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Keep the negative commentary down or I will be issuing some time outs. TA, if you believe you are mature, act the part. You certainly do not strike me as such.
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It's possible for firms to own entire areas and operate them as cities, like Disneyland, but this is expensive and rare. Where it is profitable to do so, they will do so, yet there is certainly no inherent market trend towards this, and bear in mind the only reason large firms form in the first place is to overcome the transaction costs of outsourcing
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Being gay myself, I don't really have any intention to be married, any time soon. I am also a bit confused as to why so many people demand to be able to use the term 'marriage'. In the end, churches should be free to call it a "marriage" or to refuse to do so at their discretion. If it's about the legal perks of marriage, you
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It takes a special kind of idiot to believe in the multiplier.
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If you are a small time investor, consider the Jim Rogers Commodity Index and the Merk Hard Currency Fund. Both have performed well over the years, and are managed by individuals who have a better understanding of where the economy is headed than your average hedge fund manager. Emerging country funds and funds specialising in medium sized asian companies
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Nah, what follows them tends to be worse, as the Egyptians learnt.
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So a good litmus test for any technology being moral or immoral is if its even possible to be used in self-defense? No, I am not even discussing that. Although I'd agree with that proposition.
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I think you overestimate the degree to which early America was libertarian. Certainly, the likes of Jefferson and Madison were. Yet you also had Hamilton and his own clique. The Constitution is an inherently flawed document, and the Civil War, and then the US's entry into WW1, both permanently scarred the country. To say that this regression is
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It's certainly a means to an end. Unlike a gun though, which exists for defence, a state necessarily involves initiation of coercion against non-consenting parties. You are misinterpreting my point, however. I am not stating that the tools are imbued with a moral character - merely that technology exists to satisfy our desires.
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The article strikes me as a pretty desperate attempt to find bias everywhere. Who. Cares.