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Last year I remember seeing a documentary about a salesman who had mental/physical health problems such that when he went to apply for traditional employment during the mid-20th century, he was written off, so he made a living by going door to door and selling products to people in the Northwestern US. He did this until he retired sometime during the 1990s or 2000s. Who was this salesman? 128.2.247.30 ( talk) 00:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
In Soviet Canuckistan, the provincial tax is applied AFTER the federal tax. For non-Canadians, let's say something cost 100$, the federal tax is 5 %, so it ends up being 105$. However, the provincial tax is applied on the 105$ rather than the 100$. How many other countries have such a [retarded] system of goods taxation ? Rachmaninov Khan ( talk) 01:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
No mistake, I'm from Quebec. I was assuming it was the same in the other Canadian provinces. I'l have to add this to my reasons to emigrate to Switzerland. Rachmaninov Khan ( talk) 03:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Well most people pay an Income tax on their earnings, they are then likely to pay Sales tax/ Value added tax on their purchases, which will have already be costed to account for Corporation tax that the company pays as well as taking into account income-tax for setting wages for their employees. Tax on taxes in that regard is quite normal, but in the scenario you describe it appears to be 2 taxes charged together (rather than at different times/sources) but applied 1 after the other? That seems quite unusual, i'll rack my brain further but can't think of one that's the same off-hand. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 08:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I was more specifically asking about which other places in our lovely world tax taxes. In a logical Quebec they would tax the provincial AND federal tax on the base price of the product. But considering we recently abolished a long-standing law that prevented the selling of yellow margarine, because it was acknowledged that Quebecers were too much retarded to know the difference between butter and margarine; and that Microsoft's Windows 7 sweepstake is only unavailable to residents of Quebec, North Korea, Sudan, and Cuba, we can pretty much forget about something logical coming from the Quebec government.
Rachmaninov Khan (
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02:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
To be fair to Quebecers, it seesm the margerine colour/butter-colour is to protect the pockets of those in the butter business rather than to stop unknowing Quebecers buying margarine when they're trying to buy butter. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 14:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
In America, your salary is taxed; if you save some of it, the interest is taxed; if you invest in equities, the dividends are taxed; if you buy property for later sale, the capital gains is taxed; and if you try to avoid all that by spending it, odds are you'll be in a local jurisdiction where sales are taxed. Here in Hong Kong, it is exactly the same, expect interest, dividends, capital gains and sales are not taxed. Just salary. DOR (HK) ( talk) 07:25, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Who was Pedro: 1394 - 1410, Duque de Gerona? I can't find whose son he was. Also were female heiress Princess of Girona in their own right, same as they were Princess of Asturias. Aragon didn't seem to have the same view on woman taking the throne as Castile and Leon. -- Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy ( talk) 09:01, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
First of all, obviously the answer should be no, however, medical companies have "patented" sequences of DNA which are in everyone, as well as simply looking at certain metrics as part of a diagnosis, so that it's illegal for a doctor to look at those to make that diagnostic without paying them. It's not beyond possibility that drugs would be "licensed" to me, and that the ideas produced as a side effect of them would belong to the pharmaceutical company. In fact, does this happen? 82.234.207.120 ( talk) 09:17, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Note: I am not asking for legal advice. I am simply curious for entertainment purposes about what people's understandings of the law are.
I’m going to start by questioning some assumptions. Doctors break someone’s law (who? where?) by looking at something to make a diagnosis? Not looking sounds to me like malpractice.
DOR (HK) (
talk)
07:29, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Is it right to equate classical liberalism with libertarianism? The impression I got from Classical_liberalism#.22Classical_liberalism.22_and_libertarianism is that several classical liberal philosophers supported welfare liberalism, thus they cannot be classified as libertarians. Then what is the diffenerce between classical liberalism and modern liberalism? And why some people say classical liberalism and libertarianism are same? -- AquaticMonkey ( talk) 09:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
In the version of Plutarch's Lives I have it says, Tiberius tried to save himself by flight. As he was running, he was stopped by one who caught hold of him by the gown; but he threw it off, and fled in his under-garment only. I assume the "gown' he is referring to is a toga and the under-garment is the tunic. Was the toga he was wearing a toga praetexta, an ordinary white toga with a broad purple stripe on its border? Can not find anywhere where Plutarch says that Tiberius Gracchus appeared in the Roman senate with armed guards and in a mourning costume, implying that his defeat would mean his prosecution and death.-- Doug Coldwell talk 11:34, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
"One hundred women are not worth a single testicle." Thanks. Imagine Reason ( talk) 13:21, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
www.moonpublicity. com. Is this a hoax? Google is not helping. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.107.246.140 ( talk) 15:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
This idea was a plot element in The Man Who Sold the Moon, by Robert Heinlien. the Novella was written in 1949. It was a scam then, too. - Arch dude ( talk) 23:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
How many people are there still alive who were born in the 19th century? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.147.52 ( talk) 16:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for answering the question, Lomn. To all the pedants, no thanks necessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.147.52 ( talk) 15:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I have read that Edmund Burke was the first to use the word Terrorist or Terrorism in english but cannot find a detailed reference to this. Does anyone have this information please? Togcymru ( talk) 17:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
