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Raises an interesting legal question: If you pick up an item in a supermarket and someone subsequently takes it from you before you check out, is it theft? The item is not yours until you pay for it...

Well, apparently Walmart is known for it's Fuckstick Parties, and has been sued before. http://www.napil.net/2009/08/wal-mart-settles-black-friday-wrongful.html They need to have someone take it all the way to court so they don't get to settle without admitting wrongdoing.

And how to you get willing fucksticks? You advertise to them, offer them cheap fuckstick cleaners and toys for the fucksticklets. They you pen them up outside the door so they know that they have to get there quickly or they get nothing. They you open the doors, in a scene that looks very much like a fat man sharting out a bad burrito, and all the fucksticks go to work. Venue organizers are responsible for the safety of the crowds from known hazards. Fucksticks being fucksticks is a known safety hazard on black friday.

Well, apparently the guy you voted for didn't win so MOAR PRUUF!!

So when you invite fucksticks over so they can riot over of $30 DVD player, you're not at all liable for that? You knew (or should have known) that you are creating a critical mass of fucksticks in a confined area. A fuckstick-o-rama, if you will.

I once found 18.7 cents on a mountain bike.

Step 1 to fix healthcare costs - make it non-profit. How much of your healthcare dollar goes to shareholders?

If we all agree that the problem is the continuing rise in healthcare costs that predates obamacare then sure. If people get it in their heads that Obamacare is the one and only reason for the rise in healthcare costs then they will mistakenly believe that repealing obamacare is the answer. The problem existed waaaay before Obama and needs a solution appropriate to that better understanding of the issue.

I bet he voted for Romney, and he's to blame for Obama being voted in.

It's vaporware right now, but would be cool if they can actually make it work.

I think the store should be 100% responsible for any injuries or deaths associated with the frenzy they create. They should have everyone outside the store text a keyword (announced in person outside the store) to a given phone number 15 minutes before opening time. Those people should then all be randomly assigned a position in line. Each person's position in line should be texted back to them. When they open the doors they allow people in one group of 10 at a time, on order they they show on their cellphone. Or each person gets a phone call from a given number in order, and they only allow people in who show a recent missed call from that number.

I ride a mountain bike, and I stay the heck off the road!

Kiss my ass. This thread devolved into anti-Obama and I was responding to that. You yourself quoted a Forbes article about the Supreme Court & Obamacare showing that prices are going to rise - so don't act all high and might like you didn't invoke politics yourself.

Congrats on finding the only mode of transportation that is more dangerous than a motorcycle. Woohoo!

Here's a chart for all those that think rising health care costs is an Obama phenomenon... Source ; http://www.annfammed.org/content/10/2/156.full.pdf+html This is all through the prior administration... Look carefully at the Y axis and notice that the line going downards does NOT mean the cost is going down, it means it's not rising as fast. During the Bush era healthcare costs were rising 8%-12% per year for most of his presidency. Yet you act like your health care costs never went up before Obama came along...

http://libguides.sou.edu/content.php?pid=54475&sid=678227 Anti-Obama scaremongering from a conservative periodical? Really?

I hate the current pastelle crap plates. Bring back the red/white/blue. It worked, looks ok and there is no need to change it. Unless they are trying to stay ahead of counterfeiters?

My coverages/deductibles have always been a function of the employer I worked for. Worst I ever had was at a small shop when I first started working. Dental only covered cleanings/fillings and had a max benefit for $500 per year. 70% in-network coverage on health with co-pays in the $40 range for doctor visits. No prescription coverage. This was mid-90s. Every time I went to work for a better employer I'd get better health insurance, but every year the costs would go up a bit and/or the coverage would go down a bit. Over the last 15 years my insurance has become better overall. But "better" in terms American healthcare funding, versus how it used to be - I always have to deal with deductibles, copays, max out of pockets/max benefits, reasonable-and-customary limits and all the other bullshit that means you have to be a CPA to be sure you're not getting screwed over. And I've caught my insurance making mistakes a few times resulting in my losing half of the coverage I should have received , and I have fought with my insurance company for 18 months on one case where they kept making mistake after mistake and I proven them wrong every single time. Currently I work for a non-profit and my insurance is on the higher end of so-so. Here is where I fan the flames... The best insurance I every had was working for the Ohio office of a UK company. Everything was covered 100% with no copays after a $4k deductible - and the company gave you an extra $3k in a an FSA linked to your insurance so any health claims automatically went against the FSA first. If you paid an extra $1k pre-tax into the FSA yourself then (for $650/year) you paid nothing more for healthcare. In the UK if you are sick you got to the doctor or hospital and you get fixed up and pay nothing out of pocket. The UK does not have the problem of uninsured/medicare/medicaid people using the emergency room for a Cold so that they get colds meds for free. They burn up a $2500 ER visit for a $6 bottle of cough syrup. Why do you think the rest of us even pay $2500 a visit? If everyone is covered then they will go to the doctor instead. I'd support dropping the non-insured penalty in exchange for a notarized declaration that you accept that you will never be able to discharge medical expenses via bankruptcy if you were uninsured when the charges were incurred.

I don't get why people are calling HSAs "expensive". It's a Healthcare Savings Account, like an FSA only it rolls over. What is "expensive about that?

But they are goldmines of forensic evidence.

Yes, in my car while I recover from a broken rib.

Video added to first post.

Headed north on sawmill in the middle lane, passed 161. As we approach the next intersection the right lane becomes right-turn-only. As I crossed the intersection I realized the car to my right is still headed north, didn't turn right as required. I look over like WTF just as he drives into the sidewalk. A few moments later he passed me on the left like nothing happened and went on his way. I played the video back and realized he flipped his left signal on as the right-turn-lane markings started. I didn't see this. Apparently he was expecting me to yield to him? Either way he kept going straight and finally hit the kerb. Weird and random. http://youtu.be/V7ihLvb4dTk

Ohio's Castle Doctrine create the rebuttable presumption that the bad guy was there to do you deadly harm. Rebuttable is the key word. If the prosecutor can PROVE that you knew you were safe, then castle doctrine does not apply. ie If the bad guy breaks in to your house and injures himself while doing so, and you find him on the ground unconscious, you can't shoot him. Or if the BG sees your gun, turns around with his hands behind his head and kneels down (like a cop is about to cuff him) then you can't shoot him. Single shot to the chest of a man who broke into a house with a knife? This is the very reason Castle Doctrine exists. A man in the circumstances described should face no charges, and suffer no civil liability (as the law is written.)

2500lbs is a light dump truck. His truck was reported to weigh 12 tons. And he was on meth.