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by w00pla 16y ago
The first thing would be to refuse child grants so to prevent adults from getting children, in order to get welfare. Awarding people for getting children is wrong and stupid. The second thing is to force mothers to reveal the father of thei
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by w00pla 16y ago
> If the point is to make the men work, then pay them a fair wage. I agree they should be paid a fair wage. They should be given a bill for their housing and their debt to society and their victims which they can pay off with their wage
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Sure, but in another 50 years many of their children will have just as much land through none of their own doing. Can't people give their wealth to whomever they want (while they are alive or dead)? In a system such as yours (where th
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Oh no, there's no crime in Japan. Violent crime in Japan is ridiculously low. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza You know that a large percentage of the Yakuza are Korean? In any case, every country has organized crime - yet
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Starting with the land, water, and air of this Earth, there are many resources that no one created, and no one has the right to give you. If we divide all the land in the world equally, within 20 years some people will have more and s
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by w00pla 16y ago
Maybe. But here is the thing – do you think it is fair for someone else to subsidize your children (at the cost to themselves)? It is usually the duty of parents to raise their children (and pay for their education). The left however feels
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by w00pla 16y ago
> But that's not all; prison labor is now used as cheap labor to compete with foreign countries, instituting a new age of under-the-radar slavery. This is BS IMHO. Would you rather see prisoners set free or do nothing all day? Do you re
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Why are European countries and Japan so different, though? For a Japanese person, the conviction of a crime (and the shame it brings) is much worse than the jail sentence. If you are convicted of a crime, your family usually break
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by w00pla 16y ago
> They do nothing towards a fair distribution of wealth. What is the "fair distribution of wealth"? I personally believe that you are only entitled to the wealth you yourself created (or which someone voluntary gave you). Isn't that a f
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by w00pla 16y ago
> I will assume below that you are European. Neither. > The arms industry in Europe can be as corrupt as it wants - it still doesn't consume the incredible proportion of GDP ours does, and it still doesn't own your government outrig
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by w00pla 16y ago
> And I know Europe has its own problems, but they're actually doing some stuff here that makes the place a better place to live, Unfortunately Europe has its own problems. The arms industry in Europe is even more corrupt than in the U
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by w00pla 16y ago
Really? There are always complaints about women in technology. Yet when I spent my Saturday nights in an underground lab, there weren’t a lot of women in the lab. The bar and social spots on the humanities side were full of them though. Is
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by w00pla 16y ago
Incompetence does not always explain fuckups of that magnitude. Throw in equal amounts of conflicts of interest and corruption.
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by w00pla 16y ago
That is one thing I don't understand about this whole fiasco. He advocates spending and stimulus to get out of the this. He says "And both the United States and Europe are well on their way toward Japan-style deflationary traps". But didn't
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by w00pla 16y ago
Maybe, but you would be surprised how many conservative black people there are. One of the biggest is Thomas Sowell (I used to read his stuff without knowing that he was black).
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by w00pla 16y ago
<off topic> Well, then again, Chinese girls are (IMHO) a lot more pretty than Western girls. You also know Chinese characters (which is a massive accomplishment in my book). The current stereotype is also that Asian people are good
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by w00pla 16y ago
Just because he set up a scholarship in his name doesn't make the things he did any better. One of the aims of the Rhodes scholarship is Anglicization. A person who did not study in English cannot apply (even though he is fluent). Until rec
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by w00pla 16y ago
Yeah. The article should maybe deal in depth with the start of De Beers. De Beers was basically formed by an English colonialist (Cecil John Rhodes). He controlled a company which basically owned a country ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bri
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by w00pla 16y ago
It is not only that. Smoking cuts across cultural lines - you can smoke with someone who have great difficulty to speak English (which would otherwise be a stupid situation). You can also have a conversation with very poor (manual labourers
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by w00pla 16y ago
> the price driver is not so much the cost to produce as it is the rate of production. Yes, it will require a rapid expansion of CTL plants and demand will drop. It would probably mirror the expansion of South African CTL plants after n
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Market demand for oil collapses (read: recession) long before it gets anywhere close to $500/bbl. Above $80 a barrel, alternative fuels (such as liquid fuels from coal) becomes profitable. I sincerely expect that this will expand extr
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by w00pla 16y ago
> when dealing with social issues and impeding on natural rights. Maybe. I am a firm believer that your rights stop only where my rights start. I would not be against drug use by other individuals (even if I personally think it is a stu
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by w00pla 17y ago
Why are New Atheists so obsessed with other people's personal beliefs? I have explained to you the problem of zealotry and the imposition of your beliefs on others (which is clearly wrong in most moral frameworks). Yet New Atheists do not s
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by w00pla 17y ago
This crap is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with Linux. Another non-serious example. I used a dual-boot Linux&Vista laptop. Innocently tried to update Ubuntu. This changed the boot loader to Ubuntu only (removed the Windows
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by w00pla 17y ago
How many people have been killed because of the campaign of atheism and "scientific materialism" as happened in many countries (e.g. Albania, USSR, etc...). You do not understand the problem. The problem is not beliefs or ideology, but zeal
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by w00pla 17y ago
The thing I hate most in the world is pseudo-intellectual atheists that just know that they are right. Many religions teach you that the goal is not to be a douche. Most college pseudo-intellectual atheists/internet atheists are douches.
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by w00pla 17y ago
> Those things—the working, drinking, and meat eating— Meat is expensive in Japan. I buy a 400 gram steak and a Coke&brandy for $4.63 total.
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by w00pla 17y ago
> - Kino's Journey < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino%27s_Journey > The anime version of Kino's Journey is probably my favourite anime.
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by w00pla 17y ago
> My citation says that there are 6 in asian and 2 in Africa. How is this false? You use an extremely broad “definition” of Asia (i.e. instead of the Africa, Middle-East, Asia) you group everything that is remotely in Asia as Asia. If w
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by w00pla 17y ago
> For people like you who want to believe that Africa is in a war, I happen to live in Africa. You ignored all of the examples I gave you. Zimbabwe has probably one of the largest displaced populations in the word – yet you do not view

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