Do you guys realize the additional costs that would be incurred if plea bargains weren't around?  Every person who has indisputable evidence against them would still be tried, rather than just pleading guilty, bogging down the legal system meaninglessly.

Sure, those crimes are bad.  But a lack of pragmatic consideration of the situation is pretty bad too...

Nope

Is this Sparta?

The military may not like Obama, but in the United States, historical tradition has leaned toward generals acting merely as appendages for their superiors, rather than as autonomous agents.  Of all the people, the generals realize the importants of a secure chain of command.

If such a scenario were even close to realistic, it would have been done during the Bush administration, especially considering the number of generals that retired in protest of the Iraq war.  (Not meant as some anti-Bush scenario.  Just using it as an empirical denial of your claim)

Nope!

Darkmatt?

You just made me hate politics.  Thanks.  Now I'm going to go listen to music and play Imperial Conflict!  Congratulations, you've destroyed my life...

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> Acolyte wrote:

> Due to my radical anarcho-capitalist beliefs, my first act in office would be to obliterate the office.

But the office desk is such a nice desk!  Wouldn't you want to remove the desk first, before obliterating the room? 

"There are rules and institutions in the western world to prevent this, and they do work, but some compagnies seem to find a hole."

"How about some example companies, or some examples of what "holes" we're talking about?"

"holes were in? how about the national debt, where the lenders are sitting making unbelievable interest off their loans since we never reduce the principal. there's some fat cows feeding off the masses"

"Are you even in the right thread?  Read the entire thread to figure out the context of the word "hole.""

"zarf, perhaps not as related as first cousins, but i think it's relevant, considering its unhealthy and oligarchic nature. sure, they're not selling a market, but the national debt is 'cornered' in so far as it is stagnant, and the lenders are growing fat off tax dollars, and i wouldn't be surprised if the line the wallets of the powers that be to keep things that way."

Um... that still doesn't relate. 

I copied and pasted the entire evolution of the conversation that led to your final statement, Elysian.  When I asked for an example of a "hole," I was asking about an example of a loophole that allowed monopolies to continue.

Forget about second cousins.  They don't even share the same genetic data of all lifeforms from the same planet!

Win my ass.  He just assumed ideas that the rest of us thought up, and put them on one list without giving anyone else an ounce of credit.

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