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On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:14:53 -0500, Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Which is this: Many, many people live a full lifetime in the US and
>> don't sue anyone. My grandfather never sued anyone (to my knowledge)
>> and lived a full life. And he's very *very* unlikely to do so now.
>
> I agree with your bigger point. A more relevant statistic would
be how
> many people go through their whole lives without _being_ sued.
Quite possibly, because there are those who sue more than once, or groups
of people who sue individuals and corporations in large numbers.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Well, they probably are considered some sort of non-profit organization
> (IIRC, they are considered a fraternal organization with officers), but I
> think they would be required by law to have an employer ID number if they
> paid their officers a salary.
Would it be legal to stipulate that employees may only be a member if
their "group?"
--
~Mike
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:15:01 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> Well, they probably are considered some sort of non-profit organization
>> (IIRC, they are considered a fraternal organization with officers), but
>> I think they would be required by law to have an employer ID number if
>> they paid their officers a salary.
>
> Would it be legal to stipulate that employees may only be a member if
> their "group?"
I wouldn't know, I suppose you could, for example, in a religious
institution require that workers there need to be members, but I'm not
sure how that applies to an organization like this.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I wouldn't know, I suppose you could, for example, in a religious
> institution require that workers there need to be members, but I'm not
> sure how that applies to an organization like this.
That was kind of what I was talking about. Nobody seems to think it's silly
to let a church require religious people to fill particular roles. But if
you ask the same thing about a "nasty" group that's just as protected under
US law, I can see people getting bent out of shape.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:56:03 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I wouldn't know, I suppose you could, for example, in a religious
>> institution require that workers there need to be members, but I'm not
>> sure how that applies to an organization like this.
>
> That was kind of what I was talking about. Nobody seems to think it's
> silly to let a church require religious people to fill particular roles.
> But if you ask the same thing about a "nasty" group that's just as
> protected under US law, I can see people getting bent out of shape.
Yeah, I can see that point of view.
Jim
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Darren New wrote:
> That was kind of what I was talking about. Nobody seems to think it's
> silly to let a church require religious people to fill particular roles.
And just to be clear, I am not targetting just religion. I don't think
people would look askance at the comment "We didn't hire him as CEO of
National Organization for Women because he is a man."
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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> But it doesn't cost (technologically speaking) Japan any more to sell to
> me in the US than it does to sell to their own customers.
Depends how many non-Japanese customers try to buy from the Japan site. If
it is a significant number then they will have to buy more bandwidth etc.
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scott wrote:
>> But it doesn't cost (technologically speaking) Japan any more to sell
>> to me in the US than it does to sell to their own customers.
>
> Depends how many non-Japanese customers try to buy from the Japan site.
> If it is a significant number then they will have to buy more bandwidth
But they can easily pay for that bandwidth with the extra sales. If they're
making money at 1000 sales/week with one T1, they'll make money at 3000
sales/week with three T1's. Probably more.
It doesn't cost them more to sell to one American than to one Japanese.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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> You would be *amazed* at the level of fraud with online gambling sites.
You'd be amazed at the amount of profit too :-)
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scott wrote:
>> You would be *amazed* at the level of fraud with online gambling sites.
>
> You'd be amazed at the amount of profit too :-)
No, I wouldn't. That was another of those "why do I keep winding up getting
paid a flat rate to write payment systems for people who make 50x as much
money as I make using them?" :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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