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    What exactly is the argument against Gay Marriage?

    I hate to break it to you, but, legally, an SUV is classified as a truck. Sadly, this subject doesn't lend itself too well to simile
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    What exactly is the argument against Gay Marriage?

    Not true. It wasn't so long ago that many states had 'anti-miscegenation' laws on their books, yet these laws were struck down as contrary to the 14th amendment. Somehow society in the sixties managed to change marriage from the way it was, without opening it "to anyone and everyone in...
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    The Sacrifices Required for a Socialist Society

    Isn't that what the US and Europe already have? For all the political bluster, they are nearly identical.
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    HBO's "The Wire" Renewed for a fourth season!

    damn thats good news - I really thought that the show'd had it. Now we've just got to wait till 2006 to see it:(
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    Gay adoption

    So people should be barred from adopting if they have aspects of their person that may lead to the child being teased? So people with big noses should be right out. Also big ears. Anyone with ginger hair = no chance of adoption. People with hard to spell and /or 'foreign' surnames...
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    So we complain about gas, but pay more for water?

    That's what coke thought in the UK - Dasani
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    Spongebob video premiere today

    The Flintstones? What about Winnie the Pooh? First off - winnie is a girls name. Second - what was with him and Piglet? You can't tell me that there was something going on there - they held hands, they slept over at each other's place, and piglet's voice! Blatant Homosexual Propaganda! Its...
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    'Legal okay' for Russian MP3 site

    Its interesting, but how different is this from, say, a large sports clothing company taking advantage of laxer / non existent worker protention laws in china to cut their costs? Isn't this just outsourcing of people's music needs - the globalisation of the music business? Not that that is...
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    Anyone ever fly RyanAir?

    As others have said - the jets are fine, but they tend to use the smaller, slightly out of the way airports, and don't expect any frills, or a specific seat. (make sure to bring your own snacks and drinks for the flight, though, as they charge the earth.) In US terms, they are the same as...
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    Teen jumps over 80 foot gap, falls, sues

    reminds me of that farmer in England who was sued by one of three thieves who broke into his house. iirc he was burgled repeatedly, was fed up, and shot and killed one of them with his shotgun. one of the two that survived sued him, saying that he suffered mental damage of stuff like he wasn't...
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    AllofMP3 Dodges Bullet

    woah! its not 'knowingly purchasing stolen goods', but outsourcing our music needs - just as nike can outsource their manufacturing to some factory in China, where working conditions that would be illegal in the US are legal.
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    Ah, the joys of socialism.

    Well now, that's how I feel about my tax money going to pay the salaries of some of my local politicians
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    The Islamization of Europe

    What do you wan't - every Muslim in the world to personally write a letter condemning terrorism to you every day? Why don't you try to meet some Muslim's and see what they say rather than blaming the many for the crimes of a few? A few months ago, an American man living here in Britain...
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    W.'s Stiletto Democracy

    Its also true about the US. And I was using democracy / republic interchangably -lazy of me, I know)
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    are you at work?

    only in body
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    I would like a hand with this scam

    Thats what I was thinking - P P P P Powerbook! :D
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    The Islamization of Europe

    Or Northern Ireland in the 70s - replace Muslims with Catholics or Protestants and see what you get. Going back to the original point of this thread, though - the op's article is ridiculously overblown, and some of the responses here are shockingly xenophobic and narrow minded. I'm a...
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    W.'s Stiletto Democracy

    I'm a little slow today - was that sarcasm? What with the slaves and the women not being allowed to participate, there are those who say that the US has only been a democracy (republic / whatever) since the 1920s...
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    Europe, the failure in the making

    Why is it that everyone's definition of democracy narrows down to being just their own? :D I'm not sure, though, what you mean by ' institutions that support it'. Are you referring to the Constitution? I don't see that having a written constitution is implicit in being a democracy, and apart...
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    Europe, the failure in the making

    Well, thats an interesting one. The Isle of Man is technically a country - its not part of the UK, and its not part of the EU, but the UK handles defence and foreign affairs. Although, occasionally it has handled its own foreign diplomacy when it and the UK have differed on issues. Its just one...
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    Europe, the failure in the making

    It doesn't matter what you say - this question always just gets narrowed down and narrowed down to make the answer the US, as I was trying to say earlier. To be honest though, it is a hard question to answer, as the meaning of democracy and republic, etc, has changed. Many in New Zealand...
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    Why you american so obsess with guns??

