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when you are arguing against "Arguing with me is like arguing with god." you really can't argue the language and not the message... If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.

CaptainSeeSharp wrote: The real regulation comes from a free market HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! "The definition of white is black! Up is down!" Free market means no regulation. No one to stop the predators from taking advantage of their power and shredding anyone weaker than they are for profit. Kind of like it is now since people haven't enforced regulations or have relaxed them. The current situation was cause by people being asleep at the helm and allowing the greedy little bastards to dictate the course. They wanted a system where they could have a no-risk to themselves investment scheme. They got it. Instead of getting rid of the central bank, simply making it so that the a-holes that did this stuff spent years breaking big rocks into little rocks as a warning with laws back in place ot stop these practices will be enough. CaptainSeeSharp wrote: free market encourages savings, investment, innovation, low prices, high wages, efficiency, and survivability. A free market does no such thing. You pay your employees the absolute minimum to maximize profits. Innovation and competition is replaced with collusion. Survivability is not important, short term profit is. You can see this in the current market, and being less regulated would only make things worse. Give a company a chance at a monopoly and they take it, run with it, and use it to ram their product down your throat. Trying to stop a monopoly is so difficult it has been pretty much deemed impossible and requires a government of 4 to step in. Do I need to bring up an obvious example or 3? If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.

It seems you can't cope with an honest politician. He was also right. Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

Mrs Limey who, poor lass, is utterly accustomed to the American suburbs couldn't understand why the narrow and winding roads in the back-and-beyond of Wiltshire had 60mph speed limits. My attempts to demonstrate did not help the situation. She now believes that the ever familiar black on white sign is in fact showing a funerary armband. 062142174041062102

I missed this one. I will respond though. thrakazog wrote: People who really feel this way will do so anyway. Which is my point, vouchers just let them do it for cheaper. thrakazog wrote: You're really hung up on rich people. You do know they are the tiniest part of the population right? Will you now tell us about the evil of capitalism? I was one of these evil capitalists. My dad owned a business raking in close to half a million a year in profits. What did he do with this money? He bought cool toys and did his best to make sure he got more money. I've been there. My parents could afford a private education. So they did. Why? Because our public school system is so bad that I never would have been challenged in it. I have a kid in pre-school and I am worried about his education right now. They keep cutting back on everything and people aren't willing to just pay more to get more. Being cheap with taxes is more important than actually getting your kid what they need to succeed. If you can afford it, you just shuffle them off to a private school and let the enrollment at the public schools decline, which means even less money. Capitalism and communism are inherently flawed as systems. A pure communist system will not check for lazy jerks mooching off the system enough to be fair. Capitalism will allow those with power to accumulate it to the point where most people get hosed. So there is your evil of capitalism speech. happy?

Christian Graus wrote: Surely if it exists It doesn't. ABC News reported 70,000, based on the Fire Department's estimate, but that turned out to be an estimate of a section of the crowd, not the entire rally. Christian Graus wrote: Well, they have enough conviction to vote, Yes, but vote for whom? They must put up their own candidates, and mobilize support. They must pose a threat to the status quo. How many existing politicians truly support the objectives of the Tea Party movement? How many will merely mouth the required platitudes and, when elected, continue in the same old way? Bob Emmett CSS: I don't intend to be a technical writing, I intend to be a software engineer.

The funny bit is that anabolic steroids have similaar structure to testosterone which is why they have performance enhancing effects. The other effect of this is the body thinkks testosterone levels are too high so reduces production and as a result the genetalia can shrink. :doh: Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

Fisticuffs wrote: and I wasn't even going to bring this up at first Right. Now that you have had time to read the DSM, you are willing to. Fisticuffs wrote: You think I or anyone is supposed to take your opinion seriously when ... you clearly don't even know or understand your own diagnosis? Yet that has been the diagnosis I have received from 3 different psychiatrists over the last 10 years. [shrug] Maybe that is part of why I think the DSM needs some work, since a number of psychiatrists don't seem to put stock in it. Fisticuffs wrote: you can't even accurately portray your own disease that you have the MOST experience with Would you rather I portray it as major depression with cyclic episodes of lesser depression, at times elevating to mania? :rolleyes: How do you diagnose it? Bipolar depression? Only bipolar? Only depression? Do you believe the symptom set can not exist? Given your previous comments on psychopathy, you know that if the APA doesn't say it's so, it must not be :rolleyes:, so I should apologize that my life does not fit into how you read the DSM. :(( Or maybe this is part of the difference between book learning and experience. Fisticuffs wrote: you have never actually witnessed How does your ongoing denial make it so? If I say you are a teenage troll looking for a fight, do you think it reduces your knowledge? You have experienced what little you have, and I give you full credit for it. If you want to continue to call me a liar, go ahead. For your future patients, I hope you understand the difference between saying your patient doesn't understand what they have seen, and saying they didn't see it, when you have no clue. Opacity, the new Transparency.

Christian Graus wrote: effort to reward ratios Hey, I said obliging girls. :) Bob Emmett CSS: I don't intend to be a technical writing, I intend to be a software engineer.

Ilíon wrote: *yawn* Still here? Bob Emmett CSS: I don't intend to be a technical writing, I intend to be a software engineer.

[tipping my hat] That is how a rebuttal should be! :laugh: You go out and get the facts, you add the links to back up info and you flame on, but with style and panache. 5+ Opacity, the new Transparency.

Oi. This shit was so widespread when we were kids... and it's not like it was a secret. I remember my parents snickering about priests when I was a kid. It's not like it's anything new, it's just that all of the sudden it's no longer acceptable to pretend it isn't happening. L u n a t i c F r i n g e

Because it's not really hypocritical in the most obvious sense. I had to think about what you were saying. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Amusing, in the context of you having no idea what socialism is. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

SO this would be black propaganda? Oh wait, you had the perfect example of it and still didn't understand it.

ragnaroknrol wrote: Nachos. :thumbsup: Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)

my first son has ASD, but with that you can see with him that he's not been just labelled, as he has all the traits of Autism (lack of communication, socialastion and imagination). With my other son they spent time debating if he was ASD / ADHD or both but after a few months of it being debated on the SENCO board here in the UK they decided that due to his hyperactiveness and agressiveness that he fitted more the ADHD bracket. but yes I agree that since the introduction of such terms here in teh UK.. many people are seeming to match the critera too.

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When I was designing large scale evacuation systems (for refineries, airports etc.) we didn't bother with the US market because there were too many cases of companies being sued by survivors who would have been doing KFC impressions. As a result so many evac systems in the US are worthless. :sigh: Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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