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> even though every sane person has to acknowledge that legalizing drugs in part is more effective than enforcing more rigid controls, No it is not. Two examples of this are Singap…

Why? Human beings have many lies that they belieeve are true, and we are not poorer for it. (E.g. Unconditional love, true love, etc...).

> I took a step back on the big picture analyzing groups attacking "Climate Science" with obvious interests behind. So? There are other groups promoting 'Climate Science' with obvi…

Maybe. But I am sure that if records show that a product is delayed, then the customer service rep should have a bit of leeway to make the customer happy.

> When you say "someone else" in this sentence, you have to mean someone different. I mean someone not part of the cultural, language or national grouping. > I disagree. I believe …

> The Greeks had a nationalistic loyalty to their particular city-state. This ended when the Persians showed up, who were orders of magnitude less appealing to the Greeks, and that…

There is nothing wrong with a group wanting to protect their language, culture and identity (what you label as XXX nationalism). IMHO, it is naive for individuals to assume that so…

South Africa's national language is bad English :) While I do think that everyone should learn English in SA, research has shown that mother tongue education (especially at primary…

The world is a lot more complex than that. Germany was not treated well after the First World War. It was almost certain that there will be another war and a dictator would come to…

That may be true for most emails. But I guess that large webmail providers can band together and ensure that e-mails between their systems are encrypted (i.e. all messages sent by …

> Just to pick on one point: what conceivable moral logic leads one to choose democratic representation based on the financial health of their existing government? Wasn't the idea …

> Have you travelled in Europe ? Say from the Polish/Russian boarder (or the Romanian one) to the coast of the Atlantic? > In spite of those 'requirements' the differences are vast…

> I've heard these arguments time and again while the European borders were dissolved, NONE of it came true. There is a huge difference. For a country to go into the EU, it has a l…

> able to make forward movements rather than two steps forward one step back. The result of such an approach would be a repeated one step back (as with the above process I describe…

The UK has good laws (you can get a highly skilled Visa without major problems). Unfortunately some of the nicest countries it is difficult (e.g. Ireland).

Be careful what you wish for. A world without borders might sound nice in a John Lennon song, but in practice it is not. The domino effect can happen – one state collapses and the …

You created a bit of a strawman in your post. But anyways, look below. From http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/cri... : > Past year illicit drug users were al…

I read the following in wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid ): > Flax, like chia, contains approximately three times as much n−3 as n−6. > Oils from these f…

> if only because their ambitions are fairly modest (they're seeking to build a better GA piston engine, not re-invent the industry) and because they're filling a fairly obvious ga…

I sincerely doubt that these guys would be successful. In South Africa there is a habit to start impractical and expensive grandiose engineering projects with government money. Mos…

As I understand it a high amount of Omega-6 means that you cannot absorb the omega-3. From WP: > Thus accumulation of long-chain n−3 fatty acids in tissues is more effective when t…

> Under communist command, russia rised to the status of superpower. The Soviet Union was an energy superpower. They used this to built up their economy (and waste money on arms).

> I don't understand what's so interesting about MIT's linear algebra course The lectures are free to download (which is awesome to 3rd world folks like me :) )

> However I've had trouble finding the people who find rote formulas a better way to learn. Strang's lectures don’t just give you rote formulas. Most of his lectures he clearly sho…

> That's not poverty. Not even close. In the USA even an unskilled person can get a fairly good job (as the above example shows). How exactly do you then have severe poverty (like …