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Whose idea was NATO in the first place? What is its purpose? Whom does it serve? What would happen if it were allowed to lapse?

Who thinks it's a good idea to have people of vastly different economic circumstances live in the same building? Or on the same street? Having separate entrances is the very least thing wrong with this whole utterly artificial and unworkable scheme.

It might also possible to ignore the labels stuck on arbitrarily by we know-not-whom and look at each situation. Is a place/government/event shitty? By what standards? What's shitty about it? Has it any redeeming features? How did it get that way? Who is in charge? Who is behind the guy in...

http://healthyliving.msn.com/blogs/daily-apple-blog-post?post=0a972686-a8a6-4081-b020-c5c12c72cc34 http://www.medicaldaily.com/86-holy-water-teeming-e-coli-and-other-bacteria-found-fecal-matter-256863 Refer them to these sites, plus a dozen more.

I was there. My misconceptions were acquired though direct experience. Huh? In many ways, I'm sure. but not this one. Which hypothesis? That dictatorship is brought about through violence? That applies in both situations. These were not natural evolutions of democratic process; they were...

There was nothing funny about either dictatorship. A lot of people died so that a few could have power and money and revenge and secret plots and ... whatever they desired. Sociopathy, not socialism. Socialism grows out of co-operation; dictatorship results from violence. Easier than learning...

So.... not really about cats then? Okay, I imagine the difference wouldn't be that any one species is more genetically malleable than another, but rather that the gene pool from which the modern species originated was different - bigger, more varied, longer established, more stable...

Or it means that what the East Germans were exposed to wasn't socialism, but a foreign occupation following a lost war, which left behind immense damage and loss of productivity, and the rulers imposed on - not elected by - them was discriminative, incompetent, brutal and dishonest, so that the...

If we assume that dogs have been associating with humans since nomadic times and cats only became domesticated after agricultural settlement, that's true. On the other hand, human were not breeding or even selecting their dogs until they were settled, so it's roughly the same period of...

A collection of writings from ancient and authentic to recently forged, edited by a committee of Christian bishops to serve their 4th century agenda.... whatever that was.

How do you discover the side-effects? What does it do to psychology? How free of "pressure" is the society in general, and how can you be sure it's not being applied in any given case? Is there an age limit? Most importantly, how do you prevent religious groups from getting control of it - or...

poor typing skills + quick reply = misunderstanding

Oh, I see. I've misunderstood the rules of posting on this thread. New list: - no armies - no money - no religion - no injustice - no meat-eating - no immortality None of those, except the last, are possible to achieve on this planet, with its present dominant species - so that's okay.

...present economics. I can make some assumptions about colonizing "the solar system and beyond" i.e. that building human habitats on other planets* would be rather more expensive than building better apartments in Chicago. (*Well, really, just one planet and a few moons are feasible. I...

Neither. I'd want to see their voting record. If they had never held public office before, I'd want to see their work record. If they'd never done real work, I certainly wouldn't elect them to a position of making decisions on behalf of working people.

Was that so hard? I won't tell you what's impractical, inaccurate or wrong about your ideal world, nor second-guess what you don't like in this one. And that's not so hard, either.

The sun even shines on Detroit. And water shouldn't be wasted anywhere.... but, never mind. Of course none of this can ever be done. Except the bits that already are being done. And the other bits that will have to be done when the current state of affairs ends - for whatever...

We don't, actually. The capitalists have been spreading that gospel, but it's not true of the people I know. Is it, of the people you know?

You don't need to start with heritage sites. Start with office buildings that contain people only 8 hours a day, who do nothing but move money around. Most of those building wouldn't be too difficult to make more efficient and cleaner. Then replace the tenements with decent housing - I...

P: A whole lot of food can be produced in hydroponics - in all those goddam money-laundering high-rises that waste so much of our resources now. Also, vertical planting in urban landscape design, in apartment buildings, on roofs, in greenhouses, and of course, meat-cloning factories. The sun...