5,794 Forum Posts by "IllustriousPotentate"
Don't get me wrong-the pay at Lowe's is still pretty good for retail-but I would definitely check out a warehouse club or two if there's any nearby, just to hedge your bets.
I know it didn't take weeks for Sam's to get my drug test results in-a couple of days at most.
If you can-get an overnight shift. You get paid more, and you don't have to deal with customers.
Title 8, Section 1401 of the United States code defines a natural born citizen thusly:
* Anyone born inside the United States
* Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
* Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
* Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
* Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
* A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
The only way a child of two U.S. citizens would not be a natural born citizen is if the two having the child were both born to U.S. citizen parents outside the U.S., and lived their whole life outside the U.S., which would be highly unusual.
Proteas, if you're going to get a job in retail, you should try any of the warehouse clubs (if any) in your area. Sam's and Costco are some of the highest, if not the highest, paying retail businesses. I looked at a chart of median wages for Lowe's employees, and I must say, for similar types of work, Sam's Club blows Lowe's out of the water.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Empl oyer=Lowes_Home_Improvement/Hourly_Rate
After just 4 years with the company, and in a position where I do people's shopping for them, my hourly pay is more than any of the median wages on that list. And I'm nowhere near supervisor or manager status.
And from what I understand, Costco pays even more than Sam's Club.
We're exacerbating global warming by walking? Or any other exercise?
Lee Harvey Oswald Killed Kennedy, but then Jack Ruby, a CIA agent, shot Oswald on 9/11 to hide the fact that Oswald was collaborating with the FBI, Jimmy Hoffa, and a secret cabal of Jews faked the attack on the Pentagon.
At 8/6/07 11:58 AM, Archkronos wrote: iSketch is getting lonely...
(Will you join us?
I would, but I won every one of the three games I played in. I'll let someone else try to beat that feat of domination. :-þ
Here's what you do. Get some water, and some SureJell--it's the stuff they add to make jellies when you're canning. Pour the water in to the tank, then add the SureJell. While it's congealing, stick plastic toy fish, plastic plants in it, etc. You'll have an aquarium, but it will be frozen in time.
Check this out:
http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/solar dish/dish01.shtml
Rob Cockerham took one of those enormous, obsolete satellite dishes, and covered it in mirrors, pretty much making a huge parabolic meter. When it's in direct sun, it'll melt or burn almost anything put in it's focal point.
Well, it looks like Barry Bonds* is going to do it, after all. I read an interesting article in Sports Illustrated the other day concerning Bonds* and Aaron's home run record. In it, he talks about that, while Bonds* may get to 756* and become the record holder, because of Bonds's* conviction in the court of public opinion, Aaron will always be the home-run standard bearer.
Which is a good thing, because Aaron has more character and integrity in his left thumb than Bonds* could ever hope to have.
At 8/5/07 06:59 PM, mightypotato wrote: It would be like normal, except we wouldn't be able to ban users or lock/delete topics. We pretty much are normal users, except with some added responsibilities...
Such as protecting the world with super dinosaur robots from Rita Repulsa's monsters. Other than that, you're just a group of teenagers "with attitude".
It would all depend on the other forms of entertainment and information at my disposal.
If I'm having fun, I can go for days without the internet. We went on a long trip earlier this summer, and I didn't miss it one bit while we were gone.
If there's nothing to do, though, I couldn't stand it for long.
At 8/5/07 06:56 PM, bladeofluigi wrote: Do they pay any money though? I'm sure they would, or no one would care to submit embarrasing footage such as rick roll.
No. They pay no money, unless it's some under-the-table mafia deal.
Don't you think that, if they paid 10 cents a hit on every video they submit, they would advertise that fact?
Cereal and cold pizza are the two universal foods that can be consumed at any time of the day or night without reprecussion.
I often find cold cereal to be a great alternative in the summer when it's too hot to cook anything.
I remember before FUNK, Maus, aviewaskewed, Proteas, JoS and SevenSeize were made mods; they were just as funny and friendly as they are now.
That's absurd.
While people may act like it, by submitting video after crappy video, but it's not the case.
Even if they did pay money for videos, it certainly wouldn't be 10 cents per hit.
I work overnight, so when I'm off on the weekends, or before and after I go to work, it's too late or early to really do anything else.
At 3 am on a Saturday night there's little else besides the internet for someone who hates going to clubs. I don't drink, and I don't hang out with my friends when they do.
This is why NASCAR is so much better than F1. Their second-tier series, the Busch series, held a race yesterday at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve up in Montreal, and I must say, it was much, much more exciting than any race F1 could have there.
At 8/4/07 09:40 PM, AmishGangster wrote:At 8/4/07 09:36 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: I agree. Prohibition worked to curb alcohol use, and today's stringent drug laws mean that no one smokes marijuana any more.Are you kidding?
You've got to learn how to detect sarcasm on the internets.
At 8/4/07 08:59 PM, TheSovereign wrote: You see if we made guns illegal to the public, there wouldn't be anymore murders if not, very few. Also school shootings would never take place because with no guns kids can't be influenced to shoot people.
