Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Steve Lehto"
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There are two types of breach of contract, material breach and fundamental breach. A material breach would be, the hotel has a meal included with the room and doesn't have sufficient food for all rooms. A fundamental breach is, the hotel books say 100 rooms, then tells the travel agency to go pound sand, you'll not honor the contract.
The difference is, most of the contract was fulfilled vs one has no hope that any of the contract will be honored. Of the two, a fundamental breach is fully recoverable with punitive damages added. If the loss of $30k is awarded and the judge assigns punitive damages as well, the agency may well be made whole. Unlikely, but occasionally courts sensibilities are so offended by such blatant objectionable behavior as to award punitive damages to discourage repetition.
Personally, I say clean their clocks in court, then while dining with a judge, a Tesla in self-drive has an accident involving the building's cornerstone... But, that's my Sicilian side talking.
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@JKiler1 they'd hate me, the city would now be the proud owner of the nation's newest cobalt-60 storage site.
Inspect to your heart's content, at your own risk. The upside, no need for street lighting, cobalt-60 glows in the dark.
I actually did lose a house. I had gotten called away, some war thing and all, so I deployed and while gone, some enterprising individuals stripped out every inch of copper in the building. Wires, pipes, all gone. Redeployed home to find a shell. I let the city take the house, as there was no way to recover the damages for less than the property value.
The city of Filthadelphia then assessed my payroll tax at thrice what was declared in my tax filings, compounding the amount "due" while I was deployed.
Just another fuck you for your service to an ungrateful nation.
And I refuse to do business with anyone within those shitty limits. The Commonwealth's singular shitty of the worst class.
Yeah, still feel a bit salty over that mess.
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In the US, we have, literally, multiple governments. We have community governments, county governments, state governments and a fairly weak federal government. All subordinate to the higher level constitution, so federal is primary, state next, the same with laws, with significant limitations on what the federal government can regulate.
So, my local street is both a local road and county route, so both can regulate the speed driven on it. If the state or federal government tried to regulate that speed limit, they'd rightfully be told to go pound sand by the courts.
I've enjoyed many a fine evening discussing our commonalities and differences in governments with subjects of the UK. Complicating things, well, add the Commonwealth Nations in, boy things can get interesting!
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I can't find Canada, as it's far too cold in the winter. ;)
Obviously, I can't find Maine or well, anything north of my home state of Pennsylvania and I'm not terribly fond of its winters.
But yeah, asking most in the US to point out Mississippi, they'd probably point to Utah.
Of course, at one point, everywhere was Alabama, well, to one POTUS and his devotees... At that time, I was seriously tempted to copy that map with the sharpie marks and relabel every state as AL
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My first question is, WTF are you doing patrolling in front of the police department? Waiting for shift change, rather than performing your duty?
I think we'll approach dealing with this abuse of taxpayer dollars via the budgetary process... Especially, given forfeiture came into abuse.
I quite like my local PD. Instead of escalating and "ensuring control" via any means, they resolve problems, at times with some significant effort on their part for all parties in non-violent events.
Their response time, despite that, is phenomenally fast. When my wife of over 40 years died, after my first cycle of CPR, I called 911 and resumed CPR. I got to my fourth and had to stop to let the officer in, who checked and at a dead run, ran to his cruiser for an AED.
EMS was a touch less responsive, since they're volunteer and have to come from home to collect equipment and respond, but she was down too long.
I know AED's, I've received provider level ACLS training in the military, if an AED doesn't suggest a shock in a couple of cycles of CPR, it's very much not good. When the EMT-P finally arrived, around 20 minutes after the ambulance arrived, the scope told the story.
I managed to not get sick until most had departed and only the officers remained.
But, I've watched them help the homeless, even to the point of bringing food and water to them.
And I'm damned sure they'd be calling parents, rather than confiscating cars for something like this. Which is tax money very well invested, rather than simply spent.
The Chief is simply justifying his revenue generation.
I'm known to rev my engine to warm the car up a touch faster, so I can melt ice coating my glass. Cite me, enjoy me turning the thing into a federal case level defense and litigation that'll tie up legal for decades, just on spite.
I did do donuts on snow as a kid. I also did donuts on a street once, the damned accelerator dropped to the floor and stayed there, donuting the way and literally burning out the brakes, while shutting off the engine ended that mess. It was a company vehicle and the mechanic and I had quite an exchange that took the shop steward to break up before I bent a tire iron around his empty head...
I went over the vehicle with a fine tooth comb every time that idiot touched the vehicle after that!
@Steve, I defy you to make a Yugo tires smoke. :P:p:P:p:P:p
Even at 18, if you want my tires to smoke, you'd have to set fire to them. Tires never have been cheap!
Wanna interest me, show me power and acceleration. I'm more into power, tow the Grand Coulee Dam and I'll be impressed. ;)
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"Shut up and mind your own business".
Well, OK, but my spokesgun here isn't in the mood to shut up, so perhaps you should explain yourself before it speaks up?
Your choice and all, it is a free country, after all and lead just really wants to be free.
Oh, so now you want to identify yourself and show your work order. Very, very good, now you'll listen to my spokesgun's advice to await the nice officer, who will make a report on your willful destruction of the wrong property, its contents and its finished value at prime value. Have a great care though, lead poisoning mitigation in the US has long been well documented to have been an abject failure.
Then, if the company wants to fight in court, a demolition crew gets dispatched to the owner's home - daily, until the courts instruct me to stop.
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So, in California, if the legislature writes a defective law, the bench may re-legislate the law.
Besides, a bee is obviously a crustacean. Well, there are land crustaceans...
California can send the legislature home, jurists have matters in hand.
Otherwise, elephants are snakes, rocks are water and up and down are the same by law. Such can only result in the populace holding such laws and eventually, as they accumulate, all laws in contempt.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all i for protecting endangered species, but defective laws are fixed by the legislature or we just pack it up and let the bench rule by fiat.
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