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12361
« on: October 06, 2014, 04:43:44 PM »
i agree 100%. DID is a load of crap.
. . . DID is a genuine disorder. I don't know how you got from my premise to your conclusion either, that was a total non-sequitur.
12362
« on: October 06, 2014, 04:20:13 PM »
Well we can't just let them make less and less money each year...
Normally, people see ~3% increase in their wages annually to make up for inflation and cost of living. Why shouldn't minimum wage people get an increase?
When we hit economic downturns, firms will overwhelmingly prefer to cut jobs as opposed to wages. Raising the price floor, by this logic, will hit those at the bottom hardest. The only people who benefit are those who keep their job. Which is why social security is eminently better than minimum wage at poverty alleviation.
12363
« on: October 06, 2014, 04:13:37 PM »
A return to a economy backed by something of actual value is the best hope
A Gold Standard ought to be consigned to history. Nominal income is where it's at.
12364
« on: October 06, 2014, 04:04:11 PM »
If raising the minimum wage isn't the answer, what is? It's not like we can just *poof* make money worth more, or make goods and services cost less.
Guaranteed Minimum Income alongside changing the monetary regime to nominal income targeting.
12365
« on: October 06, 2014, 04:03:42 PM »
Now companies will just increase prices to compensate.
That just isn't true. Inflation is, always and everywhere, a monetary phenomenon.
12366
« on: October 06, 2014, 04:01:35 PM »
Are you guys seriously going to bitch over a fracking title bar? Jesus Christ.
12367
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:49:11 PM »
And why do they get a pink titlebar?
You're only the 3rd person to make a thread about my identity. This is exciting!
. . . Why the FUCK do you get a pink titlebar?
12368
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:48:21 PM »
trufax
12369
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:46:37 PM »
Some sort of blood relation to Cheat.
I smell nepotism.
12370
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:45:21 PM »
And why do they get a pink titlebar?
12371
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:43:33 PM »
Universal Basic Income
Well shit, I'm with you there.
12372
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:39:35 PM »
Minimum wage needs to be tied to inflation or cost of living. We cannot have this debate again and again.
Or we could just abolish it and choose something which actually alleviates poverty?
12373
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:38:06 PM »
just selfish bodily pleasure that only sinful harlots engage in.
Then spank my ass and call me Sally. I'm a sinful harlot.
12374
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:37:23 PM »
with the barbarity they've pulled over the last thousand years or so.
12375
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:33:15 PM »
Not really.
12376
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:29:37 PM »
For the love of God, don't use the kids as leverage.
12377
« on: October 06, 2014, 03:14:01 PM »
I currently own (following a clear-out by my dearest mother a while ago >.>) about 95.
12378
« on: October 06, 2014, 02:57:02 PM »
It is there and let it exist, it is a historical article that has had a significant impact on our world whether good or bad. I can agree with you there. Religion - perhaps by virtue of having no competitors in history - has been a massive aesthetic influence on our culture. The literature and architecture is simply breath-taking. My disparaging of religion is by no means a rejection of these aspects. The Muslim call to prayer is simply a divine piece of music - if it could be called that - and the KJV Bible is essentially for a historical understanding of English literature and politics. My problem with religion lies in the metaphysics and its ethics; I'm glad we can agree on the aesthetic contribution at least.
12379
« on: October 06, 2014, 02:42:07 PM »
Well yes they have claimed genocide against the jews but why well you can trace the reasons quite easily. The truth is the actions of Isreal has made many of the kids to hate jews
And the fact that Hamas broadcasts anti-semitic cartoons to children has nothing to do with it? The Russian hoax "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" has nothing to do with it. If you're going to blame Israel for the actions and intentions of Hamas, you'd be at a loss to explain away all of the other flagrant sources of anti-semitism in the world. It would be an incredible anomaly if Israel was the cause of this one anti-Jewish sentiment. Nonetheless, do you not think that a Hamas militant would kill a Jew, be he in New York or Tel Aviv? How can the actions of Israel possibly be used to justify murderous intentions to people across the globe? It doesn't make sense. You can't maintain this anti-semitism to be a product of Israel's actions (although I've no doubt Muslim authorities will use the collateral damage of Israel's attacks for their own ends) when the Quran is a much more convincing and proximate cause. To claim Israel has more immediacy in the matter is to treat the Islamists if they weren't theologically genuine. This is a religion that incited riots in the face of a Danish cartoon, and a fatwa on the head of a novelist. This religion faces a people who have been systematically abused throughout history, perhaps more than any other demographic. To claim Israel is the author of its problems is to either be intellectually dishonest, or not understand the importance of belief and moral community within religion.
