In PA fracking is tax free. This means the water will be poisoned forever and there will be no money to clean it up. This will be very unfortunate for the next generation who doesn't care that their parents got paid a little bit for their enormous problem
The article says $40 per ticket so that's 198 tickets per day. This is a problem with traffic court in general. Rarely is evidence ever presented against the accused. It's just the work of an officer vs. the driver and the officer's word is the only one that matters. Perhaps traffic court is petty compared to more serious crimes but when the government treats its people such that only they matter and whatever an officer says might be true, it's sets a dangerous mindset for a country.
I had an experience very similar to his. I was given a speeding ticket while taking someone to the hospital. The doctors told me serious damage had occurred to the patients lungs because I was unable to get her there sooner. I didn't have a phone to call an ambulance where I lived so I felt I had a good defense of necessity and decided to contest the ticket. A couple months later I was in an accident caused by another vehicle. I was charged with driving with a suspended license. It turns out the officer had written my address wrong. A lawyer was able to get all the related documents which showed I had filled out the correct address but the officer did not and they sent the summons for speeding, notice of default judgement, notice of suspended license etc. to the wrong address. The lawyer told me I could file a motion to reopen the case for speeding and that I should pretty easily be able to get the driving with a suspended license charge dismissed. I presented the documents to judge that the lawyer had given me and the judge looked at me, paused and told me I had a weak defense and found me guilty. I sent in my money for appeal which the state deposited and claimed they never received and so I did not get an appeal. After that I didn't think it was worth bothering to fill out the forms to reopen judgement on the speeding ticket
I had unexpected charges on my phone bill because a company claimed I asked them to text me my fortune for a fee. I never asked to be sent any text messages so I disputed the charge. Verizon told me this was the same situation as when you call a 900 number and that there's nothing you can do about it. In their words "anyone can charge money to your phone bill and you're obligated to pay it." If they can't remove fees like this the only reason can be that they've already paid them out to the party billing your account. In this case I don't see the delay in paying the money to mgive. Besides, this is how your credit card works and you use your phone and then pay the money you owe much like a credit card.
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Actually, it's been around since OS 7.0. OS 9 had voiceprint as password but that seemed to phased out with OS X.
So I spent $60 on a Blue Ray player, $1150 on a projector without HDMI inputs and now I have to buy a $250 converter. At least I can find pirated Blue Ray disks that will still let me use the equipment I purchased and had intended to use legally.
I work for a labor union in the US and what you describe is the same as what we have here. I think one big benefit of unions that is often overlooked is grievances. Before I was a unionized worker I often had to deal with my boss blaming his mistakes on me and taking credit for my ideas. This kept me from getting raises and promotions as it marred my permanent record. Had I been unionized I would have been able to file a grievance and an investigation would have taken place to determine whether my story or my boss's was true. I haven't had such problems with my current job but I feel much better knowing I'm protected should anything arise. Working for the union, we encounter a lot of problems like this though. For example, we have an employee here on a visa getting paid for one month but being told he better show up for 4 months. If he does not, his family who is also here on visa could be fired and be sent back to their home country. Without a union he'd be powerless to fight this. I think part of the problem creating with the antiunion sentiment in the US is that the relatively few instances when unions are awarded to much are highly publicized while the instances when unions were able to improve conditions bordering on slavery for workers are not. Another part of the problem is that non-unionized workers tend to respond to to hearing what unionized workers get with thoughts such as "That's not fair. Look at how much worse what I'm getting is and look at what they've demanded" instead of "That's not fair, we should unionize and get the same benefits."
Does anyone know if the collection of samples would have been redundant with those collected by NASA's stardust? I have been having trouble understanding the what else Hayabusa was to add but perhaps it's main job was to test new technology.
The claim was normal vision. Nearsightedness, though common, is by definition not normal vision. If you are going to start a sentence with "Some people can..." then you can't make a claim that the statement for normal vision is false.
I also think the cited expert looks for needless fights. At the end of the article he also starts one over the Quattron display. His claim is that since yellow is created using the RGB pixels the fourth color makes no difference. As was evident in the slashdot discussion on the same subject way back, at the very least we can say the issue is way more complicated than that. In fact, every artist I ask has quite a bit to say about CMYK vs RGB and the addition of Y to RGB. I think the reason he nitpicked the iphone 4 instead of the quattron (aside from that last paragraph) is that you can get much more people interested if you're nitpicking apple instead of sharp.
