Toilet flushing at my house happens generally between four to eight times a day. The amount of water that we spend on the landscaping dramatically exceeds that. The amount of money I'd spend on new commodes would probably exceed a decades' water savings, and the current commodes use very inexpensive, easy to source parts for what little repair they need, which to date has been a new chain and a new flapper valve. These toilets were manufactured in the late seventies and will probably continue to work for another 30+ years.
And that's not even accounting for the one in the basement, that deposits into a sewage lift pump, which needs a certain amount of liquid before it pumps the blackwater from the basement out to the municipal sewer. I'd have to flush a toilet two or three times to engage the lift pump, which wouldn't save anything.
You know, a lot of people say that, but I haven't ever seen actual evidence of that being the case. I'm not saying that it's false, but I want to see some actual data showing the same cars coming back to independent dealers time and again.
a) Their constitution is based on ours. b) It's not really standard surveying work when it is targeting a specific area to collect money from tax evaders with drones and it is most certainly invasive if they are comparing it against people's tax documents.
It falls into rules governing being in plain sight. In the United States, cities and counties use Google Maps and other aerial surveillance to look for nonpermitted structures and other construction that hasn't properly been paid for. If I were to put up an awning or accessory structure over a certain size I could be hit with penalties from both a lack of permit and a lack of reporting the improvement for property-tax purposes. That's perfectly legal for them to do.
Not exercising credit is what makes your score go down. A credit card with a sufficient limit, a mortgage, or a home-equity line of credit can all help to maintain a credit score. It doesn't have to be a car payment.
That said, we'll probably finance future cars once the mortgage is paid off, even if we have the cash, because the cost to borrow and maintain liquidity is so small when one has good credit that there's really no reason not to.
Admittedly that's coming from a different perspective, having climbed out of the debt-cycle through personal austerity while still earning a decent income.
A friend of mine was stupid enough to take over payments on his parents' Audi A8. My rent for my two bedroom, two bath apartment close to a major university in a good part of town with ready access to entertainment cost less that that car cost him.
Then in the way that we've as a society added consequences to the exercise of Free Will that allows scumbags to kill, maim, and steal, we as a society should add consequences to usurious expoitation.
Though perhaps we should stop telling people that they're special and that they deserve everything. They aren't, and they don't. I drove lesser-cars into my 30s until I could afford better. I spent quite a bit of my time repairing my cars too, but those are the breaks when you don't have money, you have to be somewhat self-sufficient. In hindsight I probably could have afforded more or better vehicles, but on the other hand I learned a lot of practical knowledge that helps me to this day.
We visited a friend last night that is trying to sell a vehicle that's been sitting awhile. The battery is dead and a potential buyer made outlandish claims for what could be wrong with the vehicle in order to try to lowball her. All that would have been necessary to avoid that fiasco was to replace the battery, air-up the tires, and check the fluid levels and top-off as needed, then drive it around a bit to verify that it's still good to go.
I could probably remove or bypass this anti-nonpayment disabler device in the same way that one could disable a breathalyzer or antitheft starter disabler device, but I don't think that most people could. What they need to do is to define rules for how long a grace-period post-payment-due should be, then make the device in the car itself notify the users through audio playback that they are past-due and have x days or x starts left before the vehicle shuts down until payment is received. That would satisfy a moral obligation to not leave someone stranded without notice, and would also prompt people to make their car payments if it's slipped their mind.
Or get enough parents together to go raid a school-board meeting. Bring nice big taboid-sized examples showing how many systems with disparate user IDs and passwords the student has to contend with (using fake usernames obviously) and complain how this is too much for an adult, let along a small child. Stir up trouble and they're forced to address it with a harrumph.
Given that Yuri Gagarin didn't pilot his craft when he was the first man in space, and at the time the consensus was that records for achievment in flight required the occupant to be the operator/pilot, your statement is more accurate than you probably realized.
i had a T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream. I wish that they'd come out with a new version of that. I don't need my phone to be wafer-thin, I need it to have a decent screen, and arguably a good real keyboard.
I see the best corrective action we can take as society is to remove all beneficial tax exemptions and all other courtesies that these groups receive. They should pay commercial real estate tax rates. They should not be allowed to claim charity status, and their contributions to charity need to be scrutinized. When they sponsor events, they need to pay full price for permitting and public safety services instead of receiving discounts. They need to be subject to building and fire codes and ADA compliance. This isn't some small group meeting in a member's house, this is a professional guild, for lack of a better term, a business in its own right, and it needs to be regulated and operated as such.
They may shut-out more men that make a serious effort to join than women that have interest, but without there being opportunity for women to join, we're still stuck with no women being allowed, while some men are allowed.
