I would certainly continue to be responsible for paying back any loan on the car. That's not in question at all.
The real question is whether or not my comprehensive insurance policy would cover the case of law enforcement seizing and disposing of it. I'm uncertain about this, but it looks like if I can demonstrate that this happened due to no fault of my own, it would be covered.
However, it would only pay off the current value of the car, not the amount of the loan. If I owe more than the car is worth (as is usually the case due to depreciation of the value of the car), then I would still be required to pay off the amount that the insurance didn't cover.
If a car has illegal liquor in it and the car was being used to further illegal activities without the consent of the car's owner, then seizing the liquor makes sense. Seizing the car does not, and I have a serious problem seeing how doing so is anything but straight-up stealing.
I understand your stance, and this is my gut reaction as well. But Texas isn't alone in this sort of thing. If we really start naming "no go" states, then there are a bunch of them to avoid (including Illinois).
Refusing to go into states that engage in this sort of abuse isn't a real solution. The day is coming when that would mean there are very few places in the US that would be left to be in.
The solution has to be to stop the behavior entirely. I'm not sure how to get there, though.
"This shitty generation could die already and leave us alone."
This is a sentiment expressed by every generation about the older generations since man could start expressing sentiments. It's part of the whole thing about how every generation believes both that they invented sex and that they are witnessing the end of civilization.
On the flip side, every older generation thinks that "the kids today" are lazy thugs (with terrible music) who represent the decline of civilization.
Re: You can only police people as much as they want to be policed
Indeed. That's a special case of a larger rule: find the exact amount of tyranny that a population will tolerate, and you have found the exact amount of tyranny they live under.
There is a huge amount of information available about this, so my recommendation would be to talk to a historian that covers this topic, or talk to almost any Rabbi. Google can also help: a reasonable search term would be "jews prohibited from business medieval"
Perhaps because the IOC is more concerned with the global audience than the US audience.
It was hard to nail down solid numbers on this from the 2012 Olympics, but it looks like the US average viewership was around 10-15% of the global average viewership.
"No, it won't be live, but honestly, DOES IT MATTER?"
Not to me, as I'm not watching any of it.
However, it should matter a lot to people if their concern is actually to reduce the drive for people to watch the Olympics through unauthorized sources.
NBC is ignoring a market-based solution to that problem when they avoid meeting an actual consumer demand.
More likely, she figured that she was going to be convicted regardless of whether or not she was guilty (a not completely unreasonable suspicion), and hoped that in pleading guilty, her sentence would be more lenient.
"The problem arises when perhaps untrained or under trained officers use these tests for trace evidence, and/or the results being treated as gospel."
Another, perhaps larger, aspect of the problem is that the test is given when the cop has already decided the person is guilty and is just looking for some sort of confirmation of that guilt. They are not interested in the accuracy of the test, they are interested in a pretext for arrest.
I think it's a safe assumption that the number of incidents of misbehavior is greater than the number of complaints. I know that I would never file a complaint unless I suffered truly large financial or physical damage. I'd be too afraid of some sort of retaliatory action. I suspect that I have a lot of company on that.
The solution I use is two-fold: I avoid flying to the greatest degree possible, and when I have to fly, I ship my baggage to my destination using a parcel service rather than checking bags.
"partly because they were the only ones allowed to lend money at interest"
It shouldn't be left unsaid that there was also a large stretch of time that Jews were legally prohibited from engaging in any business except for banking.
"Socialism is always better than capitalism in that there is less greed."
I don't think that's right. Greed seems to be pretty much a constant. I think that one of the ideals that capitalism aspires to is to leverage the greed so that it has a positive effect.
As with all "-isms", the ideal cannot be achieved, but the idea itself is not without merit.
I think the problem is not capitalism as such, but that -- like all "-isms" -- it comes with a cost, and if you have unbridled capitalism (as we seem to be coming closer to every year), that cost becomes quite high.
I think the same can be said of socialism -- the idea is not without merit, but it comes with a cost (albeit a of a different sort) that becomes quite high as it becomes unbridled.
