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Uh what? So now all media - Western, Eastern, independent, government owned, left-wing, right-win - it's all one big conspiracy against China? I guess Google agreeing to censor all this data or be banned in China is fake too? Google is just trying to make poor old China look bad. :( China has a...

I've seen optimal countries, and I've seen countries far worse than optimal. Our values are shaped by our parents and our peers. If you disagree with that, you were neglected as a child.

Hey Brad, I think I found the best way to explain my life to you:

Doubtful mate. That was 80 years ago.

Uh oh. With Britain and Sweden's recent deep packet inspection of their entire internet infrastructure Big Brother style, I'm concerned where shit like this is leading us. Once a government sets up a blacklist like this, it's not hard to turn it in to a China-style Great Firewall to censor...

I have to wonder... surely the Chinese citizens would begin to question their government's integrity and validity due to the seemingly arbitrary nature of its censorship practices? I mean, they aren't so brainwashed as in 1984 are they? "China has always been at war with iTunes!"

Yeah, of course Brad. We're the ones in the wrong here. It's not like you're unreasonably trying to convince us that because we're atheist, morality doesn't exist or anything. :rolleyes: If you were looking for a philosophical debate on the nature of morality, you really missed the mark...

In Soviet Russia thread... VSU... exists... you. That's all I got.

Well, you never really had one. Nope, don't give a shit whether it's a relative or absolute moral system because it has no bearing on this world. Nope. That doesn't even make sense (like most of what you say). The reason I rank pain worse than bad fashion is because pain physically hurts...

I wish. BradCube actually believes the stuff he writes.

To be honest, I think student unions are important and they should be funded. But I've never said I agree with the fee model. The government or the university should be providing the small amount of funding such unions require to do their real job (NOT politics). If it is the university...

Student unions: Designed primarily to augment the academic side of tertiary education with social and sporting activities; activities encouraged by the university to produce more well-rounded graduates, paint a more enticing face of university life, and to temper the stress of academia. Student...

Um, no he's not. Student unions and labour unions have fairly minimal links. Basically the only thing they both share is a potential for corrupt bureaucrats running them. But this isn't an inherent trait of either labour or student unions and indeed is a generally possibility in all...

Certainly, I don't care about fretting over whether we call our moral system absolute or relative. So is religion and religious morality. Does that thought scare you? Does believing it is divine mandate change the reality of it? *facepalms* Wearing something out of fashion doesn't cause...

You can mock her terminology all you want, but she wasn't far off the mark: all sorts of technologies exist to obfuscate your location and encrypt your data from prying eyes. But yeah, big business and multinational corporations have a disturbing grip on politics in America.

You really think so? I hope so too, but places like China have massive censorship programmes and filters in place on the internet, but their citizens seem far too scared for revolution.

There was an interesting thread here about linux, macintosh and windows operating systems. I believe it was called 'Linux v Windows v Mack' Many of us posted interesting and informative replies to it. Why did you delete it?

In recent news: China sentences 2 old women to one year at a 're-education camp' for protesting in 'official designated Olympic protest areas' (created on suggestion of the IOC). http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/peter_foster/blog/2008/08/20/the_ioc_plays_appeaser_in_beijing China creates a bunch...

I accept that the majority don't want to pay a student fee. But the majority of people don't want to pay taxes, either. That doesn't automatically make it a good idea to eliminate taxes (certainly, it's a bad idea, as that is how workfare and healthcare safety nets are funded) I care far more...

Let me preface this with: you are either very ignorant or very arrogant. If it is the former, I apologise somewhat for my offensive tone. There is no confusion of terms. If you re-read what I said you'll understand why I used the term 'absolute' in that context. It's absolute in the sense that...