Recent content by munkyforce

Already have, Yitzhak Rabin Prime Minister of Israel back in 1995.

First off, yes I do think that consumers have a right to be disappointed and to voice their disappointment. It's just that I don't think that it's ever really going to achieve anything. Jim's anti-corporate positions are fine but he fails to understand what motivates corporate decisions i.e...

Wow can't believe how disappointed I am by this trailer. The original was one of my all time favourite games. Turning it into what looks like a fps that rips off Deus Ex... I'll reserve judgment, maybe it will at least capture the feel of the original game world.

Just putting this out there... Why is it assumed that a remake will move millions of units? I'm not a marketing expert, and I'm not prepared to spend thousands of dollars doing market research, so I can't make a claim either way. That said, I think that it's worth remembering that any...

I think that perhaps there is in fact limited free will. (What a cop out I know). I feel that free will exists to the extent that our biological and socially driven needs can actually be in conflict. I think that where they are in conflict we have room to exercise free will.

The last 10 minutes or so of the film 'Requiem for a Dream'. Totally soul crushing.

Yes, I agree that Stalin was definitely a monster, but then again so was Lenin. Lenin began the process of setting up Gulag, and creating the repressive laws that saw so many innocent people in the Gulag system. Try reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work, "the Gulag Archipelego" if you want more...

Yes free will exists. Of course we make choices based on our circumstances, however we still make the choice. I think that claiming there is no free will is simply a cop out, a way of comforting ourselves, and relieving ourselves of responsibility for our actions. If there is no free will how...

The problem with that is, when do you start exposing said industry to competition? Protectionism creates vested interests, so it's possible that government will not have the political will to remove trade barriers. For example farming subsidies in Europe and the US.

I think the problem with having high standards is that it can reinforce your insecurities. The longer it is between relationships the harder it is to get into a new one. Just remember that a relationship doesn't have to be 'forever and always'. A one night stand with a girlgoyle can be a...

ok. To boil it down my point is this. A theory of human nature whether it be man is rationally self interested or, man is a product of the society in which he lives, determines what we believe the 'good life' is. To live the 'good life' we need the 'good society' in which it is possible to live...

First off I would have to say that I would agree that 'rational self-interest' is the best theory of human nature. My problem with Rand is that she fails to adequately demonstrate (at least in Atlas Shrugged, maybe in some of her other work?) how her ideal society would be structured. More...

"The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek. Really fascinating.

I've noticed on a few threads that I've read that people believe that a war is good for a nations economy. I can't help but wonder how true this actually is. To me it seems contingent on too many factors to be easily applied as a blanket statement. For example a war fought on your own territory...

I think the point is that China's amazing economic growth is based on export of consumption goods and foreign investment. If China withdrew its funds the monetary contraction in the west would worsen, deepening the recessions and further reducing global demand for Chinese goods and reduce the...