Français: deux points, bien sûr, not for how it sounds but because it has mostly regular irrealis verb forms (subjonctif, conditionnel). The ability to talk about things as options, hypotheses and thought experiments—the ability to think ahead, is sadly missing from Swedish since approximately 30 years.
Swedish has two cases but my dialect has 4-7, depending on how we count. Polish has 8 cases; the same functions and endings as Scanian + vocative. Sometimes when I study Polish I feel strangely at home, like coming back to a world which is supposed to have ceased to exist 100 years ago, offering tidbits of my mothertongue. The same with Lithuanian, though I have to get used to stressing the locative /??/-suffix. It feels provocative and scary. ^^
0.6 unevenly distributed over the year At the moment, I drink no coffee at all in order to make sure that no parasites (yeast, mites, ?) can sustain themselves on it. There are usually some mold spores in it. Should we drink more or less coffee to get rid of parasites?
I had a habit of drinking a triple-espresso every time I drove a truck through Gothenburg in daytime, as it required maximum concentration.
A two-year-old can understand very little about economics. :\ I'll try for 15-year-old and up:
Large company = much profit, much corruption, little morale. Small company = small profit or loss, little corruption, much or little morale depending on who the owner is.
Taxes should be applied to that which is harmful for the society. In the above, corruption and the missing scope to act according to good morale are harmful. Consequently, it makes sense to tax the size of businesses.
This has supposedly, but not really, been accomplished indirectly by taxing income and profits for both businesses and their employees. Two problems present themselves:
1. Since labour is positive for society it shouldn't be taxed, but it is indirectly taxed by meeting out the income it yields from workers who get paid.
2. The advantage that large-scale businesses have over smaller ones is realized when they buy, sell and produce. The taxes only apply later when the owners want to move money from the corporation to themselves. Such taxes therefore lack the regulating function which could have justified the breach of ownership rights that any tax-wielding authority is guilty of.
1 & 2 has led to a debate where corrupt owners of and executives in large corporations try to pretend that the difference between their remunerations and the income of someone in a smaller company would have something to do with their excellence and ability work 65 times harder. It also impairs the quality of agricultural produce, as you observed in the opening post, limits choice in the IT-sector, and has many other disastrous consequences.
Since a business typically consist of: 1. buying something 2. refining it 3. selling it, and 4. administration
... with a tax on market share, only a quarter of the business's activities need to be accounted for to a tax authority, that is item 3. The downside would involve the difficulty of defining a market. For example does a seller of carrots compete with a seller of potatoes?
The free-market way of handling large-scale farms would be to let sovereigns tax market share instead of income. Since their role is to safeguard and oversee markets, which is a service to businesses, it makes sense that they charge for it.
Imagine you know the exact etymology of the word "god". When you look around today you see lots of things and persons that are worshipped. If these do not fit the original definition of the word "god", it would make sense to call them "false gods" or "fake gods". You should probably not use capital G.
In Germanic languages, such as English, the expression "false god" is probably based on the Gothic bible, which uses "galiugaguþ" to translate words such as "eidolos". I suppose the Goths didn't use icons or direct prayers to statues, so the translator may have had to do a coinage.
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RE: Languages and accents.
Français: deux points, bien sûr, not for how it sounds but because it has mostly regular irrealis verb forms (subjonctif, conditionnel). The ability to talk about things as options, hypotheses and thought experiments—the ability to think ahead, is sadly missing from Swedish since approximately 30 years.Swedish has two cases but my dialect has 4-7, depending on how we count. Polish has 8 cases; the same functions and endings as Scanian + vocative. Sometimes when I study Polish I feel strangely at home, like coming back to a world which is supposed to have ceased to exist 100 years ago, offering tidbits of my mothertongue. The same with Lithuanian, though I have to get used to stressing the locative /??/-suffix. It feels provocative and scary. ^^