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  1. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Systems of governance are simplu an integral part of the society, are indeed simply of of its fecets, a reflection of sorts.

  2. Re:That's why he's suing,so people will know it's on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    Leaving those pics might have been better in many cases...

  3. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Probably even more folks don't realize how Finland has two times lower population density than the US; Sweden significantly lower, too.

  4. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Cross-border agreements of public services are normal throghout the EU, Schengen area, etc.. It's quite easy to find joint police patrols where there's one officer from each side of the border. That's just what sensible neighbouring jurisdictions do.

  5. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Finland has two times lower population density than the US. Sweden also significantly lower.

  6. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Both Finland and Sweden have significantly lower population density than the US.

  7. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    How quickly people forget... (you might also look sometimes at your findings from the point of view of perception bias, perhaps also fundamental attribution error (after all it might be also on the level of "we, the People vs. "them, the Govs"...), etc.)

  8. Re:Why not send it plunging ... on Mission Complete! WMAP In 'Graveyard Orbit' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, what would the Klingons do without deactivated shooting targets?

  9. Re:Uuhhh... clumsy PR? on Mission Complete! WMAP In 'Graveyard Orbit' · · Score: 3, Informative

    If there's some clumsy PR, it seems to be in other part of TFS. WMAP has not ,"quite literally, changed our view of the Universe" - it further refined it nicely, continuing in the footsteps (if mentioning only large space experiments) of COBE and RELIKT-1 (the latter might be one sad example of another type of clumsy PR - apparently already gave us large part of the results for which COBE is praised, but...)

  10. Re:Cosmic background radiation on Mission Complete! WMAP In 'Graveyard Orbit' · · Score: 1

    If only CMB was actually strictly about things "in the bowl" / providing data beautifully supportive of some ideas about the early state of "the bowl"... we can dream, huh?

    Oh, wait.

  11. Re:Why not send it plunging ... on Mission Complete! WMAP In 'Graveyard Orbit' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would actually require a lot of delta-v; you need less to get to other stars (time of travel being what limits us in this case)

  12. Re:That's why he's suing,so people will know it's on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    Solid Snake, is that you?

  13. Re:Israel? on Would-Be Akamai Spy Busted By Feds · · Score: 1

    ...and so the joint Canadian-Mexican-German-Portugese-Norwegian-Swedish-Venezulean plot can continue unnoticed.

    (Portugal still remembers its empire, Canada to finish what was started in 1812, Mexico about general setback in XIX century, Germany - XX century; Norway, Sweden and Venezuela for obvious reasons)

  14. Re:Israel? on Would-Be Akamai Spy Busted By Feds · · Score: 1

    Ever heard about Suez Canal? (for starters)

  15. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    That's also probably a matter of scale, actual non-manufactured need, etc.

  16. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    That's what additional tourist or skiing insurances are partly for?

  17. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    But part does go higher, to the EU budget. Also - proportionally more from the countries which are doing better, and when assigning funds - proportionally more to the countries that are doing worse (also for public infrastructure) - crazy idea, I know.

    And since national borders quite often go through some city, or even down the middle of some street, public services from both sides don't limit themselves particularly rigorously to how the border goes, when responding (heck, even mixed police patrols composed of one officer from each country)

  18. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    And some of those countries have two times smaller population density than the US.

  19. Re:you are an idiot on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Oh, you really don't know how they fit? Just dehumanize some groups, problem solved. Easy, almost natural to our minds. You were on a good track in the above post with regards to parent poster.

  20. Re:No, that's not it at all on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because obviously "down with the gov!" stalinist libertanians (that's the most apt description...) think about all kinds of them...

    Look, in case you don't realise - organized systems of governance are an integral part of any pleasant society with even moderate population density (what would you like to see done with the excess of people BTW?), they are indeed a direct reflection, one of the facets of any given society.
    You demand is basically equivalent to "name anything good in societies!" or "what did the Romans ever do to us?" (if not for few decades too late, one could think you're not retarted but just trying to be funny via hiding a reference to Monthy Python...)

  21. Re:No, that's not it at all on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    "Essentially nonexistent" meaning something quite removed from what many people typically criticise in the comfort of decently well-off societies...

  22. Re:No, that's not it at all on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you also recall how absolutelly fabulous are places with essentially nonexistant systems of governance?

  23. Re:Counterpoint on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Boiling down to population density; and you know, even in the EU there are countries with it 2x lower than the US...and having for example far better communication & cellular infrastructure. Thankfully for them, they didn't have few separate corporate interests pushing disparate solutions.

  24. Re:Last prize really Ig Nobel? on 2010 Ig Nobel Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Even if it "works" it seems to be a significantly different thing - a random promotion of one position "up" within the same organisation isn't similar at all to an outright lottery for arguably one of the most crucial (unless everything would be really handed by backstage clerks anyway) positions in a given country.

  25. Re:Nope, not kidding. on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Hm, considering how now there's basically just enough left merely for public debt management...