...each hand was from a different political party. His parents noticed their son had a red crayon in one hand and a blue crayon in the other as he was gerrymandering Sesame Street.
So...not sure if I understand this correctly. If I buy a bike at a store in Oregon I get taxed. But if I buy one online that's shipped outside the state, I won't? If this is true then doesn't this counter Oregon's (and every other states') "Buy Local" motif?
The other have should be the connection to caffeine. As already stated below, sugary tastes make you hungrier. While the caffeine turns off the chemicals associated with hunger. This is why it's so prevalent in diet pills. But what happens when you put both together? You get a concoction which puts your body into a constant chemical imbalance. Has their been a long term study stating what happens when this happens? Or has Coke/Pepsi already buried the report?
I've never understood why people always talk about using such a big area.
For years where I'm at new apartment buildings are required to have cable connectors. Because cable is considered a 'utility'. Well, so is electricity. So why not require them to have solar panels and batteries as well? Most apartments have utilities included in the rent anyway. So in the long run the owner is going to save money.
The builders would probably scream, "It's a burden!" which is what they did when they were forced to add cable. But you know what, let's just take the Ethanol subsidy and convert that into a Solar Subsidy. This will help offshoot the cost. And everyone will be happier in the long run.
Well, except the Iowa Caucus of course.;)
I apologize for that. I actually DID have it broken into paragraphs but it posted it that way.
This is a double spaced new paragraph. But for some reason it won't post that way.
Here's the problem with your suggestions.
1. Eliminate Saturday delivery - Fine, but if you're not delivering to residential then businesses need to bite the bullet as well. In this area for years residential have had to wait for their packages because they deliver to businesses first. Meaning: They could go right by my house 2-3 times in a morning and I'd have to wait until the afternoon. For some reason the idea of a straight line doesn't apply anymore. Businesses should get no special treatment.
2. Eliminate direct door-to-door delivery in favor of mailbox clusters - Again, fine. Then they're doing it everywhere and not just lower income neighborhoods. They had a discussion about that in Iowa last year. And sure enough, the businesses and middle to upper class areas were exempt. "They tend to get more packages from places like Amazon. It would be a burden if they had to go to the post office to pick them up."
3. Eliminate the`requirement to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits - You do realize the Post Office is actually a privately owned company which just has a continual contract, right? This is one corporation you don't want screwing people out of their benefits once they retire. They should have the same protection as police officers and firemen do. (Wait...*looks at latest news about Chicago*...maybe I should rephrase that.)
4. Eliminate subsidized rural delivery - Again, all or nothing. Meaning no exceptions for corporate farms, cattle ranches, or CEO country estates getting deliveries from Amazon. (See #2)
5. Allow the shipment of alcohol and marijuana in compliance with state law - While we're at it, let's let Rush Limbaugh get his pill-of-choice delivered to his doorstep as well. (Of course, make sure it wasn't mailed from Canada.)
You know what would really save money...Delivering the mail like they used to decades ago.
A huge van would carry several carriers and drop them off, one at a time, at the end of the block. The postmen would walk one side of the street, cross it, and then work their way back. The van then would deliver any packages within that area before picking the postmen back up. One large vehicle rather than several individual ones. The only time you use the smaller ones is during inclement winter weather. This was cost effective from a mechanical point of view. As well as a way to make sure carriers weren't just sitting in their vehicles reading the paper while on the clock.
I commonly use my card to pay at restaurants. But leave the tip in cash. Because more than once I'd get an alert from the credit card company saying, "Normally people don't leave that big a tip. Are you sure that was the correct amount?"
Excuse me? You're not only not sitting at the table with me, you're not even sitting at a table in the same state. So don't try and dictate to me what you think my server deserves.
I don't agree with Dog-Cow's take on this...
But Anonymous, are you also going to call the FBI and have them investigate everyone that saw the Twilight movie? You know, the one where the 400 year old fart was trolling a high school for an underage girlfriend? Yeah, Bella was only 17 years old. And no federal law enforcement agency gave a crap about that.
Some states do that. They have a deposit on all plastic bottles. They talked about doing it in other states and 'certain political officials' stated that it would be a burden on the poor. When it was asked why don't they remove the deposit on pop, they reply, "The poor shouldn't be drinking pop, water is better." - So let me get this straight: The poor should buy water which is more expensive then pop. Even though they're owned by the same company. -- Sorry for the tangent but this type of thinking is why many states or even cities don't have appropriate recycling programs.
"...After 10 years, not a single serious malware case. It's not just luck; we need to congratulate Apple on this."
--- And remind Apple this includes people who have legally jailbroken their iPhones. Something Apple said 'would' lead to serious malware problems.
