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Politics Central / Soapbox - general discussion / Re: I may be put in jail this week........... what to do? Really.... DO?
« on: May 16, 2013, 04:37:55 PM »
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Well...I don't understand the utility of trying to get a Landlord/Tenant agreement on a tenant I'm in the process of evicting. Wny would she sign an agreement that has terms she doesn't agree with which is why she's being evicted?
She wouldn't. You get the landlord policy for yourself, mostly for the purpose of liability, which could otherwise cause your bankruptcy. You also get a tenant policy for yourself to insure your stuff. If she wants, she can get a tenant policy from the same company or any other to have her stuff insured.
The point is that your current policy may well not cover anything due to the fact that you're a landlord. |
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Politics Central / Soapbox - general discussion / Re: I may be put in jail this week........... what to do? Really.... DO?
« on: May 16, 2013, 12:30:20 PM »
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I would suggest that you return her personal property to her [candles, etc.] then increase your fire insurance coverage, making sure that you are covered for the misdeeds of your house guest, ie. including her visitors! Next take all of your valuables that you don't want to lose in the event of a fire, theft, or worse a donnybrook between guest and visitors. Place all these irreplaceable s in storage off site out of harms way. Then at anytime you think you smell, hear, or feel that there is illegal activity such as occurs when recreational pharmaceuticals are in use, call the cops! Get her on record! Being a gentleman and officer will to a degree support your position, but cover your backside the best you can and hope for the best! Here in Ontario, Canada you would have another potential liability. Under our Family Law Reform Act, she might claim cohabitation which after 5 months elevates her status to common law spouse, and co-ownership of all your assets! That would need to be avoided and contested immediately with credible witnesses! I don't envy your predicament one little bit! Good luck, eh!
If you go that route, you may need to get a landlord-tenant policy. Since you live there too, you might need both sides of one just for yourself. Your current policy probably doesn't cover the fact that you have a tenant. I'd say call your broker and make sure you have the coverage you think you do now that you've been determined to be a landlord. |
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Politics Central / Soapbox - general discussion / Re: I may be put in jail this week........... what to do? Really.... DO?
« on: May 16, 2013, 04:24:44 AM »
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I don't know the laws where you live well enough to be sure. What little I know from NY is that your mistake was to accept money, thus setting up the landlord tenant relationship. As you presumably have no lease, you should be able to start the very long and slow process of eviction. This will be very difficult with someone in her condition. Courts do not like to throw sick old ladies out on the street.
Consult a lawyer. See if it might make sense to stop taking rent.
That said, without hitting harassment levels, you might start eating smelly foods, get an annoying pet, preferably one that triggers any allergies your tenant may have. Again, consult a lawyer first to make sure this is not harassment.
Still though, your simplest route out, unfortunately, is probably to sell your home. |
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The Tech Section / Science / Space / Re: 'Junk' DNA Mystery Solved: It's Not Needed
« on: May 14, 2013, 07:17:36 PM »
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I will borrow one of Scotts lines of inquiry: I think the notion that junk dna does nothing requires "extraordinary evidence."
The line is (and is not original on my part, BTW*): Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
This is not an extraordinary claim. There's nothing supernatural here. Please don't credit me with your flawed logic.
* The quote is from Marcello Truzzi and was popularized by Carl Sagan. |
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Water Cooler / This and that / Re: World news? why isnt THIS in the news?
« on: May 13, 2013, 06:24:58 PM »
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If they'd all just agree to buy only from factories that meet local laws, things would be a whole lot better and prices would only increase by a very small amount, far less than people polled state that they'd pay for having goods produced without sweatshops.
BTW, if anyone has heard that repugnican argument that sweatshops are good for the countries in which they exist, just remember that not only are there thousands here in the U.S. but that the definition of sweatshop is that they break at least two safety or labor laws. |
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The Tech Section / Science / Space / Re: 'Junk' DNA Mystery Solved: It's Not Needed
« on: May 12, 2013, 09:44:45 PM »
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If the so-called purpose of our phenotypes is merely as a medium for competition among our genotypes, junk DNA may well have found a way to replicate itself while remaining as neutral as Switzerland.
Yes, I agree that this debate is not over. PhD students need to write theses. This will probably remain a fertile topic for more doctoral degrees for quite a while to come. Perhaps the conversation itself is like the junk DNA. It serves its own purpose of creating new doctors while remaining completely and utterly neutral to any real advances. Who knows?
Oh ... and it continues to make for moderately interesting reading in the hope that one day, not only will the answer be known for its own sake, but perhaps we will find a use for this knowledge. We do seem to find uses for most of the knowledge we learn, even when we thought it was just interesting for its own sake without being profitable. |
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Fight Club / Rants and Raves / Re: About those 4 Girls Held Captive in Cleveland
« on: May 08, 2013, 07:25:08 PM »
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So there you go, admitting that the word DICTIONARY is abused and misused! Likewise Sick is sickly used! I pause my case! And I would go drink a Sick's if I had one! Observation: the bureaucratic mind frequently lacks a sense of humor! Symptomatic of BURNT OUT!
No. I didn't say that. I said the word had changed meaning, as nauseous has. And, dictionaries now report the current meaning of the word.
dic·tion·ar·y [dik-shuh-ner-ee] Show IPA noun, plural dic·tion·ar·ies. 1. a book, optical disc, mobile device, or online lexical resource (such as Dictionary.com ) containing a selection of the words of a language, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, derived forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language; lexicon; glossary. Print dictionaries of various sizes, ranging from small pocket dictionaries to multivolume books, usually sort entries alphabetically, as do typical CD or DVD dictionary applications, allowing one to browse through the terms in sequence. All electronic dictionaries, whether online or installed on a device, can provide immediate, direct access to a search term, its meanings, and ancillary information: an unabridged dictionary of English; a Japanese-English dictionary. 2. a book giving information on particular subjects or on a particular class of words, names, or facts, usually arranged alphabetically: a biographical dictionary; a dictionary of mathematics. 3. Computers. a. a list of codes, terms, keys, etc., and their meanings, used by a computer program or system. b. a list of words used by a word-processing program as the standard against which to check the spelling of text entered.
