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North Korea: Male University Students Required To Get Kim Jong-un Haircuts
An anonymous reader writes in with one more reason not to accept that full-ride scholarship to a North Korea University. "Male university students in North Korea are now required to get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, it is reported. The state-sanctioned guideline was introduced in the capital Pyongyang about two weeks ago, Radio Free Asia reports. It is now being rolled out across the country - although some people have expressed reservations about getting the look. 'Our leader's haircut is very particular, if you will,' one source tells Radio Free Asia. 'It doesn't always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes.' Meanwhile, a North Korean now living in China says the look is actually unpopular at home because people think it resembles Chinese smugglers. 'Until the mid-2000s, we called it the "Chinese smuggler haircut",' the Korea Times reports."
The good news about being late to post stories (that aren't for nerds and don't matter), is that they've already been debunked:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
It's not true. Remember, you heard about it on the internet.
...at least it's not a mullet
I'm glad to hear they still have universities, or is that not true either?
I think it's just North Korea getting back at us for all The Onion stories they have fallen for.
It's North Korea who cares.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
I'm male and over the age of 26. I might be pregnant. I haven't gotten my period in a long time at least.
That proves that the government knows what's best for you, so shut up and give them your money.
And it's not a fake until our hive says it's a fake.
News happens, our lessers comment on it, and then and only then, we release a quasi-official opinion.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
I can believe they have universities, the buildings at least, but I'm a little suspicious about the whole "student" thing.
...which sets forth new regulations for the proper appearance of new brides.
You do know that an insurance policy is just a policy. The same thing applies to anyone buying it. You could just as truthfully say that women's health insurance covers testicular cancer.
It's not like insurance policies just changed this year to include it. They've been like that for years. You'd know that if you had ever read your policy.
I can't determine with any confidence if they're actually serious or not.
sure, but on the other hand, I've heard that males are often involved in creating conditions in which pregnancy can occur.
And coming on tomorrow's /. news feed will be an article on Andrew Wakefield's new research discovery linking autism and vaccination...
Meanwhile, women have been buying health insurance that covers testicular cancer the whole time. Stuff a sock in it... This is how insurance works. We pool everyone. You're not buying specific health procedures. You're buying decreased risk. That's how insurance works. You got lumped into a pool that includes women.
If you only want to pay for SPECIFICALLY what you get sick for, we call that self insured. We also call that Not Insured.
I'm getting really sick of this stupid !@#$ing meme and the stupid !@#$ers that keep repeating it.
Smuggling and the black market are the only thing keeping North Koreans alive.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I'd take a Moe anyday. And it's so easy:
Phase 1: place bowl on head
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: profit!
Here in the US, males 26 and older are forced to buy health insurance that includes pregnancy, even though pregnancy isn't a health condition for males.
Yeah, and? Insurance plans have been that way for decades and decades.
Our leader's haircut is very particular !
Sure that's because their leader's ass and face look the same.
Wonder what unlucky soul gets the job to pick which side is actually the face?
"Got a Devil's Haircut in My Mind ..."
So I guess the "murdering dictator haircut" is in good company.
tell you that they're a sane bunch here in south korea, but these guys are also nutbars..
yea i agree bro
Come on, it was a hoax
Too bad it's not true, because chicks dig that haircut.
I understand Jong-un is a real pussy magnet. At least that's what Dennis Rodman says.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Your impeccable spelling and grammar indicate quite clearly how much of a winner you are. I'm glad that we have people like you to argue so logically against those "loosers."
Women purchase insurance that covers erectile disfunction all the time. Sorry, males are not an oppressed population.
This is how insurance works. We pool everyone. You're not buying specific health procedures. You're buying decreased risk.
No, that's not how insurance works. That's how charity works (or wealth transfer, a.k.a. theft, when it's forced). True, you're not paying for specific procedures. However, you should be paying according to the probability and cost of the procedures you're covered for. A procedure you'll never need has zero probability, and thus shouldn't affect your premiums.
