Or just go with something that barely meets legal efficiency standards, like a "commercial" Speed Queen. I doubt the excess energy you use will be more than that required to build a new washer and import it from China every 3 years:D
As far as I know, someEU countries don't even publish defendants' names in trials in order to protect them since they're presumed innocent. Not to mention that convictions for more minor crimes typically drop off a person's record after 5-10 years. They're actually concerned about rehabilitation, not pure vengeance.
I'm not against convictions being available, but tarnishing someone's reputation based on an arrest that may or may not be justified should be illegal. The records have to be available in a courthouse for the defendant to fight the case, but if the case is dropped or the defendant is found not-guilty, they should be destroyed entirely.
Making them available only in person is a barrier to casual searching -- if it's important enough to find out, it's important enough for you to take a trip to the courthouse.
Frankly, arrest info shouldn't be published on the Internet at all, though it should be available to those who go in person to a courthouse. It's inexcusable that a cop's whim can ruin a person's reputation and career, even if all charges are later dismissed or judged as not guilty.
Going after the data pimps is a good first step. Next step should be arresting/suing sheriffs and police chiefs who post such info to the Internet so it can be sucked up by data miners.
It has the (new on purchase)... (1) Fridge, still working and has "digital" controls (2) Dishwasher, this is the old kind with a rotary dial (3) Gas stove -- 24" stove, not different from most other stoves, but the ignition electronics still work fine.
My parents' house has a fancy digital stove/oven that's 15 years old and also still works well.
Digital controls are pretty damn reliable, if properly designed, often better than clockwork timers. Assuming the device is something like a washer/dryer that doesn't NEED wifi to run, it will work long after support is dropped by the manufacturer. It just won't be a connected device, and you won't be able to start a load of laundry in New Jersey from a cell phone in Hong Kong. No great loss.
Running PEX is easy. Planning a plumbing job and running PEX that won't leak for 30 years is harder. Also, codes require copper or iron pipe in many areas, and codes are slow to change. You also can't use PEX for sewer -- at minimum, you need hard plastic pipe
Electrical? Again, code requires switches, and practicality does as well. Imagine your router going down and not being able to turn your lights on or off since none of them are controlled by switches! Anyway, there were still electricians in the early 1900s when lights typically had constant power running to them with pull-rope or rotary switches on the fixtures themselves.
I suspect that electricians will have to know MORE in the future -- they'll be more like a combination of an I.T./home automation expert and a wire-puller.
you're seem to be making an argument for
employers being legally required to allow (both) parents some time flexibility and personal days. i.e., if they can't be decent people on their own, decency has to be legislated.
Which is why urban schools are great -- small campus means a short walk between classes and there's public transit. BTW, I'm not sure if this is strictly a red vs blue state fight... Texas and North Carolina are hardly blue states and they have well funded public uni systems.
But the cohabitation rate in Quebec is very high... maybe people just realised that they don't need some ass in a frock (judge or priest) to give them gracious permission to be in a committed relationship. Who says some of the cohabitants aren't as committed to each other as married people? Quebec sounds like my kind of place -- a province of freethinkers.
Weirdly, that's the one taboo I've never felt: living below my means/being "poor", whether it's used cars, used furniture, computers bought off Craigslist. I just don't like the Joneses enough to want to keep up with them - I'd rather watch them run like hamsters and get a coronary before the finish line while I walk comfortably and enjoy the views.
There isn't much proof that intelligence has a racial component. Remember, all of the things being said about current immigrants were also said about Italians, East Europeans, Irish, etc, etc in the 1800s and 1900s. OMG, "those people" are ruining American kultshah.
Only if you live in a neighbourhood with retarded neighbors. Go to many small towns in NJ, kids still walk to school by themselves. Go to NYC and 11 year olds get a bus or subway pass. The key is to live in a "walkable" area, even if it's less upscale than the exurb full of McHouses.
Even with an extra bedroom, it's still only 1200 or 1500 SF. Personally, better to live in a small/cheap house and save the money paid for a mortgage to do fun things with kids, travel, work less, spend more time with family.
Why should anyone need to get the permission of a justice of the peace or some shaman in a funny robe just to be able to have sex? Marriage, no marriage, cohabitation, let people do what they want.
Personally, I think marriage protects kids, and is thus best saved for after conception... marriage without kids is just a form of antiquated ritual.
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Seems the drum mechanism is somewhat changed, but you can still get them with relatively simple digital or even analog controls.
Or just go with something that barely meets legal efficiency standards, like a "commercial" Speed Queen. I doubt the excess energy you use will be more than that required to build a new washer and import it from China every 3 years :D
I wasn't talking about conviction data (separate discussion), but only about arrest data prior to conviction.
