Or a completely unencrypted excel file, which seems ubiquitous everywhere I’ve worked.

The distress calls weren’t ignored, they were used during the search. They were just dismissed as bogus once the search ended with no result, which seems quite dumb to me. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47653021/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/credible-amelia-earhart-radio-signals-were-ignored-bogus/#.WBi-iOErLCM

Smoking kills 4-5x more people and a higher percentage of its users, that’s probably why it gets more attention.

48 states and DC use winner-take-all. Maine and Nebraska award electors by congressional district plus two at-large electors.

It’s only a crime if you use said fake claims to receive money or something else tangible. Lying to bump up your election credentials is still considered free speech. The guy’s an asshole, but not a criminal that we know of.

“Improperly denying a living had they fired him”

I’m not sure the lack of a marker as part of a larger historical trail is going to prevent people from treating the criminals as martyrs. Locals and avowed racists presumably already know they lived at that location. But ignoring it in our history can mean the murder begins to be seen as a passive thing, something…

It’s one of multiple (8, I think) markers in the area that tell the entire story. I’m assuming this is the standard style for state historical markers.

Ah, I misunderstood. Yeah, that is obnoxious.

There is still one thing protecting you: state limits on allowable garnishments and seizures. You won’t lose your house or your entire paycheck because you can’t pay a judgment.

With “comps” - recent sales of comparable vehicles in the same area. It’s also worth noting that totaled to the insurance company doesn’t mean the car has been crushed into an undriveable cube - it simply means the cost of the repairs exceeds the value of the vehicle. Older cars are “totalled” easily with body damage.

And at the time I thought I was so damn clever for catching an error. Come to find out here that this happens all the time! I’ll definitely be checking the value they determine if I ever have a totaled car again.

As mentioned unthread, only a small portion of your premium is covering your vehicle. Most of it is for coverage of other people’s vehicles or injuries you might cause with your vehicle.

I thought that was fairly typical. I had the salvage value deducted from my payout for a “totaled” car when I opted to keep it.

Simpler than that, many times - it just doesn’t occur to a lot of people that they could ask the company to reevaluate and get it. With big institutions, many people are socialized to think everything is “take it or leave it”.

Excellent point. I had a car “totaled” (some body damage but it had a low blue book value to start with) and they established the value with comps from a completely different (and cheaper) state. When I made them correct their error it was worth about 33% more.

Sign hanging in the Jackson, Mississippi COFO office (a civil rights organization:

It’s always different depending on the state. Apparently in New York of the item is taken from another person (rather than an empty home or store, I assume) it’s grand larceny regardless of the value of the item. Presumably he was accused to stealing the backpack from someone.

Point of fact: you can only carry forward a loss until it has been used up by future operating gains. It’s not necessarily, or even commonly, true that one year’s operating loss means you don’t pay taxes for 20 years. Obviously I don’t know the specifics of Trump’s case, but hypothetically if he had a $900 million…

It calls to mind that plainclothes cop in Florida that shot a black motorist broken down on the freeway. IIRC the cop’s initial story was that the motorist has a weapon, but if a strange man approached me at 3 am I might have my gun out too.