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Habbaku

#11670
November 15, 2011, 01:06:22 AM
Totalitarians.  :rolleyes:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Razgovory

#11671
November 15, 2011, 01:33:43 AM
Idiots :rolleyes:
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Tonitrus

#11672
November 15, 2011, 01:38:42 AM
Languish.  :P

Eddie Teach

#11673
November 15, 2011, 01:40:53 AM
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Tamas

#11674
November 15, 2011, 02:59:53 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2011, 10:36:56 PM
Well-funded government spending is the cornerstone of growth. :bowler:

more like cornerstone of tyranny and corruption

Josquius

#11675
November 15, 2011, 04:35:13 AM
Civilization is all about a bit of tyranny. Afterall, total freedom sucks.
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Tamas

#11676
November 15, 2011, 04:38:04 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2011, 04:35:13 AM
Civilization is all about a bit of tyranny. Afterall, total freedom sucks.

Yes. There are no steps between overtaxation and total chaos.

Syt

#11677
November 15, 2011, 05:13:43 AM
Quote from: Tamas on November 15, 2011, 04:38:04 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2011, 04:35:13 AM
Civilization is all about a bit of tyranny. Afterall, total freedom sucks.

Yes. There are no steps between overtaxation and total chaos.

Now you're starting to grasp party politics.  :thumbsup:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Ideologue

#11678
November 15, 2011, 05:39:42 AM Last Edit: November 15, 2011, 05:41:20 AM by Ideologue
Quote from: Tamas on November 15, 2011, 04:38:04 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2011, 04:35:13 AM
Civilization is all about a bit of tyranny. Afterall, total freedom sucks.

Yes. There are no steps between overtaxation and total chaos.

You're the one who said government spending automatically equated with tyranny.

Or maybe only spending based on debt doesn't lead to tyranny in your philosophy?  That's worked out great.
Kinemalogue
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Sheilbh

#11679
November 15, 2011, 06:31:00 AM
Only slightly related to Japanese debt, but I just read that before interest payments, Italy has a surplus :mellow:
Let's bomb Russia!

DGuller

#11680
November 15, 2011, 07:42:20 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 15, 2011, 12:56:44 AM
Quote from: Tyr on November 14, 2011, 11:19:44 PM
No money=ineffective government that can't do much

What a shame that would be.
Yes, historically, ineffective governments is what led to prosperity of successful societies.  :rolleyes:  Really, the one thing that might truly sink American dominance is the insanity of a large proportion of its citizens.

PDH

#11681
November 15, 2011, 08:37:10 AM
Thank goodness that the rest of the world also has so many idiots in it!
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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-CdM

Razgovory

#11682
November 15, 2011, 08:56:08 AM
Quote from: Tamas on November 15, 2011, 02:59:53 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2011, 10:36:56 PM
Well-funded government spending is the cornerstone of growth. :bowler:

more like cornerstone of tyranny and corruption

If Somalia is any indication, you don't need a government at all for that.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Syt

#11683
November 15, 2011, 12:58:45 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on November 14, 2011, 04:47:42 PM
The goal is to get to where it's not considered distinctive or whatever, so.....good!

LGBT won't have been fully accepted by society until one gets elected on a platform of traditional family values.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

MadImmortalMan

#11684
November 15, 2011, 03:44:46 PM
What do banthas eat, anyway? I mean those things are big. Bigger than elephants. They have to need hundreds of pounds of food in a week. Where does it all come from on Tattoine? The place doesn't exactly teem with vegetation. Are they indigenous to the planet, and if not, do the Sand People import hay for them or what?
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers
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