You're not buying decreased risk. Risk is the product of probability and cost; if anything, insurance increases your risk by adding the insurance company's overhead and profit margin. It certainly can't decrease risk for everyone no matter how you structure it; there must always be at least as much payed in as the insurance company pays out, on average, or the company goes bankrupt. The purpose of insurance is to reduce the cost of an insured event to something manageable, in the event it does occur, at the expense of increasing the probability of paying that cost (you have to pay the premiums whether the event happens or not).
The idea behind insurance pools is to group together statistically independent policies of about the same level of risk. They don't necessarily have to cover the same things, you just want to avoid holding a bunch of cash in reserve, or else bankrupting the company in the event several large claims have to be paid out at the same time.
"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Bastiat
No real comment, the subject mostly covers it. Batshit crazy. Or, if you are offended by that, then try crazy as a shithouse rat. Pick one. Should not be allowed to emit sperm as its damaging to the human genome. Try this: Batshit crazy as a shithouse rat. Now go get a haircut!
it just means I didnt spend my life in an english class getting a doctorate to wait tables and act like an ass on slashdot
so in otherwords, go fuck yourself ... I need 10 on pump 8
"Waaaaaa, someone else might benifit if I pool my resouces with them!" - This ignorant, greedy, selfish, and ultimately self-defeating, worldview is the reason why UHC will never work in the US, it's also the reason why private insurance costs so much in the US. Lots of luck finding a private insurance company that will give you a discount after you have given them a pile of extra work adding/removing individual clauses from a boiler plate contract that are clearly irrelevant to you personally.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
The country has a nuclear program. They have every modern thing. They just don't have it for everyone. Why is it always americans that think every other coutry is a dirthole? I've travelled around, and can honestly say most modern feeling is not found in americas dying cities. Never been to north korea, but from what i've seen the places they like to show off look very nice. The "no adds on walls" law seem very nice.
Except, yes, you are acting like an ass on Slashdot, and unlike your uneducated self, many of us are perfectly capable of getting decent jobs.
How's that G.E.D. working out for you?
In insurance they sure are; and only the kook sites keep saying otherwise.
Men pay more for all other types of insurance, car, life, etc. The one type of insurance that historically men paid a little less for was health and that was not just for because they had less reasons to have medical visits in studies of doctor visit men just visit doctor far less and run up lower costs for visit that are not related to differences in the sexes. As such men could in the past purchase insurance that took that in to account; same way that other types of insurance still do.
Or I could just go for the humorous response of don't women benefit the most for a cure of erectile dysfunction.
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." - George Orwell
I felt the need to share that fact since propagandists always seem to omit it. He would have scoffed at your wage laborer remarks.
Until the mid-2000s
Oh shit, they've got time travel!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Risk is the product of probability and cost
No it isn't, you fucking moron. The product of probability and cost is the expected cost; risk is almost exactly the opposite. Risk is a measure of uncertainty; it's vague because there are many ways to define risk. For instance, one may define risk as the probability that seeking medical care will completely ruin you financially. It's easy to reduce this risk, even if it increases the average cost of medical care. There are many other definitions which I won't bother going over. The point is that you're an idiot. Don't use probabilistic lingo if you don't know what it means.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
what
There are lines of male university students which extend for several city blocks...
Could the Dear leader be wrong?
After all, haircut #7 looks better. But objectively speaking, my subjective meaning might not matter.
PS: I guess all responses should hence forth be sent me C/O camp #14.
The Qing Dynasty actually did require males to have the same haircut. China, not Korea, but ideas can spread across borders, even North Korea's
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Debunked? Maybe this time, but story was not too far from the truth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socialist_lifestyle
I long for days of old when I could rock the KJU cut! .. in theory.
