Indeed, why not nationalise farming. The current capitalistic approach doesn't seem to work, as farmers are massively subsidised by the state, in order that they fulfil the needs of the people. Rather than allowing the farmers to profit from state subsidies, why not cut out the middle man, and run farms for the people directly.
The UK is supposed to increase the fixed amount (the duty) every year, but in the last few years the government has "put off" the increase. Driving in the UK is cheaper (accounting for inflation) than it's been for a long while.
You're right that they haven't raised the duty in the last couple of budgets. But you appear to be wrong about that meaning inflation adjusted fuel is cheaper than it's been for a long while. On the contrary, it's quite a bit more expensive.
How did welcoming foreign investment work in all those African countries that remained poor? You know what third world countries have started to realise? That having the WTO and the World Bank "helping" your countries economy is the kiss of death. It's rich multinationals and corrupt officials that benefit, not the people.
You might want to make a convoluted case otherwise, but underwear does not normally come under the heading of "resources", let alone "national resources". Oil certainly does, as do all other fossil fuels and minerals that are extracted from the land.
Guess what? They don't want your stinking multinationals "investing" there. That's what's caused much of the problems throughout the third world. They have oil, so they can simply buy what they need and keep control themselves.
Government isn't "the mob". Every country including the USA has the concept of compulsory purchase - for example when they want to build a road, or they go to war and need munitions.
Sometimes the nation is best served by nationalising certain industries. Even America has nationalised industries - USPS, Amtrak and the TSA for example.
The bottom line is that every centrally planned economy will fail, every time.
If it is so sure that socialist government will fail, then why did the USA expend so much time, money, effort and US lives in covertly and non-covertly overthrowing socialist governments and replacing them with right-wing dictators?
The truth is they are not destined to fail at all, and that's why the US government had to leverage all their power and influence to topple them. Similar to how they are doing more recently with Islamic states.
People need to drop that guilt ASAP. Unless you are a carer, or paid to be on call for work, or similar, you don't owe it to anyone to be available at the end of a mobile phone 24/7.
You say I'm generalising from my own experience when I say that "Most people don't change their TVs that often." And then you say:
Now people don't refresh their TVs frequently
So actually you agree with my point. Then you say that they first started appearing on TVs 10 years ago. Well, only but just as Wikipedia says they were designed in 2002. It takes a while for newly designed standards to come in most TVs.
Lots of people have TVs older than 10 years. If you still can't see this, note that the world>USA, and that might help. Most people replace their TVs only when they are broken, become obsolete beyond the point that can be fixed by adding a set-top box, or perhaps when they move to a new house.
You'll have to find someone willing to rent you an MP3 player or a PC with them on.
That may not have been what you were intending. What you were intending was someone offering a service called rental which was actually copying. No, of course you can't have that, as I already pointed out.
Soda still comes in 12 oz cans but are marked in ml
There were never any 12oz cans in Germany. German underwent metrication in 1872, long before drink cans. There were and still are 330ml cans. Which presumably are 1/3 litre capacity, marked to 2 decimal places of accuracy, because the machines won't deliever accurate to a single millilitre.
The origin of the drink measurement will be 1/3 litre glasses, not American sized cans.
 Safeguard British weights and measures (the pint, the mile, etc) which have been under- mined by the EU.
Whether that means returning back to imperial on things that have changed, or just maintaining the current status quo isn't stated, and probably they haven't yet decided.
My guess would be they would withdraw any legislation that provides compulsion either way. Which plays well to the libertarian types, but isn't very practical.
Are there multiple Barrack Obamas around? Such that you need to distinguish this one with his middle name? Or is your scraping of the barrel so low you want to imply some non-existant relationship to Saddam Hussein?
Presumably you also think that Karl Marx must have been a comedian.
Or are you trying to imply that he's somehow secretly a Muslim, even though he's actually a Christian. Perhaps because you've been watching too much TV.
Hell you're probably dumb enough to be a birther.
Islam, the most vicious current major religion.
The inconvenient truth is that over the past decade, the primarily Christian USA has killed far more innocent Muslims than the other way around.
The US is officially Metric, right? You can't buy anything in a supermarket that's not marked with grams or milliliters.
Having metric marked as an alternative measurement is not being truly metric. For example, in the UK we used to get milk in pints. For a while after metrication 4 pint jugs were marked additionally as 1.89 Litres. The final step was selling them in 2 Litre containers. It's only then that they were truly selling them in metric units.
Temperatures in weather reports are given in F only
It gets worse before it gets better. For a while we had cold weather in C and hot weather in F. As in "The temperature got below zero last night. Not like when we were on holiday and 90 degrees in the shade!"
Great, it's sold. So I can lend it, rent it out, modify it, and all that?
Yes you can indeed do all of those things. What you can't do is create more copies, other than the ones permitted in the package you bought, and those that the law explicitly allows you.
Now, practically, the Scientologists appear to present an ongoing danger to society; the Mormons no longer appear harmful.
Presumably that's "Now" as is "Since Mitt Romney lost the election". Mormon beliefs might well have informed the decisions of the most powerful official in the world. Phew!
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Indeed, why not nationalise farming. The current capitalistic approach doesn't seem to work, as farmers are massively subsidised by the state, in order that they fulfil the needs of the people. Rather than allowing the farmers to profit from state subsidies, why not cut out the middle man, and run farms for the people directly.
The UK is supposed to increase the fixed amount (the duty) every year, but in the last few years the government has "put off" the increase. Driving in the UK is cheaper (accounting for inflation) than it's been for a long while.
You're right that they haven't raised the duty in the last couple of budgets. But you appear to be wrong about that meaning inflation adjusted fuel is cheaper than it's been for a long while. On the contrary, it's quite a bit more expensive.
http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/petrolprices.html
How did welcoming foreign investment work in all those African countries that remained poor? You know what third world countries have started to realise? That having the WTO and the World Bank "helping" your countries economy is the kiss of death. It's rich multinationals and corrupt officials that benefit, not the people.
You might want to make a convoluted case otherwise, but underwear does not normally come under the heading of "resources", let alone "national resources". Oil certainly does, as do all other fossil fuels and minerals that are extracted from the land.
Guess what? They don't want your stinking multinationals "investing" there. That's what's caused much of the problems throughout the third world. They have oil, so they can simply buy what they need and keep control themselves.
Government isn't "the mob". Every country including the USA has the concept of compulsory purchase - for example when they want to build a road, or they go to war and need munitions.
Sometimes the nation is best served by nationalising certain industries. Even America has nationalised industries - USPS, Amtrak and the TSA for example.
The government is very corrupt there, though, and the average person never sees a dime of the money coming out of the ground.
So, much like the USA then.
The bottom line is that every centrally planned economy will fail, every time.
If it is so sure that socialist government will fail, then why did the USA expend so much time, money, effort and US lives in covertly and non-covertly overthrowing socialist governments and replacing them with right-wing dictators?
The truth is they are not destined to fail at all, and that's why the US government had to leverage all their power and influence to topple them. Similar to how they are doing more recently with Islamic states.
Indeed. In the UK, petrol (gas) is the equivalent of $8.62 a gallon. Obviously people complain, but there's still no lack of vehicles on the road.
You're right. Any startup business plan that depends on 15% sign up is doomed.
People need to drop that guilt ASAP. Unless you are a carer, or paid to be on call for work, or similar, you don't owe it to anyone to be available at the end of a mobile phone 24/7.
No, my entire post is about civil disobedience.
You might be mistaking civil disobedience for anarchy.
You say I'm generalising from my own experience when I say that "Most people don't change their TVs that often." And then you say:
Now people don't refresh their TVs frequently
So actually you agree with my point. Then you say that they first started appearing on TVs 10 years ago. Well, only but just as Wikipedia says they were designed in 2002. It takes a while for newly designed standards to come in most TVs.
Lots of people have TVs older than 10 years. If you still can't see this, note that the world>USA, and that might help. Most people replace their TVs only when they are broken, become obsolete beyond the point that can be fixed by adding a set-top box, or perhaps when they move to a new house.
You'll have to find someone willing to rent you an MP3 player or a PC with them on.
That may not have been what you were intending. What you were intending was someone offering a service called rental which was actually copying. No, of course you can't have that, as I already pointed out.
Soda still comes in 12 oz cans but are marked in ml
There were never any 12oz cans in Germany. German underwent metrication in 1872, long before drink cans. There were and still are 330ml cans. Which presumably are 1/3 litre capacity, marked to 2 decimal places of accuracy, because the machines won't deliever accurate to a single millilitre.
The origin of the drink measurement will be 1/3 litre glasses, not American sized cans.
From their manifesto:
 Safeguard British weights and measures (the pint, the mile, etc) which have been under- mined by the EU.
Whether that means returning back to imperial on things that have changed, or just maintaining the current status quo isn't stated, and probably they haven't yet decided.
My guess would be they would withdraw any legislation that provides compulsion either way. Which plays well to the libertarian types, but isn't very practical.
Absolutely you shouldn't. I hope you can still get PCs with floppy drives.
Thank you. You expressed this much better than I did.
Are there multiple Barrack Obamas around? Such that you need to distinguish this one with his middle name? Or is your scraping of the barrel so low you want to imply some non-existant relationship to Saddam Hussein?
Presumably you also think that Karl Marx must have been a comedian.
Or are you trying to imply that he's somehow secretly a Muslim, even though he's actually a Christian. Perhaps because you've been watching too much TV.
Hell you're probably dumb enough to be a birther.
Islam, the most vicious current major religion.
The inconvenient truth is that over the past decade, the primarily Christian USA has killed far more innocent Muslims than the other way around.
What a very limited view of technology you have. Seems to be stuck in the PC era.
The US is officially Metric, right? You can't buy anything in a supermarket that's not marked with grams or milliliters.
Having metric marked as an alternative measurement is not being truly metric. For example, in the UK we used to get milk in pints. For a while after metrication 4 pint jugs were marked additionally as 1.89 Litres. The final step was selling them in 2 Litre containers. It's only then that they were truly selling them in metric units.
Temperatures in weather reports are given in F only
It gets worse before it gets better. For a while we had cold weather in C and hot weather in F. As in "The temperature got below zero last night. Not like when we were on holiday and 90 degrees in the shade!"
Great, it's sold. So I can lend it, rent it out, modify it, and all that?
Yes you can indeed do all of those things. What you can't do is create more copies, other than the ones permitted in the package you bought, and those that the law explicitly allows you.
There's no dishonesty. Just a different opinion. Is the only acceptable opinion the one you have?
Sure, but no true Scientologist would...
Now, practically, the Scientologists appear to present an ongoing danger to society; the Mormons no longer appear harmful.
Presumably that's "Now" as is "Since Mitt Romney lost the election". Mormon beliefs might well have informed the decisions of the most powerful official in the world. Phew!