I wonder if Joe could resist the temptation of Loz skillfully trying to persuade him to sleep with her. My guess is that biology would overcome God.
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I wonder if Joe could resist the temptation of Loz skillfully trying to persuade him to sleep with her. My guess is that biology would overcome God.
My argument is irrefutable!
Why not a UN police force?
Ehawk,
Then why is the mass of human kind inherently stupid?
Without the ability to communicate we wouldn't be able to cooperate or form complex societies.
Yes we would all be doomed without the ability to talk.
The next President will be Gore!
I will bet BW $500 on that too.
I'm 21, but I've been here since I was 15/16.
Deci would get arrested by the Euro police.
lol Zarf
He's afraid I'll take his planets.
You know. We really could be evil twins.
Lol it's been years. I learned how to be a cf banker pretty well, lol.
Should I?
I just remember it consuming most of my time, and being darn addictive. I may have forgotten enjoying quiting!
BW,
Actually companies do care about profits. However, since they are in competition with others, they are concerned about providing good service. Government on the other hand, has a monopoly. It is not necessary for them to care much for providing good service.
Hell, every monopoly acts like government.
Fokker,
Indeed. And if he really wants to be a nerd he should learn Assembly!
So TP, have you been improving on your nutritional diet?
C blows. Learn C++
Then you can start w/ iostream.h!
Scientology is very generous to their most valuable patrons like Tom Cruise.
Never mind I just checked. He was winning an hour ago.
Obama is slightly ahead in Texas though, so I'm freaking out.
Chelsea must be really good. I wish I was a super delegate.
Has Chelsea Clinton also been sleeping with them?
That would persuade me to vote for Hillary!
Fool,
Yes we are social beings. Not only that, we need to have a supportive social network to be happy and healthy individuals. Moreover, having positive relationships is essential to good health and optimal productivity. Secondly, humans collaborate with each other to add their resources together and produce an even greater output. Third, future intellectuals build from the past. However, you are totally wrong that this adds any credence to Socialism.
Marx argued that our social environment guaranteed our personal outcomes. This means that genes are irrelevant in the outcome of ourselves as persons, and subsequently the people in power do not merit their position. So there is no rational justification for hierarchy or an unequal distribution of wealth. Those with power or wealth acquired it because of a competitively unfair environment that was presented to them by accident, and there would be equality if and only if there were material abundance. With equality, there would be no need for a state, hierarchy, or unequal distribution of wealth. The community would share its resources collectively. Furthermore, people would not engage in selfish acts in a Marxist or Socialist society because their engineering would be different.
Marx and Socialists are wrong that social environment guarantees our personal outcome. Experience and scientific data contradicts this claim, completely destroying Marx.
On the other hand, Individualism says that a person's personal outcome is a product of our social environment, genes, and force of will. This means that you have some measure of influence on who you become. With talent and hard work, you can become someone in a society that is more meritocratic and equal opportunity. Who you are is not guaranteed by your social environment.
Einstein's theories were not a collective effort. Einstein was exposed to influencing theories, and later he synthesized them with his research. He learned from experience just like everyone else does. Of course we do not miraculously produce a theory. There has to be physical causation behind the theory's development. You're equating Individualism with miracles and that is not a fair comparison.
Sure. My condo will be sizable enough. We can go pick-up desperate girls in Buenos Aires and have a good time as twins, living the high life in the city's most affluent neighborhood.
If Obama wins the nomination, I will be making preparations to leave the US for Argentina until his tyrannical proscription against "rich" people is over.
Xeno,
Because one day Queen Elizabeth I died without an heir, and the Scotish king just happened to be the closest relative of Elizabeth I. With all the animosities between the two states, the Scots allowed him to rule both countries because the English were much richer than they were. This lead to Scotland being integrated with England.
Tpiddy,
True, the terrorists are suppliers satisfying a general need of some populations. You bring up a good point. Perhaps a mixed strategy is required. "Join us and revel in our riches, or die like terrorist scum!" It sounds very persuasive.
If Scotland just got up and declared independence, and the rest of the UK resented it, then no. It would be diplomatically costly for the US. Besides, crushing the Scots is easy.
It is clear that the US currently faces a diplomatic dilemma. If we stay in the War on Terror, we will continue to be entrapped in a costly war in terms of life and money. Furthermore, this will have a detrimental effect on public opinion for any future potential candidates. On the other hand, if we leave, this will create a vacuum of power that may give terrorist organizations a golden opportunity to establish tyrannical clerical regimes that threaten America's hegemony in the world.
As such, I believe it is necessary to eliminate the terrorists as soon as possible, and with what ever means necessary. By showing the world that we are strong and determined, we will regain the respect we have lost for our foolish decisions which have provided an opportunity to undermine us. The strategy I propose to crush terrorism involves brutality and ruthlessness. We will show them and those who harbor them no mercy, and our motto will be "the ends justify the means."
Back in WW2 it was necessary to eliminate Germany's ability to wage war. Their center of gravity was their industry, and so with superior air prowess, the British bombed German factories and even struck fear by firebombing Dresden. I have no moral resentment for the Brits, they did what was necessary to stop a madman. With the terrorists, their center of gravity is an idealistic population willing to fight "foreign infidels." If we are to win this war quickly, we need to be willing to be ruthless. We need to make it known that any town that harbors terrorists will be exterminated by American bombers. By using chemical and nerve agents, even napalm, we can strike fear in to the Middle Eastern population and pacify them. In fact, for thousands of years the Middle Easterners have only known fear. Want to pacify them? Instill fear in to them! This is what Saddam Hussein did with great effect. When the roudy Kurds got out of hand, he delivered chemical agents that introduced great suffering to them. It worked, and the Kurds were pacified. Now the Kurds are on the move again, since they have less to fear, this time to separate from Turkey.
My military strategy would work, and with minimum cost and optimal effectiveness. It is morally wrong, but the ends justify the means.
For those of you who think the US would suddenly find itself crushed by the UN or the international community, you are wrong. Nations act in their best self interest, not in defense of what is moral or right. Trying to severely hurt the US would be economically costly, because of America's importance in a now economically interdependent world. So long as the US was generally cooperative, they would go along with it, even if meant they denounced it in public. But that is all they would do, and the UN would be too weak to do anything. Furthermore, many of the most powerful countries would love what America was doing, if only because they saw an advantage in creating stability in the Middle East.
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