But how do we know that these action figures are not action figures of a witch? Do they not float?
What else floats? Yes! - wood!
So if they float, they must be made of wood, which means that they are indeed witches, and should be burned.
Funny, if someone grows pot in their front yard, the police don't need a warrant to seize it. Whats the difference between looking over your fence, or discovering it by flying over your property in a helicopter, or by looking in your backyard with a satellite. Yeah, damn it's creepy, but I would have to venture a guess that the government has exceedingly small print clauses that state somewhere in them that a farmer must submit to random screenings of their property unobtrusively (and taking a photo from a satellite IS unobtrusive, in the sense that they don't have to knock on your door, or hop your fence to take said pictures. Essentially, it sucks, but the government restrictions on getting free money are no more restrictive than your average EULA (has anyone who isn't a lawyer read all the way through one of them, especially a M$ one, and not get sick?)
So we may not like it, but if you want to play the game, you have to play by the rules, because the government CAN afford to check up on people who break the rules (especially when ONE property owner was on the hook for almost $300K of government money.
The answer to this is simple - it's because it wasn't the insurance company's money. Case in point:
I am insuring you for $X, but I know that any money I pay out will be reimbursed by the government, and my insurance company is making money off the exorbitant monthly insurance premiums. By charging high premiums, and looking the wrong wayu when necessary, everyone wins - the farmer gets his money, and my insurance company gets its money in the form of continued insurance.
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But how do we know that these action figures are not action figures of a witch? Do they not float? What else floats? Yes! - wood! So if they float, they must be made of wood, which means that they are indeed witches, and should be burned.
Funny, if someone grows pot in their front yard, the police don't need a warrant to seize it. Whats the difference between looking over your fence, or discovering it by flying over your property in a helicopter, or by looking in your backyard with a satellite. Yeah, damn it's creepy, but I would have to venture a guess that the government has exceedingly small print clauses that state somewhere in them that a farmer must submit to random screenings of their property unobtrusively (and taking a photo from a satellite IS unobtrusive, in the sense that they don't have to knock on your door, or hop your fence to take said pictures. Essentially, it sucks, but the government restrictions on getting free money are no more restrictive than your average EULA (has anyone who isn't a lawyer read all the way through one of them, especially a M$ one, and not get sick?) So we may not like it, but if you want to play the game, you have to play by the rules, because the government CAN afford to check up on people who break the rules (especially when ONE property owner was on the hook for almost $300K of government money.
The answer to this is simple - it's because it wasn't the insurance company's money. Case in point:
I am insuring you for $X, but I know that any money I pay out will be reimbursed by the government, and my insurance company is making money off the exorbitant monthly insurance premiums. By charging high premiums, and looking the wrong wayu when necessary, everyone wins - the farmer gets his money, and my insurance company gets its money in the form of continued insurance.
Sounds like a racket I really need to get into.