Comment Re:What about Steve Wozniak's card? (Score 1) 370
Those are definitely neat, but it eliminates one of the most frequent uses of business cards: scratch paper. Unless you had a grease pencil, I guess.
Those are definitely neat, but it eliminates one of the most frequent uses of business cards: scratch paper. Unless you had a grease pencil, I guess.
I'm pretty sure it's both. Are you seriously expecting consistency from an elected official at the head of a vast bureaucracy?
Just because something existed in the 70's doesn't necessarily mean people should have known about it or that it had any impact on future developments.
You know, you're right. I am not a lawyer, but I deal with them on a day-to-day basis for my job. Many—most, even—of them are some of the nicest people on a personal level. But you start talking about legal matters with them and suddenly they are complete bastards. I don't know whether this is something inculcated in law school or what.
Because we don't. There's not a better answer to your question.
If you think the US should have a "loser pays" legal system, get elected to the Congress and introduce legislation for it.
And what government instituted among men is going to destroy something so potentially useful—to them, of course, not to the citizenry.
Your ideas intrigue me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
One can use Evolution as a substitute for Outlook.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I won't use Evolution until it supports recurring tasks. And since that particular bug has gone unclosed for over eleven years, I'm not holding my breath. Well, not anymore.
Minors are not held—legally—to the same standard. This is for their protection. The legal presumption is that the judgment of minors is not as sound as adults', and that therefore they cannot be held accountable to the same extent as an adult would be. Basically, the law believes that minors are too dumb and easily-influenced to know what they're doing. (We can argue about whether that's a valid belief, but that's a different argument.)
That's not the same as being able to "say anything they please without consequence."
A sales tax in excess of 20% would kill the economy.
It would kill the legal economy. The shadow economy would blossom. Say I'm a widget vendor, and the tax is 20%. You want to buy a widget. So I tell you, "Sure, hedwards, tell you what: if you pay cash, I'll only charge you 10% tax." I then, of course, keep no record of the transaction and pocket the 10%. Calls for some creative bookkeeping, but nothing out of the ordinary as these things go.
Would you say the same thing if it was a student suspended for off-campus speach about his teachers? It seems Slashdot has a problem with punishing the students for this kind of behavior, and I don't see anything that would negate that principle here.
You mean besides the fact that they're minors and not held to the same standard as adults?
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.