Felons are not allowed to vote in this country. Involuntary manslaughter is a felony. You can be convicted of involuntary manslaughter if someone runs into the street 2 feet in front of your car, while you're driving along at a little under the speed limit, and dies because there was no way in hell you had time to react to that and avoid hitting them. Were you doing anything wrong? No. Were you disregarding the rights or property of the moron who ran out in front of you? No. Why should you lose any right to anything, then? But that's the reality, here; and until that reality changes and we quit applying "revocation or restriction of rights" to people who've really and truly done nothing wrong, we need to be extremely conservative in which rights we revoke or restrict.
There is no "-1, Disagree", but clearly there's a moderator who thinks there ought to be. 4 grams of Hg embedded in my jaw hasn't caused any health problems for me in two decades, a fleeting exposure to 1mg of mercury vapor disbursed throughout an entire room or building isn't going to do any damage, either.
Grow up, people, and realize that mercury isn't some evil man-made concoction that's out to kill everyone and everything, and that the danger of breaking a CFL in your home is that you might cut yourself cleaning it up. The ones you don't break? Recycle them. But, if you can't, don't worry about it, just don't toss them where they're likely to end up in a body of water; the mercury will naturally evaporate out of them when they break at the landfill, just as it naturally evaporates from the naturally occurring mercury deposits we harvest it from, only it'll have much less of an impact while sequestered in the bulb.
I'd like to see some studies into this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the net effect of CFLs and other mercury bulbs is an overall reduction in the amount of mercury entering the atmosphere.
As long as the poor are fed and looked after, they have no reason to band together and remind the right what "power in numbers" means. Keep taking from them, to the point that they are neither fed nor looked after, and see how long that lasts. Public services are just that, public; and for good reason, don't you forget.
The app also links to one or more credit cards, to refill the Starbucks cards. Seems to me that, if I had your password, I could add my own Starbucks card to your app, transfer all your card balances to it, load it up from your credit card(s), and remove it from your app. And hey, wouldja lookit that? I just emptied out your checking account because one of those credit cards was actually a Visa check card. Oh damn.
I use the Starbucks app, but will remove it from my phone now, until this issue has been provably fixed (and not just a "we've fixed it" from the marketing monkeys who caused it to begin with).
Before you have grounds for a suit based on liability, you have to show harm that wasn’t already reimbursed by anyone who you might seek to hold liable.
Typically, you'd acquire a coffee shop's grounds from their refuse receptacle, but, as Starbucks is known to recycle their grounds, that might make holding them liable for anything slightly more difficult.
Considering the rate at which it will exit your home (even a completely weather-sealed house will exchange air with the outside world when the doors are opened for entry), that's not really a concern, now, is it? I've had more mercury in my mouth (8 silver-amalgam fillings, 500mg each, 50% mercury) since I was a teenager.
Right, so my point that there's no real danger stands, then. Even if you don't clean up the broken CFL and air out the room, the only real danger from a single broken CFL is the glass; hell, that's really the only danger from a case of them. Just one of the silver-amalgam fillings I've had in my mouth since childhood contains more mercury than a case of CFLs. Oh, and that mercury thermometer I dropped and broke when I was 6. I should probably be dead now, if CFLs are as dangerous as everyone's freaking out about.
So we're synthesizing mercury, now? Or did that mercury come out of the ground to begin with? And does the mercury, which is liquid, not gaseous, at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure, not condense once removed from the vacuum of the CFL tube?
I was paying $208/mo, now I'm paying $830/mo, so yes, what I'm paying (more than) quadrupled, and the cost per person (more than) doubled. *MY* (as in for me, alone) premiums doubled, and since I'm covering two people now (since they can no longer deny my wife coverage), my costs quadrupled. You simple suck at comprehending.
Then you had damned well be using a credit card. If you're using cash and not getting the benefits provided by most major credit cards, you're the one getting screwed, not me.
Yes, Obamacare is saving Americans sooooooooo much money that my insurance premiums *ONLY* doubled, while my copay went from $0 to $20-150 (depending on what's being done). At least my out-of-pocket limit didn't change. To add to that, my employer is no longer allowed to reimburse a portion of my health care costs as a benefit; that money now has to be added to my salary, which means the paltry $200/mo I was getting has been reduced to something closer to $160, while costing my employer something closer to $240. As someone of at-least average intelligence, I actually am outraged by this.
The only upshot is that they weren't able to deny my wife coverage this time around; so, really, my premiums quadrupled, since I'm also paying for her now.
No, but you're responsible if you know there are people looking for knives to go on stabbing sprees in your area and you leave one on in plain view on your front porch like Target did.
Save for your earlier flawed analogy... I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I don't think our views are too far in disagreement to be reconciled; we just have different means of expressing them.
