One of the things that a great many people (especially socialists trying to argue against a capitalist and the empirical evidence that is micro-economics) get confused is the difference between Capitalism and Corporatism. Put simply: Capitalism is the way the universe works. Newton put it thusly: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Ran
Misleading headline (I think you could make a stronger argument that shitty private sector administration kills more Americans per capita, for example), but since it made moanopeace mad: good show! I support univeral public health care for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that Canadians really seem to like it, it's the official policy of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada, and that if we decide this is important
MasonM: Socialism and Religion are the same thing. They are both attempts to control others through a belief system. Their sole purpose is to ensure that others act according to what that person finds acceptable. When talking about socialism you have to bring in it's close cousin religion because the two exist for the same reason. Hence why I drew the parallel. That being said... I did get carried away <img src="../images/smiles/smile
Oh ya. And point of fact: Bill Gates donated more money to charities around the world last year than any one person has ever done in their entire lives, little own in a year. So if you're condemning him for being a capitalist, think again.
Yeah, It's a truly sad thing when consumers have their options reduced by a monopoly that was created by slimy and covert deals. Anyone with half a business brain knows that any market is healthier with viable competition, for consumers and producers alike. So what's wrong with Bill Gates? He'll never spend his profits in a multitude of lifetimes. What deplorable things greed and world domination are. BTW. That's complete crap sold to you by socialists. There has only been ever one
ah.. the good old days of 2000 line long autoexec files in OS/2. It was such a step forward! OS/2 died because it failed to support 32 bit windows applications (effectively) and of course anything IBM touches in the consumer market turns to dust in a hurry (PPC is a good example) Sorry, but as with Linux, I'm not into config files. I'm a hard core computer user, the whole deal, but if you ask me to edit a config file, I'm out of here. I develop all day long and I resent having to e
BUSH IS A FASCIST Fascists are Socialists. NAZI = National Socialist Party of Germany. Bush is many things, but he is not a socialist. Fascists are simply socialists that are for a tyrant running them whereas communism requires a group of rulers with a titular head. And then of course there is Europe now, which is a democratic socialist state. They all have one thing in common: The assume that their values should be forced on everyone else. Bush does the sam
You state boldly that opposition to human embryo research "condemned Christopher Reeves to years in bed unable to move and then eventually his death." Even you would have to admit that had there been NO interefence that there was no way we could have utilized this research in time to save Christopher Reeve. Actually no I wouldn't because they've already injected spinal cords with stem cells and had varying degrees of increased motor control a
If you embrace life, you must reject embryonic stem cell research as it destroys life. Who decides if your life is more impornat than John Doe's? You? Someone died and made you GOD? I addressed this in my article. Read it again. Possibity, versus real live people.
OK, you threw me a curveball here. Please help me understand this, as my understanding is that part of the issue here is FEDERAL FUNDING. As a conservative Christian who is also a Libertarian, I personally support stem cell research, even when the source is an aborted fetus. While I abhor abortion, I do support a woman's right to choose, and would rather that any potential scientific gains NOT be wasted. But I do not support ANY of th
So last week the supreme court of Canada ruled that a Quebec law preventing insurance companies from insuring Quebec residences against things that were already covered by Canadian Medicare was unconstitutional under Section 2 of our Constitution. In their ruling they were very careful in what they said but the newspapers and TV News all got the message and have (righ
In a move that stuns me and makes me actually believe just a little in politicians the government of the United States actually overruled Bushes idiotic stem cell research law. Amazing. Fantastic. Wonderful. In other news: Bush vows to veto bill. *sigh* So much for that little belief in politicians to actually do something useful.
Gotta love stories like this: http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/05/11/SlaveLabour_050511.html?ref=rss An international convention 75 years ago defined forced labour as all involuntary work extracted from a person under threat of punishment or penalty. Let's see. By the definition given 75 years ago, North American taxation policies def
More specifically... 0 and 1
I didn't know what to expect when I went to see this today with my mother. I mean, it's a movie about the crusades. I figured it was going to be something to do with Christianity and the holiness of the whole thing. Man, was I wrong. At the very beginning we get an inkling of what this is about. On one of the beams of the blacksmith's forge in Latin is a ph
Um, he's not driving a foreign car. It's a FORD with FORD quality. And you can figure out if I mean that is as a complement or an insult.... The more interesting part is the K40. Man I want their radar detector and the lidar jammer... but in Canada... hrm. Brad where did you see that the K40 lidar jammer was illegal in canada?
oops. Double post.
um... Why would you be proud or otherwise of your skin color? What possible value does it have to you as a person? Does it make you more intelligent? Does it make you more able to do something (forgetting racism from the equation) other that maybe be more able to deal with desert sun without burning? Does your skin color make you personally a faster runner, or make you personally more or less able to jump? The answer of course is no. The pro
What do I mean by this statement? Well I’ve touched on this before. But consider the concept of video. There are basically two ways to produce video that we can watch. The first uses successive frames of a complete image drawn (or otherwise) frame by frame. Run them fast enough and the human brain can’t deal with it and it sees it as fluid motion. The second way
Dr. Guy. You're so right. And of course COL Gene doesn't get it. You have the need for high taxes because of socialism. Because people say "You have lots, I want my fair share of what you've earned." Your fair share of what someone else has earned is NOTHING. Your fair share of what you earn, is all of it. You can then choose to spend that money however you see fit. It's socialists that believe that the government has the right to take from one group of people and give it to another based o
Privacy= Noun Noun = Person, Place, or Thing Privacy ≠ Person Privacy ≠ Place ….sooooo that means Privacy must be a THING! (Privacy = Thing) It is a thing that doesn't exist because a noun can also be a concept. And concepts can by definition be impossible in reality. That's the downfall of man and the highest ability of man, to conceive of things that are not possible and then
1) The freedom of [insert name of multinational sports shoe manufacturer here] to pay peanuts to third world workers. That is their right. It's also the right of those 3rd world workers to not work for that company. But before you go and judge the shoe company, make sure you realize that if those 3rd world workers didn't have a job there their lives would be even worse off. This is the key to freedom. I can offer to pay you 5 cents a day. Th
#12 would be: If you're software locks me into your platform and prevents me from using content generated in your software in any other software. Then you've definately created CRAPWARE. Why? Because if you're that insecure then you don't have a chance in hell of creating great software that just does what it is supposed to because you're always worried about the other guy. (Apple are you listening?)
If Peace Be Your Purpose then the inevitable outcome is death. If freedom, absolute, non-contradictory freedom, be your purpose the inevitable outcome is peace. If you care, think on these statements and tell me why they are right.
Deference: I was going to make an entire point by point argument against your post that again says nothing. Demonstrate with direct quotes from your original post and how the two relate logically baring in mind that one is a freedom that must be granted to all or all will be oppressed and the other is a vacuous concept that is a convenient lie and always has been (for which I have already given evidence in my original post). Privacy never existed, it
JoeUser Forums