Comment Re: $10/GB is a bit pricey (Score 4, Informative) 112
You only get billed for cellular data, not Wifi. From the official announcement:
"and then it's a flat $10 per GB for cellular data while in the U.S. and abroad"
You only get billed for cellular data, not Wifi. From the official announcement:
"and then it's a flat $10 per GB for cellular data while in the U.S. and abroad"
That's the FireTV _box_, not the stick. The Stick is 35 pounds. You give up the voice remote and a bit of processing horsepower, but unless you really want to use it for gaming, it shouldn't make a difference.
It's right there on the front page of amazon.co.uk, FireTV Stick the Most Powerful Streaming Media Stick" 35 pounds.
Try this link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pro...
I'd also settle for say £80 to cover the cost of an Amazon FireTV stick.
You'd want 80 quid for something Amazon will sell you today for 35?
Commercial driver is actually the eighth most dangerous job in America. In addition, a very large portion of on-the-job deaths in other professions are a result of motor vehicle accidents.
Car companies are incredibly cheap so any extra complexity adds to the unreliability faster than the convenience.
Which explains why today's wildly more complex cars are also wildly more reliable than the much simpler cars of yesteryear.
Oh, wait, it doesn't.
...is now the SECOND-craziest SOB ever to fly one of those things.
"There's no license to be a teacher, or a banker, or a police officer."
Teacher licensing is required in every state that I know of. https://www.teach.org/teaching...
Bankers definitely require licenses, at least those who deal with client money in any significant way (look up FINRA, for example).
For police officers, you have to be vetted and hired by a government agency (which is essentially getting a license) and typically take a an exam, you can't just declare yourself a police officer.
"If the bar was effective at keeping bad lawyers out, then we wouldn't have bad lawyers (ha)"
So, because the bar isn't perfect at keeping bad lawyers out, it's worthless? That's like saying that since seatbelts won't save you in all accidents, it's not worth wearing them.
"and if we believe in a free market (which, the last time I checked, lawyers charge money), then the market should be able to sort it out on its own"
We can believe in a free market but also believe in a regulated market, particularly for things where it's typically difficult for an ordinary consumer to judge value (hiring an attorney isn't like buying an apple), and where the implications of a bad "product" can be very very serious.
Regulatory capture is a real issue, and there are lots of areas where it's a major problem (Institute for Justice has done a lot of work on this), i.e. interior decorators, to take one example, but lawyers (like doctors) are something where a state licensing process does make a lot of sense.*
*It's worth noting that, even in those professions, I disagree in some cases with the degree of regulation involved, i.e. doctors limiting what nurses and physician's assistants can do, or lawyers trying to prevent "document preparers" from handling very typical, standardized situations. If you have a house, life insurance, and $50k in the bank, your spouse is dead, your two kids are grown, and you want to leave everything to those two kids equally, you don't need a lawyer to do your will.
So is teaching. So is banking. So is policing. So is being President.
And we require licenses for all of these, with the exception of the last.
Having a licensing process that ensures that practitioners are at least marginally competent, and a way to prevent the corrupt from robbing others
How does it do that? And how does it do that in ways that the law does not?
Upfront, through the bar exam, it shows that the candidate has at least a decent grasp of the law. On an ongoing basis, it provides a review process for activity that might not be illegal per se, but poorly serves the client.
First off, a majority of states DO mandate membership in the state bar association (32 out of 50). Secondly, even in the states that don't, you can't just hang out your shingle and practice law - you need to be admitted to the bar by passing the state bar exam and being admitted to practice law in that state.
Law is a profession where an incompetent or corrupt practitioner can cause customers tremendous (and not readily correctable) harm. Having a licensing process that ensures that practitioners are at least marginally competent, and a way to prevent the corrupt from robbing others, is by no means unreasonable. We do require licenses for far too many things in this country, but this isn't one of them - if your unlicensed DC tour guide screws up, you end up getting bad info on when the Library of Congress was built, but if your lawyer screws up, you can end up losing your home, or going to jail, etc.
Possibly, although I did search for 18 20 Helene Hellmark Knutsson (the person who holds the office) and 7 10 Helene Hellmark Knutsson.
So, that's why I asked, politely. Not an unreasonable request.
Do you have a citation for those quotes? I can't find them referenced anywhere...
You know, I hadn't noticed the title was a palindrome. Thanks!
You don't sign or put in a pin code. Just swipe, and you're on your way. As for cheaper, I get at least 2% cash back on all my credit card purchases, 5-7% in some cases.
Certainly an option, but would make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to stop money laundering, and hence effectively increase the profitability of a lot of illegal activity.
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