Alex Peak

The Politics Test

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(Why is this in here?  Whereas Dr. Murray N. Rothbard and I would both say absolutely not, Dr. Walter Block would say yes.  Dr. Block is obviously wrong.)

1.	What goes on in the privacy of one's bedrom between two consenting adults is no buisiness of the state. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
2.	The Federal Government should spend more on welfare programs. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
3.	Television and radio content should be regulated to protect children. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
4.	We need to raise taxes on the rich. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
5.	Marijuana should be decriminalized or legalized. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
6.	The Patriot Act is a violation of our individual rights. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
7.	America should trade freely in the global economy. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
8.	The federal government should subsidize our small farms. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
9.	Religious matters are not within the jurisdiction of the government. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
10.	Gun control is a useful tool for fighting crime. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
11.	No American tax dollars should be allocated to foreign nations. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
12.	The military industrial complex poses a threat to liberty both at home and abroad. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
13.	The federal government should cut spending by at least 1/3 or 1/4. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
14.	No private corporation should recieve tax dollars, A.K.A. corporate welfare. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
15.	People have an obligation to live up to society's standards. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (As long as that standard is the non-aggression axiom, I am in concurrence.)
16.	Private charity is a better, or at least no worse, means of helping the poor then government welfare. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
17.	I don't mind increasing video camera surveillance on the street corners to fight crime. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (I strongly mind if said cameras are bought with tax-dollars.)
18.	Eventually, we should adopt a world government. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
19.	America would be more economically sound and secure if it returned to a commodity or multi-commodity standard, such as the gold standard and silver standard. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
20.	Unfortunately, there is a certain extent to which poverty is unavoidable. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
21.	Our individual liberties have been exessively curbed in the name of counter-terrorism. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
22.	The government should protect morality and tradition. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
23.	There needs to be a srong social safety net to help the poor and develope a strong middle class. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (I hate questions like this, as it fails to mention who is providing the safety net.  A social safety net can exist without government and without coercion, and insofar as it does, it is just. But a social safety net which rests upon the use of coercion is not just.)
24.	Pop stars are paid too much money. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
25.	We need to get out of the Iraq War. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
26.	The government should subsidize struggling meuseums, theatres and artists. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
27.	The income tax needs to be either replaced with a flat consumer tax or abolished. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Taxation absolutely needs to be abolished.  I am wholly opposed to replacing it with a sales tax, which in my opinion is even worse than the income tax.)
28.	"Assisted suicide" should be illegal on the federal level. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Unless this means it should be illegal for the federal government to, through subsidy, assist people in committing suicide.  If that is what is meant, than I strongly agree.)
29.	Gay marriage needs to be banned on the federal level. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
30.	The concept of people having inheritances bothers me. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (What bothers me is the de facto assumption of our current legal system that if a person without a will dies, his/her property automatically becomes the property of his/her family.  If the deceased has a will, then the property, obviously, transfers upon death to the persons specified.  But if there is no will, or no specification made, then the property ought to re-enter the state of nature.  In this state, the material can become owned by anyone who homesteads it.  Most likely this will be family or friends, anyway, since they are closer to the deceased.  But there’s no reason it should have to be family or friends—just whomever homesteads it first.)
31.	In theory, everyone is entitled to keep their own money (or by the very least as much as possible) as a basic economic right. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
32.	America is not as free as it thinks it is. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (America is a mass of land, and thus cannot think.)
33.	We need state-wide smoking bans to protect society from the bad effects of smoking. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
34.	Society is only as sucessful as its least fortunate members. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Society can be neither successful nor unsuccessful, as it has no will.)
35.	Unfortunately, the goal of pure equality is an egalitarian impossibility, because individuals are inherently diverse based on differences between eachother. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
36.	We should not let our own country allow patriotism to become blind nationalism. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
37.	Globalization is destroying the economy and increasing poverty. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
38.	People have an individual right to absolute unrestricted free speech. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (However this is a negative right, not a positive right.)
39.	There needs to be gauranteed nation-wide federal healthcare for everyone. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
40.	In a civil society, there always needs to be those who command and those who obey, those who lead and those who follow. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
41.	Rights belong equally to individuals, not groups. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
42.	Majority rule should always take precedent in government. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Tyranny of the majority is bad.  Minority rights must be protected against majority factions.)
