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Besides Q Gardens in Milford on the Post Rd are there any other garden centers that have a large selection of yard art and statuary. Thanks, Richie |
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Haven't been there in a while -- and not sure how far you want to travel -- but United House Wrecking on Hope Street in Stamford always had a pretty large selection of garden art....fountains, statuary, planters and gates. |
United House Wrecking does indeed have some great things, but they are exorbitantly expensive, IMO. Richie, there's a place ... oh, goodness, it's on the edge of my memory here... I think on Rt 25, maybe in Bethel? Newtown? If you are traveling from Monroe up Rt 25 it's on your right. It's got all kinds of statuary and birdbaths and fountains, etc. One of those places I've driven by and always wanted to stop but never did... For all I know they can be exorbitantly expensive too! Sorry I don't have a name. Maybe if you go to yellowpages and put in statuary in Newtown/Bethel something will come up. Dee |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Mon, Apr 30, 12 at 16:38
I remember United House and they are an option but it may be a bit fancy for me! Dee what side of route 25 is it on? Is that the place that sells the firepits ot chimineas also? |
Two years ago we did get an unusual, and large, gargoyle at Q Gardens. You really have to go through their lot to find something different. There's also Enchanted Gardens on Derby Avenue in Orange. You'll see it on the left as you drive through Orange toward New Haven. Have you ever been to United House Wrecking in Stamford? Once upon a time you could get great (also cheap) things there but I think it's become more high end now. Molie |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Mon, Apr 30, 12 at 16:47
I think United House is a bit over the top for my taste. I don't like going to Q Gardens if I don't have too. I don't find the people that work there very helpful. I did get 2 pieces over 20 years ago and may end up going there again but I am open to other options too. Anything up by Waterbury/Cheshire area? |
There's Elemental Garden in Woodbury ... fun place to browse, but if United House Wrecking is too "over the top" I'm betting you probably won't go for a $1,600 English stone planter, either ... right? (though my, those new little European strawberries would look GREAT in that! :) What type of "garden art" do you have in mind? Cute stuff or weathered antique-y things, furniture type stuff or real statuary or planters or what? |
Geez, yeah, how could I forget Enchanted Gardens? That little purple house with the large buxom lady out in front, lol! Another place I drive by often but have never visited. I did a quick google search and a yellowpages search for the place in Newtown I'm thinking of, but I didn't find anything. But it did turn up a hit for Hollandia. I guess they have stuff, but I couldn't say for sure - haven't been there in years! Dee |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Tue, May 1, 12 at 4:34
Well this is my situation now. I have a buddha and pagoda on the north side of the house and they have been there about 20 years now. We put in a new bed in between my garage and the neighbors in the back yard and moved my tall Walmart windmill, yes Walmart but it's actually metal and all rusted now and it looks great into that bed and then added the buddha and realized a buddha and windmill don't work together, yes this is Ansonia aka "the valley" and most folks here would probably be ok with that but it's a bit tacky for me...LOL. So I guess I want something to go with the rusted windmill. Maybe a Venus de Milo statue might work..LOL...no serious, something not fancy at all. I saw a fun cement peter cottontail rabbit at an old fashioned hardware store in Waterbury but they painted part of the face and that made it look tacky. Agway next to the garden swap in Monroe had a neat north south east west marker but just a bit too tall. Marty, the place in Woodbury sounds great but I would be afraid to put out something that expensive.I guess the yard art has to be rustic.It would be fun to find a weathered antique thing. Maybe I will find something at the upcoming Brimfield antique shows. |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Tue, May 1, 12 at 8:33
Marty, I think I found something at the Elemental garden place in Woodbury. Just a bit out of my range though! http://theelementalgarden.1stdibs.com/store/furniture_item_detail.php?id=444484 |
