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Can somebody buy that guy some clippers or tweezers to solve his problem of having only a single eyebrow?
Can somebody buy that guy some clippers or tweezers to solve his problem of having only a single eyebrow?
no, but mitt romney does?
No, but he can become one in the afterlife if he has enough wives on Earth prior to his death.
I would switch, but then I'd have to rewrite my hosts files.
The previous poster had said "if it were the government doing it, it'd be in violation of the 9th amendment." I pointed out that cities have cars towed and impounded all the time. I did not say this was a city towing the car in this case.
We have operations like that here - business or apartment building owners post signs saying that unauthorized cars will be towed, and you have two choices - pay for the tow plus the daily impound fee, or contest it in court (while the impound fees pile up and you eventually lose anyway).
And then there's the police ordering a towing. I remember one guy had bought a used Honda and figured that since the McDonalds was only a block or so away, it was safe to drive there without registering the car because he wouldn't get caught.
He got a ticket for driving an unregistered vehicle, towing. Then there was the towing charge, and the daily impound fee - the car was ordered to be impounded for 30 days. In the end, he ended up owing $1,200 on a car that he paid the previous owner $1,100 for (and still owed them $700).
Since he couldn't come up with the money, the car was sold, and since the city netted nothing at the auction after fees, he still owes $1,900 for a car he drove less than 2 blocks. And the interest keeps adding up at 6% per year. And until it's paid, his drivers license is suspended. That has to be the most expensive burger and fries in the history of McDonalds.
More competition is better. We know google is working on their own car - but the Tesla is here today and doing better than anyone ever thought. No wonder the guy can do rocket science.
His neighbors wouldn't let him build a film studio on his land, so George Lucas is retaliating in a way that only the cream of Hollywood could — by building the largest affordable housing development in the area — and footing the entire $200 million bill, no government subsidies or grants.
The complex of affordable housing, funded and designed by Lucas, would sit on 52 acres of land and provide homes to 224 low-income families, and there's very little his fellow Bay Area residents can do about it, because the land is zoned residential.
Lucas dropped plans for a Lucasfilm Ltd studio complex on Lucas Valley Road in 2012 after opposition from neighbors blocked a zoning change, so he's doing something with part of the 1,039 acres of land on his Grady Ranch estate in Marin County, California.
The force is strong with this one.
Sometimes it's needed to help prevent a service being overwhelmed: our phone calls used to cost 4x more 9am to 1pm than 6pm to 8am because our phone service (government run) had limited available bandwidth. Now that is no longer an issue (largely c/o fibre optics) there is no pricing surcharge for the daytime peak.
In fact on a wholesale level from BT there still are three different time bands for pricing (daytime, off-peak, weekend) and different charges based on whether the call just goes through the local exchange, one regional ('single-tandem') exchange, or two ('double-tandem', which in turn is broken down into short, medium and long distances). Retail phone companies tend to lump them all together into a single rate, though - either an unlimited use bundle, or a simple flat-rate per minute.
For that matter, many of the better ISPs still have some time-based variation in charging: my previous one only charged for usage during the working day, my current one has three tariffs, one of which is much much cheaper outside working hours. (The worse ISPs tend to offer "unlimited" service, and accept that their network is congested and slow at busy times.)
It is unknown it an examiner filed a patent for a "method and device to move the mouse to defraud taxpayers."
Heath Campbell wanted to make a good impression on the family court judge. “I’m going to tell the judge, I love my children. I wanna be a father, let me be it,” Campbell told NBC on Monday before heading into court. “Let me prove to the world that I am a good father.” In an arguably misguided effort to prove his case, Campbell showed up to court in full Nazi regalia.
and in a prelude to the great gay cake debates
Campbell started wearing the uniform because he is the founder of “Hitler’s Order,” a pro-Nazi organization. He and his family drew national media attention back in 2008 when a store refused to inscribe a cake with “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler.”
If you're going to be stuck with that monicker, you'd better be on LOTS of steroids.
Helium, for the giggles. Plus, if there's a leak, you'll know it because people will sound like Donald Duck, whereas the first sign of a nitrogen leak is people passing out.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
