Rebdragon

I say we take it to a vote. All people on warri0r's side, raise your hands. Now, all morons on Zierro's side, raise your hands. What do you know. Thirty to two, con-side wins. It looks like the other one is the guy who said the square root of negative one is irrational (kidding, kidding, I'm only laughing at the moronic and defeated 50/50 idea, not you mate. Unless you buy into it, then I am laughing at you).

Everyone who keeps saying they want to live in Japan just because they like anime/are nerds needs to grow a braincell. I don't get why ya'll want to go there. Sure, it's not a bad place to visit sometime in your life, but there's a variety of reasons why it'd be a terrible place to live. I mean, the culture is extremely hard to adapt to, the populace is surprisingly xenophobic as a whole, and hey, it's the same size as California but with thirteen times as many people. That, and none of you know any Japanese beyond "baka" and "gomenasai". As for me? I'd have to say Italy. If for nothing else but the fun of driving.

and what sort of world do you live in? An awesome one apparently. Also one that doesn't have sex-ed. I like the analogy between sex-ed and drivers-ed. If you havn't heard of it, figure it out.

This feller right here ain't never heard of a photon, mmhm.

Nice copypasta.

Oo, oo! I know! A circle begins where its parametric equation defines it to begin. Not to say that you aren't trying to make a joke, but parametric equations don't define a beginning for functions.

Just let it wash over you and take it's course. Being in denial/forcing "happiness" merely delays the inevitable, with interest.

Give it a few decades and the world will be going "EU who?". Global power is moving East, and spare maybe the UK and few other European countries, Europe is going to be left in the dust. Maybe if the average European didn't work 500 less hours a year than the average American that wouldn't happen, but that's the way it is, and that's what's going happen. Jesus Christ. A thread with the first hint of criticism towards Europe and the first post is bashing the US. When there's currently and active thread all about bashing the US. To say this is predictable would be insulting, so I will. Frikkin' predictable. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the United States GDP still beats it, if only barely.

"Strange" implies that other people don't do it. Most of the "weird" sitting positions I get in I see my roommates in all the time.

:lol: Everything else Laura covered.

The economy isn't Bush's fault, expanding social security and medicare is fiscally [developmentally delayed]ed, and expecting unemployment to not exist is utopianist, especially when it's low. Next? [seems I passed over education, but there's no need to edit it in- you're right, at least on that point.]

Well, considering the United States is the only one who ever does anything...

Irony at it's best Explain? You assumed infinite regression (edit due to possible misreading). My statement made no assumptions and was pretty much on the money. Also 'infinity' can occur in nature. Black holes have infinite density for example. Can you prove it? :lol: :lol: :lol: Man, this would be even funnier if Smapla hadn't explained the joke.

At the levels you know yes. But quantum mechanics shows us that you can't just assume that what seems to govern the laws of what we can see does not necessarily govern those of those things that we can't. It's one of those things that nice to think about but if you ain't a genius scientist who can actually get somewhere with it it's really a waste of time.

What reason do you have for believing that everything is made out of something else? How can you justify that there is not a main component, like in String Theory? There is no proving wrong, merely a burden of proof that is not fulfilled by this kind of thinking.

Okay, I have an idea. Let's all just hate Sri Lanka instead. Or Brunei. Rich bastards.

Gentlemen, I like to engage in intellegunt discussion because, honestly, I feel that when I need to make an argument and defend it I find myself learning quite a lot. That is not the case here. This may be a worthy debate for some, and there very well may be someone who's willing to debate this, but, fair warning, I'm done. As arrogant as it may sound to you I find it both tiresome and uneducational to spend my time disproving a system and defending another when quite honestly reading up on any random piece of economic history would suffice as a post as good as any I would make. I'm not going to debate that creationism is stupid, and I'm not going to debate that communism doesn't work. Again, as arrogant as it sounds, it's a monumental waste of time- the very act of debating it gives it more credence than it deserves. Well, there's yer goodbye letter. Have fun basking in the left.

The same could be said about Communism, could it not? There's a difference between "not perfect" and "downright doesn't work". Yet to... the entire capitalist world is empirical evidence. The United States became a world power thanks to capitalism (and a war or two). China is seeing record growth because of capitalism/the private sector. I thought you were the kind of person who didn't like obvious things explained to them. Apparently not :| . Yes, I understand the necessity for governments to take more control during wartime; when a nation is under attack it's basically unite or die. That still doesn't convince me that communism is a viable economic system. If it were, why would Britain lossen it's government control after the war? Utopianism has it's economic advantages: everyone's happy and countries see record growth. Except that's an economic advantage you see on paper rather than in the real world.

I wasn't thinking depressed so much as teenage phase. Something between hippy, lonely and bored.

A recession doesn't mean it doesn't work. A recession means it isn't perfect. You know, just like the humans who drive it *cough barney frank.

:| . Did something bad related to sex happen to you to a child, or did your priest bang it into your head that sex is evil and to be avoided? Our sexuality is an important part of our humanness. Slandering it like this... I can't even begin to comprehend what kind of childhood you must of had to have this sad dogma. Either way, this subject is too subjective to argue; no amount of empirical data can prove or disprove either side (considering the sheer lack of qualitativeness of this topic). I say you're greatly overestimating the problems that arise due to sex (9/10?) and blinding yourself to how great it is for people and their relationships. You say it's the root of much evil. I say that it's not, and that everything can cause both good and bad things. You say that the bad outweighs the good. This goes nowhere. All I can really say is, if you think sex is so evil, and if you are in any way and honorable and virtuous man, have fun without it :| .

Err... okay. Historically, even wages has never worked, while private investors have. Private investing is justified in that it has proven itself in the past and present, not in that it is part of capitalism. The idea of even wages has failed wherever and whenever it has been implemented thusfar. Based on the empirical data, we have no reason to believe that the idea of even wages works, while we do have reason to believe that private investing works. Thus, if the idea of even wages is ever to be trusted it must prove itself to work at some point, while private investing is already trusted and thus does not need to prove itself. It's not about what political side they're on, but whether the ideas themselves work at all on large scales. That is, emprically, I don't see the point you're making.

Life ain't short kid- it's the longest thing ya do.

First of all, your writing style is an eyesore. If you want anyone to take you seriously, change it (ex: cut it with the ellipses, stop using the same phrase three times in the same sentence and then again in the next, and try and learn to make paragraphs instead of going stream of conscience on us, etc.). As for your main points, uh... Your idea ain't new. I'm pretty sure you could pick up any communist literature and it will explain pretty much what you did: Revolution -> Communism' You don't really offer justification for why people would do jobs that pay more than the average for the average pay. That is, you don't justify Communism at all. Capitalism doesn't "turn on us", it goes through short recessions every few years because of the business cycle.

Deep breathes Gilmore Girl. Deep breathes.