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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6258794.stm i'm amazed at this - waiting to find out the catch... any thoughts? what do you think is in need of reform. personally, i'd say PR for voting, but i think that may be going a bit too far...

this rests on the assumption that materials available to us are infinite. in fact, key raw material such as oil, gold, etc. needed to make most "modern" things - plastics, fuel, computer chips - are clearly finite. how does capitalism keep increasing productoin after it has used up all the raw...

wasn't slavery first abolished in haiti after a revolt? british traders still made a ton of money from the slave trade even after it was officially banned by trading with cuba brazil and the states.

walked into a tent with the nevile staples band on just by accident, was great stuff!

best thing about sweet mother is duppy on the flip - big tune!

to bring the thread back to the boycott... quite (i thought) well argued reasons for it in guardian comment today http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,,2100391,00.html

I'd imagine most people have read about this before, but its quite an interesting article and goes beyond the more obvious just stating how music has been weaponized http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans10/cusick_eng.htm Abstract One of the most startling aspects of musical culture in the...

theres programs that let you change the track properties so that the computer thinks the whole cd is just one track. have a look here http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/boards/ubb/Forum1/HTML/003909.html

areas underthe "control" of the palestinian authority are technically under palestinian sovereignty, and i'm pretty sure the palestinian state is enshrined in some un resolutions

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not going to go throught the whole thing because theres a lot of stuff i can't rebuke with any authority on the subject, but "states" did not exists at that time in the modern sense. nation states are a product of the enlightenment from C17th onwwards sceptical. i don't have much knowledge...