I'll overlook that, because it's probably not intentional.
As for the rest, I'm just going with the criteria you laid down and listing the options.
I'm a pretty meticulous adult and I don't even trust myself to put on a condom perfectly every time in the heat of the moment. There's no way I'd trust your average horny teenager.
That's your problem, because you can't follow instructions properly. It's not an inherent defect in the method. Same as if in the future you forget to take your pill, don't blame the method when it fails:-)
I'm not disagreeing that it would be a Good Thing for men to have the same options - which is why I posted the story. But that doesn't mean that, in the meantime, there are not other ways of addressing the problem that men can take if they are willing. You're not willing - fine. But again, that's not the fault of the method.
"The man is just along for the ride"
I would hope he's along for more than that. Come on, let's have some emotional involvement, rather than using each others sex organs as a form of mutual masturbation:-) Unless you're Charlie "I don't pay hookers for sex - I pay them to leave" Sheen.
And for people who want that, why can't they just pay for sex in a safe environment, instead of marginalizing and endangering the sex workers and forcing them to get "protection" from a pimp?
First, when people lose their jobs, they need income. Subsidizing a $2/hour job is not going to work. All that will do is end up hastening the number of employers who reduce their wages to the point where the subsidy comes into play.
I saw this first-hand when one of the largest hardware chains did a strategic bankruptcy, laid everyone off, and the next day, offered them their former jobs, at less than the minimum wage, with a government subsidy to make up the difference. It was pretty bad walking in there and seeing staff I knew all of a sudden working for less than half what they used to make. And of course, when the subsidy ran out, they got fired and others were hired, and THEY collected the subsidy.
Also, some people have no choice but to survive purely off the system. There are plenty of retirees in that position, people who have lost everything due to illness, people who can no longer work because of an acquired handicap, etc. So, your plan offers them zero.
You can't reduce unemployment to zero by having people "work" for $2/hr. And btw, your original example was wrong - no business is going to hire someone for 10 hours a week to answer calls - most business communications today are email and voicemail. A lot of times, when someone answers the phone now, it's "Oops, I just wanted to leave a message on your voice mail."
It's dumber than dumb, because it fails to create ANY quality jobs, and reduces everyone to serfdom, because that's what happens when businesses see subsidies - they are VERY good at gaming the system.
Heck, we have one subsidy program up here that is paying a subsidy of between $147,000 and $250,000 per year per employee - it would be cheaper to just pay each employee $100,000 a year to stay home. But that's what happens when industry lobbies better than the people.
Google disagrees with you - just type "definition contraceptive" and here's what you get:
Birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, are methods or devices used to prevent pregnancy. Planning, provision and use of birth control is called family planning. Birth control methods have been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods only became available in the 20th century.
That's why coitus interruptus and the rhythm method are both classified as (very poor) contraceptive methods. Same way as anal and oral sex are methods methods to prevent pregnancy.
STDs can cause permanent scarring of the fallopian tubes, resulting in infertility even when the underlying infection is cured. I thought everyone knew that.
BTW, certain anti-prostate-cancer drugs can also render you infertile temporarily, with the caveat that if you take them for too long, it's going to be more or less permanent.
And yet, any agreement that is going to be approved by the court is not going to be "rubber-stamped" - it has to conform to the rules. Provinces, including the one I am in, have exercised their right to add additional conditions. Go before a judge with a child support agreement, expect it to be scrutinized. It's public policy here nowadays. Judges will automatically suspect that any amount less than the guidelines is being used to dodge taxes in return for getting a smaller payment "under the table."
On top of that, things like getting an order to garnish wages, seizing income tax refunds, don't even require a subsequent court hearing - just go to the Percepteur des pensions alimentare with the agreement, and the seizure goes through automatically. No hearing or other proof required. To get it lifted, the person has to go to court and prove the seizure is in error.
They can also suspend your driver's license, passport, and other permits.
10-kilometer cubes as the minimum allow all sorts of stuff to co-exist in the same "place." And yet we can differentiate between objects less than 10km apart in everyday life.
Then don't buy those cheap ones at the dollar store. There's an abundance of condoms that are sold on the grey market to stores that don't meet standards.
Also don't carry them around for years in your wallet. Store them properly.
Don't forget to check the expiry date.
Finally, be careful of rings and fingernails, and the packaging foil, damaging the condom. If in doubt, throw it out.
