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Cooperation is stronger than competition. In fact, competition depends on cooperation.

There is no bias there since risk means possibility.

Kuzadd may have got it simply by reading my posts on biopolitics.

Climatologists are not primatologists.

I have already shown on this thread that we can deal with CO2 without any science (and any sarcasm).

To keep it simple, money makers are the CO2 emitters.

Indeed, Bonam wrote there a self-defeating line.

The hotspots are around the chimneys which should be connected to sequestration devices to protect property rights.

Whatever the science, property rights allow owners to force their neighbors to keep their discharges on their side.

I think Bach was also disconnected from this forum for one month!

To facilitate communications, theories wear different names. Left and right are also names to allow communications.

And also at the other end, I'm certain biochemists can find a way to remove ink from fingers based on the way ink is removed from used paper for recycling purpose.

Democracy is complex. Democracy is not about people hold up a purple finger because choosing the best candidates require judgment and dipping one finger in ink doesn't.

For a lot of posters, this forum is not about reading but about laughing.

The only real, or at least the first, responsibility of a government is to prevent or win wars; opportunities to make money and have leisure time are to be thought strictly in relation to this.

I'm quite sure that this new centrist party is dedicated to paying each hour people will put in political matters more than their hourly wage.

Before going after voters, a new party usually has to recruit volunteers to do that kind of things.

The reality is the contrary: your MP makes you pay him dearly because you cannot imagine a better more direct democracy.

It doesn't even say something about pollution!

- A government with NO day to day operations that's what I wrote. - The definition of democracy is the will of the people (as a people).

Personally and much like libertarians on this respect, I think that a government should have no day to day operations to deal with. The whole idea for a population to have political representatives is to deal with matters that require secrecy (i.e. top secret classification).

Only the dead have no time left.

The surest sign an ideology is still alive is a country's willingness to show a good self-image to others. At the Beijing Olympics we have seen such willingness on the part of China, something that is unthinkable on the part of Iran.

I have to disagree. The main difference in between Iran and China is that Iran (both the population and its leadership) is envious of the Western lifestyle and China (both the population and its leadership) feels superior to the Western world. The main reason why China can feel superior to Western liberal democracies is that they still believe that its communist revolution will defeat capitalism.

The only limit to polling is I think to be found in a poll where a 50/50 split is the result. Indeed, can we still speak of the will of the people when a people is divided in such a manner!? The only way out of this predicament, is for the population to debate or deliberate on the issue and then revote.