I was in München last fall. It looks like little arabia around Karlsplatz. I think the Germans are a little too friendly to their immigrants. Of course it doesn't help that the german birthrate has fallen below 1.8:1.
So Marko McFinn is living abroad and has an RFID chip embedded in his arm. How do the government officials in Finland know he has still got the chip and how do they know to stop his benefits? Afterall, there may not be any RFID readers in teh other country.
If no one scans it? OK, great, put an RFID chip in a person so they can receive State welfare while living outside the State. What difference does it make? The checks are direct deposited, who verifies the person's identity when they are/outside/ the country? Seems the simple solution is to not offer welfare to citizens who choose to not live in Finland.
except when the taxing authorities get too greedy! Taxes on cigarettes in NY cause people to smuggle them in, and in the case of one man selling singles, the cost was his life. Making a coveted thing legal is great and I wholeheartedly agree. Thinking you can tax it at a high rate is really no different than making it illegal... the result is a black market.
The writers of the law clearly wanted to establish state exchanges for any state that wanted them, and a federal exchange for any state that didn't want to roll its own, and that all of these exchanges do the same thing.
Never mind the fact that Gruber said explicitly that the point of not offering subsidy money to residents of states w/o an exchange was to coerce the states into created the exchanges.
A slippery slope indeed when the judicial branch interprets laws intent rather than the words written. But did we really expect they would force the federal government to stop providing bread and circuses to the plebs?
Ummmm.... if it turns brown, what does *that* indicate??
Back in my day we used to say "If it smells like cologne, leave it alone, if it smells like fish, make it a dish". Now get off my lawn with your fancy schmancy color changing condoms!
Back in 1989 in Charleston SC many houses were damaged by hurricane hugo. The roof would get ripped open and the rain would pour in. Insurance companies were denying claims to water damage by saying the people didn't have flood insurance... but the water damage wasn't from flood, it was secondary because the roof was ripped off. Many of those insurance companies went out of business. Word spread and no one would touch them with a 10 foot pole. Now we have an oligarchy of insurance companies.
Tangentially.... As evil as people say Wal Mart is, the fact of the matter is after Hugo they sold generators and other supplies at a loss in order to help.
The martians seem to transplant heads from one body to another just for amusement... for example, a woman's head on chihulula's body. One could only expect the chinese would simply copy this procedure rather than innovate.;-)
I remember having WMC on Vista back in 2008. I had DTV tuners and told it to record a TV show off air for me. It allowed it to be scheduled but when time came to record, it did not due to DRM. Gotta love it! Also I bought a media extender that wouldn't work over 802.11G, it required N at the time....another bone head move. Kodi for me now.
Hey, that's great... we could require everyone to pay $1.50 a year. Ohh but we gotta give poor people a subsidy because the.50 a year would be an economic hardship for them. Ohh and we'll have to make other people pay more so we can cover the subsidies. Sound familiar?
I've heard Utah is one of those states where water cisterns are illegal. I can't understand that at all. They are worried (as I understand it) that if everyone collected water there'd be no water in the wells. OK, but what about the ratio of my roof to all the land around my house? How many square feet of roof vs square miles of land does rain fall on? Would it even make a difference in the ground water? Did I miss something?
Yes yes yes.... I like your contract analogy. Far too often the DA wants a "win" so badly, he threatens to throw the book at someone forcing a plea. In many cases the plea is a very light sentence (a year of probation and time served for example),but the DA counts it as a win and claims he is tough on crime. This leaves the victims of the crime angry that justice wasn't served. The first response to this is that the public complains to their legislature and asks for even more laws on the subject. The DA won't charge anyone with those crimes either but will add those crimes to the threat of prosecution to get yet another plea deal and the cycle continues. Eventually, we'll end up with vigilante justice all over again as people lose faith in the system.
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No no no.... we'll have Bruce Willis and a bunch of space cowboys with laser beams on their head who will lasso the Sats.
That can be done with existing technology... yo moma has her own zip code.
Some people like to be lead around on all fours with a leash. To each his own!!
I was in München last fall. It looks like little arabia around Karlsplatz. I think the Germans are a little too friendly to their immigrants. Of course it doesn't help that the german birthrate has fallen below 1.8:1.
