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I call him Gamblor!
"I'm not a state, I'm a monster!"
Comedy reflects reality!
Family Guy "Palestinian Alarm Clock"
That was funny enough.
Michael Moore Helps the NYPD Distinguish Wallets from Guns
LO and I are former friends (for reasons which need not be brought up here). Trust me when I tell you he's a firearm encyclopedia.
I couldn't care if you've manufactured your own firearms. Unless you've stood off face to face with someone and had to shoot at someone you still don't have a clue. Nor the psychological switches that go on.
Cancer Breakthrough. Believe It.
Check out the world's population growth by region... most of it is due to terrible living conditions. In many places sex is the only real form of entertainment. Once an area becomes urbanized the fertility rate tends to drop to replacement.
Ah no. Sex isn't used as a form of entertainment it's used as a form of keeping your family alive, bringing in the crops, and feeing the family by having working livable hands. This is the core growth of humanity and why people in poor regions have large numbers of kids. This is the same reason why when you go back 70 years, having a farm with 8 kids was still the norm in North America and Europe.
It's not that hard to figure out, and there's been so much research on that it's all over the place.
Michael Moore Helps the NYPD Distinguish Wallets from Guns
They fired 41 one rounds at him. That's an average to 10.25 rounds per officer. Obviously you can't fire 1/4 of a bullet, but still, that mean each officer had to almost empty his firearm while firing at one suspect. Now we all know he wasn't hit 41 times, and I understand the need to fire until the target has "gone down" but 41 shots is super excessive. Either these cops were trigger happy, or horrible, horrible shots and shouldn't be allowed to carry firearms because they are far more likely to hit an innocent bystander than anything they are aiming at.
No it's not, you just don't understand shooting. Here's why, and if you've ever been to a police college they'll tell you the same thing.
@25ft(I'll be nice)
Standing still 20% chance to hit someone.
Suspect moving 10-12% to hit.
Both moving 5-7% to hit.
And yep every cop still passes their gun qualification, and some even have sharpshooting qualifications. It really is that hard to hit someone. There was an incident in London, Ontario where a cop emptied 31 rounds I think it was and didn't hit them once. He was cleared, fully.
MM is an idiot, stuff like this proves it. If you've never been in a situation where you might be killed by someone elses actions because they're not complying you have no idea what it's like.
Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
Restaurants cannot levy a tax. It's a charge, it's a gratuity, it's a tip, it's whatever you want to call it, but it's not a tax. I'm not quite sure what people aren't getting about this.
Also we're arguing semantics if the argument is based on whether gratuity or tips can or cannot be compulsory. There is no written law I know that says they must be one way or another. If you agree to pay a gratuity before service, then you should be ready to pay it after service is completed.
If I buy a massage for my girlfriend, they ask if I'd like to add a gratuity to the gift certificate. Obviously I don't know if the massage is going to be rubbish or fantastic, but I add it ahead of time so she doesn't have to tip them. At that point, I've agreed to the price before service. Same thing here.
I was being facetious but you should have caught that when I called it a tax. In the terms of everything however that is what it boils down to. If something becomes mandatory it's no longer a respect for service, but a mandatory pay for a job on top of a service already expected. In most places for something mandatory gratuity(I suppose I could call it something else, such as a store based levy) it has to be openly visible for the customers to see as well.
Tipping for all things can and can't be compulsory depending on where you are and the laws. If it's compulsory it becomes something else depending on your tax code, and they actually have to file and provide you with a different receipt for it as well. The funny thing is, depending on where you live you can be nailed for tax evasion on it. As demanding tipping in this manner can, and can't be recorded via the normal way.
The rest of your post doesn't apply.
Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
Most parties over five or so have a mandatory gratuity. Boo on the restaurant for not comping them if the customer is dissatisfied with the service, but a major BOO on these sense of entitlement meat globs for complaining so fervently over a dish being an hour late and having to get napkins. I'm sure if they asked the waitress for napkins, she would've done it for them, but these self-important ass clowns probably couldn't wait because AMERICAN PRINCESSES DON'T WAIT FOR NO ONE!!!!
Yeah. Be nice to your food servicers. It's a thankless job and the tips hardly make up for the frustration.
You know, if it's mandatory it's not a tip. It's a serving tax, don't try to bill it as something it's not. My GF has worked in the food industry for the last 24 years about when she was 12. Master chef(specializing in Italian, French and Swiss foods) with double honors in presentation and preperation, she has worked as a server when she got tired of that. She can make people stand up and hand money over for a tip by smiling and giving a nod of her head, as in $1200/week in tips from midscale restaurants. You want thankless be a chef.
