Not just ANY check, an out-of-state, two party, postdated, temporary, third party check. Made out for $2,000 over the disputed amount. For your trouble, please keep $1,000 of it and send the rest back in the form of a cashier's check or money order.
The F-350 is a truck. Why on earth would anyone lust after a truck? It's only practical purpose is hauling stuff around and the ones that are built today are rarely, if ever, used for hauling anything other than groceries. They eat gas, they fit only two comfortably because the back is taken up by the huge bed which nobody ever puts anything in. They cost about as much as a small 3 bedroom house. Nope, can't see any reason to lust after that.
I would like to see proof that straight pipes by themselves do anything for the cars performance. The stock muffler provides a certain amount of back pressure and the engine is specifically tuned to work with this type of pressure. Eliminating this pressure is more likely to reduce rather than improve performance.
Of course every teenager with $100 thinks that a bolt on part (which fits all models of Honda, Nissan and Toyota!!!1!!ONE!!) is somehow going to improve the performance of the vehicle better than the hundreds of Japanese PhDs that designed the car.
That is the same as contracting anywhere, if you are an employee of the contracting house. You are paid salary and the company is still billed for hours you work over 40, you just don't get paid for it. That is why you don't be an employee of a contractor, you be a contractor. Or you find a contractor house that will pay you for all of your earned time. In that case, though, they will probably expect you to take some of the risk and not get paid when you don't have a contract.
They routinely expected 60 hour work weeks from the contractors.
Boo hoo. Contractors are paid by the hour aren't they? Every other company in America is demanding 50 hours of their salaried, overtime exempt (only in name in most cases) employees. So again, boo hoo.
Well, AC thinks they will scrap another minute because they are fear-mongering lefty scientists. If they add time, then he is wrong. But I would have to agree that if they take a minute out, then they are just fear mongering, or trying to make a political statement about the environment. In truth, nuclear devastation is a real threat to life as we know it and could happen in a matter of minutes. climate change is an affect to the climate which could take decades to have any noticeable affect, although we measure it daily. Not that the climate isn't important, but it doesn't justify changing the nuclear doomsday clock. Yes, it is the nuclear doomsday clock, and has been since 1947. The word "Climate: did not show up in the reasons behind adjusting the time until 2007, despite the fact that man had been affecting the climate since before the idea of the clock arose.
If they need to make a Climate change clock and set it to 100 years until Climate Change midnight, that is fine, but there is no reason to hijack another clock that already has a stated purpose.
Well, you initially said "statistically", which is just wrong. Of the estimated 30 billion or so people that have died since Homo Sapiens became a species, 0 of them have died of an asteroid strike, so statistically, it is at the bottom of the list, along with sun going super nova, alien invasion, space herpes, moon colliding with Earth, giant space turtle stepping on Earth, Earth being swallowed by a black hole, etc.
Autodialers don't dial wrong numbers. Only people are capable of that. If the autodialer did it, it was on purpose. The proposed change allows illegal autodialers to lie and say that it was a wrong number when it in fact was not.
That doesn't seem excessive to me. If the call was on a DNC list and they chose to call it anyway, then they have chosen to break the law. Once they break the law, they no longer have a say in the consequences.
The first amendment limits the government from limiting free speech. The first amendment does not guarantee that I, a private citizen, must pay for the infrastructure for the government to make a political statement, nor that I must sacrifice opportunity to listen to their spiel. There is nothing in the constitution protecting government speech to me.
Give the receiver the option. You have received a call, please press 0 to accept this call for free or enter a dollar amount for which you would be willing to take this call. After this call is over, you have the option to remove the charge if , for example, it was your child calling stranded on the road from an unknown number.
The French, like many European countries is more liberal than the United States, and as such, was very progressive about allowing Muslims into the country, letting them live and work and worship as they please. As a result of this kindness, they have been beset with increased crime, riots, bombings and now DDOS. 70% of prisoners in France are Muslims. Only 5 to 10% of the population is Muslim. It is pretty obvious that a strong correlation exists between the Muslims in France and the Blacks in the United States. The difference being that the Blacks were brought here against their will, but the Muslims were welcomed with open arms. Regardless, in both situations, the result has been the same effect. Incidentally, Blacks are not a significant crime issue in Europe. This seems to support that race does not necessarily make you more likely to commit a crime. In the U.S. race is an excuse.
