If you think I'm gonna pay $1.99 to watch a 30 minute video, you're dreaming.
And yet people happily pay $3.99 for a five second crappy quality clip of a pop song to use as their ring tone.
Why would they say to keep it quiet. The president was not on the plane. The plane had no reason to be flying low. It all sounds like some kind of sick, twisted social experiment.
Statiscially speaking you're just as likely to be eaten by a shark while in a tall building.
2500 people have been eaten by sharks while in a tall building? Do you have a source for that?
This is not to say that every or even most poor people is a criminal, but the odds of a poor person becoming a criminal are of course higher than those of a non-poor person.
While true as a whole that the wealthy generally are less likely to commit certain criminal acts, I for one would like to see statistics of criminal behavior broken up by even smaller brackets. For instance, I would bet that the bottom 20% of people in terms income commit fewer crimes than the 20-40% bracket. Because I believe that people who have nothing don't steal, it is people who have SOME things, but want more, and can't ever seem to get ahead enough to get it, that do the stealing.
Having actually lived in Ethiopia for a month, and having talked to dozens of people there, I assure you this isn't the case.
Having visited several other third world countries, including Honduras, Belize and Venezuela, I also almost no stealing. When I did see stealing, it was people who actually had comparatively high wealth, like having a beat up old pickup when 95% of families don't have a car.
Similarly, in the U.S., you rarely see people stealing to feed their families. It is almost always people stealing because they are greedy and want what someone else has but don't want to work for it. These are people who consider themselves poor, but have more wealth than 80% of the rest of the world.
I have been in the class that the United States calls poor, and I have been in the class that the United States calls rich, and now am in the class that the United States calls middle class. When I was poor, I felt the same attitude that many poor do, that the rich were somehow just given their money and didn't deserve it, nor the things that came with money. I never acted to right this perceived wrong, but I did have the attitude. Then after working my way up to rich, I realized that I had worked hard for what I had, and when people stole from me, I resented what i perceived their attitude to be, which is the same one I had when I was poor, but now having worked hard for what I had (and lost) I understood that the rich are not someone to despise for their wealth. Then I became poor again, thanks to 9/11, and now have worked my way up to middle class. I feel I understand (certain members of) the poor's attitude toward the rich, but think it is wrong.
...my aunt fanny. Have you not read the news reports? These pirates have more money, cars, and toys then you or I will have in a lifetime. If you want equality, we should be stealing from the pirates.
Apple doesn't have to pay a chargeback fee for a return agreed between them and their purchaser. It is just a normal transaction rate, which for them is probably about 4% or less.
I guess it depends on what kind of volume the merchant is doing. For my business, we do a paltry $7,000 a month in CC sales, however, we close batches daily, and settlement is usually 3-4 business days later. We have had only one attempted (and successful) chargeback in our 3 year history, and the chargeback was less than 1/10 of a typical days sales, and they simply deducted it from our settlement. No need to hold funds.
In our case the one chargeback was a woman who bought product in our store, walked out the door with it, and then lost it on her way home. Since she couldn't find it, she simply reversed the charges. Our Merchant Account sent a letter saying that we had to refute the charges in 3 days or they would accept the chargeback. Unfortunately, I did not receive this letter until after the 3 day period had expired. So they chargeback stuck. Later, the woman, a regular, came in and paid us back in cash after admitting it was her fault.
you say that we go round the sun.
Of course, we have to draw the line somewhere and decide what is an example of what we consider an acceptable level of scientific knowledge.
To some, it is enough to say the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. To others, it is necessary to say that the Earth revolves around the sun. To still others, it is necessary to say that the Earth and the sun both interplay and revolve around each other, albeit the gravitational attraction of the Sun is 330,000**2 number of times more influential than the Earths, and that the Earth is also affected by the gravitational attraction not only of other solar system bodies, but even by that of a hydrogen atom on the far side of the universe. Having betrayed my own level of scientific understanding, there are probably levels even beyond this at which people look down their noses at people like me whose only understanding is that every particle in the universe acts on every other particle in the universe.
One cannot understand sediment and fossilization and then believe that all the evidence is false.