This sort of thing is why I think that the best system is a mongrel system: take some from column A, some from column B, and mix them so that they never achieve meltdown.
I think this, by the way, is one of the things that Americans should embrace and be proud of more. Although we are moving away from this strength, it is still true that a major strength of the US economic system is that it isn't a pure anything.
"Private companies have the legal right to abridge your human rights."
Private companies have the right to restrict speech on their private platforms. Just as you have the human right to restrict speech within your own home.
The balance to that is the you have the right to not use a private company's platform, and people have the right to not come into your house.
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The real question is whether or not my comprehensive insurance policy would cover the case of law enforcement seizing and disposing of it. I'm uncertain about this, but it looks like if I can demonstrate that this happened due to no fault of my own, it would be covered.
However, it would only pay off the current value of the car, not the amount of the loan. If I owe more than the car is worth (as is usually the case due to depreciation of the value of the car), then I would still be required to pay off the amount that the insurance didn't cover.
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Re: Screw Texas
Refusing to go into states that engage in this sort of abuse isn't a real solution. The day is coming when that would mean there are very few places in the US that would be left to be in.
The solution has to be to stop the behavior entirely. I'm not sure how to get there, though.
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In reality, it is theft, of course -- but reality doesn't count here, only legality does.
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This is a sentiment expressed by every generation about the older generations since man could start expressing sentiments. It's part of the whole thing about how every generation believes both that they invented sex and that they are witnessing the end of civilization.
On the flip side, every older generation thinks that "the kids today" are lazy thugs (with terrible music) who represent the decline of civilization.
Neither viewpoint has been correct yet.
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Re: You can only police people as much as they want to be policed
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Re: Re: Re: Re: One hundred years ago...
There is a huge amount of information available about this, so my recommendation would be to talk to a historian that covers this topic, or talk to almost any Rabbi. Google can also help: a reasonable search term would be "jews prohibited from business medieval"
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Re: Why can't the IOC move the time?
It was hard to nail down solid numbers on this from the 2012 Olympics, but it looks like the US average viewership was around 10-15% of the global average viewership.
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Re: Tripe
Not to me, as I'm not watching any of it.
However, it should matter a lot to people if their concern is actually to reduce the drive for people to watch the Olympics through unauthorized sources.
NBC is ignoring a market-based solution to that problem when they avoid meeting an actual consumer demand.
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Another, perhaps larger, aspect of the problem is that the test is given when the cop has already decided the person is guilty and is just looking for some sort of confirmation of that guilt. They are not interested in the accuracy of the test, they are interested in a pretext for arrest.
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The solution I use is two-fold: I avoid flying to the greatest degree possible, and when I have to fly, I ship my baggage to my destination using a parcel service rather than checking bags.
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Re: Re: One hundred years ago...
It shouldn't be left unsaid that there was also a large stretch of time that Jews were legally prohibited from engaging in any business except for banking.
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I don't think that's right. Greed seems to be pretty much a constant. I think that one of the ideals that capitalism aspires to is to leverage the greed so that it has a positive effect.
As with all "-isms", the ideal cannot be achieved, but the idea itself is not without merit.
I think the problem is not capitalism as such, but that -- like all "-isms" -- it comes with a cost, and if you have unbridled capitalism (as we seem to be coming closer to every year), that cost becomes quite high.
I think the same can be said of socialism -- the idea is not without merit, but it comes with a cost (albeit a of a different sort) that becomes quite high as it becomes unbridled.
This sort of thing is why I think that the best system is a mongrel system: take some from column A, some from column B, and mix them so that they never achieve meltdown.
I think this, by the way, is one of the things that Americans should embrace and be proud of more. Although we are moving away from this strength, it is still true that a major strength of the US economic system is that it isn't a pure anything.
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Re: Free Speech is Greater
Private companies have the right to restrict speech on their private platforms. Just as you have the human right to restrict speech within your own home.
The balance to that is the you have the right to not use a private company's platform, and people have the right to not come into your house.
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