He could get an honorable mention. The Darwin Awards books have sections giving awards to stupid people who didn't die; I assume the website also does (too lazy to check).
My understanding is that the intent of the original writing was "thou shalt not kill within thy group." So it depended on the social structure you lived in. It seems to me to be an extension of the greek prohibition against patri/matricide. In the US: thou shalt not kill except to protect the innocent, i.e. self defense, state performed executions.
It's legal tender for all debts. A store/restaurant isn't a creditor, it's a merchant. If you present your mortgage holder with $85k in pennies, they must accept it (maybe not if the promissory note has a section restricting forms of payment), but Denny's can refuse to accept $100 bills.
Go to Sam's they check your receipt, go to Best Buy and they check your receipt.
Yeah, some stores do like to check your receipt. But they don't have a right to physically hold you in the store unless one of the employees has a good reason to believe you've stolen something (eg he saw you do it, and refusal to show a receipt is not grounds for believing you've stolen something). The only thing a store can do if you refuse to show a receipt is tell you never to return. Sam's has this as part of your member contract; if you refused to show your receipt, you can't come back.
There are plenty of options available to you if you don't like the way a store choses to enforce it's security policies.
Are these security policies posted at the entrance? How does he know if an agent of the store will demand to see a receipt if he tries to leave with *his* belongings. Is he supposed to ask about security policies every time he enters a store? However, I agree with your point in some regard. The bookstore at the university where I teach does not allow customers to bring backpacks in (you have to check it at the door). So, I don't buy anything there if I can avoid it. If I must, I give them my backpack and walk around with my arms and pockets full of the stuff that was in it.
I get it - people steal stuff and some of that theft if actually through the cash registers so to stay in business some businesses decide to have receipt checkers.
I agree. Some will say that stores shouldn't treat their customers like criminals, but I don't think that asking for receipts does that. However that doesn't change the fact that the customer has every right to refuse to show a receipt and (unless there is evidence of a crime) the store's only recourse is to refuse service to that individual in the future.
Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.
There is a part of our brain that generates this sense of self, the "I", and it can get shut down just like any other part of the brain, through bodily trauma, meditation, or drugs.
It's called the somatosensory association area. Wikipedia doesn't seem to have an article; Google it.
So the FBI warnings aren't true? All new video media begin with a warning that the FBI investigates copyright infringement and that offenders can be charged with a crime. Is this not the case? Or does this only apply to works of members of the MPAA? I seem to recall the phrase "severe civil and criminal penalties."
To alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
Beer may only be a cause of some (possibly none) of life's problems and a solution to some (possibly no) others (and it may be neither), but alcohol, collectively, is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. You may find that the problems caused by beer are solved with bourbon.
About two years ago, I bought a bicycle (trek) with the intent of using it for the commute to school averyday (about 2 miles). Three days after my purchase, I was hit by a truck while in a crosswalk. I was wearing a reflective, neon-yellow rain jacket at the time. I haven't biked since, but I do intend to consider cycling in the future. My problem was that, at the time, I was biking somewhere I had never been before, and so I had to traverse some places that were genuinely not safe for cyclists. So, while a planned route (to work, perhaps) might be fine, I don't think that I'll ever bike someplace I'd never been before.
That really means: thou shalt not kill within thy group. Don't kill your neighbor, your sister, your employee. It is not (in the original meaning at the time of the writing) a prohibition against homicide. It stressed the importance of the community, and if the community is threatened by an outsider, then by all means, kill him.
The Universtiy of Texas at San Antonio sells various microsoft software to students at a discount. I paid $26 for XP Pro 64. Though, I only get personal ownership of the license once I graduate. If I fail to graduate for any reason, I have to wipe it from my computer and return the disc.
I tried the first link in the article and I got a page with only this text:
google ({
Success: false,
Errors: []
})
It seems to not work. I'm using Firefox v. 1.5.0.9, and I was logged in to gmail at the time. Can anyone explain this?
It's true that the article doesn't mention it, but it seems that sand and gravel were probably readily available in Egypt at the time. Perhaps they thought that it went without saying.
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He could get an honorable mention. The Darwin Awards books have sections giving awards to stupid people who didn't die; I assume the website also does (too lazy to check).
Here is a previous post I made about this.
My understanding is that the intent of the original writing was "thou shalt not kill within thy group." So it depended on the social structure you lived in. It seems to me to be an extension of the greek prohibition against patri/matricide. In the US: thou shalt not kill except to protect the innocent, i.e. self defense, state performed executions.
It's legal tender for all debts. A store/restaurant isn't a creditor, it's a merchant. If you present your mortgage holder with $85k in pennies, they must accept it (maybe not if the promissory note has a section restricting forms of payment), but Denny's can refuse to accept $100 bills.
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If you're an ATT customer, be careful about telling the truth. The truth damages their reputation. :)
So you won't converge, eh? I guess we'll just have to integrate you by parts!
It's called the somatosensory association area. Wikipedia doesn't seem to have an article; Google it.
So the FBI warnings aren't true? All new video media begin with a warning that the FBI investigates copyright infringement and that offenders can be charged with a crime. Is this not the case? Or does this only apply to works of members of the MPAA? I seem to recall the phrase "severe civil and criminal penalties."
Beer may only be a cause of some (possibly none) of life's problems and a solution to some (possibly no) others (and it may be neither), but alcohol, collectively, is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. You may find that the problems caused by beer are solved with bourbon.
About two years ago, I bought a bicycle (trek) with the intent of using it for the commute to school averyday (about 2 miles). Three days after my purchase, I was hit by a truck while in a crosswalk. I was wearing a reflective, neon-yellow rain jacket at the time. I haven't biked since, but I do intend to consider cycling in the future. My problem was that, at the time, I was biking somewhere I had never been before, and so I had to traverse some places that were genuinely not safe for cyclists. So, while a planned route (to work, perhaps) might be fine, I don't think that I'll ever bike someplace I'd never been before.
Don't practice your alliteration on me!
The Universtiy of Texas at San Antonio sells various microsoft software to students at a discount. I paid $26 for XP Pro 64. Though, I only get personal ownership of the license once I graduate. If I fail to graduate for any reason, I have to wipe it from my computer and return the disc.
I'd like to know how loser pays lawsuits are bad.
The First Amendment has been interpreted to also protect "symbolic speech." In the 60s, SCOTUS decided that burning draft cards as a form of protest was not protected speech. "(Examples of symbolic speech are marching in a parade, burning a flag, or cross burning.)"
No, Professor Farnsworth is about 160 years old and the invention you refer to was a machination of the "What If" machine, not an actual invention.
Whoever modded this funny apparently didn't read the GP. This is redundant, not funny. The GP made this joke.
I tried the first link in the article and I got a page with only this text: google ({ Success: false, Errors: [] }) It seems to not work. I'm using Firefox v. 1.5.0.9, and I was logged in to gmail at the time. Can anyone explain this?
It's true that the article doesn't mention it, but it seems that sand and gravel were probably readily available in Egypt at the time. Perhaps they thought that it went without saying.
I stand corrected. I hadn't considered some of the those factors.
If that's true, then why do I keep seeing bills from the 80s and 90s? I work in a convenience store and I see a lot of bills.