If a scientist had done this they would be losing their job any minute.
Given that we're talking about the "nutrition" industry, if a scientist had done this, it would likely be his job. Specifically.
That's the point.
Average rent in Orange County for a studio - no actual bedroom - is, last time I checked, over $1,000/month. Cars are not cheap, nor is the insurance it is a crime to drive without. Food, other expenses, taxes, it adds up. yeah, it's possible to live on it, but to live alone is, at best, difficult. And is a very shitty way to live.
Plus,
but still put away money every month, thanks to medi-cal covering insurance
translates to "thanks to welfare paid for by other people who make more than $25k/year." You've actually agreed it's damned difficult to get by on that amount.
Better than arresting them for stealing power.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/12/1370393/-Homeless-woman-charged-with-theft-of-services-for-charging-cell-phone-outside
They probably wasted more tax dollars with that affair than telling the homeless to come to City Hall to get their phones charged for free.
Very likely. However:
"Luckily, in the end, the DA dropped the charges. "
Makes this look like hysterical propaganda:
Welcome to the modern American Police State.
since he knows the U.S. government won't do anything to him.
It's mutual. He's irrelevant.
London had wanted a solar array for years, but couldn’t afford it on his income as a merchant seaman — roughly $70,000 per year.
In Canada, the official poverty level is around $25,000 per year for single persons. It shows you how rich the Americans are compared to the rest of the world, even compared to another first-world country.
In California, at least anywhere south of the Bay area, somebody making $25k/year is probably living in their car. $70k is hardly poor, but it's not much more than a comfortable middle class living.
20 years ago, home prices in California were not much different than they are today, when things are still recovering from the collapse of the housing market. You'd have to go back at least 40 years to find home prices that would be attainable for even the lower middle class.
And even then, most of the cheaper homes were condos, not houses, and condos always have associations, and associations always have fees. And Prop 13 or no, property taxes have to be paid. So even if someone bought their home in better days, odds are, if there is any non-insane way to describe them as "poor" now, they no longer have a place to install solar panels.
Either the headline is idiotic bullshit, or California is now giving solar panels to the homeless (who might, in fact, be able to use them to charge their smart phones, this being California, and all).
However, being the cynic I am, I wouldn't be surprised to see
the web become even more useless than it already is. There are damned few web sites that I have more than a vague passing interest in, and none that can't do without.
That's OK, it will probably only be used for browser hijacking ads anyway.
That assumes that the business can raise prices without consequence, which is an invalid assumption.
Potentially, but not inherently so. You assume - invalidly - that the consequences do not and cannot change regardless of the conditions.
Suspending someone for non-school related behavior is extremely illegal.
Generally speaking, I'd be inclined to agree. I was just correcting teambpsi's error (based on not even reading the summary, which is accurate on that point) in claiming there was a threat of a lawsuit.
It's illegal, but it's illegal under entirely different laws than threatening a bullshit lawsuit. And when you want to start a fight over something like this on the internet, it helps to make that distinction.
If you were fired from your job because became a registered Republican, the Republican party would go to war for the right to represent you in court.
Which is an entirely different issue. People have rather more expansive rights regarding their jobs than students (or minors in general) do, and political activities (on one's own time) get special protection that few other activities do.
Plus, of course, good luck getting the party to actually spend that kind of money, unless you have some real connections to begin with, but it's certainly possible.
While that is arguable, in theory, in practice, you're not going to find an attorney who would take that case on a contingency. Which means writing a five figure check as a retainer just to get it started. And collecting legal fees is virtually impossible, no matter what some cop show you saw on TV tells you.
they couldn't possibly hope to recover the $100k+ in legal fees.
$100,000? That's just a tiny bit inflated.
In all likelihood, the second the kid shows up with an attorney in tow, the school board will consult with their own attorney, apologies will be offered, and the idiot principal will be reeducated (preferably in a camp in Siberia). If not, odds are, the whole thing will be settled quickly after the suit is filed, at minimal cost to both sides. But counting on either of those is foolish, at best.
If the school board is as stupid as their principal, and it goes to trial, then, in fact, $100k is about the average to get to a jury decision in most states. Depending on the state, it would also take six months to several years to get to that point.
Particularly if they do not post - and enforce - a general prohibition against photography by everyone else, including the press.
If you bothered to read the article, or the summary above, you might notice that there's no threat of a lawsuit, only of a suspension. The burden (and expense) of filing a lawsuit would be on the kid (and his parents). And while they might win, odds are, they couldn't possibly hope to recover the $100k+ in legal fees.
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