Troll? Flamebait? WTF? It's entirely factual and non-inflammatory. I guess any time anyone says anything positive about government is troll and flamebait?
Offtopic? I guess I need to metamod today, because whoever modded this should NOT ever get mod points. It was not only on topic but a bit interesting. However, I can't quite agree; thinking evolution is bunk is a sign of ignorance, not conservatism.
Anyways, they make the bulk of their money on tips which they don't report so they don't have to pay taxes on them.
Not sure about pizza drivers, but waitresses' tips are taxed even if they make no tips; they add a % to their wages for tax purposes. And waitresses earn LESS than minimum wage because of tips. If you make no tips (midnight shift at Denny's) you're paying too much tax. How many trips can a driver make in an hour? Yes, even with tips they're in poverty.
Of course not, did you even read the comment? Or hear of the series Dune by Frank Herbert? And while I'm at it, why in the hell does wikipedia have articles about the TV series, movie, and video game but not the damned books? Epic fail all around! Am I the only one left on this planet that still reads???
Nor did he see any previous comments (like mine, which noted that in Dune, 1000 years in the future, axlotyl tanks are human women). Lots of redundancy in this thread, I wonder if the mods will notice?
(clicking "no bonus buttons because I'm not exactly on-topic here. Hell, if everyone else deserves a downmod I might as well too!)
That constitution granted us rights, and limited government's rights.
Wrong. It enumerates government powers and says that anything not granted to the feds is your right or your state's right. It does NOT gurantee rights, although the first ten amendments do quantify certain rights. But see the tenth amendment, which says that your rights are not limited by the Bill of Rights.
That said, you'll not find a lot of companies that have sunk as low as Microsoft. Yeah, there are companies that have done worse things, but you don't find them on every Main Street in America.
On the contrary, Casey's General Store. Maybe not the entire US but most of the midwest.
Last year my house was burglarized and a box of checks stolen, among other things. The thieves proceeded to cash forged checks all over Illinois. When contacted by the merchants for the bad checks, all were cooperative but two -- Shop n Save and Casey's General (gas station/convinience store). Even after being told the checks were fraudulently forged, they contacted the Sangamon County State's Attorney and tried to prosecute me -- several times. When the SA got tired of them, they sent collection agencies after me. When the second contacted me I blew up and told them that one more god damned letter was going to have me filing a slander suit against them, Casey's, and anybody else involved, which stopped the madness.
AFAIK Microsoft has NEVER been so evil. Shop n Save was almost as bad, trying to collect on a fifteen year old check my ex-wife had bounced without my knowledge, years after I divorced her and declared bankrupcy. I must add, trying to collect FROM ME what my ex-wife owed was bad, but trying to collect a debt after bankrupcy is a felony.
I keep thinking of how sci-fi writers sometimes get behind the "now". In Dune they had "Axlotyl tanks" to grow clones in, and it turned out that these "tanks" were human women. And Dune was set 1000 years in the future. Are they going to call these artificial wombs Axlotyl Tanks?
Star Trek did the same thing when McCoy gave Kirk reading glasses, and the CrystaLens came out about fifteen years later.
They run even better with less government involvement. Several years ago I was a member of a volunteer fire department. Only the chief was a government employee. Everyone else was an unpaid volunteer. We had one pumper truck, and rest of our vehicles were pickup trucks, parked at the home of a volunteer in each neighborhood. What we lacked in professional training and equipment, we made up with really fast response times
Several years ago my car caught fire. I was on my way down to the St Louis area to see some friends, and was first going to my daughter's in a nearby town who had a volunteer fire department.
It took almost an hour for you yahoos to show up. Had my car caught fire on a weekday I'd not have lost the car (assuming they're as fast as you say). If It had caught fire in Springfield with its city-run professionals I wouldn't have lost it.
Fast, my ass. Maybe yours is, but Chatham's sure isn't. Tell me, why would a volunteer fire department be faster than professionals? I've had to call for an ambulance twice, and in both cases the fire department was there in under five minutes but it took the corporate-run ambulance fifteen (the firetruck and its medics always shows up when you call an ambulance here).
We're not talking feds here, nor are we talking Ireland or Belgium as some other poster stupidly said earlier in the thread. We're talking about Mississippi.
Since Mississippi joined the Union in 1817, several forms of execution have been used. Hanging was the first form of execution used in Mississippi. The state continued to execute prisoners sentenced to die by hanging until October 11, 1940, when Hilton Fortenberry, convicted of capital murder in Jefferson Davis County, became the first prisoner to be executed in the electric chair. Between 1940 and February 5, 1952, the old oak electric chair was moved from county to county to conduct executions. During the 12-year span, 75 prisoners were executed in the Magnolia State for offenses punishable by death.
In 1954, the gas chamber was installed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. It replaced the electric chair, which today is on display at the Mississippi Law Enforcement Training Academy. Gearald A. Gallego became the first prisoner to be executed by lethal gas on March 3, 1955. During the course of the next 34 years, 35 death row inmates were executed in the gas chamber. Leo Edwards became the last person to be executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary on June 21, 1989.
On July 1, 1984, the Mississippi legislature partially amended lethal gas as the stateâ(TM)s form of execution in ÂÂ 99-19-51 of the Mississippi Code. The new amendment provided that individuals who committed capital punishment crimes after the effective date of the new law and who were subsequently sentenced to death thereafter would be executed by lethal injection. On March 18, 1998, the Mississippi legislature amended the manner of execution by finally removing the provision lethal gas as the alternate form of execution.
