Several states have already passed laws that prevent employers from using social network content in their hiring practices . . .

Not that I don't think that ethically, that's great, but it's also utterly unenforceable. How is someone going to prove he or she was denied employment because a hiring manager or HR checked out content on Myfacetwiitter?

Because when you marry someone with children, you assume responsibility for the children?

It looks like you've confused marriage with adoption.

You mutton make that kind of extrapolation.

When someone finds a phone and does not turn it in and keeps it for himself, that phone is stolen.

. I think the majority of the stolen phones are left in taxis, bar stools, bathrooms, and park benches. so they are not stolen.

Yes, the are. The "finders keepers" rule of childhood playgrounds does not apply in adult life. Someone who finds property someone left behind has a legal duty to either find the owner and return it or turn it in to the police. If the police can't find the owner, then the finder may get to keep the property.

The tighter you close your grip, Tarkin, . . .

And The Retail Equation, whether they've owned up to it yet or not, is a Consumer Reporting Agency as defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act and is required to provide free reports annually and when adverse action is taken against a customer (the latter, they apparently do comply with).

Sue them in Small Claims for the price of the goods plus costs. Of course, then you'll be on a blacklist of customers that have sued retailers.

I hate to break it to you, but Missouri does indeed collect "use tax" on out-of-state purchases. Or at least tries. Take a look at your MO-1040 instructions under "Consumers Use Tax". Now of course if I worked in Jefferson City, I'd flag anyone who itemized and paid any of that tax just because they must be doing something wrong to try to appear like that much of a Boy Scout, but the line is there.

But at least in San Juan, if you cut into traffic the guy you just cut in front of doesn't take it as an affront to his manhood. It's chaotic but I didn't find it as bad as driving in Chicago or New York.

Thanks for that -- when I saw this thread, that song immediately started playing in my head.

What I can't see, are your turn signals when you have your hazard lights on.

Joke's on you--people from the East Coast don't use their turn signals!

And he found out he was human in the end. I wonder if he regretted being such a douche.

Excellent dissection of the smug "family importance" bullshit in the parent post. Well done!

Nah, such a law would only apply to information on our masters. Think of the poor law enforcement officers and politicians who have to labor under the spectre of the same laws that make things like real estate transactions, marriages, and divorces part of the public record: the law could be easily changed to "fix" that and I'm surprised it hasn't already been.