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Depends on whether or not they can prove that the money was obtained by criminal means. If they can prove that, the money will be forfeit anyway, but should go back to whoever it was stolen from. If they can't prove where the money came from, better that the victim get it than the perps keep it.

I accept more teddy bear orders. I work more hours. I stop going to starbucks.

I think more visible cops would equal less crime.

For the most part, I don't think it's the punishment (whatever it is...jail, death penalty, whatever) that's the deterrant. It's the act of enforcement. For example, most people speed on the freeway, even if it's only a few miles over the limit. You just get going with the flow of traffic and find yourself doing 70 instead of 65, and you don't think of it as a big deal... until you see a police officer. Then, you look at your spedometer and you slow down if you need to so you're going under the limit. It isn't the fact that it's illegal and punishable by a very expensive ticket, it's that the cop is there, and you're going to get caught. It wouldn't matter if the ticket fine was $25 or $2500. You're still going to slow down when you see a cop.

Not exactly what I meant. I don't think the government should legally recognize any relationship at all, although the situation you describe would be the next best thing.

Judging by your avatar, you're very pretty. Also, I'm sure Adriana has stuff about her body that she doesn't like. Remember, for a photo shoot like that, she's probably spent three hours getting her make-up done, and photo make-up does amazing things, and they've photoshopped her image afterwards, probably to remove a few pounds and smooth out her skin. This site has some images of models the way they really look during the photo shoot (even after the three hours of make-up), and then the final pictures that end up in magazines. Huge difference. The images in magazines are really impossible standards of beauty, because what you see isn't real. http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/bikini1.html

Personally, I'd like to get the government out of the marriage business alltogether, mainly because the government has no business interfering in the private lives of its citizens, provided the citizens in question are consenting adults.

Many of them are legit. they make their money because people will do one or two offers, get some others to do one or two, and then give up.

Right now, I'm working as a tutor. I love: working with kids seeing the lightbulb go on the first time an algebra student understands the quadratic formula being able to choose who I work with being able to choose what hours I will work being able to choose where I will work making $25 an hour. pretty much being my own boss. I hate: parents who send their straight A honors student to me for "enrichment." Usually the kid doesn't want to be there and would rather be out with his friends or playing soccer and getting some exercise, because he already works his tail off in school. What kid wants extra homework?! Students who don't want to learn. They're wasting my time and their time and their parents' money. You can't force a kid to learn, and I'd much rather devote my time to a kid who wants help than waste it on someone who refuses to help themself. (students who are frustrated because they don't get it are different and not the ones I'm talking about here). I love: being able to walk away from students like that and have new students filling those slots within a day or so. It's wonderful to have that kind of freedom.

Put a red glove on his left hand and a white glove on his right. Instead of saying left and right, say red or white. It's something I picked up in Irish dance, which is usually taught with the dancers wearing red socks on the left feet and white socks on the right feet. Even the little kids don't mess up their left from right that way. It works so well I started using the system on some of my younger karate students (red sweatband on left wrist, white sweatband on right wrist). Color recognition is very fast, just a half second glance at his hands and he'll know which way to turn.

Smaller dog that requires less exercise.

If they're not mature enough to vote, they're not mature enough to be tried as an adult. We don't trust them to make adult choices about drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, choosing medical care, or choosing their governmental representatives, but we expect them to make adult choices about crime. That makes no sense. I do agree that the juvenile system could use some revamping. I don't think records should be sealed. There are problems with the juvenile justice system, but putting children into the adult system is not the solution.

I don't think we should be able to try minors as adults. We have a juvenile court system for a reason.

Size is important when you look at geography. It is easier to travel in Europe because the countries are smaller. All of Europe takes up 8% of the world's land mass. America takes up 16%. If I travelled as much in Europe as I have in the US, I'd have seen every country there. The US is so big that there's a lot of cultural diversity within our country. There's an amazing difference between New York City and Key West. About the only things they have in common is that most people speak English and the area is considered to be part of the United States. They differ vastly in climate, geography, culture, architecture, food, slang, accent, clothing and lifestyle. It's not that Americans don't want to travel. Most do. It's just that there's so much to explore within our own borders, and it's cheaper and more convenient to travel here instead of flying across an ocean. To put things in perspective a bit, when I flew from Los Angeles to New Orleans, the distance was about 1800 miles. The distance between London and Venice is about half that, only 919 miles, and Barcelona to Prague is only 1044.

When I go back to work, if I return to the same employer (planning on doing so) I will get 3 weeks paid vacation and 2 weeks sick time. However, I'll be working for the government. So, there's pluses and minuses.

Sometimes you can look at the genetics of the virus. HIV mutates, but a person who has been infected by another will have a very similar virus as the person that gave it to them. After a long time, it's harder to tell, but if it's recent, it's more likely to be similar.

Once we try to rehab a youth and fail, they're probably over age 18 and can then be tried as an adult.

