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  • #226
    Originally posted by Last Conformist
    If they invade, it's possible that someone would be quick enough to take him out of that misconception before the Chileans pwnz the sorry asses of the Bolivian army. (And navy. They've got one, believe it or not.)
    Bolivia's landlocked

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    • #227
      Originally posted by Kuciwalker


      Bolivia's landlocked
      It operates on lake Titicaca. (Don't ask me why. Near as I know, Peru is the only neighbour that hasn't beaten up Bolivia.)
      Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

      It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
      The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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      • #228
        Originally posted by Last Conformist
        It operates on lake Titicaca. (Don't ask me why. Near as I know, Peru is the only neighbour that hasn't beaten up Bolivia.)
        Nope, that's not true.
        Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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        • #229
          Originally posted by chegitz guevara


          Nope, that's not true.
          Care to offer a bit of detail? Like, what's not true?
          Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

          It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
          The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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          • #230
            Peru has beaten up on Bolivia. Note the old borders. (As an aside, Peru lost it's southern tail to Chile in the War of the Pacific, also).

            Last edited by chequita guevara; June 9, 2005, 20:27.
            Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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            • #231
              Why the Eytie flag Che?
              Only feebs vote.

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              • #232
                This is freakin' bizarre. The protestors trust the government enough to keep the natural gas flowing, even though it isn't competent to pick up the trash?
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #233
                  Nobody wanted to take a stab at answering the question I posted a couple pages ago, eh?

                  *shrug*

                  Not entirely unexpected I guess.

                  Enjoy your rabble rousing then.

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                  • #234
                    Originally posted by Agathon
                    Why the Eytie flag Che?
                    Cuz I'm a quarter Italian.
                    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                    • #235
                      It's a valid question, Vel. You're absolutely right, chances are, it's going to end in failure. Doesn't mean we can't have hope that it will turn out some other way.

                      Notice that the movement isn't being led by a communist organization, but by the workers and peasants themselves, though I'm sure that many of the leaders are communists of some sort. I don't know what that says.

                      In the past, the workers and peasants overthrew the governent and successfully established a democracy that lasted 12 years before the military overthrew it, so there is historical precident for things to turn out okay, at least for a little while. We also have the precident of Nicaragua.
                      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                      • #236
                        Originally posted by Kidicious

                        Yep, and inflation got worse.
                        Duh! When prices were kept artificially low they will rise back to the market rate when the artifical constraints are removed. That doesn't mean it wasn't a good move since NEW City and other big American cities were experiencing a wave of properties becoming slums. Property taxes and other costs kept rising at market rates yet all rents were frozen so landlords stopped putting money into apartment blocks. We're talking about everything from lightbulbs not being changed to major plumming problems not being fixed because economically landlords couldn't afford to do so.

                        If you **** with the market then in the end the market ****s you back. It's better to just let the market run its course and regulate to take off the rough edges.
                        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                        • #237
                          Congress has appointed Eduardo Rodriguez, chairman of the Supreme Court, to interim president till new elections are held. Díez evidently amassed enough sense to decline.
                          Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                          It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                          The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                          • #238
                            Originally posted by Last Conformist
                            Congress has appointed Eduardo Rodriguez, chairman of the Supreme Court, to interim president till new elections are held. Díez evidently amassed enough sense to decline.
                            ive seen reports of continued violence in La Paz, including one death.
                            "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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                            • #239
                              Originally posted by Oerdin
                              It's better to just let the market run its course and regulate to take off the rough edges.
                              Like double digit inflation? That's nuts. Markets don't **** with people. They just **** up. So you fix them. Period.
                              Last edited by Kidlicious; June 10, 2005, 12:49.
                              I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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                              • #240
                                Originally posted by Oerdin

                                If you **** with the market then in the end the market ****s you back. It's better to just let the market run its course and regulate to take off the rough edges.
                                A pity that the lesson of 20th century economics has been the opposite of this. Dear me... where did you learn this stuff?
                                Only feebs vote.

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