No I'm not. Kids tend to play, during summer vacation. I'm assuming they'll still do that.

Kids playing is one of the better educational activities, as it involves self-organization, goal-setting, and is self-rewarding. Teaches personal skills that schools don't.

I don't think everyone agrees that students need more of their shitty education. Honestly, if you can't teach it in ten months, you can't teach it in eleven months either. Poor educational results are a thing of standards, not lack of time.

Despite possibly being a remnant of an agrarian past, you have to look at what's more useful. As countries that favor creative thinkers over merely competent automatons, education during summer vacation may be more effective than a month of extra school.

Mind you, sitting at home playing PS4 is a terrible way to spend summer vacation. Travel, organizing and playing real-world games, exploring, hell, building a trebuchet or something, these are all educational, and can't really be done in school.

Three orders of magnitude less than the millions spent on this house.

Right. I feel the same way. I can't stand those naggling ninnies who insist that juggling chainsaws near infants is 'too much risk'.
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The acceptable level of risk will decrease with increased knowledge and technology. Accept it, because it's going to happen. Luckily, eventually we'll be dead and new generations can enjoy their cotton wool cars.

Personally, I'm expecting someone to strap a half kilo of C4 to one and FPV it into an embassy to be the cause of the regulation. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Populists only seek votes in countries where voting is standard. If you're an autocratic despot, you can be a populist in order to not be lynched by an angry mob.

I... well, yes. Having read up to get ahead of my stereotypes, I have to concede you are correct, on pretty much all counts. Thanks for the rebuttal.

Switzerland survives because its main export is untraceable (sort-of) banking. Ireland is still close to being financially untenable. Not exactly worthy models to emulate. No one is served by a race to the bottom.

And this amendment to international agreements would force countries to lower their corporate taxes to actually be desirable to companies that want to do business within it. This has as consequences that corporate tax income will remain mostly constant, since the lower taxes will be paid by more corporations, while every non-multinational company will basically be getting a tax break, thus stimulating your own nation's economy at the level where it'll do some good: The local level.

The countries it'll hurt are, for example, my own. The Netherlands isn't tax-less, but we do have corporate tax laws which make us suitable for tax avoidance.

Well, you certainly bumped up the IQ in this thread.

In addition to Germany's near strict-liability laws, which mean a driver is virtually always at fault in case of accidents with non-drivers, I'd like to point out the following:
- Most of Germany's road system is non-Autobahn. People are used to driving with restrictions. And are going to be nervously looking about to slam into them with a 100+kph speed difference.
- If you drive faster than the recommended maximum (130-140kph) and there's an accident, regardless of who caused it, your insurance company will try to blame you to at least some degree.
- They drive regular cars, with regular 5 speed gearboxes, for the most part.

That all means Germans tend, as a rule, to not go much faster than normal highway speeds, and yet pay attention more than on other roads.

If you don't report it when your lethal weapon is stolen, you deserve to go to jail.

So you told him to learn Mandarin, because he found a site confusing, and then used a Cantonese insult to drive your 'point' home. Learn French, zakkenwasser.

"about 0%" means that it isn't 0%. And these people are surrounded by infected people. Who may not have used soap or hand sanitizer anyway.

It's the same thing as herd immunity: If everyone disinfects, then you're good. If a fraction disinfects, then even that fraction is at risk simply by being surrounded by infection sources.

That's why they tried it on 148 people, and why they're posting average results, for average people. I am curious as to the outliers though.