Benefits are given to those who need it most.

The government would be very inefficient if they gave out benefits to people who dont really need it.

Have you considered people might be poor because they dont have the opportunity to work "harder" (or work at all), that their wages are so low already they struggle to survive even with full time work.

Smells like indentured servants.

Whats good for this country is implkementing the Goonski recommendations, something this PM is committed to.

Twice go in through the back door... its called politics mate, she was pushed to the top by her peers, and she deserves to be there, best PM since Hawk.

Oh lovely, its blame Julia time again, do you have a spare pitchfork and ditch the witch badge ?

Many in academic circles have stated that there is a clear media bias against the government. I guess its Julias fault people watch MSM too ?

If Y=f(x) then X arent all freeloaders by definition.

It is correct to be offended by, story is the big troll IMO.

You forgot to mention that Norht Korea can be currently seen invanding the USA. (in the movie Red dawn)

But seriously, you automatically assume the worst of country your leader has previously told you is bad, dont cite and evidence or even speculation. And you think North Korea isnt free, look at yourself.

Perhaps its fairer to say that the US declared war against itself.

I believe the snapdragon boards have binary only components.

Are they trying to reinvent android ?

Tie them down good with rope, and remember, if you cant tie knots, tie lots.

Or maybe put them in boxes, they shouldnt roll away then.

You need to talk to someone about your anger managment problems.

But im sure you are otherwise a wonderful caring person....

Lots to discuss, but to point out your consistent failing in all your responses is that you seem determined to understand things within the context of your own knowledge. But i suspect your mind is big enough to understand its own limits (like every human mind). That is what i was alluding to when i stated that "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". For a mind to grow it has to consider things it is not presently capable of understanding.

Yes one word can describe many different things, and many different words can also be required to describe one thing. Language is not supposed to be a science, and the human brain is not a scientific instrument. The right meaning is usually interpreted from context, its supposed to be fuzzy.

When Heraclitus said (paraphrased) "You can never step into the same river twice" he was using two meanings of the word river (as a flowing body of water, and as a path) to make a statement is moronic on the surface and yet on another level is profound. Some statement are profound not because of its meaning, but because of thought process it promotes in the reader. You could persuade yourself of almost anything, but the path you choose is your choice, a choice you can learn from.

You look for complex answers and ignore the simple ones, something exists subjectively if they think it exists. And for all sciences advancements from objective truths, what a person thinks subjectively will always be of immediate importance. You cannot measure love, security or happiness of a Human objectively, with good is your m-theory or spacetime static waves theory of existence then.

One of the greatest failings in the field of physics is the failure to understand that time is just a concept, stuff exists and that stuff changes. The fact that stuff changes doesnt make time (a measure of relative change) real.

"Science is not done by straw poll, so the views of most (uneducated, I might add) people is unimportant. What matters is that physicists and mathematicians ..."

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Regarding your simplistic definition of existence, ask yourself, does a person exist after they die ?

Troll (-1) = Insightful (+1) * CounterIntuitive (0).

Clearly moderation is broken.

I think most people would say the most likely statment to be false is "this universe is a simulation"

Also, define exist please.

analogizing Michael Lind' as a real place leads to an inability to think logically about laws, rules, ....

Nobody thinks cyberspace is a real space, its unreal space, nothing there is real, its all just patterns, a place where geography doesnt matter.

Stupid people ask stupid questions.

"I really hope you don't mind some faceless organization dealing with your bouts of dementia and incontinence."

People spend much of their life planning and working so they can have a happy and graceful death, they dont try to have a happy life.