The hell with you. I live in Seattle, and I have access to dozens of good beers brewed up and down the coast, not to mention the nice belgian stuff in Capitol Hill. Lessee - Pyramid makes some good stuff, Arrogant Bastard Ale, Shakespeare Stout come from down the coast, Red Hook is in Redmond (yes, good things come from Redmond), and, while technically not America, run up to Vancouver and have a Downtown Brown in Yaletown. Just because you think Budweiser and Coors are the ne plus ultra of American Beer doesn't mean that's so.
Hell, even Sam Adams is okay. Way better than that soda water bud calls beer.
The difference is that, in Florida, at least, the polling stations had delays due to deliberate underprovisioning of the machines - poor people vote democrat and there's a definite republican bias in the Florida executive branch.
So the cash transaction can be reported to the IRS, as required by law (depending on the amount). This is supposedly to help detect money-laundering and drug trafficking.
What law? If I write a check for a car, they aren't getting a SSN from me.
For a credit check, to make sure that you'll be likely to make the monthly installment payments on that annual membership, and probably to see if you're a high risk for stealing equipment.
If you can rip off a gym, you probably don't need a membership. Seriously, who steals iron weights?
You don't have to tell the businesses what they can and can't do.
Sure you do - that's called regulation. It's much better to proactively require safe practices than clean up the mess afterwards. Haven't you heard of SOX or PCI?
If you get pulled over and the officer suspects s/he smells weed then they can almost certainly get a warrant to search your vehicle. Then while searching your car they find a body in the trunk, but no evidence of drugs.
You could challenge the search on the grounds that 'smelling weed' is a cop excuse for 'I want to have a look around', since there was no weed in evidence. The alternative is that a cop could search any car he felt like just by 'smelling weed'.
It would be nice if we legalized a bunch of drugs and people just made the right choices about them and everything was wonderful.
Actually, I don't care if some people decide to do pot or cocaine instead of drink.
Where you are mistaken is in the belief that the evils that go along with our drug policy, all the violence etc, outweighs the bad that would happen when the average person's drug use skyrocketed
No, there would be a short spike, then usage would go back to what it is now, more or less. This is what's happened elsewhere. You trade away drug violence and no knock raids and get cheap drugs. Maybe you have to hide your usage from the PPO, but that's about it.
Ah, screw the lot of them. Parents who let their kids watch south park without knowing what's in the show are idiots, and Jack thompson is just another attention whore. The fact is, this is the fault of the parents who are so detached from their kids' lives that they don't realize that little timmy is killing hookers with a purple balloon.
Vocational school? Ha. We are busily purging the economy of those sorts of jobs. If the job involves manual labor, it is done by cheap immigrants paid 50% of what anyone from that country would ever get. All other jobs are "knowledge worker" jobs where you need a college degree to get in the door. What happened to factory jobs and welder, plumber and such skilled trades? They were outsourced or outmoded.
Moron. You can't outsource welding, plumbing or auto repair. Furthermore, vocational education is potentially fairly lucrative and is by no means unskilled. Right now, the trades are having a bitch of a time finding new recruits, largely due to the idea that trades are somehow lower than professional jobs.
Where have you been? The whole zero tolerance mess is a result of legalistic butt covering. Explain to me what consequences this principal would face if she wasn't prime lawsuit bait? Getting fired doesn't quite cover it.
There is a bureaucratic and technical process that takes place when you initiate an email to 30000+ people, and it's not just a "To" address.)
The place I work only has about 3000 people locally, and it actually is just a To: address. Of course, we have exchange, so when it works, it allows us to lock down specific aliases so that only a small number of people can send to it.Campus cops should be able to have a streamlined process that allows for mass emails within 15 minutes. If we trust them with guns, then surely we trust them with a large email list.
Let's hope this tragedy leads to repealing the laws banning firearms on college campuses in VA. After all, one guy with a pistol could've cut his rampage short.
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Is that check over $10,000? Good luck with that.
It's a check. They can get my bank and account number just by reading it.
American beer.
The hell with you. I live in Seattle, and I have access to dozens of good beers brewed up and down the coast, not to mention the nice belgian stuff in Capitol Hill. Lessee - Pyramid makes some good stuff, Arrogant Bastard Ale, Shakespeare Stout come from down the coast, Red Hook is in Redmond (yes, good things come from Redmond), and, while technically not America, run up to Vancouver and have a Downtown Brown in Yaletown. Just because you think Budweiser and Coors are the ne plus ultra of American Beer doesn't mean that's so.
Hell, even Sam Adams is okay. Way better than that soda water bud calls beer.
