If you stall out you need to hit the starter again. Were the lady driving a manual, it's possible indeed that she had her car disabled at a red light.

Yeah but when that happens you find out you're failing a background check, right? You have every right to see what that naughty thing is and appeal it.

And I know someone who was arrested for parking their boat illegally. Apparently in some jurisdictions you can go to jail for this. Every time he gets a new job it pops up in the background check, but they ask him about it (although now he tells the funny story up front before the background check)

A secret "Do Not Hire" list seems a bit much. Because we haven't heard of it, it would imply a huge number of levels of people involved who were keeping the secret, including the little old lady at the corner store who wouldn't let the guy in as a bagger.

Yeah but that's the thing.

When I got hired to wash dishes in college I showed up and they asked me if I had a social security card, then told me to start working.

I did maybe ten other jobs with similar requirements (warm body that can lift stuff and clean). All of them were a breeze.

There's no resume asked for with certain jobs. I'm not surprised his career in government is over. I am surprised it's over for McDonalds.

How is it logical that he loses his job and now he can't get any job?

I can understand probably government is off limits for him, and if he goes to a big company maybe the background check would keep him from a job. But there have to be plenty of small businesses who would be willing to hire him, and certainly if he just goes looking for anonymous low brow work, well that shouldn't be a problem, no?

This article seems to suggest if you piss off Uncle Sam, he'll force you into homelessness....

Mod parent up!

Yeah but how do you separate smoking deaths from non-smoking deaths?

"Smoker diseases" like lung cancer afflict non smokers as well. For instance, 10-15% of lung cancers come from non-smokers:
http://lungcancer.about.com/od...

When you consider cancer is often caused by mutations, and smoking encourages gene mutations, this makes sense.

So really, smoking makes it more likely to die early, not that you are shooting yourself with a gun.

Thus the reason why you might assume anyone who actively has smoked above a certain age, who has smoked a long time, that did not die an accidental death died of smoking.

Except one of the reasons AIDS could go pandemic was that it was a slow killer.

People just need to wash their hands for a good month or two and the thing will die off...

Holy shit! Mod parent up!

+1 scary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

Read it. It's Awesome.

This is actually a question you might consider directing at your accountant. Specifically:

1. Some or all the conference costs may be tax deductible. Depending on your tax bracket this can end up being an instant 30% discount.
2. Corporate structures or other accounting tricks may allow you to change who your company pays (are you a W-2 employee? or do you have your own company?) This may again lead to favorable tax treatment for your conference, further reducing what you're actually paying.

Of course tax deductible doesn't mean free. But depending how things are structured the conference could cost you more or less money.

Prior to releasing an iOS, the focus on development is implementing the shiny new features.
Post release, the focus on development is to fix bugs and make the iOS work faster.

In each of the past few versions of iOS released you saw within a month a 0.01 version increment that got rid of bugs and made things noticeably faster.

You therefore have the choice of jumping on the band wagon, or waiting until the incremental release.

So why doesn't he just say that instead of the verbal diarrhea ?

What about roads? Schools? Sewage? Water?

There are some items that are critical to modern society functioning properly. It is a larger benefit to society to implement them efficiently, at a state wide or national scale, then it is to allow pockets of "haves" and "have nots"

Otherwise what we would have is pockets of civilization (e.g. Cities) and everyone else would be living like the amish.

FTFY