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No, nor could they have altered their decision based upon the information that she was pregnant, as this is one of the protected characteristics for labor purposes. Unfortunately, the end result is that someone gets screwed either way: eith
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Lol. The food truck business work day is much longer than 2 hours. The 2-3 hour lunch period is the primary window, but many trucks also do a dinner service for 2-3 hours. In addition to the service window, there's several hours at the
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True, but the crux of the matter is that no doctor would prescribe such a device.
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First rule of contracting: The client's emergency is not your emergency unless they're explicitly paying you to deal with it right now .
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Low carb diets also increase metabolic stress (specifically ketosis), which is one of the suspected reasons for the additional calorie burn. Ketosis over short periods is good, but scientists differ on whether it is safe in the long-term.
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He does address those things, but he notes that when losing weight, calornies in < calories out is the primary factor for any weight loss diet. For maintenance diets, 1, 2, and 3 matter, because the types of calories play a role in met
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Lol. Most harm to anyone, regardless of age, is caused by friends and family, but that is primarily because friends and family have the most opporunities. If strangers were afforded equal access to your children, the numbers would not be s
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Condo = unit owners own fractional interests in the shared areas (including the building and land). Co-op = the cooperative owns the shared areas; the members own shares in the coooperative entity. Both = the entity (HOA/cooperative) pays f
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Vacation spots usually have permissive laws regarding vacation rentals to encourage property owners to rent out their properties during the times of the year they are not using their property. (For example, contrast the permissive rules of
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And I would respond that history has repeatedly demonstrated that market forces will not see to proper fire escapes or sanitary kitchens. If market forces had been adequate, we would not have such laws today . Moreover, the type of people
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If you are a voter, you have the same rights by law, and this would apply to the issues you brought up. If you are not a voter, you do not and should not have the same rights because your social and economic investment in the community is n
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And what will that solve? In a day or two the tenants will be gone, replaced by other loud assholes. The complaint solves nothing, as the neighbor has no reason to punish the original assholes who have already left. The assholes problem is
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I think you need to reread your deed, or move off of Section 8 housing. My deed explicitly states that I am the owner of my condo, as well as a % of the building and land on which the condo resides.
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Once you have children (or nieces/nephews), there is a 100% chance that you will feel differently about short-term rentals. Long-term rentals indicate tenants that are stable enough to at least afford the lease. They are subject to at leas
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Try to run a pig farm on your home and see how far you get with that. The law of "nuisance" has existed for hundreds of years. Your right to use your property extends only as far as the limits of your property. If any of the effects spil
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The competition is not homeowners. As noted many times by others, the competition is "home owners" who use AirBNB to run undeclared hotels out of their buildings, evading the costs and taxes associated with a declared hotel. This obviousl
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Guest stays free = okay. Guest pays you = not okay. The average person can understand that. In fact, most people do. The "benefits" of AirBNB are usually lost on the average person, who cannot understand why someone would rent out their h
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The HOA for a condo generally covers building maintenance, insurance, and other necessary costs that are shared by all of the units in the complex. Thus, if you buy a condo, you do not have a choice about joining the HOA unless you buy the
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Davidmp must have edited his comment, because your comment is far worse than his--you make a personal attack against him and provide a citation that is just as selective as his.
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This is a British law. Everyone else in the world can link away.
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You're free to move to someplace where they do not impose taxes, like Somalia. Of course, you will have to vie with various competing warlords, all of whom will demand "protection money", but that's the price of freedom from taxation.
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Reddit did not kill Digg. Digg killed Digg. Reddit's big break was Digg v4, when most of the community finally jumped ship.
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Canadian Supreme Court scraps royalties for Canadian music downloads. We have a completely separate system in the U.S. that imposes mandatory royalties (along with a corresponding royalty collection body to obviate the need to track down
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He does not have to. There are certain types of defamation which are considered "per se libel" or "per se slander". He doesn't have to prove anything other than that you made the statement-- you would have to prove the statement is true.
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Two possible reasons: 1) Grandfather clause for businesses using "Olympic" at the time the name was passed; and 2) Geographic exception for businesses within a certain distance of the Olympic mountains in Washington, but only within the st
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There is an exception in the law which allows the use of "Olympic" in the state of Washington for businesses within view of the Olympic mountains. See the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
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Apple innovates . It does not invent . Invention involves true discovery or creation; innovation is introducing existing ideas into new areas (in Apple's case, new markets) or changing existing ideas. But you did get the third part righ
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The National Tobacco Association claims that cigarretes aren't cancerous. The secretaries of state license notaries, so this is no different than an interested trade group pushing the economic interests of its members. Despite the NASS sta
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It's tricky. A notarial act is not a "public act" under the Full Faith and Credit clause because Congress has not defined it as a public act for purposes of the Clause, nor has it set forth rules for proving the public act. (A public act
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How is this different from what Avvo and RocketLawyer already do? There's another competitor, from a law school dropout that also launched to much traffic last year (I forgot what it was called). What does this site/service do better than
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