To the creature that is the angry wife, the ONLY justification for not being home, catering to her every wish, unloading the dishwasher, and cleaning the garage, because you're lucky to have her to cook shitty potatoes for you, buddy, is if you're out bringing in more money so she can buy more things for you to carry home for her. Any other activity is tantamount to infidelity. This is one of the major reasons my angry wife is now an angry ex-wife (which still sorta sucks but not nearly as badly).
Sigh, I wish someone would have told me that beforehand... so true.
This is a really old joke. It was very funny to me at first, but in reality by making that false 911 call you're buying yourself a free ticket to be arrested and jailed for the night. And for good reason.
Why is that a good reason? If cops would actually do what they're "supposed" to do and catch a robber, that wouldn't have been necessary. Instead they were probably more concerned with sitting on the side of the road raising revenue or harassing some pot smokers.
I think your absolutely right, if a class 1 felony is not important enough to get the cops off their ass they should be fired. No prosecutor would prosecute you for doing something like this, for starters they would look like a fool at trial and it would bring to light the neglagince of the police. Committing a crime to stop a more grievous crime is also a complete defense, provided it's not excessive (n-1 is generally acceptable). If they were stupid enough to charge you with a crime you would have them by the balls and hypothetically if it got all the way to a trial you could just testify that you shot them with your camera.
You would have to testify that you were on illegal drugs, which would mean shotting yourself in the foot. But that's probably better then being nailed for the distribution of 750 lbs of meth.
I wonder if you could use being under the influance of drugs as a defense to invalid the consent to search. Illegal search would, in theory, let them walk.
The trouble is that even if you are going under the speed limit they'll still pull you over if their bored or need to meet their quota. I'm friends with one of the bailiffs down at the county court house. The last time I got a bs ticket I asked him if their was any point to contesting it. He said he could not recall someone ever winning, provided the officer shows up to the hearing, which is most of the time.
Typically the doctor just asks me what I want to do about medication adjustments, he knows I'm smart and that im very good at doing my own research. He's even gone as far as adopting some of my treatment protocols for his other patients. I'm no expert, but I'm not stupid when it comes to knowing what is best for me.
Knowing what's best for me includes knowing that I need a medical expert to provide guidance and oversight.
As far as who pays for it, just put $100 per person per year into a world medical fund. This would genarate an annual budget of 684 billion, which is still less then the yearly United States military budget. Even with a quarter of that budget we could make a huge dent... a mere 10 cents a day... or would you rather continue spending hundreds of dollars every year for patent protected drugs?
The number of diseases out there is, relatively, finite. So assuming a drug can provide complete system control with little to no side effects, why do we have to keep on inventing new drugs for that disease?
Their are plenty of drugs out there that worked great, but got dumped because their patent expired. To be replaced by the "Next Big Thing", that is covered by patents, because the company sabotaged the old drug.
Worse yet is the complete lack of incentive for drug companies to find cures. While they obviously don't want their customers to die, I speculate that they also don't want to loose customers by curing them with a one time treatment. These are public corporations, so their objectives and motives should be clear to anyone, which is to basically make money for shareholders and upper management...
Let's say you're CEO of drugco, two of your scientists come to you proclaiming that they found a new treatment for X. The first scientist says he found a cure that only needs to be taken once and is easy to make. The second scientist says he found a medication that can be taken daily and is easy to make. If I were beholden to shareholders I may pick the daily medication because it would be stable recurring revenue and the price equilibrium would be maximized in our favor. Additionally had I released the cure I would have made the other medication obsolete. So at that point once the patent runs out, or the Indian government gives it away, my company is done for. It is way too much risk to assume something else is around the next corner without first maximizing the value of what you already have.
So anyhow, I think a major conflict of interest exists with for-profit drug companies. The government is best suited to incubate these projects since they benefit all of mankind; in therory only a finite amount of work needs to be done and the reward is essentially infinite. Assuming the government does get into the drug business, would we end up with something equivalent to the military-industrial complex?
Since nearly everyone speeds, how come we don't just raise limit? I'm assuming traffic legislator is introduced and voted for by state congressional representatives? Is their so much money involved in this racket that representatives simply look the other way? I seem to recall that one state doesn't have speeding tickets, instead they write citations for excessive fuel consumption, presumably as a way to de-crimalize speeding. When more people then not have convictions for speeding, I think the laws need to be change.
