Call both DMV's from where you're leaving from and where you're going to. Some DMV's require you to pay fees and or file paperwork when you leave, as well as when you show up. Some States even require you to pay sales tax on a car when you're just moving it through the state.
I'm planning a trip to Northern California this summer, but I'm not completely familiar with the region. Were spending 10 - 14 days there. Anybody have any cool recommendations?
The Culinary Institute of America has a west coast campus there (St. Helena if I recall) that is for continuing education. You can go there for lunch or dinner and be their guinea pigs. Absolutely fantastic, but somewhat pricey, but what isn't in CA?. Schedule a visit to the Tudal Winery. Exceptional Cabernet which can be difficult to find outside CA, but they also make great blends (Tractor Shed Red is awesome). Indulge your lady in a spa treatment up in Calistoga. However, be very cautious about drinking and driving. Highest DWI conviction rate in the US.
Hey, I'm a massive spastic when it comes to anything technological, so if this is a ridiculous question I apologize in advance. I have two GFX cards to put into my PC one is a "ATI RADEON SAPPHIRE X1550" the other is a "WINFAST PX7800GTX". I realize neither are particularly amazing cards but I'm told it's still better than what I have (7200 something). Can anyone tell me which of these cards is better than the other? Thanks a lot, -Tom
the 7800, by far. More specifically they're two cards from more or less the same generation, the 7800GTX being Nvidia's (initial) high end offering while the 1550 being a midrange consumer card. The fact they're both from '05-'06 doesn't help you much but you can still get some middling gaming done on the 7800
I would like to make a shirt that is discontinued and near impossible to find. I have a picture of it and found plenty of sites that make custom shirts. The only thing I'm missing is a bit of Photoshop skill. If anyone can help please shoot me a PM. Thanks.
Can anyone point me towards some clear, intelligent commentary on the Supreme Court decision regarding campaign contribution limits? A legal expert would receive obscene rep points for explaining this to me via PM. MSNBC article here: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34822247/ns/politics-supreme_court/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34822247/ns ... eme_court/</a>
I'll do this here in case others are curious. The decision today overturns a law that prohibited companies and organizations from paying for their own ads supporting or attacking specific candidates. The companies are still limited from giving money directly to the candidate. The only difference any of us will see is that organizations like unions and the NRA can now run ads supporting candidates, and can spend as much of their own money as they want, as long as they aren't giving the money to the candidate directly.
This kind of seems logical from a free speech perspective, but can someone explain the other side? I think it was a 5-4 decision, so it can't be as cut and dry as it seems after the 5 seconds of thought I put into it. Is there a link to the dissenting opinion or something?
Everytime I go in to see my doctor, I'm billed for random shit that I have to call and straighten out. Usually billed for blood work when I go in for a check-in without blood drawn. Who's fault is this, doctor's office or insurance company?
The PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) is the nicest, most awe-inspiring drive I've ever personally taken in America (California AND Oregon, though I have not seen Big Sur yet), and the Redwood Forest is worth a look- trees large enough to run roads through. Be warned though: it's winding roads can cause car sickness.
The doctor's office initiates all billing, insurance takes their bill and tells them what they'll cover, then the doctor's office bills you for what's left. It's the doctor's office screwing things up.
The reason the law was passed in the first place, and the position of the dissenters, is basically that if a candidate has close ties to a corporation, the corporation can pump a lot of money into campaign ads, and they're not bound by the same spending rules as the candidate. Also, if you take the position that paying for a campaign ad supporting a candidate is equivalent to donating the same amount to the campaign, you've now gone from having a limit on their contributions, to no limit at all. For a hypothetical example, think back to the 2004 election. John Kerry's wife is Teresa Heinz Kerry, as in Heinz ketchup. Imagine if she had used her influence to convince Heinz to pay for political ads. My opinion is that there will always be groups on both sides, so they'll pretty much cancel each other out, but in the process they'll shed a lot more light on specific issues that might not be brought up otherwise in the candidate's generic political ads. AARP can run ads specifically about senior's concerns, the NRA can run ads focused on the candidate's gun control records, labor unions can run ads letting their workers know how the candidates compare on issues affecting them and their industry, etc.
It could be as simple as someone entering the wrong codes. All medical "services" are broken into codes for classification and payment. The agreement that the doctors within a network have with the Ins. company is based on a rate schedule for coded services. Ocasionally, either the doctors office or the ins. company fucks up when entering these codes, be it handwritten or in a database. If this happens with regularity, I'd say the personnel in your Doc's office either has their heads up their asses, or they are trying to scam the insurance company.
So I've got a dead laptop (killed by a can of Natty Ice) that still has files on the hard drive that I'd like to transfer over to the computer I use now. There's maybe 50-100 gb of files I'd like to transfer but I cannot remember the exact number- mainly music, photos, documents, etc. Both computers are HPs laptops. I stopped by the IT department at my school and they checked out the hard drive on the dead computer and said that the files were still good. They charge $60 to transfer files and were nice enough to point out that it would be cheaper to simply buy some hardware online and do the transfer myself. They recommended that I get a specific kind of thingy and it is a Rosewill SATA/IDE to Detachable USB 2.0 adapter (Model # RCW618). If you haven't figured out by now, I'm painfully computer illiterate and stuff like this easily confuses me. Is this the right thing to buy? Or, if someone in the Twin Cities area could give me a hand with this I'd be very appreciative. Thanks.
Yeah. That'll work. What they recommended is basically a device that you can connect to your laptop hard drive through a USB cable to another computer and browse to your files. Then you can copy this stuff to another working system. If you want to really be creative you can go out, buy another system and then convert your old laptop drive to an external hard drive. This way you don't have a spare hard drive laying around that you could use. my .02
This happened to me. I don't know a lot about computer hardware, and this very easy to do. I bought a USB IDE enclosure. You take the hard drive out of the old laptop, stick it in the enclosure, and plug up the USB connection(s). All the files are accessible like any drive. Very easy. I think I had to flip a jumper setting or something, but the instructions were simple. I ordered mine from StarTech.com (InfoSafe) and it was like $18-$20.
Ok, it's like this folks... I'm trying to wrap things up with the ex. I was living in her house, so obviously I had to move out. However, her satellite tv/broadband, her land line and her mobile phone are all in my name. We both want to get them all switched over to her name, but from what I've read the companies concerned won't do that (or it's very difficult to get them to do so). All they'd literally have to do is swap her name for mine, as the address on all the contracts would stay the same, as would the bank details (she's paid them all from her account since I moved in. What I'm after is some thoughts on how I could word the letters I'm about to write, in a way that would hopefully convince them that this is in their best interests without having to initially go in with the threat of cancelling the contracts and going with another company (or at least doing so in a way which isn't aggressive). I expect this will end up being needlessly complicated, but I thought I'd at least try and get some advice first. Cheers. (I'm in the UK, so I don't know if things are any easier for the rest of you folks).
Anyone have any experience dealing with a false assault charge (bouncer at a bar claimed I hit him, which was a lie)?? Can I file suit for false accusation??