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Reply to You smoke? You're fired! at least for one company.... in Politics JoeUser Forums

Of course such a screening process is unacceptable and goes completely against the principles of the system. You exchange your labor and expertise for a remuneration. They should have no control on what you do outside of that exchange process. But why the outrage now? They’ve been testing people for various drugs for years. Why would it be acceptable for a company to test employees for marijuana for example but not for tobacco? After all,

Reply to Why did go into Iraq again? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Link The best one is obviously: “For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue -- weapons of mass destruction -- because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.” by Paul Wolfowitz.

Reply to Thoughts on the President's Inauguration Speech in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Believe me, the day that Korea, Germany, Iraq, the Phillipines, Japan or any of a number of other "occupied" (according to the most lunatic of the left and right) hold a referendum that shows the majority want us to withdraw our troops will will be gone in a heartbeat." What about Guantanamo Bay? Where’s your moral outrage for that one! :o

Reply to The American Eagle cannot fly with a weak leftwing in Politics JoeUser Forums

John Maynard Keynes was an economist that started an economic movement after the second World War. He questioned pure liberalism and Adam Smith’s theories and claimed that the markets were too unstable to be left alone and that government had to regulate them. Before, governments would almost never run deficits when there was an economic crisis. His theory (and the others surrounding it), more or less says that, when the economy is bad, it’s

Reply to The American Eagle cannot fly with a weak leftwing in Politics JoeUser Forums

Sorry JE, I am a Monetarist, ala Milton Friedman. Lets not turn this into Keynes vs. Friedman. It’s a pretty futile debate (just give it another 10 years, then the neoliberal ideology will be dead along with Friedman’s school ) <b

Reply to The American Eagle cannot fly with a weak leftwing in Politics JoeUser Forums

next to china which is having an astonomical economic boom the united states is next, with old europe lagging far behind. The United States already had their boom in the 1990s and they won’t see another one for many many years. No government can divert enough resources to effectively relaunch the econo

Reply to The American Eagle cannot fly with a weak leftwing in Politics JoeUser Forums

economy on the rise... inflation low, no terror here in the states.. tax breaks.. must i go on? Tax cuts, in the present system, are not a sign of a good economy. On the contrary, the tax cuts are used, in the present context, as a countercyclical measure to restabilise the economy. The 2001 market cr

Reply to Atheist Files New Suit, with Parents, Over 'Under God' in Politics JoeUser Forums

That's where you wrong. If the property in question is *posted* with signs they have no choice (if you call them) to arrest for criminal trespass. Call your local sheriff/police and ask them I actually asked once some guy I knew who was a Jehovah’s Witness what they did when they saw a “No soliciting” s

Reply to Deterring Crime in Politics JoeUser Forums

The first study actually concurs with my point. Exactly like Mathiesson said in 1990, the certainty of being caught is much more important than the severity of the sentence. Just like the study you pointed to concludes by saying: "The odds of imprisonment for a serious offense increased in the late 1980s and 1990s as legislators responded to the public's "enough is enough" attitude. The result has been a decreasing national crime rate. To b

Reply to Deterring Crime in Politics JoeUser Forums

There is significant data to support both stances. No there isn't! Show me one, just one, modern researcher/criminologist (or even just a study) that believes deterrence works for serious offences.

Reply to Deterring Crime in Politics JoeUser Forums

It has been proven by the criminologists Schumann (1987) and Mathiesson (1990) that the severity of the sentence has no effect on deterrence. Severity only deters small offences (like traffic violations). Governments constantly enact tougher laws against crime because people like you are under the impression it will fix something, or that crime is getting worse. And do you realise that most of those people will get out one day and reintegrate

Reply to Stellar Frontier? in Misc. Games Help Stardock Forums

Point your nexus (box under the nexus name) in Stella Frontier to nexus.game-server.cc (instead of sf.stardock.net). Hit the refresh button and then an upgrade v2.5 should appear. Click on that and you'll be able to get v1.2rc 5 6 or 7

Reply to Liberalism vs. Conservatism in Politics JoeUser Forums

Wow, your article illustrates EVERYTHING that’s wrong with politics in the United States these days Let’s bring it up a notch... Immigration: Conservative View : Conservatives believe we don’t need any poor people (especially those coloured ones) coming from other countries to steal our jobs! Liberal View : Liberals believe America is a land of opportunity for everyone <br

Reply to GMail Invites in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I got to ask. Why? What is so special about Gmail other than the space? The interface is much better than Hotmail or Yahoomail. There are no graphics to download (except for the google logo) which makes it MUCH faster. You don't have to load a new page to reply to messages and you can see your message

Reply to GMail Invites in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I can contribute too... if anyone needs/wants one

Reply to Bring back fiscal sanity - PLEASE!!! in Politics JoeUser Forums

David David David.... Canada’s deficit was around 40 billions in the early 90's (relatively speaking, it’s about the same thing the U.S. has now). They simply slashed the governmental budget drastically in Martin’s 95 budget. The United States will have to do the same eventually. The biggest risks reside in the fact that the United States doesn’t control most of its economy. If the world communit

Reply to Cheese eating, surrendering monkeys in Current Events JoeUser Forums

He wasn't a great socialist, was it? I was mainly refering to the Mitterand years

Reply to Cheese eating, surrendering monkeys in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Cute little translation, gotta love google translate eh. It’s not my opinion that the average American doesn’t understand the terms “socialist” and “liberal” à la française , it’s a fact. A liberal in France (and in most of Europe) retained most (or at least, some) of its traditional principles, that is :

Reply to Cheese eating, surrendering monkeys in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Il y a plusieurs raisons qui expliquent pourquoi les Américains semblent haïr les Français autant ces jours ci. Mais, les Américains étaient (et le seront probablement encore éventuellement) de grands francophiles jusqu’à la deuxième guerre mondiale. À mon avis, la guerre froide aurait réellement fucké les Américains. Le refus de la France de couper tous ses liens avec l’Union et les gouvernements “

Reply to France attacks Ivory Coast in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You mean to say they arent? Try typing in "french military victories" in google one time...heheheh. And why don't you try typing "miserable failure" in google. heheheh?

Reply to France attacks Ivory Coast in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Was the Ivory Coast an immediate threat to France? If not, then why the Hell would the U.N. approve such a violent action? France doesn't belong there! The Ivorian air force had every right to bomb the violent oppressors known as the French! Ok, now you see, there's hmm... a civil war in Ivory Coast an

Reply to France attacks Ivory Coast in Current Events JoeUser Forums

let's calm down frog haters... France's forces are with a U.N. force in Ivory Coast. The Ivorian air force bombed (apperently by mistake according to their government, they were "aiming" for a rebel base) a French base and killed 6 French soldiers and 1 American worker. France had every right to retaliate and destroy the air force imediatly. The U.N. security council is behind France. I really do

Reply to Bush's Morals are Top Notch! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Technically, we didn't. Russia has taught them chemical and biological weapons. Here's a statement fro

Reply to Bush's Morals are Top Notch! in Politics JoeUser Forums

US didn't give Saddam any weapons. You must be a wacko to say that. During the Iran-Iraq war, the united states were supplying arms to Iran (Iran-Contra scandal), while they were aggressively bitching at everyone else to stop selling weapons to them. Howev