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This was made for you.
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That's not necessarily true, although I think the general gist of your comment is correct. It used to be that by defeating large field armies you could easily take the cities, since you would only expect resistence from professional soldiers, not local populations. That changed, mostly, during the Second World War (although, you would see large
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It does not follow that this governance must be monopoly. The current situation in Egypt is that there is only one organization that can provide governance, because this organization has destroyed all others. There will not be competition. The only other possible scenario is that the Muslim Brotherhood takes the path of Hezbollah, and decides to remain
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No. Liberty is the absence of threats.
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There will be as much inflation as there is money being printed by the Fed, provided dollar demand stays the same. This mean that as long as the Fed is only monetizing government debt, and no other kind of debt, inflation will not be hyper but will be proportional to the deficit. Hyperinflation takes place when, to maintain low interest rates across
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When you are an isolated individual, you need a protector to balance out against rich/large societies. Because the Egyptian state has destroyed all competing sources of protection, a new government must be formed over the state to provide this protection.
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The rise of urban warfare is actually a proof of the decline of the state. State vs state warfare always sought to capture objectives outside cities by deploying very large armies. That the state is training to fight objectives in dense cities shows that its enemies are no longer other states.
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What you saw happen between Microsoft and Netscape was just the normal process of commoditization of goods under capitalism . Netscape was driven out of the market by a larger, more productive competitor. What is the situation today? All browsers are now free.
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Israel's story is fascinating yet tragic. It was the last successful colonial experience in the world , yet the only way for it to obtain protection in the UN-dominated world of the 1950's was to declare itself a state and part of the system. Even if the Israelis recognized that a Jewish Republic was unnatural for this part of the world, they
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By the way, is it me, or have the forums become lame? I recall several fascinating threads when I first joined that were riveting. Now it's almost as if... I dunno, some sort of "reddit" effect has taken over. It's over-moderated. No one really dares ask profound questions.