Ya know, of all the kinds of lib, rule-lawyer might be the most exasperating.
It's not that I like genocide, but dang it, a contract means something.
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The circle of life.
Critical support to Comrade Cholesterol.
Is "fauni" just because it kinda looks like "fraud" or is there more to this, erm, joke.
Liberalism: not even once
Every accusation a confession?
COBRA continues the coverage one had prior to losing/leaving one's job. There are probably cases where keeping specific coverage is important, but they should be rare.
Sounds like a question on based Family Feud.
It's a looking-at democracy, not a playing-with democracy.
More expensive than the balloon, but not outrageous. The amount of gas needed is a function of payload size and ascent rate but 3400l would carry a 1kg payload to ~35km over about 2hr before bursting (based on a calculator I found).
It was tough to find pricing for helium, but one place had prices listed and would run about $350 for the gas. Assuming that's normal pricing, one could hoist a little Lenin statue to high altitude for around $500 all in.
Hobbyist balloons are rather cheap. The smallest are a couple feet across and cost under $10. A typical weather balloon is around 20 feet in diameter and costs about $100.
Compare to the millions it costs to track an object, deploy fighter jets, pay for missiles to shoot one down and one has an impressive guerrilla operation.
https://www.scientificsales.com/Meteorological-Weather-Sounding-Balloon-s/25.htm
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