How do you rank the extend of evilness? Was Hitler more evil because the jew-extermination was part of an ideology? I mean plenty of ethnic minorities were persecuted in the Soviet simply because they were perceived to be a threat?
Based on numbers of people killed under the different dictatorships in the world, Nazi Germany ranks no more than 3rd after Mao's China and Stalin's Soviet.
In my opinion it makes very little sense to rank human cruelty.
The USA produces food at nowhere near the level it can, and we have enormous amounts of land for overpopulation to spill into.
Europe produces nowhere near the amount of food we can and the whole EU is founded on the concept of regulating the output and princing of agricultural products.
You keep claiming that if EU stays a trade union all is fine, but you kinda miss the point. EU was never a trade union. EU was founded in order to regulate the market and ensuring basic supplies and stability to the member states.
The Free Trade Zone came a lot later and EU has progressed since then to be political union as well. The trade union stage is long passed.
(And btw. you don't need to pity people living in cities. We are many who prefer the life of the cities to the lack of same in the rural areas).
If you conceive of the arguments with respect to guns, try them with respect to cold medicines instead. There are always moron teenagers using them to get high, and some people want them to be controlled more tightly because of that. Should you or I have to suffer worse cold symptoms because some dumbass wants to drink an entire bottle of Robitussin?
Use of drugs are heavliy regulated around here. I don't know the product you name but if you can get high of it you probably need a doctors prescription in order to buy it from one of the govnerment certified pharmacies around here. In general you can't by medecine with out a very good cause in Denmark. It seems fair to me.
Also, you don't have wolves or big cats in Denmark?
No we don't. I would guess that very few americans live in places where wildlife is a danger. It is no reason to allow people firears as a general rule. But it is not my country so it is not for me to decide.
The "internal differences" don't go away.
No they don't but they are obviously in the way of our ability to handle our much bigger differences with the rest of the world. What I meant was that europe needs to focus on the big issues and not let some stupid debate about subsidised agriculture get in the way.
Hah. The USA doesn't answer to the UN and certainly not to the EU.
Well USA should answer to the UN like everybody else. That is the point of the UN.
But no, you don't answer to the EU even though it seems like a lot of americans think it is fair that the EU answers to the US. I think we europeans need to lay our differences aside in order not to be swept away by US policies. You can like it or not; short of nuking europe you can't do anything about it in the long run.
It's capitalism that drives the market. If you switch to the market being driven by some EU council then that's Socialism, and if you all aren't careful, that's where you're going to end up.
Not unregulated capitalism. Even US laws recongnise this with some of the thoughest anti-monopoly laws in the world. To bad they seem to be suspended for the time being.
A lot of people seems to think that public regulation and a large government is a threat to private enterprise. It is not, it is just a different set of rules for companies to operate under and all rules (including those of the US market) are artificial and created by man anyway.
Since I can see no purpose for owning a gun that I would want to be legal I simply cannot follow the pro-gun-ownership movement in the USA. We have to agree to disagree on this one.
I once was a very reluctant support of the EU (as most danes I suppose). The recent Bush administration and the EUs failure to contain the policies of the USA has made me change my mind. EU needs to become a true nation and we have to resolve our internal differencies in order present an alternative to the USA.
Englands traditional unquestioned support of USA and the neo-liberalistic leanings of some of the new member states seems to be the biggest obstacles.
While I would never use the word socialist about any european government I do feel comforted by the fact that all-out capitalism is not as common in the european nations as in the USA.
You're not a E.U. citizen, are you? If you were, you would have seen that there's been a move towards electing right-wing parties into power over the past year(s).
Sure? It seems to fluctuate from where I look:
Spain has just elected a leftish govnerment.
France has a right-wing government, but this looks like it could change at the next election.
Blair's New Labour may be more to the left than his opposition, but if he looses the next election it is because of his support of the american war in iraq and not because of left/right-wing issues.
Germany; that is a tricky one. Schröder is in trouble and might loose to the right winged CDU.
Italy; Berlusconi (sp?) this I simply do not understand. That man is a disgrace. It seems to me that Italy has a problem with its version of democracy and the left vs. right issue is renderered irrelevant because of it.
The new countries: I'm so uninformed about those. I need to understand them better but I would guess that they are a mix of different oppions as well.
Then there are all the small countries, my own Denmark among them. Some are right-winged, some ar e not. I don't think you can claim there is a general trend against the right. Local ciecumstances play a large role in any country's election.
Ehhh, we latin-1 impaired people are the ones who got the numbers wrong. I mean; we adobted numbers from the arabs but didn't bother to reverse the orientation so that it would fit into out left-to-right writing orders.
Surely it must feel natural for some to enter five hundrede thirthy one as 1 3 5?
As a dane I can safely say that this is all talk and no they want push ahead with anything. Denmark is one of the most Microsoft-centric countries in Europe. What a shame.
True there is a version called DP-500 with an ethernet port? But the manufactures site doesnt claim that the device can play files located on a remote server. If it could, wouldn't they state so?
And the say it comes with PC-software? Whatfor? So that you can remote control the KiSS player from the PC I presume, but I'd bet it is windows-software and even if it wasn't then I still dont get the point.
I might call them up and ask.
