"Being for something with qualifications means you're not for it at all." Oh please. As much as I love this site, I despise those kinds of black & white, absolutist arguments. Translate this particular one into any other context, & it's obvious how childish it is, for example, saying: "I'm for sex, but against rape" is obvious common sense, & doesn't mean that I'm lying when I say I'm in favour of sex. Only spoiled children & Libertardians (but I repeat myself) think that absolute Freedom of Speech is an unalloyed good.
Welcome to Abbott's Australia, where our shiny new corporate government rarely even pretends to care about what's good for their subjects. :( It's a sign of the times when even a coal mining magnate like Clive Palmer is actually more reasonable than the governing regime.
It's amazing what you can haggle over, especially expensive stuff. I've haggled over purchasing an apartment, then over the agent fees when I sold it a couple of years later - I made a profit of around 25%. In both instances, I was presented the original prices as though they were handed down by god, & not negotiable. In general, you can haggle when the seller is getting a commission, or is the owner of the item or service being sold.
And how would you suggest they find out what's inside it in order to compare it with the manifest? (If you didn't already know, I believe that it's currently done at international borders via x-rays & sniffers.)
Maybe I'm missing something here but isn't that what "Online Pharmacies" do? You know, send drugs to people?
Sure, because no seller of illicit items would ever be smart enough to think of putting some completely innocuous label on the parcel, such as "ACME widgets", rather than emblazoning it with their usual giant "JOE'S ILLEGAL DRUGS! 1-800-GANJA4U!".
The way this works is that the cops get tipoffs from a "confidential informant" that a crime is likely to be committed at some particular time & place, so they know to stake it out & catch the Bad Guys in the act. My understanding is that that's completely legit, Constitutionally speaking, because they're not using the tipoff as actual evidence, just as a tool to help their investigation. Where it gets legally dicey is when they get their "tipoffs" via means that violate the 4th Amendment, but conceal the Constitutional violation by masking their data as coming from a "confidential informant, which is admissible, rather than from a source that isn't. That is the crux of this particular debate.
"Let's see how the community reacts when they watch an axe-slinging murdered go free because the police were incredibly stupid enough to listen to this "advice" and actually do it."
Sadly, what usually happens in this scenario is that people froth at the mouth about bad guys "getting off on a technicality", & the media bray for the judiciary to be able to ignore Constitutional protections.
Other people whose income exceeds 250k will probably donate the entire excess to tax-deductible non-profits, something where they at least get social prestige, rather than passing it all to the government.
You say this like it'd be a bad thing. Sounds more like a bonus to me.
Dunno about the USA, but Australia would be a much nicer place if every whiny asshole 'earning' over $250K left. We got rid of Murdoch that way, for example. Too bad Gina Rhinehart hasn't followed his lead.
Sure, because what the parents OBVIOUSLY should've done was leave their kid on the ground & sprint to the courthouse. I mean, imagine how much bigger a payout they would be up for if their kid had died? Fools!
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Oh please. As much as I love this site, I despise those kinds of black & white, absolutist arguments. Translate this particular one into any other context, & it's obvious how childish it is, for example, saying: "I'm for sex, but against rape" is obvious common sense, & doesn't mean that I'm lying when I say I'm in favour of sex.
Only spoiled children & Libertardians (but I repeat myself) think that absolute Freedom of Speech is an unalloyed good.
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It's a sign of the times when even a coal mining magnate like Clive Palmer is actually more reasonable than the governing regime.
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Sure, because no seller of illicit items would ever be smart enough to think of putting some completely innocuous label on the parcel, such as "ACME widgets", rather than emblazoning it with their usual giant "JOE'S ILLEGAL DRUGS! 1-800-GANJA4U!".
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Sadly, what usually happens in this scenario is that people froth at the mouth about bad guys "getting off on a technicality", & the media bray for the judiciary to be able to ignore Constitutional protections.
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You say this like it'd be a bad thing. Sounds more like a bonus to me.
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