1. Under your proposed small state, how are the people supposed to keep the state from expanding?
2. Are you aware of any countrys govt in the past that has actually stayed small over the long run?
My argument is: Govts are too dangerous to be allowed to exist and there is no way to actually...
Ok I'm going to try and present the argument against IP, just taking together bits and pieces from different articles/sites :
The ethical argument:
To enforce IP is to prevent people from making peaceful use of the information they possess. It'd be like violating freedom of speech or press...
Privatisation is in the air again!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200706/s1941519.htm - Labor opposed to any privatisation of Aust Post
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200706/s1941306.htm - CommSec 'keen to spark debate' on Aust Post sale
As usual, I'm for privatisation, anyone...
Just tossing the idea out there, anybody got any thoughts?
Here's a link to some report about the privatisation down in Victoria.
http://ipa.org.au/publications/publisting_detail.asp?pubid=665 - Victoria's Public Transport: Assessing the results of privatisation
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/a-radical-idea-work-less-live-more/2007/03/13/1173722468319.html
So Gittins says, "We could bring back penalty rates for work at unsocial hours and re-regulate shopping and trading hours, for openers.".
I have a few problems with this, first of all, how...
Ok, so I'm going into second year and I've done FINS1612 and FINS1613. From the cores, that leaves FINS2624 and FINS3616. Would you do these both in second semester of second year, or would it be better to delay doing 3616 til later(as in, would anything I learn in some other subject help me get...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1781557.htm
The sentence was handed down a lot sooner than I thought it would have taken. So, what do you guys think? Does he deserve to die?
Being l33t internet warriors, you've probably all seen this already, but I just saw it then and thought it was funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZGYqquSr0
I'm on teh chaser :P I got my 7 seconds of fame!
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/348/ayo9.jpg - see me eat 'human'
I look like an idiot tho, but I don't care
I've read that generally you need at least 7-8 hours sleep. How many hours of sleep do you get a night? I've noticed that once you get used to staying up late you tend to be able to do it more easily once you get into the pattern. (I'm talking about getting say 7 to 7.5 hours rather than about...