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Quote: Originally Posted by abraxus Regardless of legal status though, as far as I'm aware there is still no right to treat a prisoner any way you feel like. " The Geneva Conventions apply in wars between two or more states. Article 5 of the GCIII states that the status of a detainee may be determined by a "competent tribunal." Until such time, he is to be treated as a prisoner of war.[2] After a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Fatnick The problem though is that this isn't a speech issue. Again, the couple were charged with threatening behaviour not with speaking our or criticizing a religion. When the judge realised that there was no real evidence that any threatening behavior had taken place, the case was thrown out of course. The law worked perfectly: the couple were clearly never in any danger of being found guilty. Have you read...

Quote: Originally Posted by malacapricornis China swipes IP like crazy. That aside, capability amongst our people in the US is going to vary vastly. Pricing our lowest skilled people completly out of work is tragic and counterproductive. Idle hands the devil and all that. It's equally counterproductive to pay inflated wages to American workers simply to maintain appearances . People will have to realize that the monotonous, low-skill...

Quote: Originally Posted by Das Mookid Congratulations, guy, as you have seen through the massive, global conspiracy that the scientific academies of every nation in the developed world have colluded together in, to secure the approval of their sinister vegetarian-communist-overlord masters in the Illuminati. http://www.foxnews.com As it stands, please shout your new blend of skepticism from the rooftops to save the poor uninformed working...

Quote: Originally Posted by abraxus Well that's one way to apportion blame and make it a never ending battle. Close down the source in Mexico and it'll spring up somwhere else. Close down the demand though and it can't spring up anywhere. Better still legalise it and you have no crime problem. Well, Mexico, Columbia and other places. Legalizing it would stop problems sure. but it would also make it easier for people to obtain,...

Quote: Originally Posted by The Fez It's difficult to ascertain "what wages should be". Obviously, wages 350% more than the average worker is, admittedly, excessive. Like I said, though, I think you'll find that factors beyond mere greed can account these increases. You'll find that share-holders during the 90s were probably more comfortable with letting their execs increase their wages simply because times...

The attacker was possessed by excessive carbon emissions.

Quote: Originally Posted by Directrix I'm a bit surprised that a person willing to stick their fist in another's anus for pleasure has the desire to put on a rubber glove before doing so. Seems like they would be well beyond those sort of considerations. Well, the rubber gloves aren't for fisting.

To me there's a difference between greed through retail prices and greed through the pursuit of profits. Consumers wouldn't pay higher prices for better business practice, no matter how much they say they would. Price is king. Lots of businesses have atrocious business practices; from large monopolistic retailers screwing suppliers, to creating shell companies and intermediaries to reduce their tax liabilities to free them of the...