Not quite. Zip+4 narrows it down to no more than 100 possibilities, but you need to know the delivery point to get the exact address. The USPS represents every single deliverable address in the country with an eleven digit number. Five digits of zip code, four digits of +4 extension and two digits of delivery point. You can find your delivery point code by using the USPS zip code finder and clicking on "mailing industry information".
There are a few exceptions to this rule of course. Most PO boxes have a unique zip+4 code, so the delivery point is redundant for them.
You can buy weapons that are bigger than.50 caliber. You just need a special tax stamp from the ATF to legally possess them. They are considered "destructive devices" or some such.
Since I started using NoScript I haven't had Firefox crash because of Flash. Ever.
I have, but it was always traced back to a corrupted profile. Deleting the profile and starting over has always fixed it for me.
Now if I could only figure out why 3.6.3 keeps freezing on me for no apparent reason. 3.5.9 never gave me any issues with the same configuration and add-ons but 3.6.3 freezes up at least one a day. Interestingly enough when it freezes it doesn't max out the CPU -- just sits there without responding at 0% cpu usage.
I don't buy anything from Newegg, specifically because of their return policy. If you are lucky enough for them to accept a return they will still try and hit you with a restocking fee.
I had to argue this with them once upon a time when I bought a motherboard/ram/cpu combo. They sent ram that was known to be incompatible with the bundled motherboard. I wanted to return the RAM and keep the other two items and they said they'd hit me with the 15% restocking fee for the RAM. I told them this was bullshit and that they were the ones who had bundled it -- they said it was my responsibility to verify that it was compatible. I said that might be true if I bought it separately but it was reasonable to assume it would work when sold as a bundle. We went back and forth on this point until I threatened to involve my credit card company, at which point they caved. Guess they figured that eating the 15% was cheaper than eating the charge back.
Weed is better than alcohol because it doesn't leave you hung over.
That rather depends on the weed in question. Schwag will leave you with a nasty hangover that's every bit as bad as anything you've ever done to yourself while drinking. It's actually worse in a way because it comes with a 'burnt out' feeling that alcohol induced hang-overs rarely produce. Low grade weed is worse than low grade alcohol because it isn't nearly as effective at producing the desired result. 80 proof well vodka will get you drunk as effectively as 80 proof Gray Goose. Schwag won't get you as stoned as chronic no matter how much of it you smoke.....
At least that's what I've heard. I have no first hand experience of course;)
Hell even candy bar makers warranty their products ("if unsatisfied return the unused portion for a refund"). Why can't record and movie companies follow that example?
Probably because you can't copy the candy bar and produce as many copies of it as you want for free after purchasing it?
I have to say that I agree with this guy. You don't have a Constitutional or Natural Law right to a fair returns policy at Wally World. If you don't like the return policy then don't buy the product. Newegg has a dead pixel policy and refuses to accept most returns over the issue. Should I buy a monitor from them anyway and bitch about my "rights" when they refuse to accept the return or just take my money elsewhere?
he legal limit the government can compel for cleanup is itself only 75 million
False. That's the legal limit on their liability for economic damages, i.e: fishermen that can't fish, beaches that can't receive tourists, etc. There is no cap on their liability for clean up costs.
Of course I'm not surprised that you didn't know this, because it's not in the interest of the current ruling party to accurately portray the law when they stand in front of the cameras.
We don't need another gulf. The gulf will bounce back, likely a lot faster than you think it will.
And yes, BP shareholders absolutely deserve to be wiped out.
And their employees and retirees too, right?
Protecting BP shareholders only creates moral hazard.
I didn't say we should protect them, I just take issue with your desire to wipe them out for no reason other than spite. If BP fails because of the oil spill then that's the risk you take when investing. The Government wiping out your investment just to send a message is little more than robbery, IMHO. It would also have negative effects on the ability of similar businesses (or business in general) to raise capital. That would have consequences at the gas pump and the unemployment line. Is that really what you want?
The liability limit has been falsely reported in the media and by various politicians. It's actually a limit on the amount of economic damages they are liable for, not a limit on the clean-up liability. That doesn't mean it's a good idea of course, but it seems rather disingenuous to imply that BP is only on the hook for $70,000,000 worth of clean-up costs.
Well, I'd imagine that it uses the cellular network for reporting into the authorities, so if the designers are smart it would use a-GPS. That would overcome a lot of the limitations that you discussed. It wouldn't be perfect but then nothing is.
If you have a health problem, you are free to work or die.
Liberty isn't freedom from want, it's the freedom to make your own choices in life. I would rather live in a system where I can go broke paying my medical bills than one that compels me to purchase insurance from for-profit enterprises or to receive all of my care from Doctors working under contract with the Government. Collectivism can't exist without trampling on individual liberty and I do not regard that as a fair trade.
But then, in our system, the $6.25 hot dog place has laws passed which prevent the $3.25 hot dogs from being sold or carried to the $6.25 place. Then that extra money is used to further prevent the $3.25 hot dogs from being sold within 20 blocks of the $6.25 hot dog's "exclusive" territory. And so on.
