My younger cat needed a lot of convincing to use only the scratching post. Every time I saw her scratching the couch, I'd pick her up and put her in front of the scratching post. Took a few weeks, but we got there. She hasn't scratched the couch in ~2 years now.
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I see you have a scratching post. Excellent! Number one mistake new cat owners make is not having somewhere for the cat to scratch (it's a physiological need for them), then they get annoyed when the cat scratches their furniture.
And privately owned firms are extremely hierarchical.
I'd say OS and driver programming is also in that category. It is the deep magic.
18, like the rest of Europe.
Like most things law-related, it's more about enforcement than anything else. Things dramatically improved while our anti-corruption force was under the control of Laura Kovesi. She kicked some serious ass. Now things are treading water a bit, but Romania is not quite the kleptocratic corruptofest it was in the 90s. There's always improvements to be made ofc.
If they get into an accident, or it's a spot check, or something like that they get breathalized.
Yup, exactly. Strictly 0.0. There are cases where people have lost their licenses after having one of those little chocolates with the rum-flavored fillings. This was a reaction to a huge wave of deaths due to DUIs.
Cheaper? Maybe. Easier? No, not really. Ion Popescu from Bumfuck, Nowhere doesn't have the DNA breathing down his neck, watching for any signs of living outside his means and any unusual bank account activity.
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying corruption doesn't happen. It does. I'm just saying it's not automatically much worse than juries.
There's also the fact that appealing a judgement goes to more judges, always different than ones who have seen the case. Basically:
1st judgement -> 1 judge
1st appeal -> 2 different judges (must be unanimous)
2nd appeal -> 3 different judges (must be unanimous)
This makes corruption less common, as getting 6 different judges to all risk their career for a bribe is unlikely.
I'm not going to claim this system is perfect. There are issues with the fact that there is no mechanism for preventing enforcement of an unjust law. If it's on the books and it's an open-shut case, the law will be applied no matter how unjust it is. The inverse is also true though: you can't have unjust rulings that ignore laws the other direction, for example jury nullification of the murder of a black person (used to happen all the time in the US).
Like most things, it's a tradeoff. Some things are better, some are worse.
Did my comment need a /s on it?
Probably. Poe's law becomes firmer every day as vocal crazies become more and more outspoken.
Yup, absolutely. We have 2 posts in the two rooms we spend the most time in for exactly this reason.