Getting an education is available to everyone for free. Just go to a library and read those things we call "books".

If you need to use a great tool to make a compelling presentation, it's because the content of your presentation has no interest.

To exchange ideas, a series of emails are much, much better than a meeting. It allows people to think and to analyze ideas without being distracted by others. It makes you focus on content rather than presentation.

Meetings are about socialization. It's for people who constantly need human contact to be able to work. Nothing more.

There's worse than being monitored by a camera : being monitored by your colleagues in an open space office.

Without expertise, your only "objectivity" possible is the one form the few sources you got about the subject. If the only "science" book you read is the Bible, you can certainly report what the Bible said objectively, but I wouldn't call that objectivity.

Doesn't anyone remember the 80s when local currency where regularly attacked by speculators? The idea of the Euro was to end this speculation which was hurting local economy badly, at least that's how the governments sold it.

As you said, Greece's problem is that it doesn't produce much. So the solution is not with transfer payments (the justification that it will eventually ends up in Germany anyway is just idiotic), but to make Greeks actually produce something they could sell.

Comparing the intellectual masturbation of some economists with the Manhattan project?

What's next? Comparing the drawing of 4 years old with Michelangelo's frescoes?

And what's wrong with that? When it comes to road damage, a single truck can be the equivalent of up to 50,000 cars. Trucks are the one damaging roads. Why should car owners pay for it?

Again, your point was irrelevant. It was only a straw man. Do you think I am that stupid?

This discussion was not about deterrence, that was only YOUR argument. I'm just saying YOUR argument is irrelevant. It's not me who's moving goal-posts, it's you.

So why should we not kill this guy? Do you have any reason?

Then your point is mostly irrelevant because there are other good reasons for death penalty.

Again, prison is not an effective deterrent. Do you think we should abolish prisons?

The solution is to correct this barbaric system where we spend millions of dollars on a criminal, not to keep the guy alive because of a bad system.

The purpose would be to stop spending resources on worthless people.

Just for the record, what purpose does keeping him alive serve?

What is barbaric is to spend the limited resources we have on piece of shit like this guy instead of helping innocent people. What is barbaric is to consider that criminals have more value and deserve more resources than good people. The civilized thing to do would be to kill him right now with a single bullet in the head without any kind of glorified ceremony and use the millions we'll save to help several hundred children to have a bright future instead.

You are barbaric for trying to save this criminal's life.

Why spend several hundred thousand of dollars to try to rehabilitate a criminal? Why not rather use the same money to help a few hundred innocent people who are in need to have a better future instead? Why a single criminal has more value than innocent people?