What you've described is not capitalism, it's corporatism. It's responsible for a large number of broken markets in our country, including the market for internet access. The mono/duopoly situation that exists there is written into law in the form of "franchise" agreements that grant one or two companies the exclusive right to use something (the utility easement) that's theoretically owned by the entire community.
Actually the purpose of carbon tax is to raise more money for the Government, otherwise it would offset other taxes, but that's beside the point. Regarding your gas tank leaking onto my property, there are already laws against that. If your tank leaked onto my property before we had such laws then no I don't think it's fair to charge you for it. Foresight doesn't really enter into it -- the question is whether or not the activity is legal at the time it occurs.
IANAL but my first thought is that the Superfund program is not punishment, it's remediation for the damage the company did.
That's one way to look at it but I think it's a pretty scary precedent nonetheless. You are effectively requiring people to pay for damages done when it was unknown that their practices were causing such damage. If a carbon tax is imposed do you think it would be fair to retroactively impose it on every single living American for every single gallon of gasoline they ever burned?
That's asinine. If BP has (or can raise) the funds to pay for their mistake there is absolutely nothing to be gained from driving them out of business. Do you seriously think that every single individual that owns BP shares (likely including yourself if you have a 401(k) or mutual fund) should see those shares reduced to zero?
BTW, not that it excuses the oil spill but the Gulf wasn't "healthy" to begin with. Do you also think that every farmer in the Mississippi watershed should be driven out of business?
From Wikipedia: The word cult pejoratively refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are reasonably considered strange. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices. The narrower, derogatory sense of the word is a product of the 20th century, especially since the 1980s, and is considered subjective, and is a result of the anti-cult movement, which uses the word in reference to groups seen as authoritarian, exploitative and possibly dangerous.
It's called sensory deprivation, though to the best of my knowledge it isn't particularly effective unless you deprive the subject of multiple senses (i.e: sight and sound)
Weren't a bunch of Congress-critters talking about raising the oil spill liability limit in order to compel BP to pay more money? How is that compatible with the prohibition on ex post facto laws? For that matter, how is the Superfund program compatible? It's punishing companies for actions that weren't illegal at the time they engaged in them.
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Not quite. Zip+4 narrows it down to no more than 100 possibilities, but you need to know the delivery point to get the exact address. The USPS represents every single deliverable address in the country with an eleven digit number. Five digits of zip code, four digits of +4 extension and two digits of delivery point. You can find your delivery point code by using the USPS zip code finder and clicking on "mailing industry information".
There are a few exceptions to this rule of course. Most PO boxes have a unique zip+4 code, so the delivery point is redundant for them.
You can buy weapons that are bigger than .50 caliber. You just need a special tax stamp from the ATF to legally possess them. They are considered "destructive devices" or some such.
Since I started using NoScript I haven't had Firefox crash because of Flash. Ever.
I have, but it was always traced back to a corrupted profile. Deleting the profile and starting over has always fixed it for me.
Now if I could only figure out why 3.6.3 keeps freezing on me for no apparent reason. 3.5.9 never gave me any issues with the same configuration and add-ons but 3.6.3 freezes up at least one a day. Interestingly enough when it freezes it doesn't max out the CPU -- just sits there without responding at 0% cpu usage.
I don't buy anything from Newegg, specifically because of their return policy. If you are lucky enough for them to accept a return they will still try and hit you with a restocking fee.
I had to argue this with them once upon a time when I bought a motherboard/ram/cpu combo. They sent ram that was known to be incompatible with the bundled motherboard. I wanted to return the RAM and keep the other two items and they said they'd hit me with the 15% restocking fee for the RAM. I told them this was bullshit and that they were the ones who had bundled it -- they said it was my responsibility to verify that it was compatible. I said that might be true if I bought it separately but it was reasonable to assume it would work when sold as a bundle. We went back and forth on this point until I threatened to involve my credit card company, at which point they caved. Guess they figured that eating the 15% was cheaper than eating the charge back.
I haven't done business with them since then.
good old fashioned negligence torts already have you nailed.
Then why did we need to pass a superfund law when we could have just sued the relevant companies?
Weed is better than alcohol because it doesn't leave you hung over.
That rather depends on the weed in question. Schwag will leave you with a nasty hangover that's every bit as bad as anything you've ever done to yourself while drinking. It's actually worse in a way because it comes with a 'burnt out' feeling that alcohol induced hang-overs rarely produce. Low grade weed is worse than low grade alcohol because it isn't nearly as effective at producing the desired result. 80 proof well vodka will get you drunk as effectively as 80 proof Gray Goose. Schwag won't get you as stoned as chronic no matter how much of it you smoke.....
At least that's what I've heard. I have no first hand experience of course ;)
Or both ;)
That happened with his wife too.... *duck*
Well, I assume his second remark was in reference to the so-called "fairness doctrine", which is pretty much universally opposed by the GOP......
Hell even candy bar makers warranty their products ("if unsatisfied return the unused portion for a refund"). Why can't record and movie companies follow that example?
