When colleges and schools were trying to make "well-rounded" students, they were doing so with a much smaller (and more skilled) portion of the population.
No, I mean real rights. "Visitation" means every other weekend and a week in the summer, unless she decides to move across the country and strand you. Nope, if you want to continue with the asinine logic that we have today - where victims of statutory rape are held responsible for child support, as are men who have had their sperm stolen from an empty condom by a woman with whom they had intentionally not engaged in vaginal sex - then men deserve real rights. Like requiring their permission for an abortion, or for moving away.
Ensuring a mother is not forced or otherwise compelled to waive a father's duty to their child through coercion is pretty important.
No, it's not. Women can choose unilaterally to have, or not have, a child. No rights, no responsibilities. If you don't want to be a single mom, get married or don't have sex. Men absolutely deserve the right to completely disclaim parental rights.
At peak times it makes more sense to use buses (where trains are not available).
No, at peak times, when all the traffic moves slowly, a taxi driver with extensive knowledge of alternate routes and the quickest route to your destination will flatten a bus that has to make scheduled stops.
Shrink-swell soil. In the South, so no basement. Traditional pier-and-beam foundation for the house, and the piers move as the soil shrinks and swells in response to moisture. Floor-to-ceiling cracks in the wall are actually considered perfectly normal and do not indicate a foundation problem. Yes, it can crack anything.
Above-ground is pretty cheap to fix when it breaks. Below-ground is expensive to put in and expensive to maintain - e.g., I live in an area with shrink-swell soils, so you can't count on conduit being waterproof. You actually have to inspect it on a regular basis.
I'd consider living there if I were really, really wealthy. It's a cool place if you're worth several hundred million and don't have to deal with the bullshit.
Like I said, it's a common failure mode. Lots of founders of small businesses get upset when their top salesman earns more than they do. They fire him ("it's not that hard, I'll do it myself and save a ton"), then they find out sales is hard and takes a lot of time. And the company folds because no sales are coming in.
$1M/yr is about the most money you can make from medicine. There are doctors who make more, but it's not from doctoring, it's from a side business. The peak for lawyers is in the hundreds of millions range, although lots of lawyers earn less than $50k/yr.
I can escape shitty local government by moving five miles. I can't escape shitty federal governance at all - the IRS claims the right to tax me for ten years after renouncing citizenship, and that's if I can get an appointment to go renounce it. Meanwhile, I can't set up life in a foreign country because I can't do something as simple as get a bank account without the poor bank being on the hook to provide all my info to the IRS, which is possibly against EU privacy laws.
Not legally, they're not. Retired LEOs enjoy numerous privileges not available to the general populace. This law, for example, grants active and retired police a concealed carry permit that must be honored in all 50 states (there is no such thing available to private citizens), AND it can only be overridden by state laws that prohibit possession on state property or provisions of state law that allow private property owners to bar concealed weaponry.
Fire, police, and emergency are all entirely locally provided. Go to the next town over, they have their own fire and police. Internet and cable are provided by locally regulated monopolies. The roads are provided (mostly) by my state and local government.
Clean air and water are subject to state as well as federal regulation, as is food safety. The safety of most of the products I use is ensured by a private group called Underwriters Laboratories, whose name points out who other than the government is concerned about safety: insurers. TV is pretty much federally regulated, for broadcast. And the post office is mentioned right there in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, so I'm pretty sure it's on safe ground.
So yeah, the interactions I have with government are mostly what they should be: local. I know my city councilman personally. If I get upset with the mayor, I can go downtown and meet with him. I know my state representative. I can call him at home if I want to. Hell, I even ran into the governor at the liquor store once. But my congressman? Well, he had 15 minutes for me. The senator sent his aides. And I'm fairly sure that even a flawlessly written and beautifully argued letter to the President or a Cabinet secretary is never going to see their eyes. Washington should do the stuff that we made the government to do: protect our liberty. There's a reason that they left the rest of that to the states. You don't see me bitching about Massachusetts raising its taxes, nor California, because I don't live in either one and if they want a high-tax, high-service state, that's their choice. Go for it. Just like it's supposed to be done.
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When colleges and schools were trying to make "well-rounded" students, they were doing so with a much smaller (and more skilled) portion of the population.
No, I mean real rights. "Visitation" means every other weekend and a week in the summer, unless she decides to move across the country and strand you. Nope, if you want to continue with the asinine logic that we have today - where victims of statutory rape are held responsible for child support, as are men who have had their sperm stolen from an empty condom by a woman with whom they had intentionally not engaged in vaginal sex - then men deserve real rights. Like requiring their permission for an abortion, or for moving away.