I understand what you mean about the 'temperament' of the people at Q Gardens. However, when we poked around towards the back we found lots of stuff that looked as if it had been there for years (and probably was). We were able to get a simple, geometric stone birdbath really cheap. Robert Treat Farm on New Haven Avenue in Milford often has unusual garden items but again these can be on the expensive side. Oh, I agree that the Brimfield Show is a great place to look for something unusual! Brimfield's first event begins May 8 --- not too far away. Of course, getting exactly what you're looking for there is a crap shot. When we've gone, we bought something that wasn't even on our list --- kind of like grocery shopping when you're asking yourself 'how did this happen?' at the checkout. Molie |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Tue, May 1, 12 at 10:18
Brimfield can be dangerous especially if you bring your credit card and check book but it's fun. I am going on friday May 11th. |
Try The Elephant's Trunk - flea market Sundays, Rte 7, New Milford |
Richie, maybe you can get that piece at the Elemental Garden when in goes on sale, lol. Dee |
Wow, Dee! The items at the Elemental Garden are amazing --- it must be a great place to visit, but, I'm sure, way beyond my budget. Probably if everyone on this thread chipped in, we still wouldn't be able to afford that statue. (Always a tip off when you have to log in to even find out the prices.) Still, I think you're on to something here. Just driving around the hill towns of CT can turn up some amazing places to shop. For example, whenever I go to visit my aunt in Ivoryton, I pass by this antique shop on the main street. It has all these great things out front & I always tell myself --- next time I'll stop. Molie |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 9:12
Dee, even at sale prices it's outta my range..LOL! I go to the Elephants Trunk once in awhile so I will check out there. I even found something on craigslist that I am going to look at this weekend. I have been out of control with antique shops lately. I plug the shops into the GPS now whenever I find a shop while readin the antique newspapers,even far away ones when I go on vacation are fun to visit. We drove down and back to Florida a few weeks back and had a blast stopping at shops not far off I-95 The little town of Selma, NC has some great shops downtown and we always find stuff there. |
Have I got a companion for your windmill! How about a pair of authentic Dutch wooden shoes? They've been sitting on a shelf, collecting dust, in my basement for years - always thought I'd pass them along to some child, but never did - and here you have a windmill looking for a companion! Drill a couple holes in the bottom and these shoes would make great planters. . .they're yours if you want them. Shall I bring them along to the next Swap? Or you could collect them from me during one of the CT garden tours I attend this summer. . . Carl |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 15:35
Carl, I don't know. I am trying to class up the neighborhood and not sure if wooden shoes will do it. The buddha will be moved back to where is was and who knows, maybe the windmill will go to but this is what I have there right now. I am trying to disguise that awful awful house in back of me. My neighbor was generous enough to let me plant right up to his garage. I am so lucky one of my best friends bought the house next door to me. |
Ooops! Forget the wooden shoes. . .that windmill is way bigger than I expected - (but it looks great, and if you ever decide the windmill "has to go", I'll be happy to take it off your hands!) - but it immediately suggested that it needed a water feature as a companion. That's a handsome fence, by the way, and I actually have a design suggestion Carl |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Thu, May 3, 12 at 6:49
Thanks Carl!!! I'll listen to any suggestions. I am however limited on how tall the fence can be and that's where I am right now, 6 feet. You can also see my 50' x 100' expanse! Let me know when you will be in the area and we will even have you over for lunch/diner. Thanks,Richie email@example.com |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Sun, May 6, 12 at 7:01
So I stopped into Q Gardens in Milford yesterday. The garden statuary has moved to a lot on the left side of the store, last time I wasd there 20 years ago it was on right. You should have seen the way they had it displayed. I wanted to get the owner/manager and say something. Some of the items were overgrown by weeds and you could not even see them, they were buried! It looked more like a junkyard, very dumpy. I know times are tough but how can this person expect to sell anything? I ended up finding a very classic decorative acorn at Marcucio Garden center on route 34 in Derby. |
- Posted by javaandjazz z6 CT (My Page) on Wed, May 9, 12 at 16:42
Nice choice! I think that you might want to consider one of the bigger clematis (maybe Betty Corning?) growing up that windmill and across wires at the top of the fence to give you a bit more sight line shelter from the building behind you. |