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How do you rank the extend of evilness? Was Hitler more evil because the jew-extermination was part of an ideology? I mean plenty of ethnic minorities were persecuted in the Soviet simply because they were perceived to be a threat?
Based on numbers of people killed under the different dictatorships in the world, Nazi Germany ranks no more than 3rd after Mao's China and Stalin's Soviet.
In my opinion it makes very little sense to rank human cruelty.
ASCII; you are such a racist! I see the world in UTF.
Europe produces nowhere near the amount of food we can and the whole EU is founded on the concept of regulating the output and princing of agricultural products.
You keep claiming that if EU stays a trade union all is fine, but you kinda miss the point. EU was never a trade union. EU was founded in order to regulate the market and ensuring basic supplies and stability to the member states.
The Free Trade Zone came a lot later and EU has progressed since then to be political union as well. The trade union stage is long passed.
(And btw. you don't need to pity people living in cities. We are many who prefer the life of the cities to the lack of same in the rural areas).
If you conceive of the arguments with respect to guns, try them with respect to cold medicines instead. There are always moron teenagers using them to get high, and some people want them to be controlled more tightly because of that. Should you or I have to suffer worse cold symptoms because some dumbass wants to drink an entire bottle of Robitussin?
Use of drugs are heavliy regulated around here. I don't know the product you name but if you can get high of it you probably need a doctors prescription in order to buy it from one of the govnerment certified pharmacies around here. In general you can't by medecine with out a very good cause in Denmark. It seems fair to me.
Also, you don't have wolves or big cats in Denmark?
No we don't. I would guess that very few americans live in places where wildlife is a danger. It is no reason to allow people firears as a general rule. But it is not my country so it is not for me to decide.
The "internal differences" don't go away.
No they don't but they are obviously in the way of our ability to handle our much bigger differences with the rest of the world. What I meant was that europe needs to focus on the big issues and not let some stupid debate about subsidised agriculture get in the way.
Hah. The USA doesn't answer to the UN and certainly not to the EU.
Well USA should answer to the UN like everybody else. That is the point of the UN.
But no, you don't answer to the EU even though it seems like a lot of americans think it is fair that the EU answers to the US. I think we europeans need to lay our differences aside in order not to be swept away by US policies. You can like it or not; short of nuking europe you can't do anything about it in the long run.
It's capitalism that drives the market. If you switch to the market being driven by some EU council then that's Socialism, and if you all aren't careful, that's where you're going to end up.
Not unregulated capitalism. Even US laws recongnise this with some of the thoughest anti-monopoly laws in the world. To bad they seem to be suspended for the time being.
A lot of people seems to think that public regulation and a large government is a threat to private enterprise. It is not, it is just a different set of rules for companies to operate under and all rules (including those of the US market) are artificial and created by man anyway.
Since I can see no purpose for owning a gun that I would want to be legal I simply cannot follow the pro-gun-ownership movement in the USA. We have to agree to disagree on this one. I once was a very reluctant support of the EU (as most danes I suppose). The recent Bush administration and the EUs failure to contain the policies of the USA has made me change my mind. EU needs to become a true nation and we have to resolve our internal differencies in order present an alternative to the USA. Englands traditional unquestioned support of USA and the neo-liberalistic leanings of some of the new member states seems to be the biggest obstacles. While I would never use the word socialist about any european government I do feel comforted by the fact that all-out capitalism is not as common in the european nations as in the USA.
- Spain has just elected a leftish govnerment.
- France has a right-wing government, but this looks like it could change at the next election.
- Blair's New Labour may be more to the left than his opposition, but if he looses the next election it is because of his support of the american war in iraq and not because of left/right-wing issues.
- Germany; that is a tricky one. Schröder is in trouble and might loose to the right winged CDU.
- Italy; Berlusconi (sp?) this I simply do not understand. That man is a disgrace. It seems to me that Italy has a problem with its version of democracy and the left vs. right issue is renderered irrelevant because of it.
- The new countries: I'm so uninformed about those. I need to understand them better but I would guess that they are a mix of different oppions as well.
Then there are all the small countries, my own Denmark among them. Some are right-winged, some ar e not. I don't think you can claim there is a general trend against the right. Local ciecumstances play a large role in any country's election.My first thought exactly. Replacing ordinary bikes with those ugly ones isn't exactly a green move.
OMG, that was the funniest comment I've seen in a long, long time.
We usually define ridiculous with an "i"?
Ehhh, we latin-1 impaired people are the ones who got the numbers wrong. I mean; we adobted numbers from the arabs but didn't bother to reverse the orientation so that it would fit into out left-to-right writing orders.
Surely it must feel natural for some to enter five hundrede thirthy one as 1 3 5?
As a dane I can safely say that this is all talk and no they want push ahead with anything. Denmark is one of the most Microsoft-centric countries in Europe. What a shame.
True there is a version called DP-500 with an ethernet port? But the manufactures site doesnt claim that the device can play files located on a remote server. If it could, wouldn't they state so? And the say it comes with PC-software? Whatfor? So that you can remote control the KiSS player from the PC I presume, but I'd bet it is windows-software and even if it wasn't then I still dont get the point. I might call them up and ask.
Nah, that is for domestic use only. The Netherlands only export their tulips because they can't get high of them :-).