well jurors names are public. So I guess these can be. People do sometimes harras or pressure jurrors BUT if caught we throw them UNDER the jail..This makes jury tampering fairly rare( well bribery still happens a lot, but who said people did not give away a toaster for every signature)I say lets treat this the same. You try to intimidate these people from lawfully perticipating in goverment we give you a mandatory 25 to life in prison and a 1 million dollar fine per instance. Your activist group does this and we use RICO to make it triple fines and throw everyone in the group in prison. should solve the problem.
you mena the phone line that used to be maxed out at 1200bps, then 2400 bps, then they KNEW that 9600 bps was the max..there was JUST no way to send any more information down a single phone line. Then they KNEW 56000 bps was the max, etc..
well if you are going to mandate auto insurance( a stupid idea)then mandate it at the gas pump. Give safe drivers a rebate and those who self insure( commercial vehicles)a partial rebate. This coupled with no fault traffic laws for accidents under, say 10k in damage, and we would all pay half as much to insure our vehicles. Plus people who hardly drive or have multiple cars would not be punished. This has the added advantage of taking money away from insurance companies who are mostly evil anyway.
in the US that would go like this..." Hello Mr. bean curd eating animal rights protesting hippie election worker...I would like to cast my vote for the current republican candidate ___________" then the election worker marks ballot for obama and says " Thank you for your vote it has been tabulated to your wishes" then under his breath" you facist right wing baby saving , gay hating earth polluting fool!"
you also fail to calculate risks...if you do n ot look at risks per type of investment lottery tickets will always be better on paper than t bills...is the risk of his panel investment lower than a mutual fund? if so he can do a lot better than 5% over 20 years. Is it less prone to inflation( ie.. the cost of panels or home swith panels will be expected to rise at least as fast as inflation?)than a saving account?
at the end of the day these kinds of long term investments are better looked at by using the tables a prior poster noted..and looking at cost/earnings on a yearly basis. Also will his property taxes increase with the "Value" of his home? What about homeowners insurance?
i sure hate to burst this guys solar bubble..but that pool pump sounds like a rip..Why not just use a VERY small wind turbine to pump the water. I am thinking 26" or less in diameter would be ok with to have in a residential area..it would be no more offensive than a direct TV dish.
semantics aside..this figure is misleading to many home buyers..if you are building a NEW RURAL home solar can be cheaper and I tell you why...If you live off the grid you have to pay to bring the grid to you. solar upgrades to a home already having working power and lines going to it means you have paid for grid power and are now paying again for solar. If you are 300 yards from the road AND there is no power running to your place, solar could make sense . Of course people in that kind of place are more likely to pick wind energy.
If solar is gonna take off..this market is where we will see it first..you think I am nutz just look at cable and sattlite TV.
well:
The age of consent in Norway is 16, as specified by the Norwegian General Civil Code 196 which reads: "Any person who commits or is accessory to another person's committing an act of indecency with any person who is under 16 years of age shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years."
The sexual act may not be punishable if those involved are of a "similar age or development".[citation needed]
Norwegian General Civil
so I am guessing 16 year old porn is legal in norway and not considered child porn. The USA has someof the highest ages of consent in the world.
not exactly true...the cost of living( factoring in prices after taxes) has a lot to do with the cost of labor and anything produced by labor. So in the case of an income tax based system, local companies do not pay taxes BUT the taxes are paid by the conumer. In the case of a sales tax system ALL taxes are paid by the consumer where the product is consumed. Basicly our income tax subsidizes companies in japan, china, etc. If everyone used a sales tax system it would be more fair, and we would fair better on the export markets.
see but it is not...when is the last time anybody here in the US was denied health care? not in a long time. Even if you are uninsured, you get treatment. The real problem with the healthcare system is political. We have less healthcare personal per 1000 people than we have in years. This creates an artificial shortage of supply and keeps prices climbing. If Obama wants to fix healthcare he will have to fix this flaw. He is not even talking about it, so i doubt it will be done. Instead he is using this problem to accomplish political goals that will not do much for healthcare.
Fix healthcare? How about we create MORE doctors. I am not talking about clones here, but just by doubling the number of medical schools( or the capacity of ones we already have) in the next 10 years. You want to talk about creating new jobs, ok well lets make new doctors not new burger flippers! Same thing with nurses and other medical jobs.