Sounds like too much work? Tough, that's life.
You're the one who is arguing for argument's sake. Look at this argument:
It makes no sense to ditch what could be a great partner because she is fertile
What "could" be a great partner? You want to avoid the risks, but you're not willing to use effective sort criteria? Come on. If you're constantly worried about her getting pregnant, she's by definition not a great partner.
As far as the "common relationship pattern", again, play with fire, you may get burnt - that's a choice you knowingly make. Same as not using a condom with someone when you don't know what their disease status is. Ready to play Russian Roulette? Possibly with your life?
Finally, this:
Are you seriously of the opinion that men having access to simple, highly effective, totally reversible birth control is a bad idea?
As the submitter of the story, it should be obvious that I'm in favor of it, but IT"S NOT THERE YET! Right now, we're in the real world, and right now that doesn't include male contraceptive pills as an option.
You can optimize the "knights tour" in many ways. For example, eliminate all mirror images and all symmetrical images - this right away cuts the solution field by 8. Additionally, start the knight on one color only - eliminates half the rest right there. I'm sure given a bit of thought, I can come up with a few other optimizations, and people a lot smarter than I also can, to cut the problem down to size.
While the demand for "software" has increased, the demand for "good software" has not grown nearly as fast.
Look in the consumer field - there are still only 2 desktop OSes - Windows and Apple, whereas before Windows, almost every computer manufacturer had a custom OS. There are only 2 contenders in the mobile smartphone business - iOS and Android, whereas before there were more (forget Tizen - Samsung is abandoning it, Ubuntu is a non-starter, Blackberry is... well, Blackberry, Nokia's OS was killed by Microsoft, Java Micro Edition is gone, and Firefox OS hasn't a hope anywhere except the poorest areas - the ones that don't have much infrastructure for phones to begin with) Microsoft might come back if they keep throwing money at it for another few years, and Google or Apple stumbles.
Same thing in business - Windows with a smidgen of Apple in the front office, and Windows and Linux in the back, with a tad of FreeBSD and some specialty unixes on various hardware.
Or the various app stores - 99.5% of the apps in there don't make money - you'd be better off financially taking the time and money invested, buy yourself as much beer as possible, then return the empties for a refund. It's all turtle-crap, all the way down.
Educational software for use in the classroom? 100% crap.
Markets tend to end up being natural duopolies because people don't want choice - they want something cheap that works and that's compatible with existing gear. Henry Ford knew this - "You can have any color you want, so long as it's black."
Even programmers are getting tired of the "language of the week."
How many of those people who lost their jobs in various industries and thought "Gee, I'll go into app development (see the various ask slashdots) are going to end up richer than if they had just gone directly to "Do you want fries with that?"
The "web developer" boom went bust. The "app store developer" boom went bust. If you want to work for nothing, sure, you'll have business, but that's not a job - it's a hobby.
The pill is not 99.9% effective. Condoms by themselves have a 98% success rate - the same as the pill. Throw in some spermicide and it goes even higher.
Also, selecting a woman who is sterile is something that is in your control. Just put it in whatever dating profile you're using. Nobody gets pregnant after a hysterectomy. And if you find one that doesn't meet those conditions, it's up to you what you do.You're a big boy.
Also, the pill is not without side effects, whereas a condom doesn't have side effects unless you're allergic to the material they're made from.
This can be said of all surveys that don't include 100% of the target population. The commenters certainly represent a cross-section of opinions from Hillsboro residents.
Problem is, the universe isn't a conventional computer, and there's nobody outside the system observing it. In other words, no real information. The positions of things could be in any random placement and the "calculations" would be wildly different - but that doesn't "create information" any more than any other random number does.
Ford beats both Honda and Toyota in quality now according to Consumer reports, as reported by Time:
Ninety percent of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln products were found to have average or better expected reliability, matching and even surpassing the scores posted by Honda and Toyota and their associated brands, such as Acura and Lexus, the magazine said.
"It's rare for Consumer Reports to see family sedans from domestic carmakers continue to beat the reliability scores of such highly regarded Japanese models as the Camry and Accord," says David Champion, senior director of Consumer Reports, Automotive Test Center.
Ford's reduction in number of brands (no more Mercury) and models is paying off in increased quality.
Pi is easily proven to be valid by observation and measurement. It wasn't invented, it's a description of what people had already observed.
Same with the speed of light in a vacuum.
