vishaldpatel

The US gov't is much bigger than all these corps combined. And they have multiple police forces. Oh, whats that? You don't like our service? Too bad, because there's no other game in town. And no, you're not allowed to disrupt the government.

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Ah, yes. The law attempts to prevent corruption.

Whats wrong with VW just having a work-council that's made up of workers from within the factory, without UAW?

Racial discrimination is when someone is discriminated on the basis of their race. It doesn't matter how friendly the perpetrator is to people of other races.

One of the reasons it is easy to throw a stone at a big white bus is because it dehumanizes it's occupants. This makes it easy for people to treat them differently.

The target is not the employees. The anger towards the city, which has failed to provide good public transportation for it's residents.

The tech companies recognized that the public transportation sucks and built their own. The protestors could just stand outside of city-hall, but disrupting tech-buses is a much louder and more effective message.

This is a good point, for sure - especially when it comes to personal financial planning. It is also the reason why I think every country should have a proper social safety net in place if they can afford it.

Sorry I forgot to add enough pluses:

1/4 onion +

1 can of kidney beans +

1/2 tomato +

1/2 lime +

Salt, Pepper, Paprica for taste +

3 cups of cooked rice on the side or mixed in.

Thats one recipe.

The rest of the items can be their own recipe, or eaten separately =)

Cheapest I could come up with:

1/4 onion +

1 can of kidney beans +

3 cups of cooked rice +

1/2 tomato

1/2 lime

Salt, Pepper, Paprica for taste.

1/2 pint of non-fat yoghurt (18oz / 450g)

1 fist full of mixed nuts.

1 apple

1 orange

1 banana

That should cover protein, calcium, vitamin and carb needs for a fairly good diet.

A greencard is not just an employment permit. It is a permit to stay here permanently.

So.. paywall.

There's a story of a Korean boy who learned English after coming to the United States by watching Simpsons episodes with the subtitles on. He'd write down every word / sentence that he didn't understand, find it's meaning and learn it. Then when the same episode was aired again later in the week, he'd watch it again to make sure that he understood.

Guessing that none of these tax-free zones will be in New York City.

There are plenty of tech companies that are very 9 to 5. People have lives and families outside of work. I've worked at three startups now and have yet to work at one where I routinely worked long hours. Good, competent managers who have lives outside of work definitely helps.

Has he been proven guilty?

Will it blend? :D No? No will it blend? :(

Questions: Why did you pick $7? Why not $10 or $15? What diet will the first meal plans be for? Will it be all organic? Is it freshly prepared each day from raw ingredients?

I'm sorry you're uncomfortable with male nudity.

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Your argument would be much helped by actual anecdotes.

Maybe I'm unsure of how courts work, but couldn't the defense have an expert witness to call the prosecutors out?

I feel my most satisfied when I pull off things that impress me. Not others - sometimes others get easily impressed. If I go on too long without doing anything that I can pat myself on the back with then I start feeling like an imposter... just buying time before someone figures out that I'm a fake.

Idea: Make reading patents a mandatory exercise for students. Assignment: squash a patent application.

Any gun-owning Floridians here wanna comment on this?

It's open source. Fund it and it'll get ported to other platforms =)

Most of this is pretty good. I'd add:

- Planning is good. Failed plans allow one to re-evaluate. Plans may fail but one shouldn't fail to plan.

- Be professional. There is very little difference between someone who is paying you $2 for a job and someone is paying you $2000. As long as they are paying you, they expect you to be professional. That payment includes the price of keeping your personality from getting in the way of your working relationship.

- If you deliver and keep people in the loop as you work on things, they will hi-five you.

- Save money. My father's thumb-rule is to have at least two year's worth of savings to sustain his current standard of living. This allows for much more freedom in choosing future clients and projects.

- Making big mistakes sometimes means getting fired. You can make big mistakes and apologize. You may still get fired. It's just business. Keep it professional, walk away and learn from your mistakes.

It is easy to see how the exotic underclass can be helped by an entrepreneur: they are technologically behind in one way or another. Someone can create technology tailored to their needs and solve their problems.

By comparison, problems facing the unexotic underclass are generally much more difficult to solve through technology. Most of their problems are sociological, economic and political in nature.

New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia are towns with the best walk-score in America.

For various reasons, it is still much cheaper to live in the suburbs and commute into the city than to live in San Francisco. I wonder how the other walkable cities are fairing.

Perhaps when people buy homes, they tend to not buy a new car at the same time - prior to the housing crisis, many people bought lots of homes. Then the market collapsed and they lost their money, further reducing the number of new cars bought.

Oddly enough, some 2000-model-year used Hondas and Toyotas did not depreciate in value between 2010 and 2013 because the used car market heated up.

You should go in to collect your final check. Also, if they'd like to hire you for knowledge transfer, then have a consulting rate and arrangement that you'd be comfortable with in mind. Keep it professional.