Surely you mean the lack of evidence? You can't have evidence that proves that mankind didn't live with the dinosaurs. You can only have a lack of evidence that they did. We believe very strongly that they did not co-exist, but we can not be 100% because science does not allow us to prove something based on the absence of evidence of the antithesis.
Correct, just like a spiders web strand is stronger for its size than steel. I predict we will be building skyscrapers out of spider web about the same time as this new technology matures.
I never really thought of Jars of Clay as a formulaic CCM band. If only because I have never heard another band like them. I am impressed by their orchestration and production.
One of my favorite genres has always been Jazz-Rock fusion, and Blood Sweat and Tears, although they probably don't fall in the domain of CCM, just about everything they did was a spiritual.
If you like Jazz/rock and CCM, check out Denver and the Mile High Orchestra. They remind me of Ides of March or Chase, but more Blood Sweat and Tears style lyrics.
Illinois was one of several states (California being another) where they had to shut down the government for a few days or weeks for lack of money during the economic boom of the '90s. I think distractions like this may be the only thing that keeps politicians from sinking into irreversible depression.
But, if you prefer sticking to your guns, defending something that we thought was correct 80 years ago, then why not do one better and defend astrology. That's even older.
Your examples all state something that science determined was incorrect thinking. Pluto is not an example of incorrect thinking. We didn't think it was a planet and then discover it wasn't. Planet is an arbitrary definition. We changed the arbitrary definition. That doesn't mean we were idiots for thinking that Pluto was a planet.
As a former resident of Illinois, the politicians of Illinois are vastly more corrupt and dangerous than politicians from any other state I have lived in, with the notable exception of Mayor Roger C. Claar of Bolingbrook, every single Mayor, Judge, Governor, Senator and Secretary of State that I have met or knew of has been dangerously corrupt. Most notably, Mayor Richard Daley, who under cover of darkness, used the people's money to carve huge trenches in the people's runway at the people's airport of Meigs Field, stranding several aircraft owners and putting the airport's FBO out of business. However, there was also the Secratary of state George Ryan, who it was found was willing to just hand out CDL licenses, resulting in the death of 6 people in a crash in Wisconsin. His punishment was that they made him governor. Of course, he committed more crimes as governor and is now in jail. Then there is Senator Barack Obama, who only voted "present" on about 90% of the items brought before congress, and seems to have some kind of business relationship with a guest in our federal prisons buy the name of Tony Rezko. Apparently, Tony assisted in raising some funds for Barack's campaign and arranged for Barack to get a home at well under market price. Of course, there is the recent arrest of Governor Blagojevich. Of course, there's also Daniel Walker, Gus Savage, Jack Ryan, Lennington Small, and Otto Kerner.
The dumbest thing the people of the U.S. could ever do is elect someone from Illinois to the highest position of power in the world. Congratulations citizens, my recommendation is that you invest in KY Jelly. It will help ease the pain.
3. It is large enough to have or can attract and clear up other objects in its orbit.
#3 is the problem with Pluto with its orbit crossing Neptune once the time gets right and Neptune gets to close it will just Suck up Pluto and not the other way around.
I would imagine that most of the planets will one day end up either being enveloped by the sun or by Jupiter. I agree that it is ridiculous that Illinois would "declare" Pluto a planet, but the IAU was the first to be ridiculous by arbitrarily drawing a line in the sand as to what a planet was and then declaring that what everyone had said was a planet for the last 80 years is now not one.
they should get some form of protection BR>
They do. State law gives them 120 days advance notice, which brings us to
Since when does he have the right to pick and choose which laws he enforces?
That was the law he was enforcing, since the banks weren't giving the advance notice. When the banks agreed to do it right, he agreed to resume eviction
Well, I'm curious. Eviction warrants don't just come from nowhere. A judge has to sign the warrant, and that is after hearing the case. The case can not be heard unless proper notice has been served to the tenant. If the judge signed the eviction warrant without ensuring proper notification of the tenant and hearing the case (assuming the tenant showed up), then the judge was wrong. If the banks were going directly to the sheriff, then they had no legal standing to do so.
