Fri 12 Jun, 2009 03:16 pm - The corporations will do that anyway- and do, if you have heard anything about insurance companies and genetic testing. In fact they often have more motivation. However it isn't a choice... (view)
Thu 11 Jun, 2009 03:25 am - I agree the medicare system is very poor, but thats because it runs alongside such a vast and integral private sector. In the UK we spend half the percentage of our GDP on public healthcare than... (view)
Wed 10 Jun, 2009 04:52 am - Does it have to be either/or? Couldn't the US have a central government that guarentees freedoms, runs the army, provides nationwide insurance and dictates wider policy, but with far more... (view)
Wed 10 Jun, 2009 04:43 am - We don't have a constitution, and it has done us very well thank you very much. We are not on the brink of revolution we are merely in a mire of mediocraty, unrelated to the perfectly good... (view)
Wed 10 Jun, 2009 04:41 am - Civilisation is about the establishment of a stable society- and this sometimes means war, but this is not the primary mode of civilisation. Nor is conquest always purely millitary, or purely evil.... (view)
Wed 10 Jun, 2009 04:37 am - I think blaming TV is unfair- there is no reason why it shouldn't be an intelligent medium, and it sometimes is, but it is full of so much meingless garbage because it reflects society, not... (view)
Tue 9 Jun, 2009 04:15 pm - The problem is that the parties have become institutions in their own right. The system is set just so- a few swing states, a few percentage of the vote every year, and then one of them wins.... (view)
Sun 7 Jun, 2009 05:20 am - [QUOTE=Fido;64011]I use forms in exactly the sense that form has always been used, and for example, as Jefferson used the term, correctly in the Declaration of Independence... If we start out with... (view)