Probably because you can't copy the candy bar and produce as many copies of it as you want for free after purchasing it?
I have to say that I agree with this guy. You don't have a Constitutional or Natural Law right to a fair returns policy at Wally World. If you don't like the return policy then don't buy the product. Newegg has a dead pixel policy and refuses to accept most returns over the issue. Should I buy a monitor from them anyway and bitch about my "rights" when they refuse to accept the return or just take my money elsewhere?
he legal limit the government can compel for cleanup is itself only 75 million
False. That's the legal limit on their liability for economic damages, i.e: fishermen that can't fish, beaches that can't receive tourists, etc. There is no cap on their liability for clean up costs.
Of course I'm not surprised that you didn't know this, because it's not in the interest of the current ruling party to accurately portray the law when they stand in front of the cameras.
No amount of money can buy us another gulf.
We don't need another gulf. The gulf will bounce back, likely a lot faster than you think it will.
And yes, BP shareholders absolutely deserve to be wiped out.
And their employees and retirees too, right?
Protecting BP shareholders only creates moral hazard.
I didn't say we should protect them, I just take issue with your desire to wipe them out for no reason other than spite. If BP fails because of the oil spill then that's the risk you take when investing. The Government wiping out your investment just to send a message is little more than robbery, IMHO. It would also have negative effects on the ability of similar businesses (or business in general) to raise capital. That would have consequences at the gas pump and the unemployment line. Is that really what you want?
The liability limit has been falsely reported in the media and by various politicians. It's actually a limit on the amount of economic damages they are liable for, not a limit on the clean-up liability. That doesn't mean it's a good idea of course, but it seems rather disingenuous to imply that BP is only on the hook for $70,000,000 worth of clean-up costs.
Well, I'd imagine that it uses the cellular network for reporting into the authorities, so if the designers are smart it would use a-GPS. That would overcome a lot of the limitations that you discussed. It wouldn't be perfect but then nothing is.
An interesting if completely wrong opinion....
If you have a health problem, you are free to work or die.
Liberty isn't freedom from want, it's the freedom to make your own choices in life. I would rather live in a system where I can go broke paying my medical bills than one that compels me to purchase insurance from for-profit enterprises or to receive all of my care from Doctors working under contract with the Government. Collectivism can't exist without trampling on individual liberty and I do not regard that as a fair trade.
But then, in our system, the $6.25 hot dog place has laws passed which prevent the $3.25 hot dogs from being sold or carried to the $6.25 place. Then that extra money is used to further prevent the $3.25 hot dogs from being sold within 20 blocks of the $6.25 hot dog's "exclusive" territory. And so on.
What you've described is not capitalism, it's corporatism. It's responsible for a large number of broken markets in our country, including the market for internet access. The mono/duopoly situation that exists there is written into law in the form of "franchise" agreements that grant one or two companies the exclusive right to use something (the utility easement) that's theoretically owned by the entire community.
Actually the purpose of carbon tax is to raise more money for the Government, otherwise it would offset other taxes, but that's beside the point. Regarding your gas tank leaking onto my property, there are already laws against that. If your tank leaked onto my property before we had such laws then no I don't think it's fair to charge you for it. Foresight doesn't really enter into it -- the question is whether or not the activity is legal at the time it occurs.
IANAL but my first thought is that the Superfund program is not punishment, it's remediation for the damage the company did.
That's one way to look at it but I think it's a pretty scary precedent nonetheless. You are effectively requiring people to pay for damages done when it was unknown that their practices were causing such damage. If a carbon tax is imposed do you think it would be fair to retroactively impose it on every single living American for every single gallon of gasoline they ever burned?
That's asinine. If BP has (or can raise) the funds to pay for their mistake there is absolutely nothing to be gained from driving them out of business. Do you seriously think that every single individual that owns BP shares (likely including yourself if you have a 401(k) or mutual fund) should see those shares reduced to zero?
BTW, not that it excuses the oil spill but the Gulf wasn't "healthy" to begin with. Do you also think that every farmer in the Mississippi watershed should be driven out of business?
Something like $1 billion per barrel sounds good to me.
Apparently you've never heard of the 8th amendment.....
From Wikipedia: The word cult pejoratively refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are reasonably considered strange. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices. The narrower, derogatory sense of the word is a product of the 20th century, especially since the 1980s, and is considered subjective, and is a result of the anti-cult movement, which uses the word in reference to groups seen as authoritarian, exploitative and possibly dangerous.
Except that capitalism allows for self-determination.....
It's called sensory deprivation, though to the best of my knowledge it isn't particularly effective unless you deprive the subject of multiple senses (i.e: sight and sound)
Weren't a bunch of Congress-critters talking about raising the oil spill liability limit in order to compel BP to pay more money? How is that compatible with the prohibition on ex post facto laws? For that matter, how is the Superfund program compatible? It's punishing companies for actions that weren't illegal at the time they engaged in them.
My understanding is that the TNG cast is still pretty close.