This number has no physical manifestation - it's an unfalsifiable claim. There is absolutely no evidence, nor any way of testing, this "theory." We could just as well say that the dark matter is all magic pixie dust - magic because it can't be detected even though it has mass (an undetectable mass? can't happen).
The problem is that your idea of a women being responsible easily accepts her committing fraud and using a man as her wallet, hiding behind the state to condemn a man to slavery with no just cause.
That's a lie. The man has the power to "prevent himself from being used as a wallet" - put on a condom, use spermicides, engage in oral and/or anal sex, get a vasectomy, only choose a partner who has had their tubes tied, or a hysterectomy, or is otherwise infertile.
If you decide to forgo these options and willfully expose yourself to the risk of creating an unwanted pregnancy, then you have no more right to whine about the consequences than anyone else doing something stupid.
Also, at least here, if 2 people create a kid and they both share custody and other direct 50% of the time each, there's no child support payable. And there's no "palimony" for couples who are living together "common law" as opposed to marriage, so using a guy as a wallet doesn't exactly float. The courts expect both parents to provide for the needs of the child according to their abilities, the amounts being set by statute.
I guess you need to move to a more modern jurisdiction.
Having to apply an arbitrary fudge factor to a calculation just screams BS.
Also, who says that the universe, at some point, isn't analog, or at least multi-state instead of binary.
Crap "science" based on a series of crap assumptions. Using the same technique (using arbitrary values and assumptions) we can "prove" that the dark matter is magic jelly beans.
Simple drones aren't that hard to make. Comparing a simple drone to the military drones is like comparing a hobby rocket to a space booster. Or for those who prefer car analogies, comparing a toy remote controlled car to a real automobile.
Construction jobs are not temporary. These people don't come out of the service industry, build something, and then go back. Construction jobs are on-going with expanding infrastructure.
Tell that to the construction workers who lost their jobs when the housing bubble burst. A lot of them went into service industries to make ends meet. Others simply couldn't find jobs.
Also, building out infrastructure takes capital investment. Since it's not a "pay-as-you-go" proposition, it's funded by debt, which increases taxes. Much of the cost is materials, not labour, and those materials (cement, structural steel) come from other countries.
Because of the preferential rate for electricity, the rest of the citizens of the city are paying higher rates than they would otherwise. The land was leased from a corporation with 1 employee. That money doesn't stay in the local economy either. Subsidies like this have always failed to give a good return on government investment, whether it's for sports arenas or business.
Ask the Chinese factory workers at Foxconn how they feel about being replaced by robots that can work longer hours for even less than they are making? It's already started and the company wants to replace all 1 million workers with 1 million robots.
No, it isn't. You did NOT posit a government subsidy of $7.25 an hour for every hour worked.
Now let's say we push the burden of guaranteed wage on society instead of the employer. Government writes that employee a check for $72.50 every week (10 hours X $7.25 guaranteed wage).
Guaranteed wage is $72.50 a week.
If you tie it to hours worked, then it no longer functions as an income redistribution plan, since those who work fewer hours under your scheme get less. It's not my fault if you don't understand the mechanics of current income redistribution schemes now in operation, which involves a base amount, clawbacks for people earning over the base amount, and is not tied to hours worked.
Your scheme not only fails the goal of income redistribution - it's also incredibly easy to game. Two people each hire the other for 80 hours a week at a buck an hour (even though they both understand that there's no actual "work" involved). Since being "on call" can also be considered working hours, why not go whole hog and claim 167 hours a week?
Your scheme is foolish, and your "explanation" contradicts your original proposal, unless your original proposal included that someone who is unable to find work gets nothing, which is the exact opposite of income redistribution.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates the radioactive materials in smoke detectors. Because the amount of americium in these devices is so small, NRC's regulations exempt individuals purchasing smoke detectors from licensing requirements including those related to disposal of radioactive materials. You can dispose of single, household smoke detectors as ordinary trash.
And if you're going to use the Americium as a radiation source, you don't have to remove it from the material it's electroplated to.
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It's actually harder nowadays because slashdot is down for $RANDOM_HOURS pretty much every day now.
"Dude!"
I'll overlook that, because it's probably not intentional.
As for the rest, I'm just going with the criteria you laid down and listing the options.
I'm a pretty meticulous adult and I don't even trust myself to put on a condom perfectly every time in the heat of the moment. There's no way I'd trust your average horny teenager.
