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Usually there is a cap, my first lay-off I'd been with the company for 17 years. The severance policy was 1 month per year served, capped at 6-months. With six-months pay coming I actually turned down the first offer I got, Still ended
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True, There was this from a few years ago: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe... As far as facebook, I don't use their apps and when accessing through a browser don&#
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Yes Social Security is a "benefit", you more than likely will get back everything you paid in plus interest plus continue drawing a Social Security check beyond that. Last time I crunched the numbers a retiree would on average get
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10y ago
Coroner is an elected position where you live? At any rate, I did get my state senator and mayor, but no city council rep. Around here judges are not elected, but we do vote to remove or retain judges. Generally every year there will be one
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10y ago
Also worth pointing out, my phone's location history regularly places me in a small Iowa town 53 miles away from my actual location in Nebraska. also often shows me making a trip through that Iowa location and on to another Nebraska lo
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vast oversize? Like this: https://goo.gl/photos/qCcNFNBvp7RmXh1Q6 Sorry for the poor quality. Box is roughly 24" x 18" x 6" containing one approximately 13 inch long kitchen utensil (a silicon whisk) and
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I always set them up so the first 20 email get forwarded. I'll notice if I stop getting notifications for friends and families birthdays.
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Not sure why you are getting downvoted, but... Same for me, facebook only has a spamgourmet address for me, and that address is set to only forward email from the facebook domain. Anyone else emailing it is just sending bits into the ineffa
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that many years ago it was probably stored on tape and processed on a mainframe by a COBOL program. No database, it was probably stored as a string, and the application would likely have been fix to handle it before it was a problem.
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It is said that Trump is not afraid of having advisors the disagree with him. Trump making Musk an advisor does no invalidate Musk's earlier position on Trump.
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"It's also interesting to note that the DC area is the #2 (arguably tied with Boston) given how relatively inconsequential that community is now to what we'd consider the tech sector." Remember, back then it was ARPAnet.
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He clearly knows what it is. He isn't ranting against PGP he is ranting against the WoT. If you got an encrypted email from Linus Torvalds, how would you verify it was him? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296974
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I don't know about "zestimates", but they seems to not be able to do something as simple as email address verification properly. Admittedly, based only on the five email's I have received from realtors in North Carolina
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But the steep discounts offered, especially during the transition between model years makes it kind of work. Especially if you are looking for a used car with <40,000 miles and less than three years old. The same car, new, in the 2016 mo
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I think we will see some development of quick charge technology this will mitigate those concerns to a certain extent.
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I see a future place that will sell me an unsweetned iced tea while my car quick charges for 10min.
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sometimes for improved aerodynamics, for example the ugly headlights on the Nissan Leaf break up airflow along the side of the car so that the drag caused by the side mirrors is reduced.
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Sometimes, depending on the season (fall when dealers are liquidating inventories to make room for the next model year), dealer inventories, etc., the 0.0%-0.9% 5yr financing on a new car makes for a lower monthly payment than the 5.9%-7.9%
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that 50% thing is not really true any more. http://bestdivorcelawyer.co/family-law/divorce-rates-higheri...
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I think that there will always be some internal combustion driven vehicles for tasks such as these.
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Wife has the minivan for when we all are going somewhere, daughter has a beater ('95 Buick) after she wrecked(totaled) my Impala(and two other peoples cars), All I need is an around the town car. I drive 3.6 miles to work, home for lun
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That's just silly, the company Soros has a stake in only has about 30% of the voting machines! Kidding aside, I don't think he would have actually been in a position to do anything to them to affect the outcome of the election.
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"I am myself an immigrant, a legal alien for 11 years with little chance of acquiring citizenship" I'm curious, why do you think you have little chance of acquiring citizenship?
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Yeah, but the OP was also asking about demographics.
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Yeah, but the OP was also asking about demographics. The county clerks are not the source of that information because it is not collected on the ballots. The only source of that information is exit polls.
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The mis-understanding here is that there is one election. In the US we have 3000+ county elections run/managed/under the direction of an elected county election commissioner (actual title may vary by jurisdiction). For state and f
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That will certainly make it easier for average folks to comply with ransom-ware demands.
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There was also a incident where a guy bought travelers checks (fee free through AAA) and simply cashed them and paid the credit card bill, over and over..... eventually they stopped awarding miles for travelers checks purchases.
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"...there are a few situations I'd agree that if you don't have the first-to-market advantage you're basically fucked (social networking being a prime one..." 10 years ago there where a number of articles about how
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My wife works at a small bridal shop. They are currently using HP stream 10 netbooks* to take orders while setting at a table with the bride/groom and family. The orders are stored on a desktop PC's hard drive where they are aggre
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