Thought for the day...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.aol.com/m/cbecc20a-6743-38eb-8c4b-8ce39627dc4c/in-n-out-closure-fuels-claims.html

In-N-Out closure fuels claims about Oakland's “most dangerous square mile.” Is there real evidence?
Oakland restaurant at 8300 Oakport St. will be closing March 24. It's a blow to the city's struggling business scene, especially given that the location was still profitable, according to In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick, who said in a statement that the restaurant was “regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies.”
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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I think it's a very valid question, actually:

An employer in Sweden asks potential hires a seemingly innocuous question, in order to gauge their values without running afoul of strict Swedish labor regulations that ban overly intrusive or personal inquiries.

It’s this: Aside from family members, who are your role models?

To a shockingly high degree, the interviewees can’t answer the question.
 
I wouldn't answer that question, even though I could easily do so, and I wouldn't work for a company that asked that question.

Can you just imagine...

You answer something like:
George Washington and Ben Franklin

Only to find out you weren't hired because your role models were slave owners and womanizers.

(and MLK wasn't exactly a saint either)
 
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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I wouldn't answer that question, even though I could easily do so, and I wouldn't work for a company that asked that question.

Can you just imagine...

You answer something like:
George Washington and Ben Franklin

Only to find out you weren't hired because your role models were slave owners and womanizers.

(and MLK wasn't exactly a saint either)
The keyord was "half-decent" ... and probably emphasizing "half"
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Effectively dissolving those camps is a pain in the butt for any administration. The key is to never allow them to take root in the first place. Once that happens, it becomes a political problem. And those are the the hardest problems to solve.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Effectively dissolving those camps is a pain in the butt for any administration. The key is to never allow them to take root in the first place. Once that happens, it becomes a political problem. And those are the the hardest problems to solve.

All of the smaller cities around Portland don't have these problems because they sticker and tow the crap-wagons as scrap as soon as reported. This problem is totally one administrations problem , called The City Of Portland Oregon. At the city boundary streets like the Gresham/Portland border, the junk cars and trash is ONLY on the Portland side.
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They only 'camp' on the Portland side, the other side is an East County city that uses existing laws and powers to keep them out.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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"Nothing is more dangerous than being right when the government is wrong."
https://ij.org/press-release/victory-for-north-carolina-engineer-in-first-amendment-case/
ARLINGTON, Va.—Today, the deadline for the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors to appeal Chief Judge Richard Myers’ decision—which held that the Board violated the First Amendment when it ordered retired engineer Wayne Nutt to stop expressing opinions about engineering without a state license—has passed. That decision now stands as law.

Nutt, represented by the Institute for Justice (IJ), had filed the lawsuit after the Board sent him a series of threatening letters ordering him to stop publicly offering opinions about engineering without a license, on pain of potential criminal punishment. It is now established that those letters—and the law they were based on—violate the First Amendment.
 
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