I'm not sure I see how government fees hurt the economy. The government seems to spend all of its receipts on goods and services such as the stimulus plan so this would seem to help the economy.
Apparently, you've never:
1) Formed and operated a business
2) Made a payroll for five or more employees
3) Had to deal with IRS or other government bureaucrats.
Unless you can answer "I have" to two or more of these, you are not qualified to make such a statement. You can offer it as an opinion, but try working in the real world and see if you still believe what you have written.
You've exaggerated the protection a bit, but you're correct. In most states, a corporation is a treated as a legal entity that can be sued, fined or sanctioned. The officers of a corporation are protected from suits, unless the plaintiff asks a judge to "pierce the corporate veil". Typically, judges are loathe to do this unless the plaintiff provides a significant amount of evidence that the officers knowingly participated in illegal activities.
Delaware and Nevada are corporation-friendly states and such a suit probably would go nowhere if filed in those states. Other states may have activist judges that think corporate protection is meaningless, and allow litigation on flimsy evidence.
As is often stated here, IANAL, but have formed two corporations and have paid a large portion my lawyer's kid's college tuition doing so.
So, because that's a ridiculous expense for practically everyone, you should just chill out. A morning without your email isn't going to kill you. In fact, it might even be good for you. Take some time out. Go for a walk. Spend a few hours with your wife/kids/friends/dog.
Use Thunderbird [mozilla.com] with GMail [mozillazine.org] and configure it so that every time there's a new message it is synced to your local hard drive but also left on the server (IMAP probably though I think the same can be done with POP).
Stole my thunder you did. Great minds do think alike.I have a similar arrangement, and I use the POP/SMTP settings rather than IMAP. Gmail is my email aggregator, mostly because it's so damn convenient.
I've never lost sight of the fact that it's a free service, and I can't depend on it for mission critical needs. But as free services go, it's definitely the best out there.
When cleaning is needed, I just clear out the Gmail inbox in one swoop, knowing that my HD has everything on it. I occasionally use Gmail as an offsite backup for files, or as a way to transfer files between machines. In many wasy, Gmail is something of a Swiss army knife.
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The tube amps may have held a charm for some but I'm not in that camp. I always preferred "solid state" electronics. Ran cooler and quieter. But I know many believe tubes created a warmer more real sound.
The 8 track is exactly why iPods and the like are so much better when it comes to playing what you want to hear. Aside from the sonic qualities of digital, the endless tape loop of the 8 track sucked, but at that time, your choice was that or AM radio. How far we've come.
During the late 70s and half of the 80s I was a club and mobile DJ. Aside from earning a nice part time living, I developed a hell of a strong back. The one thing I would have traded my right nut and half my left one for was to do away with moving 500 lbs of records to gigs. I can't tell you how many flights of stairs I had to drag those suckers up, in function halls that didn't have an elevator!
At that time I couldn't have imagined 10,000 songs would one day be capable of being carried in your back pocket. I'm glad it's happened. As one guy pointed out the iPod can be thought of as a storage device and indeed, that's the greatest strength of these little devices. My original comment was that when it comes to sound reproduction, MP3 players or phones in general are no better than what was here 30+ years ago.
You know most phones have headphone sockets that can be connected to the line on on your nice multi-speaker setup, right?
Of course I do know that, I have one on my car system.
I suppose one could carry a bunch of memory cards with all of the music one owns and have it all available wherever they go. But, does how does that compares to satellite service, with its dozens of formats, traffic reports, sports and other offerings?
I had satellite radio (until XM effed me), and it made long trips a whole lot more enjoyable. My point was that the iPhone and other small devices natively suck when it comes to music reproduction - especially when that music is compressed to 128Kb. As a storage medium, they're a wonder, but they'll never be a replacement for a quality sound system or a service that offers such a wide array of choices as satellite.
Besides, with a sound system, you can share the music instead of being an earbud zombie.
What percentage of radio listeners even have an iPhone, or any portable device capable of radio reception at non-extortionate rates? Too small to even matter.
Satellite radio has its own problems but the iPhone isn't one of them.
Let me add - am I the only one who thinks that listening to music on a smartphone is ludicrous? I have a nice multi-speaker setup in my vehicle, and the sound quality is excellent. I've seen and heard the iPhone and it doesn't even come remotely close to the sound quality of even a cheap in-car system. Wear the earbuds you say? Can't do that when you're driving in many states.
I've waited for digital music reproduction all my life (I'm over 50) and it's here. The last thing I'd want to listen to it on is the 21st century equivalent of the 6 transistor radio.
Simply invent a machine the size and shape of a jet-aircraft which zooms around airports emitting loud jet turbine noises, and sucks in and shreds any bird not conditioned to keep well away from such stimuli. Rinse and repeat.
If I had mod points today, you'd have got 'em all.
Anyway, the license is not a problem - nobody (except maybe a senior lawyer in contract law) really understands the legalese.
Oh c'mon, the senior lawyer doesn't understand it. The young wannabe lawyer fresh out of the Matchbook School of Law wrote the thing, hoping to be a senior lawyer someday.
