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13471
« on: September 10, 2014, 04:28:35 PM »
No. Great Britain isn't a political label, it's a geographical one. Scotland will still be part of Britain - technically.
The United Kingdom will merely be one country less.
But they won't be united anymore so that doesn't make sense.
Scotland and England aren't the only two countries in the Union, though. It will still be a United Kingdom, just one comprised of three countries instead of four.
13472
« on: September 10, 2014, 04:26:40 PM »
I have to agree with OP on all except Adam Smith. I'd replace him with Nietzsche.
Get the fuck out of this thread, heathen.
I couldn't stand his writing style.
I've got to be honest. The analytical introduction was awful to read through - by Andrew Skinner. Smith's writing itself, though, I find fantastically intuitive and easy to follow.
13473
« on: September 10, 2014, 04:25:01 PM »
No. Great Britain isn't a political label, it's a geographical one. Scotland will still be part of Britain - technically.
The United Kingdom will merely be one country less.
13474
« on: September 10, 2014, 04:10:27 PM »
13475
« on: September 10, 2014, 04:07:05 PM »
 Muiri is the only girl for me <3
13476
« on: September 10, 2014, 04:04:47 PM »
Why the fuck is this back in the Flood?
13477
« on: September 10, 2014, 04:00:48 PM »
I have to agree with OP on all except Adam Smith. I'd replace him with Nietzsche.
Get the fuck out of this thread, heathen.
13478
« on: September 10, 2014, 03:57:21 PM »
Colonisation has often brought benefits to the colony itself. The problem isn't, necessarily, with the process of colonisation in and of itself, but merely of the nature of imperialism as a whole and the psychology of the imperialists as a whole. The extension of a country's power through militant means will naturally lend itself to a colonisation policy of repressive measures against both natives and, on occasion, the colonists themselves. And, of course, the point of time in history which spurred most colonisation also lent itself to militant attitudes and policies. Indeed, great thinkers such as Bertrand Russell, writing in 1915, have defending colonialism on utilitarian grounds of a superior society being better able to put the land to use. Not to mention, the advances in medicine, while difficult to measure, must be noted. As well as the development of railways. Many societies of savages in Africa hadn't found use of the wheel long into the 1800s. Has imperialism been bad? Yes. For psychological, political, social and economic reasons. Has colonialism been bad? Yes, on all of the same accounts. Have they had their benefits to the homeland and colonised land? Yes, undoubtedly. Should they be viewed as a consequence rather than cause of their time? Probably. The question is how you think the categories of benefits match against one another, and whether you think those categorised benefits fall short of, match or out-compete the losses.
13479
« on: September 10, 2014, 02:42:33 PM »
>michael moore
>liberal
I fucking hate the American definition of liberal.
13480
« on: September 10, 2014, 02:41:21 PM »
I knew Adam Smith, partially because I studied Economics but also because I knew you'd post him.
dis nigger
13481
« on: September 10, 2014, 02:40:34 PM »
Killing is good.
Have you forgotten the Canaanites.
13482
« on: September 10, 2014, 02:36:27 PM »
Mine are all easy.
The first two are obvious. Can't say I recognise the third.
13483
« on: September 10, 2014, 02:34:20 PM »
I read "geopolitical" and started snoring loudly.
can't tell if real verb
13484
« on: September 10, 2014, 02:33:03 PM »
The catch? You can only post their pictures/portraits, and the rest of us have to see if we know who they are. They can be anyone from philosophers to celebrities to statesmen or presidents. They don't have to be necessarily descriptively historic, but they can be people alive today or recently dead who will probably be remembered years down the line. Mine:   
13485
« on: September 10, 2014, 02:20:25 PM »
Serious: The Realm of Meta Cognition.
13486
« on: September 10, 2014, 01:55:00 PM »
Oh my Christ.
13487
« on: September 10, 2014, 12:58:24 PM »
A Democracy is a system of government where the people vote. There's no elected persons to represent a person.
13488
« on: September 10, 2014, 12:51:45 PM »
Kinder, the only instance I know of where the electoral college didn't match up to the popular vote was with Bush's first term.
While I don't like the college, consequentially Obama is the democratically-elected president of the U.S.
I too, would rather have moderate Republicans compared to Democrats; the problem is that the former are particularly rare. I think Obama's quite a mediocre, leaning terrible, president, but I still would've voted for him both times.
13489
« on: September 10, 2014, 11:11:21 AM »
Definitely FDR. Lincoln is probably up there, too.
Reagan? I don't know. I quite like him - although I admittedly don't know much about him, and I know he didn't deliver on a lot of his promises - but he's really rather moderate. I think the Conservatives who hold him up as God's representative on Earth are tempered by the Liberals frothing at the mouth.
13490
« on: September 09, 2014, 01:04:40 PM »
Has anybody else experienced something similar? It seems as if the more I expand my web of information regarding information, it moderates my beliefs in a noticeable way.
13491
« on: September 09, 2014, 11:55:24 AM »
Then why doesn't the government get search warrants for the individuals who the records belong to?
Gee, I don't know. It's not like the government ever acts unconstitutionally.
13492
« on: September 09, 2014, 11:40:18 AM »
I have not even heard of ISIL... Are these groups just taking advantage of the chaos and appearing out of nowhere to claim stuff?
Same group as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Their 'official' name is the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levenant", or ISIL.
Not to get bogged down in the terminology of the most vicious terrorist group to have ever existed, but I'd peg their official name as ISIS; the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.
13493
« on: September 09, 2014, 11:37:13 AM »
I have not even heard of ISIL... Are these groups just taking advantage of the chaos and appearing out of nowhere to claim stuff?
Seriously? You haven't heard of the Islamic State?
13494
« on: September 09, 2014, 11:32:53 AM »
Not giving corporations equal Constitutional protection means the government can go in and take phone records from Verizon and information from Google Umm. . . What? The information the government would be "allowed" to take still belongs to a person with rights. A multitude of them, in fact.
13495
« on: September 09, 2014, 01:33:17 AM »
Quality > Quantity
The more threads you have the higher the chance of their being some quality ones in there. Like finding a diamond in the middle of a turd. What the fuck your doing going through a turd I have no fucking idea.
13496
« on: September 09, 2014, 01:31:37 AM »
He tried to kill this guy.
Give him the death penalty.
>.>
<.<
inb4deathpenaltyiswrong
deathpenaltyiswrong
Meta, you delivered 
13497
« on: September 09, 2014, 01:28:12 AM »
Oh fuck look at dat badass.
13498
« on: September 09, 2014, 01:27:05 AM »
He tried to kill this guy.
Give him the death penalty.
>.>
<.<
inb4deathpenaltyiswrong
deathpenaltyiswrong
13499
« on: September 09, 2014, 01:26:48 AM »
His 21-year-old attacker was sentenced to 14 years in prison at the Old Bailey today, with the judge saying it was only the skill of medics who prevented Mr Huntley from dying.
Not saying 14 years isn't a significant punishment, but the guy bludgeoned his roommate for being gay, requiring part of the guys skull to be removed. Dude should have gotten a bit more time.
14 years is a ridiculous amount of time and will probably institutionalise the guy.
13500
« on: September 08, 2014, 07:39:10 PM »
Let's just say my opinion of you is not good.
o bby
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