Now when you're going to a place with servers no less. And they don't do their job of pre-setup, there's a problem. Entitlement? Yes you bet. You're paying for a service(see that word....suuuurrrrrvice say it slowly now). When you're waiting an hour for food, there's a problem in the kitchen too. Tell ya what Blanky. Americans set the world standard in server quality, other countries send people to the US to learn "How" to do it. Server quality world wide is modelled after the US.
Let me finish out with this. I have no problems with tipping if they do a good job, I have a problem with mandatory tipping when the service is piss poor, and so is the food. That's almost as bad as mandatory compulsory volunteer work that they have kids do in highschool. Hello? Need a clue bat?
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I can't tell you how disappointed I am that nobody else is familiar with this epic quotation. Marvin Rules.
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Where is the earth shattering kaboom?
Quickly! Get my P-38 space modulator. We're going to fix this!
I agree, he's one of my favourites.
Young girl sneezes 117 times per minute
Zero Punctuation: Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon age origins, or the game you buy when you don't feel like paying for your wow subscription, want to play alone, and have a pause button at all times.
Or play something new, that you haven't been playing for the last 6-7ish years. If you're on the F&F list, who got to see what a interesting game it was back in the early alpha.
Because despite adding content, it still does get boring after a few years. Not to mention repetitive, and monotonous.
Bombproof Wallpaper.
16 yr old has ridiculously simple idea, makes $$$
That all being said it would suck if someone went stair-steadying down the stairs before you.
I'm living back at my parents place right now because my mother has limited mobility and my father can't take care of her on his own. Usually in a house if you have a person with limited mobility, it's just one. Not two, if you have two people they generally move somewhere else like a single story dwelling with easier access to everything.
Personally for someone like her, with a few stairs in the house this is brilliant. I doubt she'd be able to get up stairs, they're just too steep. But it'd make it easier in some other places around here, and they can't afford to sell this place right now.
60 Minutes: Sabotaging the System - A report on cyber-crime
Rachel Maddow: Health Reform Bill Restricts Abortion Cover
Except that, while those problems exist (which they will for the forseeable future) having more children does make it worse - having more children while you are poor certainly doesn't make poverty disappear, that's wishful thinking. Have you looked at the birth rates in the coutries most affected by poverty, hunger, AIDS, malaria etc?
The groupthink speaking is actually the people that think that donating money for food is making any long term difference, it warms the cockles of their heart because they think they did something good, and it feeds a hungry child for a month, but in the meantime that childs mother had 5 more babies, like in the Congo for example.
Between 300-800 years ago, and further back of course; Europe was in a similar situation in the pre-industrial setting. The only way to succeed is to have children, because kids are useful, they can be used to *insert use here*(from dealing with crops/work/etc). The other flip side is, when you have a high child/infant mortality rate you need to replace them. Having children doesn't make it worse, it's the only way to survive. If you want to wipe out a population, then not having children is the way to go.
And actually, then we're getting back into the positive population checks theory that was in limited traction at the time too. Positive population checks = famine/death/war/etc keep the peons/serfs/peasants in line for those at the top. Sound familiar? Many parts of the world that you're talking about are strikingly similar to everywhere within the last 1000 years.
Now it's not bad, that people want to donate money. Actually, that's not really group thing. There's no MOI factors there. And again with your second paragraph, refer to my first two. As with the future, and current situation you look to the past to see how it unfolds.
Front Groups - The Hidden Persuaders
I live in Alberta, frankly, it is disgusting how many individuals i have met who blindly believe anti climate change propaganda. For a deeper look at how the corporation and media are distorting our information, check out Manufacturing Consent, by Noam Chomsky.
I live in Ontario. And it's a funny thing to realize that a large number of people can't think for themselves. As soon as they turn around and say "look deeper" they turn to another talking and yipping windbag, who is spewing the same crap.
My faith in humanity continues to move backwards when the old irony meter is pegged at 11.
Rachel Maddow: Health Reform Bill Restricts Abortion Cover
Actually access to cheap contraception and abortion is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty everywhere on earth.
Same resources divided among more people = poverty.
The issue with poverty isn't people. That's the groupthink speaking. It's the in general internationalization of some government structures(read despots, dictators, and other forms of absolute control), or people unwilling to work up. The same issue follows through with hunger and so forth. I really couldn't care one way or the other, but we're not running short on: Food(first time in human history), supplies(again a first), energy(well wtf), so what's the issue? Power, corruption, and the inability to crawl your way up from being a dirt farmer, or being kicked back down by someone.
Rachel Maddow Goes After Liz Cheney
it's starting to get boring. it seems all there is left in US tv journalism are big egos.
That isn't journalism. That's opinion wrapped in egotism.
More Warehouse Failure!
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