Better than USDA Prime: Find a local farmer who grows beef. You want farm-raised organic beef if you can get it. Not this factory-farm "USDA prime" BS.
In the winter ask him for a half side or something, pay him up front -- VISIT your beef through the year. LEARN to trust this man, build a relationship with your food. If this beef-farmer is worth his salt, he will also be aging the beef 2-3 weeks he eats himself... ask him to age YOUR beef as he would his own. Anyone who knows their ass from a hole in the ground knows 2 day-old dripping-blood supermarket beef == crap. Beef hanging in a cooler w/ a "little mold" (dont be alarmed) == WHAT YOU WANT.
This results in A) a better pc of meat for your table B) ecologically-sensative, ecologically-sustainable and responsible food-choices (if your going to eat meat at all) C) better profit for your local farmer (cut out the middleman) D) sustainable food-supply for yourself and your community because you havnt undermined local/small producers by ONLY buying food from FuckingWalmart and %Big-Agricorp%.
The UN is a democratic body. It respects the voices of all nations. America's REAL problem is that they aren't allowed to dominate UN discourse. This angers them, because their is no tolerance and respect for differing opinions.
America has JUST demonstrated that it feels that it has the authority to START WARS. Not only had the world-democratic body said "No, we dont agree this is the best course" you did it anyway.
This WMD, "Liberation" is smoke and mirrors, its about the price of oil. I know it, the UN knows it, America knows it (even the clueless ones who 'support the troops' can formulate a complex meme greater than "your with us or against us")
Where this "the UN is Communist" is coming from I dont know. About Communism, Democracy and Capitalism, In short; American Capitalism is Imperialism. Trade must be democratically controlled (Social Democracy) else a world-feudal state will be born.
- many dictators, and in general is about as friendly toward real democracy as an alligator is toward chickens. The enthusiasm is definitely there, and in the UN's case so is the lip-service, but the best you can expect IRL is a sick charade.
Ok, this is the icing. America is the most broken democracy anywhere in the modern world. Period. Its corrupt, unresponsive and poorly organized. Its moribund and stifled - a charade. When you manage to elect someone who is not a multi-millionaire, outside of the two colluding parties, let me know. Further, as for "support of dictators" you A) MUST read this book and B) understand that america has DIRECTLY supported both Osama Bin Laden and Sadam... they, if anything are YOUR CREATIONS. Your lack of perspective w/r/t the actions of your OWN NATION is appalling.
As for some iraqis calling for a non-secular future for Iraq, you only have to look to your present Christian-Bush and the tolerance of non-secularism that he is an advocate of. "Faith-based" - wtf is that? Dont point fingers buddy, the Christian Right owns the Whitehouse - the puritan adherence to Fundamental Christian values has made your current administration (and the intellectual state of your nation) the laughing stock of the planet. Open your eyes pal, a Christian Reformation is underway in America... and the New Crusades are virtually underway.
I think you're missing many of the UNsubtle nuances here. -- are you kidding? You are 100% clueless. Your statements are a display of EXACTLY the ignorance that the rest of the planet cant fathom about Americans. You must break out of the "america is the greatest" mindset for 5 minutes and do some reading... start with some foreign press. Do you know what your doing in Columbia? That your UN ambassador is wanted in C.America for war-crimes related to Iran-Contra?
Not true. The softwood-lumber tarriff, and the wheat tarriffs are re-occuring issues the US gov uses as a hammer to undermine Canada. Plain and simple. NAFTA and the WTO has already rulled on these issues, but American Corporations manage to get your government to try (over and over) put up these tarriffs to (even temporarily) give a leg-up to local producers.
Dont like the laws in Canada? Go fuck yourself, or dont ask for trade in oil, water and wood. When you yankees are shooting one another to fill pools in california, maybe some of you will understand the Free-Market is fucked... the FreeMarket doesnt fucking work, that is why the rest of the planet makes PLANS -- for everyone's equal benefit -- to mediate risk, maximize opportunity and assure resoureces are used wisely and industry doesnt act contrary to the public interest. You yanks might like to be ruled by your Plutocracy, but we much prefer freedom and democracy ourselves. Hence the Fucking Wheat Board (that OUR FARMERS like) and the "low-stupage fees on Crown land" (which is the crux of the US argument)
ouch... how do people reach the 200 million americans who DONT understand this...? This Afghanistan-Iraq affair, its justification to the US public, and the hubris of the administration this demonstrates to the world REALLY scares me. I mean, how long until America starts WWIII?