I didn't have a passport until I travelled to Europe. Before that, I'd been to: Mexico Canada 22 out of 50 US states 24 US national parks 1 canadian national park I don't think Americans are incredibly introverted... it's just that there's so much to see within our own country and so many microcultures here to explore. New Orleans was so incredibly different from southern California. Key West might've been another country; it was so different. Ditto for Kona. Many of us want to spend time visiting our own home country before taking the time and money to go somewhere like Europe. There's geographical factors to take into account. If the US was a much smaller country like many European countries, I'm sure Americans would go to foreign countries much more often. Our only neighbors are Canada and Mexico, and we don't need passports to go there. For us to go anywhere else it requires a long, expensive plane ride to another continent. We can't just hop on a train and zip over to another country (other than Canada or Mexico, and that's only if you live close to the border of those countries) to visit for a day. There is also a cost factor. I can (and have) spent five weeks travelling the USA for what it cost me to spend 12 days in Ireland. And then, there is the time factor to take into account. Americans have one of the lowest rates of paid days off. We get one to two weeks a year, and most people spread that out, taking a long weekend here and there. Even if someone takes a full week off, to go somewhere like Australia, they'd spend three or four days of that travelling to get there. I plan on seeing as much of this planet as I can. The USA, however, des take up a good chunk of that planet. It's the fourth largest country in the world, and represents 16% of the world's land mass. All the european countries put together represent 8%. I've seen a little more than half the US (and a good chunk Canada), so, looking at the percentages, I've travelled over more land in the US than if I'd visited every country in Europe.

I think we have juvenile courts for a reason. Young people are generally not as responsible for their actions as adults. That's why they're considered minors. If we believe they are not capable of making adult decisions in voting, medical, educational or residential situations, we need to acknowledge that they don't always make adult, appropriate decisions in criminal situations either, and they don't always understand the real, long term effects on the rest of their (and other people's) lives. When someone is that young, there is alot of time and a lot of options for intervention. I think we need to try that first before declaring someone unredeemable.

If you want to drive a high performance car, take some high performance driving classes. They'll teach you how to be aware of the road and good driving techniques that help you not make mistakes and help you compensate for the mistakes of others. Professional drivers are probably safer at 100mph than most people are at 50mph.

Thank you for stopping! When my family and I were heading to Colorado on a ski trip, we saw a terrible accident. An older man was driving, and completely missed the bend in the highway. The car kept going straight, off the edge of the highway, down the embankment, flipping over two or three times, and finally landing on its wheels. We were the only ones around, and both myself and my mom have some emergency skills (she was a medical technologist, and I was a lifeguard), so we stopped to help. My dad and my brother became useful by calling 911 on the cell phones and getting some real help out there. We were about an hour north of Barstow, so the nearest help was at least that far away. The man was sitting up in his seat, talking. He had a bit of a cut on his forehead, and maybe a minor concussion, but other than that, was fine. His wife, however, had not been wearing her belt. She'd taken it off to get comfortable while she was napping on the long drive. She was thrown through the windshield, landed about thirty feet from the car, with major head trauma. Blood everywhere. She was conscious and speaking, but barely. We managed to get some of the bleeding stopped and then, because her other injuries were on the side that was in contact with the ground, we couldn't do much more than keep her calm. My dad kept the gentleman in his vehicle and wouldn't let him move til emergency personnel got there. My brother waited up on the shoulder of the highway to flag down the ambulance. They treated the gentleman for his head wound and talked him into coming into the ER for a checkup just to make sure there was no other head trauma. His wife, however, had to be airlifted out and flown immediately to the hospital. She was not in good shape. My dad left a business card with the gentleman, but we never did hear whether or not his wife made it. Two people, in the same car accident. The one with a seatbelt walked away. The one without had to get flown out, and the prognosis was not good. I've never driven without a seat belt after that. We were the only ones that stopped at that accident, and we were all scared and felt pretty helpless. Most of my emergency training consisted of pulling people out of water and CPR, and giving orders to get other people out of the way or actually doing something useful. My mom knew more than I did, but not a whole lot beyond the first aid for professional rescuers class that I'd taken. After she was airlifted and the ambulance left, my hands were shaking so badly I could barely hold a pen to fill out the info that the police wanted. It seems like as soon as the emergency was over, all the adrenaline hit at once. Thank you so much for stopping at the accident you saw. Not everybody would. Many people think they either don't have the skills to help or that someone else will. You used your head and kept your cool in a freaky, unpredictable situation where you wouldn't know what you would find when you got to that car. Good job!

She's six. She'll forget about it within a week. Let it go.

Thank you.

I'm 27 years old, 5'8" weigh 130 and jump a 190 and have been since jump 16. I have no plans on downsizing anytime soon, as I want to really learn to fly the canopy and wring out every drop of knowledge I can get from it before I go any smaller. I want to do my learning and make my mistakes under a more forgiving canopy. There's no hurry to downsize. Each canopy has a lot it can teach you if you keep it long enough to learn.

Yep. United States Code Title 36, Chapter 10: §171. Conduct during playing During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should render the military salute at the first note of the anthem and retain this position until the last note. When the flag is not displayed, those present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed there.