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FWIW, I've seen a number of financial systems, and even though accounts in the hierarchy might have names, they often have a hierarchically-oriented number with them.

e.g. Accounts Receivable #15000, A/R for Foo Corp #15001 and so on.

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Am I the only one who prefers a car to shared trains/rideshare/walking? Knowing I have a portable climate controlled space when the weather isn't to my liking? Knowing I can conveniently leave things fairly securely near where I happen to be (if not at home)? Knowing that no-one has recently barfed in my car, or have to wonder: ugh, what's that stain on the seat? Not having to run my life around a transit schedule (or deal with a full or very crowded bus/train) is great. The freedom cars give is absolutely wonderful relief from these things that you encounter in the city.

Personally, I don't get pro-urbanization: it's crowded, loud, smelly, and for all that wondrous enjoyment (and more), crazy expensive. I like not being able to see/hear my neighbors and for them not to see/hear me. I like that my views are very pretty. I like that the noises I hear are nature, and not man/machines. I like that I get to spend more of my money on things other than rent (other things are cheaper in the 'burbs too). And to someone else's point -- I live in a city, but looking around, you'd never know it.

But maybe I'm just weird.

With a CC, the money is taken away from your CC company, not your bank account first. So you won't have to deal with the potential cascade of overdrafts, bounced checks, etc.

Secondly, CC Cos because they're first in line to being on the hook, seem to be better at picking up fraud (I have no idea why). When my CCs have been comped, they notified us and shipped us new cards before we could have reasonably found out that anything was askew.

> Also, do you really endorse that verse? That is: Do you think we should institute the death penalty for the crime of kidnapping?

Let me turn it around: If someone stole you and sold you, or stole your child and sold them for a slave, what do you think the penalty should be? Justify your answer.

I've run into what appear to be conflicting views, but after some study, I'm able to resolve them. Usually it's understanding things in their proper context. That is: it's by reading more and paying more attention.

> And the Bible never speaks out against slavery.

Most people, when speaking about slavery, are only aware of American slavery. Slavery in ancient times was generally a very different thing.

But yes, it does speak about what was American style slavery, which involved effectively kidnapping and forced slavery:

Leviticus 21:16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper's possession."

Reading just bits and pieces of the bible doesn't give you the proper context to interpret properly.

As for what you think an actual divine would look like, what a divine book looks like depends heavily on what God's purpose was in writing it, which is evidently different than what you would have it be. But in many people's estimation, it does put every human work to shame.

As for explaining things that a 1st-century scribe couldn't possibly know, ummm, the Hebrew scriptures originated somewhere around 1400 B.C. or earlier depending on how you wish to count.

"Simple", the thing to change is: we stop giving them (the pundits and the person saying it) attention; since that's what they're after.

Either that, or just get over the fact that people will say things you don't like, think is blasphemous (to whatever your God is), annoys you, etc.

Somewhere along the line people stopped teaching: sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

I find it interesting that when the government distorts a market via pricing controls, taxes, or other means, the law of unintended consequences almost inevitably kicks in and it's result is either "bad luck" or calls to "fill in the loopholes!" Distort the market and people are rational-enough agents and will change their behavior, just not necessarily entirely in the way you hope/want. There is no free lunch.

Either the economic distortion makes it cost-effective to pay people to find ways to dodge the distortion and come up with strange, but legal, means to avoid it, or there are shortages, or the price of things go up.

It's like trying to squish one part of a water balloon -- the other part of the balloon will deform in some way.

Some examples: "The Double Irish arrangement" for tax avoidance, ObamaCare effectively limiting part timers to 30 (or 35, I forget which) hours/week, or strict zoning laws causing property values to skyrocket due to lack of supply of housing in SF.

200% yes. I've got better things to do than go through the whole recruiting cycle only to find they're not going to pay what I'm willing to take -- especially when it's wayyyyy out of range. Happens more and more as I get older, as the term "senior engineer" has really gotten watered down since I started (I'd be like senior^3 I suppose). I've gotten to the point where I have to be really interested to go very far at all without having pinned down a range.

When I get these, I use [email protected]. It seems if we can generally agree on which one we all pick (or some small number of choices), we might have a chance of making a dent when the postmaster starts getting effectively self-spammed.