Some of the Windows code was released. It was downplayed. But everyone had a good laugh at the notes which were left in it like (language cleaned up and paraphrasing.):
My personal favorite..."Why was this section added?" - "Because someone is doing something way above our pay grade." - "Take this out! It could be exploited" - "It's been two years, why is this still here?" - "This was put in for a reason. Don't take it out again." - "I removed it because It could be exploited!" - "I don't give a m***er f**k! As long as it's our exploit it stays in!"
Actually, Wells Fargo just got done firing a bunch of people. Also, the local Wells Fargos were renting their change counting machine. (Huh?!!?) They didn't renew the contract. So now when you bring in change someone will sit down and help you fill up some trays. I almost feel like applying for that job. I wonder if it comes with benefits.
The reason we need the small business paperwork: Before this rule came into effect those businesses were owned by big pocketed donors. Some of which were the ones charging $50 for a $5 screwdriver.
Whenever crap like this happens it's always the same stupid argument. Gun Control! When are we going to start addressing the real threat to this nation. Sports Violence!
This guy put out an app which would on-the-fly rewrite your memory on a Macintosh. It would defrag it to free up space and reduce the risk of crashing. You could actually watch the results in the About Mac window. Well, it seem that the 'free space' was achieved by the app itself closing! *laugh* Free for 7 days and then pay $5 to unlock it permanently. Lucky for me, I always wait for an update or two before plopping down the cash for software. --- Fast forward to today. This makes me wonder how many times has the program been updated. And how many versions of the iOS has this worked under. Because putting out a coin flip app that's here-today-gone-tomorrow is one thing. A scam which lasts the test of time is another.
This reminds me of a Guy Kawasaki lecture I went to decades ago. He was promoting Disk Doubler, a compression tool. He mentioned how he saw his competition giving a very interesting demonstration. (Sorry, don't remember who exactly the other guys were.)
They shrunk a 200+ page text document down by 98%. Not bad. Until you realized the file was one sentence repeated over and over again.
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...deserves two really big hands.
...each hand was from a different political party. His parents noticed their son had a red crayon in one hand and a blue crayon in the other as he was gerrymandering Sesame Street.
...many elected officials have no expiration date. Hmmm. Curious...
So...not sure if I understand this correctly. If I buy a bike at a store in Oregon I get taxed. But if I buy one online that's shipped outside the state, I won't? If this is true then doesn't this counter Oregon's (and every other states') "Buy Local" motif?
Anti-tax Republicans and Environmentally conscious bikers? Whose going to put on their fundraiser? Martha Stewart and Dan Barber
I was emphasizing how her name was apt for the subject at hand.
The other have should be the connection to caffeine. As already stated below, sugary tastes make you hungrier. While the caffeine turns off the chemicals associated with hunger. This is why it's so prevalent in diet pills. But what happens when you put both together? You get a concoction which puts your body into a constant chemical imbalance. Has their been a long term study stating what happens when this happens? Or has Coke/Pepsi already buried the report?
We learn North America is capitalized and high school isn't. Besides that they leave us alone.
"Endorphins? You mean like Flipper?" - Suzanne "Sugar"baker on Designing Women
I've never understood why people always talk about using such a big area. For years where I'm at new apartment buildings are required to have cable connectors. Because cable is considered a 'utility'. Well, so is electricity. So why not require them to have solar panels and batteries as well? Most apartments have utilities included in the rent anyway. So in the long run the owner is going to save money. The builders would probably scream, "It's a burden!" which is what they did when they were forced to add cable. But you know what, let's just take the Ethanol subsidy and convert that into a Solar Subsidy. This will help offshoot the cost. And everyone will be happier in the long run. Well, except the Iowa Caucus of course. ;)
I apologize for that. I actually DID have it broken into paragraphs but it posted it that way. This is a double spaced new paragraph. But for some reason it won't post that way.
