Comment Re:Welcome to America (Score 1) 256
Google "jim hood radley balko" to see how Hood has screwed innocent people time and again with convictions using discredited "bite mark analysis" and such. Hood's a piece of trash.
Google "jim hood radley balko" to see how Hood has screwed innocent people time and again with convictions using discredited "bite mark analysis" and such. Hood's a piece of trash.
What rights do men have that woman do not?
HATER!!!
Any other questions?
Just like many people predicted in the submission for asking the questions, it looks like the good, hard-hitting questions were totally ignored.
I doubt she has an opinion one way or another on systemd.
First of all, if you are "neutral" on the horrific abuse that is systemd you are part of the problem!!!
and yet... NOBODY (but you) GIVES A DAMN.
He was stripped of his law license in Arkansas as a result of perjury. Somebody besides me cared quite a bit - including a judge and the AR bar association.
It's always interesting that folks like yourself think sexual harassment is the absolute worst thing a guy can do - unless he's a Democrat.
That may be, but I'm suspecting the immigration workers aren't really that organized.
It find it far more likely that he behaves like the conspiratorial ass that he is, instantly either pissing them off or setting off their "this guy ain't normal" alarm, which then causes a deeper questioning. Lots of the conspiracy nuts are walking self-fulfilling prophecies.
I've yet to see anything from O'Keefe that would suggest he's a conspiracy nut. Unfortunately.
Can we get someone to explain how its OK for the IRS to harass people hoping to change policy but it's bad for DHS to harass people hoping to change policy?
I'm not sure what you mean. It is not legal for the IRS to "harass people hoping to change policy."
It is, however, legal for the IRS to ask organizations claiming tax exemption as charities to show that they are not engaging in political lobbying (because political organizations are not tax exempt). If that's what you call "harassing," then, no, not only is it not illegal, it is in fact part of IRS's job.
I see we're checking off the media matters list here. Say, since Lois Lerner did nothing wrong why do you suppose she pleaded the 5th? Note that it's not possible for an honest person to have need of the 5th amendment.
The politically correct crowd will willingly ignore horrible behavior as long as the person is otherwise supportive of their cause. I point to William Jefferson Clinton (Bill) as my defacto example of someone, who had they been had an (R) after their name, would have been judged completely differently by the PC (read, liberal) crowd.
So I take the cries of the PC crowd to be largely hypocritical.
In what sense?
I assume you're referring to his affair, I'd say the reaction seems mild because a) affairs are tough for the family and a personal indictment but not really a public policy issue and are generally ignored, b) Clinton never presented himself as an example of a perfect family man so it wasn't very hypocritical, c) the reaction of the Republicans was completely over the top.
I don't deny that the PC crowd can be hypocritical but I don't think they're moreso than any other group.
His "affair"? No, his multiple affairs, his predatory sexual assaults on subordinates, and his perjuring himself in a lawsuit (while also suborning perjury through witness coaching) were the issues that the liberals overlook and continue to try to obfuscate (as you've done above). Had a Republican done even half of that we would still be reading about it in the press.
I stopped reading when I reached the point of him complaining that the additional buttons in the login and lock screens are "distracting".....
I stopped reading the articles around 2002.
Well sure. I guess I generally assume that when people say 'the cost will be passed on to customers' I read: 'the extra expense will result in an immediate increase in price for services'.
I mean, obviously people realize that the money ultimately comes from customers. If you presume that statement to say otherwise then you clearly misunderstand what is being said.
Uh, no. With a large established company like TW this is simply a drop in the bucket. My point stands.
Perhaps the CC companies permit you to pass along swipe fees there, but in much of the world, they don't. They should probably be prohibited by law from prohibiting you from passing those fees on, but ha ha ha
LOL, here we go again. Of course you pass on the swipe fees, unless you have a special printing press in the back that prints money to be used to cover swipe fees.
What you're missing is that all customers pay the same amount, meaning if I pay with cash part of my cash is covering other people's swipe fees. I usually pay with cash so, yeah, bit of a bummer. However, you'll find at a lot of stores on large purchases they'll bargain way better when you wave a wad of cash under their nose.
As poster above stated, there are a few alternatives:
1. Customer pays
2. Shareholders pay (in the form of less profit)
3. Employees pay in the form of not getting a raise or no increase in compensation
4. The company spends less money on other things to make up the cost
I think you missed the point, so I'll bring it up again. TW - like most profitable companies - makes all of its money from sales to customers. Therefore, for any expense that TW has the statement "the customers are going to pay for it" is true. Therefore, it's meaningless.
Let me help you:
2 Shareholders pay (in the form of less profit)
<eyeroll> Yes, that'll happen either way. The money that the shareholders earn (in the form of dividends) still comes from customers. Again - they either have a printing press for money or it comes from customers.
3. Employees pay
Yeah, and where does employee pay come from? A magical printing press in the back room, of course, that prints the money that pays employees.
Oh, wait, no, this is reality, so the money COMES FROM CUSTOMERS. <facepalm>
4. The company spends less money on other things....
(Do I have to repeat this at this point?)
The *only* other options for "who pays for this?" would be if an outside investor approached them and, for whatever reason, says "Hey, you got screwed on that court case. Tell you what, for x% of your company I'll pay that judgement for you." Put another way, they could sell extra stock (and thus devalue all existing stock) to raise the money. For a company of their size it's probably not worth it.
They will just pass this cost and its legal costs onto the consumer.
Of course they will. It's either that or they own a money printing press, right? I see this all the time: "they'll just pass the cost on to consumers". I'm at a loss to determine what you think the alternative would be. Every business technically passes all their costs to their customers as the customers are how they make money. When you pay your TW bill (if you have TW) then part of that bill is covering legal expenses when they screw up. Same as when you buy a can of pop at Walmart, Kroger, etc.
And then take both as an expense tax deduction.
It surprised me to find that they can deduct this. The IRS code doesn't allow deduction of penalties paid to governmental agencies, but apparently civil non-governmental judgements are deductable.
The few air spaces inside the machines are filled with helium. It actually weighs 5lbs. otherwise.
I'm nowhere near your age, but I live in a country where smoking wasn't very popular until 20-25 years ago (in schools as well). And I had a few mates that smoked a lot. By graduation, they looked pretty much like fully aged adults. It was strange.
My family, and everyone on my mothers side are non-smokers. Not even second hand. They all look better than others their age.
I can say that smoking and possibly drugs are a factor in at least some of the folks who aged more quickly. That's a good point.
Is it just you?
Once I visited home and walked around with my dad, and ran into my friend's dad, Bill.
All I could think was "two old men having an old-man conversation".
Afterwards my dad told he he was surprised how much Bill had aged, while he himself had barely aged at all!
Good question, but no, it's not just me. Admittedly I look young for my age, as does my wife. We're both commonly mistaken for being 10 years younger than we are. What stuck out in my facebook friends list isn't "me" vs. "other people", it's "some of my friends" vs. "some of my other friends". If you saw their pictures without knowing who they were you would have trouble believing they were all the same age. Some look to be my age and others look 20+ years older. I know one guy who's 50 who looks to be my mother's age (she's 72).
The point is that when you see all of these people side-by-side in photos those differences are really noticeable. I've noticed that those who age quickest don't tend to show up at the class reunions so I didn't notice before.
Another odd effect is that some of the girls who were babes in high school turned out to be average looking by age 30. I don't mean "fat" - I mean their beautiful face became average. At the same time some girls who weren't terribly pretty in high school are now very pretty.
It's strange how people change throughout life, and it's not something you notice until you've lived like 50 years.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