I remember seeing it after they threatened to take my kids away. My twin girls were upstairs asleep when the alarm went off. It was a false alarm, but the police came out anyway and when they questioned my wife and found out she was downstairs with my 3 year old while the two year old twins were upstairs sleeping, they threatened to take them away.
Here is a reference to Washington State law which is equally insane. Hopefully it only applies to foster parents, but there is no reason why foster parent rules should be any different than regular parent rules:
Children under six (6) years of age must sleep on the same floor of foster home as foster parents.
In my state, it would be preferable to leave the kids with a drug addicted parent than to let the equivalent of CPS have them. The kids are more likely to survive with their parents and less likely to get lost. Yes, my state agency has children in their care that they do not know the whereabouts of. And many have died while in the care of the state.
I have had the equivalent agency in my state threaten to take my children. They have never been abused, neglected, or mistreated in any fashion. However, in my state, it is illegal for you to have more than one child. Well, effectively anyway. It is illegal for you to be on a different level of your house than your child, and we had twins and another girl a year older. In order to obey the law, you would have to carry all three of them with you when you put one of them to bed.
When I was in Kindergarten, I walked over a mile to school. In my current school district, you have to live over a mile away to ride the bus. Everyone else must walk or ride with a parent. It is certainly far less safe for 500 cars and hundreds of walkers to descend on the school in a 10 minute period than for 10 buses to do so, but it is far cheaper for the school, so they can invest more money in needless administrators.
When will people understand that death due to an accident that was nobody's fault is different than premeditated murder or someone who would not have otherwise died? Yes, terrorism deserves to be focused on more than accidentally choking on a Big Mac.
The Westboro Baptist people are not even a Church. They are just lawyers trying to provoke people into hitting them or denying them free speech rights so they can sue.
There is no comparison between them and other Christians. You would be better suited to compare typical Christians to David Koresh. I think you will find the normal to nutjob ratio in Christianity is orders of magnitude higher than in Islam.
This.
I'm set pretty good for retirement. However, I am working my butt off. I am now 44 years old. I am already starting to realize that some of the things I enjoy doing: hiking, skiing for example, are beginning to be a challenge for me even now. I don't know if I will be capable of enjoying them at all in 25 years or so when I retire. However, I don't have the time to do them now. I think we have this whole work thing backwards. We should get out there and enjoy life while we are young, and then sit our old, tired butts in front of a computer screen at some desk when we no longer have the energy to enjoy life. Unfortunately, getting the money up front is a bit of a challenge. Some people have figured out how to come out of the right vagina, but I was not one of the clever ones.
Well, if you think about it, if you go and buy a Starbucks every day and an iphone every time they come out, you are spending about $2,500 a year. If you saved that up until retirement, at 1% interest, that is about $140,000. With 3% inflation, that works out to about $37,000 in today's dollars. So I don't think you would be able to retire earlier on it, unless you had managed to pay off your house already and were only planning to live a year.
But you might be able to retire 1 year earlier if you laid off the starbucks and the new iphones. It is all a question of whether 45 years of abstaining is worth one year of not having to work to you.
When another large corporation gets fined we always cry that the fines are not high enough that the corporation would even feel it and that the money they illegitimately received was higher than the fine. Well, it appears that the fines that Uber is getting is still cheaper than going out and doing business within the law, so why do we side with this corporation and not other corporations that flaunt the law?
Well, considering that I don't have a job, 65,000 seems like 65,000 too many. Since the current unemployment rate is about 6% (not including people who have fallen off the chart due to not being able to find a job within a certain amount of time.), and 193 million people between the ages of 18 and 64, it looks like we need to fill another 11.5 million jobs with American unemployed people before we allow any H1bs in.
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I would ask them if they take a check.
Not just ANY check, an out-of-state, two party, postdated, temporary, third party check. Made out for $2,000 over the disputed amount. For your trouble, please keep $1,000 of it and send the rest back in the form of a cashier's check or money order.
