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First, there was Fantasy Baseball. Then came Fantasy Football. Now you can experience Fantasy Politics, where reality and fantasy become one! With Fantasy Politics, you are no longer limited by daily statistics! You aren't even limited to the statistics of living people. You can just make stuff...

Some of the most frustrated owners of expedited trucks that I know are those who own trucks but who have never driven one in expediting. Just something to keep in mind.

Just keep in mind that by leasing on to a carrier, you are transferring the right to possession and/or use of goods or equipment (your truck) for a term in return for consideration. The "term" isn't necessarily limited to only those times when you are under dispatch. The carrier can be liable...

Contrary to popular belief, most trucks stops are in business to make money, and not as a public service for truckers. Shocking, I know, but it's true. No, really, it is.

True, no time restrictions, per se, but... "Similarly, time spent traveling short distances ..." ...certainly indicates a distance restriction, and it's one that's not exactly crystal clear. For example, in Canada they list a very specific distance that can be traveled as a personal conveyance...

A lot of the "company policy" on this has to do with limiting the carrier's liability. When you are using an unladen CMV as a personal conveyance, it's off-duty time, but the QC satellite positions will still show movement. If you recently went off-duty, or subsequently go on-duty-driving after...

My old Ford had rear windows. Gotta have those windows insulated. This is what I did.

Dunno, since it's all a matter of wattage. A laptop won't pull much at all, and even a desktop with a CRT monitor won't pull much more than 400 watts at most. A fridge, that one can be a lot if it's a full size fridge. With a fridge that's pulling 750 watts (a big 16 cubic feet frost-free...

I need to fire my proofreader. He's an idiot.

I learned early on that duck hunting was going to be a hobby that was going to be expensive, likely out of my range, so I haven't hunted ducks since high school. But, as a graduation present, my grandfather, who was a long time Ducks Unlimited member (since, like, the 1940's) and an avid hunter...

I never said it was OK, only that it happens. It's a shame that the family run buggy whip businesses all went out of business, but they did. Should we roll back times to before the automobile in order to protect those thousands of businesses? Of course not. People adapted, and thousands of...

Yes, the ongoing studies by the Pharma, Advamed, among others. Pharma and the Big Four TV networks have been running a study for a couple of years. Pharma is also pushing the FDA hard to allow social media advertising, as well as a paid Google-type medical search engine. They already know that...

Oh, yes they are, absolutely. They are as natural an occurrence as a sunflower growing where a bird crapped a sunflower seed. The only difference between a sunflower growing where it has never grown before, and a zebra muscle or an Asian carp not being where it has historically been, is...

I agree. One of the biggest mistakes people make is trying to do something here, because that's the way it's done someplace else. Different countries, different cultures, different people, different economy, different everything. It's like when we go to another country and impose our morals on...

It's funny how people spend countless time and money trying to keep a changing planet just the way it is. There used to be a federally protected eco-system just east of Mt Saint Helens, 30,000 acres in all. Whoops. Eco-systems change all the time. They have been since before the beginning of...

I don't know that $132,000 is too high. Those figures are semi-raw, meaning they aren't adjusted for cost of living across the various countries. They're merely converted into US Dollars. Not having to deal with malpractice insurance, or only having to deal with it in a superficial manner, frees...

Yes, it's state, not federal, but it's irrelevant either way. Owning or driving a car is not mandated as a condition of residence in any state. If you don't want to drive, or don't want to own a car, that's fine, you don't have to. And if you don't, then you aren't required to buy insurance, nor...

Greg, yeah, it won't help, if that's all that's done. But like you said, the regulations need to be harmonized. Plus, the regulation of the pharma companies need to be done specifically so that access and the pipeline discoveries won't suffer. You can count on one hand how many countries allow...

It's a load of crap, but proponents argue that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. Medical school, medicines, medical equipment, everything involved in health care is derived from...

Far less than here, to be sure (some countries don't allow litigation for malpractice, or have strict caps on them), but those "average incomes" above are after all insurance costs were paid, including malpractice. Since in some countries doctors pays no malpractice insurance at all, removing...