But the postal service is more likely to upgrade to lower-energy fleet (CNG or some sort of electric thing) than each and every household is, making the concentration of energy consumption beneficial.
>> cardboard box and the plastic bubble wrap >> I'd like to see some kind of reusable packaging.
Also, don't leave anything in your car, and don't put things in the trunk when you park. Why advertise that you just stuck a laptop in the trunk and then walked into a movie theater? If you're going to put something in the trunk, do it before you drive somewhere, not after you arrive.
The Club works fine provided the car next to yours doesn't have one. It's not about making your car steal proof - it's about making your car slightly-less steal-able than your neighbors'.
Same strategy that makes a barking dog good home security.
You won't get absolute security to prevent losing your car. You could put in an ignition kill switch, but you'd want to find a mechanic that was creative with switch placement or that would be found, too. And the thief won't know about this until after he's broken your window, at which point he'll steal your stereo, slash up your dashboard and piss in your seat out of spite.
My usual car is high-end, but I have a 1997 Mazda Miata that I use when I plan to go downtown at night. I can park it on the street and most people won't bother it. The worst that's ever happened was a homeless guy ripping out the side mirror's motor assembly. (And that was hassle to replace, but just $100 from a junkyard.) The top is cloth - anyone who wants into it can get into it - so I just leave the top down most places. (Where homeless congregate I put it up to avoid someone pissing in it.)
1. Make up a truly unique game with original gameplay and mechanics. 2. Submit a patent application for your gameplay, and wait 10 years for approval, while hoping your money lasts. 3. Hope Zynga rips off your game in the mean time, and that it becomes very popular and makes them a lot of money, while they don't realize you have a patent pending. 4. Sue Zynga, hoping your money lasts. 5. ??? (Juries can be arbitrary) 6. Profit! Or Loss! (depending on the Jury and how much you've bled over the last 15 years)
Well of course none of them have real-world experience. You can't run for office and hold a working-person's job, so all high-level politicians are in semi-self-employed positions (lawyers, well-off small-business owners, existing politician in another office) or retired.
And if a working person decides to become a politician, working his way up from office to office, he's called a career politician and scoured at. Heaven forbid he try to keep his job as long as the public will elect him, as the term-limit crowd will try to force him out as soon as possible.
Faced with returning to a life of fishing boats and oil rigs, or passing some corporate-friendly legislation to make friends and get a quick-and-easy PR or lobbyist position after being forced from office due to term limits, most people will end up screwing over their constituents anyway.
(If it's not obvious, I support public funding of elections, and I'm against term limits.)
The people that were smashing car windows in our neighborhood were seen, and followed running back to their house in our neighborhood.
In my opinion learning to not hit your own neighborhood where you'll be recognized and followed on foot to our house is the first, basic thing to learn as a new criminal. Apparently that's too much for some people. Planning ahead so far as to coordinate your efforts with a throw-away phone is several steps down that list.
My company, which is self insured (meaning that although my insurance plan is administered by one of the big insurance companies, every bill is paid directly from my company's bank account), says that health insurance costs are running about $15,000 per employee right now. That's expected to go up 50% in the next five years, about 10% a year including a bump this January when several parts of the new health insurance legislation take effect.
From our wellness program tests and surveys, our employees are (on average) healthier than the typical American, with lower rates of high blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, obesity, etc.
And when you're 55 and confined to a wheelchair with a broken back, you might still have all of those things (including the "opportunity" to surf) and be unable to enjoy any of them.
I think your list of needs ought to include health. This includes health and disability insurance so your life doesn't have to stop due to a severe injury.
Then when you're 72 and maybe just want to watch the waves while you sip some tea, you'll be sad to find yourself evicted, unable to pay your property taxes now that rates have gone up through the roof to balance the state and local budgets.
I think your list of needs ought to include retirement saving and planning. This includes health and disability insurance (and life insurance for your spouse, if married) so that a major accident or illness does not rob you of your existing or expected savings.
So your list probably looks more like: roof, vehicle, food supply, the opportunity to surf every weekend, sufficient health to be pain free and active/mobile, and the financial security to not lose all of the above
That's simple. With laser-fast reflexes Han can shift sideways with a horizontal shear at his midsection, then shift back in time to fire accurately himself.
In the U.S. you only have to report the income from the sale of a second-hand car if you made a profit on the car. Most people don't depreciate their vehicles, so the "value" of the car is the original purchase price. Rarely is a car sold for more than its original purchase price, so rarely is there profit.
Now people who depreciate their car as an asset (usually independent business owners, sales people who travel a lot, etc.) and then sell it for more than their depreciated value do need to declare the excess as profit. That's part of the trade off for being able to deduct the year's depreciation as an annual business expense.
I've looked into the current train, but the times are total shit. To go to DFW on a Friday I'd have to leave in the morning, missing the whole day of work. To return to Austin on Sunday I'd have to do it in the afternoon, later than I'd want to get home.
