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Australia doesn't have enough kids for parents who want to adopt, so I doubt DOCs would have a problem if it took that option.

Haha!

There's this place called South-East Asia with a bunch of hybrid regimes and failed states and we happen to be just below it. Actually, given the progress Indonesia has made in roughly only 10 years from military dictatorship to brimming democracy I think we should be far, far closer to them...

Unconventional/guerilla warfare (Australia is perfect for it) and superior weaponry (which we currently have) would allow us to fend off a Chinese invasion long enough for our allies to help us out. In fact, it's exactly that concept which Australia's current defence force is based and trained...

OK, my bad. A lot of what people (especially the free market fundamentalists you refer to below) say about the free market is faith-based. Obviously given what you said about it underproviding public goods I've mis-judged you. Uh, no, I never said that. I said that if the market were perfect...

I know, right? I wish we could all live in Libertopia where the poor starve and savvy entrepreuners rich off the sweat of their own brow make said poor produce luxury goods for $1 an hour in sweat shops until they have cardiac arrests because there's no minimum wage laws, OH&S regulations, or...

I do understand the free market, but I obviously don't place the same faith in it as you. If the free market were perfect, we would not need banking regulations or anti-trust laws. If the free market were perfect we would not need laws to ensure sick people could access health insurance. If the...

Hockey recommends pragmatism on tax cuts: Howard tax breaks 'too generous': Hockey - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) That man is a fucking champion and if I could ignore for a second that a vote for him is a vote for all the other Liberal stooges (especially the social...

I never denied this. I simply pointed out that in the tech industry more often than not companies produce better products for the same price rather than lower prices (it's arguable whether prices fall more often than better products are produced I suppose). The original post you griped at did...

I'm not sure I agree with that because mining corps aren't banks, nor do they have the best interests of the economy at heart (seeking gold levels and hence deflation/inflation levels that suit their current needs), but it's the best defence of the gold standard I've read in a long time. Edit...

If there was no cheaper unit of milk on offer to give you the same amount as before, then it would be further away from 'falling prices', but you could effectively still call it a fall in prices since you can be guaranteed to drink milk all your life and hence just by twice as much for $2...

So the money supply would be controlled by mining corporations. Who would control how much they mined each year to ensure inflation was 0%? I agree with you otherwise.

Thanks for the ad hominem, zimmerman, not that I expect much rational from you, but for all intents and purposes, when a company produces product x one year for $200, and product y two years later for $200 that's twice as fast but discontinues product x, it's an illusion to say that the price of...

Oh, sorry, I thought we were talking about the real world, not the magical land of Libertopia where the financial system runs on the engine of contradiction rather than according to inviolate mathematics. My bad. Either both these are true or neither is true. Pick which you believe please...

See edit. And you're kidding me, right? You have this notion of inflation as some sort of evil yet completely fail to understand why deflation, the opposite, is even worse? Deflation is a sustained fall in prices. Persistent deflation (as would occur with a gold standard and no mining to keep...

It depends what the definition of 'is' is, right? Edit: in case you were serious: While it's true that a gold standard would remove inflation, if the increase in trade (e.g. as comes with population growth) outpaces the money supply (e.g. gold), the only way to counteract deflation (and...

Why are all Objectivists so stupid? :confused:

That's usually what Libertarianism amounts to.

Things like the gold and silver standards cannot cope with population growth without the government mining more gold or silver out of the ground to counteract deflation and too little liquidity, as Friedman himself astutely noted. Now why does that process sound familiar? Inflation is only...

I want relaxed drug laws. But I'm not arguing for them when I mention drug scheduling; when I mention drug scheduling I'm arguing for consistent drug laws and the intelligent debate about drugs that would follow. I have faith that people would come out on the side of liberty and drug law...