"considering the huge penalties for converting from Islam that exist in some countries"

My local shop keeper cannot go home to visit his family because he will be behedded (or something like that) for converting to Catholicism (for love). No one he knows even believes, apparently, but they say that they are for an easy life... kinda like when I used to say I believed in Santa and God.

You are aware that the Earth is finite, and therefore any natural resources are also finite, right? I ask because I get the impression from your post that you see them as infinite, or at least not finite enough for you to worry about it.

Stopped liking house music when it started taking itself seriously, roughly around the first Moby period.

I bet that would look awesome in slow-mo.

I think most IE users are either new, at work, in a library, or simply don't know any better (I used IE for almost 10 years before switching).

Given the amount of pirate-tv websites based in China, I'd say the latter.

> Blind Guardian wrote:

> Thank you for your academic's blog post link, Fokker. I think you misread my point. Because your link supports it. In its ridiculously overly verbose, overly obvious way. <

I didn't misread your point. I misunderesimated your inelligents.
I know the link appears to support you, but it is backhanded, it still contains proof that what you said is wrong:

http://entrepreneurship.sbsblogs.co.uk/medical-innovation/why-is-innovation-in-the-nhs-often-hard-to-achieve/

Now, I say again, why does this article ask why innovation is difficult under the NHS if, as you say, innovation is impossible under any kind of NHS system?

> My point is that the free market skips ALL of that bullshit because everyone is motivated by what produces profit, and people who purchase their own care and providers who sell it to those people all want the best care. <

Keyword: profit.
I know what you're thinking, "They have to innovate," right? "In order to survive. They have to cure illnesses, not treat symptoms. People won't buy a shitty product. A shitty health company would die." Right?
Small problem with that line of thinking, something EVERYONE forgets:

Consumers are thick.

How many times have you bought shit, knowing it was shit, simply because you couldn't be arsed to find, or didn't know how to find, better? Hell, how many times have you done this without realising?

Africa's inability to produce it's own anti-retroviral drugs = America's profit
Stupid = Profit

> [...] Though of course you always have the option of spending trillions on government involvement which inevitably reduces the quality of care. <

  Would now be a bad time to mention that the NHS is in the so-called mess it's in because of years of lack of government interest?

"Education, education, education!"
"But Mr Blair, what about healthcare? Mr Blair? Did he hear me?"

> This stuff isn't rocket science. Like the idiots on the news today actually explaining why government spending is great for economies: they just don't get it. They're 100% wrong. And no matter how many idiots have an interest in buying into a retarded and dead-wrong ideology, it's still absolutely 100% wrong. <

  I was thinking the exact same thing, but my pun involves brain surgery.

Good thing your name does all the answering for you.

Doesn't matter, I can't get it up with people watching.
But if I have to pick, Dad so I can jam it down his throat at the last second.

Would you rather be punched in the face by a fat man with knuckle-dusters
or
have your eye clawed out by a thin man with long nails?

Rosie O'Donnell.
Yeah, she has her flaws, but I've heard she's kinky.

Would you rather go on a date with Adolph Hitler or Idi Amin?

Ok, this thread is seriously disapointing me, someone had better get very salty very quickly or I'm gonna complain X(

I miss thwe old God, the one with the fire and the brimstone...