Comment Non-antibacterial Liquid Soap (Score 2) 223
Ivory Liquid Hand Soap. MSDS here:
http://www.pgproductsafety.com/productsafety/msds/beauty_care/personal_cleansing/Ivory_Liquid_Hand_Soap_(99735542).pdf
Ivory Liquid Hand Soap. MSDS here:
http://www.pgproductsafety.com/productsafety/msds/beauty_care/personal_cleansing/Ivory_Liquid_Hand_Soap_(99735542).pdf
Because a government that can search any person at any time can falsely incriminate anyone, and motives for doing so are abundantly self-evident.
"During a routine anti-terrorism sweep, civil liberties activist John Doe was found to be in possession of methamphetamine, child pornography, explosive-making material, and pirated ABBA songs. He was immediately taken into custody and is being held at an undisclosed location for the public's safety..."
Right now we have an important check in the form of a search warrant. Before searching me, a law enforcement agent must demonstrate to a judge probable cause that I have committed, or will commit, a crime. It's not perfect, and there are notable loopholes, but at least there is some documentation and accountability.
The people who are ill are not the the problem. The people who are fine and think they can use a "free" service as much as they like are.
If only there were some way to dis-incentivize abuse of the system. Perhaps by attaching some sort of monetary cost to health care, in proportion to the level of labor and resources required to produce the service. But how would we determine the appropriate monetary cost? It's not like this sort of calculation happens invisibly and automatically.
There should be campaign finance laws, of course, but the law is a blunt instrument. The problem has to be attacked at its root.
Precisely. The root cause is that the government is in the business of taking large sums of money from some groups and giving it to other groups. This creates incentives for lobbying, whereby people seek to get a slice of the government pie, at the expense of real production which enriches a nation.
Who do you want writing laws that govern complicated industries (high-tech, medical, etc.): a bunch of politicians, or people who actually work in those respective industries? Does the average congressman with a law degree understand the nuances of intertube technology (too soon? nah.), for example? I have no problem with industries proposing or even drafting legislation, provided that our elected representatives and their staffs actually read and digest the bills to ensure that the law is fair, enforceable, and beneficial.
Dark Wizard and the Lunar series for Sega CD are easily in my all-time top 10. I find myself wondering why we haven't seen any Sega CD games on Virtual Console, since there are games for other CD-based systems.
The cynic in me tends to think that Nintendo has discovered that time spent playing classic games means less money spent on new releases. The recent trend for Virtual Console and WiiWare leans heavily toward novelty games with a short lifespan.
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