That's your problem, because you can't follow instructions properly. It's not an inherent defect in the method. Same as if in the future you forget to take your pill, don't blame the method when it fails :-)
I'm not disagreeing that it would be a Good Thing for men to have the same options - which is why I posted the story. But that doesn't mean that, in the meantime, there are not other ways of addressing the problem that men can take if they are willing. You're not willing - fine. But again, that's not the fault of the method.
"The man is just along for the ride"
I would hope he's along for more than that. Come on, let's have some emotional involvement, rather than using each others sex organs as a form of mutual masturbation :-) Unless you're Charlie "I don't pay hookers for sex - I pay them to leave" Sheen.
And for people who want that, why can't they just pay for sex in a safe environment, instead of marginalizing and endangering the sex workers and forcing them to get "protection" from a pimp?
First, when people lose their jobs, they need income. Subsidizing a $2/hour job is not going to work. All that will do is end up hastening the number of employers who reduce their wages to the point where the subsidy comes into play.
I saw this first-hand when one of the largest hardware chains did a strategic bankruptcy, laid everyone off, and the next day, offered them their former jobs, at less than the minimum wage, with a government subsidy to make up the difference. It was pretty bad walking in there and seeing staff I knew all of a sudden working for less than half what they used to make. And of course, when the subsidy ran out, they got fired and others were hired, and THEY collected the subsidy.
Also, some people have no choice but to survive purely off the system. There are plenty of retirees in that position, people who have lost everything due to illness, people who can no longer work because of an acquired handicap, etc. So, your plan offers them zero.
You can't reduce unemployment to zero by having people "work" for $2/hr. And btw, your original example was wrong - no business is going to hire someone for 10 hours a week to answer calls - most business communications today are email and voicemail. A lot of times, when someone answers the phone now, it's "Oops, I just wanted to leave a message on your voice mail."
It's dumber than dumb, because it fails to create ANY quality jobs, and reduces everyone to serfdom, because that's what happens when businesses see subsidies - they are VERY good at gaming the system.
Heck, we have one subsidy program up here that is paying a subsidy of between $147,000 and $250,000 per year per employee - it would be cheaper to just pay each employee $100,000 a year to stay home. But that's what happens when industry lobbies better than the people.
Birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, are methods or devices used to prevent pregnancy. Planning, provision and use of birth control is called family planning. Birth control methods have been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods only became available in the 20th century.
That's why coitus interruptus and the rhythm method are both classified as (very poor) contraceptive methods. Same way as anal and oral sex are methods methods to prevent pregnancy.
STDs can cause permanent scarring of the fallopian tubes, resulting in infertility even when the underlying infection is cured. I thought everyone knew that.
BTW, certain anti-prostate-cancer drugs can also render you infertile temporarily, with the caveat that if you take them for too long, it's going to be more or less permanent.
And yet, any agreement that is going to be approved by the court is not going to be "rubber-stamped" - it has to conform to the rules. Provinces, including the one I am in, have exercised their right to add additional conditions. Go before a judge with a child support agreement, expect it to be scrutinized. It's public policy here nowadays. Judges will automatically suspect that any amount less than the guidelines is being used to dodge taxes in return for getting a smaller payment "under the table."
On top of that, things like getting an order to garnish wages, seizing income tax refunds, don't even require a subsequent court hearing - just go to the Percepteur des pensions alimentare with the agreement, and the seizure goes through automatically. No hearing or other proof required. To get it lifted, the person has to go to court and prove the seizure is in error.
They can also suspend your driver's license, passport, and other permits.
10-kilometer cubes as the minimum allow all sorts of stuff to co-exist in the same "place." And yet we can differentiate between objects less than 10km apart in everyday life.
Then don't buy those cheap ones at the dollar store. There's an abundance of condoms that are sold on the grey market to stores that don't meet standards.
Also don't carry them around for years in your wallet. Store them properly.
Don't forget to check the expiry date.
Finally, be careful of rings and fingernails, and the packaging foil, damaging the condom. If in doubt, throw it out.
Sounds like too much work? Tough, that's life.
You're the one who is arguing for argument's sake. Look at this argument:
It makes no sense to ditch what could be a great partner because she is fertile
What "could" be a great partner? You want to avoid the risks, but you're not willing to use effective sort criteria? Come on. If you're constantly worried about her getting pregnant, she's by definition not a great partner.
