ToaKraka
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ToaKraka
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9mo ago
checking his license (which I assume is the main way a dealer would confirm that information) would have backed that up
As I wrote above, his driver's license was in the wrong county as well. Only his house's deed and mortgages were in the correct county.
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9mo ago
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A person lives on a property that sits directly on top of the line between Trimble County and Carroll County in Kentucky. Most of the house is in Carroll County, but the driveway and part of the house are in Trimble County. The property's deed, and two mortgages on the property, are recorded with the Carroll County clerk, and the property tax is paid to Carroll County. However, the person's driver license states that he resides in Trimble County, and he has voted in Trimble County in the four most recent elections.
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The person buys on credit, registers, and titles a semi-truck in Trimble County. Accordingly, the creditor files a lien on the truck with the Trimble County clerk. However, when the person files for bankruptcy, he argues in bankruptcy court: he actually resides in Carroll County; since the lien was not filed in his county of residence, it is invalid under state law; and, therefore, the lien must be "avoided" (deleted) in the federal bankruptcy.
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The bankruptcy judge agrees with the debtor and avoids the lien. A slight majority of the property is in Carroll County, so the deed was recorded in Carroll County, and that is conclusive proof of the debtor's county of residence under state law. State law incorporates "a policy of certainty in the recording of mortgages on both real and personal property", and allowing a person to pick and choose which of two counties is his county of residence would frustrate that policy. The debtor cannot be faulted for giving the wrong county of residence in the credit application, as (1) the application was only attested, not sworn, before a notary, and (2), if the application was not sworn, then under state law it was the creditor's responsibility to check the county of residence before filing the lien.
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9mo ago
I think that, if I could not constantly feel assured of my own tangible existence, then I would constantly feel nervous about the continued tangible existence of whatever computer server I would be running on. But I don't think that really counts as "enjoying being embodied".
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9mo ago
Source for inflammatory claim (table 2):
Assumptions:
- Mortality: Standard
- Lifetime earnings basis: Individual
- Lifetime earnings measure: Actual
- Discount rate (%/a): 2
Income quintile Social Security tax rate (%) 1 −21.9 2 −1.0 3 +3.6 4 +6.4 5 +6.8
The researchers appear to say that, if you adjust for a zillion variables, the redistributive effect basically disappears:
Assumptions:
- Mortality: Dependent on income
- Lifetime earnings basis: Household
- Lifetime earnings measure: Potential estimated based on income(?)
- Discount rate (%/a): 4
Income quintile Social Security tax rate (%) 1 +4.1 2 +5.2 3 +6.0 4 +6.0 5 +5.5
I don't know how much I believe that claim.
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10mo ago
I now have checked the court filings. It appears that, so far, absolutely zero mention has been made of the actual value of the casks or of the nuclear waste. The complaint alleges only that the assessed value of the entire parcel (a defunct nuclear power plant that is being decommissioned; 40 M$ for land and 70 M$ for improvements) is too high. Presumably, the parties will not start arguing over the actual value until after this court opinion regarding taxability has finished the entire appeals process.
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10mo ago
This particular court opinion addresses only the concrete-and-steel casks themselves, not the plutonium-etc. waste within the casks. (See footnote 5 on page 11.) It is entirely possible that your solution will be adopted in future proceedings in this case.
The US state of New J*rsey is infamous for (1) having sky-high property taxes and (2) being an industrial wasteland. This court opinion offers a daring synthesis of those two concepts.
Are casks of nuclear waste subject to property tax? The answer is "yes". In theory, they are just temporarily in their current locations, and will be moved to a federal storage facility soon. But, since the feds have failed to create such a facility for the past fifty years (Yucca Mountain et cetera), in practice they count as permanent fixtures (just like your home's bathtub and kitchen sink), which are part of "real property" that is subject to property tax.
In this comment, @VecGS differentiates between options B and B’ (B&rsquo ; without the space). Please note that the latter symbol actually is supposed to be B′ (B&prime ; without the space).
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10mo ago
My comment actually was not a joke. Unfortunately, upon reflection I don't think I would be able to tolerate presenting myself as homosexual (or bisexual) to my family members and coworkers in order to appease the federal investigators. So your anus sadly will have to remain unpenetrated by me. Is that decision selfish of me, in light of the huge benefits that you would gain from US citizenship? Probably. So I apologize for the fragility of my ego.