I use to say that too about mobile devices, back in the day I had a Casio E-100, apple newton, and various palm devices. All of them ended up in the junk pile because their was no way to efficiently get data into, or even out, of the devices.
Here I am now though banging out this comment on my iPad in landscape mode using two handed touch typing, at 26 wpm no less! The virtual keyboard on the iPad is actually usable. I think we will also see a convergence of voice technologies to further improve human I/O.
I also have a 7" Android tablet, but unfortunately (my day job is Linux) that device is already in the metaphorical junk pile... I use it now to play music for my parakeet.
I would agree with you. I think most people can handle court room procedure, and that's most of what you need to represent yourself. It's easy as heck to file motions with the Court and what not. Lawyers go to school for years to learn law, I believe a large part of this time is spent on mastering case and common law.
Ideally you would have an attorney advisory to help guide you when you're out of your league.
If I don't get a cut, my family damn well should! As it exists today my family would be left with an obscene bill, meanwhile the hospital rakes in a couple million.
Donald Trump estimated the value of a human body to be around $23 million Your family should be able to benefit from your death, at the very least the hospital should cover all funeral expenses. I think it comes down to a legal technicality through. A dead person can't consent to the sale of their body and once they are dead no one has ownership of their body to negotiate the sale of the dead persons bodily resources. You would need some kind of modified durable power of attorney in place, prior to death, that transfers ownership of your body to another person who can then sell your bodily resources to the highest bidder. Instead of eBay Motors, you would have eBay Bodies to sell your loved one.:-/
Lets assume, hypothetically, that we substitute the drugs in this study with medications used for the treatment of bipolar disorder. Assuming the aforementioned, we could reach exactly the same conclusions as this study did. So does that mean patients with bipolar disorder should stop taking their medications to live longer?
It doesn't even factor in the fact that a large portion of patients suffering from neuropsychiatric conditions also have sleep disorders, whether it be treatment induced, co-morbid, or other reasons. It's also been conclusively proven that lack of sleep will inevitably kill a person, Fatal familial insomnia as the name implies is terminal.
You can look at the data ten ways till Sunday, but no matter what you won't have enough to determine causality or even speculate why.
Oh that's easy, just accuse your spouse of domestic assault and then remove them from the bank accounts. Extra points if you still live at the marital residence, the automatic restraining order will keep them from ever being able to come back. That should be sufficient leverage to get a default judgement in your favor.
IMHO the drug rehab system is a joke in this country. I once knew a teenager who was addicted to heroin, he wanted to stop so he went to his parents for help. They took him to two different hospitals and both refused to help him, stating that "we don't treat that here". Next they went the local methadone clinic and even they refused to help him, stating that they only treat people who have been addicted for more than three years. Finally they determined the only way to get the necessary help was to have judge order the hospital to admit him through involuntary commitment proceedings. Even then, the hospital kicked him out after a couple of days. They did arranged treatment at a rehab center, but apparently this was the only approved center in the state so the waiting list was over a month to get in. In the mean time he had a prior felony (with deferred judgement / probation) drug charge and was now thrust back onto the streets with the same group of people while still having intense cravings. They wanted him to go live with his grandmother, but of course since he was on probation he couldn't leave the area. The consequence if he was arrested again would be guaranteed prison time and a felony permanently on his record. I think what they did was bordering on criminal, he just wanted help.
Technically a doctor can refuse to serve you for the same reasons that any business can. I think ethically they should follow a model similar to the obligations that attorneys have with their clients. For example, they can't just up and quit in the middle of a trial without good cause or consent to withdraw.
Where on earth do you get the idea that Chicago is dumping turds in the Mississippi river? At their closest point, they are more then 130 miles away from each other on opposite ends of the state. Yes the Chicago river is one of the many tributaries of the Illinois river, which is a confluence of the the Missasippi river, but you should realize that only treated sewage is discharged into the river. Moreover the average discharge of the Des Plaines river is a mere 535 cu ft/s and the treated sewage has to travel over 300 miles before it even reaches the mouth of the Illinois river, which discharges 23,200 cu ft/s of water. The Mississippi discharges water at an average of 593,000 cu ft/s, making the Chicago river at most 0.0009% of the Mississippi river. I'd be willing to bet that only a small insufficient fraction of the treated fecal matter actually makes it all the way to the confluence of the Mississippi river, it's filtered out through natural aquatic ecosystem processes.