The decorative acorn looks great there --- classic shape and very restful to the eye. In fact, the whole garden creates a beautiful sense of calm/peace. Molie |
I'm probably a little late to the game here, but BJs online has a pretty big selection of garden statues. There is not much of a selection at my local BJs. I like the fact that shipping is included in their prices. Granted you have to be a BJs member. I want to buy their maple leaf stepping stones. But need to figure out where to put them first! |
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Josh Foreman is a lead dev on GW2. He designed the Mad King Clock Tower and worked on the Super Adventure Box 1 and 2. Just throwing that out there in case someone tries to say he's a minor figure or irrelevant to the design of GW2. Anyway, according to a statement he made on his blog, the number of people actively playing the game is "dismal". To quote: "Later in the day I casually asked the founder/president if we had any analytics about how many people were playing. Well collecting that kind of data seems to be really fun for him as far as I can tell, so we ended up working together to gather that information for a while. That was nice, except for finding out what I suspected based on my forum experience: the numbers are pretty dismal (Compared to the exceptional numbers of the first SAB) right now. I really hope that this patch will bring people back, but without the old reward schedule I don't think it will happen. So I'm pretty bummed and feel like I let down the whole company and especially my team because I made some poor judgement calls as coordinator.". So, contrary to what the fanboys have been claiming, the number of people actually playing has gone down and by quite a bit. The word "dismal" doesn't strike me as meaning "the population appears to be growing still'. Discuss amongst yourselves. http://www.joshuaforeman.blogspot.ca/2013/09/epic-weekend.html Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp? Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things. |
Originally posted by Ginaz As an unbaised, non-player, I'll point this out as others will soon too, context is your friend. I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil |
So, he is saying the numbers of players taking part in the latest mini game are dismal compared to the previous mini game, and you use that to claim he is talking about overall playerbase numbers? GG.
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Originally posted by WhiteLantern Please stop making sense. This is the internet for chrissake!!! We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!! |
Yeah as others have mentioned he is referring specifically to those using SAB. I would go out on a limb and say a large majority of the core GW2 players arent that keen on SAB, they see it as a side-game gimmick. At least thats the impression I got from my guild when I logged on to try the new SAB. Everyone in my guild was busy doing champions or fractals. I rarely log onto GW2 anymore, usually for a quick game of PvP, but I like SAB so glad to see it back. But I don't think the core GW2 players feel the same as myself. They would rather be doing other content. |
Hmm, it wasn't take clear if he meant people doing the SAB is down or that the first SAB brought a lot of people back but the second one didn't and overall numbers are down. If what he meant was the former rather than the latter then I guess we can disregard all of this. I was kind of surprised to see the word "dismal" used when describing the population because, even though I stopped playing and uninstalled awhile ago, I know more than a few people who play on a regular basis. Either way, I'm sure the GW2 White Knight Brigade will be along to sort me out. Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp? Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things. |
When you put something like that in your sig and make posts like this...It's pretty obvious what your intentions are and they're less than honest....but really if this is all you can find, maybe you should find a better hobby ? Why anyone would put so much effort into trolling a game, I will never understand. |
No need to get the gw2 pro brigade because you already owned yourself.
Originally posted by evilastro i read something similar on forums https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/livingworld/sab-bts/SAB-is-dying There's one easy explanation for why SAB wasn''t as popular this time around. It's simply not new. The patch in April came as a big surprise, and everyone was really enjoying the cute throwback to retro games and the April Fools joke that brought it out. |
Originally posted by Ginaz You made a mistake. No big deal - Just say so instead of pulling this crap! First rule of holes: If you find yourself in one - Stop digging! We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!! |
Worst troll ever. Try harder next time!
