Forty-Bot
9d ago
Forty-Bot
29d ago
Today the local volunteer fire department had this on their sign:
Odd hours
No pay
Cool hat
Join us
Which sort of begs the question: how in the world do volunteer fire departments exist, especially when there are non-volunteer departments in the same area? Don't they get tired of showing up to calls where someone had a heart attack and so in addition to an ambulance the fire department has to show up too for whatever reason? And how do they even find the time? They all have to work full time, and firefighters presumable skew young and without passive income.
Forty-Bot
30d ago
Charles Vance Millar (June 28, 1854 – October 31, 1926) was a Canadian lawyer and financier. He was the president and part-owner of the Toronto brewery of O'Keefe Brewery. He also owned racehorses, including the 1915 King's Plate–winning horse Tartarean. However, he is now best known for his unusual will which touched off the Great Stork Derby.
Millar's final prank was his will, which says in part:
This Will is necessarily uncommon and capricious because I have no dependents or near relations and no duty rests upon me to leave any property at my death and what I do leave is proof of my folly in gathering and retaining more than I required in my lifetime.
The will had several unusual bequests:
- Three men who were known to despise each other (T. P. Galt, KC; J. D. Montgomery and James Haverson, KC) were granted joint lifetime tenancy in Millar's vacation home in Jamaica, on condition that they live in the property together.
- To each practicing Protestant minister in Toronto, and every Orange Lodge in Toronto, a share of O'Keefe Brewery stock, a Catholic business, if they participated in its management and drew on its dividends.
- Two anti-horse-racing advocates (Hon. William Raney, Reverend Samuel Chown) and a man who detested the Ontario Jockey Club (Abe Orpen) were to receive a share of Ontario Jockey Club stock, provided they are shareholders in three years. Raney's and Chown's share were eventually given to charity and Orpen accepted his share.
- Each duly ordained Christian minister in Walkerville, Sandwich, and Windsor, "except Spracklin, who shot a hotelkeeper" was to receive a share of the Kenilworth Park Racetrack, located just outside Windsor, Ontario.
The tenth and final clause of his will was the largest. It required that the balance of Millar's estate was to be converted to cash ten years after his death and given to the Toronto woman who gave birth to the most children in that time. In the event of a tie, the bequest would be divided equally. The resulting contest became known as the Great Stork Derby.
Eleven families competed in the "baby race." Seven of them were disqualified, but eventually Judge William Edward Middleton ruled in favour of four mothers (Annie Katherine Smith, Kathleen Ellen Nagle, Lucy Alice Timleck, and Isabel Mary Maclean) who each received $110,000 for their nine children ($2.24 million in 2023 dollars). Three of the four had to pay back relief money given to them by the City of Toronto government. Two of the disqualified candidates, Lillian Kenny and Pauline Mae Clarke, each received $12,500 out of court in exchange for abandoning pending appeals.
Forty-Bot
30d ago
but these days most are set up by the original land developer and transmit from the first sale on.
Aren't they limited by the rule against perpetuities?
Forty-Bot
1mo ago
I can only assume it's to make it easier to charge suspects when there isn't enough evidence for anything else.
Forty-Bot
1mo ago
The tax man always gets his due:
In 1987, the Kansas Legislature passed laws imposing an excise tax on the illegal possession and/or distribution of marijuana and controlled substances. The laws state that any person who illegally possesses and/or distributes these substances in quantities exceeding a threshold amount is a “drug dealer.” The threshold amount is designed to avoid taxing the casual user of these substances. The tax must be paid by the “dealer” by purchasing the proper amount of drug tax stamps from the Kansas Department of Revenue and then affixing them to the packaging of the illegal drugs as proof of payment of the tax as soon as the “dealer” comes into possession of the illegal substance(s). The stamps may be purchased anonymously at the Department’s Taxpayer Assistance Center in Topeka. The stamps are valid for three months after purchase. A “dealer” is not required to give his/her name or address when purchasing stamps and the Department is prohibited from sharing any information about the stamp purchased with law enforcement or anyone else. Purchasing the drug tax stamps does not make possession of marijuana or controlled substances legal.
Forty-Bot
1mo ago
I liked Fate/Zero, and ironically it seems to be the one that fans of the series hate, so I guess there's no accounting for taste.
I've seen Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night and I thought the former was much better than the latter. They're almost completely different genres.
If you haven't seen ERASED you may enjoy it.
Before selecting a broker, how do I know that I'll be able to invest in that specific index fund via the broker?
You can generally invest in any fund at any broker. However, most brokers will charge a fee to invest in a mutual fund run by another broker. Some don't. You have to read the schedule of fees. You can also buy ETFs for free, and there are often ETF versions of mutual funds. But ETFs are more annoying to trade, since you have to buy and sell shares of the ETF on the market, instead of just buying $X of a mutual fund at NAV.
The bogleheads wiki is a good resource.
Forty-Bot
4mo ago
Hey, if you want to buy a 3x leveraged Microstrategy ETF please let us know beforehand.
It's Strategy ₿ now :)
Forty-Bot
4mo ago
How do you guys even read that website? At least on reddit you could turn subreddit CSS off with RES.
Forty-Bot
4mo ago
Just because some wackos commute 2 hours every day each way to Front Royal doesn't mean that it's culturally part of DC.
Forty-Bot
4mo ago
Their best song is of course the Justice remix of "Electric Feel."
What idiot thought it was a good idea to add a DHCP server to a printer?
It's probably so you can connect directly to the printer, without needing a router. Of course, it might be smarter to first try to acquire a DHCP lease before starting a DHCP server...
Forty-Bot
5mo ago
We rented a honda odessey recently that just had buttons instead of a shifter.
Forty-Bot
7mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1gogaq0/fair_and_balanced/
who said the left couldn't meme
Forty-Bot
7mo ago
Polygon
Live footage of TheMotte rn.
Forty-Bot
8mo ago
Tom Cruise is always getting older
He knows he'll never be that young again
And every time he looks over his shoulder
He sees a thousand younger leading men
And he knows someday he'll have to play an old retarded grandpa
while someone younger plays his sexy son
70 mph.
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