another example : a foreign much bigger country places your country in isolation, thereby giving the dictator a means to control the population by antagonising the big country. (CUBA)
It's hard to change your government when outside forces keep interfering. examples are : big corporations paying warlords (with weapons) in exchange for mining rights; foreign governments placing people in government and supplying them with money/weapons...
which is all a matter of pointless bitf@cking, because the same people that live in the individual states, live in the republic, and the same people that VOTE in the states, are the same people that vote in the republic...
I may be a meat eater, but any species that can run away from ghosts in a virtual maze and knows to chase them after eating power-pellets is off my menu.
Why would people be shocked about this? meat is meat. We eat cow, pig, horse(on this side of the pond that is), chicken,... and why wouldn't we eat cat or dog, or in this case neanderthal ? People would then start to object about how cats, dogs (or neaderthal) are much 'smarter' animals. Truth be said, we're not that much smarter than all those animals. And if they say we have feelings, I say : those animals have too.
Excuse me ? If the EU doesn't interfere, fishstocks would be in seriously trouble in less than 5 years. It's in the fishermen own best interest to not overfish. I don't see farmers delibratly destroying their own lands. Fishermen do.
Capitalism is not laissez faire [aka Anarcho-Capitalism]
You mean the capitalism from the books i presume, and not the o,ne practised in the real world ? Real Capitalism is IMPOSSIBLE. it needs : perfect information to all players.
There is something terribly wrong with your reasoning: Halliburton, Enron and Total have only 1 objective: their bottom line. That's not true for greenpeace : they want to inspire people to leave this world in a better state than how they got it. The peoples need and the nations need are what define them; in case of Halliburton : their only thing that define them are their shareholders pocket.
that's not the core of star trek. The federation, and what it stands for, THAT is the core of star trek. The details (like who was where when) are not that important.
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This only shows the short-term goals of people. Very few people think further than only 10 years ahead.
but they're not democrats either
BS. those 27 people are put forward by their resp. governments, so they are elected indirectly.
The solution to global warming isn't to fly more planes.
We won't be able to fly planes for more than a few decades, certainly not kerosene ones anyway.
If rail is so efficient for passengers (it presumably *is* for bulk freight) why ain't it cheap?
because kerosene is not taxed
Europe is being repopulated by Muslims.
BS. the birthrate of 'muslims' is also declining rapidly; that birthrate is completely dependent on socio-economic factors.
another example : a foreign much bigger country places your country in isolation, thereby giving the dictator a means to control the population by antagonising the big country. (CUBA)
It's hard to change your government when outside forces keep interfering. examples are : big corporations paying warlords (with weapons) in exchange for mining rights; foreign governments placing people in government and supplying them with money/weapons ...
so one government chosen by the people is somehow 'good' and another government chosen by the same people is somehow 'bad' ????
vote
for the same 2 parties that is. (and in my opinion, 2 parties is not enough to make it a democracy)
which is all a matter of pointless bitf@cking, because the same people that live in the individual states, live in the republic, and the same people that VOTE in the states, are the same people that vote in the republic ...
the right to enslave 8-year-olds in a third-world country is currently considered to be freedom.
the more i read behaviour studies, the less i see a difference between animals.
I may be a meat eater, but any species that can run away from ghosts in a virtual maze and knows to chase them after eating power-pellets is off my menu.
Why would that make a difference? Meat is meat.
Why would people be shocked about this? meat is meat. We eat cow, pig, horse(on this side of the pond that is), chicken, ... and why wouldn't we eat cat or dog, or in this case neanderthal ? People would then start to object about how cats, dogs (or neaderthal) are much 'smarter' animals. Truth be said, we're not that much smarter than all those animals. And if they say we have feelings, I say : those animals have too.
I am waiting for 64Gb and 128Gb sticks. 256Gb would be nice to.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/energy/archives/113584.asp
That's 25000 Hp. and I think it only has 48 wheels. So your calculations must be wrong.
http://books.google.be/books?id=8RlwmttM6rEC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=keynes+perfect+information&source=bl&ots=R47fKaOrpn&sig=RTw0mfVV-D0N2bZ0AR84oTAJOMw&hl=nl&ei=sPQDSo3NNcLQ-Aa8ls2GAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPA151,M1
fishermen
Excuse me ? If the EU doesn't interfere, fishstocks would be in seriously trouble in less than 5 years. It's in the fishermen own best interest to not overfish. I don't see farmers delibratly destroying their own lands. Fishermen do.
actually it just needs roughly equal bargaining power between all parties involved.
jup. the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
N-Korea, USSR, Cuba, ...
Those aren't really altruistic states. In fact, i consider them fascist states.
they demand laws to force others to do so
NO, they demand laws that force people to not harm others(which is in fact a fundamental premise of 'liberty', as opposed to 'libertarianism').
Capitalism is not laissez faire [aka Anarcho-Capitalism]
You mean the capitalism from the books i presume, and not the o,ne practised in the real world ?
Real Capitalism is IMPOSSIBLE. it needs : perfect information to all players.
yeah, indeed different definitions : greenpeace's definition is altruistic. Halliburtons' is egoistic.
There is something terribly wrong with your reasoning: Halliburton, Enron and Total have only 1 objective: their bottom line. That's not true for greenpeace : they want to inspire people to leave this world in a better state than how they got it. The peoples need and the nations need are what define them; in case of Halliburton : their only thing that define them are their shareholders pocket.
you forgot to close your tag. I'll do it for you : </sarcasm> or </cynical>. Do I hear whooshing sounds ?
the established story line
that's not the core of star trek. The federation, and what it stands for, THAT is the core of star trek. The details (like who was where when) are not that important.