I'm of the generation that is sceptical to everything that you put about yourself publicly for everyone to see and for the companies to use as data. I...
Comes to mind the Channel Islands too. Just like corruption isn't corruption when it has been made legal and is called campaign financing... and the m...
Who wins, gets to be on the right side. Sorry, but that's how history goes. Think about it: what if the American revolution had squashed right before ...
What really surprises me is that one lawfirm had all the data. It's a small world. Well, at least the Icelandic prime minister had to go. The financia...
A few comments about the actual OP. What is systematically forgotten in the discourse of technological advancement, is demand, the other side of the c...
They, heroes, give us an example of what a single person can do with his and her life, how they can effect lives of others in a positive way. That's w...
Read Jegor Gaidar's "Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia". Bought it today and finished it today. Very good read. Clear story on how actu...
Well, I assumed heroism had something to do with an act of altruism from the part who is a hero. A hero saves somebody else, like the prince the princ...
In my view metaphysics is still part of philosophy, whereas religion is itself. Questions "beyond physics" still should be thought of in a logical rat...
Now that is true Norwegian heritage. Oh yes, and the traditional Christmas cuisine: absolutely nothing fresh. Turkeys? Non-existent here, Pork only (t...
(The Saarinen brother's are very famous here. Although I find their modernism a bit boring and some buildings here actually quite ugly.) If the Finnis...
That "fitting in" does happen because it's a country made of immigrants. Hence there is a natural acceptance of immigrants turning into citizens. It's...
What's that culture they retain? I think many Americans with for example Finnish roots do uphold Finnish traditions far more than Finns and are proud ...
Sure is, and actually the culture is amazingly similar in Latin America as in the US and Canada. But many people in the US make it to be a huge differ...
I do love your leftist, or should I say in the American terms, "liberal", view of the "correct" America, Bitter Crank. I would feel it very far fetche...
Well over 90% of any commodities like oil are just "paper" transactions, no physical commodity changes hands, the casino play. And why would the rich ...
There's a huge number of shorts on oil, so basically it's "the casino" that is responsible for the huge drop. Shale oil production isn't economic at a...
In my view the article is more about the modern university than just philosophy. I think a similar tone article could be written about.... let's say h...
It's neither the argument of a deflationary collapse either. China isn't as irrelevant as you may think. China has an effect on the global market toda...
Blissfully unaware? Landru, old man, you seem to totally forget our discussion years ago. But oh wait, you came to the site in 2010, not when were dis...
It's obvious that economics isn't your strong point, the more condescending, the more ignorant. Don't know which is more annoying, your arrogance or y...
Companies get money through their IPOs. Yet the value of the stock isn't unimportant. Yeah, those with stock options or investors are one thing, yet t...
Typical. Start with your incredible and condescending strawman arguments of what you assume people to think. This is the biggest piece baloney for a l...
Actually here (in Lapland) the biggest land ownership problem has been with the government and the Sami people, Europe's only indigenous people. There...
I don't think Bundy-militia has much support as you intend to portray. It's a small cabal of people that actually aren't so much in touch with reality...
That's what I think is the biggest problem in our time: 20th Century collective ideologies (with examples from the left and right) were so bloody and ...
Why be sorry? A lot of people will agree with you, that idealism is a threat to democracy and ALWAYS leads to totalitarianism. They just have a differ...
Landru logic again as you seem not to understand how it goes. Stock market crashes accelerate the recession and are the catalyst. As I said earlier, n...
One thing that I think hasn't come up in the discussion is connection to the Sagebrush rebellion of the 70's and 80's. There too it came political, wi...
Well, Continue to argue about this incident in the typical discourse, over the usual things such as the gun laws, right-wing and left-wing memes, righ...
Zizek??? Of all the people that are or have been saying that this bull market is over, you refer to Zizek??? This is quite naive even from you, Landru...
Actually how do you define the low-number-of-posters syndrome and what's the cause? I've thought (to myself) that if there are too many annoying poste...
I'm so surprised why people go with these media frenzies. So according to Landru a third of the US population is a threat to democracy. :D I think the...
Especially when the officials well know the Bundy family. They made a similar stance years ago, right? Nobody got hurt. Yeah, the government backed do...
Actually a possibility. If they would be armed I know what definately would happen: Americans would buy more guns to protect themselves from "Armed bl...
Likely that family having it's own anti-government Crusade will get moment in media spotlight and get the nation talking about them for a while. With ...
That is the thing one has to ponder, Moliere. That is how I look at ideals: first naturally what the ideals mean themselves, but then through their ac...
Quite well said. The problem is that normally in a war you take a side or another and help it to victory. And Syria is now already a proxy war, which ...
An objective founded and created on political ideals that is achievable in reality? Realism doesn't mean that one has to accept the World as it is. Re...
How aptly you said it: "Planned re-elections". Well, let's remember that Bashar had lots of time as he came to power in 2000. In a decade nothing yet ...
Interesting. But it makes sense. An independent Kurdistan would likely get similar treatment as Israel did when it proclaimed independence. Hence the ...
Thank you for your comments, ?????????????! This is a bit confusing for me. I understand that Kurdish organizations aren't talking about now of indepe...
The global village is something that is real. At least in some aspects of it. Yet let's say that the village isn't so tightly knit and doesn't get alo...
Or to say it otherwise, that the power laid in the hands of minorities in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq was the direct reason that these countries were poli...
Support by whom? And where then you draw the lines of the Rojava? To what they are now? If I'm correct, not the PYD and the KNC are in control of Roja...
Here in Finland with 5,4 million people, we have had about 10 000 refugees coming here. And that's a small number... by European standards. Hence the ...
I view those policies unethical which simply will not work or will be counterproductive and do worse damage to the crisis, but for the totally ignoran...
Here also I have to disagree with you and agree with Moliere. For Islamists religion come before anything else, for fascists the state came first. The...
The term Islamism dates from the 18th Century. Fascism doesn't. Islamism, basically the idea that the state should be organized by the principles of I...
Yet technological advances do play an important role. Let's just look at the US Oil production, just to give an example. The original Peak Oil of conv...
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