I for one applaud this trailblazing official who is paving the way by providing a roadmap for other officials to follow while going down the road to more efficient government and leading the drive towards a more fiscally responsible America.

Now if only somone could give us a car analogy

They don't need a bomb squad anyway: Hartsfield International Airport sits literally right in the middle of Hapeville but is considered part of Atlanta and patrolled by APD. They have bomb squad members stationed there and they could be mobilized for any potential threats in the surrounding area. The city of Hapeville could then take the money saved put it into infrastructure because there are some very rough areas around there.

I have the same format as one of my email addresses, but I have a very uncommon name (as far as I know it is the only occurrence of that name in the world for people still living-although Google does bring up the name in a fiction book someone apparently wrote). However, I once got a call from a guy who I did not know I think asking if was going to play goalie for them at a soccer match. I had no clue what he was talking about, but the guy did have my name. The week before I had a guy (might even have been that guy) text me and ask if I was going to come look at his car to buy. I've always found those 2 instances to be somewhat odd, but nothing weird (like credit cards in my name that I don't have) has ever come up on a credit report.

Or someone just happened to use a similar email address and misstyped theirs. Are you actually getting emails regarding unpaid bills for the cable company, or is it just simple account-type stuff like changing passwords? Or charges attempting to be made against any of your credit cards? If you are getting emails once a month, it sounds to me like someone put in the wrong email and when they go to pay it online they change the password because they can't log in. And even if there was an unpaid balance, the first thing they would do is send the bills to the physical address they have on file or to the holder of the card that was used to intially set up service, which is also where any collections would likely start.

Hell, 10 years ago I used to get recordings on my phone that someone had overdue movies at Blockbuster. I didn't immediately assume someone was using my identity to steal movies from them in some criminal enterprise, I just figured they had put in a wrong number.

Does this mean we can now copy every Uwe Boll movie with impunity?

Not necessarily. If a company takes proceeds from stock and uses that money to invest in, say, infrastructure, that takes resources which are then comsumed (lumber, steel, oil, etc). Sure, the companies that produce these resources get money from that transaction, but there is still money that is locked into those materials. And in cases like China where you literally have shopping malls and entire cities sitting empty there are literally millions of dollars just decaying away. As for the rest of the money, it gets more and more diluted as it passes through the hands of multiple companies and people in the form of wages, payments for goods/services, savings deposits, etc. 1 person with $1,000,000 can have a muhc larger impact on an economy than 1,000,000 people with $1 because he can focus all of that money in one place while the people with $1 can do very little becuase that money might go everywhere.

So basically some of that money does disappear as it is sunk into things whose cost can never be recouped and a lot of the rest can get so spread out and distributed that it loses a lot of the economic power it had that it also might as well not exist.

You should have told them that the previous business had closed and you run a new business for Mail Hare Removal and then proceed to ask them how they would like the body disposed of and your shipping options.

This is the idea I came up with a few weeks ago on another Uber thread that would fix everything: registered destinations. A driver registers a destination for their trip, and only then are they shown potential "customers/fares/ridesharers/etc"-who have also registered a destination-along their route within a slight variance depending on trip length (driving across a city it might be a block or 2, across state several miles). They can only pick up a new passenger once they have reached their original destination and registered a new one or, if they had a passenger get off during their previous trip, a new passenger registers with an applicable destination.

This kind of system would ensure that you are in fact ridesharing, ie. picking up passengers who are going to the same general area you are or a place you will pass along the way as opposed to working as an unlicensed taxi. Throw in a "fare" based on mileage/depreciation/a little extra for your time as opposed to Uber's surge pricing and you get rid of the issue of people taking this on as a job because it suddenly is not worth the effort. You still get compensated enough to offset the gas and depreciation of your car that you would be doing anyway, and at the end of the week you might have enough money to go out for a good dinner or maybe even enough for a trip for 2 to the movies.

Considering the safety record of teenagers, they are absolutely the last ones that should be driving a gypsy cab like Uber.

And as for the part time job thing, well, there are plenty of people that sell a little pot on the side or do some escort work on weekends, but those are still illegal, just as operating as an unlicensed taxi is.

Hey, I could always have linked the forum post where a guy made a AK-47 out of a blank kit and a shovel. I'd take a shovel AK over a "Liberator" any day.

As someone who transitioned from standing on a hard concrete floor wearing steel-toed boots for 8 hours a day to a desk job: that was one of the best days of my life, and I am in no hurry to go back to standing up all day. That being said, I do try to walk around for a bit every now and then during the day, even if it is just across the building to talk with someone for 10-15 minutes.

The "foreign interests" most likely to use this (ie. people without the industrial capacity to develop their own covert weaponry) are more likely to just blow up said metal detector, along with anyone in or near the security checkpoint.

Right. Because in countries where you can trade a goat for a fully automatic AK-47 or even an RPK, people are instead going to download and print a flimsy, crappy piece of plastic that can shoot maybe 10 rounds before blowing your hand off. And in any case, they make much better weapons in caves than what this guy is making.

I never said something like this was a bad thing, just that you don't push children into wanting to do something like that. Like you said, it comes from within.

That's true, but realistically no one decides as a child that they will be a world leader or a CEO. Parents who drive and "prep" their kids from an early age to do so are more likely to just burn their kids out before they even get to college. Just like you said, Jobs became Jobs "later in life". Push your children to do what they enjoy, and if they have the talent and the desire to be the next Jobs, they will have the opportunity to do so.