jordan/Saudi are all willing to let the Israelis be the bad cop in the scenario while working behind the scenes to make sure that they succeed.
So the Jews are motivated, capable, willing, and utter fucking idiots who reveal everything in easter eggs in the program. It's like dealing with Bush's duller critics all over again - either the Jews are scheming, vicious bastards, or they're just total fucking morons. But you have to choose one of those and stand by it.
I do wish it were a bit more granular, but it can't phone home without data access. And if you grant a program access to your phone state and identity, permission to make phone calls, and Internet access, well, you'd better trust that program.
Android already tells you exactly what data an app can access. You have to grant those permissions when you install it. The apps can't look at anything you don't give them permission to. Your job is to pay attention to those permission dialogs - I certainly do.
Er, if you read my comment more carefully you might note that I included the statement:
They're not necessarily all wrong, either, because of the large number of at-grade crossings.
I'm always happy to be corrected, but if a state can do it, a city can. Cities are products of the states and have any powers the state chooses to give them. And Google fails rather badly at this - while it is easy to find federal maximum speeds, there's no indication that local entities cannot regulate speeds to be lower. They may have difficulty enforcing such laws, of course. I'd be happy to find something that points to a clear indication that federal law trumps absolutely and that there can be no state or local limitation on train speeds.
NIMBYs will prevent the construction of new track or the running of truly high-speed trains on existing tracks - tons of small towns have regulations regarding maximum train speeds. They're not necessarily all wrong, either, because of the large number of at-grade crossings.
Rail in the US will continue to do what it does best - move bulk cargo cheaply. Any more just isn't going to happen.
My grandparents lived in a town that still offered four-digit dialing until the mid-late 80s. Yep, no prefix needed. Just dial the last four. Can't remember if they had pulse or tone dialing, though.
Still, BellSouth was hammering me for something like $2.50/mo for tone dialing up until I ditched them ca. 2004.
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If he has a mortgage, his bank almost certainly requires him to hold homeowner's insurance.
You'd have to show that they had a duty to fight a fire that wasn't on your property.
He has no relationship with the town in question. He doesn't live in its jurisdiction. He could choose to subscribe to their fire service, or not. He chose not, and by doing so took a gamble. He lost.
Presumably the town doesn't offer it to the entire county, only to those who live just outside the city limits. I mean, if you can't swing $75 a year for fire insurance, how the hell are you supposed to pay $75 a year in extra property tax?
The idea that you have entire counties without fire cover is astonishing.
Do you not get that rural areas are, well, rural? You live out there, you're on your own.
If you can't afford $75 a year for fire protection, how the hell are you going to pay property taxes for that service?
They're not in the town.
Copyright law in its current form is constitutional, but I don't like it. There's no need to add the hurdle that the recall needs to be over the constitutionality, as opposed to the sheer objectionableness, of the law.
And whoever modded me flamebait and him interesting needs to get out more often as well. Seriously. The people of this country are great.
Some of my friends are conservative Christians who home-school their kids to "keep them out of government schools". Some are liberal atheists. They're all good people, even if they don't agree on politics, and to pretend that the only thing standing between the USA and the Third Reich is the all-wise hand of the federal government makes no more sense than pretending that our society will collapse if you can't pray every morning in public schools.
Building your own computer can be fun, and it will get you premium performance for a good price, but it's in no way going to save money for the low-end machines that most people buy. You can buy a basic Dell for $300. Unless you enjoy putting things together a lot (valuing your time spent at less than zero), there's no way that it's cheaper to buy the parts and put it together yourself.
When it came out, manufacturers were putting out underspec'd machines with buggy drivers shoehorned in. If you got a machine that was designed for Vista, instead of XP, you probably have had a good experience. I certainly did on the one machine I've had that ran Vista.
Forget $50 single licenses, give people the Mac deal - pay $50 and you can install it on five machines in your house. (Maybe make it $100, because MSFT doesn't have that hardware revenue stream.)
I was arguing that demanding that states find a federal law unconstitutional in order to repeal it is pushing it too far. If a majority of state legislatures don't like a law, that should be enough.
Wow. Seriously, you need to get out more.
That would be preferable, but it would never pass.
Why should states have declare a federal law unconstitutional to get it repealed? Just pass an amendment allowing a simple majority of state legislatures to repeal a law. It would go a long way toward correcting the imbalance between state and federal governments.
virtually all of the Israelis I have known have been racist and xenophobic
When all of your immediate neighbors want to kill you, it does tend to push you a bit toward xenophobia.
Pretty much every Arab nation in the ME has a good reason to want to shut down Iran - the Persians have been dominating the Arabs for millenia. Don't ever rule out the possibility that Iraq/Jordan/Saudi are all willing to let the Israelis be the bad cop in the scenario while working behind the scenes to make sure that they succeed.
So the Jews are motivated, capable, willing, and utter fucking idiots who reveal everything in easter eggs in the program. It's like dealing with Bush's duller critics all over again - either the Jews are scheming, vicious bastards, or they're just total fucking morons. But you have to choose one of those and stand by it.
I do wish it were a bit more granular, but it can't phone home without data access. And if you grant a program access to your phone state and identity, permission to make phone calls, and Internet access, well, you'd better trust that program.
Android already tells you exactly what data an app can access. You have to grant those permissions when you install it. The apps can't look at anything you don't give them permission to. Your job is to pay attention to those permission dialogs - I certainly do.
Thanks.
They're not necessarily all wrong, either, because of the large number of at-grade crossings.
I'm always happy to be corrected, but if a state can do it, a city can. Cities are products of the states and have any powers the state chooses to give them. And Google fails rather badly at this - while it is easy to find federal maximum speeds, there's no indication that local entities cannot regulate speeds to be lower. They may have difficulty enforcing such laws, of course. I'd be happy to find something that points to a clear indication that federal law trumps absolutely and that there can be no state or local limitation on train speeds.
NIMBYs will prevent the construction of new track or the running of truly high-speed trains on existing tracks - tons of small towns have regulations regarding maximum train speeds. They're not necessarily all wrong, either, because of the large number of at-grade crossings.
Rail in the US will continue to do what it does best - move bulk cargo cheaply. Any more just isn't going to happen.
My grandparents lived in a town that still offered four-digit dialing until the mid-late 80s. Yep, no prefix needed. Just dial the last four. Can't remember if they had pulse or tone dialing, though.
Still, BellSouth was hammering me for something like $2.50/mo for tone dialing up until I ditched them ca. 2004.