Because one person can easily afford it and the other cannot. How is this difficult to understand? Why should one person have a tax burden that crushes them into grinding poverty while another could pay many times more without affecting their lifestyle at all?
If you replace bread with roads, fire, police, education, you are asking people with higher income to pay more for using the same things as everyone else the same amount as everyone else.
Correct. You are asking the people who can more easily afford it to pay more for those things. What is the problem with that?
If you enter the nuke password at the PW prompt the encrypted keys held in secret keyslots are deleted and unless you have a backup of the keys it can never be decrypted.
Only do that if the penalty for what you would be convicted for is worse than the penalty for destruction of evidence.
If I'm elected for only so long (term limits), why should I seek your "campaign donations" if I can't use them??
What they'll seek instead is a cushy job after the term limit is up (a sinecure, you might call it).
Why shouldn't I just do what my constituents ask of me?
Either an office holder took the office to do that, in which case anti-corruption measures are not necessary, or they did it to enrich themselves, in which case I don't see how term limits would prevent them from doing so.
You took... basic responsibility for your own actions and did the bare minimum to resolve the situation, understanding that since it's their house they set the rules no matter how you feel about them?
The linked story doesn’t give much detail, but how did the kid die? My first guess is faulty parenting: like leaving the key in the device.
The treadmill pulled the child under and crushed them. Which shouldn't even be possible. Most treadmills don't leave the back of the belt open like that.
Also, the story I saw earlier said the temperature had risen to 78 °F, which is 25.6 °C.
Outside, or inside? That's a lovely day for outside weather but having the thermostat set to 78 is pretty warm. Not miserable maybe, but higher than I would like it, especially when trying to sleep.
Raise your hand if you think a child cannot discover the password to your Peloton/Gun Safe/Cookie Jar if they want to.
At risk of blaming the victim, you're probably doing it wrong if they do. That is, you picked an obviously guessable PIN (I'm assuming it's numeric) or wrote it down. The exception is if they see you entering it (while technically a security lapse to let someone watch you enter a code, I wouldn't blame someone for that). The likelihood of that happening is inversely proportional to the chance of injury or death using it. A 2 year is not likely to remember the passcode, and a 10 year is probably not going to get sucked under. Security is never perfect, but this doesn't sound too bad, especially in the absence of a hardware update.
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Because one person can easily afford it and the other cannot. How is this difficult to understand? Why should one person have a tax burden that crushes them into grinding poverty while another could pay many times more without affecting their lifestyle at all?
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Correct. You are asking the people who can more easily afford it to pay more for those things. What is the problem with that?
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I thought I'd give him the opportunity to back it up. I'm not expecting anything.
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I've never heard of a proposal for a progressive sales tax, where did you find that?
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So you're OK with unlimited child and pet deaths, if it can be reasonably blamed on the owner?
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Interesting that you didn't answer the question. Not surprising though.
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I'm curious how many children and pets would have to die for this to be an appropriate reaction.
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Only do that if the penalty for what you would be convicted for is worse than the penalty for destruction of evidence.
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What they'll seek instead is a cushy job after the term limit is up (a sinecure, you might call it).
Either an office holder took the office to do that, in which case anti-corruption measures are not necessary, or they did it to enrich themselves, in which case I don't see how term limits would prevent them from doing so.
I think you mean panacea.
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What are the chances this person works for either FAN or IRA? I'm putting it way over 50%.
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Kind of defeats the purpose of having a mobile phone.
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What a liberal snowflake, amiright?
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The treadmill pulled the child under and crushed them. Which shouldn't even be possible. Most treadmills don't leave the back of the belt open like that.
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All radio jamming is prohibited by the FCC.
https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
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That is super easy and inexpensive, but some people want to run year round and don't like to run when it's snowing, or raining, or 100 degrees.
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Outside, or inside? That's a lovely day for outside weather but having the thermostat set to 78 is pretty warm. Not miserable maybe, but higher than I would like it, especially when trying to sleep.
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I believe you're thinking of Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lunar-new-deal-gop-rep-gohmert-suggests-altering-mo on-s-n1270219
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At risk of blaming the victim, you're probably doing it wrong if they do. That is, you picked an obviously guessable PIN (I'm assuming it's numeric) or wrote it down. The exception is if they see you entering it (while technically a security lapse to let someone watch you enter a code, I wouldn't blame someone for that). The likelihood of that happening is inversely proportional to the chance of injury or death using it. A 2 year is not likely to remember the passcode, and a 10 year is probably not going to get sucked under. Security is never perfect, but this doesn't sound too bad, especially in the absence of a hardware update.
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Sidney Powell is way, way too old to be interesting to Donald Trump. I would think she knows that, but I wouldn't stake anything important on it.
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Incorrect, misinformation is confronted and suppressed in the center and left news media, but flourishes uncontested on the right.
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