Because a recorded announcement saying “move along, nothing to see here” is a hell of a lot cheaper than assigning a cop to hang around the statue full time.
You’d think the NFL/PA would look out for their former members in contract discussions with EA… but emphasis on “former.”
None of these organizations have a sterling reputation for ethical behavior to begin with, and if doing the right thing involves additional effort and cost (disbursing royalties to the retirees,) I wouldn’t expect them to lift a finger.
I imagine that has more to do with discouraging people from standing there taking pictures in the middle of the street where there’s no stoplight or crosswalk.
Please don’t call it “Cali.” This isn’t just some stylistic objection like those to “Frisco” or “San Fran;” there is an actual place named Cali that is unobscure enough to make the news from time to time.
Doesn’t it behoove the state of Georgia to compare the public good served by whatever pittance its treasury reaps from licensing fees versus that served by releasing the annotated code into public domain, or at least a CC-A-NC-ND license? What’s GA’s justification here?
Come to think of it, it is a little odd that a brand that leans so heavily on Americana in its advertising clings to monarchist language in its slogan.
What sinister purposes do you imagine a grocery store has in spying on the highly classified data of items you buy from that very store itself?
“That John Fenderson sure is buying a lot of ham lately… Let’s blackmail him by threatening to pass this info on to his Orthodox rabbi”
Believe me, nobody cares about tying your groceries to your real identity. My Safeway card has a made-up phone number and for some reason thinks my name is Mariana Ramos. The only reason they keep track is so they can try to sell you more stuff. If ham consumers statistically tend to also buy eggs or Swiss cheese, the store guesses you’d be interested in those products too and prints out special coupons to entice you. That’s all. Without the affinity card data you get no coupons, or random coupons for things you have no interest in.
That’s not at all what money laundering means. It has nothing to do with serial numbers or physically tracing fat stacks.
Basics of Money Laundering:
You receive a large amount of cash income from your criminal enterprise. You can’t use it to buy or invest in anything significant without raising red flags with the cops and/or taxman. You can’t just put it in the bank, because the bank has to report large deposits. Either way, the IRS will come around asking questions about where that money came from and why didn’t you declare it on your tax return. (Of course you couldn’t declare it, because you can’t account for how you got it without getting in even more trouble.)
So what you do is you open a legitimate business that routinely deals in a lot of smallish cash transactions — a strip club, a car wash, a pool hall, a bar — and you add chunks of your dirty money to the clean declarable income the front business brings in. If your bar legitimately grosses $50,000/month, it becomes $58,000, it’s not going to raise any eyebrows. Now your dirty money has a clean source that you can report on your tax return, and you’re free to spend how you like (minus Uncle Sugar’s cut.)
I saw a guy texting while riding his bike yesterday. Weaving all over the street, which happens to have potholes, trolley tracks, and heavy truck traffic. I’m still nonplussed at the pathological inability to prioritize.
You may be thinking of the Great White Fleet, which TR surreptitiously sent to circumnavigate the globe in a "friendly" show of naval force to keep the Japanese from getting too cocky.
Senator Eugene Hale from Maine, chairman of the Naval Appropriations Committee, threatened to withhold money for the cruise. But this didn't bother Roosevelt, who replied in his typically brusque and forthright fashion that he already had the money and dared Congress to "try and get it back."
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None of these organizations have a sterling reputation for ethical behavior to begin with, and if doing the right thing involves additional effort and cost (disbursing royalties to the retirees,) I wouldn’t expect them to lift a finger.
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California
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High praise from someone who doesn’t recognize a conditional.
Public interest
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Walgreens Nationals
https://myboyfriendlikesbaseball.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/walgreens-nationals2.jpg
(I’d make a joke about the Cubs not having much occasion to display a W, except they’re doing pretty well this year.)
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“That John Fenderson sure is buying a lot of ham lately… Let’s blackmail him by threatening to pass this info on to his Orthodox rabbi”
Believe me, nobody cares about tying your groceries to your real identity. My Safeway card has a made-up phone number and for some reason thinks my name is Mariana Ramos. The only reason they keep track is so they can try to sell you more stuff. If ham consumers statistically tend to also buy eggs or Swiss cheese, the store guesses you’d be interested in those products too and prints out special coupons to entice you. That’s all. Without the affinity card data you get no coupons, or random coupons for things you have no interest in.
Re: on the subject of Money Laundering
Basics of Money Laundering:
You receive a large amount of cash income from your criminal enterprise. You can’t use it to buy or invest in anything significant without raising red flags with the cops and/or taxman. You can’t just put it in the bank, because the bank has to report large deposits. Either way, the IRS will come around asking questions about where that money came from and why didn’t you declare it on your tax return. (Of course you couldn’t declare it, because you can’t account for how you got it without getting in even more trouble.)
So what you do is you open a legitimate business that routinely deals in a lot of smallish cash transactions — a strip club, a car wash, a pool hall, a bar — and you add chunks of your dirty money to the clean declarable income the front business brings in. If your bar legitimately grosses $50,000/month, it becomes $58,000, it’s not going to raise any eyebrows. Now your dirty money has a clean source that you can report on your tax return, and you’re free to spend how you like (minus Uncle Sugar’s cut.)
Re: Pseudoscience. . . (as Mariachi)
Re: Grammar, please!
“Drink no wine before [it is time to drink that particular wine.]”
“Drink no wine before [that wine’s time has arrived.]”
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I saw a guy texting while riding his bike yesterday. Weaving all over the street, which happens to have potholes, trolley tracks, and heavy truck traffic. I’m still nonplussed at the pathological inability to prioritize.
Teddy Roosevelt
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