We need to fix malpractice insurance. If you want to socialize a part of medicine i saw start here. Currently most medical bills are paid by insurance companies. All malpractice pemiums are paid to insurance companies. And frankly as the AIG disaster has taught us, at the higher levels most insurance is owned by very few companies. Malpractice insurance is a scam where insurance companies PAY THEMSELVES for our healthcare thus driving the price up for anybody not in there system. Malpractice insurance costs healthcare providers 30% or more of there gross. Cut that in half and you reduce costs by 7% and much more in some areas( obstitricians get fleeced). Also you remove a huge reason why many smart people do not want to practice medicine.
If healthcare is a national interest more than other industries, why not fund Dr education more? I mean if I can make more money with an MBA and it is easier to get into an MBA program and CHEAPER to pay my loans back if i get an MBA, why the fuck go to med school and work a lot harder for less cheese? How about we say ok, you wanna be a doctor..the top 20%( or 50% or 10% i am not sure what number to use here but we can come up with one based on need) of all premed students, provided they can make decent grades in the entry exams, get automatic admission to a med school. If the school is full we MAKE MORE CAPACITY. Then we say "Ok new doctor we know you owe 250K in student loans and that there are many dr's out there starting practice so the job market aint what it was in the 90's BUT we are gonna help you out. You agree to practice at this special fee structure for Y number of years and we will forgive those student loans. Also after your loans are paid off if we still need you, cuz we don;t want the poor to have only new dr's you keep the fee structure and pay NO TAXES!!!You damn glad you didn't go to law school now !
oh yes a leak!! I am hoping for a nice shamefull leak..something that looks so BAD for the current administration. Something that shows the true colors of the democrats and how, regardless of their brand image, they are even worse than bush. Any republican loyalists out there reading who have access to this, head my call. Do your country a favor. Get this out in the open yes...doom these current C*cksuckers. Show what the president is hiding, please.
i think they should use a system like they did to deregulate long distance companies and break up the phone monopolies. Great inovations happened after that. Maybe make it so broad band co's are reduced to rates that provide no more than 5% profit in any zip code where less than 2 other companies offer the exact same type of broad band service. While we are at it lets do that to cable companies too!
no, we do not need to regulate..we need to do what we did with other utilities already, force them to compete. Let TWC or whoever service the last mile. FORCE them to resell that last mile to any tom dick or harry that wants to be an ISP. BOOM! second dot.com revolution baby!!
besides it does not matter. Sharing a password that you know as a result of your employment is wrong. Using it without permission or after employment is wrong. Simply not telling people the passwords is your right( although it might be being a jerk).
Analogy:
I hire a locksmith to reset the combination to my vault. He knows the combination, he set it. I have a dispute with said locksmith over another matter and tell him i will no longer need his services. Then i lose, forget or whatever the combination. I call him up and ask him. He tells me to get lost and not call him anymore call somebody else. Is he a criminal no.
i have a file clerk that uses her own system of filing at my company for years. I fire her. I can't find an important file. I call her up and ask where it is. She tells me to get lost..my tough luck.
well what about all that money smokers pay in EXTRA taxes? 1 pack a day for 40 years is an extra 40k in taxes, twice that much in NY state. Should they not get something for that? Or are they just a minority with no rights to pay for every pet project of the majority and then die untreated of lung cancer?
I know that the extra taxes do not pay for a single smokers cancer treatment, BUT if you factor in interest( put an extra 1000 a year in your 401k and see how much it increases it in 40 years) and that many people die cheaply OR never get cancer it amounts to a lot.
PLUS many smokers may get cancer, but not live long enough to need nursing homes or other forms of healthcare that cost even more. The tabaco companies in europe used this data to win europes version of the lawsuits. They said that smokers saved the goverment money by reducing old aged care and national pension( social security) costs.
ok first off it is NOT evidence unless it is. In other words until you receive a request for it, a notice of suit or case, or some idea that a court officer somewhere wants it, you can destroy it.
Secondly a jury will in most cases NEVER be allowed to hear about "phantom" evidence that may have existed on a hard drive platter that was destroyed. Certainly in the US in a criminal trial this would be completely irregular.
Third there are MANY more reasons to erase hard drives than to stop the contents from being used as evidence. Financial data, trade secrets, perfectly legal ( but potentially troublesome) pictures of the owner blowing somebody , medical records, etc..