My expectation is that the true nature of the underlying physics is what's in question, rather than the observation of some form of stellar body, however technically indirect as it would have to be in this case.
The fact is, more women could work to become MPs if they chose to, and more women could work to become CEOs if they chose to.
That's not entirely true. There are lots of "fraternal organizations" that are men-only. These could be booster clubs for things like sports spring training, where the members are all male "civic leaders", could be golf country-clubs that do not permit women to hold memberships and bar women guests of members from certain areas, and mens' clubs (not to be confused with gentlemens' clubs) that bar women from membership or even admittance to the facility. These private clubs are where powerful men socialize with each other and that human-networking, whether we like it or not, paves the way for career opportunity and advancement.
One such organization in my area that was involved with spring training finally got their men-only rule broken when they took municipal money for the stadium, which also was built on city-owned grounds. The courts ruled that they must admit women that meet all of their other existing requirements. I was doing tech support at the new membership banquet (boss at the time was a member) and there were a lot of old white men with fake smiles plastered on their faces that were grumbling about "this uppity bitch" as they were going through the ceremony.
It also doesn't hurt that India sends their promising engineering students to American technical universities of note like MIT and Caltech, so they can learn from the technical history of the American space program as the successes and failures of that program are integrated into the curriculum. They've literally learned from our mistakes.
I find it curious in their examples, that four of the nine devices susceptible to bending are Apples, and one of the five non-Apple examples involved the device being smashed while sitting on its docking station. If one eliminates that specific outlier and focuses on phones that bend while in their users' pockets, then the iPhone line is a solid half of all types reported in their article.
Was this a space-science researcher? If he's working on anything tangible that doesn't have an upper limit on the bandwidth of data collection like space-science does, then yes, I guess I would expect a researcher to do more than play mix-and-match with a large volume dataset to produce papers.
And anyone that's making decisions about hiring and firing of staff at these levels should be as skilled as those they're hiring and firing. At this point HR is there to enforce on-the-books rules and to deal with the paperwork, but they're not taking overt action against an employee unless that employee has formal complaints that fall into the various types of practices that the organization has chosen to enforce against. Hiring and firing for academic publications and peer review is the purview of the board of the institution or of the college or of the department.
They won't learn. There have always been individuals that have gone against the grain or against the easiest path. You happen to be among them right now, and that element is small enough that it doesn't really pose a problem for everyone else.
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Toilet flushing at my house happens generally between four to eight times a day. The amount of water that we spend on the landscaping dramatically exceeds that. The amount of money I'd spend on new commodes would probably exceed a decades' water savings, and the current commodes use very inexpensive, easy to source parts for what little repair they need, which to date has been a new chain and a new flapper valve. These toilets were manufactured in the late seventies and will probably continue to work for another 30+ years.
And that's not even accounting for the one in the basement, that deposits into a sewage lift pump, which needs a certain amount of liquid before it pumps the blackwater from the basement out to the municipal sewer. I'd have to flush a toilet two or three times to engage the lift pump, which wouldn't save anything.
You know, a lot of people say that, but I haven't ever seen actual evidence of that being the case. I'm not saying that it's false, but I want to see some actual data showing the same cars coming back to independent dealers time and again.
It falls into rules governing being in plain sight. In the United States, cities and counties use Google Maps and other aerial surveillance to look for nonpermitted structures and other construction that hasn't properly been paid for. If I were to put up an awning or accessory structure over a certain size I could be hit with penalties from both a lack of permit and a lack of reporting the improvement for property-tax purposes. That's perfectly legal for them to do.
Not exercising credit is what makes your score go down. A credit card with a sufficient limit, a mortgage, or a home-equity line of credit can all help to maintain a credit score. It doesn't have to be a car payment.
That said, we'll probably finance future cars once the mortgage is paid off, even if we have the cash, because the cost to borrow and maintain liquidity is so small when one has good credit that there's really no reason not to.
Admittedly that's coming from a different perspective, having climbed out of the debt-cycle through personal austerity while still earning a decent income.
A friend of mine was stupid enough to take over payments on his parents' Audi A8. My rent for my two bedroom, two bath apartment close to a major university in a good part of town with ready access to entertainment cost less that that car cost him.
Then in the way that we've as a society added consequences to the exercise of Free Will that allows scumbags to kill, maim, and steal, we as a society should add consequences to usurious expoitation.
Though perhaps we should stop telling people that they're special and that they deserve everything. They aren't, and they don't. I drove lesser-cars into my 30s until I could afford better. I spent quite a bit of my time repairing my cars too, but those are the breaks when you don't have money, you have to be somewhat self-sufficient. In hindsight I probably could have afforded more or better vehicles, but on the other hand I learned a lot of practical knowledge that helps me to this day.