As far as the "common relationship pattern", again, play with fire, you may get burnt - that's a choice you knowingly make. Same as not using a condom with someone when you don't know what their disease status is. Ready to play Russian Roulette? Possibly with your life?
Finally, this:
Are you seriously of the opinion that men having access to simple, highly effective, totally reversible birth control is a bad idea?
As the submitter of the story, it should be obvious that I'm in favor of it, but IT"S NOT THERE YET! Right now, we're in the real world, and right now that doesn't include male contraceptive pills as an option.
And how many amateurs even today can duplicate that? Easier to just build a buzz bomb.
You can optimize the "knights tour" in many ways. For example, eliminate all mirror images and all symmetrical images - this right away cuts the solution field by 8. Additionally, start the knight on one color only - eliminates half the rest right there. I'm sure given a bit of thought, I can come up with a few other optimizations, and people a lot smarter than I also can, to cut the problem down to size.
While the demand for "software" has increased, the demand for "good software" has not grown nearly as fast.
Look in the consumer field - there are still only 2 desktop OSes - Windows and Apple, whereas before Windows, almost every computer manufacturer had a custom OS. There are only 2 contenders in the mobile smartphone business - iOS and Android, whereas before there were more (forget Tizen - Samsung is abandoning it, Ubuntu is a non-starter, Blackberry is ... well, Blackberry, Nokia's OS was killed by Microsoft, Java Micro Edition is gone, and Firefox OS hasn't a hope anywhere except the poorest areas - the ones that don't have much infrastructure for phones to begin with) Microsoft might come back if they keep throwing money at it for another few years, and Google or Apple stumbles.
Same thing in business - Windows with a smidgen of Apple in the front office, and Windows and Linux in the back, with a tad of FreeBSD and some specialty unixes on various hardware.
Or the various app stores - 99.5% of the apps in there don't make money - you'd be better off financially taking the time and money invested, buy yourself as much beer as possible, then return the empties for a refund. It's all turtle-crap, all the way down.
Educational software for use in the classroom? 100% crap.
Markets tend to end up being natural duopolies because people don't want choice - they want something cheap that works and that's compatible with existing gear. Henry Ford knew this - "You can have any color you want, so long as it's black."
Even programmers are getting tired of the "language of the week."
How many of those people who lost their jobs in various industries and thought "Gee, I'll go into app development (see the various ask slashdots) are going to end up richer than if they had just gone directly to "Do you want fries with that?"
The "web developer" boom went bust. The "app store developer" boom went bust. If you want to work for nothing, sure, you'll have business, but that's not a job - it's a hobby.
The pill is not 99.9% effective. Condoms by themselves have a 98% success rate - the same as the pill. Throw in some spermicide and it goes even higher.
Also, selecting a woman who is sterile is something that is in your control. Just put it in whatever dating profile you're using. Nobody gets pregnant after a hysterectomy. And if you find one that doesn't meet those conditions, it's up to you what you do.You're a big boy.
Also, the pill is not without side effects, whereas a condom doesn't have side effects unless you're allergic to the material they're made from.
This can be said of all surveys that don't include 100% of the target population. The commenters certainly represent a cross-section of opinions from Hillsboro residents.
If I were single again, I would be super happy to have a safe, reliable, temporary form of birth control that I could use.
You already do - condoms, spermicides, finding a partner who has had their tubes tied or a hysterectomy or is infertile, anal and oral sex ...
They might be fewer in number, but that doesn't invalidate the concept. Some of these methods have a 100% ability to prevent unwanted conception.
And if you're really serious, get a vasectomy. They're 50% reversible in the first 3 years, dropping to 30% after 10 years.
Problem is, the universe isn't a conventional computer, and there's nobody outside the system observing it. In other words, no real information. The positions of things could be in any random placement and the "calculations" would be wildly different - but that doesn't "create information" any more than any other random number does.
Ford beats both Honda and Toyota in quality now according to Consumer reports, as reported by Time:
Ninety percent of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln products were found to have average or better expected reliability, matching and even surpassing the scores posted by Honda and Toyota and their associated brands, such as Acura and Lexus, the magazine said.
"It's rare for Consumer Reports to see family sedans from domestic carmakers continue to beat the reliability scores of such highly regarded Japanese models as the Camry and Accord," says David Champion, senior director of Consumer Reports, Automotive Test Center.