Are you sure about this? At every company I've worked for they told us never to reveal a competitors secrets if we ever obtained them. My current employer described, for example, a scenario in which someone offered to sell a competitors designs and told us we should contact the FBI if this happened. They also cited a famous case where someone tried to sell coke's formula to pepsi and explained that pepsi could not legally purchase it and so they contacted the FBI. All of my employers have reminded me of this fact at least yearly. I would assume it would also be illegal to publish apple's trade secrets
But what I find interesting is that the article seems to imply that the effects of ketamine are similar in different individuals: tunnels of light, the presence of god, etc. If that chemical has these specific hallucinations as effects, perhaps there are other factors that cause the negative NDEs such as different chemicals or different neural activity or different brain architectures
I'm also curious about people who see hell which none of the articles mention. I've read accounts of people feeling that they move to hell when they die and experience either eternal loneliness or demons eating them, etc. Apparently a small minority of NDEs are negative. None of the articles linked mention negative NDEs. I wonder if hell may be the effect ketamine has on some people just like some drugs have different effects on different minds. Or perhaps a different chemical is produced entirely maybe hell is part of the trauma that occurs if ketamine is not released. I've noticed an apparent similarity between waking and NDE. In both circumstances a small amount of time can seem feel very long. It would be very interesting to learn how a defensive chemical interacts with the activity in the brain that occurs as one is dying and comparing to other psychological phenomena
I graduated from Haverford in 2005. It's a fairly prestigious small liberal arts college outside of Philadelphia (it was ranked 4th when I got in in 2001 but much of its endowment in 9/11 and is now ranked 8th by us news). It's a very liberal college with a quaker history though I believe it no longer has an official religious affiliation. The college is strong in the sciences which is the reason I went there. My faculty advisor, Gerry Gollub, for example, is recognized as a leader in the field of fluid dynamics. It takes pride in its campus and arboretum and I've heard many people with no affiliation with the college say it has the most beautiful campus in the US. Most students take about a quarter of their courses at Bryn Mawr college which is a similar but all girls college. Most events are shared between the colleges and there's considered to be little difference between a Haverford student and a Bryn Mawr student in terms of what they have permission to do. There is also a lesser relationship with Swarthmore college and the University of Pennsylvania. The college also is very proud of its honor code. Students, for example, may take tests home and are trusted not to open their text books while taking them. I would guess the college's pride in their honesty and trustworthiness was a major motivation in their decision to return the letter.
IANAL but to me the contract seems unconscionable. Once signed up, Verzion is able to decide any amount of money the consumer owes them whether as a monthly fee or termination. I don't understand why such a contract would be legal.
I think it's that if the target ship is running away and the pirate ship is behind it, it will be very hard to fire the net in front them but if a pirate ship is seen approaching, it will be easy to fire a net in front of them.
In my experience the "ignorance of the law is no excuse" standpoint holds up whether or not you have a good excuse for your ignorance. The police once copied down my address incorrectly on a ticket (they ignored my correct address on the copy of the ticket I mailed in) causing a summons to court, a notice of default judgement against me, a notice that my ticket was unpaid and a notice that my license had been suspended to be sent to the wrong address. I was later charged with driving with a suspended license after an accident a few months later. I discovered what had happened after some digging at the bureau of public records. I explained what had happened to the judge and he told me the ignorance of the law is ones own fault period. The fact that the state had tried to contact me was sufficient on their part. It is always your responsibility to become informed of the law regardless of any difficulties you have.
They'll never find the higgs boson. Once we couldn't explain light so we invented the ether. We described how light particles interacted with the ether and based all of physics around it. We justified it by saying all other physics has some analogy to the ether. Now we can't explain matter so we invent a higgs field. We describe how matter particles interact with the higgs field and justify it by saying all other physics has some analogy to the higgs boson.
Another point that I think is invalid is the idea that string theory is able to make room to explain any result and therefore not testable. This can be said of any theory. Consider the standard model and all the articles posted on slashdot of observed particles that were not predicted. Do people think the standard model won't find room to accommodate them? People are harder on string theory than the standard model because it is so full of alien ideas. Can you imagine if string theory required, yet forbid the graviton like the standard model does? Sure there are theories of quantum gravity but they include axioms no less radicle than those in string theory.
There seems to be a problem that disorderly conduct is a crime. It seems that any time someone doesn't like what you are doing, they can just have you charged with disorderly conduct. This is just a law to allow the police to throw you in jail if they feel like it. The problem is in this case, whether the article has completely described what happened or not, this is considered something you can be charged for disorderly conduct for and her refusal to stop texting is what the charge is for. This is just a way for people to be put in jail if someone doesn't like what he or she is doing.
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I'm on connected through comcast in philadelphia, PA. Works fine now.