Here's the problem with your suggestions. 1. Eliminate Saturday delivery - Fine, but if you're not delivering to residential then businesses need to bite the bullet as well. In this area for years residential have had to wait for their packages because they deliver to businesses first. Meaning: They could go right by my house 2-3 times in a morning and I'd have to wait until the afternoon. For some reason the idea of a straight line doesn't apply anymore. Businesses should get no special treatment. 2. Eliminate direct door-to-door delivery in favor of mailbox clusters - Again, fine. Then they're doing it everywhere and not just lower income neighborhoods. They had a discussion about that in Iowa last year. And sure enough, the businesses and middle to upper class areas were exempt. "They tend to get more packages from places like Amazon. It would be a burden if they had to go to the post office to pick them up." 3. Eliminate the`requirement to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits - You do realize the Post Office is actually a privately owned company which just has a continual contract, right? This is one corporation you don't want screwing people out of their benefits once they retire. They should have the same protection as police officers and firemen do. (Wait...*looks at latest news about Chicago*...maybe I should rephrase that.) 4. Eliminate subsidized rural delivery - Again, all or nothing. Meaning no exceptions for corporate farms, cattle ranches, or CEO country estates getting deliveries from Amazon. (See #2) 5. Allow the shipment of alcohol and marijuana in compliance with state law - While we're at it, let's let Rush Limbaugh get his pill-of-choice delivered to his doorstep as well. (Of course, make sure it wasn't mailed from Canada.) You know what would really save money...Delivering the mail like they used to decades ago. A huge van would carry several carriers and drop them off, one at a time, at the end of the block. The postmen would walk one side of the street, cross it, and then work their way back. The van then would deliver any packages within that area before picking the postmen back up. One large vehicle rather than several individual ones. The only time you use the smaller ones is during inclement winter weather. This was cost effective from a mechanical point of view. As well as a way to make sure carriers weren't just sitting in their vehicles reading the paper while on the clock.
I commonly use my card to pay at restaurants. But leave the tip in cash. Because more than once I'd get an alert from the credit card company saying, "Normally people don't leave that big a tip. Are you sure that was the correct amount?" Excuse me? You're not only not sitting at the table with me, you're not even sitting at a table in the same state. So don't try and dictate to me what you think my server deserves.
Cutting 2% from a budget is trimming. Having an empty office which used to house six scientists isn't.
I don't agree with Dog-Cow's take on this... But Anonymous, are you also going to call the FBI and have them investigate everyone that saw the Twilight movie? You know, the one where the 400 year old fart was trolling a high school for an underage girlfriend? Yeah, Bella was only 17 years old. And no federal law enforcement agency gave a crap about that.
Some states do that. They have a deposit on all plastic bottles. They talked about doing it in other states and 'certain political officials' stated that it would be a burden on the poor. When it was asked why don't they remove the deposit on pop, they reply, "The poor shouldn't be drinking pop, water is better." - So let me get this straight: The poor should buy water which is more expensive then pop. Even though they're owned by the same company. -- Sorry for the tangent but this type of thinking is why many states or even cities don't have appropriate recycling programs.
"...After 10 years, not a single serious malware case. It's not just luck; we need to congratulate Apple on this." --- And remind Apple this includes people who have legally jailbroken their iPhones. Something Apple said 'would' lead to serious malware problems.
Some of the Windows code was released. It was downplayed. But everyone had a good laugh at the notes which were left in it like (language cleaned up and paraphrasing.): My personal favorite..."Why was this section added?" - "Because someone is doing something way above our pay grade." - "Take this out! It could be exploited" - "It's been two years, why is this still here?" - "This was put in for a reason. Don't take it out again." - "I removed it because It could be exploited!" - "I don't give a m***er f**k! As long as it's our exploit it stays in!"
Actually, Wells Fargo just got done firing a bunch of people. Also, the local Wells Fargos were renting their change counting machine. (Huh?!!?) They didn't renew the contract. So now when you bring in change someone will sit down and help you fill up some trays. I almost feel like applying for that job. I wonder if it comes with benefits.
The reason we need the small business paperwork: Before this rule came into effect those businesses were owned by big pocketed donors. Some of which were the ones charging $50 for a $5 screwdriver.
Whenever crap like this happens it's always the same stupid argument. Gun Control! When are we going to start addressing the real threat to this nation. Sports Violence!
This guy put out an app which would on-the-fly rewrite your memory on a Macintosh. It would defrag it to free up space and reduce the risk of crashing. You could actually watch the results in the About Mac window. Well, it seem that the 'free space' was achieved by the app itself closing! *laugh* Free for 7 days and then pay $5 to unlock it permanently. Lucky for me, I always wait for an update or two before plopping down the cash for software. --- Fast forward to today. This makes me wonder how many times has the program been updated. And how many versions of the iOS has this worked under. Because putting out a coin flip app that's here-today-gone-tomorrow is one thing. A scam which lasts the test of time is another.
I think he was quoting Dr. Who
This reminds me of a Guy Kawasaki lecture I went to decades ago. He was promoting Disk Doubler, a compression tool. He mentioned how he saw his competition giving a very interesting demonstration. (Sorry, don't remember who exactly the other guys were.) They shrunk a 200+ page text document down by 98%. Not bad. Until you realized the file was one sentence repeated over and over again.
I believe the politically correct term is 'whipper-snapper'.