Originally posted by Ginaz He's specifically talking about SAB. Context is your friend. He is in charge of SAB, and he was disappointed to see that compared to the first SAB, the numbers of people completing world 2/tribulation mode content is dismal. So... I guess we can safely disregard all of what you were saying? You did say so yourself. One reason the SAB numbers is so low is a lot of people are doing the OTHER part of the patch. Yes. Every 2 weeks, there are multiple parts to the patch. It's not like they only added SAB In this case, they added ascended weapons, and crafting to 500 to make them. Rather than spending the literally HOURS it takes to beat even a single SAB tribulation world, many people are concentrating on getting their first shot at the new BiS weapons. And while SAB will be running for a month, just 1 week from now (It's been running for 1 week), they're adding a significantly retuned boss and some story to go with it. So a lot of people will be doing that. I'm only doing JUST enough SAB to get the achievements, personally. Don't have enough hours in the day to run all the crazy new insanely hard stuff. |
Originally posted by Meowhead If thats the case, then I guess so. Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp? Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things. |
So GW2 is dying omg noooooo. Fact that I had a 6hr!!!! qeue to get into WvWvW pretty much confirms that. :S "going into arguments with idiots is a lost cause, it requires you to stoop down to their level and you can't win" |
It's not surprising. I didn't really like the 1st SAB. It was fun for a day though, but it just seems like wasted content. I didn't even try the 2nd SAB at all. I'm just waiting for the Tequatl patch, which should be really nice.
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He is only commenting on SAB2 , not the game And he is right, this time there is little incentive to play SAB2 Its extremely hard , and takes real long to complete. So most people (including me) just played it once to see how it looks, and stopped. Opposed to first that had some extensive farming. |
Ok so who is really surprised that people don't want to play the new SAB? The first one was brilliant and took skills. The new one is just filled with instant death traps everywhere and I'm not even talking about tribulation mode. So why did they mess up SAB so badly? Because they want to sell that infinite continue coin. This is the first example where you can really see how the shop influences ingame content. PS: And yeah OP please read your own posts more carefully before you desperately try to back up that signature of yours. |
Poor OP tought he could compare a minigame to the overal playerbase totals. And what did he get ? a full flat hand right on the left cheek. Try reading your shit instead and try at least to understand what stuff is writen down before making a fail tread proving your reading comprahension is like a 5 year old. |
Originally posted by Dakeru .... World 2 isn't THAT hard. ... and they did tweak almost all the really annoying parts, actually. Josh Foreman was actually talking about how he felt bad that it came out that hard, most of the testing group was apparently more experienced in jumping puzzles than your average GW2 player. They tried to fix it up so it's not actually nearly as fatal as Tribulation mode (And it isn't anymore). If you look at the patches, they removed a lot of the most annoying parts, like the waterfall, the rapids damaging you, they even fixed up a lot of the traps in the ninja temple with the gong.... and they made the one really long jumping part in world 2-3 SIGNIFICANTLY easier. I was shocked how easy it was actually, since I beat it the original way the first time and constantly fell. When I did it again in tribulation mode (Post patch) I didn't fall even once. |
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The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy) which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm.[1]
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Numerous social movements from mid-1960s differed from their precursors, such as the labor movement, which had previously been seen as focused on economic concerns.[1][2] The new movements instead of pushing for specific changes in public policy emphasize social changes in identity, lifestyle and culture.[1]
Thus the social aspect is seen by the NSM as more important than the economic or political aspects.[1] Some NSM theorists, like F. Parkin (Middle Class Radicalism, 1968), argue that the key actors in these movements are different as well, as they are more likely to come from the "new middle class" rather than the lower classes.[1] Unlike pressure groups that have a formal organisation and 'members', NSMs consist of an informal, loosely organised social network of 'supporters' rather than members. Paul Byrne ('97) described New Social Movements as 'relatively disorganised'[3].
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According to Kendall, new social movement theory focuses on movement culture; it also pays attention to their identity and on their relations to culture, ideology and politics.[4]
Important contributors in the field include sociologists such as Alain Touraine, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Claus Offe, Immanuel Wallerstein and Jürgen Habermas.[citation needed]
The most noticeable feature of new social movements is that they are primarily social and cultural and only secondarily, if any, political[5] . Departing from the worker's movement, which was central to the political aim of gaining access for the working class with the extension of citizenship and representation, new social movements such as youth culture movement concentrate on bringing about social mobilization through cultural innovations, development of new life-styles and transformation of identities. It is clearly elaborated by Habermas that new social movements are the 'new politics' which is about quality of life, individual self-realisation and human rights whereas the 'old politics' focus on economic, political, and military security[6]. This can be exemplified in the gay liberation, the focus of which broadens out from political issue to social and cultural realization and acceptance in life-styles of homosexuality. Hence, new social movements are understood as new because they are first and foremost social.