The F-350 is a truck. Why on earth would anyone lust after a truck? It's only practical purpose is hauling stuff around and the ones that are built today are rarely, if ever, used for hauling anything other than groceries. They eat gas, they fit only two comfortably because the back is taken up by the huge bed which nobody ever puts anything in. They cost about as much as a small 3 bedroom house. Nope, can't see any reason to lust after that.
I would like to see proof that straight pipes by themselves do anything for the cars performance. The stock muffler provides a certain amount of back pressure and the engine is specifically tuned to work with this type of pressure. Eliminating this pressure is more likely to reduce rather than improve performance.
Of course every teenager with $100 thinks that a bolt on part (which fits all models of Honda, Nissan and Toyota!!!1!!ONE!!) is somehow going to improve the performance of the vehicle better than the hundreds of Japanese PhDs that designed the car.
And what does that make people with 8, 10, 12 or even 16 cylinders? 6 seems downright emasculating at that point.
That is the same as contracting anywhere, if you are an employee of the contracting house. You are paid salary and the company is still billed for hours you work over 40, you just don't get paid for it. That is why you don't be an employee of a contractor, you be a contractor. Or you find a contractor house that will pay you for all of your earned time. In that case, though, they will probably expect you to take some of the risk and not get paid when you don't have a contract.
They routinely expected 60 hour work weeks from the contractors.
Boo hoo. Contractors are paid by the hour aren't they? Every other company in America is demanding 50 hours of their salaried, overtime exempt (only in name in most cases) employees. So again, boo hoo.
Well, AC thinks they will scrap another minute because they are fear-mongering lefty scientists. If they add time, then he is wrong. But I would have to agree that if they take a minute out, then they are just fear mongering, or trying to make a political statement about the environment. In truth, nuclear devastation is a real threat to life as we know it and could happen in a matter of minutes. climate change is an affect to the climate which could take decades to have any noticeable affect, although we measure it daily. Not that the climate isn't important, but it doesn't justify changing the nuclear doomsday clock. Yes, it is the nuclear doomsday clock, and has been since 1947. The word "Climate: did not show up in the reasons behind adjusting the time until 2007, despite the fact that man had been affecting the climate since before the idea of the clock arose.
If they need to make a Climate change clock and set it to 100 years until Climate Change midnight, that is fine, but there is no reason to hijack another clock that already has a stated purpose.
Well, you initially said "statistically", which is just wrong. Of the estimated 30 billion or so people that have died since Homo Sapiens became a species, 0 of them have died of an asteroid strike, so statistically, it is at the bottom of the list, along with sun going super nova, alien invasion, space herpes, moon colliding with Earth, giant space turtle stepping on Earth, Earth being swallowed by a black hole, etc.
Autodialers don't dial wrong numbers. Only people are capable of that. If the autodialer did it, it was on purpose. The proposed change allows illegal autodialers to lie and say that it was a wrong number when it in fact was not.
That doesn't seem excessive to me. If the call was on a DNC list and they chose to call it anyway, then they have chosen to break the law. Once they break the law, they no longer have a say in the consequences.
The first amendment limits the government from limiting free speech. The first amendment does not guarantee that I, a private citizen, must pay for the infrastructure for the government to make a political statement, nor that I must sacrifice opportunity to listen to their spiel. There is nothing in the constitution protecting government speech to me.
Give the receiver the option. You have received a call, please press 0 to accept this call for free or enter a dollar amount for which you would be willing to take this call. After this call is over, you have the option to remove the charge if , for example, it was your child calling stranded on the road from an unknown number.
The French, like many European countries is more liberal than the United States, and as such, was very progressive about allowing Muslims into the country, letting them live and work and worship as they please. As a result of this kindness, they have been beset with increased crime, riots, bombings and now DDOS. 70% of prisoners in France are Muslims. Only 5 to 10% of the population is Muslim. It is pretty obvious that a strong correlation exists between the Muslims in France and the Blacks in the United States. The difference being that the Blacks were brought here against their will, but the Muslims were welcomed with open arms. Regardless, in both situations, the result has been the same effect. Incidentally, Blacks are not a significant crime issue in Europe. This seems to support that race does not necessarily make you more likely to commit a crime. In the U.S. race is an excuse.