When you pay the Levy, you are LEGALLY given the right to make a copy of any audiocd you like.
Ottawa has just, on your behalf, effectively REDUCED the price of AudioCDs (all of them) to Less than $2 making Legal-CD-Audio the cheaper than ANYWHERE else on the planet.
For instance - your buddy buys a copy of the New %Your-Desired-Audio-CD-from-local-retailer% you can take that CD home and MAKE A CD COPY FOR YOURSELF LEGALLY , return the CD to your friend, and Voila(!) you just got a legal copy for less than $2.
For everyone who is decrying the levy, they are missing the point -- Ottawa has just dealt a death-blow to the CD-has-value paradigm that we hate (levereging CDR-drives to remove the 'value-add' from producers) and people whine about the levy?!?
Really, tell your friends and have a "bring your discs and go copy-crazy party" at the local library!
From this page: To emphasize this point, endnote 4 of an early Copyright Board ruling says:
Section 80 does not legalize (a) copies made for the use of someone other than the person making the copy; and (b) copies of anything else than sound recordings of musical works.It does legalize making a personal copy of a recording owned by someone else.
...the only thing necessary for you to be convicted on one of these periphery felonies is doing SOMETHING ELSE the state dosnt like, but is legal.
For instance, are you a Communist? If you were, thats legal, but expect to spend time in Jail for IP-theft. Are you an Environmental Campaigner? Expect to see the inside of a jail cell for %your-silly-law-here%.
This is a very effective method of maintaining the status-quo... and a most terrible place to find America in.
Witness France refusing to allow the US (and allies) to rampage around in Iraq, and then subsequently demanding a hand in choosing how the resulting gummint is organised
Now that the USA has committed its War Crimes against Iraq (no reason is strong enough to invade another country... WMD, terrorism and "Liberation" are NOT reasons to start war)
The UN is the only body which has the authority to bless a new 'democratic' iraq. Sheesh, the americans have already shown a tonne of bias and pre-determined agenda: they wouldnt allow the Communist Party of Iraq to attend any of the NewIraq Congress sessions... but the Communists are a LONG standing, functioning party - with high support and strong polling. But the yankees arent interested in allowing iraq to govern themselves, there interested in the price of oil and profit domestic multi-nationals.
Bill Gates: Mr. Simpson?
Homer: You don't look so rich... Bill Gates: Don't let the haircut fool you, I am exceedingly wealthy.
Homer: [quietly] Get a load of the bowl-job, Marge! Bill Gates: Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, Compuglobalhypermeganet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
% Homer and Marge quietly discuss this proposal.
Homer: I reluctantly accept your proposal! Bill Gates: Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
[Gates' lackeys trash the room.]
Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on! Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane
laughter]
Agreed. Can someone create a NEW SF series we can watch?
I liked Earth2 for example, not watched alot, but the idea of Robinson Curusoe in space was pretty good... I enjoyed the more recent Firefly tho I only watched 2 episodes..
why would you pay for CDs when you already are LEGALLY able to copy AudioCDs? Because we pay a small levy on CDRs, Ottawa has negotiated the LEGAL RIGHT for us to make copies of any audio CD we please.
Bring your burner down the the library and copy away! Have a "burn-my-discs" party and invite all your friends!
Unicast promotional materials suggest the new format will enable advertisers to reach their audiences "with the same impact" as TV.
As with anything, their will be a portion of the population who will avoid this like the plague. The same people who watch PBS and pay for Cable (or liberate it in my case) so they can avoid the broadcast-friends-cop-drama-pap.
#2, will this work *anywhere* other than Windows w/ IE? Further driving the masses to somewhere where their PC did not become a vector for advertisers ala television.
i couldnt agree more. the trouble is, how do you form a government WITHOUT it becoming corrupt?? What is the alternative, the great lost mechanism to prevent this????
My vote is to get rid of nation states and standing-national armies... no wars, no hinderance of movement - then PEOPLE can see themselves as equal and the same..
