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"For your information I am Italian" So was I until I grew out of it. What's your point? "Are you implying that Italians are inherently less productive than Germans?" ... yes? The d…

"whatever it is supposed to mean for a country like Italy," Go look at the econ stats circa 2000 of Veneto, Lombardy and Piedmont and compare them to Germany's.

"they couldn’t manage their currencies " Typical Northern Protestant bigotry. As if Italians and Greeks don't have economics courses in college. Italians, Greeks, etc would purpose…

"It was rather the other way round: Germany was made to agree to the euro project as a concession for reunification." So the Germans accept the Euro in exchange for re-unification …

"The birth rate went that low (and lower!) but has been going up recently[0]. But even if total population was halving every generation, that’s only a concern if it’s sustained for…

I read somewhere that europeans agreed to an open market and common currency that included Germany only if German's export surplus were contained. I dont know if they are part of t…

The chaos of "nothing" is very destructive. That realization is at core of why Im a conservative.

Agreed, but admin is probably the greediest and while adding the least value.

Its on a mini platform? No wonder its so small. Thats what I get for asking AVIS for a large SUV/minivan for a family of 5 - my older daughters riding without a booster seat, wont …

The reason for the complex rules is not to let the Spaniards pretend their head of state is their head of state (few Spaniards do, it seems to me anyway). The reason is to insulate…

", i.e. the heads of state of the 27 member countries. " The Italian president is un-elected (chosen by parliament). Also, what does this mean for Spain, whose head of state is a K…

Im currently renting a BMW with this gear selector. In fairness, I throughly hate the car (an X1). Terrible lag, awful throttle response, terrible steering, unpredictable brakes, e…

They're not all shy.

TL/DR but I'm sure its all very interesting However, I didn't state a statistical fact, or assert the effect of guns on the amount of criminality. "Widespread gun ownership signifi…

im not stating a statistical fact. All Im saying is, all else being equal, there is an extra nevative term in the expected value equation that goes boom and has a P ~ 0.5

"Not all of those people consent to the gun's presence." No, of course not. But most do. Anyway, to my original post, a criminal entering a household has about an even chance to bu…

"Republicans failed to deliver abortion bans for 50 years. " Indeed but pro-life voters voted for the GOP with their nose pinched, mostly aghast (their perspective) at the alternat…

Like everything in stats you have a conditional probability given that I, like most gun owners, am a responsible gun owner. I have a safe, trigger locks, don't have a history of vi…

Agreed. And feel free to do so in your country home. Like the 1A, 2A isnt absolute, even conservatives say it isnt. You cant shoot guns for fun in a patio in NYC (but you should be…

Days after the most significant SCOTUS gun decision in over a decade (Heller)? Arguably the second most important one in 2A jurisprudence?

Good comment! I was hesitant to put a number. Thats why I chose "household". But its pretty close to the right figure (probably closer to the low to mid 40s). No one knows how many…

No. My anonymous gun ownership make me and my neighbors safer because I: 1. Can protect myself and my family. 2. Gun seeking criminals (e.g. Mexican drug cartels) that are better a…

The vast majority of us are quite shy about our guns. The stats are obvious. About half of households in the US have guns. Do half of cars have NRA stickers? A quarter? One in ten?…