I remember seeing it after they threatened to take my kids away. My twin girls were upstairs asleep when the alarm went off. It was a false alarm, but the police came out anyway and when they questioned my wife and found out she was downstairs with my 3 year old while the two year old twins were upstairs sleeping, they threatened to take them away.
Here is a reference to Washington State law which is equally insane. Hopefully it only applies to foster parents, but there is no reason why foster parent rules should be any different than regular parent rules:
Children under six (6) years of age must sleep on the same floor of foster home as foster parents.
In my state, it would be preferable to leave the kids with a drug addicted parent than to let the equivalent of CPS have them. The kids are more likely to survive with their parents and less likely to get lost. Yes, my state agency has children in their care that they do not know the whereabouts of. And many have died while in the care of the state.
I have had the equivalent agency in my state threaten to take my children. They have never been abused, neglected, or mistreated in any fashion. However, in my state, it is illegal for you to have more than one child. Well, effectively anyway. It is illegal for you to be on a different level of your house than your child, and we had twins and another girl a year older. In order to obey the law, you would have to carry all three of them with you when you put one of them to bed.
When I was in Kindergarten, I walked over a mile to school. In my current school district, you have to live over a mile away to ride the bus. Everyone else must walk or ride with a parent. It is certainly far less safe for 500 cars and hundreds of walkers to descend on the school in a 10 minute period than for 10 buses to do so, but it is far cheaper for the school, so they can invest more money in needless administrators.
When will people understand that death due to an accident that was nobody's fault is different than premeditated murder or someone who would not have otherwise died? Yes, terrorism deserves to be focused on more than accidentally choking on a Big Mac.
The Westboro Baptist people are not even a Church. They are just lawyers trying to provoke people into hitting them or denying them free speech rights so they can sue.
There is no comparison between them and other Christians. You would be better suited to compare typical Christians to David Koresh. I think you will find the normal to nutjob ratio in Christianity is orders of magnitude higher than in Islam.
This.
I'm set pretty good for retirement. However, I am working my butt off. I am now 44 years old. I am already starting to realize that some of the things I enjoy doing: hiking, skiing for example, are beginning to be a challenge for me even now. I don't know if I will be capable of enjoying them at all in 25 years or so when I retire. However, I don't have the time to do them now. I think we have this whole work thing backwards. We should get out there and enjoy life while we are young, and then sit our old, tired butts in front of a computer screen at some desk when we no longer have the energy to enjoy life. Unfortunately, getting the money up front is a bit of a challenge. Some people have figured out how to come out of the right vagina, but I was not one of the clever ones.
Well, if you think about it, if you go and buy a Starbucks every day and an iphone every time they come out, you are spending about $2,500 a year. If you saved that up until retirement, at 1% interest, that is about $140,000. With 3% inflation, that works out to about $37,000 in today's dollars. So I don't think you would be able to retire earlier on it, unless you had managed to pay off your house already and were only planning to live a year.
But you might be able to retire 1 year earlier if you laid off the starbucks and the new iphones. It is all a question of whether 45 years of abstaining is worth one year of not having to work to you.
When another large corporation gets fined we always cry that the fines are not high enough that the corporation would even feel it and that the money they illegitimately received was higher than the fine. Well, it appears that the fines that Uber is getting is still cheaper than going out and doing business within the law, so why do we side with this corporation and not other corporations that flaunt the law?
No, I am fine with free market forces as long as they are applied both on the pay side and on the side of stuff I have to pay for.
Why don't you link one or two of these diploma mills? I might as well go get my masters degree so I can compete on equal footing with the H1bs.
Well, considering that I don't have a job, 65,000 seems like 65,000 too many. Since the current unemployment rate is about 6% (not including people who have fallen off the chart due to not being able to find a job within a certain amount of time.), and 193 million people between the ages of 18 and 64, it looks like we need to fill another 11.5 million jobs with American unemployed people before we allow any H1bs in.