"The Free Mike Hawash website has released the following affidavit (PDF file) received from the Federal Terrorism Task Force. The affidavit states that Hawash traveled to China in 2001 with several co-cospirators 'in an attempt to enter Afghanistan to fight against United States forces.'"
Oh, so he is An Offical Enemy of the State, I say send him to Guantanamo and lock him up for life - due process? Pfth, who needs it.
The article reads like a big AOL PR piece in some places -- the VA governor led the signing at the AOL HQ in Dulles.
Hm, thats what I want, my Legislators delivering law directly from the BoardRoom. The same people who send you "buy this penis pump" emails will, next month, be sitting next to this Virginian Politician at a $5000-a-plate fundraiser... and the viscious cycle begins again.
Already a resident friend... but Im becoming fearfull that US influence is going to require me to flee to Europe (ive just gotten my dual citizenship to facilitate).
I believe that the US is an absolute loose-cannon in the world, and Canada has to be carefull of our fair-weather-friends to the South. if we dont do as they intend -- what are they capable of doing in return? If they could drum up some ficticious Security of the Homeland excuse, an armed invasion is not out of the question (imagine a terrorist lights off a chemical weapon in a city - they blame leaky borders then occupy canada/mexico in order to defend the territorial borders of N.America)
Look at their attitude in the world right now, their attitude towards the French... The Invasion of Iraq is the tip of the iceberg of where the US is headed... Hilary Rosen, a Corporate Advocate (not a International Law Expert Hilary Rosen, a Corporate Advocate (not a Neutral International Law Expert) has been given input in the process - how much more obvious can the corruption/intent/reality of what has happened in Iraq? Before the US invaded, Iraq was a government recognized as lawfull in the Eyes of the UN (including the USA). It was formally supported by the USA themselves (as was OBL) - really, the lack of perspective required for 75% of Americans to 'support this war' (a state oft quoted but imho not at all true..) is stagering. Tell me, do 75% of Americans REALLY think that Invading and Occupying a foreign nation -- UNPROVOKED -- is a good thing to do? Ones motivation, or higher-purpose is irrelevant... this violates the tenants of all that has kept the world safe - ever. One nation, REGARDLESS of its motivation, is not allowed to invade another. Imagining yourself a liberator, or WMD inspector is just as invalid a reason as killing infidels, killing evil %minority_race%, reclaiming ancestorial lands, defending them from %ideology%. etc etc etc all the other "justifications" that any other nation has ever started a war... in the end, they are all the same - lacking.
Allowing H.Rosen to write the domestic law of Iraq is not going to get much attention (outside of the IP nuts at/.) but is completely telling of the goals of this effort: Empire.
Can you please site, in the UN Charter of Rights and Freedoms where it says that? Can you further site, which UN Resolution equates "returning Iraq to Iraqis" with "construction of a market for a conquering armies corporations?"
Liberation my ass. Welcome to Iraq, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Corporate America.
You do understand there is a whole other world outside the borders of the USA that is successfull Social Democracy (virtually EVERYONE else). Not everyone believes that CoOperation is unworkable. Some of us get by very well with collectivism. Further, Social Democracies (like Canada for instance..) is Socially Progressive with Freedom most would envy.
The world is NOT dominated by a ProCorporate, ProCompetition, ProSelfishness Worldview that is commonplace in America.
Please PLEASE give some credit to the rest of us... the hubris and arrogance is getting intolerable. Not everyone harbours contempt for his neighbour as a potential threat or source of suspicion.
The Right of "keeping what is yours" is NOT a basis on which to found a Community.
...Huh? Being "Evil" is rational enough to invade a foriegn nation.
Ever heard of the "Axis Of Evil"? This black-and-white simplicity is rampant in American Public Discourse, and seeing how/. is an American Website, Id say it is not out of ordinary at present.
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Better than USDA Prime: Find a local farmer who grows beef. You want farm-raised organic beef if you can get it. Not this factory-farm "USDA prime" BS.
In the winter ask him for a half side or something, pay him up front -- VISIT your beef through the year. LEARN to trust this man, build a relationship with your food. If this beef-farmer is worth his salt, he will also be aging the beef 2-3 weeks he eats himself... ask him to age YOUR beef as he would his own. Anyone who knows their ass from a hole in the ground knows 2 day-old dripping-blood supermarket beef == crap. Beef hanging in a cooler w/ a "little mold" (dont be alarmed) == WHAT YOU WANT.