So, where to start lobbying for these new laws? I actually think we'd see changes in our own lifetimes, rather than your 100-year timeline.
Oh christ... I totally acknowledged that the 3rd paragraph of GP was sarcasm, then proceeded to attack it anyway. I think I need to go back to sleep...
Not sure what homeland security and terrorism has to do with this, and your analogy doesn't even fit; rather than considering the ratio of good-guys to victims (as in the post you're replying to), you're considering the ratio of good-guys to bad-guys, which is a fallacy, at best, even if only because it's hard to call homeland security "good-guys". But, you did manage to follow up with a good bit of sarcasm, so, there's that.
Have you not been following along? the guilty are rarely punished; just in these comments, alone, I can identify more than a handful of "I handed them the perp and they refused to prosecute" stories. If they don't bother with the ones that get handed to them, what makes you think they go after the ones they have to work for?
Totally agree with that last bit about the lawyers, though.
Unless there are more people fighting fraud than there are victims of it, cutting fraud by 50% would mean the number of people now *not* hurt by fraud outweighs the number of people hurt be reduced fraud. Unless you're also counting perpetrators of fraud as parties hurt by the reduction of fraud. Reducing the occurrence of literally anything hurts someone, somewhere, in some way; it's a balancing act to determine the level at which the benefit, overall, is maximized in relation to the damage done elsewhere. Stamping out fraud altogether would get more people using the cards in more places, for more transactions; the fraud investigators would simply find new roles, fraud victims would no longer exist, and the only ones "hurt" by this would be the fraudsters, who, in reality, would simply move on to some other scam; likely one where the victim has an opportunity to stop the fraud before it happens.
You're missing the point. When a bad manager is busy being a bad manager, they're in your way, preventing you from getting your work done, dumping their own work in your lap, and generally not protecting your time and productivity like the company is paying them to do. When a good manager is busy being a good manger, on the other hand, they're leaving you alone so you can get your work done and working constantly to protect your time and productivity, guiding your work via email or posted memo unless something critically urgent comes up or you come to them looking for more work because you've completed what they've already given you.
You generally tend not to notice someone who stays out of your way nearly as much as you notice the asshole who keeps you from doing your job because you're too busy doing his. A manager who generally goes unnoticed by his (or her) employees is a good manager; a manager who's always in your face and distracting you from the work you are actually supposed to be doing is a bad manager.
Sadly lacking pressure sensitivity and eraser, but... This is awesome; pinpoint accuracy and great visibility of what you're actually doing. The double-ended model is a hell of a nice-writing pen, as well.
And from your posting history it's clear that your position is "the opposite of whatever the other guy says". If I suddenly stood up and proclaimed that I'm a horrible, racist scumbag, you'd turn face and say there was nothing wrong with a little off-color humor every now and then. Bravo.
I think all day for a living, thank you very much. Maybe off-color humor isn't your cup of tea, and that's just fine, you're welcome to walk away from it if you don't like it. Nobody is forcing you to stick around and hear it. Seriously.
Haha, I love how people jump right to shit being racist. I never said I had lots of black, mexican, or chinese friends, just that I do have friends of those races. I also never said it was "okay" for me to tell jokes relating to my own ethnicity (but why wouldn't it be?); I was using that to illustrate that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. You know, do unto others and all that. Race/ethnicity-related humor doesn't offend me unless it's directed at me in a clearly hurtful manner; most people I know share this view, and the few who don't know to leave the room for a minute when one of us is getting ready to say something off-color (we likewise leave the room when they're discussing things we have no interest in). That's the thing about people, though... get enough of them in a group and there will be enough overlap of interests that one group can talk about their shit while another has their own conversation, all the while people are moving from one group to another, and nobody is left out, even when one portion of the gathering is discussing something they'd rather not be involved in.
And if someone hears something offensive and doesn't walk away? Well, everyone has the right to be offended; who the hell am I to deny them that right be censoring myself?
This is a name I use everywhere and my email address is right there (from which it's trivial to discern my identity, if you have two brain cells, since both are associated with my real name elsewhere on the public internet).
There's a difference between cracking a racially targeted joke and being racist. My black, mexican, and chinese friends don't think I'm racist; but then, they've heard my half german, half italian ass tell plenty of Hitler and wop jokes, too. Sometimes it's just good-hearted humor, not intended to hurt anyone; it's typically people with a predisposition for racism, themselves, who jump right into calling everything racist.
Might want to check yourself; there was nothing fake or brave about my post, or this one, or, really, anything else I post here.