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10mo ago
A different commenter has suggested getting a fraudulent marriage. But I do kind of wonder how blurry the line is between a fraudulent marriage and a real marriage.
Q: I see that you, a natural-born US citizen, have married this random Indian immigrant in the UK after just one visit to the UK. Naturally, you must understand that this makes us feds suspicious.
A: Sure, we met in person only once before marrying. But we actually have known each other for many years on a niche Internet forum. He impressed me with his fluency in English (though he does tend to use italics a little too often for my taste). And his actual substantive opinions are not far off from mine. I decided to meet him in person, and very quickly realized that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.
Q: Our investigation indicates that you have never before exhibited homosexual (or, as the kids say nowadays, homoromantic) tendencies. We have the court file showing that your ill-fated high-school crush was on a girl, not on a boy. Why the sudden shift?
A: Actually, I have always had some homosexual tendencies, particularly for cute twinks, though I have never acted on them. My new husband does not necessarily fit that profile too well, but I have made allowances for his physical shortcomings, given his great mental prowess. We take turns fucking each other in the ass on alternating nights. Also, if you have my court file, then you should know that that old crush was Indian as well, just like my husband.
It isn't that simple. Court opinions on this topic show that the immigration authorities conduct intrusive interviews and investigations to check whether the marriage appears genuine. How did you meet? How did you propose? Where was the honeymoon? What is your spouse's birthday? Do you live with your spouse? Do you share a bank account? Et cetera.
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10mo ago
And then you have to do goofy stuff like "traffic-metering signals", which turn the roundabout back into an old-fashioned traffic circle…
30 k$ seems pretty low for a crime whose default punishment (for the citizen, not for the alien) under the US Sentencing Guidelines is a prison sentence of 8–14 months plus a fine of 4–40 k$. I have a hard time believing that enforcement is so lax that people will commit such an easily-trackable felony for so little.
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10mo ago
eventually traffic would get blocked by a red
Fun fact: One of the downsides of roundabouts is that they do not provide these breaks in traffic, so they can cause problems downstream.
The USA already offers immigrant visas for only one million dollars (800 k$ if the investment is made in a rural area). A later-published version of your article discusses the difference between the existing program and Trump's suggestion.
"The EB-5 program ... it was full of nonsense, make believe and fraud, and it was a way to get a green card that was low price. So the president said, rather than having this sort of ridiculous EB-5 program, we're going to end the EB-5 program. We're going to replace it with the Trump gold card," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters on Tuesday.
See also this partial list of countries that offer "golden visas".
Slab seems like a maintenance nightmare if you ever need to replace wiring or plumbing that's in the slab.
Wiring goes through the ceiling, not through the slab. But regarding plumbing I agree wholeheartedly. I currently live in my mother's house, which was built on a slab in the 1950s. Every winter, my mother is deathly afraid that the pipes will freeze, so she leaves all the faucets dripping on cold nights. It's a bit of extra stress.
Thoughts on slab vs. crawlspace?
I personally can't justify increasing the cost of construction by an entire one-fifth just for a crawl space. After all, the pipes under my mother's house haven't burst in the 70 years since they were constructed, and under-slab plumbing technology presumably is even better today than it was in the 1950s.
Note that crawl spaces may be cheaper in areas that don't have radon. In areas that do have radon, a slab needs to be constructed under the crawl space, according to the architect that I consulted. The EPA publishes an official radon map.
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10mo ago
The NAHB (National Association of Homebuilders) regularly conducts nationwide surveys on the cost of building a house. The latest such survey is available at this link. tl;dr: For the average 21,000-ft2 lot and 2600-ft2 house, the cost is 4.4 $ per ft2 of land plus 220 $ (including overhead and profit) per ft2 of structure.
