No, they are not the same - court fees typically arise from criminal conduct or some sort of interaction with the court system based on criminal behavior.

Jailing someone for owing debt is absurd. Jailing someone because a judge believes a defendant is actively defying court orders to avoid paying a debt is not. Whether the debt is valid or not, the worst thing you can do is fail to appear or refuse to comply with any other court orders (such as turning over financial…

As a few in this thread have mentioned, there are multiple parts to the auto break in reverse. I have driven a couple of Caddy’s with that feature. Being a bit higher than a lump of meat, I am the driver who was trained to look around when backing up. With this in mind, I see this feature as an added step that can…

It blows my mind that the alternative to proper driver training

If you’re parked between two other cars, you can’t see all the way down the aisle as you back out. I prefer a wide angle backup camera in this situation over my handy dandy rear view mirror. I took this more as a way to avoid the dipshit not looking while driving in the parking deck than I did a way for me to not have…

I think it’s more to protect the 4 year old kid who runs behind the car backing out because he thought he saw a kitty or he’s chasing down his ball/skateboard/etc. When you’re looking: mirror, over shoulder, backup camera, mirror, backup camera, over shoulder, mirror, you might miss the wee lad when he suddenly…

My wife’s car has the “rear cross traffic” alert but no automatic braking. I think its probably one of the best features any of our cars has had, and I think its just fine without the automatic braking.

You put ranch dressing on wings?! Western New York frowns upon your shenanigans.

Your reasoning for why flies don’t get hurt when you slap them is way off in my NOT A SCIENTIST opinion.

Mazda. Which is why they didn’t release their diesel in the US.

As someone who had a Music teacher for a mom, the early years are the hardest. Started around 1rst grade, probably didn’t enjoy it till around 4th or 5th grade when I could start playing interesting stuff. I also took up the saxophone at the time, and started writing school papers on the computer. I think it…

I have mixed feelings about this. As a fellow diner with these people it annoys me: “Oh, neither one of us can finish a whole chicken breast on our on.” - Get over yourselves. And I understand that the restaurant and the server should have some reasonable expectation of the average revenue per table per hour, and that…

In other words.. F U you cheap bastard. I NEEED MY MONEY!

I never understood some people’s aversion to doggie bags.

Nope. Buying/selling stocks do not benefit the company unless it’s an IPO. When you buy, you’re buying it from the last person who owned it.

She’s a predator.

I have my doubts... I mean, it sounds like the same false logic that makes people think that acid in a marinade tenderized meat.

There is no way that sodium bicarbonate, in the form of a liquid-in-solid suspension, would penetrate deep enough into the meat fibers to start affecting the protein structure. Especially…

This article needs a lot more information before I can come down on the side of the parking assistants. Were they fired for trying to unionize, or were they fired for asking for more money? Because one is against the law, and the other isn’t. If I went to my boss and demanded a 10% raise or I walked, he would be well…

Not to say it isn’t wrong, but 125-150 per 12 is industry standard for production assistants. Does it suck? Yes. You spend years literally covered in PA juice — an endearing term of the liquid that oozes out of garbage bags. But we do it to learn with the hopes of climbing the ranks in an extremely competitive…

An expression I have heard somewhat often since moving to the U.S. is “chop-chop” but, though it bothers me to hear it/feels wrong, I have no idea if it was originally truly racist or not. Anyone know one way or the other?