You don't have to invoke socialized health care to identify real physical damage caused by sexual promiscuity. Many diseases are spread by sexual intercourse, some by actions as minor as kissing.
Your bias is evident by your classification of "weapons ownership" as "unhealthy." Not "shooting people", but "weapons ownership." Please think before posting.
You are proposing that people be punished, not in proportion to the harm that they do, but in proportion to how wealthy they are. Let's see how this might work in practice.
Case 1: Homeless bum steals an axe and uses it to smash your front door to splinters. He has no income and no money, so he pays no fine.
Case 2: Bill Gates leaves a thumbprint on your window, which makes your life worse by infinitesimally blurring the view through that window. Fine: $1 million, because he's rich.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Burdensome taxation of cigarettes is wrong. Forcing people to pay for the health care of other adults is wrong. Using the second as an excuse for the first is wrong. The only proper solution is the elimination of both taxes.
Most electrical and most plumbing (go look at Shark Bite) is fairly easy. Read the code, watch the videos, plan and then do it. Hire a pro to do everything from the pole to the breaker box, and to inspect the work before the city inspects it. Same principle applies to plumbing.
Natural gas, propane, and heating oil should be hooked up by pros because of the dangers involved and difficulty of testing for leaks. However, you can cut holes in advance and do things like positioning and securing a gas water heater yourself.
The nearest star outside our solar system is Proxima Centauri at 4.24 light years. What incredibly destructive thing were we about to do 8.48 years ago?
Have you considered that moving a "big enough mass" near it will take more energy, be more complicated, and in all ways be more difficult, than just using a rocket motor to thrust the asteroid into a different trajectory? Even colliding a moderate mass against the asteroid to change its path would be easier and more effective than trying to change its direction using gravitational pull.
Is that the legal American public that can't feed their kids because they spent their money on alcohol and cigarettes? Or is it those that spent their money on drugs? Or is it the single mothers who don't have a husband because government policy discourages marriage?
What's even worse are the websites - I've seen several - that have left content, huge whitespace, right content, and the right content is partially clipped by the right edge of the window. No amount of horizontally expanding the window will make the right content display, even an 8000 pixel wide window.
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You don't have to invoke socialized health care to identify real physical damage caused by sexual promiscuity. Many diseases are spread by sexual intercourse, some by actions as minor as kissing.
Your bias is evident by your classification of "weapons ownership" as "unhealthy." Not "shooting people", but "weapons ownership." Please think before posting.
persons of a less white shade of pale.
You are proposing that people be punished, not in proportion to the harm that they do, but in proportion to how wealthy they are. Let's see how this might work in practice.
Case 1: Homeless bum steals an axe and uses it to smash your front door to splinters. He has no income and no money, so he pays no fine.
Case 2: Bill Gates leaves a thumbprint on your window, which makes your life worse by infinitesimally blurring the view through that window. Fine: $1 million, because he's rich.
See a problem here?
There is no such thing as a human action of which it can be properly said "Private morals have nothing to do with it."
Two wrongs don't make a right. Burdensome taxation of cigarettes is wrong. Forcing people to pay for the health care of other adults is wrong. Using the second as an excuse for the first is wrong. The only proper solution is the elimination of both taxes.
Most electrical and most plumbing (go look at Shark Bite) is fairly easy. Read the code, watch the videos, plan and then do it. Hire a pro to do everything from the pole to the breaker box, and to inspect the work before the city inspects it. Same principle applies to plumbing.
Natural gas, propane, and heating oil should be hooked up by pros because of the dangers involved and difficulty of testing for leaks. However, you can cut holes in advance and do things like positioning and securing a gas water heater yourself.
The solution has been known for a long time; it was published 50 years ago. Time magazine ran an article on the solution; here's a Wired article https://www.wired.com/2012/03/mit-saves-the-world-project-icarus-1967/.
Long story short, we have to be able to launch a number of nuclear-tipped Saturn V missiles starting 90 days before predicted impact.
Some photographic filters are quantified in units of dekamireds - tens of micro reciprocal degrees. No, I'm not joking.
The nearest star outside our solar system is Proxima Centauri at 4.24 light years. What incredibly destructive thing were we about to do 8.48 years ago?
Have you considered that moving a "big enough mass" near it will take more energy, be more complicated, and in all ways be more difficult, than just using a rocket motor to thrust the asteroid into a different trajectory? Even colliding a moderate mass against the asteroid to change its path would be easier and more effective than trying to change its direction using gravitational pull.
Is that the legal American public that can't feed their kids because they spent their money on alcohol and cigarettes? Or is it those that spent their money on drugs? Or is it the single mothers who don't have a husband because government policy discourages marriage?
Who is willing to pay that much for a person who doesn't know that the past tense of "pay" is "paid," not "payed?"
"My salary is covered by a non-disclosure agreement."
Generally, any company that gives specific information beyond "He worked for us from 2003 to 2009" is opening itself up for a lawsuit.
Most places, tax returns are not public. If a company discovers your income from your tax returns, they're breaking the law in a criminal fashion..
OK, you've just established yourself as a liar and nothing else you say should be believed.
Fine. We'll balance the budget by ending theft programs: welfare, medicare, foreign aid, food stamps, et infinite cetera.
Stable means unchanged. If it hasn't been updated in 15 years, of course it's stable.
Especially angering are order forms without a confirmation step, which are becoming more and more common. Goodbye $$$$.
Because +/- is too complicated?
The power switch or battery removal addresses some of those UI flaws.
Sorry, wrong. The ugliness of rap, had it existed in 1890 or 1920 or 1950, would have been the most disgusting and shocking available.
What's even worse are the websites - I've seen several - that have left content, huge whitespace, right content, and the right content is partially clipped by the right edge of the window. No amount of horizontally expanding the window will make the right content display, even an 8000 pixel wide window.
With a score of 47, Italy ties with Cuba. That seems very unlikely.
Under Linux, cpulimit can often break this firefox misbehavior.