I would imagine that in a lot of these situations, the mortgage itself forbade leasing the property. In those situations, I could see the bank saying "we don't allow them to rent the house, therefore there are no tenants". I don't know how that works out, that is beyond my level of expertise.
I do know that where I live (unlike in places like Illinois), rent houses actually generate positive cash flow, and banks will often let the renters stay and farm out the maintenance to a property manager, in hopes of selling the home to an investor. It's not actually very easy to get renters out if they are paying on time. The judge will want to hear good reason for removing them, like they're putting holes in the walls or doing drugs or something. On the other hand, it is next to impossible for a renter to stay in a house if they owe money. I had to do an eviction just a few months back, and the judge said blatantly to everyone in the room, that when they call the defendants up and ask them if they owe any rent, and the defendant says "yes", then the judge would immediately find in favor of the landlord and issue an eviction warrant. Amazingly, defendants would still say "yes, but", and the judge would cut them off, finding in favor of the landlord. Eviction court is not the correct venue for complaining about the landlord not fixing stuff.
Actually the companies that came out of the depression best were ones that invested during the depression so that they would be prepared to take advantage as soon as the depression lifted. A few years from now when the economy improves, some companies will be losing money hand over fist trying to ramp up, while others that invested during the down market will be years ahead of the game.
Let's look at it another way - which one of the people should I have to lay off, in order to meet the financial goals of the company.
None. I mean, assuming you want to make more money, you have to make more products or better products, which is harder to do when you start laying people off.
That's because management deserves it. We make the big decisions and take the risks that enable the company to succeed.
Once upon a time that may have been true. High level people who believed in the company might have actually put some money into it. These days, management is brought in, paid high salaries, and given stake in the company without having to front any money. They have only the risk of the shares they were given going down. The people who take the real risk are the people who do the work. They get paid less, and if there is a downsize, they are the ones cut, not management. Even if management were cut, they get paid enough that they could live comfortably off of the excess until they found another job, not to mention their golden parachute. Plus, if they REALLY screwed up, then they will probably get another job pretty quickly. A colossal failure is better than a mediocre success.
No, there is no risk at all in management these days.
I don't know where you live, but where I live, (Oklahoma City, famed birthplace of the parking meter), your chances of getting busted are very nearly 100% if you are there longer than an hour.
Incidentally, the initial reason for the parking meter was to collect money to help in keeping the downtown roads in good shape. However, it soon became apparent that most people were electing to not pay the meter, because for one, they already paid taxes which went to pave the roads, and for another they had never had to pay a meter before. So parking enforcement was invented shortly after the parking meter. Currently 100% of the revenues collected from parking meters in Oklahoma City goes toward paying the costs of parking enforcement, essentially making it another tax to pay someone to do something that would be unnecessary without the tax.
You were violating the law.
GP was violating the law either way. At least GP was trying to the right thing by having it inspected, for which he was soundly punished. He could have just let it sit at his house, which would have been just as illegal, and certainly much more against the spirit of the law, and probably wouldn't have been punished.
In the airplane world, if you have an airplane with a problem that can not be fixed at a local field, you can obtain a ferry permit. However, there is no such thing in the automotive world. My stepson's car has been down for 6 months. We don't have inspections in our state, but if we did, we would be in violation because even if we towed it to the inspection station, it wouldn't start to prove it's emissions and roadworthiness.
Are you including administrative fees, filing fees, court fees, fee fees, etc?
Yes, by all means be careful. Where I live, my stepson got a ticket for a noise violation. His car is not really all that loud, but he is 16, which is almost as bad as a DWB. Anyway, I went with decibel meters and reports in hand to wrangle with the authorities, and the court clerk told me I had to pay $50 non-refundable if I wanted to go before the judge to plead my case, and the judge could decide to even raise the fine if he so chose. So I very grumpily and with mutterances about railroading and shady legal authorities paid the fine, as it was cheaper than stating my case.
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Exactly. I have nothing but contempt for companies* who try to profit off content provided BY US TO THEM FOR FREE.
