Oh you're damn right you change the oil on an EMD!
The boat I worked on had oil changes on the mains every 2000 hours, filters at 1000 hours.
Also, just because EMDs have large displacement (the boat I was on had 2 GM EMD 20-645-E7s - 645 Cu inches per cylinder x 20 cylinders x 2 engines = big propulsion) doesn't mean you can feed them crap. There's the entire fuel system you have to take into account as well when dealing with an engine.
The burden of airline security should rest on the airlines/airports themselves. Private entities are going to be much more accountable, as well as efficient. One of the first pieces I've done in my blogging career actually concerned the abolishment of TSA. As a former employee for Air Wisconsin, I've had to deal with this people on a daily basis. I can tell you that although a good amount of the employees are decent people, there are some who get their rocks off on the fact they're federal employees.
Believe me, I have a few stories over the relatively short time I worked there. It's kind of ridiculous.
What SOX does is assume that business is guilty until proven innocent. Last I checked, that's the opposite principal of what this country's judicial system was founded upon.
Alex Epstein makes some good points in his article here.
In fact, I love the people who gripe about.gov looking into our bank accounts and personal lives, yet have a double standard when it comes to business. Here's a quote from the article above.
Under Sarbanes-Oxley, the government, without any evidence of possible fraud, has free reign to scour a company's books to determine whether they "fairly" represent the company's finances and do "not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact."
So ladies and gentlemen, why should we be fighting for privacy rights for one demographic, but not another? Obviously in both cases we have the government looking willy-nilly at records. However in the case of SOX, it's the general journals of a business, at which point an auditor can subjectively make a decision because of what they think is right or wrong, courtesy of vague and/or undefined wording in the law.
If it hasn't been posted yet..
John B. Thompson, Attorney
1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 111
Coral Gables, Florida 33146-2750
Phone: 305-666-4366
Jackpeace@comcast.net
And possibly his home info
I think that instead of the current tax system, user fees should be in place. For example, everyone pays whatever dividend they should for national defense, law enforcement, or whatever services they use. Why should I be paying for public schools when my kid goes to a private one?
I found a nice list of all government agencies that exsist at http://www.firstgov.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agenc ies/index.shtml
Just perusing through the list, I notice one such agency called the National Drug Intelligence Center. As a firm believer in personal choice, why the hell would I want to be paying for some program who goes around throwing innocent people in jail? That is, of course, just one program of many that are useless and need to go.
As for taxing you to put money into social security, 1) It's a joke, you don't get what you put in, and 2) I trust myself to manage my retirement planning alot better than the government. Why can't I opt out of this horrid system? Better tracking of where money goes to needs to be implemented anyway.
So what does this have to do with finding tax-evaders? The problem doesn't lie with them, they evade because some of the taxes are rediculous. Just because you make more money, you should NOT have to pay more. That is nothing more than government sponsored theft. People should only have to pay for the services that they use, plain and simple.
How much money is actually made with these ads?
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I've always wondered how much money is indeed made from the more intrusive forms of advertising, such as the pop ups, unders, adware, etc. Obviously some money must be made because they keep doing it. I agree though, Google has it down. Only problem is if it can't figure out what your page is about. My dad uses it on www.regurgitated.com and it can't figure out what the page is about, so it throws random stuff up from supporting gay marriages to diamond rings.
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Actually, patent attorneys have their own bar...
EMDs run on #2, not Bunker C
Oh you're damn right you change the oil on an EMD! The boat I worked on had oil changes on the mains every 2000 hours, filters at 1000 hours. Also, just because EMDs have large displacement (the boat I was on had 2 GM EMD 20-645-E7s - 645 Cu inches per cylinder x 20 cylinders x 2 engines = big propulsion) doesn't mean you can feed them crap. There's the entire fuel system you have to take into account as well when dealing with an engine.
This isn't capitalism though - hardly. It's fraud.
Really? I don't.
Can you point out a case where government was more efficient and accountable than a private entity?
The burden of airline security should rest on the airlines/airports themselves. Private entities are going to be much more accountable, as well as efficient. One of the first pieces I've done in my blogging career actually concerned the abolishment of TSA. As a former employee for Air Wisconsin, I've had to deal with this people on a daily basis. I can tell you that although a good amount of the employees are decent people, there are some who get their rocks off on the fact they're federal employees. Believe me, I have a few stories over the relatively short time I worked there. It's kind of ridiculous.
Alex Epstein makes some good points in his article here.
In fact, I love the people who gripe about
Could controled dispersion (if possible) be used as a method for pseudo-quantum computing?
If it hasn't been posted yet..
John B. Thompson, Attorney
1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 111
Coral Gables, Florida 33146-2750
Phone: 305-666-4366
Jackpeace@comcast.net
And possibly his home info
5721 Riviera Dr
Coral Gables, FL 33146-2750
I think that instead of the current tax system, user fees should be in place. For example, everyone pays whatever dividend they should for national defense, law enforcement, or whatever services they use. Why should I be paying for public schools when my kid goes to a private one?
c ies/index.shtml
Just perusing through the list, I notice one such agency called the National Drug Intelligence Center. As a firm believer in personal choice, why the hell would I want to be paying for some program who goes around throwing innocent people in jail? That is, of course, just one program of many that are useless and need to go.
I found a nice list of all government agencies that exsist at http://www.firstgov.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agen
As for taxing you to put money into social security, 1) It's a joke, you don't get what you put in, and 2) I trust myself to manage my retirement planning alot better than the government. Why can't I opt out of this horrid system? Better tracking of where money goes to needs to be implemented anyway.
So what does this have to do with finding tax-evaders? The problem doesn't lie with them, they evade because some of the taxes are rediculous. Just because you make more money, you should NOT have to pay more. That is nothing more than government sponsored theft. People should only have to pay for the services that they use, plain and simple.
I've always wondered how much money is indeed made from the more intrusive forms of advertising, such as the pop ups, unders, adware, etc. Obviously some money must be made because they keep doing it. I agree though, Google has it down. Only problem is if it can't figure out what your page is about. My dad uses it on www.regurgitated.com and it can't figure out what the page is about, so it throws random stuff up from supporting gay marriages to diamond rings.