12380
« on: October 06, 2014, 02:23:29 PM »
This isn't necessarily good.
Then again, it will make automation faster, which is good.
12381
« on: October 06, 2014, 02:21:08 PM »
Funny, you talk how muslims are anti-semites when in history while the Christian killed and persecuted them the Muslims protected them. The Muslims also invented algebra, so what? This discussion has nothing to do with Christianity, stop moving goalposts. The feelings are never religious but usually originate from political and real world events, and then they use religion as a way to support their points. Trying to separate the two really is like splitting hairs. Religions are doctrines which expound on how to live your life, they are, by necessity, political in their nature. In the same way Jainism is bound politically with pacifism. Are you going to try and claim that the Caliphate or the Ottoman Empire originated from political motivations, as opposed to religious? Are you going to try and claim that this sort of genocidal attitude has nothing to do with Muslim theology? The Koran is expressly anti-semitic in its sentiments, and this is to be expected from a religion whose hadith calls for the death of apostates. You cannot blame one side for the issue when both sides have equal hand in this issue. You haven't been paying attention if you think I blame one side. I'm saying, emphatically and without moral confusion, that Hamas is morally inferior to Israel. As a digression, their religion has little to do with it; I'd split the difference between Stalinists and Leninists, if I had to. You might think Israel has an equal hand in the cause of this crisis, and that's not something I'm closed to, but to claim that Israel is on an equal moral footing with the group calling for GENOCIDE then I can't describe you in any way other than morally insane.
12382
« on: October 06, 2014, 02:04:13 PM »
The genocidal and psychotic ideology originated from the actions of Isreal
You have got to be kidding. I'm sure the steaming piles of anti-semitic bullshit in the Koran has nothing to do with it. Why is it people are always looking for excuses in the face of religious atrocities? It can't be because their Muslims and believe in the corresponding theology, can it? No! Of course not, it's somebody else's fault. Thomas Jefferson faced Muslim pirates from the Barbary States who explicitly stated their right to kidnap and enslave America sailors was given to them in the Koran, did Israel cause that? Don't be ridiculous. To mitigate genocidal intentions to some imagined proximate cause is to excuse Hamas and their despicable, utterly immoral preachings.
12383
« on: October 06, 2014, 01:59:16 PM »
One word:
Muslim theology.
12384
« on: October 06, 2014, 01:57:42 PM »
White Phosphorous is one of those things that just should be outright bant. I'm not one to get pissy over the nasty parts of war, but some stuff crosses the line. WP is one of them.
Hamas uses it also.
Good for them .-.
It's still a horrific substance, it should be illegal everywhere. Period.
I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing the ethics of the situation. Who is worse, the man who uses a knife in self-defence or the man who uses a knife for the sake of premeditated murder? It can be a trial of two criminals, as it probably should be, but I'd rather see the worse element dealt with first. Nothing good will come of giving Hamas any more legitimacy than it has while strangling Israel at the same time.
12385
« on: October 06, 2014, 01:53:53 PM »
I do not understand why it has not just been made legal nationwide.
The Federal Government doesn't have authority on the matter.
12386
« on: October 06, 2014, 01:51:56 PM »
White Phosphorous is one of those things that just should be outright bant. I'm not one to get pissy over the nasty parts of war, but some stuff crosses the line. WP is one of them.
Hamas uses it also.
12387
« on: October 06, 2014, 01:51:20 PM »
Lets not even get started on Israels use of chemical weapons
White Phosphorous is not a chemical weapon and legal in warfare.
Only because no one has made it illegal specifically. Though it is not allowed according to treaties that ban certain types of weapons. Also its usage in civilian location is illegal.
http://www.weaponslaw.org/weapons/white-phosphorus-munitions
So? I'm not going to lose any sleep when Hamas uses it also.
12388
« on: October 06, 2014, 01:47:23 PM »
Oh frack you forget who created the serial killer, The genocidal and psychotic ideology I just demonstrated that Hamas holds is probably a good place to start. and the second-degree murderer, well to avoid getting first degree murder charges plans out the murder in a way that the person commits suicide or kills themselves in an accident . . . Okay? I literally have no idea what the hell you're talking about, and am currently questioning your understanding of second-degree murder. . . Or the analogy as a whole.
12389
« on: October 06, 2014, 01:42:10 PM »
Already got a thread about it.
12390
« on: October 06, 2014, 01:40:51 PM »
Lets not even get started on Israels use of chemical weapons
White Phosphorous is not a chemical weapon and legal in warfare.
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