Like, say, Reality TV?
Youtube falls into the "not worth buying" category.
I would watch Youtube videos if they paid me, but not the other way around.
If you think I'm gonna pay $1.99 to watch a 30 minute video, you're dreaming.
And yet people happily pay $3.99 for a five second crappy quality clip of a pop song to use as their ring tone.
Why would they say to keep it quiet. The president was not on the plane. The plane had no reason to be flying low. It all sounds like some kind of sick, twisted social experiment.
Statiscially speaking you're just as likely to be eaten by a shark while in a tall building.
2500 people have been eaten by sharks while in a tall building? Do you have a source for that?
This is not to say that every or even most poor people is a criminal, but the odds of a poor person becoming a criminal are of course higher than those of a non-poor person.
While true as a whole that the wealthy generally are less likely to commit certain criminal acts, I for one would like to see statistics of criminal behavior broken up by even smaller brackets. For instance, I would bet that the bottom 20% of people in terms income commit fewer crimes than the 20-40% bracket. Because I believe that people who have nothing don't steal, it is people who have SOME things, but want more, and can't ever seem to get ahead enough to get it, that do the stealing.
Having actually lived in Ethiopia for a month, and having talked to dozens of people there, I assure you this isn't the case.
Having visited several other third world countries, including Honduras, Belize and Venezuela, I also almost no stealing. When I did see stealing, it was people who actually had comparatively high wealth, like having a beat up old pickup when 95% of families don't have a car.
Similarly, in the U.S., you rarely see people stealing to feed their families. It is almost always people stealing because they are greedy and want what someone else has but don't want to work for it. These are people who consider themselves poor, but have more wealth than 80% of the rest of the world.
I have been in the class that the United States calls poor, and I have been in the class that the United States calls rich, and now am in the class that the United States calls middle class. When I was poor, I felt the same attitude that many poor do, that the rich were somehow just given their money and didn't deserve it, nor the things that came with money. I never acted to right this perceived wrong, but I did have the attitude. Then after working my way up to rich, I realized that I had worked hard for what I had, and when people stole from me, I resented what i perceived their attitude to be, which is the same one I had when I was poor, but now having worked hard for what I had (and lost) I understood that the rich are not someone to despise for their wealth. Then I became poor again, thanks to 9/11, and now have worked my way up to middle class. I feel I understand (certain members of) the poor's attitude toward the rich, but think it is wrong.
...my aunt fanny. Have you not read the news reports? These pirates have more money, cars, and toys then you or I will have in a lifetime. If you want equality, we should be stealing from the pirates.
Apple doesn't have to pay a chargeback fee for a return agreed between them and their purchaser. It is just a normal transaction rate, which for them is probably about 4% or less.
I guess it depends on what kind of volume the merchant is doing. For my business, we do a paltry $7,000 a month in CC sales, however, we close batches daily, and settlement is usually 3-4 business days later. We have had only one attempted (and successful) chargeback in our 3 year history, and the chargeback was less than 1/10 of a typical days sales, and they simply deducted it from our settlement. No need to hold funds.
In our case the one chargeback was a woman who bought product in our store, walked out the door with it, and then lost it on her way home. Since she couldn't find it, she simply reversed the charges. Our Merchant Account sent a letter saying that we had to refute the charges in 3 days or they would accept the chargeback. Unfortunately, I did not receive this letter until after the 3 day period had expired. So they chargeback stuck. Later, the woman, a regular, came in and paid us back in cash after admitting it was her fault.
you say that we go round the sun.
Of course, we have to draw the line somewhere and decide what is an example of what we consider an acceptable level of scientific knowledge.
To some, it is enough to say the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. To others, it is necessary to say that the Earth revolves around the sun. To still others, it is necessary to say that the Earth and the sun both interplay and revolve around each other, albeit the gravitational attraction of the Sun is 330,000**2 number of times more influential than the Earths, and that the Earth is also affected by the gravitational attraction not only of other solar system bodies, but even by that of a hydrogen atom on the far side of the universe. Having betrayed my own level of scientific understanding, there are probably levels even beyond this at which people look down their noses at people like me whose only understanding is that every particle in the universe acts on every other particle in the universe.
