Let us at least hope we learned a few things from the last bubble.
By and large, these are Americans we're talking about. They're ignorant sheep with the attention span of gnats who vote the way JEE-ZUZ supposedly tells them. If you think they remember five years ago, you're insane.
How dare those pinko commie terrorists in the Taxachusetts legislature try to push around poor little Verizon or Cingular! Why, they're just honest businessmen trying to scrape by and earn a meager living, but these ruthlesss government bastards want to regulate them right out of business!
/*DISCLAIMER*//*This is not legal advice. You are not a client. I'm not even an attorney. If you want legal advice, contact an attorney admitted to your jurisdiction's bar. What I am saying here is probably 100% wrong and if you do anything in reliance upon it, you are a blithering idiot who deserves whatever bad shit is very likely to befall you. */
Now that that's out of the way . . .
OP is correct. If someone's sole source of income is disability, unemployment, or other public benefits, they are exempt from garnishment. Likewise, if a bank account contains exempt funds, it is exempt from garnishment up to the amount of the exemption. And we don't have debtor's prison the US yet^H^H^H anymore, so that's not an option. Also, there are limits on how much wages can be garnished, and if a person is working part-time at McDonalds or somesuch, they probably don't make enough. What's more, a lot of these people who are working are already being garnished for child support, so they can't be garnished again. I can tell you from personal experience having worked at a collection agency that we didn't even bother suing anyone who didn't have some kind of a good job. It's just not worth it because the amount you get in garnishment won't even cover the fees. And if someone is that poor, chances are they'll just file bankruptcy.
What the RIAA is doing is essentially a fear campagin. I hear if you get sued, you don't even talk to an attorney, you call an "RIAA settlement center." I'm glad these people are taking the fight to the RIAA in court. I'd like to see the bastards try to prove actual damages.
If you really believe in the free market, then things like this will and should happen. There should be no government loans or anything else to bail these guys out. To put it another way, if you're in a business you can't hack (couched in whatever B-school circumlocution you like), well, get a job at Wal-Mart. That's what the rest of us are going to have to do if the Bushies get their way, and they appear to be getting it.
Regardless of what you may think of iris recognition, this is proof of how the patent system doesn't work. The technology for this has probably been around for 20 years, but it hasn't been able to be used because some shithead corporation owned a patent. This enabled them to browbeat competitors out of existence, and only now that the patent is nearing expiration can anything "innovative" happen.
When a stolen Computrace-equipped system is connected to the Internet, it automatically and silently sends locating data to Absolute Software, which then calls out the law . . .
And the law proceeds, uninterrupted, with their donut break.
Seriously, "the law" doesn't pursue stolen cars all that aggressively. Instead, they say, "we'll take a report that you can turn in to your insurance company. What? You didn't have theft insurance? You're one dumb sonofabitch." The manufacturer implies that, once the laptop is located, they're going to invade the house, BATF style, to retrieve it. Ain't happenin, sorry.
OTOH, the cops aggressively pursue speeding, overtime parking, etc., with collection agencies, wage garnishment, etc. Why? The government then has more money to buy new furniture for the mayor's office and other such extremely important public expenditures.
Theoretically, yes, but practically, people like to do things like eating, so they charge. A radical concept, that, and one seemingly lost on the FOSS zealots.
Egh . . . just avoid the Livre d'Orgue. I sat through a concert of Messiaen's organ works at my church, the Livre d'Orgue was one of the pieces played. 47 minutes of atonal, disjointed crap. "I'm going to randomly hit every stop on this organ!" Later, the music director (guy with a Ph.D who knows from good music) told me I was deserving of a Purple Heart for sitting through it.
Be that as it may, it's great that the BBC is making this available and it's great that real music is finally getting some mention on/. For the ADHD crowd, no, it's not Nine Inch Nails and yes, it really is that long.
Well, like so many things, this crap is marketed to yuppies with more money than brains. This guy, being an IT consultant for a bank or somesuch (probably employed by Ass Enter), fits the bill.
Well, there's an inductive effect with the standard metal knob that interferes with the high-frequency responses in stage 1 amplification. Also, less expensive wooden knobs don't have correct fits to the post, causing (inaudible, microscopic) vibration effects that can introduce jitter.
I thought it was because the factory knob was contaminated with dihydrogen monoxide.
Okay, I'm not an audiophile or an EE (I'm a budding lawyer and philosophy major), but I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday. Still, help me out: These are $500 chunks of wood that replace the volume control knob on the front of your receiver? It's a chunk of wood, for crap's sake! What the H-E-double-hockeysticks difference is it going to make in the quality of your sound?!?
How would that work? What return would you realize other than investing in a dead platform? Who's going to develop for it one Intel chips come out? The only thing making it not a dead platform is the promise of Rosetta, but I personally am not willing to sink several thousand dollars into a lick and a promise from Intel.
Mod me troll, fine, but I'm just pointing out the way I see things.
CNET is reporting that after only two years, PalmOne is spending $30 million dollars to become "Palm" again.
What a stupid move on the part of (Palm || PalmOne || NameThisWeek). This, of course, is why they'll have to outsource their developers to India "to stay competitive." Their entire upper management should be summarily terminated.
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Let us at least hope we learned a few things from the last bubble.
By and large, these are Americans we're talking about. They're ignorant sheep with the attention span of gnats who vote the way JEE-ZUZ supposedly tells them. If you think they remember five years ago, you're insane.
(Mod me to hell, I don't care.)
how they're going to recoup all of that lost extortion money^W^Wticket revenue if they stamp out speeding this way.
I've done that. As long as you can get a signal, you're good to go.
Too bad I don't have mod points, I'd mod you Insightful.
Child-free, baby!
FBI raids YOU!
How dare those pinko commie terrorists in the Taxachusetts legislature try to push around poor little Verizon or Cingular! Why, they're just honest businessmen trying to scrape by and earn a meager living, but these ruthlesss government bastards want to regulate them right out of business!
(This is rhetorical and not meant as a troll.)
/*DISCLAIMER*/ /*This is not legal advice. You are not a client. I'm not even an attorney. If you want legal advice, contact an attorney admitted to your jurisdiction's bar. What I am saying here is probably 100% wrong and if you do anything in reliance upon it, you are a blithering idiot who deserves whatever bad shit is very likely to befall you.
*/
Now that that's out of the way . . .
OP is correct. If someone's sole source of income is disability, unemployment, or other public benefits, they are exempt from garnishment. Likewise, if a bank account contains exempt funds, it is exempt from garnishment up to the amount of the exemption. And we don't have debtor's prison the US yet^H^H^H anymore, so that's not an option. Also, there are limits on how much wages can be garnished, and if a person is working part-time at McDonalds or somesuch, they probably don't make enough. What's more, a lot of these people who are working are already being garnished for child support, so they can't be garnished again. I can tell you from personal experience having worked at a collection agency that we didn't even bother suing anyone who didn't have some kind of a good job. It's just not worth it because the amount you get in garnishment won't even cover the fees. And if someone is that poor, chances are they'll just file bankruptcy.
What the RIAA is doing is essentially a fear campagin. I hear if you get sued, you don't even talk to an attorney, you call an "RIAA settlement center." I'm glad these people are taking the fight to the RIAA in court. I'd like to see the bastards try to prove actual damages.
Trying again . . .
I'm just pissed to find out that you really can major in PE; I thought the advisor was joking when he said that.
Of course you can.
What do you suppose
the football jocks major in?
I'm just pissed to find out that you really can major in PE; I thought the advisor was joking when he said that.
Of course you can.
What do you
And I have my wife's permission to say so!
Textbook sales are a racket worthy of the Gambino family.
