catzaa

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by catzaa 15y ago
> 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 Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. In both these countries there are
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by catzaa 16y ago
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...).
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 obvious interests behind them (Al Gore's political interests
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by catzaa 17y ago
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.
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 someone with a different skin color or a different c
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 did away with a lot of inter-Greek warfare and national
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by catzaa 17y ago
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 someone else would protect/fight for their rights.
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by catzaa 17y ago
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 and secondary levels) are extremely important. There are
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by catzaa 17y ago
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 power (the only question was when, and what the dictator's
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by catzaa 17y ago
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 gmail to other gmail addresses or hotmail addresses are encr
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 to give each state to senators so that populous states d
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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, and yet, for the most part people still live wher
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 lot of requirements - it isn't just an arbitrary opening
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 described). > It's entirely for selfish reasons There is not
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by catzaa 17y ago
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).
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by catzaa 17y ago
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 people move to another state, which strains that state’s gov
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by catzaa 17y ago
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 also about 16 times more likely than nonusers to report b
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by catzaa 17y ago
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 fish have a profile of around seven times as much n−3
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 gap. The problem (IMHO) is that aircraft engines are safet
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by catzaa 17y ago
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. Most of these will turn out to be white elephants (a few exampl
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by catzaa 17y ago
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 they are obtained directly from food or when competing am
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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).
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 :) )
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 shows you where things came from (i.e. how and why Matrix
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by catzaa 17y ago
> 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 the thing you talk about) when even unskilled people ge
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by catzaa 17y ago
> My point is that you have no idea what it's like for those who are poor in the US. To claim that they have abundant opportunity is ludicrous. I know this society inside and out, I've got friends at all social levels-- from dirt-poor t
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by catzaa 17y ago
> Correction: You know nothing about poverty in the United States. I guess America is special then. > The discrete right/privilege distinction is a meaningless distraction from the more subjective issue of social justice. The word “
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by catzaa 17y ago
The above 20% is probably wrong. Just note that the citations from the CIA world factbook is probably worthless. In the official demographics of South Africa for example, neither illegal immigration or temporary migration is noted. This is
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by catzaa 17y ago
I read this in a South African newspaper. But in fairness, without a citation this is worthless. I see posts claiming a 100,000 works in the formal sector (i.e. working for formal companies). The number of Chinese working in the informal se
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by catzaa 17y ago
> You know nothing about poverty. I grew up in a relatively poor family in a third world country (in a rural area). So, don't make baseless assumptions. > but we do want a world where people are free from worries about health care (

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