I know what you mean. When I say dented, I mean the corners look like somebody dropped the thing from 5 ft in the air. I've had them hit so hard it actually split the hardcover down to the internal cardboard or separated the spine.
I used to send those fuckers right back, but the replacement would be just as bad, so I simply stopped ordering anything that I really cared about condition.
That is something no one is talking about. For years, Amazon was just about the cheapest for books; 30-50% off cover price was routine.
I was ordering some novels recently, and they were all cover price- there would be no reason to bother ordering from Amazon at that point, except the only bookstore left in town is Barnes & Noble and they didn't have the books I wanted on the shelf.
Amazon packaging has degenerated into just throwing the items in a box. Half the time they don't even include those useless air pillow things.
I'm sure they had an actuary that figured out it was cheaper to process the returns rather than bother to pack things correctly in the first place, but it has definitely kept me from ordering nice editions or coffee table style books from them if they're just going to come dented up.
There are examples of all of this ‘banned’ content on the Amazon sale list, but let’s just end the example with The Communist Manifesto, responsible for the most political deaths in human history, available from $15.77, and Hitler’s Mein Kampf for $2.99
Anyone else find it funny that the handbook for communism costs over five times as much as Mein Kampf?
Here's an idea: the primary is not an election. It's a vehicle for the individual parties to select their candidate for the general election. The state has no business being involved and should spend zero taxpayer dollars administering it. Let the parties mail their primary ballots to their members themselves.
The only obligation the state has in elections is ensuring every qualified candidate is on the ballot (for the general election), administering the collection of votes, and publishing results. They shouldn't even publish candidate statements, just a list that you mark your pick on. If you want to vote go fucking educate yourself on what party the candidates are in and what they stand for.
Regarding their product: Boonie hats cover your ears and neck, weigh almost nothing, and roll up to something that fits in the palm of your hand. They're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, the "best outdoor hat" problem was solved almost 100 years ago.
Their hat basically looks like those faggy things that joggers wear.
Do you think that maybe evolutionary texts show skin color getting lighter because monkeys have brown/black skin and humans generally do not?
I'm also guessing that most scientific work on the subject was written by Europeans who would make their illustrations look like them. There's not a lot of groundbreaking evolutionary theory coming out of sub-Saharan African scholars.
That's how things would have been handled in the past. Laws are meant to be tools to ensure justice, not a straightjacket that provides state protection to murderers.
Well, not to shift goalposts, but the 2018 non-hispanic white population in America was almost 200 million and they committed 1,476 murders (not all involving firearms).
That’s a rate of fewer that one per 100 thousand, and comparable or better than most European countries.
The point being, the US doesn't have a gun problem, we have a demographic problem; where certain ethnic groups are orders of magnitude more violent than white people.
Guns are a red herring in mortality rate figures. Most are suicides, which really have nothing to do with guns, since it's just the tool they chose. When you remove those, and lawful shootings, which are a good thing, we're better off than countries that have far stricter gun regulations.
It's OK. I view it as the product of almost 30 years of fan service: Boba Fett looked cool, so they created a backstory for his armor, a wonder metal, and a whole race of people who look just like him. Even though the expanded universe has been discarded, this series is the product of all those older influences.
Disney succeeds here because they correctly realize that people ultimately just want to see guys that look like Boba Fett kicking ass.
Ah, I didn't catch that part. Well, if you're going to embrace the left's philosophy, then you get what you deserve.
I can totally understand why he was thrown off. If you're not a freak, this is a completely alien question to you.
Why the fuck would PrEP be free? This isn't a life-saving drug, it's just so AIDS-riddled fags can have sex.
"Chop off your dick, it's blisssss....."
They didn't. They passed a law removing the old board that was run by Disney and replacing it with a state-appointed one. At the 11th hour the old board (run by Disney) made an agreement with Disney (themselves) that basically rendered the new board powerless.
It's for sure going to court, and there's a good chance it'll get struck down. In the meantime, the State of Florida is free to use whatever legal levers of power it has to make life hell for Disney World.
Yes, that's probably more legally defensible too, because Disney might be able to go after them for intentionally cutting off access to their property.
Oh yes, that's why it's used all the time.
Wikipedia, but useful IMO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
“I’m going to read to you the term of this restrictive covenant. ‘This declaration shall continue in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England, living as of the date of this declaration,’” Peri said. “So, I mean, I don’t know what else to say."
While this sounds completely ridiculous, it's actually not uncommon in contracts.
Going back to English common law, you could not make a contract last in perpetuity so, as a workaround to make a contract last forever without saying so, they will often pick a famous dynasty that they know will never die out and condition the termination on the contract of the end of that family line.
The more you know...
"This board loses, for practical purposes, the majority of its ability to do anything beyond maintain the roads and maintain basic infrastructure,” Peri said.
Then don't maintain them. Better yet, plow all the fucking roads that lead to Disney World up and plant grass in their place.
I think so. I would have annotated it as "$XX/mo".
The left: "you can cut off your dick before puberty, because you're old enough to decide your gender- and cast some votes while you're at it"
Also the left: "no guns for people 18 to 21, you're not mature enough yet. And no cigarettes either"
You have to be literally retarded to have these logical inconsistencies in your core beliefs.
Don't forget wiping out small businesses. All the local restaurants, gyms, etc. that were wiped out while Amazon raked in billions.
When the government fails to perform its core duties people have a moral right to return to the old ways.
The shame is that of vigilantism and revenge killings are normalized, it won't just be the righteous dispensing justice, it will be anyone they got arrested or convicted taking revenge.