that's what they use to do in Venice, then they stopped. sinking of the land still happens.

well, in the movie my man godfrey 1936, there is a line where the character say " i don't mind giving 60% to the government " ... which he's implying his tax rate is 60%. this seems to conform to the chart.

What we need to find the distribution of the income

I tell people when they are looking at a house, you are buying the walls and the space, nothing else. Why pay for someone upgrades that most likely are not up to what you want anyway.

Do I really want to care about your upgrades? Nope.

I recently looked at a house, it's was completely re-done from roof to first floor. Excellent job, i asked whom the contractor was, got it and the client bought another house down the block and hired the contractor. Client is out of pocket for 5 months on the work, but has a brand new home at the end and 40K cheaper at the end

moral of the story,
don't pay for any improvements unless you really want that improvement.

While I do not agree with your equivalency rating, if a 5 is coming, then we should be looking at land surface area affected and evacuation issues. a Cat 5 will make entire coastlines for 50 mile ( from landing point ) evacuate. While an F5 will make entire cities evacuate. Depending on where you are, we are looking at a 3 times multiplier for the Hurricane. if an F5 hits a big midwest city, were are looking at a displacement of about 250,000 people with about 100 miles of losses, if a Cat 5 comes around, we are looking at a 25 mile radius of damage for 75 miles to 500 miles... I don't even want to venture the population displacement if it was july or august.

this is all guessing, but having been in 4 hurricanes and watching 1 tornado do damage for 25 minutes, I think I might have a small grasp of the perspective needed to look at this issue.

Also, Hurricanes do wire damage over long swaths of area, Tornado's do localized damage

I recent read in the paper, that it Aventura Florida, the DUI stop have a night judge right on the spot, it's to help process the load quickly. I'm going to find a reference to link. Also a DUI conviction in Dade County is $5000 to $7000 in fines plus Insurance companies will hit you with a few surcharges in excess of 1000 per year overall for 5 years. When I spoke to a cop, he said, "take a cab, if you get caught, it's 12K out of pocket when the gavel goes guilty"

Rather scary, but in reality, no different than my time 80's, only thing was that at 2:30 am we were drunk driving to the dinner to sober up and if we were lucky, we might have seen 4 or 5 cars on the road ( this is in a small town of population 84,000 people on the other side on NYC ). worst thing that would happen back then is that they pulled you over,, you walked 5 miles home, passed out on the lawn, and your father would hose you down publicly to wake you up.

out of everything you said, you screwed up on
>> " Have you ever thought marrying, having kids and a family are fundamental rights of a human (and even an animal)?"

where/when and why would you even have that right? so let's see, you could not hack your job, you went to education.
can't manage your money correctly, you went towards broke.
of course your wife left you, you jumped a risk that was not within your skill level. at east she's got Darwinism skills

that type of right is if only you are a dictator, that's when you get to pick whom you want without the other parties consent.

I was hoping that someone would say what you said.

so let's look at the outcomes. the removal of a known threat which causes an estimate-able amount of deaths, swap that for an unknown threat due to environmental changes. I'll use as a good example wolves re-introduced back into yellowstone.
we all know that plant eating animals ( deer, moose ... ) were left a lone for 30+ years, over those years we saw overgrazing and certain plants growing while others were not taking hold. ( they were eaten ). When wolves were re-introduced to yellowstone, the parts of the park that were severely overgrazed completely changed, herds of dear/moose shrank quickly ( weak were lunch meat ). Balance is slowly being restored.

Now species do die all the time, but nature took them out slowly and found a replacement ( given I'm trying to find the replacement for some mega fauna but that's another story. ) even when the asteroid hit and wiped out everything. nature slowly replaced everything

only because they are first on the block does not mean that they own it. they just have some control at this time.

so all I can say is build a better mouse trap ... look at back page, it's slightly better and they are growing... at the end of the day that's what they are trying to do.

I am rather sure then we are riding on a huge turtle and the world is flat. hmmm just might be true

I really don't want to laugh but I am hearing mothers say " not in my house hold you wont" to your line " Even if every single case of autism on record could be directly attributed to vaccine side effects, it would still make sense to continue most of our current vaccination schedule "

Really very sad, but with time I expect that the fight from science will be won, the problem is, will my kids be the victim of the idiots that prevented a vaccine shot.

This would be a good time to have the reservoirs deepened to take advantage of future rain fall when it happens.

Most people don't understand the aspect of the business card as a form of personally identifying yourself to the other party. In my work ( real estate ) I have flexibility of my card design plus look and feel. I spent a very long time coming up with the right tactile feel that I wanted, the right font, and the right colors. it's part of the impression I want to make.

A girl that I met recently was along the same lines, she was a graphic designer and had the most amazing card, it spoke a story of her skills and it only had her email address and name.

that's why you want to spend time thinking about your card, it should speak a story about you. For example: if you are a coder, and you grok python, I would put some interesting code on my card ( bucket sort maybe or something that only another serious coder would note ).

my card is simple: it's a 100% cotton bond, with watermark with my family crest, it has some cobalt blue outlines, with some forest green. my name, phone number, email and business name. Simple but elegant

you are right, salt is required, I just reduced the adding of it, does not mean that the celery, carrots and other items I ate did not have sodium, it's just that I tried to avoid it from being an additive.

the sugar issue is very true, it almost becomes painful to taste. as for the salt, it's become interesting since I find different salt's have different effects on my taste buds, Kosher salt is sweet, very large flaky is sweet, table salt is bitter and too strong for me.