I'll explain the joke, because you obviously don't get it. Pig is referring to one or more of the following: Palin's moral character, her lack of intelligence, or her stupid policies. Dress up etc. is referring to the fact that she is good looking.
Wikipedia is meant to store knowledge through a collaborative effort. The classical, philosophical definition of knowledge is "justified, true belief". If something isn't true it isn't knowledge and therefore doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
I could also argue that "It's posted on the web" isn't good justification for anything. Would you jump off a bridge because its posted on the web that you should?
Every great genocide in the 19th century was preceded by a government decree either that citizens couldn't own guns, or that a targeted minority could not own guns.
Was the lack of guns the cause or just co-incidental?
Also I couldn't find any evidence of gun control in Rwanda from a credible source. If anything there wasn't any gun control as there were Hutu and Tutsi militias going around killing people. Militia == thugs with guns.
Sydney Airport is privately owned, but everything relevant to this discussion is publicly run. Security is provided by a branch of the Australia Federal Police. Customs is also run by the government. One of these two bodies would have had access to the CCTV, or to the travelers who would have reported the incident as it was happening.
Interesting post there AC. Pity I don't have mod points today.
I wouldn't want a job like that. I wouldn't want to put up with the kind of pressure that goes with it, no matter how good the pay or the intellectual challenges.
Your history ignores two world wars which cost England a lot more than the US. I find it hard to believe that the entirety of the USA's wealth today is dependent upon the tariffs after the civil war.
Paypal, on the other hand, could give a rat's ass whether the buyer is lying about not receiving the item...
You mean couldn't give a rat's arse. Admittedly, a rat's arse isn't worth very much, but I'm surprised PayPal would even give that much (or more) to a lying buyer.
In most of Western Europe I think the concept of a checking account is no more. Every transaction I had to make while living in Germany was direct deposit/debit to my savings account.
I live in Australia and I don't own a cheque book, nor do I plan on getting one because I won't need it. Bills and rent are paid by internet banking and any purchases in shops are cash or credit card.
I'll admit that while typing I sometimes slip in a homophone (homonyms are two words spelled the same but with different meanings), but I tend to notice immediately and I always go back and correct it. I guess I tend to think of the sound of the word as opposed to the spelling. I also proof read the majority of things I type.
Related to another post, I find that spell checkers have improved my spelling. After spelling a word incorrectly 10 to 20 times I tend to finally pick up the correct spelling.
You should be able to change the controls in any PC game. Especially since not all keyboards are QWERTY (e.g. Germany has QWERTZ). No amount of testing will cover every input device.
Paris Hilton is famous for being famous. And a skanky ho. If the media ignore her for long enough she'll go away, but unfortunately they seem unable to do that.
Serious scientists should read wikipedia articles before they do a study? How did this nonsense get modded up to +5? Last I checked, wikipedia isn't a peer reviewed journal. Not to mention all the problems with editorial processes covered in numerous other/. articles.
Where do you live? In Australia the major parties never take on the policy of the minor parties as their own, even if the minor parties receive a sizable portion of the vote and have the balance of power in the senate.
I'm also an Australian and I think you're confused about the issue. Private health care has nothing to do with it. The issue is: should the USA adopt a public health care system? If they're going to compare themselves to other countries they would be looking at the public health care system we have here, called Medicare. It's one of those things that works so well you don't even notice it most of the time.
I went to the doctor a couple of days ago. I paid $55 and medicare has already deposited $35 back into my bank account. What's unusual is that I paid at all for visiting the doctor. Many doctors charge the same rate as medicare reimburses and offer bulk billing - you just walk out and they sort out getting the money from medicare.
I had to stop at the chemist after my visit to the doctor. Due to strict limits on medical patents here I was able to buy a generic brand of my medication which cost 1/2 the price ($7) of the big pharma branded version.
Medicare also covers public hospitals (except ambulances for some odd reason). If its an emergency then you'll be fine, the main criticism of public hospitals is the long waiting lists for what's called "elective surgery" i.e. anything non-critical. Unfortunately the sorts of things that fall into this category are better treated earlier rather than later.
Medicare is taxed at a flat rate of 1.5% of your income, but submitted with your normal income tax so there's no extra paper work. There's an additional 1% medicare surcharge if you earn over a certain amount ($50,000 I think) and don't have private health cover. The penalty tax mentioned in the parent post is only applied when you join private health cover after the age of 30 and its a penalty on top of the private health premiums e.g. if I joined private health cover at age 40 I'd pay an extra 20% of my monthly premium.
I do agree with the parent poster that the previous government clinging to the ideology of the "free market is always better" is rather stupid when they have to step in and prop up the free market with rebates to have it compete with an efficient public system (same thing happened with private schools). The rebate money would be much better spent fixing the problems in the public system.
Security Clearances are getting yanked over poor credit these days, because someone with a poor credit background allegedly would have a motive for selling secrets solely so that they could pay off their debts
That's bullshit. In my security subject at uni the lecturer said that banks did studies on who committed fraud and the financial status and position in the bank had absolutely no correlation to whether someone was more likely to defraud the bank. The best the study came up with was the x% of employees would go bad and so they should design protocols and procedures to limit the damage any one employee can do, no matter their position.
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I'll explain the joke, because you obviously don't get it. Pig is referring to one or more of the following: Palin's moral character, her lack of intelligence, or her stupid policies. Dress up etc. is referring to the fact that she is good looking.