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well jurors names are public. So I guess these can be. People do sometimes harras or pressure jurrors BUT if caught we throw them UNDER the jail..This makes jury tampering fairly rare( well bribery still happens a lot, but who said people did not give away a toaster for every signature)I say lets treat this the same. You try to intimidate these people from lawfully perticipating in goverment we give you a mandatory 25 to life in prison and a 1 million dollar fine per instance. Your activist group does this and we use RICO to make it triple fines and throw everyone in the group in prison. should solve the problem.
umn that is why in the future all robots will have to be GAY. Yes extremely nelly GAY robots, who will not reproduce or fight anybody.
you mena the phone line that used to be maxed out at 1200bps, then 2400 bps, then they KNEW that 9600 bps was the max ..there was JUST no way to send any more information down a single phone line. Then they KNEW 56000 bps was the max, etc..
you know as well as i do that scotty would have an old school ibm clickety clacker of his own somewhere.
duh guys the guy was alive when I ate him..honest..!
well if you are going to mandate auto insurance( a stupid idea)then mandate it at the gas pump. Give safe drivers a rebate and those who self insure( commercial vehicles)a partial rebate. This coupled with no fault traffic laws for accidents under, say 10k in damage, and we would all pay half as much to insure our vehicles. Plus people who hardly drive or have multiple cars would not be punished. This has the added advantage of taking money away from insurance companies who are mostly evil anyway.
umn i dunno...i would rather have the taliban as an enemy that the former USSR...they are not nearly as wealthy, populated or well armed.
in the US that would go like this..." Hello Mr. bean curd eating animal rights protesting hippie election worker...I would like to cast my vote for the current republican candidate ___________" then the election worker marks ballot for obama and says " Thank you for your vote it has been tabulated to your wishes" then under his breath" you facist right wing baby saving , gay hating earth polluting fool!"
yea like the science prof who got almost harrased out of UC berkely for being a wife of a republican candidate for alderman or something like that.
you also fail to calculate risks ...if you do n ot look at risks per type of investment lottery tickets will always be better on paper than t bills...is the risk of his panel investment lower than a mutual fund? if so he can do a lot better than 5% over 20 years. Is it less prone to inflation( ie .. the cost of panels or home swith panels will be expected to rise at least as fast as inflation?)than a saving account?
at the end of the day these kinds of long term investments are better looked at by using the tables a prior poster noted..and looking at cost/earnings on a yearly basis. Also will his property taxes increase with the "Value" of his home? What about homeowners insurance?
i sure hate to burst this guys solar bubble..but that pool pump sounds like a rip..Why not just use a VERY small wind turbine to pump the water. I am thinking 26" or less in diameter would be ok with to have in a residential area..it would be no more offensive than a direct TV dish.
semantics aside..this figure is misleading to many home buyers..if you are building a NEW RURAL home solar can be cheaper and I tell you why...If you live off the grid you have to pay to bring the grid to you. solar upgrades to a home already having working power and lines going to it means you have paid for grid power and are now paying again for solar. If you are 300 yards from the road AND there is no power running to your place, solar could make sense . Of course people in that kind of place are more likely to pick wind energy. If solar is gonna take off..this market is where we will see it first..you think I am nutz just look at cable and sattlite TV.
well: The age of consent in Norway is 16, as specified by the Norwegian General Civil Code 196 which reads: "Any person who commits or is accessory to another person's committing an act of indecency with any person who is under 16 years of age shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years." The sexual act may not be punishable if those involved are of a "similar age or development".[citation needed] Norwegian General Civil so I am guessing 16 year old porn is legal in norway and not considered child porn. The USA has someof the highest ages of consent in the world.
not exactly true...the cost of living( factoring in prices after taxes) has a lot to do with the cost of labor and anything produced by labor. So in the case of an income tax based system, local companies do not pay taxes BUT the taxes are paid by the conumer. In the case of a sales tax system ALL taxes are paid by the consumer where the product is consumed. Basicly our income tax subsidizes companies in japan, china, etc. If everyone used a sales tax system it would be more fair, and we would fair better on the export markets.