43.	The protection and preservation of property rights, the lack of their intrusion, are fundamental to a free society. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
44.	The government should put forth more effort and money to fight AIDS in Africa and elsewhere. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (AIDS is bad; so why in the world would we ever want a government-funded “War on AIDS”?  Surely, such an effort would only cause AIDS to become an even bigger problem, given the government’s track-record.  Do we really want the same entity that has failed so miserably in its War on Drugs, its War on Poverty, its War on Illiteracy, and its War on Terror, to jump into even more areas, to create even more catastrophes?)
45.	America should intervene less in foreign affairs. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
46.	We should reinstitute the draft. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
47.	Government intervention into the economy often hurts it. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
48.	All money should be abolished. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Only government-controlled money should be abolished.)
49.	We should put much more cops on the streets to fight crime. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (More importantly, we should do away with government-funded monopolies, replacing them with private, competing businesses.)
50.	People should be able to legally have duels. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
51.	Sometimes inflation is necessary in an economy. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
52.	On a fundamental level, taxation erodes prosperity and economic incentive. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
53.	Civil diplomacy and free cultural exchange are always preferable to war. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
54.	Unfortunately, all governments have a natural tendency towards some form of oligarchal class rule. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
55.	The public education system needs to be funded more federally. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
56.	If people are not responsible for their own actions, the government must take that responsibility for them. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
57.	Domestic government spying is fine so long as it doensn't affect me. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
58.	I wouldn't mind if space exploration was privatized. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
59.	America should end the trade barrier with Cuba. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
60.	Ultimately, the Cold War was unnecessary in the sense that Communism (especially in the Soviet Union) collapsed by it's own nature, doomed from the start. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
61.	There should be an equal distribution of wealth for everyone. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (If it so happened that, through completely voluntary means, everyone ended up with equal wealth, I would have absolutely no objection.  Insofar as it is achieved through aggression, I have grave objections.)
62.	Sometimes certain environmental laws stifle/harm the economy by artifically reducing the supply of certain commodities. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
63.	There needs to be a constitutional amendment making it illegal to burn an American flag. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
64.	There should not be compulsory commitment for people who are deemed "mentally ill". Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Having given thought to how to deal with persons who have a dangerous and contagious disease, I've come to the conclusion that their presence among society would be a de facto threat against the property, i.e. bodies and lives, of other members of society, and that under this basis, quarantining them would be an act of self-defence, not an act of aggression.  I’m not inclined at this point to expand this to include the mentally ill, although I will remain open-minded about the possibility of doing so.)
65.	I think the military budget should be cut. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
66.	Protesters cause much more harm then good. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Protestors can cause more harm than good, depending upon what actions they take.  But they do not do more harm than good by the nature of being protestors.)
67.	There is nothing wrong with regulations and bans on Pornography. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
68.	Perhaps it would make more sense to have a system of justice in which the criminal restitutes the victim for the crime rather then having the victim, as well as every taxpayer, pay for the life-time incarceration of that individual. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
69.	There is nothing wrong with the notion of the government protecting people from themselves. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
70.	Sometimes we have to give up a little liberty for our security. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
71.	If a company finds a cure for AIDS, they should be able to charge whatever price they want for it. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Although it should be noted that other companies should also be allowed to charge whatever price they want for it, thereby causing the price to drop down to market value.  Further, there ought be no patents to interfer with the free market.)
72.	Military contracts, especially no-bid, sometimes fleece the tax payer. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Especially cost-plus provisions.  A contract without cost-plus provisions and with bidding will always be far, far more efficient.)
73.	There should be an official cap on how much money a person can make or have. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
74.	Generally speaking, legitimate laws must expressedly extend to matters that are injurious to others. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (In other words, no victimless crimes.)
