@rougy

You know, that reminds me of these posters I've been seeing everywhere around Brisbane. They say, "Communism is dead, Capitalism is dying, time for a third way!", leading you on with a sense that if only you were to attend to their gathering, you would be enlightened ... as if to suggest their movement is anything but empty rhetoric and righteous indignation.

I'm still waiting for you to offer that inspiring and brilliant alternative to capitalism that would see developing countries miraculously lifted out of poverty and everyone paid a developed country wage.

Somehow, since I believe I've already refuted what I would expect you to say, I don't think I'm going to get it.

But look, you asked me genuinely about what changed since 1979, so I will provide you with some statistics.

Over the past generation, since launching market-oriented reforms in 1978, China has made impressive gains in overall development. Growth performance - with real annual GDP growth rates averaging at 10% during 1979-2005- - has been correlated with reductions in poverty and with social development.

An estimated 400 million people have been lifted out of poverty within the past 30 years.

At China's official poverty line, the number of poor decreased from 250 million in 1978 (31% of the rural population) to under 30 million in the 2000s (3% of the rural population).

Between 1979 and 2005, average years of schooling in the 15-64 year age group rose from 5 to 9 years and the share of those with junior secondary schooling increased from 15 to 38 percent.

http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/A1F18401-BE93-44EF-9F76-55DDA2C6E12D/0/hped_en.pdf

China's HDI, which encompasses life expectancy, education, GDP and other factors rose from 0.554 in 1980, to 0.772 in 2009.

Life expectancy at birth improved from 63.2 in 1970 to 73.18 in 2008.

http://bizcovering.com/business-and-society/globalization-and-its-impact-on-china/

Look and by all means point out that access to health care has gone down and inequality has gone up, these are elements that should have been dealt with more directly instead of rapidly liberalising as was the case in Russia as well, but these figures are still irrefutable.

Oh and by the way, I still respect your opinion, but on this I think you're dead wrong.

Throughout history, the only blood to be spilled has been done at the hands of the religious? Does that make sense?

In public, there should be caps on speech. In the US, the principle of shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater is on well known restriction on free speech. The line is also drawn on public hate speech that incites immediate violence. I think that we should also restrict speech that leads to violence, as many countries do. I don't care too much about what a person does or says in their home, if it doesn't harm me.

Run that buy me again? Hang on, one more time I didn't quiet believe my eyes! I, wait I can't say anything because of the new caps on freedom of expression. Oh wait, this website is now gone because of the new international laws that stop us from free speech. Guess what Longde, your speech on this website would be capped just as everyone else would be.

Welcome to the world were no one can speak without being beheaded because "someone might get offended." Hang on, while we're at it lets go ahead and hang:

• George Carlin Posthumously


• Howard Zinn Posthumously


• Noam Chomsky


• Theo van Gogh (film director)- Oh wait, they got him already.


• Frank Zappa


• Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Wait, here is a whole list you can start with; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_speech_activists.

Hell while we are being politically correct lets go ahead and enact a law that will make mandatory executions for all independent investigative journalists. I mean while we are going all out here, why don't we go ahead and make it a crime to be anything independent.

I think someone said this before me, "There can be no freedom without free speech."Free Press. You know what they say? If you don't like it don't read it! If you don't like it don't watch it! If you don't like it don't eat it! If you don't like it go back to your protective bubble!

Hypberbole aside where I come from it is an inalienable right to speak your mind even if it offends someone. It is that offended persons right to think you are a douche bag. But as soon as there is violence both parties are in the wrong. Justice is properly blind but in most cases she is not stupid; she doth not tread across that line to become a tyrant.

Quotes from one John Stuart Mill speaking on the Harm Principle.

