You can't really draw a parallel between polio and the flu. The flu has a bunch of non-human hosts that it can jump between. It will happily sit around in the bird/pig/whatever population until it mutates into something that can infect humans again.
It will do that regardless of whether or not humans continue to be a viable host for existing flu viruses.
Yes, its a shame we didn't learn our lesson after the huge pandemics of vaccine resistant polio. Clearly we should let people continue to die of the flu to prevent it from possibly evolving into something harmful. Or maybe if we just kill everyone who gets the flu we can breed flu resistant humans and finally eradicate this deadly disease.
The inflation rates are very high, the government again, counts inflation in a way that hides it, the real inflation is between 8 to 15%, year to year for the last 4 decades
An average annual "real" inflation of 10% would mean commodities should cost 45x what they did 40 years ago. Not even gold or that righteous metal rhodium have gone up that much. Nor has oil. Nor has corn. Nor has wheat. And just to be generous I'm comparing based on 1972 prices (pre-73-74 commodity boom) and recent peak values--for example gold in 2011 before it lost almost a third of its value
Good thing nobody around here is stupid enough to store their wealth in a relatively useless shiny metal.
It matters which metal though. In this inflationary post-1933 hellscape that we all live in you really can't trust the traditional coinage metals. This is why all my hats are lined with rhodium foil.
The particularly impressive thing about Ferrari is that they manage to be so successful in a country where the government not only steals their money to pay for "healthcare" and "education", but also literallysteals their employees for six weeks a year by mandating minimums for paid time off.
If we're talking about a lending library, then they take away your books after 3 weeks, even IF you continue to be a member.
My local library allows me to renew online indefinitely as long as nobody has placed a hold on the book. I currently have two books that I've had checked out since April of 2012.
companies don't want to have a hand in more deaths
The only thing you are concerned about is profit. If losing an employee costs a company money, then you care. Otherwise you don't. Trying to pretend otherwise is a futile effort, roman.
If employees are valuable, companies will want to protect them; otherwise, they won't. Do you not understand how free markets work?
Pretty much anything is an improvement on our current system where we hand naive eighteen year olds six digits worth of grants and loans and say, "Here, spend this as you please."
2. Does American Airlines belong to the Unites States of America?
No, but...
Ethiopian Airlines[...], formerly Ethiopian Air Lines and often referred to as simply Ethiopian, is Ethiopia's flag carrier and is wholly owned by the country's government.
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The SCOTUS said in Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co (1926)
"Income" has been taken to mean the same thing as used in the Corporation Excise Tax of 1909 (36 Stat. 112), in the Sixteenth Amendment, and in the various revenue acts subsequently passed. [cites omitted] After full consideration, this court declared that income may be defined as gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital.
However, they FAILED TO DEFINE LABOR. Therefore, we must conclude that the government only has the power to tax non-capital-derived income if it is gained through women giving birth. Taxing the income of anyone other than recently pregnant women or obstetricians is UNCONSTITUTIONAL theft.
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You can't really draw a parallel between polio and the flu. The flu has a bunch of non-human hosts that it can jump between. It will happily sit around in the bird/pig/whatever population until it mutates into something that can infect humans again.
It will do that regardless of whether or not humans continue to be a viable host for existing flu viruses.
Fair point about polio.
Yes, its a shame we didn't learn our lesson after the huge pandemics of vaccine resistant polio. Clearly we should let people continue to die of the flu to prevent it from possibly evolving into something harmful. Or maybe if we just kill everyone who gets the flu we can breed flu resistant humans and finally eradicate this deadly disease.
...which is most definitely not a university.
Okay, I'll bite... Which universities prohibit handing out copies of the Constitution?
The inflation rates are very high, the government again, counts inflation in a way that hides it, the real inflation is between 8 to 15%, year to year for the last 4 decades
An average annual "real" inflation of 10% would mean commodities should cost 45x what they did 40 years ago. Not even gold or that righteous metal rhodium have gone up that much. Nor has oil. Nor has corn. Nor has wheat. And just to be generous I'm comparing based on 1972 prices (pre-73-74 commodity boom) and recent peak values--for example gold in 2011 before it lost almost a third of its value
Good thing nobody around here is stupid enough to store their wealth in a relatively useless shiny metal.
When a woman says she likes my rhodium necklace, that's a chain reaction.
close to the metal as possible
It matters which metal though. In this inflationary post-1933 hellscape that we all live in you really can't trust the traditional coinage metals. This is why all my hats are lined with rhodium foil.
The particularly impressive thing about Ferrari is that they manage to be so successful in a country where the government not only steals their money to pay for "healthcare" and "education", but also literally steals their employees for six weeks a year by mandating minimums for paid time off.
These kind of mistakes are bound to happen when voting is not only not limited to land owners, but actually compulsary--making it a form of slavery.
If we're talking about a lending library, then they take away your books after 3 weeks, even IF you continue to be a member.
My local library allows me to renew online indefinitely as long as nobody has placed a hold on the book. I currently have two books that I've had checked out since April of 2012.
Idiot, industries want to increase profit and nothing else. If increasing prices does that then that's what they'll do.
The value of an asset is determined by the free market. If the free market says a life has no value, who are you to say otherwise?
You forgot to mention that the fast lane will be paved with that righteous metal rhodium.
companies don't want to have a hand in more deaths
The only thing you are concerned about is profit. If losing an employee costs a company money, then you care. Otherwise you don't. Trying to pretend otherwise is a futile effort, roman.
If employees are valuable, companies will want to protect them; otherwise, they won't. Do you not understand how free markets work?
Pretty much anything is an improvement on our current system where we hand naive eighteen year olds six digits worth of grants and loans and say, "Here, spend this as you please."
2. Does American Airlines belong to the Unites States of America?
No, but...
Ethiopian Airlines[...], formerly Ethiopian Air Lines and often referred to as simply Ethiopian, is Ethiopia's flag carrier and is wholly owned by the country's government.
--Wikipedia
Every time a post by me or roman gets modded down it needlessly delays the future when everyone owns their own spaceship.
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You want protection? It's your private business, use trade secrets and contracts.
Why not just use guns?
Payments on debt ARE government spending.
Are you really comparing her physical disability to your decision to live in a shitty auto-centric neighborhood?
The SCOTUS said in Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co (1926)
"Income" has been taken to mean the same thing as used in the Corporation Excise Tax of 1909 (36 Stat. 112), in the Sixteenth Amendment, and in the various revenue acts subsequently passed. [cites omitted] After full consideration, this court declared that income may be defined as gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital.
However, they FAILED TO DEFINE LABOR. Therefore, we must conclude that the government only has the power to tax non-capital-derived income if it is gained through women giving birth. Taxing the income of anyone other than recently pregnant women or obstetricians is UNCONSTITUTIONAL theft.
You should read the link provided by roman_mir, one of the great constitutional scholars of our time.