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There's 10 years of experience with the common external power supply memo of understanding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply - to suggest that what you say isn't true. Apple complies by including an adaptor. It's a lot easier to have charging stations (eg, the local science museum here in Sweden) when only one or two plugs are needed. Ahh, those poor car companies who can't innovate in fuel nozzle technology - only available from Ford™ gas stations.
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We politely ignored the severe warnings about co-sleeping, on account of wanting to keep our sanity. Our littlest had such difficulty sleeping for the first 10 months. He would wake every two hours then cry. He could sleep in the stroller, but walking for hours, day and night, was exhausting - to the point of extreme frustration in the parents. Then we tried co-sleeping. That worked. He would start to wake, I would wake, jiggle his butt, hum a bit, and he would return to sleep, without 30+ minutes of crying. Our frustration levels greatly decreased as our sleep increased. Also, we don't smoke, drink, etc. and kept the pillow count low. (My wife can't co-sleep as she wakes too easily, so I and the baby co-slept on a bed in the baby's room.)
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To give more detail, the women is not requesting a legally recognized marriage. For that, I shrug. People have been "marrying" all sorts of things since forever.
However, if she did want it legally recognized, then what I described gives an easy out for the authorities because legally recognized marriage requires consent. On the other hand, there is no need for state recognition of one's ability to have sex. There are prohibitions on sex with underage minors, sex with people unable to give consent, and sex with animals, among others. But there is not a requirement for consent for everything - including inanimate objects - involved in a sex act.
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If the plane consents - and it must be informed consent - then I have no problem with it.
But people in a coma can't consent to marriage (eg, http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/10/can-a-person-in-a-vegetative-state-get-married/ - "Recently in Illinois, a woman, Colette Purifoy, has been denied a marriage license because her fiancé, John Morris, who is in a vegetative state, cannot sign the marriage form and consent"), so I don't see why planes should be allowed to be forced into a non-consensual marriage.
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My Dad also cut off fingers in multiple table saw accidents. They were reattached. He still didn't learn good caution. My Mom got in the habit of always being there when he used the saw.
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*shrug* So what? Is he distracting other guests? No. Does he need to have full 100% attention on the organized events? No. What next, complain that someone went outside for a smoke break while the bride tossed the flowers?
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I don't know how to hand-start a car engine. I don't know how to use a stick telephone (tap the handle several times to get the attention of an operator in the telephone office, then tell her who I want to call?) I barely remember seeing vacuum tube testing machines at the grocery store and don't know how to test if they are bad. My Mom stopped making clothes for us when the price of new clothes was cheaper than the price of fabric to make them at home. What about using belts for sanitary napkins, as in the original version of "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" instead of adhesive?
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The military didn't have Hummers. They had the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle - HMMWV or "Humvee". The Hummer H1 was the civilian version of the M998 Humvee. They cannot be fake Hummers as they were the first to use the name.
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