The state needs to copy and paste the federal Anti-Deficiency Act into state law. No legislative appropriation or authorization to accept money from another source, no spending. As a federal employee I'd have been utterly fucked if I were accepting funding from an outside party.
They don't quite want to bill like utilities, either; that would imply less use results in a smaller bill. Pay more when your connection for more than the occasional email? Sure thing! But cable companies only want that to go in one direction.
There are plenty of open-source programs that are, in fact, in the public domain — SQLite would be one example thereof. (And if for whatever reason your lawyers don't think that's clear enough, it's possible to buy an explicit license.)
You left out the really frakked-up part. Say you're in the UK and want to apply for a US visa. Step #1: call an 09 number.
That's right. The State Department won't give you a visa until you call their phone-sex line. And make an appointment, get TSAed, and come to grovel in person. We don't actually want foreigners coming anywhere near us. Must be cooties or something.
It's not so much that it's difficult to get Americans to use dollar coins — Americans have never been given a choice to. The only time I have any in my possession is when I go out of my way to do so.
Those stores you mourn had crap selection, extremely inflated prices, and limited hours. Heck, many of them were probably closed on Sundays. If it wasn't for the Internet and Walmart, people in Malone would be driving to Montréal all the time to get a better selection, even if things are more expensive north of the border. (For all I know, they do. The closest I've been is Ithaca, and I can assure you that if it weren't for the large chains there everyone would still burn metric buttloads of gas driving to Syracuse.)
This is the same sense of entitlement British merchants have — they can't be bothered to have trading hours, inventory, or any other reason at all for customers to visit, and then wonder why the grocery stores have turned into general-merchandise stores. "Throw money at my closed doors" is not a sustainable business plan; moaning about how nobody will burn their vacation time to shop at your store, instead of at a merchant that actually wants the business, accomplishes nothing but making sure everyone gets the message to not even bother with your third-rate establishment.
I can understand VZW not keeping track of every warrantied part swap — but it's less usual for Cisco to not notice that USD 5*10^6 of supposedly-defective parts (at least) hadn't been returned.
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Qualified immunity is strictly a tort law concept; if the DA is pressing charges that's a criminal suit and QI is not even remotely a thing.
Re: Off the books, off the legal coverage
The state needs to copy and paste the federal Anti-Deficiency Act into state law. No legislative appropriation or authorization to accept money from another source, no spending. As a federal employee I'd have been utterly fucked if I were accepting funding from an outside party.
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What states need is their own versions of the Anti-Deficiency Act. No authorization from the legislature, no spending.
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Wrap her up
Maybe they should just catch a clue and give up, but sorry seems to be the hardest word.
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Re: Re: Prenda using Hollywood Accounting?
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It gets even better
That's right. The State Department won't give you a visa until you call their phone-sex line. And make an appointment, get TSAed, and come to grovel in person. We don't actually want foreigners coming anywhere near us. Must be cooties or something.
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This is the same sense of entitlement British merchants have — they can't be bothered to have trading hours, inventory, or any other reason at all for customers to visit, and then wonder why the grocery stores have turned into general-merchandise stores. "Throw money at my closed doors" is not a sustainable business plan; moaning about how nobody will burn their vacation time to shop at your store, instead of at a merchant that actually wants the business, accomplishes nothing but making sure everyone gets the message to not even bother with your third-rate establishment.
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Because scribd is annoying
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