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so what if there would be no taxes? what streets would you drive on?
How would your police be payed? How your fire fighters... How would you maintain a military?
All by donations?
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yep, all through donations. and if there arent enough donations for something, must not be important enough to build.

"For sure you as a single being are not in controle. but i am pretty certain that if a goverment [the forums mods pwned me before i knew it] up enough to make a big part of the population pretty unhappy.. the population can do its part to have the goverment removed."

governments such as the US, which has huge social programs, huge military, nuclear weapons, the idea that a large percentage of the population could remove the government is a joke. at 10/3/08 roughly 74% of the US population was pissed off at Bush, but wasnt enough. even if every american was pissed off at the government, they would not be able to remove it because they cant threaten something that controls their entire wealth, their millitary, and has nuclear weapons. even if you were able to take away the millitary, you would be talking about currency becoming worthless and foreign investment disappearing. the US government can do whatever it wants and it doesnt have to answer to its own citizens.

Corona

> Insignificant wrote:

> I guess I should have been slightly more specific. Can anyone actually pinpoint the relative point in time that basics organisms began to evolve on the large hunk of rock in which we currently reside.

i dont think theres a specific date, theres still several theories as how life started. theres the formation in the sea, formation in the sky, and then theres the beginning of life comming from a meteor theory. i think they have fossils that date back 3-3.5 billion years though, so a long time ago.

"can anyone actually prove the exact date of the earth?"

exact date as in the day it was created? also; depends on when you would consider it earth. would it be earth when it was half its current size? would it be earth without oceans?

im pretty sure Grolsch is Dutch, not German. i've also had Grolsch, Warsteiner, and St. Pauli's. i just bought two different beers made by Ayinger; one of them called Jahrhundert-Bier Century Celebration Bavarian Lager, and the other one called Brau-Weisse authentic Bavarian Hefe-Weizen

oh, one more thing Smiof; if you try a Samuel Smith Old Brewery Pale Ale; dont be expecting it to be a IPA. its a Porter; but during the industrial revolution, lighter colored beers were fashionable, and this beer is a amber color, so they called it a pale ale to distinguish it from the darker porters.

"In a democracy as we live in the state represents the people.. in a democracy the power shall be by the people.. so the power and controle should be with the state since they are our representatives."

if the state represents the people. why does the government need to tax its people? if the people want their government to be bigger, they could just donate money to the government. but no, the government forces its people under threat of imprisonment, to give them a very significant portion of there income, in alot of cases over 50%. there isnt a democracy in the world, and in the current states of government, the people dont hold the power, corrupt politicians hold the power and thrive on the poor's hopes inorder for the corrupt politicians to gain power and steal the wealth of the successful and line their pockets while giving the poor just enough to keep voting for them. and that is why it is better to trust in the honest workers, who have built up their own wealth, then dirty politicians that are power and money hungry that rather steal the money from innovators then to earn it honestly.

hmmm, well, every Final Fantasy after 7 has been really, really bad. i've given up on the series; my brother hasnt though, sad guy is in denial; even saying FF8 wasnt that bad.

Burning Crusade was very disappointing game, even though technically only an expansion. they turned a pve centric game into a pvp centric game...

ic has made very bad changes over the years, turning the actual game to crap.

but acouple good games should be coming out. Left4dead looks like it could be quite fun; also fallout 3 could be very good, and ofcoarse starcraft II and diabloIII.

the tragedy is that Obama is going to become president. too little too late. if he had done this first debate, maybe he would still have a chance, but unless the economy starts booming and/or serious foreign threat arises; he doesnt have a chance in hell.

"fans of American League baseball"

hey now! dont say anything you'll regret later!

bs, forefathers didnt find a common ground. acouple warmongers attacked abunch of soliders; and then everyone else was like oh [The fmods owned me before I even knew it!], we're going to get raped by the british once they find out about this.... hmmm, it wasnt so hard for those few guys to make the redcoats retreat, maybe we could repel the redcoats so we wont get raped...

and we have our constitution...

"n social issues people should have more freedom again. This means i do support abortion, gay marriage, and basically anytime government tries to interfere in my life. It really is not the government's job to tell us what is moral and what is not. Their job is to protect our liberties. I will make my own judgements on what is moral. Ofcourse i cannot go rob the grocery store because i think it is "moral" because i am hurting another individual who owns the grocery store. This is when government must act in the form of police officers and such."

this is pretty good; would just like to clarify that Libertarians do not necessarily support abortion. we believe its the government's job to protect our liberties; and some believe that includes protecting the fetus's liberties and some would think the fetus shouldnt get liberties.