This results in A) a better pc of meat for your table B) ecologically-sensative, ecologically-sustainable and responsible food-choices (if your going to eat meat at all) C) better profit for your local farmer (cut out the middleman) D) sustainable food-supply for yourself and your community because you havnt undermined local/small producers by ONLY buying food from FuckingWalmart and %Big-Agricorp%.
The UN is a democratic body. It respects the voices of all nations. America's REAL problem is that they aren't allowed to dominate UN discourse. This angers them, because their is no tolerance and respect for differing opinions.
America has JUST demonstrated that it feels that it has the authority to START WARS. Not only had the world-democratic body said "No, we dont agree this is the best course" you did it anyway.
This WMD, "Liberation" is smoke and mirrors, its about the price of oil. I know it, the UN knows it, America knows it (even the clueless ones who 'support the troops' can formulate a complex meme greater than "your with us or against us")
Where this "the UN is Communist" is coming from I dont know. About Communism, Democracy and Capitalism, In short; American Capitalism is Imperialism. Trade must be democratically controlled (Social Democracy) else a world-feudal state will be born.
- many dictators, and in general is about as friendly toward real democracy as an alligator is toward chickens. The enthusiasm is definitely there, and in the UN's case so is the lip-service, but the best you can expect IRL is a sick charade.
Ok, this is the icing. America is the most broken democracy anywhere in the modern world. Period. Its corrupt, unresponsive and poorly organized. Its moribund and stifled - a charade. When you manage to elect someone who is not a multi-millionaire, outside of the two colluding parties, let me know. Further, as for "support of dictators" you A) MUST read this book and B) understand that america has DIRECTLY supported both Osama Bin Laden and Sadam... they, if anything are YOUR CREATIONS. Your lack of perspective w/r/t the actions of your OWN NATION is appalling.
As for some iraqis calling for a non-secular future for Iraq, you only have to look to your present Christian-Bush and the tolerance of non-secularism that he is an advocate of. "Faith-based" - wtf is that? Dont point fingers buddy, the Christian Right owns the Whitehouse - the puritan adherence to Fundamental Christian values has made your current administration (and the intellectual state of your nation) the laughing stock of the planet. Open your eyes pal, a Christian Reformation is underway in America... and the New Crusades are virtually underway.
I think you're missing many of the UNsubtle nuances here. -- are you kidding? You are 100% clueless. Your statements are a display of EXACTLY the ignorance that the rest of the planet cant fathom about Americans. You must break out of the "america is the greatest" mindset for 5 minutes and do some reading... start with some foreign press. Do you know what your doing in Columbia? That your UN ambassador is wanted in C.America for war-crimes related to Iran-Contra?
Not true. The softwood-lumber tarriff, and the wheat tarriffs are re-occuring issues the US gov uses as a hammer to undermine Canada. Plain and simple. NAFTA and the WTO has already rulled on these issues, but American Corporations manage to get your government to try (over and over) put up these tarriffs to (even temporarily) give a leg-up to local producers.
Dont like the laws in Canada? Go fuck yourself, or dont ask for trade in oil, water and wood. When you yankees are shooting one another to fill pools in california, maybe some of you will understand the Free-Market is fucked... the FreeMarket doesnt fucking work, that is why the rest of the planet makes PLANS -- for everyone's equal benefit -- to mediate risk, maximize opportunity and assure resoureces are used wisely and industry doesnt act contrary to the public interest. You yanks might like to be ruled by your Plutocracy, but we much prefer freedom and democracy ourselves. Hence the Fucking Wheat Board (that OUR FARMERS like) and the "low-stupage fees on Crown land" (which is the crux of the US argument)
ouch... how do people reach the 200 million americans who DONT understand this...? This Afghanistan-Iraq affair, its justification to the US public, and the hubris of the administration this demonstrates to the world REALLY scares me. I mean, how long until America starts WWIII?
WRONG WRONG WRONG!
When you pay the Levy, you are LEGALLY given the right to make a copy of any audiocd you like.
Ottawa has just, on your behalf, effectively REDUCED the price of AudioCDs (all of them) to Less than $2 making Legal-CD-Audio the cheaper than ANYWHERE else on the planet.