New social movements also give rise to a great emphasis on the role of post-material values in contemporary and post-industrial society as opposed to conflicts over material resources. According to Melucci, one of the leading new social movement theorists, these movements arise not from relations of production and distribution of resources but within the sphere of reproduction and the life world, as a result of which, the concern has shifted from the sole production of economic resources directly connected to the needs for survival or for reproduction to cultural production of social relations, symbols and identities. In other words, the contemporary social movements are rejections of the materialistic orientation of consumerism in capitalist societies by questioning the modern idea that links the pursuit of happiness and success closely to growth, progress and increased productivity and by promoting alternative values and understandings in relation to the social world. As an example, the environmental movement that has appeared since the late 1960s throughout the world, with its strong points in the United States and Northern Europe, has significantly brought about a 'dramatic reversal' in the ways we consider the relationship between economy, society and nature[7] .
Further, new social movements are located in civil society or the cultural sphere as a major arena for collective action rather than instrumental action in the state, which Claus Offe characterises as 'bypass the state' [5]. Moreover, with its little concern to directly challenge the state, new movements are regarded as anti-authoritarian and resisted incorporation in institutional levels. They tend to focus on single issue, or a limited range of issues connected to a single broad theme such as peace and environment. Without the attempt to develop a total politics under a single focus, new social movements set their stress on grass-roots in the aim of representing the interests of marginal or excluded groups. Paralleled with this ideology, the organization form of new collective actions is also locally based, centred on small social groups and loosely held by personal or informational networks such as radios, newspapers and posters. This 'local- and issue-centred' characteristic which does not necessarily require a highly agreed ideology or agreement on ultimate ends makes these new movements distinctive from the 'old' labour movement with a high degree of tolerance of political and ideological difference appealing to broader sections of population.
Additionally, if old social movements namely the worker's movement presupposed a working –class base and ideology, the new social movements are presumed to draw from a different social class base, that is, 'the new class', as a complex contemporary class structure that Claus Offe identifies as 'threefold': the new middle class, elements of the old middle class and peripheral groups outside the labour market [8]. As stated by Offe[6], the new middle class in association with the old one is evolved in the new social movements because of their high levels of education and their access to information and resources that lead to the questions of the way society is valued; the group of people that are marginal in terms of labour market such as students, housewives and the unemployed participate in the collective actions as a consequence of their disposable resource of time, their position in the receiving end of bureaucratic control and disability to be fully engaged in the society based on employment and consumption. The main character in old social movements, the industrial working class, nonetheless, is absent here in the class base of new social mobilizations.
Some sociologists, like Paul Bagguley[citation needed] and Nelson Pichardo,[1] criticize NSM theory for a number of reasons, including:
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I am considering taking the mandated auto insurance laws on in court in Pennsylvania. Any suggestions?
Submitted by MG1234 on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 13:58I am tired of being violated and impoverished by unjust laws
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If you win, your whole
If you win, your whole state's legal code will be tied in knots. Should be interesting.
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This was successfully done some years ago...
In one of the northern states, this was done in reverse!
By that I mean, it was successfully argued in a court case resultant to a PI, personal injury case (auto accident), that since the state required the citizen to purchase auto insurance, and in addition the state fined those who did not produce proof of insurance when stopped by a police officer of that state... get this... the state therefore could be held as a party to the lawsuit stemming from the accident!
In other words, the state was found to be co-liable along with the insurance company, for damages. All because the state was the author of the requirement to buy insurance and punished the driver for failing to have the insurance the state required them to have.
In the case I read about some years ago, to escape liability the state was finding and reimbursing all the people who had been fined for failure to produce evidence of insurance coverage! It was anticipated at that time that the decisions of those state courts could be precedent setting in other states.