As a Man who spent the last 25 years paying for his wife's birth control out of his own paycheck (or via *gasp* his health insurance), that goes double for me. It was an entirely health-related expense, just like the three pregnancies were, and the tubal ligation was. Or should those not be paid for either? In fact, for the last three years, my wife has had a particular "birth control" prescribed to her purely as a method to keep her hormones balanced properly (otherwise she would get migraines so bad she couldn't work).
I know the whole topic makes immature people like teenagers and Republicans giggle, but the fact is that birth control is a continual and integral part of health care for any family that contains at least one female between the ages of puberty and menopause. Just like pap-smears for women, and protstrate exams for older men. It is all part of the healthcare expenses of being an actual human being with (clutch your pearls here folks) sexual parts.
In reverse - how do women get pregnancy related issues without getting pregnant?
The amount of disinformation is astounding.
You're buying insurance for both yourself and your wife, so your case isn't relevant to the discussion. Obviously any policy covering both a male and a female will include coverage for male-specific procedures for the male and female-specific procedures for the female. That doesn't imply that anyone should be forced to buy insurance for a procedure he or she is guaranteed to never need. Gender should be taken into account when calculating risk factors and premiums.
"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Bastiat
If you only want to pay for SPECIFICALLY what you get sick for, we call that self insured. We also call that Not Insured.
You've missed an obvious intermediate case. Let me break the possibilities down for you:
In Soviet Russia, head (of state) shaves you!
Have gnu, will travel.
"Ha ha! North Koreans have absurd hairstyles." This is the level of discourse surrounding North Korea in western media. Do you know what is actually absurd (other than western media)? A whole country that worships it's head of state like a god despite the Kim family's dreadful mismanagement. A civilization that is trying very hard to emulate a bee hive is rather dire from an individual rights standpoint and incredibly fascinating in terms of sociology.
It's hard enough to tell them apart as it is now.
Here in the US, males 26 and older are forced to buy health insurance that includes pregnancy, even though pregnancy isn't a health condition for males.
Remove the tea bags from your anus, you're dangeously full of shit.
The real story is that Male will have to remove several inches of their little Kim Jong... to match their leader.
lamer
This is not the use that people are complaining about. They are talking about ELECTIVE USE OF ABORTION DRUGS AND BIRTH CONTROL. Obviously, not everyone between 18 and 80 uses birth control for hormone control or else, gee, around 50% of the population would be pointing it out.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
This is not the use that people are complaining about.
You are absolutely correct that it isn't the way the current Koch-approved talking point is worded. But that hardly matters one bit to the rest of us once the drugs are removed from the insurance company's payment schedule, now does it? The effect most certainly would be that some medically necessary hormone treatments will become unpaid due to the fact that they are accomplished using pills or patches that are also used for birth control.
And yes, 50% of the population is trying to point this out. I hear it brought up all the time. You probably don't usually hear them if you spend all of your time consuming winger-only media. Go listen to someone who doesn't get their talking points from the Koch brothers. Failing that, you could try listening to a woman once in a while I suppose...
The probability of me breaking my arm last year are 0, but the insurance company still wants me to pay them. It's a complete injustice.
Is 1563649 a prime number?
I take it you don't have a mother then.
Some of my insurance premiums go to pay for other people's pregnancy, but somebody elses premiums went to help pay for my mother's pregnancies. This kind of general cheapness and self centered attitude is what's ruining the US. Nobody wants to pay for anything unless there's an immediate and obvious pay out for them. We've got rich people that are outraged that the poor might have some choices in their life. You've got "Christians" that are outraged that their non-Christian or different denomination Christians are being provided with birth control on their dime.
Really, y'all just need to shove a sock in it before you completely ruin the country.
When Orwell was alive you could be a socialist and not be complete idiot. We've had another 100 years of history to inform us. That is no longer true.
The defects in Socialism are inherent. There is no fixing it.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I pooped my pants when I saw this
There is currently a lawsuit about this that was discussed with the Supreme Court last week because obamacare was forcing women who had pleged never to get pregnant to purchase that kind of coverage.