Category: school
02/13/12 07:16 - ID#56060
Word of the Day: Subjacent
Legal context: "Subjacent support rights are the rights of surface owners to not have their land subside from the activities of the owners of underground rights." Coal mining is a good example: as the miners are removing coal, they have to make sure that the surface doesn't collapse. The relation of the subsurface to the surface is "subjacent".
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: weather
02/13/12 04:58 - ID#56059
Pretty shadows
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Words: 45
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: ideas
02/12/12 09:56 - ID#56057
Bees & Cell phones?
Did anyone else see this news?
Why a mobile phone ring may make bees buzz off: Insects infuriated by handset signals
Signals from mobile phones could be partly to blame for the mysterious deaths of honeybees, new research shows.
In the first experiment of its kind, a bee expert placed a mobile phone underneath a hive and then carefully monitored the reaction of the workers.
The bees were able to tell when the handsets were making and receiving calls, and responded by making the high pitched squeaks that usually signal the start of swarming.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: weather
02/10/12 10:58 - ID#56049
What...
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Words: 5
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/10/12 11:06
Category: pets
02/06/12 01:40 - ID#56033
Nisha & Bill
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Words: 12
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/06/12 02:40
Category: work
02/03/12 11:30 - ID#56015
Office elephant
(e:Terry) tried to install the plant hangers but ran into trouble with it.
We got this fabulous whiteboard cabinet from Buffalo Business Interiors but it needs some special attention before it can be hung. I've been using it anyway, sitting on the floor making pictures & lists. It has corkboards on the insides of the doors and hooks for hanging big pads of paper. It's really my dream whiteboard.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: school
01/31/12 01:27 - ID#56009
Promissory Estoppel
Promissory estoppel allows a promisee to enforce a promise against a promisor even when there's no consideration. Consideration is a legal detriment that binds one to a contract. It's usually money for service or product but it could be product for service or something else.
Example: (e:Lilho) promises (e:Paul) that she will give him a year's worth of tortoise food if he stops going out dancing for a month. (e:Paul) thinks this is a good bargain and stops growing dandelions and strawberries for Basra and T2. At the end of the month, (e:Paul) hasn't been dancing but (e:Lilho) laughs and says she wasn't serious. Now Basra and T2 are hungry. Can (e:Paul) sue (e:Lilho) for tortoise food?
Yes! Why?
- Was a contract formed? (e:Lilho) made an offer, (e:Paul) accepted, so yes.
- Was there consideration? (e:Lilho) isn't getting anything for her promise, so no ((e:Paul) not dancing for a month doesn't affect (e:Lilho)'s life although that's what she asked for).
- So why can (e:Paul) sue? Promissory estoppel: Because he relied on (e:Lilho)'s promise by tearing out the dandelion and strawberry garden and an injustice will occur if (e:Lilho)'s promise is not enforced - Basra & T2 would go hungry. Was it reasonably foreseeable (or even just reasonable) that (e:Paul) would rely on the promise? Yes, because (e:Paul) thinks growing tortoise food is a pain.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: school
01/30/12 08:16 - ID#56006
Anticipatory Repudiation
When P2 has failed to respond or flat out states they don't intend to honor the contract, anticipatory repudiation has occurred. P1 can then seek remedies and doesn't have to follow through on their part of the contract. If P1 doesn't seek remedies, P2 can resume performance (or promise to) and P1 can request assurances that P2 will follow through. P1 is also required to mitigate the consequences of the breach (such as find a different supplier).
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: ideas
01/21/12 12:58 - ID#55954
Vi Hart - Spirals, Fibonacci and Being a Plant
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: weather
01/19/12 05:12 - ID#55938
No sunset today
My truck heater core is clogged (limited heat) and I broke the drivers side window crank in that bad freeze. It's stuck open about 2". So brushing off my truck also requires brushing the snow off the seat and floor. «sigh» I need a new vehicle. (also needs new catalytic converter, some new e brake cables, february inspection...)
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Legally that is pretty interesting I heard of things called Mineral rights but never thought about the fact that people above the land would have rights as well....
"She does not like missionary men, she prefers them subjacent" quoth the mentor.
"What the F. . . does that mean?" quoth I.
"Look it up" quoth the mentor with a grin.