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I know a photographer who does photoshoots for influencers. He told me there really are influencers who make millions of dollars/year. He said they are rare, but they definitely exist. Those beautiful condos you always see? They are are all 1-day Airbnb rentals.

One time, a provider asked me for a deposit. I had already decided that I wanted HIM, so I said yes and asked him how he wanted to handle payment of the deposit. Then he decided that he didn't need the deposit, so it all worked out. If I were a provider, I could imagine using deposits selectively as a screen. In that case, someone who said no to a deposit would be a D/F prospect. What's nice about it is that it is a self-executing screen. People who say yes have demonstrated serious interest and automatically become A/B prospects and people who say no screen themselves out as D/F prospects.

I think it depends on the kind of clients he wants. If he's looking for "right now" clients, yes he has to jump on it and get right back to them. When I reach out to a provider, I am always looking to make an appointment, usually a few days out. So I'm fine with a guy who doesn't respond right away. The mistake I think Jarrod is making is in thinking that he is going to change people's behavior - somehow turning a D/F prospect into an A/B prospect. But D/F prospects, mostly, will always be D/F prospects. So his challenge is in figuring out how to how to access more A/B prospects and fewer D/F prospects.

I don't. I check it twice a day. I'm going into a new B-to-C line of business, so that may change, but mostly, I'm looking for people who want to do business with ME, not people who are just shopping.

I'm a believer after my experience of the last 18 months. I never imagined I could go to hell so quickly. July of 2021, I did a bodybuilding competition in Las Vegas and won both classes I entered. Sept 2021 I had a hip replacement that took me 8 months to recover from. Only a couple months after that I developed an autoimmune problem. I had no idea it was even possible to feel that bad. No end in sight for the autommune problem, but it is easing up some.

Ours is a typical San Francisco house - A ground floor and a flight of stairs up from the street to the main floor. He might be being a little over-protective. I've been working with personal trainer who has a credential in corrective exercise and I'm getting better fast. I might be nearly normal by end of summer.

I have a mobility impairment that I hope is temporary, but my husband has started to say we need a house without steps.

I live in a part of the city that is 70% Asian. Our neighbors across the street are a mixed couple - white husband, Asian wife, but the overwhelming majority are Asian husband, Asian wife.

Is that an ethnic thing or a class thing?

I couldn't say, but there is no rule that says Asian guys aren't subject to internalized raciscm.

Yep, that's it.

I grew up in that part of the country. I remember the winters very well. We lived in a small town in western New York and we had relatives all over the region. I remember driving on little secondary roads to visit them in the middle of winter. Sometimes you couldn't see over the snow banks from inside the car.

That's about right. Toronto winters are right up there with Buffalo winters.

I think I have been there three times. The hunky Cuban was during my first visit there - in 1975, I think. The bathhouse was kind of a small dumpy one. It was in the gayborhood - I don't remember the street - very close to a disco. I remember that the music in discos was unfamiliar - I asked a buddy I was with if it was Canadian disco music or off-brand American music - he said he didn't think it was Canadian. That was a fun trip - I went to Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco and LA.

Toronto is hard to beat. I have even liked it in the dead of winter and Toronto winters are not for the faint of heart.

I lived in Denver for 15 years and loved it for most of the time. It’s a cozy place to live but doesn’t seem like much of a tourist destination. Of the three, I like Seattle the best. Great views, nice neighborhoods, great restaurants. Last time I was there, I stayed at the Hyatt on Lake Washington, one of the nicest hotels I’ve ever stayed in. I’ve enjoyed Vancouver every time I’ve been there. My nicest memory of Vancouver was a hunky Cuban I met at a bathhouse.

True - as lawyers say - a right to do something and the power to do it are two diffent things.

I want to meet this guy - he's straight, a bottom and he's into FF - my kind of man.

I worked in the hearing aid industry for a few years . Audiologists and dispensers nearly always recommend binaural hearing aids - meaning hearing aids for both ears, even if one ear doesn't require amplication. Sound quality and the ability to discern sounds in noisy crowded environments is improved a lot. When I was in the industry, they didn't yet have hearing aids that could talk to each other and exchange data, which is a huge breakthrough in the ability to provide an amplified signal that mimics our natural perception of sound more closely.

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Yes, I think that's right. As a matter of fact, I think I remember at least one murder case in Okinawa where that was the case.

I don't think that's correct. A soldier can be prosecuted for crimes committed on or off-base under the UCMJ. So he/she could be prosecuted under the UCMJ in your first case. The military may cede jurisdiction to the civilian authority, but only because they decide to do so. I don't know how the military and the civil authority work out questions of jurisdiction though. I do know that when crimes occur off-base in a foreign country, the military typically retains jurisdiction. Nonetheless, the military works closely with civilian authority of the host country because, as a matter of diplomacy, the host country has to be satisfied that justice was served.

Actually, nearly the same thing happened to me. A nice-looking older guy asked me to go to another bar in the hotel and have a drink with him. He got me rather sloshed and suggested we go to my room. He didn't offer to pay, so he may not have been vice. I only said no because I thought he was dreary. Thinking back on it, I might well have dodged a bullet.

I don't see a First Amendment issue here. A soldier has a durty to disobey an lawful order. Orders to perform a military duty are presumed to be lawful, so the soldier has the burden of convincing the court that the disobeyed order was unlawful.

As you say, though, they are "media spectacles," caused, a least in part, by (1) improved communications technology and (2) mass media that have lost any sense of propriety.