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Of course! Why waste money when you can save it? What's your basis for life being sacred? So far I haven't heard any rational reason why we should particularly value ...

The chances of zoonosis (disease jumping the species barrier) occuring in H5N1 is somewhere in the safe region of 1 in many million. Not quite sure where you got your ...

Why? What's the point in living? Life is a society, one way or another, and if you're not part of society why should you be part of life? @Gal - ...

... I think perhaps people haven't got the full impact of this yet. Scientists aren't especially worried about birds transmitting this to humans - if that were the only way ...

Let's take a look at some logic - you have a justice service that officially has two aims: firstly, to keep the public safe, and secondly, to rehabilitate criminals so ...

Urgh... that'd teach a person to take history. Another thing I like about the UK system - after 16, you get to choose exactly and only what you want to ...

Here in the UK, homework doesn't count toward classes. Only exams do that. So I can skip the HW and still ace the course.

but at least you know how to use them thar apostrophe's That's so ironic it's physically painful. Einstein also skipped work and classes because it was moving too slow for ...

I'm for it. He seems like a nice man.

So far, I've never felt the benefits of homework. I've even experimented with periods of doing and not doing it, and it's never made a difference. If I'm going to ...

Nah, it's pretty on-topic. This is why I've said it's allowable but stupid, effectively. Because we're in a democracy, we should have the right to do things like this, despite ...

Geez, I'm slow. Allowable - no dress code means no dress code: if there's a uniform, she can't wear it, if there's not, she can wear what she flippin' well ...

Well, here in the UK people still use Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish flags to represent their countries, even though they've amalgamated and all lost their soveriegnty as separate nations. ...

In very young children, watching adults use aggressive behaviour is pretty well proven to cause them to imitate it. However, the results don't tend to work particularly well with older ...

Boys of Summer by Don Henly You are my new best friend. On the shameful side... I know all the words (yes, even the verses) to The Final Countdown by ...