Actually...I'm kinda surprised, I'd never even ever thought about selling a cell phone after I've used it...is there really a market for this?
In the past, when my cell phone was off contract, it was usually so beat up, and outdated (2 main reasons I'd want to get a new one) I just usually chunk them in the trash. I kinda assumed most everyone did, I've never seen a used one before.
I supposed with more phones like the iPhone and Android ones that are smartphones, I can see a market for used ones...I guess some people aren't as hard on them as I am (and I'm not as hard on them as some of my friends, mine usually at least last the 2 years of the contract).
But really, do that many people on there resell their used cell phones...or are they as disposable as I've considered them in the past? Who wants to buy an older, obsolete phone? Is there much of a market for these? Is there really that big of one for the iPhone...since likelly by time you're out of contract on that....the battery is getting weak and you can't change the battery out yourself?
See other post....not many cabs in most cities I know of....usually only like 1 or two companies..and can cost you well over $40 to go across town one way...
That, and you don't want to leave your car at the bar....especially if you have to get up and work the next day...
Cabs aren't really an option in most US cities really....not that many of them and it can cost like $40 to get across town in one of them.
NOLA is different....there are lots of them here due to being such a tourist city.
On the other hand....leaving your car in many places around here....you'll either not find a car when you get back...or only a stripped shell of one the next day.
I think there is much more of a stigma to drinking and driving in the north of the US than in the south....everyone I know often has a few and no big deal to drive home...and no one has problems with it. Maybe more practice helps....sure if you're shitfaced....yeah, you don't drive, but 99% you aren't skunk drunk and you naturally drive home.
Also, if you're taking a chick home from the bar...you're not gonna do it in a cab....
Well, an expert in breasts. 8 years working in the adult entertainment industry can teach you an awful lot. Well, more than you'd ever want to know. Really. I don't recommend it to anyone, unless you want to have a jaded view on the world.
Please...elaborate on your 8 years in the 'industry'!!!
video? What did you do? Why does it give you a jaded view on the world, seems like one of the best jobs in the world for a guy!!!
Hey...you've got to get yourself and your car home somehow....
Look, if you want to do away with the possibility of alcohol intoxicated driving..your just going to have to get rid of and ban booze sales in bars and restaurants...which isn't gonna happen.
Honestly, when you drive around and see all the bars out there, full of cars from the patrons that got there, and then see it empty at the end of the night...do you really think all of them called a friend to come get them and drive them home? No..they drive home. And I dunno what bars you go to...but likely 98% at least of them are over the "legal" limit. No one goes there to have 1 drink and stand, talk, dance, etc...and let that be it.
In the US..in most cities you can write off public transportation...it isn't there. So, most people...drive to their destination, and drive home (you don't want to leave your car there to get stolen or vandalized, and likely if a week day, you need it to get to work the next day). So there you have it...the system is set up for people to drink too much (again, the insanely LOW new BAC standards)...and the cops there to catch them and get their arrest quota and revenue.
It is kind of stupid to bitch about the problem, when society encourages it.
And in New Orleans...well, it is like shooting fish in a barrel...you can carry drinks out to go with you, and we even have drive through daquiri shops, and until just a few years ago, didn't even have an open container law for cars...but, even with that, you don't get massive reports of drunk fsck ups all the time...people just get more practiced at drinking a bit tipsy. I'm more worried about the cops patrolling the projects and high murder areas of town, that trying to catch Fred on the way home from a few beers.
most people driving under influence wouldn't care to check such an app, it's an extra bother.
Actually..it is the FIRST thing I'll be checking when about to leave the bar. I have Trapster, but that is only speed traps and cameras....I've just downloaded the others and trust me, those will be the first things I check before I have to get home after having a few...
not sure if i'm missing some massive sarcasm or anything, but that is NOT a good point, if you feel like driving past a checkpoint is a risk you dont want to take, then DRIVING should be a risk you dont want to take. Your wording suggests you dont have zero tolerance over there, so then DUI limits are non-zero, and probably at some level which WILL impact your response-time
Well, it is a good point due to the fact that the states were extorted into lowering the legal DWI BAC to.08...which is ridiculously low. A fully grown man can have about 3 glasses of wine with a meal and be dangerously close to the legal limit....but may not be anywhere near impeded to the point of not being able to drive a car safely.