Ford's reduction in number of brands (no more Mercury) and models is paying off in increased quality.
Pi is easily proven to be valid by observation and measurement. It wasn't invented, it's a description of what people had already observed.
Same with the speed of light in a vacuum.
This number has no physical manifestation - it's an unfalsifiable claim. There is absolutely no evidence, nor any way of testing, this "theory." We could just as well say that the dark matter is all magic pixie dust - magic because it can't be detected even though it has mass (an undetectable mass? can't happen).
Fun fact: Everything you know is predicated on some set of assumptions.
You're just assuming that's true :-)
The problem is that your idea of a women being responsible easily accepts her committing fraud and using a man as her wallet, hiding behind the state to condemn a man to slavery with no just cause.
That's a lie. The man has the power to "prevent himself from being used as a wallet" - put on a condom, use spermicides, engage in oral and/or anal sex, get a vasectomy, only choose a partner who has had their tubes tied, or a hysterectomy, or is otherwise infertile.
If you decide to forgo these options and willfully expose yourself to the risk of creating an unwanted pregnancy, then you have no more right to whine about the consequences than anyone else doing something stupid.
Also, at least here, if 2 people create a kid and they both share custody and other direct 50% of the time each, there's no child support payable. And there's no "palimony" for couples who are living together "common law" as opposed to marriage, so using a guy as a wallet doesn't exactly float. The courts expect both parents to provide for the needs of the child according to their abilities, the amounts being set by statute.
I guess you need to move to a more modern jurisdiction.
Having to apply an arbitrary fudge factor to a calculation just screams BS.
Also, who says that the universe, at some point, isn't analog, or at least multi-state instead of binary.
Crap "science" based on a series of crap assumptions. Using the same technique (using arbitrary values and assumptions) we can "prove" that the dark matter is magic jelly beans.
Simple drones aren't that hard to make. Comparing a simple drone to the military drones is like comparing a hobby rocket to a space booster. Or for those who prefer car analogies, comparing a toy remote controlled car to a real automobile.
Construction jobs are not temporary. These people don't come out of the service industry, build something, and then go back. Construction jobs are on-going with expanding infrastructure.
Tell that to the construction workers who lost their jobs when the housing bubble burst. A lot of them went into service industries to make ends meet. Others simply couldn't find jobs.
Also, building out infrastructure takes capital investment. Since it's not a "pay-as-you-go" proposition, it's funded by debt, which increases taxes. Much of the cost is materials, not labour, and those materials (cement, structural steel) come from other countries.
Because of the preferential rate for electricity, the rest of the citizens of the city are paying higher rates than they would otherwise. The land was leased from a corporation with 1 employee. That money doesn't stay in the local economy either. Subsidies like this have always failed to give a good return on government investment, whether it's for sports arenas or business.
Ask the Chinese factory workers at Foxconn how they feel about being replaced by robots that can work longer hours for even less than they are making? It's already started and the company wants to replace all 1 million workers with 1 million robots.
Now let's say we push the burden of guaranteed wage on society instead of the employer. Government writes that employee a check for $72.50 every week (10 hours X $7.25 guaranteed wage).
Guaranteed wage is $72.50 a week.
If you tie it to hours worked, then it no longer functions as an income redistribution plan, since those who work fewer hours under your scheme get less. It's not my fault if you don't understand the mechanics of current income redistribution schemes now in operation, which involves a base amount, clawbacks for people earning over the base amount, and is not tied to hours worked.
Your scheme not only fails the goal of income redistribution - it's also incredibly easy to game. Two people each hire the other for 80 hours a week at a buck an hour (even though they both understand that there's no actual "work" involved). Since being "on call" can also be considered working hours, why not go whole hog and claim 167 hours a week?
Your scheme is foolish, and your "explanation" contradicts your original proposal, unless your original proposal included that someone who is unable to find work gets nothing, which is the exact opposite of income redistribution.
One gram is enough to make 3,000,000 smoke detectors.It not only doesn't exceed licensing requirements, you're allowed to throw smoke detectors in the regular trash.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates the radioactive materials in smoke detectors. Because the amount of americium in these devices is so small, NRC's regulations exempt individuals purchasing smoke detectors from licensing requirements including those related to disposal of radioactive materials. You can dispose of single, household smoke detectors as ordinary trash.
And if you're going to use the Americium as a radiation source, you don't have to remove it from the material it's electroplated to.