So Marko McFinn is living abroad and has an RFID chip embedded in his arm. How do the government officials in Finland know he has still got the chip and how do they know to stop his benefits? Afterall, there may not be any RFID readers in teh other country.
If no one scans it? OK, great, put an RFID chip in a person so they can receive State welfare while living outside the State. What difference does it make? The checks are direct deposited, who verifies the person's identity when they are /outside/ the country? Seems the simple solution is to not offer welfare to citizens who choose to not live in Finland.
Damn.... I thought the B in Bmr was how much Bourbon I put in my coke zero! No wonder I'm not losing weight.
Nope, all worlds are ours except Europa, hummers be damned.
except when the taxing authorities get too greedy! Taxes on cigarettes in NY cause people to smuggle them in, and in the case of one man selling singles, the cost was his life. Making a coveted thing legal is great and I wholeheartedly agree. Thinking you can tax it at a high rate is really no different than making it illegal... the result is a black market.
I don't even think it's a firearm. I think it's a CO2 pellet /bb gun. Not enough recoil.
mod parent up! Leave the rewording to a legislative body!
You are right.... wish I had mod points today!
The writers of the law clearly wanted to establish state exchanges for any state that wanted them, and a federal exchange for any state that didn't want to roll its own, and that all of these exchanges do the same thing.
Never mind the fact that Gruber said explicitly that the point of not offering subsidy money to residents of states w/o an exchange was to coerce the states into created the exchanges.
A slippery slope indeed when the judicial branch interprets laws intent rather than the words written. But did we really expect they would force the federal government to stop providing bread and circuses to the plebs?
Back in my day we used to say "If it smells like cologne, leave it alone, if it smells like fish, make it a dish". Now get off my lawn with your fancy schmancy color changing condoms!
Back in 1989 in Charleston SC many houses were damaged by hurricane hugo. The roof would get ripped open and the rain would pour in. Insurance companies were denying claims to water damage by saying the people didn't have flood insurance... but the water damage wasn't from flood, it was secondary because the roof was ripped off. Many of those insurance companies went out of business. Word spread and no one would touch them with a 10 foot pole. Now we have an oligarchy of insurance companies. Tangentially.... As evil as people say Wal Mart is, the fact of the matter is after Hugo they sold generators and other supplies at a loss in order to help.
The martians seem to transplant heads from one body to another just for amusement... for example, a woman's head on chihulula's body. One could only expect the chinese would simply copy this procedure rather than innovate. ;-)
Yes it is a shame... that small cars hover around the sides of trucks and prevent them from having that 3 meters of space to the left or right.
Like the one in the 1981 movie Heavy Metal? https://www.google.com/search?...
I remember having WMC on Vista back in 2008. I had DTV tuners and told it to record a TV show off air for me. It allowed it to be scheduled but when time came to record, it did not due to DRM. Gotta love it! Also I bought a media extender that wouldn't work over 802.11G, it required N at the time....another bone head move. Kodi for me now.
Hey, that's great... we could require everyone to pay $1.50 a year. Ohh but we gotta give poor people a subsidy because the .50 a year would be an economic hardship for them. Ohh and we'll have to make other people pay more so we can cover the subsidies. Sound familiar?
Good thing Hillary's email wasn't in the State Department's servers and safety sequestered away on her home server.
Also, in some areas there is ground water contamination and it is illegal to drill a well.... so rainwater is much cleaner.
I've heard Utah is one of those states where water cisterns are illegal. I can't understand that at all. They are worried (as I understand it) that if everyone collected water there'd be no water in the wells. OK, but what about the ratio of my roof to all the land around my house? How many square feet of roof vs square miles of land does rain fall on? Would it even make a difference in the ground water? Did I miss something?
You want the farmers to move out? OK.... what will you eat? Eventually, you'll move where the food is. sheesh.
Yes yes yes.... I like your contract analogy. Far too often the DA wants a "win" so badly, he threatens to throw the book at someone forcing a plea. In many cases the plea is a very light sentence (a year of probation and time served for example),but the DA counts it as a win and claims he is tough on crime. This leaves the victims of the crime angry that justice wasn't served. The first response to this is that the public complains to their legislature and asks for even more laws on the subject. The DA won't charge anyone with those crimes either but will add those crimes to the threat of prosecution to get yet another plea deal and the cycle continues. Eventually, we'll end up with vigilante justice all over again as people lose faith in the system.