While identifications of status and power vary in different cultures, a man's breadth and value of sexual options depend on his control of resources and status.

> avogadro wrote:

> i wouldnt know, justinian; my giant dick is the only get laid free card i ever use

nike brand shoes though? that seems like a bit of a stretch >

WTF? You expose yourself in public?

Well, most people are extremely stupid, although phss is right that the abilities of the average person are understated. Superior intellect isn't a requirement to be wealthy or successful, nor to understand basic practical principles. And it's the stupidest thing I ever heard that government is altruistic. Selfishness is the rule of human behavior and human organizations.

Well, if Cuba's market opened it would pwn the economy of some Caribbean islands allied to the US.

Isn't government a supplier of services, like security? I mean, governments that fail at doing that get overthrown.

Well, I consider the parasitic elite like unions and media to be worse than the political elite.

I rate the elites like this.

Big Business elites.
Political elites.
Parasitic elites.

None of them are very good, but giving the media to #2 sounds so much better .

> Question wrote:

> Loud noises!!!
Let's compeltely ignore the good the press actually does and point out the things we dislike about it.  Good thing we are not trying to fairly judge the usefulness of the press in any form or fashion.

And IA... when your alternative is Nazi style anything you should know your in the wrong.

And yarr for pirate airwaves>

lol. While I rate Nazis low, I rate "fight injustice" and "equality!" liberal nutjobs lower. And I think a Nazi propaganda machine is pretty unlikely.

Otherwise, the press does very little good. Its bad far outweighs its good.

The US murder rates are not high enough for me to care about changing the status quo. They may be higher than in Europe, but by and large we still have a life expectancy comparable to other Western countries. We value guns, and our security is not compromised enough for me to care about banning them.

They're right in the sense that America consumes more than the Earth's resources can sustain, and America will need to monopolize those resources to extend the time it can continue that consumption.

But, I sense an assumption that there needs to be an equal standard of living world wide, and that technology will not provide us with viable alternatives in the future. In that sense, I will say they're either wrong or assuming too much.

> Soth wrote:

> the infantry man will never be obsolete.   all he needs to fight is food ammo and cigarettes.  they are cheap and efficient. 

besides im not in the infantry.  Im a fire control man in field artillery

Naw, compared to air power, infantry = pwned. Wars can be won with strategic bombing, that is if you have the American air force hehe.

Cool, so what do you do as a fire control man? jw.

> Chris_Balsz wrote:

> did you just tell a Marine he should have chosen the Air Force????>

Yup. Air Force FTW!

Infantry is obsolete.