If the arguments of the present chapter are of any validity, there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered. (1978, 15)

John Stuart Mill quote on the Harm Principle, again:

In "On Liberty" (1859) John Stuart Mill argued that "...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered."[28] Mill argues that the fullest liberty of expression is required to push arguments to their logical limits, rather than the limits of social embarrassment. However, Mill also introduced what is known as the harm principle, in placing the following limitation on free expression: "the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.[28]

What do these quotes mean to you and I? Well they mean simply; that a person can speak their mind so long as the argument presented is valid even if it is embarrassingly immoral. That means, as it is already a statute the US, that hate crime is not free speech. But the prosecuting party has the burden of proof. They have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person had the intention of causing harm with said speech. Then we enter the realm of Libel and Slander. A person has to proven knowingly lieing about someone in order to be charged with Libel or Slander.

I have for you, sir or mam a quote from Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, this quote is often confused with Samuel Johnson's "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Hell is paved with good intentions." Even earlier than that, it's been attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)

http://www.videosift.com/video/Foxy-Get-Off-1978

>> ^spoco2:
Oh, and you should change the embed to the google video one: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8786521104625863614#
As it's the whole thing in one vid.


Done and thanks.

"Stumblin' In", a duet recorded in 1978 for RSO Records with Chris Norman of the band Smokie reached a #4 peak in the U.S.

She is known in the United States for her role as Leather Tuscadero on the TV show Happy Days. Show producer Garry Marshall offered the role without an audition after seeing her on his daughter's bedroom wall. Leather was the younger sister of Fonzie's girlfriend, hot-rod driver Pinky Tuscadero. Leather fronted an all-girl rock band joined by principal character Joanie Cunningham. The character returned in other cameo roles, including once for a date to a fraternity formal with Ralph Malph. Marshall offered Quatro a Leather Tuscadero spin-off, but she refused, saying she did not want to be typecast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzi_Quatro

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Viktoriya Yermolyeva was born in Kiev in 1978. She graduated with honours from Kiev Lysenko Specialized Music High School (1996), piano class of Prof. Iryna Lipatova and National P. Tchaikovsky Music Academy of the Ukraine (2000), piano class of Prof. Igor Ryabov.
She studied in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar (D), postgraduate course with Prof. Peter Waas and simultaneously in the years 2001-2003, studied in the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola (I) with Prof. Lazar Berman.

She won prizes in many piano competitions, among others:
1st Prize at “Filippo Trevisan” International for Piano Interpretation (I).
Winner of The Grachtenfestival 2005 Amsterdam
1st Prize at 35th International Competition “”Vincenzo Bellini”(I)
1st Prize at 20th International Piano Competition “Citta di Marsala” (I)
1st Prize at International Piano Competition “Citta’ Di Trani” (I).
1st Prize at 4th Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Prize (I).
Grand Prix at 9th Pierre Lantier International Music Competition in duet with V.Dmitriev (flute) (Fr).

>> ^Diogenes:
the total costs of the 'clinton blowjob' investigation also include years' worth of whitewater investigations begun under independent counsel robert fiske -- ken starr replaced him, and then further investigations were tacked on... namely travelgate, filegate, and finally the paula jones civil suit leading to the breaking of the lewinsky story...
the total pricetag for seven years of multiple investigations? approximately 70 to 80 million
let's also keep in mind that it wasn't 'clinton getting a blowjob' that incurred these expenses, rather that there were shady land deals, as well as questionable firings of whitehouse travel staff, and improper access of fbi files... being investigated parallel to his sexual harrassment (paula jones) case while arkansas governor - the latter led to lewinsky... and it was then that clinton was charged with PERJURY and OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.... not just getting a bj
the cost of the lewinsky portion of the investigation, and that which caused the two above charges, is estimated at 6.7 to 7.2 million dollars
the total cost of the 9-11 investigation was 12 million dollars... 3 million initially allocated, and another 9 million of a requested 11 million allocated later
finally, as to the 'gop spen[ding] more money' ... well, the original investigation was initiated at clinton's request... through janet reno, who was appointed by clinton himself -- and reno appointed fiske, and then fiske was replaced--using a law of special counsel (originally created by a democrat-controlled congress in 1978) reenacted by clinton--by starr who was appointed by an independent three-judge panel to continue the whitewater investigation - also remember that starr had previously been the leading candidate for a us supreme court seat, but was deemed 'not conservative enough' by the gop... and therefore h.w. bush nominated david souter
yeah, there was monkey-business besides clinton and a cigar, but let's not forget the basic facts