    Meh, its a cultural thing, a national mentality. In some countries gun ownership is a unquestioned natural, and in others its the mark of a scary wierdo. Apples and oranges. To me (as a brit) banning guns in america would be a stupid move, as ownership is such a part of the culture, and so...
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    Europe, the failure in the making

    we seem to have drifted slightly from the original topic into the usual EU / US pissing match. Why don't we try comparing the two instead. The two main criticisms of the op's article seemed to be that Europe's nations are too proudly diverse to effectively unite, and that Europe has a problem...
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    Europe, the failure in the making

    The USA is a (de facto) Republic, rather than a democracy (though the meanings of both words have changed somewhat since they were coined), and is one of, but certainly not the, oldest or the longest lasting examples of either. However, to forestall any (predictable) responses to this; the US...
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    Socialized Medicine doesn't work

    Ok - let me inject a modicum of fact into this discussion. I'm a Brit, and I currently live in the UK. Misdiagnosis can happen here. It also happened to a friend of mine while I was living in France, and another friend while I was living in the US (though nothing like as severely as in this...
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    Canadian Gay Marriage Thread

    This understandable argument seems to be the cornerstone to many people's opposition to the idea of gay marriage; that marriage was originally a christian institution - a sacrament, and that government has been wrong to adopt it and dilute its christian nature - that if government wants to...
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    Abstinence programs: lessons in futility?

    Well, the current approach clearly isn't working *perfectly* but that doesn't mean it should be scrapped and replaced by Abstinance Only. Bear in mind that before the current generation of sex ed the approach really was abstinance only - from the school and the pulpit, and that was far from...
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    Half of Bankruptcies Due to Medical Bills...

    :Q I had wondered what happened when you lost your job. I wonder if the Americans on this board could clear up a couple of other questions for me - how much does health insurance typically cost, and how much does it go up if you have a pre-existing condition?
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    Genocide in Sudan, why is noone talking about it?

    It would be nice if there was a Superpower like that, but the world has never seen a dominant power like that - truly benevolant and free from self interest. You bring up the example of the second world war - but remember, Britain and France were happy to sign away Czechoslovakia before they...
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    Who buys music online?

    Audio warez? Surely these fine consumers are simply outsourcing their music needs - truly the American way!
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    European Union Democracy

    Hmm. I don't find it so. There's often rivalry between neighbours, but I've not really seen actual hate. And I've visited most of the EU-15. As for racism - yes, it definitely exists, more so in certain regions, but I saw no worse living in the EU than when living in the US - they both have...
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    European Union Democracy

    Welcome to politics, child.
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    The Problem With Europe

    And in that, as in so many other things, the EU and the US are more similar than their respective populations seem to realise. Really, I 've lived in Europe, and I've lived in the US. I like them both, and I'd be happy to live in either - but its obvious that each suffers from the same faults...
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    Our President Explains

    Oh, come on - he's called ' Bush the liar' so much that I'd thought you'd be pleased by such honesty!
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    Europeans claim wictory over Americans!!!

    Yeah - the EU wants to protect bananas - the US wants to protect sugar and steel, and they both bitch and moan about how bad the other one is. Which strangely parallels the Airbus / boeing spat - Airbus gets loans / Boeing gets 'subsidies'. Every few years one complains about the other and...
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    Europeans claim wictory over Americans!!!

    Did anyone actually read the article? All because the Thais sell prawns too cheap, so the EU slaps a 12% tariff on them. Of course, thats slightly less than the tariff the US puts on - 97%. Good to see both parties are living up to their free trade rhetoric
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    Huh! I didnt know this!

    but its pretty much a given that they will :(
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    I have no girlfriend, thank you ATOT

    That was you? You legend, you....
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    Interesting Casstte Deck thing for PC drive bay

    It does look cool, but how much? Can it seriously cost so much to make or can they just charge that cos no one else makes them?