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I don't envy them their wealth. I don't wish it upon myself. I tried to paint a picture of a world in which individuals are making more than the entire GDP of nations. I don't find it extensively worrying on any sort of moral dimension. I do find it worrying for its economic and social ramifications. I don't mind a pay system based on meritocracy, but i would want that meritocracy to be based on standards that are both prgamatic and just.

Reply to When Murderers Own the Courts in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"When they disavow the use of violence to make points, then maybe they will find more sympathetic ears throughout the world." You do understand that this could equally be applied to Israel. I just completed a google search for material regarding Arab complicity with the Nazis. It did not surprise me that at the top of the results list where documents disseminated by Israeli sources. While it was true that the Nazis succeded in wooing

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Debidoll - even if they gave 50% of their incredible incomes, it would be enough to relieve an astonoshing amount of suffering. I know that some of them try, but to often it turns out to be a public relations stunt that hopes to catch a ride on the back of "fashionable" causes. Sometimes they even end up "profiting" from their very public attempts at "alturism" Madine - I agree with your position. Pam also made a similar comment and it is true

Reply to Crying for blood. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Dharmagrl - I think that all we're doing at the moment is killing them and getting killed ourselves. Kingbee - That was damn insightful and erudite. Congrats. Marco XX

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Pam, So true. Arnie as govenor. The soul trembled when it was a possibility. I don't even know what I feel knowing it as reality. And you're right. It is our fault. We continue to pay, they continue to profit. Marco XX

Reply to Law of Conservation of Commas in Misc JoeUser Forums

I always hated that in school. People teaching grammar used to say "but..." a lot. So many exceptions and so many conditions. Sometimes I use the Harvard comma and sometimes I don't. It's always kinda felt natural to me when i was writing something i little more formal. But anyway - screw those Harvard guys. Shadesofgrey, I have heard of that book and i've been meaning to pick it up for awhile now. Do fill us in about the sem

Reply to Home of freaks and weirdos in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Maddy Mae I love this name. Reminds me of folk tales and poetry. And may i remind you all...no one does the beach thing better than us Aussies! Well maybe the Brazilians, but those bastards don't know how to swim, so they don't count. If any of you get to Sydney, we'll all have a drink at Coogee Bay Hotel and then go jump in down at the beach. You won

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Thanks Draginol, You have no idea how much i respect the opinion of people who don't always agree with me. Marco XX

Reply to Law of Conservation of Commas in Misc JoeUser Forums

The use of the semi-colon is basically determined by quantity. When you have a lot of points in a sentence, or the sentence is becoming unwieldily with the use of commas to seperate all the clauses, you use a semi-colon. It's almost the same as a period but lets people know that what is to follow is still part of the same idea. (If I'm wrong, someone please correct me) The comma is to give rhythm to writing, or the same "cadence" that you woul

Reply to When Murderers Own the Courts in Current Events JoeUser Forums

What you say is hard to accept given that Israel was a gift from the British to Zionists. The Arabs shed a lot of blood defending and taking back that land from the Turkish Empire which had governed it, and then when they had finished dying for it, the British took it away and left them without a country. Think about. How would you feel. I know that Israel has been a nation before, but never when the concept of a nation state

Reply to Dreaming of Neighbours in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Could you fed-ex your Sunday. The address is..... Not really joking, but anyway, it sounded Idyllic. Gothic is right. Dreaming about Neighbours could be indicitive of something really serious. You should check that out with a physician Marco XX

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I agree. It is obscene. For the life of me I can't think of one single justification for the pay checks. People who risk life and limb on a daily basis don't get 1/500th of the pay these people get, and all they risk is a bad review (Hush little baby, did that nasty critic hurt you, let Mommy make it better). I was only half joking when i wrote this blog. If these people keep on getting paid more and more, there will be noticeable eff

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Hi Sherye, I would say that it is worse than the terrorism. This is a city of 90,000. How many of those people could possibly be guilty. The problem with the Israeli government is that they forget the fundemental underpinning of justice - it is only justice if it brings only the guilty into account. Justice is not chemotherapy, you cannot afford to damage the surronding tissue. Anything else is terrorism. Dyl, Finally,

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Don't trust the judgment of children. They're evil and cruel ...even though i'm sure yours are wonderful

Reply to the voices in my head are snoring in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

I only included that point because I have never seen you that angry. Never seen you like you wanted to lop someone's head off. You are usually so serene. Tail gaters don't bother me. If I don't look in the rearview mirror, they just don't exist. Like most of people who i serve (or don't) at work - "did i just hear something?" *reading daily paper while a customer screams in frustration and futility* <img src="../images/smiles/hot.gif" b

When Murderers Own the Courts in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"At the weekend the Israeli high court rejected a petition from residents, endorsing on security grounds the policy of bulldozing homes without warning and without giving them a chance to appeal or remove their belongings" (quote from the Sydney Morning Hereld, May19) The Israelis have instigated a policy of occupying Rafah with tanks, helicopters and bulldoz

Reply to Law of Conservation of Commas in Misc JoeUser Forums

On a related topic - a recent report in Australia stated that 80%(approx) of our secondary students do not know how to properly use the humble comma. This is a sad day for English, for Australian students and, indeed, Australia! The shame...the terrible shame. It could be a happy coincidence for the Conservation of Commas though. Since our students do not know how to use them they don't. A good piece of news for our threatened little friends.<

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Shhhhh...don't say it again. They might hear us

Reply to the voices in my head are snoring in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Plato once said that the only leaders worth having are ones that have no interest in leading. (Is there anywhere that that Marx joke doesn't have relevance) Obviously you fit snugly into this category. Not sure if it would be a good thing though - those moments of globally imposed silence so you can hear yourself think, you proclaiming dogs as your members of parliment (i could probably agree with this point, how much worse off could we be) an

Bow Down Before Your New Masters in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

In Cannes recently, along with all the rough diamonds that humanity can provide and all its glitz and glam, there has been a strike going on to protest the cuts in unemployment benefits that the French have had to suffer. Now to put it in context, film festivals and strikes are the two things that the French know how to do with consummate ease. It would be ha

Reply to Rich Girls and Alarm Clocks in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

You all make it sound like it should be in the true stories section of a videa shop, along side that film with the cannibals and that other one where a famous woman "forgets" to eat. And NEVER say that psychotic-ness is not attractive. Just leave, but for heaven's sake don't let them know where you live. Learn from my experience people. Marco:)

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"no, really, michael, i just come right out and JUMP on my male friends. all of 'em. i like to lull 'em into a false sense of security, then get 'em drunk and pounce. every time i go near marco the poor man is forced to consume huge quantities of alcohol and then defend himself from my slavering lustful advances." She always does and i always do. Her advance and me defend. Never get the two confused. Mig's a nasty piece of work. <

Reply to Rich Girls and Alarm Clocks in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

For God's sake just don't marry one - especially when they're spoilt rotten. Remeber - you can get BJ's from poorer, nicer people as well Marco

Reply to Crying for blood. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"Granted these ideas will be religious in nature a first, but eventually, talk will move to music, fashion, games and entertainment." Is this what we want? Either for their children or for ours? Many Muslims are fighting this very tendency. It is true that we must provide them with the amenities necessary for life and health if we are ever to get close enough to them for mutual understanding, but to impose a culture on another people

Reply to the voices in my head are snoring in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Mig, You're much too clever for your own good. Marco PS Stop trying to turn people into Heinz Numbered Soup. I know how much you want to. Then we could finally take over