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ours is a world short of perfection. we do the best we can with what we have. the marketplace of ideas is essential to this process, as are morality and rule of law. we are able to effect our system. Oh, yes we are. to deny it is concede to slavery, and take up the lot of the oppressor.

Yes, there is a difference. Isn't that awesome! You can choose! If you don't like one, you can try another. Heck, you could even start your own.

soros must be shorting again.... (where's the 'gag me' icon?)

the machine can not acquire the sixth sense.

really? k, guess I'll back stuff up. hard drive crashed on the main machine...

Oh well. If a business doesn't like the way the NYSE runs it's business, it is free to list elsewhere. It'll be up to the NYSE to keep its customers and attract new ones. The article has several odd premises. For example, why would anyone expect the engine of capitalism to <i>not</i> be...

i suppose there's lots of technical jargon out there that can make my remarks look pretty simplistic, but the bottom line is that the machine has no soul. That's the dimension that a machine will never have. It may dazzle with brilliance and/or baffle with bs, but it <i>ain't never gonna...

it started bogging down...more and more. that's about it. it runs, but it's slow and choppy. thanks all for the help. chas

i dunno what virus it is, but is there any hope for this old machine? Running Norton Antivirus right now....

I think it was D. B. Cooper, wasn't it?

since we've hauled out Orwell we might as well counter him with another great -- and a rightly optomistic one.

A Mind That Grasped Both Heaven and Hell By JOSEPH LOCONTE WASHINGTON Forty years ago today, as the world mourned the assassination of an American president, the passing of the 20th century's most influential Christian writer was hardly noticed: Clive Staples Lewis, professor of English...

it is tempting to read Orwell and interpret present circumstances as validating his views. it is also a fallacy to conclude that, because Orwell's theories might be correct, that the present conditions are identical, or that there is no such thing as a 'just war.' Orwell has a definite...

thanks for the link to Orwell on-line, harry. btw, remember brevity is the soul of wit [and other things].

A benign example: there is a tariff on imported citrus products. brazil's labor is cheaper, they don't have anywhere near the enviro- and other regulatory overhead. The field is tilted in their favor as a result. Eliminating the tariff is likely to cause a major redistribution of domestic...

pardon if I restate the obvious: the euro is being used as a weapon of economic warfare.

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one of the more flattering descriptions...

Seems they're not such scoundrels after all.

freedom means freedom to fail as well as to succeed. to be guaranteed sustenance is not freedom. In fact, it is a living death. The upside is stricly limited. It's a great system for people who think life is all about comfort and pleasure. But of course, it's the people who love hard work...