Some years ago, me and a few friends stayed in Park City to ski and the "private club" thing didn't stand in the way of us getting all out drunk. Even got laid. Yes, with a woman and no she wasn't a Mormon.
(Honestly, I can't understand how you guys in the promised land of TV can be so far behind in this matter. What the hell is taking you so long?)
Let's see - Finland's population = 5,244,749 (July 2008 est.)USA = 303,824,640 (July 2008 est.). Estimates courtesy of the CIA Factbook.
If my home state of Massachusetts mandated such a switch, with a population only slightly less than Finland's, I think it would have happened, ya think?
I can't speak to the technology involved in making LEDs dim; others here have done so quite well. I will note that LEDs have become very popular with the 100,000-lights-on-my-house Christmas decorators, mostly because of the tiny amount of current they draw. Instead of running up a $2,000US electric bill in December, a decorator who replaces his old incandescent lights with LEDs will see an increase of less than $50 - $100, depending on how many thousands he's using.
The major drawback that decorators have discovered is that LEDs won't last very long when used on computer controlled dimmers and flashing systems. Some have reported the LEDs are dead after just a few hours of being attached to a controller.
Employers would like to know roughly how old their potential new employees will be,
Except under US law, it's illegal to ask an applicant's age. Now I know age can be figured from other sources - dates of school and college graduation, etc. - but I also know the anti-discrimination laws are totally being flaunted by online job sites. Many larger organizations have their own online applications and they claim to be administered by a third party, who will ask the birthdate for the purpose of conducting a background check.
I've been thinking about one of these, but am a little worried that I'll end up getting shot or something when I piss off some idiot with a gun in the glovebox.
Don't worry, I won't shoot you. My permit is for hunting only.
They offer a five year warranty, so I'll trust them as long as that remains in place. Sure, I hate to have a drive fail as much as anyone, but a good backup makes things a lot less stressful. Knowing that the manufacturer is willing to bet on their quality for five years is good.
Do you mean a niche item such as an 3 pin XLR male or female connector? Or a real niche product - and XLR gender changer.
I needed one quickly and when I asked a Shack kid for one of those a few years, I got the biggest deer in the headlights look I'd ever seen on a retail clerk.
My paranoia has led me into a practice of doing my banking by going to the bank.
You insensitive clod. How do you get there - in your gasoline powered, carbon-emitting, smog-making car? A real/.er would stay in his basement and do his banking on the internet and not risk having to interact with other humans.......
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Well said. I just didn't the have energy to 'splain it all to some kid who's been taught to think that the word "corporation" is a synonym of "evil".
Corporation != evil. It's a tax tool, damn good one too.
I'm not sure I see how government fees hurt the economy. The government seems to spend all of its receipts on goods and services such as the stimulus plan so this would seem to help the economy.
Apparently, you've never:
1) Formed and operated a business
2) Made a payroll for five or more employees
3) Had to deal with IRS or other government bureaucrats.
Unless you can answer "I have" to two or more of these, you are not qualified to make such a statement. You can offer it as an opinion, but try working in the real world and see if you still believe what you have written.
You've exaggerated the protection a bit, but you're correct. In most states, a corporation is a treated as a legal entity that can be sued, fined or sanctioned. The officers of a corporation are protected from suits, unless the plaintiff asks a judge to "pierce the corporate veil". Typically, judges are loathe to do this unless the plaintiff provides a significant amount of evidence that the officers knowingly participated in illegal activities.
Delaware and Nevada are corporation-friendly states and such a suit probably would go nowhere if filed in those states. Other states may have activist judges that think corporate protection is meaningless, and allow litigation on flimsy evidence.
As is often stated here, IANAL, but have formed two corporations and have paid a large portion my lawyer's kid's college tuition doing so.
So, because that's a ridiculous expense for practically everyone, you should just chill out. A morning without your email isn't going to kill you. In fact, it might even be good for you. Take some time out. Go for a walk. Spend a few hours with your wife/kids/friends/dog.
You must be new here or else an insensitive clod.
My gawd, two /. cliches in one sentence!!
Use Thunderbird [mozilla.com] with GMail [mozillazine.org] and configure it so that every time there's a new message it is synced to your local hard drive but also left on the server (IMAP probably though I think the same can be done with POP).
Stole my thunder you did. Great minds do think alike.I have a similar arrangement, and I use the POP/SMTP settings rather than IMAP. Gmail is my email aggregator, mostly because it's so damn convenient.
I've never lost sight of the fact that it's a free service, and I can't depend on it for mission critical needs. But as free services go, it's definitely the best out there.
When cleaning is needed, I just clear out the Gmail inbox in one swoop, knowing that my HD has everything on it. I occasionally use Gmail as an offsite backup for files, or as a way to transfer files between machines. In many wasy, Gmail is something of a Swiss army knife.
What would Harry Caul do about social networking sites?
The 8 track is exactly why iPods and the like are so much better when it comes to playing what you want to hear. Aside from the sonic qualities of digital, the endless tape loop of the 8 track sucked, but at that time, your choice was that or AM radio. How far we've come.