The difference is that, in Florida, at least, the polling stations had delays due to deliberate underprovisioning of the machines - poor people vote democrat and there's a definite republican bias in the Florida executive branch.
Aren't those the same thing? We don't tell people not to rob each other, we just lock them up if they do.
So the cash transaction can be reported to the IRS, as required by law (depending on the amount). This is supposedly to help detect money-laundering and drug trafficking.
What law? If I write a check for a car, they aren't getting a SSN from me.
For a credit check, to make sure that you'll be likely to make the monthly installment payments on that annual membership, and probably to see if you're a high risk for stealing equipment.
If you can rip off a gym, you probably don't need a membership. Seriously, who steals iron weights?
There is no law against using the SSN as an ID number.
You don't have to tell the businesses what they can and can't do.
Sure you do - that's called regulation. It's much better to proactively require safe practices than clean up the mess afterwards. Haven't you heard of SOX or PCI?
Guns are already illegal there, so noone would do that.
If you get pulled over and the officer suspects s/he smells weed then they can almost certainly get a warrant to search your vehicle. Then while searching your car they find a body in the trunk, but no evidence of drugs.
You could challenge the search on the grounds that 'smelling weed' is a cop excuse for 'I want to have a look around', since there was no weed in evidence. The alternative is that a cop could search any car he felt like just by 'smelling weed'.
That's irrelevant. What matters is black letter law.
where are you going to find 12 drummers smart enough to follow a criminal trial?
Are you shitting me? ESRB is way better than the MPAA ratings system - it has specifics that the MPAA doesn't even begin to cover.
It would be nice if we legalized a bunch of drugs and people just made the right choices about them and everything was wonderful.
Actually, I don't care if some people decide to do pot or cocaine instead of drink.
Where you are mistaken is in the belief that the evils that go along with our drug policy, all the violence etc, outweighs the bad that would happen when the average person's drug use skyrocketed
No, there would be a short spike, then usage would go back to what it is now, more or less. This is what's happened elsewhere. You trade away drug violence and no knock raids and get cheap drugs. Maybe you have to hide your usage from the PPO, but that's about it.
A kid carrying a gun for you seems like a accident waiting to happen.
Define kid. A 16 year old is fine. A 12 year old is also fine. all it takes is training and proper respect for the gun.
Ah, screw the lot of them. Parents who let their kids watch south park without knowing what's in the show are idiots, and Jack thompson is just another attention whore. The fact is, this is the fault of the parents who are so detached from their kids' lives that they don't realize that little timmy is killing hookers with a purple balloon.
Hell, Geeks would rather have guns that work than some half baked rifle that takes 10 seconds to reboot.
Also the AK47 is not the same caliber (7.62 short instead of 5.56)
They're both intermediate rounds of approximately the same power, so yes, the comparison is valid.
I think this is what the deflector dish is supposed to do.
WE NEED A REAL RATING SYSTEM so parents can realistically exercise their parental rights.
We've got one: it's caled the ESRB, and it's on pretty much any game you buy today.
Vocational school? Ha. We are busily purging the economy of those sorts of jobs. If the job involves manual labor, it is done by cheap immigrants paid 50% of what anyone from that country would ever get. All other jobs are "knowledge worker" jobs where you need a college degree to get in the door. What happened to factory jobs and welder, plumber and such skilled trades? They were outsourced or outmoded.
Moron. You can't outsource welding, plumbing or auto repair. Furthermore, vocational education is potentially fairly lucrative and is by no means unskilled. Right now, the trades are having a bitch of a time finding new recruits, largely due to the idea that trades are somehow lower than professional jobs.
Where have you been? The whole zero tolerance mess is a result of legalistic butt covering. Explain to me what consequences this principal would face if she wasn't prime lawsuit bait? Getting fired doesn't quite cover it.
How many MBAs are willing to teach high school students?
There is a bureaucratic and technical process that takes place when you initiate an email to 30000+ people, and it's not just a "To" address.)
The place I work only has about 3000 people locally, and it actually is just a To: address. Of course, we have exchange, so when it works, it allows us to lock down specific aliases so that only a small number of people can send to it.Campus cops should be able to have a streamlined process that allows for mass emails within 15 minutes. If we trust them with guns, then surely we trust them with a large email list.
Let's hope this tragedy leads to repealing the laws banning firearms on college campuses in VA. After all, one guy with a pistol could've cut his rampage short.
Guantanamo Bay does not have a prison, it is a detention facility for enemy combatants.
No, it is a POW camp, and most of the residents were purchased at $10k/head.