My house is less then 50 feet away from the Mississippi (and surrounded by it during flood season), so don't think I don't care about protecting this great waterway. Have you ever held a cup of Mississippi water? Their are so many microorganisms in there that you would never want to drink it, even if you knew their was no human or chemical contaminants, without first treating it.
So, next time you want to bring your soda on the plane, buy a bottle of contact lens liquid, empty it, and refill it with whatever you want.
Unfortunately you most likely could be charged with a felony if you were caught sneaking it past. Their are so many laws on the books these days that people don't even realize they're committing misdemeanors and felonies on a daily basis. Just the other day while driving I had someone deliberately cut me off while merging; had I not slammed on the brakes to protect myself from his recklessness it would have certainly ended in a violent crash. This simple act, which most everyone has done at one time or another, meets all of the elements required to be charged with assault with a deadly weapon, which is a felony in most states.
"She's planning on college with a major in music."
Way to go on setting the expectations bar so low. From what I've read her only problem is you not pushing her to be the best she can be.
Make her enroll in community college right now! Tell her that she can major in anything she wants, but if she doesn't get at least a bachelor's degree you'll be very disappointed.
If you don't push her, she'll probably end up hating you because you limited her life options to being a stay-at-home mom with a bad husband.
If the price of gas keeps going up the tanker trucks will probably be getting hijacked... If they're not already. At $4 a gallon a tanker truck could easily have 30,000 dollars worth of gas in it.
I'd rather have a 6 day work week with 6 hours of work per day for 36 hours a week. Two shifts would be nice too, 7am - 1pm and 1pm - 7pm. I'm not a morning person so I'd take the 2nd shift.
You could also do a 7 day work week with 5 hour per day for 35 hours per week.
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Not married to an angry wife, are ya?
To the creature that is the angry wife, the ONLY justification for not being home, catering to her every wish, unloading the dishwasher, and cleaning the garage, because you're lucky to have her to cook shitty potatoes for you, buddy, is if you're out bringing in more money so she can buy more things for you to carry home for her. Any other activity is tantamount to infidelity. This is one of the major reasons my angry wife is now an angry ex-wife (which still sorta sucks but not nearly as badly).
Sigh, I wish someone would have told me that beforehand... so true.
This is a really old joke. It was very funny to me at first, but in reality by making that false 911 call you're buying yourself a free ticket to be arrested and jailed for the night. And for good reason.
Why is that a good reason? If cops would actually do what they're "supposed" to do and catch a robber, that wouldn't have been necessary. Instead they were probably more concerned with sitting on the side of the road raising revenue or harassing some pot smokers.
I think your absolutely right, if a class 1 felony is not important enough to get the cops off their ass they should be fired. No prosecutor would prosecute you for doing something like this, for starters they would look like a fool at trial and it would bring to light the neglagince of the police. Committing a crime to stop a more grievous crime is also a complete defense, provided it's not excessive (n-1 is generally acceptable). If they were stupid enough to charge you with a crime you would have them by the balls and hypothetically if it got all the way to a trial you could just testify that you shot them with your camera.
You would have to testify that you were on illegal drugs, which would mean shotting yourself in the foot. But that's probably better then being nailed for the distribution of 750 lbs of meth.
I wonder if you could use being under the influance of drugs as a defense to invalid the consent to search. Illegal search would, in theory, let them walk.
The trouble is that even if you are going under the speed limit they'll still pull you over if their bored or need to meet their quota. I'm friends with one of the bailiffs down at the county court house. The last time I got a bs ticket I asked him if their was any point to contesting it. He said he could not recall someone ever winning, provided the officer shows up to the hearing, which is most of the time.
Typically the doctor just asks me what I want to do about medication adjustments, he knows I'm smart and that im very good at doing my own research. He's even gone as far as adopting some of my treatment protocols for his other patients. I'm no expert, but I'm not stupid when it comes to knowing what is best for me.
Knowing what's best for me includes knowing that I need a medical expert to provide guidance and oversight.