see but it is not...when is the last time anybody here in the US was denied health care? not in a long time. Even if you are uninsured, you get treatment. The real problem with the healthcare system is political. We have less healthcare personal per 1000 people than we have in years. This creates an artificial shortage of supply and keeps prices climbing. If Obama wants to fix healthcare he will have to fix this flaw. He is not even talking about it, so i doubt it will be done. Instead he is using this problem to accomplish political goals that will not do much for healthcare. Fix healthcare? How about we create MORE doctors. I am not talking about clones here, but just by doubling the number of medical schools( or the capacity of ones we already have) in the next 10 years. You want to talk about creating new jobs, ok well lets make new doctors not new burger flippers! Same thing with nurses and other medical jobs. We need to fix malpractice insurance. If you want to socialize a part of medicine i saw start here. Currently most medical bills are paid by insurance companies. All malpractice pemiums are paid to insurance companies. And frankly as the AIG disaster has taught us, at the higher levels most insurance is owned by very few companies. Malpractice insurance is a scam where insurance companies PAY THEMSELVES for our healthcare thus driving the price up for anybody not in there system. Malpractice insurance costs healthcare providers 30% or more of there gross. Cut that in half and you reduce costs by 7% and much more in some areas( obstitricians get fleeced). Also you remove a huge reason why many smart people do not want to practice medicine. If healthcare is a national interest more than other industries, why not fund Dr education more? I mean if I can make more money with an MBA and it is easier to get into an MBA program and CHEAPER to pay my loans back if i get an MBA, why the fuck go to med school and work a lot harder for less cheese? How about we say ok, you wanna be a doctor..the top 20%( or 50% or 10% i am not sure what number to use here but we can come up with one based on need) of all premed students, provided they can make decent grades in the entry exams, get automatic admission to a med school. If the school is full we MAKE MORE CAPACITY. Then we say "Ok new doctor we know you owe 250K in student loans and that there are many dr's out there starting practice so the job market aint what it was in the 90's BUT we are gonna help you out. You agree to practice at this special fee structure for Y number of years and we will forgive those student loans. Also after your loans are paid off if we still need you, cuz we don;t want the poor to have only new dr's you keep the fee structure and pay NO TAXES!!!You damn glad you didn't go to law school now !
oh yes a leak!! I am hoping for a nice shamefull leak..something that looks so BAD for the current administration. Something that shows the true colors of the democrats and how, regardless of their brand image, they are even worse than bush. Any republican loyalists out there reading who have access to this, head my call. Do your country a favor. Get this out in the open yes...doom these current C*cksuckers. Show what the president is hiding, please.
i think they should use a system like they did to deregulate long distance companies and break up the phone monopolies. Great inovations happened after that. Maybe make it so broad band co's are reduced to rates that provide no more than 5% profit in any zip code where less than 2 other companies offer the exact same type of broad band service. While we are at it lets do that to cable companies too!
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no, we do not need to regulate..we need to do what we did with other utilities already, force them to compete. Let TWC or whoever service the last mile. FORCE them to resell that last mile to any tom dick or harry that wants to be an ISP. BOOM! second dot.com revolution baby!!
besides it does not matter. Sharing a password that you know as a result of your employment is wrong. Using it without permission or after employment is wrong. Simply not telling people the passwords is your right( although it might be being a jerk). Analogy: I hire a locksmith to reset the combination to my vault. He knows the combination, he set it. I have a dispute with said locksmith over another matter and tell him i will no longer need his services. Then i lose, forget or whatever the combination. I call him up and ask him. He tells me to get lost and not call him anymore call somebody else. Is he a criminal no. i have a file clerk that uses her own system of filing at my company for years. I fire her. I can't find an important file. I call her up and ask where it is. She tells me to get lost..my tough luck.
well what about all that money smokers pay in EXTRA taxes? 1 pack a day for 40 years is an extra 40k in taxes, twice that much in NY state. Should they not get something for that? Or are they just a minority with no rights to pay for every pet project of the majority and then die untreated of lung cancer? I know that the extra taxes do not pay for a single smokers cancer treatment, BUT if you factor in interest( put an extra 1000 a year in your 401k and see how much it increases it in 40 years) and that many people die cheaply OR never get cancer it amounts to a lot. PLUS many smokers may get cancer, but not live long enough to need nursing homes or other forms of healthcare that cost even more. The tabaco companies in europe used this data to win europes version of the lawsuits. They said that smokers saved the goverment money by reducing old aged care and national pension( social security) costs.
umn this IS slashdot..you better keep it under lock and key now!
ok first off it is NOT evidence unless it is. In other words until you receive a request for it, a notice of suit or case, or some idea that a court officer somewhere wants it, you can destroy it. Secondly a jury will in most cases NEVER be allowed to hear about "phantom" evidence that may have existed on a hard drive platter that was destroyed. Certainly in the US in a criminal trial this would be completely irregular. Third there are MANY more reasons to erase hard drives than to stop the contents from being used as evidence. Financial data, trade secrets, perfectly legal ( but potentially troublesome) pictures of the owner blowing somebody , medical records, etc..
does the sham wow work? It looks really cool!
You had a HAMMER! You Bastard...I dreamed of having a hammer of my own to break rocks to make my own gravel. I had to use a HERRING!