We visited a friend last night that is trying to sell a vehicle that's been sitting awhile. The battery is dead and a potential buyer made outlandish claims for what could be wrong with the vehicle in order to try to lowball her. All that would have been necessary to avoid that fiasco was to replace the battery, air-up the tires, and check the fluid levels and top-off as needed, then drive it around a bit to verify that it's still good to go.
I could probably remove or bypass this anti-nonpayment disabler device in the same way that one could disable a breathalyzer or antitheft starter disabler device, but I don't think that most people could. What they need to do is to define rules for how long a grace-period post-payment-due should be, then make the device in the car itself notify the users through audio playback that they are past-due and have x days or x starts left before the vehicle shuts down until payment is received. That would satisfy a moral obligation to not leave someone stranded without notice, and would also prompt people to make their car payments if it's slipped their mind.
Or get enough parents together to go raid a school-board meeting. Bring nice big taboid-sized examples showing how many systems with disparate user IDs and passwords the student has to contend with (using fake usernames obviously) and complain how this is too much for an adult, let along a small child. Stir up trouble and they're forced to address it with a harrumph.
Yes, but Who's on first?
Given that Yuri Gagarin didn't pilot his craft when he was the first man in space, and at the time the consensus was that records for achievment in flight required the occupant to be the operator/pilot, your statement is more accurate than you probably realized.
i had a T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream. I wish that they'd come out with a new version of that. I don't need my phone to be wafer-thin, I need it to have a decent screen, and arguably a good real keyboard.
I idiot-proof my device, but along comes a bigger idiot...
I see the best corrective action we can take as society is to remove all beneficial tax exemptions and all other courtesies that these groups receive. They should pay commercial real estate tax rates. They should not be allowed to claim charity status, and their contributions to charity need to be scrutinized. When they sponsor events, they need to pay full price for permitting and public safety services instead of receiving discounts. They need to be subject to building and fire codes and ADA compliance. This isn't some small group meeting in a member's house, this is a professional guild, for lack of a better term, a business in its own right, and it needs to be regulated and operated as such.
They may shut-out more men that make a serious effort to join than women that have interest, but without there being opportunity for women to join, we're still stuck with no women being allowed, while some men are allowed.
My expectation is that the true nature of the underlying physics is what's in question, rather than the observation of some form of stellar body, however technically indirect as it would have to be in this case.
That's not entirely true. There are lots of "fraternal organizations" that are men-only. These could be booster clubs for things like sports spring training, where the members are all male "civic leaders", could be golf country-clubs that do not permit women to hold memberships and bar women guests of members from certain areas, and mens' clubs (not to be confused with gentlemens' clubs) that bar women from membership or even admittance to the facility. These private clubs are where powerful men socialize with each other and that human-networking, whether we like it or not, paves the way for career opportunity and advancement.
One such organization in my area that was involved with spring training finally got their men-only rule broken when they took municipal money for the stadium, which also was built on city-owned grounds. The courts ruled that they must admit women that meet all of their other existing requirements. I was doing tech support at the new membership banquet (boss at the time was a member) and there were a lot of old white men with fake smiles plastered on their faces that were grumbling about "this uppity bitch" as they were going through the ceremony.
It also doesn't hurt that India sends their promising engineering students to American technical universities of note like MIT and Caltech, so they can learn from the technical history of the American space program as the successes and failures of that program are integrated into the curriculum. They've literally learned from our mistakes.
I find it curious in their examples, that four of the nine devices susceptible to bending are Apples, and one of the five non-Apple examples involved the device being smashed while sitting on its docking station. If one eliminates that specific outlier and focuses on phones that bend while in their users' pockets, then the iPhone line is a solid half of all types reported in their article.
It's twue! It's Twue! IT'S TWUE!
And also with you.
How does any kind of transaction tax matter if the proprietor fails to report the income?
Was this a space-science researcher? If he's working on anything tangible that doesn't have an upper limit on the bandwidth of data collection like space-science does, then yes, I guess I would expect a researcher to do more than play mix-and-match with a large volume dataset to produce papers.
And anyone that's making decisions about hiring and firing of staff at these levels should be as skilled as those they're hiring and firing. At this point HR is there to enforce on-the-books rules and to deal with the paperwork, but they're not taking overt action against an employee unless that employee has formal complaints that fall into the various types of practices that the organization has chosen to enforce against. Hiring and firing for academic publications and peer review is the purview of the board of the institution or of the college or of the department.
Or they wanted to see how quickly a penetration would be noticed, if at all, so that they could build a bigger exploit.
They won't learn. There have always been individuals that have gone against the grain or against the easiest path. You happen to be among them right now, and that element is small enough that it doesn't really pose a problem for everyone else.