Obviously, these numbers will vary very widely depending on your house's location and other specifics. Personally, within the past few months I have (1) purchased a 7600-ft2 lot in a small urban area in Pennsylvania for 3.9 $/ft2 and (2) obtained from an architect the following estimates (including overhead and profit) for a 940-ft2 one-story rectangular house in that area:
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Slab: 190 $/ft2
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Crawl space: 230 $/ft2
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Basement: 270 $/ft2
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10mo ago
The executive order says only that a plan for "full and complete release" is to be presented to the president, by February 7 for the JFK files, and by March 9 for the RFK and MLK files. It does not provide a deadline for the releases themselves.
Of course, as weeks elapse after February 7 and March 9, you can argue that the releases will never happen.
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10mo ago
Quote from the defense lawyer's closing statement (part of document 100 on this page):
It is clear from the photographs that the Government admitted into evidence that, in 2016 and 2017, [the daughter] and [the wife] were a lot closer in size and weight than they are now. Their hair was significantly more similar to one another's than it is right now.
One problem is that these niche cases don't provide any pictures. Frankly if I were a juror they would perhaps have moved me in one direction or the other
I now have logged into PACER and uploaded a bunch of the publicly-available files to RECAP. Document 66 attachment 1 lists seven family photographs that the prosecutor used as trial exhibits. But of course those photographs are not publicly available. Still, in document 99 the wife testifies regarding similarities in height and weight, and the defense lawyer's closing statement in document 100 has this quote: "It is clear from the photographs that the Government admitted into evidence that, in 2016 and 2017, [the daughter] and [the wife] were a lot closer in size and weight than they are now. Their hair was significantly more similar to one another's than it is right now."
Amazing to have your wife and child beg for a jury not to convict you of a crime against one of them, and then they do it anyway.
I don't think begging the jury for leniency is permissible, and I see no such begging in documents 98–100 (the trial transcript). But they did beg the sentencing judge for leniency in document 94 (the sentencing transcript), mentioning that the family had to sell its house in order to pay the lawyer fees. Document 79 is a request for permission to appeal in forma pauperis (exempted from paying the filing fee due to poverty).
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10mo ago
Are you sourcing these on your own or finding them in an adjacent forum?
I just check out recent New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and federal cases for fun.
This happened on an Indian reservation
That doesn't mean much in Oklahoma, where half the state counts as Indian reservations under a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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10mo ago
Court opinion, simultaneously hentai-adjacent and terror-inducing:
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A husband and a wife are sleeping in their bedroom. The wife, a labor-and-delivery nurse, is suddenly called to the hospital in the middle of the night, and does not wake up the husband to tell him that she is leaving the house. The couple's daughter has a nightmare and enters the couple's bed (an occasional, but not frequent, occurrence). The husband wakes up and attempts to initiate sex with the wife through digital penetration. Being half-asleep (a heavy sleeper with the disorder of sleep apnea) and in a pitch-black bedroom (with blackout curtains due to the wife's inconsistent sleep schedule), he fails to realize that the 37-year-old wife has left and the 11-year-old daughter (who is similar in size and shape to the wife, and has developed pubic hair) is there instead. After the daughter realizes what is happening, she fully wakes up the husband, who apologizes profusely for the accidental digital penetration.
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Three years later, the daughter confides in a friend that the husband accidentally penetrated her digitally. However, the friend thinks that the touching was intentional rather than accidental, so she reports it as a crime. The husband is charged with "aggravated sexual abuse of a minor under twelve", is found guilty by the jury, and receives from the judge the mandatory minimum sentence of thirty years in prison.
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The appeals panel vacates the conviction by a vote of two to one. The prosecutor presented absolutely zero evidence that the digital penetration was intentional rather than accidental, so no reasonable juror could have convicted the husband of the crime "beyond a reasonable doubt". (The dissenter thinks that the jury was perfectly entitled to disbelieve the husband's assertion that he couldn't tell the difference between a 37-year-old woman and an 11-year-old girl.)
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10mo ago
It's their CVTs that are the problem. Toyota gets around that problem in their CVT models mostly by having a gear for "first".
According to /o/: The problem with Nissan's CVTs is that they are too small for the engines to which they are connected. Mitsubishi uses the same CVTs, but matches them better with engines, so Mitsubishi cars don't have the same transmission problems. For example, according to Wikipedia, the Jatco JF015E is used both in the Mitsubishi Mirage (76 horsepower) and in the Nissan Juke (122 horsepower).
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