For instance - your buddy buys a copy of the New %Your-Desired-Audio-CD-from-local-retailer% you can take that CD home and MAKE A CD COPY FOR YOURSELF LEGALLY , return the CD to your friend, and Voila(!) you just got a legal copy for less than $2.
For everyone who is decrying the levy, they are missing the point -- Ottawa has just dealt a death-blow to the CD-has-value paradigm that we hate (levereging CDR-drives to remove the 'value-add' from producers) and people whine about the levy?!?
Really, tell your friends and have a "bring your discs and go copy-crazy party" at the local library!
From this page:
To emphasize this point, endnote 4 of an early Copyright Board ruling says:
Section 80 does not legalize (a) copies made for the use of someone other than the person making the copy; and (b) copies of anything else than sound recordings of musical works.It does legalize making a personal copy of a recording owned by someone else.
...the only thing necessary for you to be convicted on one of these periphery felonies is doing SOMETHING ELSE the state dosnt like, but is legal.
For instance, are you a Communist? If you were, thats legal, but expect to spend time in Jail for IP-theft. Are you an Environmental Campaigner? Expect to see the inside of a jail cell for %your-silly-law-here%.
This is a very effective method of maintaining the status-quo... and a most terrible place to find America in.
Witness France refusing to allow the US (and allies) to rampage around in Iraq, and then subsequently demanding a hand in choosing how the resulting gummint is organised
Now that the USA has committed its War Crimes against Iraq (no reason is strong enough to invade another country... WMD, terrorism and "Liberation" are NOT reasons to start war)
The UN is the only body which has the authority to bless a new 'democratic' iraq. Sheesh, the americans have already shown a tonne of bias and pre-determined agenda: they wouldnt allow the Communist Party of Iraq to attend any of the NewIraq Congress sessions... but the Communists are a LONG standing, functioning party - with high support and strong polling. But the yankees arent interested in allowing iraq to govern themselves, there interested in the price of oil and profit domestic multi-nationals.
Ahh, The Simpsons, full script here
Bill Gates: Mr. Simpson?
Homer: You don't look so rich...
Bill Gates: Don't let the haircut fool you, I am exceedingly wealthy.
Homer: [quietly] Get a load of the bowl-job, Marge!
Bill Gates: Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if
anything, Compuglobalhypermeganet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
% Homer and Marge quietly discuss this proposal.
Homer: I reluctantly accept your proposal!
Bill Gates: Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
[Gates' lackeys trash the room.]
Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on!
Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane
laughter]
More disturbing, in fact, is your knowledge of that at all...
Agreed. Can someone create a NEW SF series we can watch?
I liked Earth2 for example, not watched alot, but the idea of Robinson Curusoe in space was pretty good... I enjoyed the more recent Firefly tho I only watched 2 episodes..
USSR and Nazi Germany were state-capitalists.
Not exactly, you have the right to copy -- and keep that copy -- of Audio CDs YOU DO NOT OWN.
for example, borrow your friend's CD, make copy for yourself, return your friend's disc and keep your newly-created-legal copy.
start here
why would you pay for CDs when you already are LEGALLY able to copy AudioCDs? Because we pay a small levy on CDRs, Ottawa has negotiated the LEGAL RIGHT for us to make copies of any audio CD we please.
Bring your burner down the the library and copy away! Have a "burn-my-discs" party and invite all your friends!
?
If your gui runs slowly, patch your kernel.
Unicast promotional materials suggest the new format will enable advertisers to reach their audiences "with the same impact" as TV.
As with anything, their will be a portion of the population who will avoid this like the plague. The same people who watch PBS and pay for Cable (or liberate it in my case) so they can avoid the broadcast-friends-cop-drama-pap.
#2, will this work *anywhere* other than Windows w/ IE? Further driving the masses to somewhere where their PC did not become a vector for advertisers ala television.
I know it's fun to consider the United States as bad as the Soviet system. But it's not at all accurate.
Give it time - Communist Russia and the USSR didnt start as a Fascist dictatorship either... it took time.
i couldnt agree more. the trouble is, how do you form a government WITHOUT it becoming corrupt?? What is the alternative, the great lost mechanism to prevent this????