In PA fracking is tax free. This means the water will be poisoned forever and there will be no money to clean it up. This will be very unfortunate for the next generation who doesn't care that their parents got paid a little bit for their enormous problem
Question mark? How does not believing you imply I'm both a mac user and gullible?
No. You made that up. It's not in the article. It's your perception.
The article says $40 per ticket so that's 198 tickets per day. This is a problem with traffic court in general. Rarely is evidence ever presented against the accused. It's just the work of an officer vs. the driver and the officer's word is the only one that matters. Perhaps traffic court is petty compared to more serious crimes but when the government treats its people such that only they matter and whatever an officer says might be true, it's sets a dangerous mindset for a country.
Here's another link. It was booed and it appears the news people hate it http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id=8085002
Here's a video http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/blogs/philthy-stuff/PhillieBot_Throws_First_Pitch_Philadelphia-120319864.html
I had an experience very similar to his. I was given a speeding ticket while taking someone to the hospital. The doctors told me serious damage had occurred to the patients lungs because I was unable to get her there sooner. I didn't have a phone to call an ambulance where I lived so I felt I had a good defense of necessity and decided to contest the ticket. A couple months later I was in an accident caused by another vehicle. I was charged with driving with a suspended license. It turns out the officer had written my address wrong. A lawyer was able to get all the related documents which showed I had filled out the correct address but the officer did not and they sent the summons for speeding, notice of default judgement, notice of suspended license etc. to the wrong address. The lawyer told me I could file a motion to reopen the case for speeding and that I should pretty easily be able to get the driving with a suspended license charge dismissed. I presented the documents to judge that the lawyer had given me and the judge looked at me, paused and told me I had a weak defense and found me guilty. I sent in my money for appeal which the state deposited and claimed they never received and so I did not get an appeal. After that I didn't think it was worth bothering to fill out the forms to reopen judgement on the speeding ticket
I had unexpected charges on my phone bill because a company claimed I asked them to text me my fortune for a fee. I never asked to be sent any text messages so I disputed the charge. Verizon told me this was the same situation as when you call a 900 number and that there's nothing you can do about it. In their words "anyone can charge money to your phone bill and you're obligated to pay it." If they can't remove fees like this the only reason can be that they've already paid them out to the party billing your account. In this case I don't see the delay in paying the money to mgive. Besides, this is how your credit card works and you use your phone and then pay the money you owe much like a credit card.
Actually, it's been around since OS 7.0. OS 9 had voiceprint as password but that seemed to phased out with OS X.
So I spent $60 on a Blue Ray player, $1150 on a projector without HDMI inputs and now I have to buy a $250 converter. At least I can find pirated Blue Ray disks that will still let me use the equipment I purchased and had intended to use legally.
I work for a labor union in the US and what you describe is the same as what we have here. I think one big benefit of unions that is often overlooked is grievances. Before I was a unionized worker I often had to deal with my boss blaming his mistakes on me and taking credit for my ideas. This kept me from getting raises and promotions as it marred my permanent record. Had I been unionized I would have been able to file a grievance and an investigation would have taken place to determine whether my story or my boss's was true. I haven't had such problems with my current job but I feel much better knowing I'm protected should anything arise. Working for the union, we encounter a lot of problems like this though. For example, we have an employee here on a visa getting paid for one month but being told he better show up for 4 months. If he does not, his family who is also here on visa could be fired and be sent back to their home country. Without a union he'd be powerless to fight this. I think part of the problem creating with the antiunion sentiment in the US is that the relatively few instances when unions are awarded to much are highly publicized while the instances when unions were able to improve conditions bordering on slavery for workers are not. Another part of the problem is that non-unionized workers tend to respond to to hearing what unionized workers get with thoughts such as "That's not fair. Look at how much worse what I'm getting is and look at what they've demanded" instead of "That's not fair, we should unionize and get the same benefits."
Does anyone know if the collection of samples would have been redundant with those collected by NASA's stardust? I have been having trouble understanding the what else Hayabusa was to add but perhaps it's main job was to test new technology.
The claim was normal vision. Nearsightedness, though common, is by definition not normal vision. If you are going to start a sentence with "Some people can..." then you can't make a claim that the statement for normal vision is false.
I also think the cited expert looks for needless fights. At the end of the article he also starts one over the Quattron display. His claim is that since yellow is created using the RGB pixels the fourth color makes no difference. As was evident in the slashdot discussion on the same subject way back, at the very least we can say the issue is way more complicated than that. In fact, every artist I ask has quite a bit to say about CMYK vs RGB and the addition of Y to RGB. I think the reason he nitpicked the iphone 4 instead of the quattron (aside from that last paragraph) is that you can get much more people interested if you're nitpicking apple instead of sharp.