I agree. Prohibition worked to curb alcohol use, and today's stringent drug laws mean that no one smokes marijuana any more.
My average was 0.202 seconds. Pretty good.
At 8/4/07 10:48 AM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: My average was 0.202 seconds. Pretty good.
So good, in fact, I can reply to stuff before it's even posted!
The parking fines pay his salary. Stoners don't.
At 8/4/07 02:25 AM, Cuppa-LettuceNog wrote: I think the time should depend. For example, on individual artists, the copyright should last as long as their life does. For example, a poets works should be made public domain when they die, the rights shouldn't pass onto children. However, when the copyright is central to a company ran by the former copyright holder, (I.E the Disney Corporation) it should be the Death + 70 years formula.
Nah, that's too vague. What would "central to a company" mean? Donald Duck is also a world-famous and symbol of the Disney Corportation, too. Would he qualify? What about other characters? Artists would claim that their body of music is central to the company, therefore, the death+70 years should apply.
I'm not surprised. As vast of an agency as the Pentagon is, a better question is, what plans don't they draw up? I remember Jon Stewart interviewing one author on her book about the planning inside the Pentagon, and they've got plans from invading Canada to telepathy.
At 8/4/07 09:37 AM, morefngdbs wrote: Let's make a note to come back to this when we have more information.
Hmmm...
At 8/4/47 04:37 AM, PresChelseaClintonSux wrote:At 8/3/47 04:20 AM, morefngdbs wrote: Hey guys! The Pentagon's plans for 9/11 40 years ago were declassified!STFU Old timer!!!111
No, there isn't. There's few real homosexuals on here. Most of what you see is heterosexual losers using homosexuality as a crutch to lighten and mask their crippling lack of personality or humor.
At 8/4/07 08:25 AM, gopmanbush08 wrote: Who invented the 22nd ammendment? That has to be the stupidest violation of our freedom since the 18th ammendment. Why in the world should we limit the number of terms a president can serve, especially if he's doing a great job. I think it should be up to the people to decide how many terms a president serves, not some useless ammendment.
I have a sheet on my bed right now. It's a nice sheet. Cool and comfortable. Yet, I find I sleep better when I change it often.
The 2008 elections are coming up soon and we could be losing George Bush right in the middle of the war. Whether you agree with this war or not, changing leaders in the middle of a conflict is just plain stupid.
I agree, a peaceful turnover of power from one person to another, elected by the citizens of the country, even in times of crisis, we can't have that. That's what the terrorists want!
We have to cower in our houses, afraid to make any changes to the status quo because of a war and the threat of terrorism, otherwise, the terrorists win.
I say repeal the 22nd ammedment. Keep a real man in the office for 2008.
But the 22nd amendment doesn't apply to vice presidents. Oh, you mean Bush.
He's held this country together for 8 years
Yep. 70% of Americans are in lock step in their disapproval of them. That's bipartisan consensus that few others can even dream about.
I think he can handle another 4, hands down.
Hey, you can still vote for him. The 22nd Amendment doesn't make it illegal to cast a ballot for Bush.
At 8/4/07 04:35 AM, Empanado wrote:At 8/3/07 11:16 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: It's like watching a prima ballerina get crushed under a collapsing building--there's a certain beauty to it, while there's enough disaster to keep you enthralled.I must ask you... is that you, in the furry avatar? are you a furry? Because, if you haven't noticed, furry is the new gay. Out yourself as a furry and you're not getting mocked, you're getting dragged into the street, disowned, branded like cattle and left to die in the countryside.
I must confess...
No, not really.
You can get all types of avatars. I started using this one--it was free, and looks a whole lot better that the generic human characters everyone else has--which comes in handy when you're trying to see yourself in a laggy crowd of weirdos.
Plus, you can get more people to talk to you, so that you can teleport them off to some distant place or play incredibly annoying sounds at them, or other tricks.
I've never really understood furdom, but you have to admit, it's nowhere near as ridiculous as people wandering around with spears protruding from their heads or dancing midgets with enormous and superfluous "parts" . And especially not the Spongebob Guy. I'll never watch that show again.
It's like the General forum, only in MMORPG form.
lol, yiff
At 8/3/07 04:30 PM, MoralLibertarian wrote: Inspired by a call on the Rush Limbaugh show today:
You own a company that makes "smartf" lights for office buildings. Your light can sense when a person is in the room and turns on and off based on whether a person's using the room. The sensors are x amount to install but are expected to save business owners hundreds of thousands on their monthly utility bills.
If you sell this product to businesses, how would you market this product? Obviously the cost savings are the first thing you'd highlight, but would you try for a global warming angle, even if you think global warming is bullshit? Would you incorporate environmentalism at all into the sales pitch?
The energy savings would be the first priority, of course. But if this is a public corporation, with shareholders, I'd definitely sell the "green" angle. If there's one thing companies care about more than profits, it's image. Buying these lights would help them present themselves as "green" companies to the press, PR, and shareholders.
Mal, if I'm sitting here in tears reading that, I can't imagine how tough it is for you right now.
My prayers are with you and your whole family.
