Hey, it’s just a quick special military operation to Kyiv, in and out in three days! Surely nothing can go wrong.
IIRC there was talk after it went south that the yes-men around Putin had made him believe that not only would Ukraine not fight back, but the people would join the Russian troops in celebration for being “liberated” and help them, and that’s why they didn’t even think that failure was a possibility.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” and all that, and we didn’t exactly have many friends to choose from.
No clue, I’m from Finland where our VAT is 25.5%, income tax is higher than in Norway, and our vehicles are some of the most expensive, and also the oldest, in Europe :)
They don’t withdraw a lot, but having it means they don’t have a need to tax all the things just in case either and they can take a hit today to plan for a better future. That is to say, EVs in Norway are exempt from vehicle taxes, import duties, registration fees and get all kinds of other benefits too making them way cheaper in comparison to ICE cars.
That fund has something like $200 000 per Norwegian in it.
Though as the current default in many places is “split everything you both own 50:50 including all the things before getting married”, it has to be a bit complicated as rarely were the starting conditions equal.
We passed 7 billion back in 2011, and have since gained 1.2 billion more.
Exponential growth goes brrrrr.
“Da, we have aggressive birds. Fly right through planes. Sideways through hull and explode. Very dangerous, only exist in Russia.”
$5 billion, woah, that sure is a lot of dosh!
By stealing all the revenue of the Panama Canal for the US, Trump could fund the US military for… a whopping two days.
If the government spills this persons blood on the street, what do you get? The only thing that happens is that the punishment for fraud is now death.
For this single case in an isolated vacuum, sure.
Outside that you’d get no more fraud, and no more future fraud victims, because the punishment for it wouldn’t be worth the risk for anyone to try.
Like I said, if the punishment for a parking violation was death, every single driver would make damn sure they would never, ever get one. Apply that for every “deliberate” crime and you end up with a society with essentially zero crime.
Also a lot fewer people alive, but zero crime.
Where the line goes is completely up to the justice system, how badly they want to prevent that type of crime, as it goes with every crime and punishment.
How does putting someone in jail or having them pay a fine to the government help “make the victims whole” any more than the death sentence would? If that was the point of the justice system, we would only have payments of wealth or services from criminals to victims and nothing else. In fact, I can think of quite a few crimes where the victims would love nothing more than the permission get to kill the criminal themselves in the most painful way possible.
The number one priority of a justice system is to prevent crimes from happening in the first place - a task it has to constantly balance with freedom and human rights as the ultimate solution is to get rid of all criminals - and the more it wants to prevent a certain type of crime, the harsher the punishment for it should be. But as I said, usually the death penalty is used for crimes done by people who aren’t thinking about the consequences.
If you use it as the threat for financial crime, soon you will have no more victims of financial crime, as the criminals are all either dead or too afraid to do it.
Should it be used, for that or in the first place, that’s a completely different argument all together.
It doesn’t act as a deterrent due to the crimes it’s used as a punishment for - no punishment stops a mentally Ill serial killer, someone in mindless rage acting on impulse, or someone who is certain they will never get caught. The studies all agree with that.
But if you would get sentences to life in prison or death from a parking violation or not paying your taxes, there would be zero people doing them as both are conscious actions, and definitely not worth the risk.
True. But it shouldn’t be. At all.
Bottling, shipping and stocking hundreds and hundreds of bottles of soft drinks that are 98% just water on the store shelf costs a hell of a lot more than putting a hundredth of the amount of syrup in a small bag and selling that. A sachet of sugar-free cola syrup would be smaller than a McDonald’s ketchup pouch, and cost a few cents.
Not quite the same, but Finland will put you in jail for six months if you refuse your mandatory military/civilian service. Though technically speaking you are just doing your civilian service by sitting in jail instead at that point.
To avoid that you need to have a valid medical condition that prohibits you from serving. Being too obese is one of them.
There have been at least five major mass extinction events in the history of this planet. What will be after us in the future won’t look like it does right now, but right now doesn’t look anything like it did before any of those five events either.
As the saying goes, life finds a way. We just won’t be around to witness it.
“Too many Europeans might have frozen to death during the winters so we’d rather not, but by now it’s their fault if they haven’t prepaired. Also buy our gas.”
Up until this point, Washington refrained from sanctions in order to maintain gas flows between Russia and remaining European customers.
the US has held off to preserve stability in Europe’s gas supply. But trade dynamics have shifted since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine — that year, the US shipped more natural gas to Europe than Russia did for the first time.
It wasn’t a fine, it was compensation to the victim for the pain and medical costs she was caused, which don’t exactly change depending on how rich the perpetrator is. If Elon Musk kicks you in the shin and breaks it, it hurts and costs just as much as if it was done by a homeless person.
He should have also gotten a hefty fine and jail time as a punishment for the crime he committed though, but this was a civil case, not a criminal one for some - probably Irish - reason.
Well, no faults that would be dangerous.
Olkiluoto 3 specifically though is basically a glorified prototype and has had many issues with the massive turbines. Last time they said they’ve installed the last spare and had no timeline when the next would arrive, as it’s a unique part for this reactor only with leadtimes in months. If it breaks again, who knows when it will be able to start back up.
It was built by Areva and Siemens. Reactor itself was built by Japan Steelworks and Mitsubishi.
~44% of women voted for Trump. Around 55% of men. So women hate themselves almost as much apparently.
And mentally retarded replaced idiot, moron and imbecile as the medical term when they became insults. It has since been replaced by intellectually disabled for the same reason.
It’s the euphemism treadmill, it never ends.