Are you sure about this? At every company I've worked for they told us never to reveal a competitors secrets if we ever obtained them. My current employer described, for example, a scenario in which someone offered to sell a competitors designs and told us we should contact the FBI if this happened. They also cited a famous case where someone tried to sell coke's formula to pepsi and explained that pepsi could not legally purchase it and so they contacted the FBI. All of my employers have reminded me of this fact at least yearly. I would assume it would also be illegal to publish apple's trade secrets
But what I find interesting is that the article seems to imply that the effects of ketamine are similar in different individuals: tunnels of light, the presence of god, etc. If that chemical has these specific hallucinations as effects, perhaps there are other factors that cause the negative NDEs such as different chemicals or different neural activity or different brain architectures
I'm also curious about people who see hell which none of the articles mention. I've read accounts of people feeling that they move to hell when they die and experience either eternal loneliness or demons eating them, etc. Apparently a small minority of NDEs are negative. None of the articles linked mention negative NDEs. I wonder if hell may be the effect ketamine has on some people just like some drugs have different effects on different minds. Or perhaps a different chemical is produced entirely maybe hell is part of the trauma that occurs if ketamine is not released. I've noticed an apparent similarity between waking and NDE. In both circumstances a small amount of time can seem feel very long. It would be very interesting to learn how a defensive chemical interacts with the activity in the brain that occurs as one is dying and comparing to other psychological phenomena
I graduated from Haverford in 2005. It's a fairly prestigious small liberal arts college outside of Philadelphia (it was ranked 4th when I got in in 2001 but much of its endowment in 9/11 and is now ranked 8th by us news). It's a very liberal college with a quaker history though I believe it no longer has an official religious affiliation. The college is strong in the sciences which is the reason I went there. My faculty advisor, Gerry Gollub, for example, is recognized as a leader in the field of fluid dynamics. It takes pride in its campus and arboretum and I've heard many people with no affiliation with the college say it has the most beautiful campus in the US. Most students take about a quarter of their courses at Bryn Mawr college which is a similar but all girls college. Most events are shared between the colleges and there's considered to be little difference between a Haverford student and a Bryn Mawr student in terms of what they have permission to do. There is also a lesser relationship with Swarthmore college and the University of Pennsylvania. The college also is very proud of its honor code. Students, for example, may take tests home and are trusted not to open their text books while taking them. I would guess the college's pride in their honesty and trustworthiness was a major motivation in their decision to return the letter.
IANAL but to me the contract seems unconscionable. Once signed up, Verzion is able to decide any amount of money the consumer owes them whether as a monthly fee or termination. I don't understand why such a contract would be legal.
I think it's that if the target ship is running away and the pirate ship is behind it, it will be very hard to fire the net in front them but if a pirate ship is seen approaching, it will be easy to fire a net in front of them.
In my experience the "ignorance of the law is no excuse" standpoint holds up whether or not you have a good excuse for your ignorance. The police once copied down my address incorrectly on a ticket (they ignored my correct address on the copy of the ticket I mailed in) causing a summons to court, a notice of default judgement against me, a notice that my ticket was unpaid and a notice that my license had been suspended to be sent to the wrong address. I was later charged with driving with a suspended license after an accident a few months later. I discovered what had happened after some digging at the bureau of public records. I explained what had happened to the judge and he told me the ignorance of the law is ones own fault period. The fact that the state had tried to contact me was sufficient on their part. It is always your responsibility to become informed of the law regardless of any difficulties you have.
They'll never find the higgs boson. Once we couldn't explain light so we invented the ether. We described how light particles interacted with the ether and based all of physics around it. We justified it by saying all other physics has some analogy to the ether. Now we can't explain matter so we invent a higgs field. We describe how matter particles interact with the higgs field and justify it by saying all other physics has some analogy to the higgs boson.
Another point that I think is invalid is the idea that string theory is able to make room to explain any result and therefore not testable. This can be said of any theory. Consider the standard model and all the articles posted on slashdot of observed particles that were not predicted. Do people think the standard model won't find room to accommodate them? People are harder on string theory than the standard model because it is so full of alien ideas. Can you imagine if string theory required, yet forbid the graviton like the standard model does? Sure there are theories of quantum gravity but they include axioms no less radicle than those in string theory.
There seems to be a problem that disorderly conduct is a crime. It seems that any time someone doesn't like what you are doing, they can just have you charged with disorderly conduct. This is just a law to allow the police to throw you in jail if they feel like it. The problem is in this case, whether the article has completely described what happened or not, this is considered something you can be charged for disorderly conduct for and her refusal to stop texting is what the charge is for. This is just a way for people to be put in jail if someone doesn't like what he or she is doing.