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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.
...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."
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.
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."
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?
So I guess the "murdering dictator haircut" is in good company.
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.
Women purchase insurance that covers erectile disfunction all the time. Sorry, males are not an oppressed population.
"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.
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.
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
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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I long for days of old when I could rock the KJU cut! .. in theory.
He also thought that the USSR was totalitarian and not socialist. In 1945 he voted for the Labour Party which was democratic socialist. Labour was a party that grew out of the unions and whatever you can say about Labour there were definitely not about turning the workers into serfs.
Which is the point really - the USSR did the opposite of what democratic socialists like Orwell wanted and called it socialism.
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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.
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
In Soviet Russia, head (of state) shaves you!
Have gnu, will travel.
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?
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'
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.