It will take some time to track that down, but I believe it was in Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Michigan, maybe during the Gov. Jesse era. I will post if I can find the material.
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Please DO find and post....
and perhaps forward to an aggressive law firm for possible class action suit. This should get the states to reconsider forced insurance (including Health?).
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See if you can Self Insure
The link below might be a good place to start. You could possibly work it in a way that you're trying to self-insure yourself and if that is denied because you don't qualify you could start your fight there.
Good luck and keep us posted!
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I don't believe in insurance (let alone state mandates), and see it as a form of speculation.
To see other innocents threatened by violence into participating however, disturbs me greatly and is another why these unjust laws should be annulled
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Common Law (aka Court of Record)
If you are truly serious you must use Common Law (CL) proceedings called Court of Record. Otherwise, you are servant to the judge and the statutes he is required to push upon you.
CL is what our founder studied and put forward in the constitution. Read Frederic Bastiat's The Law to comprehend better but understand that legislatures create statutues, which they call laws, on behalf of the special interests. CL is the will of the tribunal which is the plaintiff or a jury called upon by the defense. The judge is only a magistrate or an administrator of the proceedings, he does not judge.
If however you plead "guilty", "not guilty", or no contest in an arraignment you fall automatically under the judge's jurisdiction. The judge and DA will have there way with you.
To learn more check us out here for more information - http://www.newyorkcommitteemen.org/judicial/common/law.html
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I suggest you win.
Free market capitalism isn't right for America because it works better. It's right because it's free (and it works better).
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Yeah, don't do this in Penn.
Do this in NH. Keene NH. When the courts stike your case down (lets be honest they are brainwashed) they will use it as a reference case to strike down any other challenge.
In fact, if you are hell bent make sure you do it in NH first to get a feel of the water. A court case win there will give you ammunition to fight in Penn.
Right now your taking a paper gun to personal defense weapon (*DHS definition of a full-auto) fight.
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I shouldn't have to relocate to assert the principles of my personal agency.
Hence if I do step in court, it's to defend my autochthonic ground
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My suggestion: Kick their @ss!
It will be a hell of an uphill battle, but it is a state mandate that has set alot of horrible precedents. Should a person just barely making ends meat, and driving a rattle-trap, be mandated to pay a very significant percentage of their income to a private corporation? These laws have always been away to protect the property of the rich from the less fortunate. Here in Michigan the mandated insurance is no fault, with no limit on lawsuits, and therefore its VERY EXPENSIVE. I dont even try to insure it. Luckily I havent been pulled over for years, and if I do, I'll tell the officer I just cannot afford it, and hope to receive some empathy.
The worst part is the way that people who buy insurance do get their car damaged, and still dont submit a claim for repairs for fear of skyrocketing rates!
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Mandated insurance laws pre-judge guilt without innocence, and thus are unprincipled.
They are presumptuous also because a person could have greater damages than what a defendant may afford in policy, thus showing such edicts as being impractical; ultimately if an individual is concerned about unexpected loss, I believe they should assume stewardship for themselves and leave others out of it
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As a fellow Pennslyvanian
I can tell you it will be a long trip to any challenge of the laws. Right now I'm in the middle of a case that centers on the "implied consent" clause of our drivers licenses. I'm arguing the since Obama's "Economic Stimulus" package utilized monies from the general fund to repair and pave highways which aren't accessible to foot or bicycle traffic the premise that driving is a privilege and not a right is in error and if so no one can be forced to relinquish any of their Constitutional rights to partake of the benefits of those same monies. The case is up for trial next week after two and a half years of jockeying. Stay tuned.
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The one thing I think about
The one thing I think about insurance is that it should cover you and not the other person. This way, people are responsible for themselves and not other people, Therefore, there is no reason to force people to have insurance because if they screw up without it, they are screwed alone.
