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- Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Global Warming Concensus Broken
- Replies: 424
- Views: 147261
- Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:18 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Human Nature not a constant ?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 38897
> He told me they murder gay people, and nobody cares One could easily describe the UK there. > dont mean to come off as condescending Thats fine, doesn't strike me that way, but then I'm thick skinned and often have trouble noticing things at the best of times :-) > It was more education and cultur...
At a guess, I'd say it was a bad thing to do, reasons being it would involve more work, when they are probably very busy as it is, and bring red tape to the situation which previously didn't exist. Eg. Don't draw attention to it too much, and we might hear something. Ask for information and they wil...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:28 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Global Warming Concensus Broken
- Replies: 424
- Views: 147261
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:08 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Global Warming Concensus Broken
- Replies: 424
- Views: 147261
I try and make choices even when I don't know the best facts, based on what would be the sensible choice. Take for example an easier problem, crime. Do you: A) Say its all hyped and there isn't really a problem, after all, you've lived in your house for 20 years and you've never been burglured.. B) ...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:27 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Curious observation
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18355
I'm sorry, but didn't us Christians have The Crusades where we went and slaughted plenty of folk in other countries... Looks pretty equal to me.. Where I live, I'm surrounded by people of different faiths, they have evolved away from jhads and are more concerned with the latest mobile phone and whic...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How much for a degree?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20536
> Capitalism works like this: The hardest worker gets the million > dollar prize. The second hardest gets $100,000 all the rest get $1,000. Well now, that depends on what you mean by hardest worker... It sounds like you mean the one that does the most work, when in fact, more usually those that earn...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:35 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Human Nature not a constant ?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 38897
> place with fundamentally, radically different ethical and political > values, like, say, Iran. I'm curious to know how you know what its like in Iran ? To me, having spoken to people from all over the world, people from Iran strike me as just like the same people from around the corner, or any oth...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:23 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Curious observation
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18355
> A true Muslim cannot Which is perhaps where the issue really is, as I wouldn't vote for anyone who was a true believer of any religion. But, most Muslims are like most Christians, not 100% true to their faith, so I wouldn't worry if someone was a Muslim or not. On the whole though, I do find that ...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How much for a degree?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20536
> What will it take to bring guys like this back into the market place? Perhaps we need different business people, ones prepaired to take less profit and put up with the redtape. (I'm not a fan of redtape myself.) > subscribe to the idea that wealth, personal and national, > comes from production. L...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:53 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Manipulation
- Replies: 99
- Views: 73812
> no cheap storage I wonder how much flow batteries cost ? (I've heard of those being installed along with wind turbines.) > It's looking increasingly unlikely that Polywell is going to succeed I'd say its a bit too early say that, more from the recent advances in the last few years of that it was m...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Global Warming Concensus Broken
- Replies: 424
- Views: 147261
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How much for a degree?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20536
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:49 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: How much for a degree?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20536
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:56 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Manipulation
- Replies: 99
- Views: 73812
> They don't care. This is a representative Republic. They want votes FX [ nods sadly in agreement ] I'm reminded briefly of a time when I was in college and everyone in our class came from a different country, our tutor was doing a bit about democracy and voting, and how much better our government ...