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I'd just move to the Isle of Man.

The people in that building were stealing from him, and threatening his fellow citizens.

I support him. I know I'll take a lot of flack for this, but if you read his suicide note and share my passion for the non-aggression principle, then you can see he was only attempting to defend himself and others from government thieves. Unfortunately the media will spin this to make him look like a man with a history of violence and irrationality. They'll rally around our government, the monopoly security corporation that steals from the poor and gives to the rich. That kills hundreds of thousands, cages millions. That's fine. But as far as I'm concerned, this man is a hero. I would have pursued other avenues before suicide and self-defense, obviously... like simply leaving the country, or figuring out a way to educate as many people on these issues as possible. But he chose to die in the cause of liberty, and for that he should be praised by any decent man who can see the distinction between tax-eaters and tax-livestock.

I just think it's hilarious how the media have been on this constant drum beat about a "recovery" that doesn't even exist.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-jobless-claims-producer-rb-1321801194.html?x=0&.v=3 http://www.cnbc.com/id/35457298 With recoveries like these, who needs depressions?

Wasn't there a British politician who died from autoerotic asphyxiation?

Some feminists actually believe this. No joke.

I imagine they mean in the context of role-playing. Not actual rape... Unless they were fatties. In which case they'll take what they can get! /chauvinist humor

Something that really bothers me about the public discussion of rape is how it is somehow confused with natural male sexual urges. ATTENTION HUMANS (and especially women): Rapists have a mental condition where they get off on your helplessness and their ability to overwhelm you. This is NOT simply a testosterone-driven magnification of natural male attraction to females. It is a real mental illness. When I was in college they made all the boys attend this idiotic lecture about how to detect when a girl means "no". Like it actually matters - if a girl says you raped her, that's all the evidence they need to destroy your life.

1. Government money out of science. 2. Peer review. (Governments have a shared incentive to lie - corporations, because they are competing with each other, do not.) 3. Reproducible results.

I would follow you wherever you go, just to be with you. I wish you felt the same way about me.

There's already a ban on expression of affection or love - it's called peer pressure!

lol good point, well I think it brings two families together, which is also a good thing. It builds a society's bonds in that way.

Well marriage isn't for everyone, certainly. If you have a society that encourages it with financial rewards (America) then you end up getting a lot of divorces down the road. But I don't think it's anachronistic to want to spend your life with with a person you love selflessly.

Nonsense. Basically he's saying there should be financial incentives for people to get married. But that doesn't fix the root of the problem - the culture is dying in Britain, and people can no longer build the character necessary to commit.

The irony is that the process of "securing" the middle east is actually costing us far more money than if we had simply purchased the oil from the terrorists and dictators.

Well there are scientists and researchers who are working around the clock to create alternatives to oil. When you're talking about energy, the key thing is "energy density". The reason oil is so popular is that you get a ton of energy inside very little space - gasoline is explosive. The same can't be said for something like solar, or wind, where you need a lot of equipment and land, working around the clock to collect a bit of energy. The density is lower, and therefore the profit margins are lower. So what will happen at "peak oil" is this: gradually reserves will build as we run dry. The price of oil will slowly start to tick up, then more quickly, and finally it will shoot up. The poor and middle classes will be forced to use more public transportation. The price of real-estate in and around cities will skyrocket as it becomes untenable to live in distant rural areas. Investors will naturally begin to shift their capital to the alternatives - businesses that specialize in solar and nuclear energy, battery manufacturers, electric car companies, etc. The stocks will take off, and anyone who's trying to start a company in these fields will be able to find investors without any government assistance. The transition will likely occur over a period of time, not all at once. This isn't a doomsday scenario, it's just economics. When the car was invented, horse breeders and buggy manufacturers didn't freak out and society didn't collapse. There was a transition, built around price-signals.

I don't see how it's a problem. Both parties are getting what they want: the girl gets the money, the guy gets the sex. Perhaps the pressure should be on universities to reduce their fees? Let's think outside of the box, for a change. :P

Chuck, ignore Nathan's hostility. He's not feeling very good now, I think he's sick.

Heh yeah, this is the strange situation we're in. Even if you believe in the magic of Keynes, the numbers still don't add up. I get the feeling that Bernanke probably didn't even want to be reconfirmed, but he had to in order to keep the markets from getting jittery. You can't inflate one sector of the economy (housing prices) while keeping other sectors from also inflating - it's impossible because the economy is an ecosystem. Like with Gaia and sh!t. Fern Gully, Avatar, etc.

I don't think it's possible to predict when oil supplies will be exhausted or even if we're close yet. Allow traders to decide - they will shift prices smoothly to account for shortages or surpluses.

Mark, I think you'd like Pat Condell (I think that's how you spell his name). Look him up on youtube.

The oldest profession. As long as the Gubmint gets a cut, it's fine. :rolleyes:

This thread reminds me of that time I killed 6 million people.

To protect and serve! :rolleyes: