Well state usary laws used to stop this sort of thing, contract or no contract. But then the Supreme Court gave us Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp in 1978 and the banks have been having a field day ever since.

There has never been a federal usary law. So you can't blame congress for this outside of just not making one.

You can however blame the Supreme Court of 1978 for Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp.

If you want to blame someone blame Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp.

Not true. Ever since Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp the usury laws of the state where the bank resides apply. Not the usury laws where the customer lives or where the loan was originated. So if the bank is in Delaware they can change you whatever they want.

Maybe TFA thinks women have a harder time moving or that they are somehow less capable of dealing with the demands of being a working adult? Seems a bit sexist if you ask me.

Sure moving is a colossal PITA but its a pretty normal thing to move when you get a new job.

I don't think that three days a week is unreasonable. Anyone who thought that Dell was going to just keep paying property taxes on their offices while leaving them empty is an idiot. Everyone should have seen this coming for over a year.

And they are only checking the badge in logs on the doors. They have openly admitted they have no way to track how long you are in the office, only that you were there. If you really want to you could always go in and almost immediately leave. This sort of behavior is highly discouraged (and would probably get you in trouble) but they have no real way of stopping it.

There is no confusion about which office you need to go to. They don't care. Any building with a badge reader counts. It doesn't matter where in the country its located.

It would be possible, but probably unpopular, to remove the cap on contributions while retaining the current cap on benefits. This would make the system an even more progressive tax than it already is. Personally I would be in favor of this. But to be fair it wouldn't affect me in the slightest either way.

I laugh a little inside whenever I hear someone talk about means testing based on income. Income tells you *nothing* about how well off someone is financially.

That kid fresh out of college working that unpaid intern position? His parents paid for his college tuition outright and are currently paying his rent for him. He puts all his daily expenses on dad's credit card too. But he's got no income and he's not claimed as a dependent on his parent's taxes so we'd better qualify him for all the means tested programs. Great use of tax payer money right there going through everyone's tax returns to make sure they need those means tested programs.

There are *far* more people like this out there than most people realize.

As opposed to the 100% whole wheat timestamps.

I buckle both my kids into child seats in the back of my Model 3 just fine. I can then put groceries in the truck and a diaper bag and such in the frunk. With space to spare. And my wife then comfortably fits in the passenger front seat. I don't see what you are getting at.

Its not strange at all. Without a minimum tax rate corporations just move all of their profits to whatever country has the lowest tax rate, usually Ireland. The result is that the the vast majority of countries collect no corporate tax at all on any corporation large enough to do the accounting work of moving its profits overseas. Ireland is basically stealing everyone else's tax revenue. So getting them to agree to raise their very low tax rate is a huge win for everyone else.

It might in the swing states.

Odds are you have read/write access to whatever data/documents you use on a daily basis. Not having admin rights may keep the ransomware from locking up system files but those aren't what its after. It wants the stuff you use on a daily basis. Getting to the network share where a team stores all of their day to day stuff is plenty, no need to actually mess with the file server itself or even the OS on the workstations.

Proper backups are the only solution here. But many places don't do them, don't them properly, or can't restore from them in a reasonable amount of time if the "lost" data is more than a couple of office documents.

Since the machine can automatically order new cartridges it clearly has, or can have, an internet connection. They company could update the firmware at 3am and you would never know.

I would image a warrant, or the equivalent thereof, served to Youtube would get you the IP that uploaded the video. From there you check ARIN, RIPE, ect... to see what ISP that IP address is assigned to. Then a warrant served to the ISP gets you billing information, which probably includes a name and street address. Tracking someone down over the internet is pretty easy if they aren't on a VPN and/or a public wifi hotspot and you have the powers of law enforcement and the cooperation of the local authorities.

Because an iPhone won't run any code that has not been signed by Apple's private key. That internal company app store? Its using a private key that has been signed by Apple's key and that company has paid Apple a large pile of money for that privilege. A privilege that Apple can revoke at any time. Want to run your own app store for iOS devices that isn't limited to just your employees? Guess what the odds are of Apple letting you by signing your key? Zero. Companies participating in the "private app store" program are literally not allowed to release apps from their internal app store to the public. If someone breaks the rules their key is revoked and their apps stop working.