[quote]Time has long come for global Anarchy but not many understand this as yet[/quote] Nah. I don't think that should be the ultimate direction. Even as a believer in minimal government, the idea of no government at all seems quite extreme and unworkable. There needs to be some way to maintain order. IMHO going to either extreme is totally unworkable and merely asking for major troubles.
. . . so it's really true. Sigh. What will happen now to their older products?
[quote]there are open minded people, who check facts before they counter attack others[/quote] I checked my facts. That's the whole problem, in fact: You just linked to some random page with a wild claim. That's sheer idiocy, because ANYBODY CAN MAKE UP STUFF AND DUMP IT ON A WEB PAGE . I checked the page and found it lacking in credibility. It just made claims - it did not say where the claims came from, other than WHO's website, and I did not find that statis
In the interest of full disclosure of my thoughts: I firmly believe that the vast majority of starvation is coused by a "give a man a fish" attitude rather than a "teach a man to fish" attitude. Call it what you like, but the fact is that we seem to be spending a lot of money dumping food into poor countries rather than supporting agricultural education in them. When I get a full time job, I fully intend on finding organizations that teach self sufficiency and supporting them.<
[quote]Do you know how much it is one-third out of 6 billion?[/quote] Well, that's interesting, because you gave me 80%*50%, which would be 2/5 not 1/3. Went to WHO's website, and was unable to find that statistic anyways. Most of the more legitimate websites seem to peg it at closer to 1/6. Which is still a lot of people. The website you linked to doesn't link to its sources of information, so I suspect it is distorting the facts. BUT - none of the statistics you have
[quote]80% of the world population is POOR, while out of those 80% more then 50% are starving.[/quote] Please point out for me where on that page you linked to you get the statistics you just mentioned. Keep in mind there are over 6 b illion (with a b, not an m) total number of people in this world.
[quote]you will see that during the entire time capitalism gained power, the word became poorer, HALF of the ENTIRE world population is STARVING im not talking about poor as someone who cant buy a new house, im talking about STARVING!!!![/quote] I would like to see the source of this statistic. I believe it to be invented. I have sources that have this at below 18% , which is down from 1990. Most of these
[quote]The key verb in this sentance, "had"! [/quote] FYI: I dropped out of the job market long before all of this started happening. I left voluntarily so I could continue my education. I was not fired or laid off. [quote]First set of premises: I gained my position through a combination of hard work and luck, not hardwork alone.[/quote] Not a believer in luck. Big believer in being able to rise up above the circumstances. [quote]if you reject one or more, you
[quote]The fact that you can obtain all the desired goods that you dream about is just that, a dream. An illusion.[/quote] I never said I can obtain all the goods I desire. You misunderstand deeply. [quote]all under the name of FREE MARKET ECONOMY. So who benefits from this? hmmm... Oil Tycoons, Bank CEO's, Pharmaceutical Companies, Politicians, Judges... THE TOP DOGS OF OUR COUNTRY. NOT YOU.[/quote] Strange. I had a job, you know. In fact, I've ha
[quote]Who gains from this exploitation of adults, not yet working?[/quote] Hopefully the student. As you mentioned, we do eventually refund the difference. I expect to have a much higher paying job after I graduate. I benefit greatly from my education, even if it means a temporary setback. [quote]Want better teachers, pay them.[/quote] I expect I'll do so. When I have a job, I may donate a percentage of my money to private schools and colleges. . . . and my pr
[quote]take a single young man, without education, working experiance, or much of anything ales, give him a green card and drop him inthe middle of New york.[/quote] . . . and throw away the green card. We don't require people to have cards here [e digicons]:P[/e] . What would happen if somebody in the Soviet Union didn't have a card anyways? Nothing would happen to such a person in the USA, as we don't require cards. [quote]Now i give him quiet a good chance to e
Well, even though I use Firefox, I still updated IE. Keep in mind it's still used a lot by Windows and some applications (like Steam and Impulse) for various things.
[quote]China depands on USA to GROW, in case USA fail to provide them what they need, they will just grow slower[/quote] Hard to say what will happen, I don't think we have good information on the connection between China's and USA's economies. But from the sheer amount of stuff we import from them, I'd say that they could indeed shrink if we cut off from them. [quote]but if the entire world economy will collapse, china will be the last to stand.[/quote] Why? W
[quote]it's invisible free-market corporation X which pays less to the workforce to distribute profits that create abusive wealth for people who DO NOT work.[/quote] Not always. I'll get back to this situation after I have more time to write. BUT - I will say this is more a result of how individual companies are set up, not necessarily a direct result of capitalism. [quote]Wanna know why?[/quote] Yes, I do truly wanna know why you spouted some crazy scenario. I
[quote]As did the USA. Many times over, to subdue and control for THEIR own interest.[/quote] Our capitalist system ended up surviving it. Their communist/socialist system didn't. And yes, we do encourage people to work for their pay. [quote]The genome decoding wasn't done by ONE person.[/quote] It wasn't done by ancient Egyptians, either. Despite working in a group, I think a group of Americans is going to approach the problem a lot differently than a group of
[quote]ex post, one of the biggest mistakes by the government(s) was to trust in the self-healing, self-corrective powers of the market to restore balance.[/quote] This is why I believe in minimal government intervention, not zero government intervention. You are correct that a zero rule market is not self regulating. There *do* have to be some basic rules set up to ensure it becomes self regulating. Without basic rules, I do not believe believe markets are self-regul
I'm not gonna read all the discussion . . . . . . . but I will say that from what I've seen, most complaints about capitalism tend to focus on when it's abused or when a monopoly exists. It seems to work great when it's not abused and plenty of competition exists. . . . and true socialist startes are kinda rare. In European countries, it just tends to be health care, but not the entire economy. Even in China, they allow some capitalism, even though the vast majority of their e
That's odd, because yesterday they just put up a post mentioning their 17th birthday with narry a hint of them going down. Their online store is currently still up. I think I'll wait for an official announcement.
[quote]You're being a douche bag, call it what it is. [/quote] Bah, I'm not interested in this type of so-called "argument" anymore. Seems people here are more interested in bashing other people rather than pursuing lines of logic around here. I'm gone from the conversation. Bye.
[quote]OnLive is vaporware have fun with a unproven concept as the basis of your arguement.[/quote] Doesn't mean I didn't make a point.
And since tommyth3cat dosn't think I make points, here is one that I made earlier (heavily edited because apparently he tends to read between the lines rather than actually read the lines): HERE IS A POINT \/ \/ \/ \/ In OnLive, the game is 100% server side so there is nothing on your computer to copy. <s
[quote]seriously... this is how you make arguements?[/quote] I'm just copying you. Learn from the master, right?
Ctrl+F5? Wow, that actually does do a complete refresh of the page. Along with Ctrl+R or holding down Shift while pressing the reload button. Gotta love Firefox, lol :).
Are we still getting the bug where the next page doesn't appear until there are two posts on it?
[quote]I see you fail at thinking things through.[/quote] I'm just using it as an example of what's possible. I didn't say I expected them to succeed. Do you think that this will be the last attempt at such a thing? Even if they fail, the idea is out. There are other ways to do this. It is up to us to decide what path we want to take now. And how much piracy there is will help pave the way towards one path or another. Do you think that just because you