Really they just need to add a second trip each day and it would be worth it. Making it high speed with limited stops would encourage more riders and make it more likely they could afford to add that second trip.
An author of an unpublished work has the right to destroy that work, forever removing it from society and history and culture.
Once something is published, though, we grant the author a limited monopoly in exchange for them forever losing their rights to total control over their creative output. Those rights have instead been transferred to the common society in the form of the public domain.
Even if the materials are just sitting in a box in the home of the former employee, the owner of the unpublished work has had their rights of control stolen from them.
The I35 corridor in Texas is often talked about as suitable for high-speed rail. A line from San Antonio to Denton could stop at San Antonio, San Marcos (Texas State University), central Austin (near a connection to their commuter rail with access to University of Texas and the capitol), somewhere around Temple (with bus service to Fort Hood), Waco (near Baylor University), Arlington (near the Coyboys and Rangers stadiums, Six Flags, and a connection to the DFW commuter rail), Grapevine (near DFW airport), and Denton (University of North Texas).
Run a high-speed train on that route a few times a day each way, and put ZipCar or Car2Go rentals near each stop, and I'd ride it several times a year. It would sure as hell beat the Austin-DFW drive for the 200th time.
Sure, it's a lot easier to design for rail from the start, but that doesn't mean that rail is never successful after wards. It just means that the rail needs to be subsidized for longer, because the land around the new commuter line is already built up for suburban life. Given enough time that cooridor will redevelop in a transit-oriented fashion. Then, you can add another line, and that area will build up, too. Obviously this takes longer than building once on green field, but it will occur if the commuter rail is kept up long enough.
It's not that expensive to join ZipCar or Cars2Go or a similar group. Then you can pick up a car for around town if you need it after work or at lunch. On normal days you can walk from the station to your office, or bike, or use a public or company-sponsored bus.
While making a (potentially) illegal copy of a public work is "copyright infringement", I readily call taking trade secrets "stealing". There's a big difference between taking a published work and an unpublished one.
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But the postal service is more likely to upgrade to lower-energy fleet (CNG or some sort of electric thing) than each and every household is, making the concentration of energy consumption beneficial.
>> cardboard box and the plastic bubble wrap
>> I'd like to see some kind of reusable packaging.
Does not compute.
Also, don't leave anything in your car, and don't put things in the trunk when you park. Why advertise that you just stuck a laptop in the trunk and then walked into a movie theater? If you're going to put something in the trunk, do it before you drive somewhere, not after you arrive.
The Club works fine provided the car next to yours doesn't have one. It's not about making your car steal proof - it's about making your car slightly-less steal-able than your neighbors'.
Same strategy that makes a barking dog good home security.
You won't get absolute security to prevent losing your car. You could put in an ignition kill switch, but you'd want to find a mechanic that was creative with switch placement or that would be found, too. And the thief won't know about this until after he's broken your window, at which point he'll steal your stereo, slash up your dashboard and piss in your seat out of spite.
My usual car is high-end, but I have a 1997 Mazda Miata that I use when I plan to go downtown at night. I can park it on the street and most people won't bother it. The worst that's ever happened was a homeless guy ripping out the side mirror's motor assembly. (And that was hassle to replace, but just $100 from a junkyard.) The top is cloth - anyone who wants into it can get into it - so I just leave the top down most places. (Where homeless congregate I put it up to avoid someone pissing in it.)
Curses! Foiled by a typo! I would have succeeded too if it wasn't for you darn grammar nazi kids!
No, it's not a gated community, but yes, I think they were teenagers pulling their first crimes. It's middle-middle class for our area.
1. Make up a truly unique game with original gameplay and mechanics.
2. Submit a patent application for your gameplay, and wait 10 years for approval, while hoping your money lasts.
3. Hope Zynga rips off your game in the mean time, and that it becomes very popular and makes them a lot of money, while they don't realize you have a patent pending.
4. Sue Zynga, hoping your money lasts.
5. ??? (Juries can be arbitrary)
6. Profit! Or Loss! (depending on the Jury and how much you've bled over the last 15 years)
Well of course none of them have real-world experience. You can't run for office and hold a working-person's job, so all high-level politicians are in semi-self-employed positions (lawyers, well-off small-business owners, existing politician in another office) or retired.
And if a working person decides to become a politician, working his way up from office to office, he's called a career politician and scoured at. Heaven forbid he try to keep his job as long as the public will elect him, as the term-limit crowd will try to force him out as soon as possible.
Faced with returning to a life of fishing boats and oil rigs, or passing some corporate-friendly legislation to make friends and get a quick-and-easy PR or lobbyist position after being forced from office due to term limits, most people will end up screwing over their constituents anyway.
(If it's not obvious, I support public funding of elections, and I'm against term limits.)
Did you look at the picture?
The people that were smashing car windows in our neighborhood were seen, and followed running back to their house in our neighborhood.