Wikipedia is meant to store knowledge through a collaborative effort. The classical, philosophical definition of knowledge is "justified, true belief". If something isn't true it isn't knowledge and therefore doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
I could also argue that "It's posted on the web" isn't good justification for anything. Would you jump off a bridge because its posted on the web that you should?
Was the lack of guns the cause or just co-incidental?
Also I couldn't find any evidence of gun control in Rwanda from a credible source. If anything there wasn't any gun control as there were Hutu and Tutsi militias going around killing people. Militia == thugs with guns.
Sydney Airport is privately owned, but everything relevant to this discussion is publicly run. Security is provided by a branch of the Australia Federal Police. Customs is also run by the government. One of these two bodies would have had access to the CCTV, or to the travelers who would have reported the incident as it was happening.
Interesting post there AC. Pity I don't have mod points today.
I wouldn't want a job like that. I wouldn't want to put up with the kind of pressure that goes with it, no matter how good the pay or the intellectual challenges.
You're typing English. Proper nouns, titles and starts of sentences are capitalized. It makes it easier to read.
At least you weren't typing in German. All nouns are capitalized. Also they invented Nazis that us grammar Nazis take our name from.
Your history ignores two world wars which cost England a lot more than the US. I find it hard to believe that the entirety of the USA's wealth today is dependent upon the tariffs after the civil war.
You're right - the USA is only the 2nd worst in the world. I guess you guys don't need to do anything about the environment then.
You mean couldn't give a rat's arse. Admittedly, a rat's arse isn't worth very much, but I'm surprised PayPal would even give that much (or more) to a lying buyer.
In most of Western Europe I think the concept of a checking account is no more. Every transaction I had to make while living in Germany was direct deposit/debit to my savings account.
I live in Australia and I don't own a cheque book, nor do I plan on getting one because I won't need it. Bills and rent are paid by internet banking and any purchases in shops are cash or credit card.
I think the key words you missed in the GP were "psychotic roommate". The poster was hiding from him, not the cops.
So should you Mr AC because you don't know how to use ellipses properly.
I'll admit that while typing I sometimes slip in a homophone (homonyms are two words spelled the same but with different meanings), but I tend to notice immediately and I always go back and correct it. I guess I tend to think of the sound of the word as opposed to the spelling. I also proof read the majority of things I type.
Related to another post, I find that spell checkers have improved my spelling. After spelling a word incorrectly 10 to 20 times I tend to finally pick up the correct spelling.
Sean Connery and grammar depends on the role.
007 speaks Queen's English.
Forrester says lines like "You're the man now dog".
No wonder they need a bailout!
You should be able to change the controls in any PC game. Especially since not all keyboards are QWERTY (e.g. Germany has QWERTZ). No amount of testing will cover every input device.
Paris Hilton is famous for being famous. And a skanky ho. If the media ignore her for long enough she'll go away, but unfortunately they seem unable to do that.
Serious scientists should read wikipedia articles before they do a study? How did this nonsense get modded up to +5? Last I checked, wikipedia isn't a peer reviewed journal. Not to mention all the problems with editorial processes covered in numerous other /. articles.
Where do you live? In Australia the major parties never take on the policy of the minor parties as their own, even if the minor parties receive a sizable portion of the vote and have the balance of power in the senate.
It did exist but an editor deleted it to get his edit count up.
Mod AC up. GP doesn't know what he's talking about.
I'm also an Australian and I think you're confused about the issue. Private health care has nothing to do with it. The issue is: should the USA adopt a public health care system? If they're going to compare themselves to other countries they would be looking at the public health care system we have here, called Medicare. It's one of those things that works so well you don't even notice it most of the time.
I went to the doctor a couple of days ago. I paid $55 and medicare has already deposited $35 back into my bank account. What's unusual is that I paid at all for visiting the doctor. Many doctors charge the same rate as medicare reimburses and offer bulk billing - you just walk out and they sort out getting the money from medicare.
I had to stop at the chemist after my visit to the doctor. Due to strict limits on medical patents here I was able to buy a generic brand of my medication which cost 1/2 the price ($7) of the big pharma branded version.
Medicare also covers public hospitals (except ambulances for some odd reason). If its an emergency then you'll be fine, the main criticism of public hospitals is the long waiting lists for what's called "elective surgery" i.e. anything non-critical. Unfortunately the sorts of things that fall into this category are better treated earlier rather than later.
Medicare is taxed at a flat rate of 1.5% of your income, but submitted with your normal income tax so there's no extra paper work. There's an additional 1% medicare surcharge if you earn over a certain amount ($50,000 I think) and don't have private health cover. The penalty tax mentioned in the parent post is only applied when you join private health cover after the age of 30 and its a penalty on top of the private health premiums e.g. if I joined private health cover at age 40 I'd pay an extra 20% of my monthly premium.
I do agree with the parent poster that the previous government clinging to the ideology of the "free market is always better" is rather stupid when they have to step in and prop up the free market with rebates to have it compete with an efficient public system (same thing happened with private schools). The rebate money would be much better spent fixing the problems in the public system.
It's the best system money can buy. All your money. Yeehaw!
That's bullshit. In my security subject at uni the lecturer said that banks did studies on who committed fraud and the financial status and position in the bank had absolutely no correlation to whether someone was more likely to defraud the bank. The best the study came up with was the x% of employees would go bad and so they should design protocols and procedures to limit the damage any one employee can do, no matter their position.