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Re: Strong and effective climate change policy, that doesn't involve a great, big new Maybe international cooperation is the best possible solution. Maybe. But we also have to ask if it is a realistic solution. Can we really expect China and India, where hundreds of millions still live in...

Re: Questions about euthanasia... How does one judge which state of mind, or "person that emerges" is the "true" person? This sort of logic could be extended to almost any situation to suggest that any decision a person makes is not their "true" intention, and that therefore someone else...

Such biased emotional rants in this thread (from both sides of the debate). I've been at UWS for 3 years and I've heard it all, the truth is simply this: -UWS is not as prestigious as the G8 unis and even uMaq and UTS. This is a real disadvantage. -However, prestige is only one of many factors...

It should be the same power as citizens arrest which is still legally recognised. Sure police should be able to detain people, but so should anyone who has witnessed a serious crime. In both cases, people who arrest people falsely (police or otherwise) should be charged with the same serious...

No it is not. Anyone can fight fires. What makes someone a fire fighter is that they are paid to do it on behalf of other people. Similarly, anyone can teach children (with their parent's permission), but teacher are paid to specialize in this and do this for parents who are busy working in...

Now your talking. Yes we should review all executive power, because all executives are just fallible people, and giving people power over others is extremely dangerous. I did not classify all police officers as unintelligent. But based on the entry requirements for a policing course, the...

So you're about to head out with the hope of returning home later with an attractive girl; maybe its a first date, maybe you're just hoping to randomly pick up, maybe its a casual thing but there's potential for it to become more. Do you find its best if you have a good hard fap before you...

Stephen Smith is quite handsome. He has a real confident, masculine look, unlike Howard who always seemed like an awkward geek. In short; Smith fucks bitches. Howard fucked the country.

Okay, most 11 year olds aren't. Though I don't think a law with a blanket cut off age is the best way to deal with the problem. My point is that if an 11 year old is not old enough to have sex, they are not old enough to have sex with anyone, whether the other person is 12 or 50.

I agree with Freedom, a lot of people simply don't like the idea of people having sex with someone much older than them, but this doesn't really make any sense, its just an aesthetic or moralistic preference. What exactly do you mean by "asymmetric information, deception and/or manipulation?"...

Never going to take over. People are switching to hard drives and media centers so they can easily play pirated media and can browse their entire library without the hassle of changing disks or having to store piles of these disks. These over priced disks are a very unattractive option to...

Agreed. The place has no character. It's just gone for bigger, gaudier and more outrageous.

Clubs: A highly regulated, well lit environment with extensive security. Alternatives: Parks, on the streets, beaches and various public places where teenagers are totally at the mercy of whatever strangers frequent these areas, where there is no regulation or security, and where drinkers cause...

"Give up" means to voluntarily give up. Franklin is warning people to avoid being fooled by promises of security into choosing to vote for governments that take away their liberties. As libertarians we do not support this. We did not give up our rights. We had them stripped from us, or never...

Well you can define anything any way you want, which was very much my point. I was questioning whether exploitative monopolies able to extract large economic rents from consumers are likely to actually exist in the absence of government. There are plenty of alternatives available to the copper...

Agreed. They are absolute cunts. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-morally-bankrupt-dictatorship-built-by-slave-labour-1828754.html I hope the whole Emirate goes bankrupt.

We don't need a "free market utopia" to exist to observe that subsidies drive up prices.

It's a basic fact, you subsidize something, you drive up the price.

This used to be me. Then I realised that government interference is what drives up the cost of education and healthcare by a huge factor, and that even poor people would be able to afford decent healthcare (as in at least as good as they get now) without government intervention. Look how bad...

Maybe and No. The whole idea of monopoly, natural or otherwise, is a bit of a joke. Whether a monopoly exists depends entirely on how broadly or narrowly you define an industry. Your local convenience store may have a monopoly on the supply of food in your neighborhood, but you would hardly...