In my opinion learning to not hit your own neighborhood where you'll be recognized and followed on foot to our house is the first, basic thing to learn as a new criminal. Apparently that's too much for some people. Planning ahead so far as to coordinate your efforts with a throw-away phone is several steps down that list.
My company, which is self insured (meaning that although my insurance plan is administered by one of the big insurance companies, every bill is paid directly from my company's bank account), says that health insurance costs are running about $15,000 per employee right now. That's expected to go up 50% in the next five years, about 10% a year including a bump this January when several parts of the new health insurance legislation take effect.
From our wellness program tests and surveys, our employees are (on average) healthier than the typical American, with lower rates of high blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, obesity, etc.
And when you're 55 and confined to a wheelchair with a broken back, you might still have all of those things (including the "opportunity" to surf) and be unable to enjoy any of them.
I think your list of needs ought to include health. This includes health and disability insurance so your life doesn't have to stop due to a severe injury.
Then when you're 72 and maybe just want to watch the waves while you sip some tea, you'll be sad to find yourself evicted, unable to pay your property taxes now that rates have gone up through the roof to balance the state and local budgets.
I think your list of needs ought to include retirement saving and planning. This includes health and disability insurance (and life insurance for your spouse, if married) so that a major accident or illness does not rob you of your existing or expected savings.
So your list probably looks more like:
roof, vehicle, food supply, the opportunity to surf every weekend, sufficient health to be pain free and active/mobile, and the financial security to not lose all of the above
Never heard of him. I made it up on the spot.
All humor is recycled.
That's simple. With laser-fast reflexes Han can shift sideways with a horizontal shear at his midsection, then shift back in time to fire accurately himself.
At least, that's how the camera captured it.
Well, now we can infect the cancer with flesh-eating bacteria with less worry that it will kill the host.
Just need to tame Ebola like we have Botulism and people can lose that unwanted body weight by having it eaten off.
In the U.S. you only have to report the income from the sale of a second-hand car if you made a profit on the car. Most people don't depreciate their vehicles, so the "value" of the car is the original purchase price. Rarely is a car sold for more than its original purchase price, so rarely is there profit.
Now people who depreciate their car as an asset (usually independent business owners, sales people who travel a lot, etc.) and then sell it for more than their depreciated value do need to declare the excess as profit. That's part of the trade off for being able to deduct the year's depreciation as an annual business expense.
I've looked into the current train, but the times are total shit. To go to DFW on a Friday I'd have to leave in the morning, missing the whole day of work. To return to Austin on Sunday I'd have to do it in the afternoon, later than I'd want to get home.
Really they just need to add a second trip each day and it would be worth it. Making it high speed with limited stops would encourage more riders and make it more likely they could afford to add that second trip.
An author of an unpublished work has the right to destroy that work, forever removing it from society and history and culture.
Once something is published, though, we grant the author a limited monopoly in exchange for them forever losing their rights to total control over their creative output. Those rights have instead been transferred to the common society in the form of the public domain.
Even if the materials are just sitting in a box in the home of the former employee, the owner of the unpublished work has had their rights of control stolen from them.
There might or might not be a $20 bill in my wallet; I won't know for certain until I look for it?
You're thinking about it the wrong way. People will pay you to tell them how to twist that wire nut from your home.
The I35 corridor in Texas is often talked about as suitable for high-speed rail. A line from San Antonio to Denton could stop at San Antonio, San Marcos (Texas State University), central Austin (near a connection to their commuter rail with access to University of Texas and the capitol), somewhere around Temple (with bus service to Fort Hood), Waco (near Baylor University), Arlington (near the Coyboys and Rangers stadiums, Six Flags, and a connection to the DFW commuter rail), Grapevine (near DFW airport), and Denton (University of North Texas).
Run a high-speed train on that route a few times a day each way, and put ZipCar or Car2Go rentals near each stop, and I'd ride it several times a year. It would sure as hell beat the Austin-DFW drive for the 200th time.
Sure, it's a lot easier to design for rail from the start, but that doesn't mean that rail is never successful after wards. It just means that the rail needs to be subsidized for longer, because the land around the new commuter line is already built up for suburban life. Given enough time that cooridor will redevelop in a transit-oriented fashion. Then, you can add another line, and that area will build up, too. Obviously this takes longer than building once on green field, but it will occur if the commuter rail is kept up long enough.
It's not that expensive to join ZipCar or Cars2Go or a similar group. Then you can pick up a car for around town if you need it after work or at lunch. On normal days you can walk from the station to your office, or bike, or use a public or company-sponsored bus.
So far I haven't seen a reason why I haven't been flung off into space that's more than speculation, either.
While making a (potentially) illegal copy of a public work is "copyright infringement", I readily call taking trade secrets "stealing". There's a big difference between taking a published work and an unpublished one.
When I do so at 100 MPH, I'll let you know.