So no, unless you think dieing is less punishment than fifteen years, all of you guys are just plain wrong.
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Google "dune" and the link I posted was the first hit. The question is why aren't the books linked from that link?
Womb man > wo'man > woman
A man with a womb is a woman.
Yeah, you can look Herbert up and there's a link from there, but why isn't the book mentioned at the link Google took me to?
You're right, I missed a zero.
Troll? Flamebait? WTF? It's entirely factual and non-inflammatory. I guess any time anyone says anything positive about government is troll and flamebait?
You got one thing right -- bad moderation.
I personally can not stand there food.
Why are you calling the GP "food"? And why can't you stand there?
Offtopic? I guess I need to metamod today, because whoever modded this should NOT ever get mod points. It was not only on topic but a bit interesting. However, I can't quite agree; thinking evolution is bunk is a sign of ignorance, not conservatism.
If I had mod points you'd get one.
Anyways, they make the bulk of their money on tips which they don't report so they don't have to pay taxes on them.
Not sure about pizza drivers, but waitresses' tips are taxed even if they make no tips; they add a % to their wages for tax purposes. And waitresses earn LESS than minimum wage because of tips. If you make no tips (midnight shift at Denny's) you're paying too much tax. How many trips can a driver make in an hour? Yes, even with tips they're in poverty.
As Sheldon would say, "Oh, good lard!" Dude, your tinfoil is leaking.
Not if the book is older than you, especially one as widely known as 1984.
Comparinjg Iowa with Mississippi is like comparing France to Somalia. Different place with different laws and different penalties.
Loophole? No, it's a design flaw. Kind of like the antennas that people held wrong.
Is that a serious question?
Of course not, did you even read the comment? Or hear of the series Dune by Frank Herbert? And while I'm at it, why in the hell does wikipedia have articles about the TV series, movie, and video game but not the damned books? Epic fail all around! Am I the only one left on this planet that still reads???
Nor did he see any previous comments (like mine, which noted that in Dune, 1000 years in the future, axlotyl tanks are human women). Lots of redundancy in this thread, I wonder if the mods will notice?
(clicking "no bonus buttons because I'm not exactly on-topic here. Hell, if everyone else deserves a downmod I might as well too!)
That constitution granted us rights, and limited government's rights.
Wrong. It enumerates government powers and says that anything not granted to the feds is your right or your state's right. It does NOT gurantee rights, although the first ten amendments do quantify certain rights. But see the tenth amendment, which says that your rights are not limited by the Bill of Rights.
That said, you'll not find a lot of companies that have sunk as low as Microsoft. Yeah, there are companies that have done worse things, but you don't find them on every Main Street in America.
On the contrary, Casey's General Store. Maybe not the entire US but most of the midwest.
Last year my house was burglarized and a box of checks stolen, among other things. The thieves proceeded to cash forged checks all over Illinois. When contacted by the merchants for the bad checks, all were cooperative but two -- Shop n Save and Casey's General (gas station/convinience store). Even after being told the checks were fraudulently forged, they contacted the Sangamon County State's Attorney and tried to prosecute me -- several times. When the SA got tired of them, they sent collection agencies after me. When the second contacted me I blew up and told them that one more god damned letter was going to have me filing a slander suit against them, Casey's, and anybody else involved, which stopped the madness.
AFAIK Microsoft has NEVER been so evil. Shop n Save was almost as bad, trying to collect on a fifteen year old check my ex-wife had bounced without my knowledge, years after I divorced her and declared bankrupcy. I must add, trying to collect FROM ME what my ex-wife owed was bad, but trying to collect a debt after bankrupcy is a felony.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
I keep thinking of how sci-fi writers sometimes get behind the "now". In Dune they had "Axlotyl tanks" to grow clones in, and it turned out that these "tanks" were human women. And Dune was set 1000 years in the future. Are they going to call these artificial wombs Axlotyl Tanks?
Star Trek did the same thing when McCoy gave Kirk reading glasses, and the CrystaLens came out about fifteen years later.
They run even better with less government involvement. Several years ago I was a member of a volunteer fire department. Only the chief was a government employee. Everyone else was an unpaid volunteer. We had one pumper truck, and rest of our vehicles were pickup trucks, parked at the home of a volunteer in each neighborhood. What we lacked in professional training and equipment, we made up with really fast response times
Several years ago my car caught fire. I was on my way down to the St Louis area to see some friends, and was first going to my daughter's in a nearby town who had a volunteer fire department.
It took almost an hour for you yahoos to show up. Had my car caught fire on a weekday I'd not have lost the car (assuming they're as fast as you say). If It had caught fire in Springfield with its city-run professionals I wouldn't have lost it.
Fast, my ass. Maybe yours is, but Chatham's sure isn't. Tell me, why would a volunteer fire department be faster than professionals? I've had to call for an ambulance twice, and in both cases the fire department was there in under five minutes but it took the corporate-run ambulance fifteen (the firetruck and its medics always shows up when you call an ambulance here).
We're not talking feds here, nor are we talking Ireland or Belgium as some other poster stupidly said earlier in the thread. We're talking about Mississippi.
So no, unless you think dieing is less punishment than fifteen years, all of you guys are just plain wrong.
What part of "career criminal" can't you wrap your head around?
Are they suing Paramount for Memory-Alpha?
insanity's
Insanity's methods are in your post, young padiwan. It's insanities.
Too late, it's already been set free.
Such a pity that the Nazi's
Nazi here, get rid of that fucking apostrophe. It makes you look like a moron.