75.	It is often healthy to have a general distrust of the government. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
76.	Capitalism is an economic system in which corporations and the rich exploit the poor and middle class. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (It depends upon how you wish to define capitalism.  Mercantilism and corporatism certainly fit this description, and the truly free market certainly does not fit this description.  Thus, if we define “capitalism” as being synonymous with a free market, then capitalism does not do this; and if we define “capitalism” as being synonymous with corporatism and thus mutually exclusive from a free market, then it does.  We could also define “capitalism” as having different sub-types, in which case “free-market capitalism” would be something good while “statist capitalism” would be something malign.  In any event, I support having a free market and aim to destroy neomercantilism or “statist capitalism.”)
77.	Communism and socialism is not "good in theory and bad in practice", it is bad in practise precisely because the theory is incredibly flawed and impractical with human nature. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
78.	Perhaps we don't need to have a department of homeland security, as we already have a department of defense and about 15 intelligence agencies ranging from the CIA to the NSA. The department of homeland security put it all together into one big federal beuracracy. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
79.	Abortion should be illegal on the federal level. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
80.	Sometimes civil disobedience is necessary to right wrongs and protect liberty. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
81.	While music is something to value, the federal government should not fund things such as the National Endowment For The Arts. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
82.	I wouldn't mind too much if we restarted alchohol prohibition. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
83.	The recent expansions of eminent domain powers are unecessary encroachments on property rights. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
84.	The general foreign policy of the United States over the past few decades, in the general post-WWII era, has been questionable at best. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
85.	Tax dollars should not be used to fund elections in foreign countries. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
86.	At the federal level, Evolution should be banned from the public schools and replaced with intelligent design. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
87.	America should totally politically and financially support Israel under all circumstances. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
88.	War always secures our peace. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
89.	We should boycott countries like Venezuela. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Individually, any person who wishes to boycott Venezuela is fine to do so.  The government, however, should not force anyone to boycott Venezuela.)
90.	The devaluation of our currency slowly raises the cost of living and erodes the middle class. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
91.	There should be mandatory psychiatric testing in the public schools on the national level. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
92.	Regaurdless of one's personal opinion, it should not be illegal for someone to deny the holocaust or call for population control in the form of direct speech or printed word. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
93.	We need stronger laws to protect the environment. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (If we enforce natural law, allow people to own oceans and other bodies of water, and get rid of such things as the government’s sovereign immunity and farm subsidies, our environment would be far healthier.)
94.	No federal tax dollars should be used to fund abortions. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
95.	Laws against things like suicide and sodomy are unecessary and mostly unenforcable. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
96.	Economic stability depends on how much we put into social programs. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Although in a way, I strongly agree, insofar as we have a more stable economy when we place less into government programmes.  In other words, there appears to be an inverse relationship.)
97.	The government is allied with buisiness in a way that bestows priviledge on certain special interests at the expense of everyone else. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
98.	People who critisize the military and war tend to be unpatriotic. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
99.	Data mining has implications that can harm people's privacy and liberty. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
100.	All taxation should be abolished eventually. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
101.	I should be able to sell myself into slavery voluntarily. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
102.	Since the unhampered market is imperfect, the government needs to control the entire domestic economy. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
103.	Since government intervention in the economy is imperfect and counterproductive, the government needs to do absolutely nothing at all in the economy. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
104.	No individual or group's personal opinions should be legislated into law. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
105.	I should be able to sell a handful of concert tickets that I bought for my own price if I want. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
106.	Gambling should always be illegal, because it hurts people economically. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
107.	We need stronger laws to protect children. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
108.	Sometimes the practise of cops ticketing functions as a way to leech money off of the people for driving a only few mph over the speed limit. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
109.	All contraceptives should be illegal. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
110.	Strongly AgreeProstitution should always be illegal on the federal level. Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
111.	The police should be able to arrest people without warrants or habeus corpus. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Only if they’re willing to bear the appropriate risks.  If it turns out that the person the police officer has (or police officers have) arrested is actually innocent, that police officer (or those police officers) involved should be liable for their aggression against the innocent, and must pay restitution thereto, which ought to be exorbitant.)
112.	The free market economy is the best known method for ensuring the economic growth and well-being of the people. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
113.	The constitution is what gives us our rights. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
114.	The most realistic and novel way to stop inflation is to stop printing excess paper money. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
115.	A corporation can pay whatever wages it wants to its employees. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
116.	I wouldn't mind a government policy of population control. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
117.	If taxes are cut, it would make the most sense to also cut spending on par with the tax reduction. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
118.	There is nothing wrong with the military practise of soldiers who are convicted of "desertion" getting executed by firing squad. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (And why is this wrong?  For the same reason “voluntary slavery contracts” cannot be binding.)