As far as who pays for it, just put $100 per person per year into a world medical fund. This would genarate an annual budget of 684 billion, which is still less then the yearly United States military budget. Even with a quarter of that budget we could make a huge dent... a mere 10 cents a day... or would you rather continue spending hundreds of dollars every year for patent protected drugs?
The number of diseases out there is, relatively, finite. So assuming a drug can provide complete system control with little to no side effects, why do we have to keep on inventing new drugs for that disease?
Their are plenty of drugs out there that worked great, but got dumped because their patent expired. To be replaced by the "Next Big Thing", that is covered by patents, because the company sabotaged the old drug.
Worse yet is the complete lack of incentive for drug companies to find cures. While they obviously don't want their customers to die, I speculate that they also don't want to loose customers by curing them with a one time treatment. These are public corporations, so their objectives and motives should be clear to anyone, which is to basically make money for shareholders and upper management...
Let's say you're CEO of drugco, two of your scientists come to you proclaiming that they found a new treatment for X. The first scientist says he found a cure that only needs to be taken once and is easy to make. The second scientist says he found a medication that can be taken daily and is easy to make. If I were beholden to shareholders I may pick the daily medication because it would be stable recurring revenue and the price equilibrium would be maximized in our favor. Additionally had I released the cure I would have made the other medication obsolete. So at that point once the patent runs out, or the Indian government gives it away, my company is done for. It is way too much risk to assume something else is around the next corner without first maximizing the value of what you already have.
So anyhow, I think a major conflict of interest exists with for-profit drug companies. The government is best suited to incubate these projects since they benefit all of mankind; in therory only a finite amount of work needs to be done and the reward is essentially infinite. Assuming the government does get into the drug business, would we end up with something equivalent to the military-industrial complex?
Since nearly everyone speeds, how come we don't just raise limit? I'm assuming traffic legislator is introduced and voted for by state congressional representatives? Is their so much money involved in this racket that representatives simply look the other way? I seem to recall that one state doesn't have speeding tickets, instead they write citations for excessive fuel consumption, presumably as a way to de-crimalize speeding. When more people then not have convictions for speeding, I think the laws need to be change.
I use to say that too about mobile devices, back in the day I had a Casio E-100, apple newton, and various palm devices. All of them ended up in the junk pile because their was no way to efficiently get data into, or even out, of the devices.
Here I am now though banging out this comment on my iPad in landscape mode using two handed touch typing, at 26 wpm no less! The virtual keyboard on the iPad is actually usable. I think we will also see a convergence of voice technologies to further improve human I/O.
I also have a 7" Android tablet, but unfortunately (my day job is Linux) that device is already in the metaphorical junk pile... I use it now to play music for my parakeet.
I would agree with you. I think most people can handle court room procedure, and that's most of what you need to represent yourself. It's easy as heck to file motions with the Court and what not. Lawyers go to school for years to learn law, I believe a large part of this time is spent on mastering case and common law.
Ideally you would have an attorney advisory to help guide you when you're out of your league.
If I don't get a cut, my family damn well should! As it exists today my family would be left with an obscene bill, meanwhile the hospital rakes in a couple million.
Donald Trump estimated the value of a human body to be around $23 million Your family should be able to benefit from your death, at the very least the hospital should cover all funeral expenses. I think it comes down to a legal technicality through. A dead person can't consent to the sale of their body and once they are dead no one has ownership of their body to negotiate the sale of the dead persons bodily resources. You would need some kind of modified durable power of attorney in place, prior to death, that transfers ownership of your body to another person who can then sell your bodily resources to the highest bidder. Instead of eBay Motors, you would have eBay Bodies to sell your loved one. :-/
If you want to get an idea of what it would be like to be buried alive, watch Buried... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/
Lets assume, hypothetically, that we substitute the drugs in this study with medications used for the treatment of bipolar disorder. Assuming the aforementioned, we could reach exactly the same conclusions as this study did. So does that mean patients with bipolar disorder should stop taking their medications to live longer?
It doesn't even factor in the fact that a large portion of patients suffering from neuropsychiatric conditions also have sleep disorders, whether it be treatment induced, co-morbid, or other reasons. It's also been conclusively proven that lack of sleep will inevitably kill a person, Fatal familial insomnia as the name implies is terminal.
You can look at the data ten ways till Sunday, but no matter what you won't have enough to determine causality or even speculate why.
Oh that's easy, just accuse your spouse of domestic assault and then remove them from the bank accounts. Extra points if you still live at the marital residence, the automatic restraining order will keep them from ever being able to come back. That should be sufficient leverage to get a default judgement in your favor.
IMHO the drug rehab system is a joke in this country. I once knew a teenager who was addicted to heroin, he wanted to stop so he went to his parents for help. They took him to two different hospitals and both refused to help him, stating that "we don't treat that here". Next they went the local methadone clinic and even they refused to help him, stating that they only treat people who have been addicted for more than three years. Finally they determined the only way to get the necessary help was to have judge order the hospital to admit him through involuntary commitment proceedings. Even then, the hospital kicked him out after a couple of days. They did arranged treatment at a rehab center, but apparently this was the only approved center in the state so the waiting list was over a month to get in. In the mean time he had a prior felony (with deferred judgement / probation) drug charge and was now thrust back onto the streets with the same group of people while still having intense cravings. They wanted him to go live with his grandmother, but of course since he was on probation he couldn't leave the area. The consequence if he was arrested again would be guaranteed prison time and a felony permanently on his record. I think what they did was bordering on criminal, he just wanted help.
Technically a doctor can refuse to serve you for the same reasons that any business can. I think ethically they should follow a model similar to the obligations that attorneys have with their clients. For example, they can't just up and quit in the middle of a trial without good cause or consent to withdraw.
Where on earth do you get the idea that Chicago is dumping turds in the Mississippi river? At their closest point, they are more then 130 miles away from each other on opposite ends of the state. Yes the Chicago river is one of the many tributaries of the Illinois river, which is a confluence of the the Missasippi river, but you should realize that only treated sewage is discharged into the river. Moreover the average discharge of the Des Plaines river is a mere 535 cu ft/s and the treated sewage has to travel over 300 miles before it even reaches the mouth of the Illinois river, which discharges 23,200 cu ft/s of water. The Mississippi discharges water at an average of 593,000 cu ft/s, making the Chicago river at most 0.0009% of the Mississippi river. I'd be willing to bet that only a small insufficient fraction of the treated fecal matter actually makes it all the way to the confluence of the Mississippi river, it's filtered out through natural aquatic ecosystem processes.
My house is less then 50 feet away from the Mississippi (and surrounded by it during flood season), so don't think I don't care about protecting this great waterway. Have you ever held a cup of Mississippi water? Their are so many microorganisms in there that you would never want to drink it, even if you knew their was no human or chemical contaminants, without first treating it.
So, next time you want to bring your soda on the plane, buy a bottle of contact lens liquid, empty it, and refill it with whatever you want.
Unfortunately you most likely could be charged with a felony if you were caught sneaking it past. Their are so many laws on the books these days that people don't even realize they're committing misdemeanors and felonies on a daily basis. Just the other day while driving I had someone deliberately cut me off while merging; had I not slammed on the brakes to protect myself from his recklessness it would have certainly ended in a violent crash. This simple act, which most everyone has done at one time or another, meets all of the elements required to be charged with assault with a deadly weapon, which is a felony in most states.
Don't click the link, you may learn something... http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=095393D5B42B2266
Until the terrorists figure out that you can circumvent it with a small strip of aluminum foil.
"She's planning on college with a major in music."
Way to go on setting the expectations bar so low. From what I've read her only problem is you not pushing her to be the best she can be.
Make her enroll in community college right now! Tell her that she can major in anything she wants, but if she doesn't get at least a bachelor's degree you'll be very disappointed.
If you don't push her, she'll probably end up hating you because you limited her life options to being a stay-at-home mom with a bad husband.
If you think that's bad, try ordering that same thing in aluminum.
If the price of gas keeps going up the tanker trucks will probably be getting hijacked... If they're not already. At $4 a gallon a tanker truck could easily have 30,000 dollars worth of gas in it.
I'd rather have a 6 day work week with 6 hours of work per day for 36 hours a week. Two shifts would be nice too, 7am - 1pm and 1pm - 7pm. I'm not a morning person so I'd take the 2nd shift.
You could also do a 7 day work week with 5 hour per day for 35 hours per week.