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| # | Comment | Survey |
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| 31 | All (well, most) of these are available, albeit with a lower success rate, to prospective parents conceiving naturally, though their choice of partner. I see no particular reason why they shouldn't be available through their choice of sperm or egg donor as well, though I'd counsel against taking advantage of some of these options. | Which of the following characteristics should be available as options to people seeking fertility treatment? |
| 32 | Monday 10 to 7 (9 hours) Tuesday 10:30 to 5:30 (7 hours) Wednesday 10:30 to 6:30 (8 hours) Thursday 11 to 9 (10 hours) Friday 11:30 to 5:30 (6 hours) I already get to work pretty much any schedule I like. | You have to work 40 hours this week, but can design your perfect schedule. When and on which days will you work? |
| 33 | Apart from the obvious system in which no one is executed at all, no. | Do you think it is possible to create a death penalty system where no innocent person is ever executed? |
| 34 | The hard part is catching the house. | The movie of your life. |
| 35 | I'd pay the correct amount. But I wouldn't bother keeping track of, say, business vs. personal use of fully depreciated assets, which I'm supposed to do but which make no difference to the final total. | If you could be assured you would not get caught, would you cheat on your taxes? |
| 36 | There are two kinds of tax under discussion here. First is regular income tax, which is the responsibility of the employee, and which is calculated according to an arcane formula which can take pages and pages of forms, and sometimes result in a negative total tax liability. Second are fixed-rate assessments, which include FICA (Social Security tax) and Medicare. These are (mostly) flat rate taxes. There are two common ways for FICA and Medicare to be paid: for normal (W2) employees, the employer pays half the FICA themselves, and withholds the other half plus the Medicare from the employee's paycheck, to be sent to the IRS. For contract (1099) employees, the employee is responsible for both halves of the FICA plus the Medicare, even if no 1099 is actually filed. So your employer does often have the choice of whether to deal with a certain portion of your taxes for you. Since FICA affects everyone, but not everyone owes regular income tax, this means there are some people who don't have to file because their employer chose to pay them on a W2, who would have to file if they were paid on a 1099 or under the table. This situation is only for people who don't interact with the regular tax code. With respect to regular income tax, the IRS is not interested in any legalities about your employment, and the question of how your employer accounts for your income does not affect your taxes. | If you could be assured you would not get caught, would you cheat on your taxes? |
| 37 | Other: although I own a fair number of DVDs and a few movies on VHS videotape, I don't think I actually purchased any of those. I have, however, purchased a laserdisc as a gift on at least one occasion, so I can't mark the "I have never purchased a movie" option. | What is the first movie (VHS or DVD) you purchased? |
| 38 | Stephen Hawking is fond of pointing out that his book A Brief History of Time sold better than Madonna's book Sex. | Are you someone famous? |
| 39 | anonymous. | Who annoys you the most? |
| 40 | My favorite license plate ever is: FEATURE on, of course, a VW Bug. | You have up to seven characters to work with. You may use letters and numbers only. Design a vehicle license plate. |
