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Originally posted by minestrone View PostIt is astounding that they shoot a person a day for speaking out against their government, it is astounding that you have taken what I said and assume that only the shot speak out against the government.
Communism is a disease.
If I had said that in China I would be placed in prison.
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It's not a question of fairness, it's a question of efficient resource allocation. Whether it's old school communist regimes or modern capitalist Britain, people aren't very good at running their own societies because the whomever you put in charge and however you put them there they cannot be trusted, or aren't capable, of doing what is best for everyone. People are corrupt and fallible, even the best of them.
Of course in a proper communist society we would all be on "welfare" and there would be no "jobs" but everyone would have everything they needed. More of a utopia really.
It'll probably start with a botnet that redistributes the money in all of the worlds bank accounts as it sees fit.
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Oh Karl the world isn't fair
It isn't and never will be
They tried out your plan
It brought misery instead
If you'd seen how they worked it you'd be glad you were dead
just like I'm glad I'm living in the land of the free
where the rich just get richer
and the poor you don't ever have to see
It would depress us, Karl
Because we care
that the world still isn't fair
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Communism is quite a nice idea, in theory. It's letting people run it that makes it go wrong. Once we have benign artificial intelligences to make the decisions for us, it'll make a comeback.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostIt's astounding that only 1 person out of over 1 bln speaks out against communist Govt, still that's like more than in Russia...
Communism is a disease.
If I had said that in China I would be placed in prison.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostUnderstandably he's not that keen that people are able to get from London to Birmingham quicker.
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Originally posted by AtW View Postand 120 mile track between London/Birmingham is still under discussion, ffs scheduled to go live in 2015, assuming some tory ******** who object to the line as it goes through their territory, ffs - in Spain when high speed rail was build MPs were lobbying hard to have a local station!!!
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No 'Anglo-Saxon' based economy has high speed rail: primacy of property in law.
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Isn't it nice having a train thread that isn't just threaded being a prat with hisladygricerboy sockpuppet
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Originally posted by d000hg View Postisn't suited for a country like ours which is 35X smaller and 2X as densely populated as China.
Woot a "stupid" Chinese civilisation - they've only been around for a few thousand of years (that's like way more than England), and those "idiots" just insist on putting their hard earned money into high speed railway.
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We're going to have Crossrail soon. Since only London matters that's all we need ?
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostI worked for Railtrack 10 years ago and while doing some stuff for their civil engineering department who were working on the East Coast and High Speed Tunnel links their assertion was that they could put in high speed links for a sensible amount of money.
The stone in their shoe was public enquiries every few miles, every tunnel and bridge upgrade and massive amounts of NIMBYism. They reckoned that it increased cost and time by a factor of at least 10.
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