Please don't attempt to paraphrase what I say it just ends up completely twisting it into something else. I most certainly never said that the word dictionary has been misused and abused. You made that up. I said the definition(s) changed over time. |
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Fight Club / Rants and Raves / Re: About those 4 Girls Held Captive in Cleveland
« on: May 08, 2013, 10:30:38 AM »
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But you must concede that the law and case law history have been developed in order to protect citizens from over zealous or corrupt enforcement!
Amen!
One of the errors in thinking that is very common to Homo stupidous, is judging others by our selves! It is very difficult to put one's self into the mindset of someone else when their rules and experiences are vastly different from your own.
Amen! ^ 2 (Amen squared)
Getting my or anyones opinion on what is sick is irrelevant and immaterial! So get over your fixation on dictionaryism! In the first place that word has the root word DICTION, which has more to do with categorizing and documenting PRONUNCIATION! The various word meanings are tag on after thoughts! Can I be more OBTUSE without being perverse and profane?
And, here's where I must disagree. Dictionaries may have started that way but have long since morphed into repositories of definitions of words. Dictionaries are descriptive rather than proscriptive and so meanings of words change over time. So, the word dictionary itself has now come to mean a list of definitions.
That said, dictionaries are a snapshot of the definitions of words in time. So, if the dictionary reports on the current meaning(s) of the word sick, it's somewhat pointless to disagree other than to note that it is possible that a new definition is coming into popular usage and will one day be reported as an official meaning of the word. It is in very recent memory that the word nauseous, for example, has changed to include not only things that cause nausea but the state of being nauseated as well.
Thus far, the meaning of sick has not changed to include asymptomatic individuals. Nor has the word asymptomatic changed to include only those who have a medical condition. So, as far as I can tell, the current simplified definitions of the words are:
Sick: Showing symptoms of something, including mental illness, which would cover hypochondriacs. Asymptomatic: Not showing symptoms of anything.
So, asymptomatic people may or may not have any medical conditions, but they are not sick. They may not be perfectly healthy either. But, who among is is perfectly healthy in both mind and body? |
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Fight Club / Rants and Raves / Re: About those 4 Girls Held Captive in Cleveland
« on: May 07, 2013, 07:57:43 PM »
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Hmm... I never thought I'd say this to anyone. I think you may be overanalyzing a bit. Action films are already so over the top that I'm willing to suspend disbelief of rather a lot. Else, I wouldn't watch them.
What do you think of the Fiona character in Burn Notice?
What about Mr. & Mrs. Smith?
How about Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies? Did you feel she was a good female character? With no training at all in the spy field, she did what she could every step of the way. And, being an action comedy, I was doubly forgiving of the completely and utterly unbelievable story line.
BTW, I also forgive a lot more in a comedy than in a drama. In either case, I find that once a movie has crossed the line and I lose ability to suspend disbelief, there's no coming back.
So, for example, I lost all interest in Speed very very quickly. After a minute or so of yelling at the TV (luckily I wasn't stupid enough to watch that one in a theater), I decided to shut up and see if my wife could get some enjoyment out of the film.
Some minutes later, bus jumps over a gap in an overpass being built. My wife asks, "why did the front of the bus go up as it jumped over the gap?" Me: "Because of the ramp poorly concealed as construction materials just before the jump, why?"
Neither of us got any enjoyment out of that stoooopid movie. (Gee, they just showed that after he stuck the screwdriver in the gas tank, the gas gauge went down by a quarter tank in about 10 seconds, why is the bus still driving minutes later? Yecch!! What an awful film that was!) |
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Fight Club / Rants and Raves / Re: About those 4 Girls Held Captive in Cleveland
« on: May 07, 2013, 01:19:03 PM »
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I think that there's really insufficient information to say why they did not escape on their own. Nothing in that article stated the type of imprisonment they endured. So, to judge the victims seems a tad unfair at this time.
<tangent> However, if you like films with women taking the stronger roles, as I do too, here's one that went largely unnoticed by me at least until a couple of years ago, The Long Kiss Goodnight staring Gena Davis.
Spoiler alert, use rot13 to decipher this. (http://rot13.com/)
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Bs pbhefr, V jbhyq abg or ng nyy fhecevfrq gb svaq guvf gurzr ercrngrq va bgure zbivrf gung cerqngr guvf bar nf jryy. Fhpu gurzrf bsgra trg er-er-erhfrq. Here are links to the film on IMDB and Netflix.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/ http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Long-Kiss-Goodnight/711282?strkid=1750156396_0_0&strackid=319b6fde3ff7b6ac_0_srl&trkid=222336 </tangent> |
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Re: HEALTH: In Gut We Trust
« on: May 07, 2013, 12:55:16 AM »
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Whatever bobbo. I'm done. You failed to read even the wikipedia definition of asymptomatic to which you posted the link. You failed to read the dictionary definition of sick. It was only ever a minor point. Let's drop it.
It really just doesn't matter because we are now both in agreement that asymptomatic people still need tests for conditions they may have that may not present as symptomatic until said conditions are in much more advanced stages.
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Re: HEALTH: In Gut We Trust
« on: May 06, 2013, 02:05:57 PM »
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Apply both for a better result.
I did. And, you're still wrong. Sick still means symptomatic. It's a minor point here, so no big deal either way. However, you're the one who always says everything is definitional. So, read the definitions. You're just wrong about this. |
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