Well I guess if all you do is look at porn, to the point of addiction, we can call that an intrusion on your life. But for someone like me, I look at light porn to arouse myself to masturbate. Nothing wrong with that, I need to relieve myself of the constipation in my balls everyday.

But these Christians groups, gotta love their slippery slope arguments. Watching porn in moderation does not necessarily lead to addiction.

The oligarchs? What are you talking about Xeno?

Control economies are even more abusive, just as a controlled press.

I should also mention that the production and refining of oil is controlled by two oligopolies. The first is OPEC, and the second is the oil companies. A few firms have control of the market, and when this happens it's no different from a monopoly. Oligopolies do not compete, despite what Blackwing says. The fact that oil is also an inelastic good doesn't help either. Another contributing factor is the stupid government that decided to raise oil taxes.

TD was an anti-capitalist

> [TI] ZoZferatu [Pw9] wrote:

> I'll reply from the point of view of the current status in Belgium:

First objection: High costs yes. Poor service no, since Belgium has one of the best public health care systems in the world. It is funded by taxes, coming down to about 1.400 euro per capita per year. It is strictly regulated, not reimbursing 'luxury' health care like eye laser surgery and other aestethic procedures, and keeps an incredible balance between a very high level of nearly free (just call it extremely easy affordable)  medical care and drugs and rigid quality control of provided care. Ineffeciency is imaginable, but is, as our system proves, easily avoided.

Second objection: It's not moral neither to equalise a basic right such as affordable quality health care for your citizens with plain old demand-supply business. Our government makes sure it's affordable, as is their duty. It's not a question of moral, it's a question of duty, and we made sure they're aware of it. But maybe that's my eurotrash leftist socialist downright hazardous point of view.>

Yes but the circumstances in Belgium are very different from the ones in the US. Belgium is a very tiny country, has a high population density, and a population small enough for centralization to be okay. The US controls a large land mass, is one of the most populous countries in the world, and population density is low. Universal health care would also lead to poor service, because of the very difficult task of micromanaging it compared to Belgium. It's easier to be efficient with centralization in a smaller country than a bigger one. The bigger the country, the more inefficient centralization becomes.

Well in America we have mixed views on rights. I, for example, don't believe there are any rights or duties other than the ones we make up. Everything, even government, is governed by the laws of supply/demand.

DPS,

Probably because the laws aren't guaranteeing they meet their terms of contract, the laws aren't enforced, or the insurance companies are too small to be competitive.

Freelancer,

<<1. Such an operation would mean the delivery of a vital service to 300 million people in a very large country by one supplier holding a monopoly. By the laws of economics, this would lead to poor service and high costs due to very high inefficiency."

1- By make sure that there is also a private sector
2- It does in fact reduces the cost (USA is one of the most countrys spending money per capita in health care, although it does not have an universal health care)
3- If you have the right laws and competiton between hospitals doctors etc there is no poor service>>

1. Yes, a private sector that has control over 10% of the market and can't compete?
2. The US health care system isn't a free-market solution, so that isn't a fair assessment. The US solution is very inefficient because of this oligopoly and government interference. Moreover, our large population and low population density adds to the problem.
3. Monopolies and Oligopolies always give poorer service, especially when they are big.

lol. Yeah it's a futile effort. It won't work.

That game has absurdly high computer requirements.

> TheYell wrote:

> I agree actually, that Phoenix sheriff cuts way down on his redicivism rate at the Tent City jail he built.  He has them outside in 50C weather, drinking cold coffee and eating baloney sandwiches and wearing pink underwear

Yell, it's actually an extension to his actual jail, and participating is optional. But it would be cool if that actually was the jail.

Oil prices are going up at ridiculous rates. I say America build an empire in the middle east, with ruthless military enforcement and colonization too. Then we build a wall of tarrifs to discourage the sale of oil to China.

Our military will also need to be reformed.

1. Our small, well equipped combat forces will be called heavy combat forces.

2. We will build an 8 million man army of working class losers, who will be called light combat forces. LCF will be trained mostly to occupy an area, shoot enemies, and terrorize people with possible revolutionary thoughts.

3. Our policy toward our enemies will be speed, mobility, and destruction. We will use our air force to completely wipe our populations that stand against us. That means bye bye Palestine.

Problem solved!

No it's because we don't have Equilian.

Mother nature hates Asians