The law is an ass. Until that duty comes with rights, it's horseshit.
Ensuring a mother is not forced or otherwise compelled to waive a father's duty to their child through coercion is pretty important.
No, it's not. Women can choose unilaterally to have, or not have, a child. No rights, no responsibilities. If you don't want to be a single mom, get married or don't have sex. Men absolutely deserve the right to completely disclaim parental rights.
Do people actually believe anything this stupid, though?
The obvious difference is that the loan officers brought in clients and their money, and the other employees didn't.
... ergo Über.
At peak times it makes more sense to use buses (where trains are not available).
No, at peak times, when all the traffic moves slowly, a taxi driver with extensive knowledge of alternate routes and the quickest route to your destination will flatten a bus that has to make scheduled stops.
Shrink-swell soil. In the South, so no basement. Traditional pier-and-beam foundation for the house, and the piers move as the soil shrinks and swells in response to moisture. Floor-to-ceiling cracks in the wall are actually considered perfectly normal and do not indicate a foundation problem. Yes, it can crack anything.
Above-ground is pretty cheap to fix when it breaks. Below-ground is expensive to put in and expensive to maintain - e.g., I live in an area with shrink-swell soils, so you can't count on conduit being waterproof. You actually have to inspect it on a regular basis.
Yeah, that's the number missing from those stats. Ages 20-24, we're about where we were in 1963.
That's why you have to be specific. "I do not consent to any search. Am I free to leave?"
I'd consider living there if I were really, really wealthy. It's a cool place if you're worth several hundred million and don't have to deal with the bullshit.
Not for people who take jobs in New York, it isn't.
I live in BFE because I make much more here than I would in a big city, as well as enjoying a lower cost of living. But it's not for everyone.
And because the medical use is for image generation, not for substance identification.
Like I said, it's a common failure mode. Lots of founders of small businesses get upset when their top salesman earns more than they do. They fire him ("it's not that hard, I'll do it myself and save a ton"), then they find out sales is hard and takes a lot of time. And the company folds because no sales are coming in.
$1M /yr is about the most money you can make from medicine. There are doctors who make more, but it's not from doctoring, it's from a side business. The peak for lawyers is in the hundreds of millions range, although lots of lawyers earn less than $50k/yr.
Part of your compensation is getting to live in New York.
Firing salesmen who earn too much is a common failure mode for small businesses.
I can escape shitty local government by moving five miles. I can't escape shitty federal governance at all - the IRS claims the right to tax me for ten years after renouncing citizenship, and that's if I can get an appointment to go renounce it. Meanwhile, I can't set up life in a foreign country because I can't do something as simple as get a bank account without the poor bank being on the hook to provide all my info to the IRS, which is possibly against EU privacy laws.
Not legally, they're not. Retired LEOs enjoy numerous privileges not available to the general populace. This law, for example, grants active and retired police a concealed carry permit that must be honored in all 50 states (there is no such thing available to private citizens), AND it can only be overridden by state laws that prohibit possession on state property or provisions of state law that allow private property owners to bar concealed weaponry.
Fire, police, and emergency are all entirely locally provided. Go to the next town over, they have their own fire and police. Internet and cable are provided by locally regulated monopolies. The roads are provided (mostly) by my state and local government.
Clean air and water are subject to state as well as federal regulation, as is food safety. The safety of most of the products I use is ensured by a private group called Underwriters Laboratories, whose name points out who other than the government is concerned about safety: insurers. TV is pretty much federally regulated, for broadcast. And the post office is mentioned right there in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, so I'm pretty sure it's on safe ground.
So yeah, the interactions I have with government are mostly what they should be: local. I know my city councilman personally. If I get upset with the mayor, I can go downtown and meet with him. I know my state representative. I can call him at home if I want to. Hell, I even ran into the governor at the liquor store once. But my congressman? Well, he had 15 minutes for me. The senator sent his aides. And I'm fairly sure that even a flawlessly written and beautifully argued letter to the President or a Cabinet secretary is never going to see their eyes. Washington should do the stuff that we made the government to do: protect our liberty. There's a reason that they left the rest of that to the states. You don't see me bitching about Massachusetts raising its taxes, nor California, because I don't live in either one and if they want a high-tax, high-service state, that's their choice. Go for it. Just like it's supposed to be done.
NRA? It's not the NRA who says that police should be allowed to carry guns but ordinary citizens shouldn't.
Because there are so many poor students in the good school districts...
Consider Lutron stuff as well. They've got killer products for lighting and shades.