>>>>>>despite being (as you know) a communist interested in the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement by a workers paradise I do think people should be more responsible for their own general health and well being. Without wanting to get into the medicare issue they are costs that could be reduced enormously by sensible eating and exercise. If person want burger fries and a shake then fine, just don't have it every day and when you do wlk there.
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>>>>>I don't think those positions are inconsistent at all. Historically workers' paradises ( paradi ? parodies? ) have resulted in food shortages that I am sure would go a long way to combating obesity. <bg> ( you will remember the Cambridge circle in the 30s was quite enamoured of Stalin's program to slim down the Ukraine )
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>>>>In the workers paradise your humor (or is that humour) will be unacceptable. Humour will be controlled by and delivered by the state. They/we will use trained humour delivery professionals.
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>>>>Meanwhile before that happy day here is joke. To chuckle over as the financial markets crash due to the Greeks.
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>>>>Police are pursuing a criminal who is stealing clothing in order of size.
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>>>>A police spokesperson said "At the moment the suspect is still at large"
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>>>I think, of the four humours, that one was phlegm. <s>
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>>>People at Dow Jones were running around yesterday with their hair on fire as the markets did their thing. I have weird mixed feelings as instability in the markets causes the kind of intensity in the office that reduces pressure on me to deliver the next production release of my software <bg>.
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>>Don't you have to increase field sizes to cope with the money being 'lost'
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>Actually, no. I have an algorithm that makes up a number that will fit in the column <s>

Ahhh I see . You're a finance expert.