If you really believe in the free market, then things like this will and should happen. There should be no government loans or anything else to bail these guys out. To put it another way, if you're in a business you can't hack (couched in whatever B-school circumlocution you like), well, get a job at Wal-Mart. That's what the rest of us are going to have to do if the Bushies get their way, and they appear to be getting it.
Regardless of what you may think of iris recognition, this is proof of how the patent system doesn't work. The technology for this has probably been around for 20 years, but it hasn't been able to be used because some shithead corporation owned a patent. This enabled them to browbeat competitors out of existence, and only now that the patent is nearing expiration can anything "innovative" happen.
When a stolen Computrace-equipped system is connected to the Internet, it automatically and silently sends locating data to Absolute Software, which then calls out the law . . .
And the law proceeds, uninterrupted, with their donut break.
Seriously, "the law" doesn't pursue stolen cars all that aggressively. Instead, they say, "we'll take a report that you can turn in to your insurance company. What? You didn't have theft insurance? You're one dumb sonofabitch." The manufacturer implies that, once the laptop is located, they're going to invade the house, BATF style, to retrieve it. Ain't happenin, sorry.
OTOH, the cops aggressively pursue speeding, overtime parking, etc., with collection agencies, wage garnishment, etc. Why? The government then has more money to buy new furniture for the mayor's office and other such extremely important public expenditures.
Bach's well-tempered clavier, book one. Kind of a "best hits" of Bach. :) Listen to all of the two-part inventions.
Recommended recordings:
Well-tempered clavier Book I.
Well-tempered clavier Book II.
Theoretically, yes, but practically, people like to do things like eating, so they charge. A radical concept, that, and one seemingly lost on the FOSS zealots.
and... Olivier Messaien.
/. For the ADHD crowd, no, it's not Nine Inch Nails and yes, it really is that long.
Egh . . . just avoid the Livre d'Orgue. I sat through a concert of Messiaen's organ works at my church, the Livre d'Orgue was one of the pieces played. 47 minutes of atonal, disjointed crap. "I'm going to randomly hit every stop on this organ!" Later, the music director (guy with a Ph.D who knows from good music) told me I was deserving of a Purple Heart for sitting through it.
Be that as it may, it's great that the BBC is making this available and it's great that real music is finally getting some mention on
Well, like so many things, this crap is marketed to yuppies with more money than brains. This guy, being an IT consultant for a bank or somesuch (probably employed by Ass Enter), fits the bill.
Well, there's an inductive effect with the standard metal knob that interferes with the high-frequency responses in stage 1 amplification. Also, less expensive wooden knobs don't have correct fits to the post, causing (inaudible, microscopic) vibration effects that can introduce jitter.
I thought it was because the factory knob was contaminated with dihydrogen monoxide.
What. The. Fuck.
Okay, I'm not an audiophile or an EE (I'm a budding lawyer and philosophy major), but I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday. Still, help me out: These are $500 chunks of wood that replace the volume control knob on the front of your receiver? It's a chunk of wood, for crap's sake! What the H-E-double-hockeysticks difference is it going to make in the quality of your sound?!?
Wish I had mod points. I'd have modded you Insightful.
You've still got to buy the box.
A $25 surplus P-II should suffice. I've been running an OpenBSD/PF firewall at home for ages now and the system load has never gone above 0%.
How would that work? What return would you realize other than investing in a dead platform? Who's going to develop for it one Intel chips come out? The only thing making it not a dead platform is the promise of Rosetta, but I personally am not willing to sink several thousand dollars into a lick and a promise from Intel.
Mod me troll, fine, but I'm just pointing out the way I see things.
Not anymore.
CNET is reporting that after only two years, PalmOne is spending $30 million dollars to become "Palm" again.
What a stupid move on the part of (Palm || PalmOne || NameThisWeek). This, of course, is why they'll have to outsource their developers to India "to stay competitive." Their entire upper management should be summarily terminated.