I see that you don't fully understand what the EU is. The EU IS their member states. The European Commision is put in place by the govenrments of the states of the EU and the EU council is no more and no less than the very PMs and presidents of these very same EU countries. The laws and rules proposed y the EU commision are actualy drafted and proposed by the EU States' parliaments. The only directly elected organ of the EU is the EU parliament, the rest is nothing more and nothing less than an extension of the national chambers. So, now you how it works. And now, if you are British, you will have grasped how stupid your government and your anti-EU parties are, or the people who vote them. Now, regarding this rule: It is not the Oh-so-bad EU has forced the poor-poor countries to do something very very bad with their taxes. The truth is that my country, Nederland is using public money paid by ME and my landspeople as a gift to multinationals. You may now come with the known song of "they create jobs", and yes, they do, BUT so do our very own companies, multinationals included, which aren't getting any of that AND the benefit of the job creation does not surpass the quantities spend AND the benefits of these companies aren't reinvested im MY COUNTRY but go straight to a bank in IRELAND. Got it now or do I have to draw a map?

Because of these 3 companies it is the only tech company and this is a tech site ?

In Russia the inhabitants of the tundra and steppes massively bought excedent tanks, without the weapons they make awesome transports. Mate, just imagine driving one of these armored vehicles! I wouldn't mind even if they kept the weapons, I know how to handle them (I served in artillery). OMFG!!!

That's wishful thinking. Resources do not regenerate. And even if they did if population grows there will be inevitably a moment when the resources to be shared are not enough to maintain this population... and then it will self-correct, you betcha that it will. It has already happened a few times here in Europe. Ever heard about the Black Plague? And talking about the Black Plague: Ever heard how we Europeans managed to overtake the rest of the world and become colonial powers, etc? No. Well, it began with the Plague. Right now we are ripe for another "Self Regulatory Event" and in any case, any normal event, hurricane, earthquake etc, that in the past would have caused a limited impact is getting amplified many times just because there are more people that can be affected by them. On the other hand: Do you know Iceland? No? They got a crisis there, and now they are O again, in only 5 years. Norway? Finland? Sweden? Betting your ass on the eventual emergence of a potential Einstein makes no sense, from the point of view of probabilities even with a low increase in population (even with a decline in population) an Einstein may arise while with an increase in population we can be 100% certain that we will have less resources. Theres' no way around that. Sorry. it's just plain arithmetic.

Call me when it starts to increase the amount of Magenta

Well, I see that you have learned some buzzwords somewhere... but you haven't been able to make any sense of them, did you? Nope, I am not talking about a zero sum game: That's when you have opposing forces that equilibrate each other. I am talking about simple arithmetics: Substraction and division. And about finite resources. I assume that you read this phrase about competition in the "Big Manual of Captain Obvious", right? So putting in terms of your beloved meme: What you propose is that instead of you alone becoming the winner (by not having too many offspring) you want to become a looser yourself and all the ones that come too, because no matter how much you try you will have less to win as there are more competitors for less price... unless you become the Ultimate Winner and just eradicate and utterly exterminate all the competitors, Adolf Hitler style... and I assume that that's not what you had in mind with your "happy reproduce until you drop" thingy, right ? See, there's no way around logic and arithmetic. There is now way that you can make that less become more, not even with the help of the Pink Unicorn in Sky.

OMG!!! OMG!! OMG!!! This will change IT as we know it!!!!

And almost as newsworthy:

Tesla runs out of toilet paper in the men's WC's of their factory!!

[...]because we thought that Snowden might be on board.

So, it was you all the time, eh?

The sad world I live in is the same as yours mate.

What happens is that I was thought arithmetic in basic school.

So, let me tell you a popular tale from the icy steppes of Flevoland:

Once upon a time there were two very poor fellows living at the age of a desert (the dreaded Flevoland Badlands, you may have heart about them!). They needed to cross this terrible desert in 10 days and as they were so darn poor the only were able to buy a single piece of bread. This bread would be able to feed the tow of them for eleven days, enough to get them through the desert and with a bit of margin for the worst case.

They walked for two days under the unmerciful Flevolandian sun and met a beggar who had nothing to eat.

The poor fellows took pity of the beggar and decided to share their food and fate with him despite the fact that they knew that they would have to fast for the last and hardest part of the way.

And so they walked for for more days and then, at the seventh day they arrived at a local football club, and they said "You know what? I don't know these guys over there, but for no good reason I'm just going to give them the bread we have left.No idea why, I just kinda fancy it"

And that's the story. Got the morale?

No, of course

I will explain it to you:

The ones that are stealing the bread of your children is not me, it's THEM. Because if you only have one bread to feed you and have to share it your part will be reduced, and the more sharing the bread the less part they will have.

If you have no choice but to share with a friend, a needed person or an EXISTING child, you may be honoured by this sacrifice...

But willingly bring more people to the world that did neither exist before not asked to come is absolutely batshit crazy, its' sadomasochism. Nobody will be happier having less to eat, or do you know a means by which a division can produce a higher result as it's factors?

I presume that your idea of happily shitting more bald apes into the world is based on a religion's dogmas, right?

;) Gotcha mate. Big Dady Pimp in Da Sky is not going to feed you with Abracadabra Sweets.

Sorry mate:

Nobody gets any tax cuts for other people, neither children nor elderly not normal.

Your "children's" oil is MY oil too.. and I DON'T DRIVE A CAR ;)

Yur children are dumping their own polution on teir planet and the more children the more pollution... and remmeber: it is MY PLANET too.

And what you are actually saying is that you are planning on having childnre JUST so that they can suffer from pollution?

Why?

I do't have children, I dont' drive cars and I am extremely concious of what I do and what I don't, and yet, I have to pay for other people's vices and stupidity.

And just for nothing becaue you don't need children for nothing.

Why short sighted if I may ask?

What has your "sight" to do with undermining the liberties of the rest of the people?

What do you feel so "unshortsighted" about the fact that I have to pay extra taxes for YOUR children to be in daycare?

And that MY water is crap because YOUR children use diapers made from MY trees?

Or that MY health insurance bill is higher because of YOUR children making extra use of it?

That MY grocery lsit becomes more expensive because of YOUR children needing more food?

And if it were that you are talking about existing children that are right now on the planet... but what you meant is jsut to bring more people to the planet, peolple that do not exist yet and taht nobody has any need for them to be here.

Are you willing to pay ME all the extra costs of YOU having extra children? Well, in this case I have no problem.

Not what I heard.

I heard reports from people smoking grass while listening to The Meteors

Sorry, English is not my first language. The term Starvation is what you call

"Sitting for long hours watching scantily dressed ladies perform callisthenic exertions in company of well endowed lads" ?

Now I understand it all!

Sorry? Are we talking about mammal biology here? AFAIK mammal neurons are not equipped with any organ that enables them to "eat" anything. Unless you are talking about yeasts, myxobacteria or sponges.

Oh wait...

Are you Bob by chance?

I am afraid he ate her!