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For countries that employ citizenship by blood (jus sanguinis) no, the birth certificate is proof that your parents were citizens (based on their birth certificate), and therefore you are a citizen. In this country it's a little murky, we employ citizenship by blood (if you're born outside the country to US citizens) AND citizenship by location (born within this country, the dreaded anchor babies) Genetic birth certificates apply to the former, not necessarily to the latter.

I'm withholding judgement until I get my hands on one. The Zune was supposed to be the one-and-only iPod killer at one point too, until users got their hands on it.

Nor I. Lack of support for WMC without paying for a bolt-on is enough reason for me.

I must say, I'm torn by this proposition. On one hand, you're absolutely corrrect; countries use birth certificates to establish "jus sanguinis" citizenship and genetic lineage. Without that line, even straight couples who choose to get their sperm at a sperm bank (for whatever reason) are gonna have a bad time. That being said, on the other hand why would the proper, legal parents be on the birth certificate if it can be established vis a vis marriage/civil union that they are the kid's parents to begin with? Assuming for a moment that the father wishes to remain anonymous via a sperm bank, and you can already establish parental control and responsibility at the time of birth from the people who are present, why wouldn't they be on the cert? It'd save from having to file for legal guardianship after the fact.

200 bones in the grand scheme of things isn't that bad. I deem this deal to be acceptable, random internet person. Now, that being said, since you have all this time during the winter, the first thing I would do is get a service manual and change every single fluid in there. Brake, coolant, oil, headlight, the works. This way it doesn't matter what state it was when you bought it, you're starting from a baseline that you control (within reason, you can't replace everything). Replace brake pads since you're replacing the fluid, so come next year you've got a fresh set of pads to chomp down on and you'll get to see the condition of the old pads, if they were glazed, etc. New brake lines if you're feeling squirrely, but not a imperative. New tires if they need it. Definitely new plugs. All these things won't cost a arm and a leg, just a couple of bucks and a solid half-day to sit down and understand your new toy. As you're running through the bike, you can take note at the condition of the engine, wire harnesses, if the previous owner tried any mods of his own, stuff like that. All good info to have.

Both Adam and John are good people.

No, they are trying to develop a OS with the same user interface on both PC and touch devices. The problem with that is, you interact with a PC very differently than you do with a phone or a tablet.

If anyone would know, it'd be him.

aaaand you guys need a network administrator.

RVTPilot is right, there are lots of mom and pop's. I get emails about once a month from someone who trolled Careerbuilder and saw my resume. A lot of it is bullshit work. You have to watch your ass with the smaller, less reputable contracting firms, I've had interviews where a) the job location wasn't where they said it was (they told me Honda Marysville, ended up being in Anna, OH north of Dayton) and the job wasn't what was promised either. Just be patient.

That, my friend, depends entirely on you. My gig before Nationwide I got a 20K bump when I was sucked in as a salaried employee. I negotiated that because I knew what the job entailed, I knew what kind of responsibilities I would have in excess of what I was shouldering at the time, and I knew the travel requirements involved. Every situation is different. If it makes you feel any better, my current gig at Nationwide is contract, however I negotiated that I would be a regular employee at the firm that signs my paychecks, and made sure (to the best of my ability) that they could afford to keep me on the bench and busy if NW kicks me out tomorrow. It also helps that I have a relationship with my current employer (they are the ones that brought me to my gig before Nationwide) and I don't screw up (that much) so NW re-upped my contract twice. You have to understand the business you're going to get into and how they use contractors. Honda? Forget about it, you'll be a contractor forever. Nationwide? Half-and-half. Smaller business? Better shot of getting hired on, assuming you mesh well with the current crew and aren't a complete bananahead.

Damn, I haven't been up to Microcenter in a while, forgot all about that. They didn't get it from CompUSA, they got it from ThinkGeek and still carry it.

It sounded like there was some urgency with the GF wanting to leave. If you're looking for cost certainty, sell the property instead of renting. If you lose, you lose once. Once that band-aid's been ripped off, it stays off. Renting could possibly be a slow burn, with intermittent faster burns if you can't secure decent renters. Lots of uncertainty there, and it's a time sink to boot. As for the rest of it, you're on your own. I've only started one "venture" in my life and I worked alone when I did it. Much easier and simpler that way. I will say this about the "millionaire, super-mega-excited parents", emotions don't translate into cash money. If they're as excited as you say they are, then they should be willing investors, whether it be through their kid or directly. The level of "excitement" you see should be directly proportional with the amount of money they are ponying up. No money, no "excitement". This is business, not cheerleading tryouts.

I'm merely remarking on the "ZOMG we have to defund these things to help balance the budget!" and then the collective "meh" when Treasury's about to take in a billion dollars in revenue, which is more than double the amount of the things that the more militant conservatives want to defund to begin with. I too would like to see NASA get a little bump.

Gentlemen, I set 'em up, you knock 'em down.

So we don't have to de-fund PBS, since PBS only takes up 450 million in budget revenue with an extra 550 million for debt reduction? I thought debt reduction was a good thing, no?

Redbull margaritas? That's like tequila and motor oil, right? I wish these were as widely available in the US: Bawls > all, period.

That is the single smartest goddamned thing you've said on this forum.

That's not "totally custom". Totally custom would be if he had a custom paint job on custom fairings with a custom-made seat, custom-made triple tree, stuff like that. What you are describing are a series of bolt-ons that make the bike "custom" to it's owner, but doesn't do a whole lot for the value proposition than if the bike was indeed "totally custom". In buying a used bike, you should understand the differences so you don't end up raping yourself like you did with the 250. That being said, the only thing that's really adding value is the exhaust and the seat. The rest of the stuff really isn't (or shouldn't, to a competent buyer) add any real value to the price of the bike. Is the seat a Corbin? F4i's are good bikes. You get what you want in that you have a bike that looks cool, it's slightly more comfortable than a 600RR, Honda reliability (assuming the owner(s) didn't trash the engine), and FI (seriously, you don't want to dick around with carbs). Your bike, in it's current condition and given the time of year, is worth $2500. He's asking for a value trade of $3700, and I think 3500 is more on the mark given time of year and condition from shitty grainy photo of one side.

pffft, code monkey. I'll call you if I need a 200,000 line program that outputs the hierarchy of Lord of the Rings, delivered on a CD crusted with Cheeto dust.

No worries at all, you know how to get a hold of me. In your case it's absolutely essential that you have someone scoping this out with you, even if they aren't a part of the implementation. The client's going to come at you with a lot of "I want the thing to work with the thing!" statements, and unless you have the experience to know what he really means and what kind of labor that's going to entail to get working, it's incredibly easy to paint yourself into a corner before you even get started.

My offer still stands. If you can swing it during a weekend, I can even come up to give you a second set of eyes to scope things out. I haven't come up to Ridgeville to see the parents in a while, so I'll kill 2 birds.

Any updates to this, broseph?

Dead on about AimHi at New Albany. Stay the hell away. My girlfriend (who is only coming around her distaste of guns because I keep them at the house) got seriously talked down to when we were there renting at the range.