Why muddy your propaganda with facts, escpecially when the fact don't support you.

the total costs of the 'clinton blowjob' investigation also include years' worth of whitewater investigations begun under independent counsel robert fiske -- ken starr replaced him, and then further investigations were tacked on... namely travelgate, filegate, and finally the paula jones civil suit leading to the breaking of the lewinsky story...

the total pricetag for seven years of multiple investigations? approximately 70 to 80 million

let's also keep in mind that it wasn't 'clinton getting a blowjob' that incurred these expenses, rather that there were shady land deals, as well as questionable firings of whitehouse travel staff, and improper access of fbi files... being investigated parallel to his sexual harrassment (paula jones) case while arkansas governor - the latter led to lewinsky... and it was then that clinton was charged with PERJURY and OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.... not just getting a bj

the cost of the lewinsky portion of the investigation, and that which caused the two above charges, is estimated at 6.7 to 7.2 million dollars

the total cost of the 9-11 investigation was 12 million dollars... 3 million initially allocated, and another 9 million of a requested 11 million allocated later

finally, as to the 'gop spen[ding] more money' ... well, the original investigation was initiated at clinton's request... through janet reno, who was appointed by clinton himself -- and reno appointed fiske, and then fiske was replaced--using a law of special counsel (originally created by a democrat-controlled congress in 1978) reenacted by clinton--by starr who was appointed by an independent three-judge panel to continue the whitewater investigation - also remember that starr had previously been the leading candidate for a us supreme court seat, but was deemed 'not conservative enough' by the gop... and therefore h.w. bush nominated david souter

yeah, there was monkey-business besides clinton and a cigar, but let's not forget the basic facts

>> ^Payback:
While doing this at a similar hill in a friend's old 1978 Cougar, we didn't have a spotter. So when the lady in the stationwagon pulled out into the intersection situated just after the "jump", we left a skid mark of P305 55ZR16 Goodyear Gatorback across her hood. Got into the news the next day too. Saw the marks.
Good times. Good times.


Idiot.

While doing this at a similar hill in a friend's old 1978 Cougar, we didn't have a spotter. So when the lady in the stationwagon pulled out into the intersection situated just after the "jump", we left a skid mark of P305 55ZR16 Goodyear Gatorback across her hood. Got into the news the next day too. Saw the marks.

Good times. Good times.

Pinky, it may not be be a racist church now, but it certainly was for most of its existence, until 1978. Its track record is shameful, and what they are doing to gays now is equally shameful. To be fair, most major faiths have shameful track records on race, gender, and homosexuality. Judaism is predicated on the belief that Jews are God's chosen people, with the gentiles being second class human beings in God's eyes. Christians looked to the Bible to condone the institution of slavery. Many Muslim women are forced to wear burqas, even if they don't want to. I could go on and on, but I don't want another wall of text here in the comments section.

Back to the topic at hand, the Mormons are now actively trying to deny the rights of gays, just like they once actively tried to deny the rights of blacks. All the testimonials about the "saintliness" of Joseph Smith doesn't change that fact. BTW, he sure did like amassing wives, even taking some from other men. But I'm sure God wanted him to break up marriages, just so he could have more wives. Because he's a latter day saint.

The "Old Lady" is Janet Flanner...

"Janet Flanner (13 March, 1892 - 7 November, 1978) was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name Genet. She also published a single novel, The Cubical City, set in New York City.[wikip.]

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