119.	There should be mandatory prayer in public schools. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
120.	A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
121.	Government debt doesn't matter too much. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
122.	The powers of the executive branch have been made too strong. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
123.	Social Security needs to be privatized. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (And, to clarify, by that I mean every person should be in total and complete control over his/her own retirement savings.  The government should have no control over it.  And the plan supported by Republicans and neoliberals to socialise the stock market is a horrendous idea.)
124.	There is nothing wrong with the government policy of gays not being allowed into the military. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
125.	The field of economics doesn't really matter that much. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
126.	We need to raise the federal minimum wage. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
127.	There should be no foreign immigration at all. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
128.	Secular America is eroding morality. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
129.	The federal reserve needs to be abolished. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
130.	There is supposed to be and needs to be seperation of church and state in America. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
131.	The drug war should be abolished. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
132.	There are ethical reasons to not like taxation. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
133.	Inflationary "booms" (money supply increases), especially during a war-time economy, always eventually turn into a "bust" - a recession or depression. The recession, while perhaps painful, is the economy "fixing" itself, clearing itself of the distortions of the boom period. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (But!, one can be a libertarian without having this understanding of Austrian economics.)
134.	The entire federal public sector needs to be abolished. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
135.	The individual and the minority should be protected from the tyranny of the majority. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
136.	Pharmacudical and Energy Companies should not be recieving bail-outs at the tax payer expense. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
137.	The federal inheritance tax should be abolished. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
138.	A large standing army poses a threat to liberty at home. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
139.	Federal social programs should not be cut. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
140.	In America, increased airport security has done little to nothing to actually make us safer. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
141.	We should nuke Iran. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
142.	Noone has a right to enforce their opinions onto others. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (Objective, negative, natural rights, however, may be enforced with every ounce of defensive force requisit for their protection.)
143.	The federal government needs to continue providing Foreign Aid to 3rd world countries. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
144.	Tax cuts inherently benefit the rich the most. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
145.	Tax dollars should not go to spraying pesticides on coke plants in Colombia or on opium fields in Afganistan. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
146.	I wouldn't mind if America returned to institutional segregation. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
147.	I should be able to legally shoot someone if they break into my property and pose a threat to my safety. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
148.	The life of one American (or insert your own nation here) is worth the lives of several foreigners. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
149.	Violent video games need to be regulated. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (I’ve never been attacked by a video game.)
150.	Socialism is the best form of government. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
151.	The mass accumulation of government debt robs the future to appease the present. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
152.	He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree (If you were to ask if it’s good policy to guard even one’s enemies from oppression, I would certainly agree.  But it is not an ethical imperative that one commit to such an action.)
153.	The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
154.	While we certainly should fight crime, we should not move towards a police state. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
155.	Unfortunately, many unions have become increasingly monopolistic or counterproductive. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
156.	I wouldn't mind if we downsized the military. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
157.	The government should give everyone in the country a free job. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
158.	The War on Terrorism has done a decent job of keeping us safe. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
159.	The so-called torture of prisoners of war isn't that big of a deal. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
160.	Capitalism is the worst economic system, the rule of the bourgeois. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree

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Radical Libertarian
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A radical libertarian believes in little to no government intervention for both personal and economic matters. A radical libertarian generally believes in one out of these two options: (1) A government that is extremely small and limited to the extent of protecting people's liberty - this view is known as Minarchism (2) No government at all, in which the private sector takes up all legitimate functions that a government would have - this view is known as Anarcho-Capitalism. Radical Libertarians tend to be strongly opposed to war, police powers, victimless crimes, foreign intervention and what they consider to be a welfare state. Radical Libertarians tend to be inspired by the Austrian school of economics, classical liberalism and 19th century individualist anarchism. Libertarian thought is individualist in nature. They try to protect both personal and economic liberty. Examples of Radical Libertarianism would be Murray Rothbard, H.L. Mencken, Ludwig Von Mises and Lysander Spooner.

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