Okay. Unless his contract is made public, we’ll never know what deal was negotiated and how his pay is structured. All I can say is that corporate finance was once my job, and you’d be amazed at how creative lawyers and accountants can be when it comes to structuring pay packages. Even for “rich working stiffs.” ETA: By definition, working stiffs aren’t rich, and this guy’s positio
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I just skimmed this. Gibson probably has more info. https://www.samash.com/spotlight/the-1959-les-paul-the-worlds-most-sought-after-guitar/ ETA: This site is better and there aren’t any popups: https://www.geartalk.com/1959-les-paul/
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Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. I think this model is solid mahogany and weighs about nine pounds. It’s thicker than most electric guitars.
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Yeah. Standing with it is hard. Look at the guitar strap he’s wearing in the photo. It’s more padded than my hiking day pack. Les Pauls tend to be heavy. The ‘59 especially so, and I think this one’s neck is wide. I guess I could play it like lap steel?
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I can’t lift it.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, indeed he can!
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Yeah. I mean, kids are malleable and dependent, but they also have a strong desire for fairness. The more I realized just how unfair our religion was, the more upset I became.
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Yeah, and I was the only kid at all these dumbass meetings. Did I mention Bible study and prayer meeting were from 7pm to about 11pm? Eesh. But I remember the school librarian recommending “A Wrinkle in Time” to me. I was afraid to bring it home (witchcraft!), but I read it in the library which was basically a beat up trailer home sitting in the middle of tarmac. We didn’t have a playgro
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Yeah, she was trying. She’s had an incredibly rough life, and she blames the things that have happened to her on a lack of faith. Her experiences don’t give her a pass. She’s been incredibly physically, emotionally and mentally abusive to me and my brother. Her answer is religion. My answer for myself was parenting classes. Trying to learn to be authoritative without being authoritarian. I
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Oh. Okay. Weird.
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I wish he would raise ducks. I mean, when you eat, breathe and sleep religion like we did, there’s a big space that can be filled with just about *anything* when you leave. My brother is a gifted visual artist and committed to community projects. He’s into creating green spaces in the ghetto for community gardens and parks. He volunteers with children and teaches free art classes. Mayb
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Before my mom went nuts (I use the term colloquially), she sent me to a great public school. Teachers saved me. My parents separated when I was five, and while my father was somewhat clueless about kids, he did support me, and I saw him regularly. He’s an atheist and has a degree in chemistry. He became a computer scientist at some point, so I was able to go to a Friends’ school until I got t
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Oh wow. Thanks much!
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I think for him it’s an anti-authority thing and that he went to a fundamentalist Christian school (white) that wasn’t big on STEM. I don’t see a racial component. Some of the videos he shared with me and my kid are made by some white dude. Seriously. I haven’t spoken with him in a couple of years. I just can’t anymore. He hasn’t displayed any affinity for hotep nonsense at least.
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My brother was raised Southern Baptist like I was. He no longer believes, but he’s gotten so strange. He thinks the Earth is flat among other nutty things. I can’t talk to him anymore. I hope his three kids get some type of decent education. I’m so sad for them.
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But I can’t follow the puck. Who else here loved the when the puck had a tail? (I’ll see myself out.)
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LLCs can be taxed as S corps with the amount of wages that pass through for federal taxation controlled by the owner(s).
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And the As were the Philadelphia Athletics.
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Are non-Mormon Jews Gentiles?
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How did you nephew take it? Are people treating him well and not like a failure?
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