@Betelguzah
Agree with your list of things best funded by the goverment: Would also add defense, policing, education, conservation, some arts and some scientific research. Feel exasperated by endless useless infrastructure projects however. What more roads, can't people think of abetted way to spend money.

@Jarvik7
Edit that to read "forced prostitution". Can't speak for all feminists but I am pleased that prostitution is legal in NZ. This has meant a lessening of the sleaze factor, and police who see their role to protect workers rather than harassing them Opponents claim that there has been an increase in underage street walkers. There was even an attempt to set up a brothel for women. This However seems to have fallen through.

Harpagornes Wrote:@Betelguzah
Agree with your list of things best funded by the goverment: Would also add defense, policing, education, conservation, some arts and some scientific research. Feel exasperated by endless useless infrastructure projects however. What more roads, can't people think of abetted way to spend money.

I'm not sure how the private sector could take care of the infrastructure though? I think that trying to get rid of bottlenecks is very important to avoid traffic jams and such.

Here the government cooperates with the private sector to get the infrastructure up and running faster than if the government were to build it all by themselves. A constructor firm funds the project and later gets a set amount of money for every car that uses the road from the government.

I don't know how to solve failures in infrastructure design though.

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HonyakuJoshua Wrote:I'm surprised no one has mentioned mixi.jp which is a bit like a Japanese Facebook.

I actually do have a mixi account, but havent gotten any women from there.

ps someone mentioned inside job as being a good movie. That movie gave the elites and bankers such a free pass and was way too apologitic of the federal reserve too. I dont think they criticized bernanke once in that movie. Here is a way better movie

Do you know anything about social engineering? I am just too abrasive and ebullient for it to work, but I do think there is a lot of truth in it.

i cant say i do

It basically involves making people act in a certain way.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Social-Engineeri...0470639539

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