One cannot understand sediment and fossilization and then believe that all the evidence is false.
Surely you mean the lack of evidence? You can't have evidence that proves that mankind didn't live with the dinosaurs. You can only have a lack of evidence that they did. We believe very strongly that they did not co-exist, but we can not be 100% because science does not allow us to prove something based on the absence of evidence of the antithesis.
Correct, just like a spiders web strand is stronger for its size than steel. I predict we will be building skyscrapers out of spider web about the same time as this new technology matures.
I never really thought of Jars of Clay as a formulaic CCM band. If only because I have never heard another band like them. I am impressed by their orchestration and production.
One of my favorite genres has always been Jazz-Rock fusion, and Blood Sweat and Tears, although they probably don't fall in the domain of CCM, just about everything they did was a spiritual.
If you like Jazz/rock and CCM, check out Denver and the Mile High Orchestra. They remind me of Ides of March or Chase, but more Blood Sweat and Tears style lyrics.
Illinois was one of several states (California being another) where they had to shut down the government for a few days or weeks for lack of money during the economic boom of the '90s. I think distractions like this may be the only thing that keeps politicians from sinking into irreversible depression.
But, if you prefer sticking to your guns, defending something that we thought was correct 80 years ago, then why not do one better and defend astrology. That's even older.
Your examples all state something that science determined was incorrect thinking. Pluto is not an example of incorrect thinking. We didn't think it was a planet and then discover it wasn't. Planet is an arbitrary definition. We changed the arbitrary definition. That doesn't mean we were idiots for thinking that Pluto was a planet.
As a former resident of Illinois, the politicians of Illinois are vastly more corrupt and dangerous than politicians from any other state I have lived in, with the notable exception of Mayor Roger C. Claar of Bolingbrook, every single Mayor, Judge, Governor, Senator and Secretary of State that I have met or knew of has been dangerously corrupt. Most notably, Mayor Richard Daley, who under cover of darkness, used the people's money to carve huge trenches in the people's runway at the people's airport of Meigs Field, stranding several aircraft owners and putting the airport's FBO out of business. However, there was also the Secratary of state George Ryan, who it was found was willing to just hand out CDL licenses, resulting in the death of 6 people in a crash in Wisconsin. His punishment was that they made him governor. Of course, he committed more crimes as governor and is now in jail. Then there is Senator Barack Obama, who only voted "present" on about 90% of the items brought before congress, and seems to have some kind of business relationship with a guest in our federal prisons buy the name of Tony Rezko. Apparently, Tony assisted in raising some funds for Barack's campaign and arranged for Barack to get a home at well under market price. Of course, there is the recent arrest of Governor Blagojevich. Of course, there's also Daniel Walker, Gus Savage, Jack Ryan, Lennington Small, and Otto Kerner.
The dumbest thing the people of the U.S. could ever do is elect someone from Illinois to the highest position of power in the world. Congratulations citizens, my recommendation is that you invest in KY Jelly. It will help ease the pain.
3. It is large enough to have or can attract and clear up other objects in its orbit.
#3 is the problem with Pluto with its orbit crossing Neptune once the time gets right and Neptune gets to close it will just Suck up Pluto and not the other way around.
I would imagine that most of the planets will one day end up either being enveloped by the sun or by Jupiter. I agree that it is ridiculous that Illinois would "declare" Pluto a planet, but the IAU was the first to be ridiculous by arbitrarily drawing a line in the sand as to what a planet was and then declaring that what everyone had said was a planet for the last 80 years is now not one.
they should get some form of protection
BR> They do. State law gives them 120 days advance notice, which brings us to
Since when does he have the right to pick and choose which laws he enforces?
That was the law he was enforcing, since the banks weren't giving the advance notice. When the banks agreed to do it right, he agreed to resume eviction
Well, I'm curious. Eviction warrants don't just come from nowhere. A judge has to sign the warrant, and that is after hearing the case. The case can not be heard unless proper notice has been served to the tenant. If the judge signed the eviction warrant without ensuring proper notification of the tenant and hearing the case (assuming the tenant showed up), then the judge was wrong. If the banks were going directly to the sheriff, then they had no legal standing to do so.