We have a little image File:Terrorism2 london times 1-30-1795.jpg... AnonMoos ( talk) 05:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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Last year I remember seeing a documentary about a salesman who had mental/physical health problems such that when he went to apply for traditional employment during the mid-20th century, he was written off, so he made a living by going door to door and selling products to people in the Northwestern US. He did this until he retired sometime during the 1990s or 2000s. Who was this salesman? 128.2.247.30 ( talk) 00:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
In Soviet Canuckistan, the provincial tax is applied AFTER the federal tax. For non-Canadians, let's say something cost 100$, the federal tax is 5 %, so it ends up being 105$. However, the provincial tax is applied on the 105$ rather than the 100$. How many other countries have such a [retarded] system of goods taxation ? Rachmaninov Khan ( talk) 01:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
No mistake, I'm from Quebec. I was assuming it was the same in the other Canadian provinces. I'l have to add this to my reasons to emigrate to Switzerland. Rachmaninov Khan ( talk) 03:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Well most people pay an Income tax on their earnings, they are then likely to pay Sales tax/ Value added tax on their purchases, which will have already be costed to account for Corporation tax that the company pays as well as taking into account income-tax for setting wages for their employees. Tax on taxes in that regard is quite normal, but in the scenario you describe it appears to be 2 taxes charged together (rather than at different times/sources) but applied 1 after the other? That seems quite unusual, i'll rack my brain further but can't think of one that's the same off-hand. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 08:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I was more specifically asking about which other places in our lovely world tax taxes. In a logical Quebec they would tax the provincial AND federal tax on the base price of the product. But considering we recently abolished a long-standing law that prevented the selling of yellow margarine, because it was acknowledged that Quebecers were too much retarded to know the difference between butter and margarine; and that Microsoft's Windows 7 sweepstake is only unavailable to residents of Quebec, North Korea, Sudan, and Cuba, we can pretty much forget about something logical coming from the Quebec government.
Rachmaninov Khan (
talk)
02:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
To be fair to Quebecers, it seesm the margerine colour/butter-colour is to protect the pockets of those in the butter business rather than to stop unknowing Quebecers buying margarine when they're trying to buy butter. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 14:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
In America, your salary is taxed; if you save some of it, the interest is taxed; if you invest in equities, the dividends are taxed; if you buy property for later sale, the capital gains is taxed; and if you try to avoid all that by spending it, odds are you'll be in a local jurisdiction where sales are taxed. Here in Hong Kong, it is exactly the same, expect interest, dividends, capital gains and sales are not taxed. Just salary. DOR (HK) ( talk) 07:25, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Who was Pedro: 1394 - 1410, Duque de Gerona? I can't find whose son he was. Also were female heiress Princess of Girona in their own right, same as they were Princess of Asturias. Aragon didn't seem to have the same view on woman taking the throne as Castile and Leon. -- Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy ( talk) 09:01, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
First of all, obviously the answer should be no, however, medical companies have "patented" sequences of DNA which are in everyone, as well as simply looking at certain metrics as part of a diagnosis, so that it's illegal for a doctor to look at those to make that diagnostic without paying them. It's not beyond possibility that drugs would be "licensed" to me, and that the ideas produced as a side effect of them would belong to the pharmaceutical company. In fact, does this happen? 82.234.207.120 ( talk) 09:17, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Note: I am not asking for legal advice. I am simply curious for entertainment purposes about what people's understandings of the law are.
I’m going to start by questioning some assumptions. Doctors break someone’s law (who? where?) by looking at something to make a diagnosis? Not looking sounds to me like malpractice.
DOR (HK) (
talk)
07:29, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Is it right to equate classical liberalism with libertarianism? The impression I got from Classical_liberalism#.22Classical_liberalism.22_and_libertarianism is that several classical liberal philosophers supported welfare liberalism, thus they cannot be classified as libertarians. Then what is the diffenerce between classical liberalism and modern liberalism? And why some people say classical liberalism and libertarianism are same? -- AquaticMonkey ( talk) 09:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
In the version of Plutarch's Lives I have it says, Tiberius tried to save himself by flight. As he was running, he was stopped by one who caught hold of him by the gown; but he threw it off, and fled in his under-garment only. I assume the "gown' he is referring to is a toga and the under-garment is the tunic. Was the toga he was wearing a toga praetexta, an ordinary white toga with a broad purple stripe on its border? Can not find anywhere where Plutarch says that Tiberius Gracchus appeared in the Roman senate with armed guards and in a mourning costume, implying that his defeat would mean his prosecution and death.-- Doug Coldwell talk 11:34, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
"One hundred women are not worth a single testicle." Thanks. Imagine Reason ( talk) 13:21, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
www.moonpublicity. com. Is this a hoax? Google is not helping. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.107.246.140 ( talk) 15:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
This idea was a plot element in The Man Who Sold the Moon, by Robert Heinlien. the Novella was written in 1949. It was a scam then, too. - Arch dude ( talk) 23:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
How many people are there still alive who were born in the 19th century? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.147.52 ( talk) 16:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for answering the question, Lomn. To all the pedants, no thanks necessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.147.52 ( talk) 15:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I have read that Edmund Burke was the first to use the word Terrorist or Terrorism in english but cannot find a detailed reference to this. Does anyone have this information please? Togcymru ( talk) 17:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
We have a little image File:Terrorism2 london times 1-30-1795.jpg... AnonMoos ( talk) 05:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC)