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Either way, all violent video games are bad in nature, but we play them anyway because we know that they don't affect what happens in real life. We just enjoy them, its not like were getting arrested for playing the enemy of America.. But then again, some people will take offense to those certain types of games, and eventually try to get them banned from being made. Of course thats just me yakking along
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Martin Aircraft’s commercial jetpack looks to take flight
"The Martin jetpack, a commercially developed jetpack, may soon be heading to a
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Apparently these people live outside the city limits and have to pay a service fee to the city for fire protection. Aren't these people paying property taxes to some government entity? Why isn't fire coverage just rolled into property tax rates? Unfortunately the TV coverage doesn't say.
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I had a neighbour who was hospitalised for 3 weeks after returning from a visit of his relatives in India. Diagnosis is severe food poisoning - and yet he still jokes that Indians here are a billion times luckier than their relatives in India. Also, I used to work for a health and lifestyle company specialising in water-related products. There was an Indian businessman who walked in, bought a number of water filtration systems (each costing over a thousand dollars), and wrote the delivery address to ship to India, citing the reason that the water filtration systems there are "hopeless". It is more like the locals have developed an immunity to the environment.
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We who live in the city ALL pay fees for fire department, it's included in our property tax. However, this home owner did not live in the city. This residence was outside of the city limits, and he doesn't pay the city any taxes. That's why residents outside of city limit must pay a separate fee if they want to be covered by the city's services. People who live in the city, of course, do not have to pay any separate fee because that's already calculated into the taxes they already pay. This is a very normal procedure in many parts of America. The home owner was, or should be, very aware of the consequence of refusing to pay these fees. He made that decision, and lost the gamble. I'm not saying that's justified for not putting out the fire, just pointing out that the fault is not one-sided at all. Quote:
In USA, many of these departments are funded by local governments, instead of federal. Therefore each state and counties have their separate rules and regulations. In this case, the city set it own rules, and he wasn't following it. If you live in the city the fire coverage is part of the property tax. If you live outside the limits, you're out of luck. That's why the city offered the coverage through separate fee, and this home owner declined the offer. He should have known exactly what that meant.
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