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Felons are not allowed to vote in this country. Involuntary manslaughter is a felony. You can be convicted of involuntary manslaughter if someone runs into the street 2 feet in front of your car, while you're driving along at a little under the speed limit, and dies because there was no way in hell you had time to react to that and avoid hitting them. Were you doing anything wrong? No. Were you disregarding the rights or property of the moron who ran out in front of you? No. Why should you lose any right to anything, then? But that's the reality, here; and until that reality changes and we quit applying "revocation or restriction of rights" to people who've really and truly done nothing wrong, we need to be extremely conservative in which rights we revoke or restrict.
There is no "-1, Disagree", but clearly there's a moderator who thinks there ought to be. 4 grams of Hg embedded in my jaw hasn't caused any health problems for me in two decades, a fleeting exposure to 1mg of mercury vapor disbursed throughout an entire room or building isn't going to do any damage, either.
Grow up, people, and realize that mercury isn't some evil man-made concoction that's out to kill everyone and everything, and that the danger of breaking a CFL in your home is that you might cut yourself cleaning it up. The ones you don't break? Recycle them. But, if you can't, don't worry about it, just don't toss them where they're likely to end up in a body of water; the mercury will naturally evaporate out of them when they break at the landfill, just as it naturally evaporates from the naturally occurring mercury deposits we harvest it from, only it'll have much less of an impact while sequestered in the bulb.
I'd like to see some studies into this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the net effect of CFLs and other mercury bulbs is an overall reduction in the amount of mercury entering the atmosphere.
argh.. typo... "right" should be "rich".
As long as the poor are fed and looked after, they have no reason to band together and remind the right what "power in numbers" means. Keep taking from them, to the point that they are neither fed nor looked after, and see how long that lasts. Public services are just that, public; and for good reason, don't you forget.
The app also links to one or more credit cards, to refill the Starbucks cards. Seems to me that, if I had your password, I could add my own Starbucks card to your app, transfer all your card balances to it, load it up from your credit card(s), and remove it from your app. And hey, wouldja lookit that? I just emptied out your checking account because one of those credit cards was actually a Visa check card. Oh damn.
I use the Starbucks app, but will remove it from my phone now, until this issue has been provably fixed (and not just a "we've fixed it" from the marketing monkeys who caused it to begin with).
Before you have grounds for a suit based on liability, you have to show harm that wasn’t already reimbursed by anyone who you might seek to hold liable.
Typically, you'd acquire a coffee shop's grounds from their refuse receptacle, but, as Starbucks is known to recycle their grounds, that might make holding them liable for anything slightly more difficult.
And yes, I'm going for a "Funny" mod here.
Considering the rate at which it will exit your home (even a completely weather-sealed house will exchange air with the outside world when the doors are opened for entry), that's not really a concern, now, is it? I've had more mercury in my mouth (8 silver-amalgam fillings, 500mg each, 50% mercury) since I was a teenager.
Right, so my point that there's no real danger stands, then. Even if you don't clean up the broken CFL and air out the room, the only real danger from a single broken CFL is the glass; hell, that's really the only danger from a case of them. Just one of the silver-amalgam fillings I've had in my mouth since childhood contains more mercury than a case of CFLs. Oh, and that mercury thermometer I dropped and broke when I was 6. I should probably be dead now, if CFLs are as dangerous as everyone's freaking out about.
So we're synthesizing mercury, now? Or did that mercury come out of the ground to begin with? And does the mercury, which is liquid, not gaseous, at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure, not condense once removed from the vacuum of the CFL tube?
I was paying $208/mo, now I'm paying $830/mo, so yes, what I'm paying (more than) quadrupled, and the cost per person (more than) doubled. *MY* (as in for me, alone) premiums doubled, and since I'm covering two people now (since they can no longer deny my wife coverage), my costs quadrupled. You simple suck at comprehending.
Then you had damned well be using a credit card. If you're using cash and not getting the benefits provided by most major credit cards, you're the one getting screwed, not me.
Yes, Obamacare is saving Americans sooooooooo much money that my insurance premiums *ONLY* doubled, while my copay went from $0 to $20-150 (depending on what's being done). At least my out-of-pocket limit didn't change. To add to that, my employer is no longer allowed to reimburse a portion of my health care costs as a benefit; that money now has to be added to my salary, which means the paltry $200/mo I was getting has been reduced to something closer to $160, while costing my employer something closer to $240. As someone of at-least average intelligence, I actually am outraged by this.
The only upshot is that they weren't able to deny my wife coverage this time around; so, really, my premiums quadrupled, since I'm also paying for her now.
But again, that's theft of the data. Uh, yeah, and that's what you were asking about.
Where did they *give* something that facilitated the theft of the data that contributed to fraud.
No, but you're responsible if you know there are people looking for knives to go on stabbing sprees in your area and you leave one on in plain view on your front porch like Target did.
Save for your earlier flawed analogy... I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I don't think our views are too far in disagreement to be reconciled; we just have different means of expressing them.
So, where to start lobbying for these new laws? I actually think we'd see changes in our own lifetimes, rather than your 100-year timeline.
Oh christ... I totally acknowledged that the 3rd paragraph of GP was sarcasm, then proceeded to attack it anyway. I think I need to go back to sleep...
Not sure what homeland security and terrorism has to do with this, and your analogy doesn't even fit; rather than considering the ratio of good-guys to victims (as in the post you're replying to), you're considering the ratio of good-guys to bad-guys, which is a fallacy, at best, even if only because it's hard to call homeland security "good-guys". But, you did manage to follow up with a good bit of sarcasm, so, there's that.
Have you not been following along? the guilty are rarely punished; just in these comments, alone, I can identify more than a handful of "I handed them the perp and they refused to prosecute" stories. If they don't bother with the ones that get handed to them, what makes you think they go after the ones they have to work for?
Totally agree with that last bit about the lawyers, though.
Unless there are more people fighting fraud than there are victims of it, cutting fraud by 50% would mean the number of people now *not* hurt by fraud outweighs the number of people hurt be reduced fraud. Unless you're also counting perpetrators of fraud as parties hurt by the reduction of fraud. Reducing the occurrence of literally anything hurts someone, somewhere, in some way; it's a balancing act to determine the level at which the benefit, overall, is maximized in relation to the damage done elsewhere. Stamping out fraud altogether would get more people using the cards in more places, for more transactions; the fraud investigators would simply find new roles, fraud victims would no longer exist, and the only ones "hurt" by this would be the fraudsters, who, in reality, would simply move on to some other scam; likely one where the victim has an opportunity to stop the fraud before it happens.
They gave the gaping hole the data was sucked through.
You're missing the point. When a bad manager is busy being a bad manager, they're in your way, preventing you from getting your work done, dumping their own work in your lap, and generally not protecting your time and productivity like the company is paying them to do. When a good manager is busy being a good manger, on the other hand, they're leaving you alone so you can get your work done and working constantly to protect your time and productivity, guiding your work via email or posted memo unless something critically urgent comes up or you come to them looking for more work because you've completed what they've already given you.
You generally tend not to notice someone who stays out of your way nearly as much as you notice the asshole who keeps you from doing your job because you're too busy doing his. A manager who generally goes unnoticed by his (or her) employees is a good manager; a manager who's always in your face and distracting you from the work you are actually supposed to be doing is a bad manager.
Sadly lacking pressure sensitivity and eraser, but... This is awesome; pinpoint accuracy and great visibility of what you're actually doing. The double-ended model is a hell of a nice-writing pen, as well.
And from your posting history it's clear that your position is "the opposite of whatever the other guy says". If I suddenly stood up and proclaimed that I'm a horrible, racist scumbag, you'd turn face and say there was nothing wrong with a little off-color humor every now and then. Bravo.
I think all day for a living, thank you very much. Maybe off-color humor isn't your cup of tea, and that's just fine, you're welcome to walk away from it if you don't like it. Nobody is forcing you to stick around and hear it. Seriously.
Haha, I love how people jump right to shit being racist. I never said I had lots of black, mexican, or chinese friends, just that I do have friends of those races. I also never said it was "okay" for me to tell jokes relating to my own ethnicity (but why wouldn't it be?); I was using that to illustrate that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. You know, do unto others and all that. Race/ethnicity-related humor doesn't offend me unless it's directed at me in a clearly hurtful manner; most people I know share this view, and the few who don't know to leave the room for a minute when one of us is getting ready to say something off-color (we likewise leave the room when they're discussing things we have no interest in). That's the thing about people, though... get enough of them in a group and there will be enough overlap of interests that one group can talk about their shit while another has their own conversation, all the while people are moving from one group to another, and nobody is left out, even when one portion of the gathering is discussing something they'd rather not be involved in.
And if someone hears something offensive and doesn't walk away? Well, everyone has the right to be offended; who the hell am I to deny them that right be censoring myself?
This is a name I use everywhere and my email address is right there (from which it's trivial to discern my identity, if you have two brain cells, since both are associated with my real name elsewhere on the public internet).
There's a difference between cracking a racially targeted joke and being racist. My black, mexican, and chinese friends don't think I'm racist; but then, they've heard my half german, half italian ass tell plenty of Hitler and wop jokes, too. Sometimes it's just good-hearted humor, not intended to hurt anyone; it's typically people with a predisposition for racism, themselves, who jump right into calling everything racist.
Might want to check yourself; there was nothing fake or brave about my post, or this one, or, really, anything else I post here.