Plus if someone thinks they have been wronged in some way, they already sue to get something.(not that alot of sueing is quite frivolous)
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trazom28 writes: Hachette books aren't the only products that are now harder to order on Amazon — the online retailer is going after movies, too. Amazon has turned off the preorder function for DVDs of prominent Warner Bros. films as it seeks to raise pressure on the company during negotiations. The Lego Movie, for example, is listed as "currently unavailable" on Amazon. Set for release in the home video marketplace on June 17, there is no option to place a preorder."
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It costs $47,000 per year to keep somebody in prison. If this guy lives 50 more years in the pen, he'll have cost the government as much money as it would take to feed hundreds of starving people for a life time. I wish we could have enough faith in our justice system to allow the death penalty to be used in some situations, then maybe money could be put to better use than giving mass murderers health insurance.


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I don't claim to be amazing at league. In fact, I'm certain that I play people much more skilled and experienced than I on a daily basis. I have a question for the good people here on G&S. When my friends and I play, and we see an abundance of magic damage or attack damage champions on the enemy team, or if the only fed champs are one or the other, we stop our builds and grab a thornmail / Bulwark(? the new highest MR item in the game) In general, it works out pretty well for us. Now, we play league to have fun. Sometimes, five of us will group up, and que in for normals, and we'll have a themed game. All poison characters, all tanks, all ap carrys, all undead, etc. We don't expect to win when we all play the same roll of champion. We know that if we saw Vayne/Caitlyn/Graves/Corki/Tristana, we would all buy a thornmail each (right after ninja tabi). If we saw Xerath/Swain/Fizz/Brand/Morgana as our enemy team, we would again, ignore our build and counter the enemy team. Why do most people not do this? We do well enough. Is it inefficient and we're just getting lucky? Do you counter your opponents' builds? Thoughts?
Counter building is actually the best way to play, people just dont have the mind set to do this though cuz they follow cookie cutter builds that they had tested and done well or someone says its done well. but yes, if people learned to counter build properly then they would be a better player, im sure all top league players all counter build and knows this. though I wouldnt go to the extreme of everyone on your team building a specific item or what not because not everyone will be targeted in the team fight to counter build effectivly you gotta use the death cap to see what killed you and how to protect yourself from it.
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This B.S. propaganda that Jack Dempsey did not fight the TOP black FIGHTERS [plural] in his title reign has to be rebutted time and again....The ONLY viable black heavyweight threat during the early 1920s, before Dempsey went Hollywood, was Harry Wills who even then was in his early 30s...Though they did sign with a Michigan promotor...Sam McVea, Sam Langford, Jack Johnson, Joe Jeannette were pushing 40 by then and were retired....So let's be real ... Would Dempsey fight the above black fighters were they in their 20s and active is purely hypothetical....But
until I started on the internet the only black viable heavyweight Dempsey
did not fight was the DESERVING Harry Wills, and acknowleged by the boxing writers of those times....There is no fighter on ESB that get's
such a lacing from some posters that the Manassa Mauler gets...
Too darn bad giving the shaft to a beloved figure that Dempsey was for
over 50 long years...Shame...,
Whether you think him deserving of a title shot or not, Sam Langford most certainly was not retired when Dempsey was champ. He beat Fireman Flynn multiple times whiel Dempsey was champion and was more active than Dempsey during the span while Dempsey was busy doing everything but being heavyweight champ.
In fact, Lanford fought 22 times during the period of time when Dempsey did not so much as set his toe in the ring while he was champ. That's quite a workload for a retired guy.
I'm not saying he could have beaten Dempsey -- we'll never know, sadly, but to try to twist history and say Langford was retired is just flat-out not true.
It's also worth noting that you can duck top challenges (not challengERS, but challenges) on your way to the title, and Dempsey most certainly did not seek out any bouts with viable, proven black fighters either on his way to the top or after winning the championship.
I'm sure you have addressed it somewhere, but Burt I'd like your take on Dempsey sitting on the championship and refusing to either give it up or defend it while worthy challengers were forced to wait. I think what he did in holding up the title is disgraceful -- you are one of his biggest fans, so I'd like to know how you reconcile this. Would you stand up for other fighters if the put their titles in deep freeze this way?
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