They should NOT be able to set up random check points at all IMHO...if you are driving in an impaired fashion, then by all means, get them pulled over and charged, but if you've had a few drinks, are not impaired driving, then you should be free to go on your way. It is an individual thing as to how alcohol affects each person.
And frankly these days...the DWI dragnet is more and more becoming more of a revenue generator rather than a public safety program...much like all the speed and stop light cameras.
Heck for a test...lets take all the speeding, dwi and other moving violation infractions...have all the money for fines pooled, and redistributed to the citizens that didn't get caught as incentive.
I'm wanting to see how much enthusiasm the police have for setting up all the speed traps and checkpoints..if they know they're not getting direct revenues from them...hmmmm
OTOH alcohol excise tax is a significant source of budget income, so maximizing ability to consume alcohol would be profitable for the budget...
Actually..you're not far off the mark.
Back in the 80's...LA was one of the last states (if not the last) to raise the drinking age from 18yrs to 21yrs after being extorted by the Feds. One reason they held out so long was that they figured they'd lose WAY more money in lost tax revenues from raising the drinking age than they would lose from Fed. Highway funds.
Sadly, one of the big oil crunches hit about then, and the state was hurting for money and finally succumbed.
The feds really need to get their nose the fsck OUT of national legislation like this...this should be up to the states.
It makes no ethical sense (except in the eyes of the tax avoiders) for a non-profit to have a profit-making subsidiary. If there are no stakeholders who stand to gain personally then your whole organisation is non-profit, and you have no need for a profit-making subsidiary.
As others have responded, likely this is not a tax avoidance...the for profit section pays taxes.
But really, you seem to imply that tax avoidance, or as I like to call it, "taking advantage of the legal ways to keep your own hard earned money"...is somehow unethical or bad???
If that is the case, I'm sure that on your personal taxes, you don't bother to take the standard deduction, or if a home owner, you don't take the tax deductions for interest on mortgage payments, deductions for children you have at home...etc. I mean, that would be avoiding taxes, right?
Seriously, doesn't matter if your a person, or a business owner, there is nothing wrong with taking advantage of ever legal method there is to keep as much of your hard earned cash for yourself as you can. It is YOUR money first..not the governments.
If you don't like loopholes, or deductions, or whatever...the lobby hard to get the congress-critters to do away with the current tax code that is so filled with deductions and shelters...and do a simple, and fair tax code. Something along the Fair Tax route works for me....or some sort of modified flat tax...or maybe no income tax at all and just do a VAT tax....
That way, you make $X...you pay Y% of it and there you have it..simple, and everyone contributes equally. No deductions at all for homes, children (never understood this one...people with kids use MORE resources..and it isn't like people were on the fence about kids and figured with the tax deduction, they'd go ahead and fuck without a rubber and have one...).
Wow...I feel sorry for you. Why do you live so far away you have to commute? And having to ride a smelly old bus (and sit by the general street type people that usually are on them with you)...man that has to suck.
I'm glad I only have to drive about 7-10 minutes tops to work.
Do you actually do this by choice or just bad living circumstances?
I'd love to use Postgres, but need confidence that it's not got a massive deficiency somewhere.
Take a look at Postgres...it is MUCH more like Oracle in terms of a robust RDBMS. I've heard of projects taking pretty large Oracle installs...and converting over to Postgres with minimal pain.
The main reason MySQL is more popular is that it was smaller and easier to configure...but at the cost of robustness, and initially...data integrity. It was a short cut...much like {gag} MS Access proved often to be.
Postgres takes a bit more planning, and know how to install and use, but then again...so does something like Oracle.
Can we all face the fact this is a HUGE government coverup?
I think we now have proof that there is a Godzilla, and this is all Godzilla related turmoil. Sheesh..can we not get a senate investigative committee together?
I mean, if they're willing to put so much time, money and effort into steroids in baseball, surely we rate at least as much time into the Godzilla effect?
She wasn't up for the silly thought experiment of sitting there in the car waiting for it to never turn green when we could just back up and pull forward to get a green light.
If it was late at night, no other traffic on the road, why didn't you just assume the light was borked...and just run it? Or, would she have come unglued about that too?
Or worse - I got stuck at one. I decided to wait it out. I sat at a red light for 15 minutes once at a deserted intersection late at night. I had to back up and pull up to the line again to get a green light. I would have thought it funny to stay until it turned green but my wife was in the car.
Ok, you lost me here...what difference did it make because your wife was in the car??
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And try to avoid gettting slimmed...
In the past, when my cell phone was off contract, it was usually so beat up, and outdated (2 main reasons I'd want to get a new one) I just usually chunk them in the trash. I kinda assumed most everyone did, I've never seen a used one before.
I supposed with more phones like the iPhone and Android ones that are smartphones, I can see a market for used ones...I guess some people aren't as hard on them as I am (and I'm not as hard on them as some of my friends, mine usually at least last the 2 years of the contract).
But really, do that many people on there resell their used cell phones...or are they as disposable as I've considered them in the past? Who wants to buy an older, obsolete phone? Is there much of a market for these? Is there really that big of one for the iPhone...since likelly by time you're out of contract on that....the battery is getting weak and you can't change the battery out yourself?
That, and you don't want to leave your car at the bar....especially if you have to get up and work the next day...
NOLA is different....there are lots of them here due to being such a tourist city.
On the other hand....leaving your car in many places around here....you'll either not find a car when you get back...or only a stripped shell of one the next day.
I think there is much more of a stigma to drinking and driving in the north of the US than in the south....everyone I know often has a few and no big deal to drive home...and no one has problems with it. Maybe more practice helps....sure if you're shitfaced....yeah, you don't drive, but 99% you aren't skunk drunk and you naturally drive home.
Also, if you're taking a chick home from the bar...you're not gonna do it in a cab....
The hell with motherboards...I'm getting ready to buy a nice large LED LCD tv....better get one before those start to skyrocket in price...
Please...elaborate on your 8 years in the 'industry'!!!
video? What did you do? Why does it give you a jaded view on the world, seems like one of the best jobs in the world for a guy!!!
Hmm...sounds like a good time to start to learn sign language...?
Look, if you want to do away with the possibility of alcohol intoxicated driving..your just going to have to get rid of and ban booze sales in bars and restaurants...which isn't gonna happen.
Honestly, when you drive around and see all the bars out there, full of cars from the patrons that got there, and then see it empty at the end of the night...do you really think all of them called a friend to come get them and drive them home? No..they drive home. And I dunno what bars you go to...but likely 98% at least of them are over the "legal" limit. No one goes there to have 1 drink and stand, talk, dance, etc...and let that be it.
In the US..in most cities you can write off public transportation...it isn't there. So, most people...drive to their destination, and drive home (you don't want to leave your car there to get stolen or vandalized, and likely if a week day, you need it to get to work the next day). So there you have it...the system is set up for people to drink too much (again, the insanely LOW new BAC standards)...and the cops there to catch them and get their arrest quota and revenue.
It is kind of stupid to bitch about the problem, when society encourages it.
And in New Orleans...well, it is like shooting fish in a barrel...you can carry drinks out to go with you, and we even have drive through daquiri shops, and until just a few years ago, didn't even have an open container law for cars...but, even with that, you don't get massive reports of drunk fsck ups all the time...people just get more practiced at drinking a bit tipsy. I'm more worried about the cops patrolling the projects and high murder areas of town, that trying to catch Fred on the way home from a few beers.
Actually..it is the FIRST thing I'll be checking when about to leave the bar. I have Trapster, but that is only speed traps and cameras....I've just downloaded the others and trust me, those will be the first things I check before I have to get home after having a few...
Well, it is a good point due to the fact that the states were extorted into lowering the legal DWI BAC to .08...which is ridiculously low. A fully grown man can have about 3 glasses of wine with a meal and be dangerously close to the legal limit....but may not be anywhere near impeded to the point of not being able to drive a car safely.
They should NOT be able to set up random check points at all IMHO...if you are driving in an impaired fashion, then by all means, get them pulled over and charged, but if you've had a few drinks, are not impaired driving, then you should be free to go on your way. It is an individual thing as to how alcohol affects each person.
And frankly these days...the DWI dragnet is more and more becoming more of a revenue generator rather than a public safety program...much like all the speed and stop light cameras.
Heck for a test...lets take all the speeding, dwi and other moving violation infractions...have all the money for fines pooled, and redistributed to the citizens that didn't get caught as incentive.
I'm wanting to see how much enthusiasm the police have for setting up all the speed traps and checkpoints..if they know they're not getting direct revenues from them...hmmmm
Actually..you're not far off the mark.