During the late 70s and half of the 80s I was a club and mobile DJ. Aside from earning a nice part time living, I developed a hell of a strong back. The one thing I would have traded my right nut and half my left one for was to do away with moving 500 lbs of records to gigs. I can't tell you how many flights of stairs I had to drag those suckers up, in function halls that didn't have an elevator!
At that time I couldn't have imagined 10,000 songs would one day be capable of being carried in your back pocket. I'm glad it's happened. As one guy pointed out the iPod can be thought of as a storage device and indeed, that's the greatest strength of these little devices. My original comment was that when it comes to sound reproduction, MP3 players or phones in general are no better than what was here 30+ years ago.
You know most phones have headphone sockets that can be connected to the line on on your nice multi-speaker setup, right?
Of course I do know that, I have one on my car system.
I suppose one could carry a bunch of memory cards with all of the music one owns and have it all available wherever they go. But, does how does that compares to satellite service, with its dozens of formats, traffic reports, sports and other offerings?
I had satellite radio (until XM effed me), and it made long trips a whole lot more enjoyable. My point was that the iPhone and other small devices natively suck when it comes to music reproduction - especially when that music is compressed to 128Kb. As a storage medium, they're a wonder, but they'll never be a replacement for a quality sound system or a service that offers such a wide array of choices as satellite.
Besides, with a sound system, you can share the music instead of being an earbud zombie.
What percentage of radio listeners even have an iPhone, or any portable device capable of radio reception at non-extortionate rates? Too small to even matter.
Satellite radio has its own problems but the iPhone isn't one of them.
Let me add - am I the only one who thinks that listening to music on a smartphone is ludicrous? I have a nice multi-speaker setup in my vehicle, and the sound quality is excellent. I've seen and heard the iPhone and it doesn't even come remotely close to the sound quality of even a cheap in-car system. Wear the earbuds you say? Can't do that when you're driving in many states.
I've waited for digital music reproduction all my life (I'm over 50) and it's here. The last thing I'd want to listen to it on is the 21st century equivalent of the 6 transistor radio.
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Wouldn't be an issue, if they would just control their damn geese.
Here's how to control the damn birds
Simply invent a machine the size and shape of a jet-aircraft which zooms around airports emitting loud jet turbine noises, and sucks in and shreds any bird not conditioned to keep well away from such stimuli. Rinse and repeat.
If I had mod points today, you'd have got 'em all.
Anyway, the license is not a problem - nobody (except maybe a senior lawyer in contract law) really understands the legalese.
Oh c'mon, the senior lawyer doesn't understand it. The young wannabe lawyer fresh out of the Matchbook School of Law wrote the thing, hoping to be a senior lawyer someday.
Some years ago, me and a few friends stayed in Park City to ski and the "private club" thing didn't stand in the way of us getting all out drunk. Even got laid. Yes, with a woman and no she wasn't a Mormon.
Hey, the undead have voting rights too! Although I think Chicago is the only place they are allowed to vote. Good old Illinois.
Nope, Massachusetts allows them too. Here, we call the "judges" and their lair is the Supreme Judicial Court.
(Honestly, I can't understand how you guys in the promised land of TV can be so far behind in this matter. What the hell is taking you so long?)
Let's see - Finland's population = 5,244,749 (July 2008 est.)USA = 303,824,640 (July 2008 est.). Estimates courtesy of the CIA Factbook.
If my home state of Massachusetts mandated such a switch, with a population only slightly less than Finland's, I think it would have happened, ya think?
The major drawback that decorators have discovered is that LEDs won't last very long when used on computer controlled dimmers and flashing systems. Some have reported the LEDs are dead after just a few hours of being attached to a controller.
Any one here have any thoughts on this?
And yes, Virginia, there really is a website devoted to the Christmas geeks: http://www.planetchristmas.com/
Employers would like to know roughly how old their potential new employees will be,
Except under US law, it's illegal to ask an applicant's age. Now I know age can be figured from other sources - dates of school and college graduation, etc. - but I also know the anti-discrimination laws are totally being flaunted by online job sites. Many larger organizations have their own online applications and they claim to be administered by a third party, who will ask the birthdate for the purpose of conducting a background check.
They are breaking the law plain and simple.
I've been thinking about one of these, but am a little worried that I'll end up getting shot or something when I piss off some idiot with a gun in the glovebox.
Don't worry, I won't shoot you. My permit is for hunting only.
One question - will this get me laid?
They offer a five year warranty, so I'll trust them as long as that remains in place.
Sure, I hate to have a drive fail as much as anyone, but a good backup makes things a lot less stressful. Knowing that the manufacturer is willing to bet on their quality for five years is good.
Do you mean a niche item such as an 3 pin XLR male or female connector? Or a real niche product - and XLR gender changer. I needed one quickly and when I asked a Shack kid for one of those a few years, I got the biggest deer in the headlights look I'd ever seen on a retail clerk.
My paranoia has led me into a practice of doing my banking by going to the bank.
You insensitive clod. How do you get there - in your gasoline powered, carbon-emitting, smog-making car? /.er would stay in his basement and do his banking on the internet and not risk having to interact with other humans.......
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