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StringJunky

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    Taxation

    Most likely. It went too far the other way.
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    Taxation

    Yes, i always wondered how water authorities, railway regions etc could, by privatisation, be made more 'competitive' when they monopolise their districts. The realities of shareholder-driven businesses is that the administration must show rising profits, year on year, in order to keep and attract new money. The usual tactic is to arbitrarily raise prices. The pharmaceutical industry is a glaring example of this practice.
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    Taxation

    I'm of the the belief that private policing, healthcare, firemen, prison staff etc lowers the quality of those services because those are vocational jobs and commercial administrations, being answerable to shareholders, are principally interested in profit and and maximising that at the expense of quality care.and working to the best social principles. I think we are now seeing the negative effects of private prison services here in the UK with increasing disorder within them. In a commercial enterprise, I think, the staff are just 'going to work' and not so so much trying to make a difference for their charges.
  4. Quite possibly, but they are still in promiscuous mode more often in order to catch the fish.
  5. i think gay blokes are generally more promiscuous than the average hetero. The sense of deviance is obviously from his frame because that's what he is. I think his assumption that most men are naturally gay is wrong. I've opened my mind to it in the past and does nothing for me. I can think a particular man is aesthetically pleasing but that's about it.
  6. 1. Don't click on a link to a banking site etc in an email. 2. Put important links in your address bar that you know are good and use them every time. 3. Check that the web address of important and sensitive sites starts with 'https' not 'http' eg 'https.www.americanexpress.com/login'. This is the secure version of the address. 4. Use HTTPS Everywhere which forces the browser to look for and use the secure version of a website. This can help against getting sent to spoofed websites that make phishing attempts. i use a separate browser (Firefox) from my casual browsing (Chrome) that is set to remember nothing with all the important links in the bookmarks bar but Firefox does not remember passwords, it is disabled. It has HTTPS Everywhere and Adguard adblocker. Opera is probably better as your ''financial' browser because you can enable VPN in the settings which adds another layer of encryption. i would certainly use it if I was out and about using public wifi.
  7. The hairs are mechanically damaged by excessively long or high amplitude vibrations in the fluid; physical stress
  8. It depends what strategy favours a particular species' reproductive future, not a particular individual's future of that species. Evolution is about creating the next generation and, so, evolving features and strategies that facilitate that. This all happens by genetic mutation and chance circumstances that may favour them, or not. .
  9. All i can say is: every permutation of behaviour seems to exist somewhere in nature, therefore, they must be natural. The real question is: is homosexuality detrimental to social cohesion and general harmony? The OP's question is undefined as to what 'natural' means to him and the subsequent social/personal consequences of a behaviour being unnatural.
  10. It's a plan, which is the main thing, and it's a lot better than none, I think. By the time you get to the last phase you should be eating a lot better than the typical Westerner. It's finding a regime that works for the individual rather than there being be a one-size-fits-all.
  11. It seems it might be worth a try. A WebMD review;
  12. Space and spacetime are not the same; space is just volume.
  13. "You try it first" No, you can" Toss you for it?"
  14. 1.35m years until the next one.
  15. Super. You are very good at posting on the appropriate level for a given type of audience.
  16. But as a super-condensed neophyte description was it ok? If you had to write a one line description to a novice, how would you put it?
  17. Rule 1: Never login to an important account through an email link, always use a proper link.
  18. Yes, there needs to be a creative element to push the boundary.
  19. From what I understand, from Mordred, is that it is a particle that, individually, has no action on other particles because its energy is too low; it needs to be a full quantum or more but they are actionable collectively.
  20. I've noticed quite often that those purported to be gifted in a particular subject have parents similarly skilled or in the same ball park; genetics aside, such a background makes a person more likely to be good in that field. The main skill of the 'gifted', I think, is a single-minded tenacity, which means effort.
  21. It seems that fish, as well as other organisms before them in the aquatic food chain, are methane sinks. Thinking about it: being a distinct environment, methane would be an ever present gas, due to constant biodegradation, and organisms will have evolved and filled ecological niches within it to keep it below toxic levels to collectively create a homeostatic environment.
  22. This is irrelevant to the physics I was asking about in my question,
  23. Here's a mythbusters demonstration of it:
  24. First thing that comes to my mind is 'marijuana grower'.
  25. Medical records in the UK, for one, are nationally accessible and is not amenable to an intranet approach because approved personnel will need access from anywhere for medical events where the time taken may be critical. I hope this discussion doesn't turn into a lovefest for Linux fanboys.
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