2013-01-11, 08:24 | Link #25722 | |
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Free speech guarantees the right that we can choose to exchange our services with whoever we want so long as it is fair. Efficient you mean. If a maid can serve and cook, why bother if she pads and lies about her breast size or not? Nothing is perfect in this world. We can only strive to improve, starting from square one just unrealistic.
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2013-01-11, 09:09 | Link #25723 |
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A pointless debate, we all agree there's malnutrishment, but who cares, it's their fault if they are sick, they just had to not be in war or poverty.
Yet we are the one solding weapons, and their poverty is a direct consequence of Europe past actions. Now that we all agreed with Leibniz philosophy, everything is fine in the best world possible, let's pass on something else. |
2013-01-11, 09:25 | Link #25724 | |
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Biden seeks video game industry input on guns
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2013-01-11, 09:39 | Link #25725 | ||
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But the issue in this case is not provision of food/shelter, it's ensuring everyone has access to work. On the flipside, overly generous unemployment subsidies can sometimes be counterproductive, and I don't mean in creating "welfare queens" (I don't think most unemployed are like this), but more that if they're comfortable they might not be willing to take such radical steps as moving to another part of the country, which might be necessary to achieve employment. The system is correct, but inefficient. As someone else posted, it's more about improving the wheel, then switching to something completely different. Evolution, rather then Revolution. Quote:
In most cases, Hunger is a more of a symptom of deeper dysfunctions in a region. Today it's quite rare for out of control crop failures/natural disasters to cause famine, and even then a functional government will be able to deal with those problems (Think Japan after the Tsunami) while a dysfunctional one will just fall apart (think Haiti after it's earthquake). Fundamentally, today Hunger is more a political problem, rather then an agricultural or logistical problem. |
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2013-01-11, 09:51 | Link #25726 | |
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2013-01-11, 14:36 | Link #25727 | ||
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They should not be hired for their bust size, or their pretty face, or the way their rear end looks when they bend over at the waist, or fired for the color of her skin, her sexual orientation or gender identity.
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2013-01-11, 15:29 | Link #25728 | ||
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Unfortunately, human society is inherently unfair, while it's something we can certainly strive for, I don't see it as a realistically achievable goal. Unless we all reach enlightenment and ascend into a higher plane of existence or something |
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2013-01-11, 15:52 | Link #25729 | |
Knight Errant
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For instance, I highly doubt this planet could feed 14 billion people without further technological advance. We've got certain parts of the world running out of water, and of course oil/global warming being a factor as well. I'm not about to cry doom on these things though, I think we should be able to tackle these problems so long as we don't all do something stupid like ban all fertilizers, pesticides and high yield crops. |
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2013-01-11, 16:09 | Link #25730 | |
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More like "the system means we don't starve. Let's not replace it with one that means we will".
Imperfect as the present state is, it doesn't justify more than incremental improvements. A complete, brutal revolution would be an unconscionable risk. Emulating what's proven to kill the population would be outright evil. Quote:
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2013-01-11, 16:39 | Link #25731 | |
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Basically part of the population whining: "I don't get it, I don't do that, it must be dangerous because its not what I do (goes back to football or the latest tabloid/survivor/daytimetalkfreakshow)".
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2013-01-11, 20:00 | Link #25732 |
books-eater youkai
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Malian army beats back Islamist rebels with French help
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...90912Q20130111 Is it me or the french are kind of active in Africa , or at least more than the others european ? Pentagon weighs Mali options, including intelligence-sharing http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...90A17620130111
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2013-01-11, 20:10 | Link #25733 |
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Meh everybody protect its own interest, for United States it's petrol for France it's uranium. Having a bunch a invisible unicorn believer coming from Algeria and as a consequence hating france in power would have hurt the wallet. Not only the wallet.
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2013-01-11, 23:45 | Link #25735 |
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Only the 'Death Star" Project. The lasers are getting more advanced, as are several other things mentioned in the response.
BBC: Rheinmetall demos laser that can shoot down drones There is talk, however, of moving a small asteroid into Lunar orbit in the next ten years or so. http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-eyes-wild...133639284.html More research into the Force would be handy, bt it would probably count as a religion as it is in the United Kingdom.
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2013-01-12, 04:23 | Link #25736 | |
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2013-01-12, 05:28 | Link #25737 |
Le fou, c'est moi
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^Britain doesn't seem to share France's general policy of militarily intervening in the former colonial empire in Africa. They prefer to work through the Commonwealth, if at all. Not that I think they expect to achieve anything with that -- witness the case of Zimbabwe and how easily the likes of Mugabe ignore and even withdraw from the Commonwealth.
The French people here on this forum should be able to tell us better what's up with this particular brand of French policy. Gaullist legacy? Something for the Foreign Legion to do? Even the Socialist Hollande doesn't seem to be particularly interested in changing the status quo... |
2013-01-12, 06:01 | Link #25738 | |
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There's been a lot of dubious stuff the french have done in Africa. And if an African ruler tries to totally break ties with France, he usually doesn't last long, consider the case of Thomas Sankara. |
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2013-01-12, 22:48 | Link #25740 |
YOU EEDIOT!!!
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Location: I'm right behind you
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During the discussion about the Tohoku quake, I mentioned that it's a shame that the much more devastating Haiti quake three years ago has become somewhat forgotten in the interim.
So with that said, here's a short story in recognition of the third anniversary of that horrible disaster. |
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