I would imagine that in a lot of these situations, the mortgage itself forbade leasing the property. In those situations, I could see the bank saying "we don't allow them to rent the house, therefore there are no tenants". I don't know how that works out, that is beyond my level of expertise.
I do know that where I live (unlike in places like Illinois), rent houses actually generate positive cash flow, and banks will often let the renters stay and farm out the maintenance to a property manager, in hopes of selling the home to an investor. It's not actually very easy to get renters out if they are paying on time. The judge will want to hear good reason for removing them, like they're putting holes in the walls or doing drugs or something. On the other hand, it is next to impossible for a renter to stay in a house if they owe money. I had to do an eviction just a few months back, and the judge said blatantly to everyone in the room, that when they call the defendants up and ask them if they owe any rent, and the defendant says "yes", then the judge would immediately find in favor of the landlord and issue an eviction warrant. Amazingly, defendants would still say "yes, but", and the judge would cut them off, finding in favor of the landlord. Eviction court is not the correct venue for complaining about the landlord not fixing stuff.
Actually the companies that came out of the depression best were ones that invested during the depression so that they would be prepared to take advantage as soon as the depression lifted. A few years from now when the economy improves, some companies will be losing money hand over fist trying to ramp up, while others that invested during the down market will be years ahead of the game.
Let's look at it another way - which one of the people should I have to lay off, in order to meet the financial goals of the company.
None. I mean, assuming you want to make more money, you have to make more products or better products, which is harder to do when you start laying people off.
That's because management deserves it. We make the big decisions and take the risks that enable the company to succeed. Once upon a time that may have been true. High level people who believed in the company might have actually put some money into it. These days, management is brought in, paid high salaries, and given stake in the company without having to front any money. They have only the risk of the shares they were given going down. The people who take the real risk are the people who do the work. They get paid less, and if there is a downsize, they are the ones cut, not management. Even if management were cut, they get paid enough that they could live comfortably off of the excess until they found another job, not to mention their golden parachute. Plus, if they REALLY screwed up, then they will probably get another job pretty quickly. A colossal failure is better than a mediocre success.
No, there is no risk at all in management these days.
I don't know where you live, but where I live, (Oklahoma City, famed birthplace of the parking meter), your chances of getting busted are very nearly 100% if you are there longer than an hour.
Incidentally, the initial reason for the parking meter was to collect money to help in keeping the downtown roads in good shape. However, it soon became apparent that most people were electing to not pay the meter, because for one, they already paid taxes which went to pave the roads, and for another they had never had to pay a meter before. So parking enforcement was invented shortly after the parking meter. Currently 100% of the revenues collected from parking meters in Oklahoma City goes toward paying the costs of parking enforcement, essentially making it another tax to pay someone to do something that would be unnecessary without the tax.
You were violating the law.
GP was violating the law either way. At least GP was trying to the right thing by having it inspected, for which he was soundly punished. He could have just let it sit at his house, which would have been just as illegal, and certainly much more against the spirit of the law, and probably wouldn't have been punished.
In the airplane world, if you have an airplane with a problem that can not be fixed at a local field, you can obtain a ferry permit. However, there is no such thing in the automotive world. My stepson's car has been down for 6 months. We don't have inspections in our state, but if we did, we would be in violation because even if we towed it to the inspection station, it wouldn't start to prove it's emissions and roadworthiness.
Are you including administrative fees, filing fees, court fees, fee fees, etc?
Yes, by all means be careful. Where I live, my stepson got a ticket for a noise violation. His car is not really all that loud, but he is 16, which is almost as bad as a DWB. Anyway, I went with decibel meters and reports in hand to wrangle with the authorities, and the court clerk told me I had to pay $50 non-refundable if I wanted to go before the judge to plead my case, and the judge could decide to even raise the fine if he so chose. So I very grumpily and with mutterances about railroading and shady legal authorities paid the fine, as it was cheaper than stating my case.