No, I'll be picking up the 25 year old not-connected "junk" that some dumb sod's wife nagged them to upgrade to the latest and greatest :D
Disagreed. The tax should be 100% :D
As far as I know, someEU countries don't even publish defendants' names in trials in order to protect them since they're presumed innocent. Not to mention that convictions for more minor crimes typically drop off a person's record after 5-10 years. They're actually concerned about rehabilitation, not pure vengeance.
I'm not against convictions being available, but tarnishing someone's reputation based on an arrest that may or may not be justified should be illegal. The records have to be available in a courthouse for the defendant to fight the case, but if the case is dropped or the defendant is found not-guilty, they should be destroyed entirely.
Making them available only in person is a barrier to casual searching -- if it's important enough to find out, it's important enough for you to take a trip to the courthouse.
At least in California, there are scrap metal places that will take things like air conditioners and heavier appliances and pay you by metal weight.
Frankly, arrest info shouldn't be published on the Internet at all, though it should be available to those who go in person to a courthouse. It's inexcusable that a cop's whim can ruin a person's reputation and career, even if all charges are later dismissed or judged as not guilty.
Going after the data pimps is a good first step. Next step should be arresting/suing sheriffs and police chiefs who post such info to the Internet so it can be sucked up by data miners.
You will. I'll be the crazy guy buying used stuff off of Craigslist or picking working used hardware off the curbside....
I moved into my apartment almost 9 years ago...
It has the (new on purchase) ...
(1) Fridge, still working and has "digital" controls
(2) Dishwasher, this is the old kind with a rotary dial
(3) Gas stove -- 24" stove, not different from most other stoves, but the ignition electronics still work fine.
My parents' house has a fancy digital stove/oven that's 15 years old and also still works well.
Digital controls are pretty damn reliable, if properly designed, often better than clockwork timers. Assuming the device is something like a washer/dryer that doesn't NEED wifi to run, it will work long after support is dropped by the manufacturer. It just won't be a connected device, and you won't be able to start a load of laundry in New Jersey from a cell phone in Hong Kong. No great loss.
Have you done a survey personally -- how many have you slept with? :D
Running PEX is easy. Planning a plumbing job and running PEX that won't leak for 30 years is harder. Also, codes require copper or iron pipe in many areas, and codes are slow to change. You also can't use PEX for sewer -- at minimum, you need hard plastic pipe
Electrical? Again, code requires switches, and practicality does as well. Imagine your router going down and not being able to turn your lights on or off since none of them are controlled by switches! Anyway, there were still electricians in the early 1900s when lights typically had constant power running to them with pull-rope or rotary switches on the fixtures themselves.
I suspect that electricians will have to know MORE in the future -- they'll be more like a combination of an I.T./home automation expert and a wire-puller.
better people move on than be tied together in unhappiness by the so called majesty of the law.
you're seem to be making an argument for employers being legally required to allow (both) parents some time flexibility and personal days. i.e., if they can't be decent people on their own, decency has to be legislated.
agree. but the sentiment that it's still Apple's (or Google's, or MS's) phone after its sold to an end user needs to go away.
Which is why urban schools are great -- small campus means a short walk between classes and there's public transit. BTW, I'm not sure if this is strictly a red vs blue state fight... Texas and North Carolina are hardly blue states and they have well funded public uni systems.
Are the interests of grandchildren of German, Irish, and Eyetalian immigrants in conflict, or are they all Americans at this point?
But the cohabitation rate in Quebec is very high... maybe people just realised that they don't need some ass in a frock (judge or priest) to give them gracious permission to be in a committed relationship. Who says some of the cohabitants aren't as committed to each other as married people? Quebec sounds like my kind of place -- a province of freethinkers.
Weirdly, that's the one taboo I've never felt: living below my means/being "poor", whether it's used cars, used furniture, computers bought off Craigslist. I just don't like the Joneses enough to want to keep up with them - I'd rather watch them run like hamsters and get a coronary before the finish line while I walk comfortably and enjoy the views.
There isn't much proof that intelligence has a racial component. Remember, all of the things being said about current immigrants were also said about Italians, East Europeans, Irish, etc, etc in the 1800s and 1900s. OMG, "those people" are ruining American kultshah.
Only if you live in a neighbourhood with retarded neighbors. Go to many small towns in NJ, kids still walk to school by themselves. Go to NYC and 11 year olds get a bus or subway pass. The key is to live in a "walkable" area, even if it's less upscale than the exurb full of McHouses.
Even with an extra bedroom, it's still only 1200 or 1500 SF. Personally, better to live in a small/cheap house and save the money paid for a mortgage to do fun things with kids, travel, work less, spend more time with family.
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Why should anyone need to get the permission of a justice of the peace or some shaman in a funny robe just to be able to have sex? Marriage, no marriage, cohabitation, let people do what they want.
Personally, I think marriage protects kids, and is thus best saved for after conception... marriage without kids is just a form of antiquated ritual.