Back in the 80's...LA was one of the last states (if not the last) to raise the drinking age from 18yrs to 21yrs after being extorted by the Feds. One reason they held out so long was that they figured they'd lose WAY more money in lost tax revenues from raising the drinking age than they would lose from Fed. Highway funds.
Sadly, one of the big oil crunches hit about then, and the state was hurting for money and finally succumbed.
The feds really need to get their nose the fsck OUT of national legislation like this...this should be up to the states.
I thought I'd heard that there is one for the iphone...is there not one for Android too?
I'd have just assumed there was one (or more)....?
As others have responded, likely this is not a tax avoidance...the for profit section pays taxes.
But really, you seem to imply that tax avoidance, or as I like to call it, "taking advantage of the legal ways to keep your own hard earned money"...is somehow unethical or bad???
If that is the case, I'm sure that on your personal taxes, you don't bother to take the standard deduction, or if a home owner, you don't take the tax deductions for interest on mortgage payments, deductions for children you have at home...etc. I mean, that would be avoiding taxes, right?
Seriously, doesn't matter if your a person, or a business owner, there is nothing wrong with taking advantage of ever legal method there is to keep as much of your hard earned cash for yourself as you can. It is YOUR money first..not the governments.
If you don't like loopholes, or deductions, or whatever...the lobby hard to get the congress-critters to do away with the current tax code that is so filled with deductions and shelters...and do a simple, and fair tax code. Something along the Fair Tax route works for me....or some sort of modified flat tax...or maybe no income tax at all and just do a VAT tax....
That way, you make $X...you pay Y% of it and there you have it..simple, and everyone contributes equally. No deductions at all for homes, children (never understood this one...people with kids use MORE resources..and it isn't like people were on the fence about kids and figured with the tax deduction, they'd go ahead and fuck without a rubber and have one...).
What the hell is an awesome bar?
Who cares?
As long as it makes you money!!
Wow...I feel sorry for you. Why do you live so far away you have to commute? And having to ride a smelly old bus (and sit by the general street type people that usually are on them with you)...man that has to suck.
I'm glad I only have to drive about 7-10 minutes tops to work.
Do you actually do this by choice or just bad living circumstances?
Now..wouldn't any pro-USA comments on any ME message board or whatever now be suspected of being a sockpuppet?
I guess we now have a new meme: On the internet...
All the men are men
All the women are men
All the kids are FBI agents
And...all the pro-USA guys in foreign forums are CIA agents.
Take a look at Postgres...it is MUCH more like Oracle in terms of a robust RDBMS. I've heard of projects taking pretty large Oracle installs...and converting over to Postgres with minimal pain.
The main reason MySQL is more popular is that it was smaller and easier to configure...but at the cost of robustness, and initially...data integrity. It was a short cut...much like {gag} MS Access proved often to be.
Postgres takes a bit more planning, and know how to install and use, but then again...so does something like Oracle.
You could probably compare:
MySql == Access
Postgres == Oracle
If you want to make some analogies.
Please dear merciful God, don't ever use the words Microsoft Access and Database in the same sentence!!!
The terms are mutually exclusive...
Geez...I wish Access had never been created, and wish it would be banned.
The messes I've had to clean up due to it and its misuse.....*sigh*
I'll wait till the put it out on USENET.
Hell, no...I mean, why risk losing half your possessions when you're ready to upgrade to a younger, better looking chick?
Can we all face the fact this is a HUGE government coverup?
I think we now have proof that there is a Godzilla, and this is all Godzilla related turmoil. Sheesh..can we not get a senate investigative committee together?
I mean, if they're willing to put so much time, money and effort into steroids in baseball, surely we rate at least as much time into the Godzilla effect?
Wow....political correctness is really going pretty far these days. I mean, EVERY time there is a tragedy or crisis, these type of jokes come out.
Anyone remember the Challenger explosion and the jokes that followed that?
What does NASA stand for?
Need Another Seven Astronauts
Tasteless? Sure...but that's just human nature, gallows humor. Are we not too "PC" to allow this anymore?
If it was late at night, no other traffic on the road, why didn't you just assume the light was borked...and just run it? Or, would she have come unglued about that too?
Ok, you lost me here...what difference did it make because your wife was in the car??