What motivates China in this situation is the idea that they want to have a buffer state between themselves and a free democratic state, allied with the US complete with American military bases, as well as preventing the complete collapse of North Korea and the flood of refugees they would have to deal with flooding…

Well, we've since moved our guys out of Seoul, so the people who are directly targeted by over 100 artillery batteries are the citizens of Seoul. I'm not naive enough to think we can sit idly by if a crisis on the peninsula flared, but IMO it should be the citizens of South Korea mostly leading these discussions and…

Meh. I see North Korea as South Korea, Japan, and China's problem. Let them deal with it.

Hey you're interupting "Ow my balls" with all your faggy talk.

Reverse Eugenics.

Strange, I always thought skeuomorphism was designed for old people. Like Microsoft Bob. No child would find game center on iOS vaguely compelling, whereas my deceased grandma may be enticed.

Half of Iran watches western and Turkish satellite TV. Somehow I don't see this working so much.

Great, now I'll I need is some C4.

If you strictly define socialism as you've said, then I can't think of a single socialist nation, and there's maybe a handful of "socialist" companies out there if you acknowledge that unions are shareholders in many car and trucking companies. There's not even such thing as "socialist medicine" since it's run by the…

From totalitarian socialism to capitalist prosperity: India. China. Vietnam. From fascism to prosperity and capitalism: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Chile, Argentina, Brazil. Going back further, from feudalism to the first world: The United States, The UK, Germany. You took an outlier, Russia, who is plagued more by…

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!! Wow. Just Wow. I'd buy you a subscription to The Economist, but I think you just wouldn't understand.

Did you finish high school? Probably too busy being stoned at the coffee shop complaining how "the man" oppresses you? Maybe you can enlighten me how capitalism "causes billions living in poverty and squalor". I'd just love to hear your brilliant theories.

The modern welfare state is redistribution of wealth...I suppose that you could define socialism strictly by the absence of private property and state ownership of all property. In that case safety nets aren't "socialism". But then no such striclty defined socialist society exists with the exception of maybe North…

*sigh*. Ask any economist, and/or study history.

What, and confirm that free market capitalism has revolutionized the world, lifting billions out of poverty across the world? That the best way to lift people out of poverty is to protect their private property? And that socialism leads to Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, and Stalin? An idiot would assume all libertarians want…

This is an idiotic assumption. Most libertarians lean libertarian, just like socialists lean toward socialism. Socialism in a pure form is absolute nonsense, but of course safety nets are a form of socialism that reasonable libertarians would accept. And most socialists would accept that capitalism and protection of…

In a limited sense that's true, but the board of directors and shareholders of a corporation are not completely absolved from wrong doing under the law. They can go to jail, be sued, and are responsible for the activities of a corporation. In your example, the recourse is to sue the Lamp Corporation for the $50 and it…

Banquia Hydroelectric plant...171,000 people died, 11 million people lost their homes. More people die each year transporting coal and gas than in the entire history of the nuclear power industry combined. I think two people died at Fukushima? How many die in coal mines and refinery fires each year?

It's hollow for holding a pepper spray cannister. The ultimate hippie outrage.

I complain to Verizon every chance I get that they don't offer more wp7. The trophy is truly an awful piece of hardware, but so much better than my droid 2 was all because the os makes it fun to use. I'd buy the Nokia at full retail if it was offered on Verizon.