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My vote is to get rid of nation states and standing-national armies... no wars, no hinderance of movement - then PEOPLE can see themselves as equal and the same..
love the prey/herd line - gonna use that
Thank-you. Why has this simple concept disappeared in the USA in the last 24 months? %Insert-oft-quoted-liberty-for-security-quote-here %
"The Free Mike Hawash website has released the following affidavit (PDF file) received from the Federal Terrorism Task Force. The affidavit states that Hawash traveled to China in 2001 with several co-cospirators 'in an attempt to enter Afghanistan to fight against United States forces.'"
Oh, so he is An Offical Enemy of the State, I say send him to Guantanamo and lock him up for life - due process? Pfth, who needs it.
The article reads like a big AOL PR piece in some places -- the VA governor led the signing at the AOL HQ in Dulles.
Hm, thats what I want, my Legislators delivering law directly from the BoardRoom. The same people who send you "buy this penis pump" emails will, next month, be sitting next to this Virginian Politician at a $5000-a-plate fundraiser... and the viscious cycle begins again.
I would, but OSX doesnt meet my basic qualifications - I run GNU/Linux for the Freedom.
Already a resident friend... but Im becoming fearfull that US influence is going to require me to flee to Europe (ive just gotten my dual citizenship to facilitate).
/.) but is completely telling of the goals of this effort: Empire.
I believe that the US is an absolute loose-cannon in the world, and Canada has to be carefull of our fair-weather-friends to the South. if we dont do as they intend -- what are they capable of doing in return? If they could drum up some ficticious Security of the Homeland excuse, an armed invasion is not out of the question (imagine a terrorist lights off a chemical weapon in a city - they blame leaky borders then occupy canada/mexico in order to defend the territorial borders of N.America)
Look at their attitude in the world right now, their attitude towards the French... The Invasion of Iraq is the tip of the iceberg of where the US is headed...
Hilary Rosen, a Corporate Advocate (not a International Law Expert Hilary Rosen, a Corporate Advocate ( not a Neutral International Law Expert) has been given input in the process - how much more obvious can the corruption/intent/reality of what has happened in Iraq? Before the US invaded, Iraq was a government recognized as lawfull in the Eyes of the UN (including the USA). It was formally supported by the USA themselves (as was OBL) - really, the lack of perspective required for 75% of Americans to 'support this war' (a state oft quoted but imho not at all true..) is stagering. Tell me, do 75% of Americans REALLY think that Invading and Occupying a foreign nation -- UNPROVOKED -- is a good thing to do? Ones motivation, or higher-purpose is irrelevant... this violates the tenants of all that has kept the world safe - ever. One nation, REGARDLESS of its motivation, is not allowed to invade another. Imagining yourself a liberator, or WMD inspector is just as invalid a reason as killing infidels, killing evil %minority_race%, reclaiming ancestorial lands, defending them from %ideology%. etc etc etc all the other "justifications" that any other nation has ever started a war... in the end, they are all the same - lacking.
Allowing H.Rosen to write the domestic law of Iraq is not going to get much attention (outside of the IP nuts at
Can you please site, in the UN Charter of Rights and Freedoms where it says that? Can you further site, which UN Resolution equates "returning Iraq to Iraqis" with "construction of a market for a conquering armies corporations?"
Liberation my ass. Welcome to Iraq, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Corporate America.
You do understand there is a whole other world outside the borders of the USA that is successfull Social Democracy (virtually EVERYONE else). Not everyone believes that CoOperation is unworkable. Some of us get by very well with collectivism. Further, Social Democracies (like Canada for instance..) is Socially Progressive with Freedom most would envy.
The world is NOT dominated by a ProCorporate, ProCompetition, ProSelfishness Worldview that is commonplace in America.
Please PLEASE give some credit to the rest of us... the hubris and arrogance is getting intolerable. Not everyone harbours contempt for his neighbour as a potential threat or source of suspicion.
The Right of "keeping what is yours" is NOT a basis on which to found a Community.
...Huh? Being "Evil" is rational enough to invade a foriegn nation.
/. is an American Website, Id say it is not out of ordinary at present.
Ever heard of the "Axis Of Evil"? This black-and-white simplicity is rampant in American Public Discourse, and seeing how