Get whacked on weed, get hungry, talk crap, play video games, go to sleep. Rinse, repeat.
Get drunk out of your mind, act like a fool, get into fight, get punched out, you and your dead liver then fall through a plate glass window.
Get whacked on Ice/Speed etc etc stay awake for three days, see spiders all over the walls, get into fight with 6 cops, with luck you're in hospital in the crazy ward being tied to a bed , without luck you're full of holes on the street.
"took the babies from their loving mothers.."/????/
What deluded bizarro parallel world do you inhabit ?
General consensus in Australia these days is that the so caled "Stolen Generation" is really the "Rescued Generation" and the whole thing is a political beatup designed to keep Aboriginal Incorporated on the government gravy train.
The babies were removed as they stood an extremely good chance of dying through abuse and neglect. The white Austrlians gave them health care, decent food, education, love and a future instead of leaving them to rot in filthy conditions in squalor.
Get the "one sixty-fourth Aboriginal and on the government nipple forever" propoganda out of your ears.
Australia is the best country in the world to live in, bar none. Best food, best climate, best women, best society, best everything. The US is best for crack and handguns and pimps, not much else. So open your eyes man, Australia (and pretty much most of Europe) wipe the floor with you. It's just your insanely efficient propoganda machine that lies to you from day one that says it isn't so "Yooo Esss Ayyyy"
Canadians spend about the same amount of time waiting for "free" healthcare as Australians, Britons and French do....approximately the time it takes to drive to the clinic and read half a dog eared magazine in the waiting room. The Europeans pay less tax to get their "free" healthcare system as you do to buy aircraft carriers and prop up GW's buddies failing merchant banks.
Don't tell me..you called in the arty strike by using your credit card to pay for the call to the Pentagon after the local operator wouldn't let you call collect ?
Now where have I heard of that before???..hmmmm.....
Yeah, except that have containment fields or a teleport that just sucks the damn thing away, or beams it back into your lap.
Trust me....any aliens that are here are most probably a million years ahead of us technology wise. We wouldn't be like cavemen to them, we'd be like lemurs.
The Russians could have sent men to the moon too, years ago, but they didn't ?..why ?... not cost effective.
They sat back and thought "Let the silly Americans spend zillions on landing men on the moon. We will save our money and use it to send out unmanned probes to the Moon, Mars, Venus and gain more REAL knowledge at a fraction of the cost. It's not like we have anything to prove anyway, we were first into space......."
They were sensible. Let the US take the lead on flashy show-pony one upmanship while they got on with the job more effectively.
Why is that a -1 Flamebait ?? This is EXACTLY what lassise faire capitalism gets you. As long as the execs are still ordering Jetstreams, who cares about a bunch of those little people dying in their droves.
I take it by "smart" you mean "narrow minded" and by "compassionate" you mean "insular" ? Not all, but hey, only 18% own passports (low as %7 depending on what source you believe). You need to get out more.
And what happens when someone uses one of those laptops to hijack a plain or blow up a train? I think the US gov is being emminently sensible with these measures! Like the guy said, citizens have no reason to be transporting encrypted laptops !
S-u-b-s-i-d-y, and your point is ? Oh, of course, completely irrelevant. You're what we call the "Ugly American", go back to drinking hooch in your trailer park Jethro, leave the thinkin' to the big boys.
Wow, that's funny seeing as the US isn't even in the top 5 for rate of car ownership by country. Oh, hang on, what's that ?..it's number 7 ?..following Italy, Germany , Austria, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand ? I think your feelings of "superiority" are a little on the "penis envy" side. All that aside, if you're driving a SUV then quit whining about fuel costs, buy a Mazda instead. I happen to own 3 V8 cars. They use a LOT of fuel and they cost me a LOT of money, but I accept that and I don't whinge and moan 'Oh, how could this be happening?...whatever will I do ?" I would take more public transport though if it wasn't so crappy and unreliable here.
Fuel is crazy cheap in the US, so what are you whining about ? Do you think it's your God Given Right (tm) to drive 8mpg gas guzzlers filled up with 40c/litre fuel forever????? Who are you kidding? Most other countries (exclude major producers like Suadi, Venezuala) have heavy taxes on fuel and drive more fuel efficient cars. Stop whining America, you've shoved cheap oil into your veins like it was going out of fashion for the last 50 years, those days are now over. A billion and a half Indians and Chinese now want their time in the sun and they're starting to guzzle too. If the USA wasn't run by Big Oil you'd be a lot better off. So instead of whining about how *shock horror* you can't just pee oil up against the wall anymore maybe you could DO something about it. Start by asking why you can't start to wean yourselves off it, so you don't NEED to foul your own backyards to extract every last drop of the black stuff. And vote to INCREASE taxes on fuel (I know, pipe dream but hey...gotta try..) so reduce demand.
NEWSFLASH ---- You've had it too good for too long, now comes the pain, and this is only the beginning.
Well, it's really a fait acompli anyway as half of NZ already reside at Manly. We put up with the silly "anti-oz" rantings that come from some of the kiwis, while kindly allowing huge numbers of them to flee their grim homeland and live here. Of course, it goes without saying that the only people heading the other way are some bored tourists off to NZ to look at the boiling mud....and the sheep. Every time you turn around in a large Oz city you see hordes of Nz'rs bouncing in pubs, or employed as furniture movers, and lots of lots of "Ah Bro?" going on.
Not everyone is unwashed, some of us joined, then forgot passwords, didn't post for a while, and then had to rejoin later and get approriately higher id's.
Let me tell you about my first ICQ account, back in the day, 1995-96 I believe. My UIN was like, 1800 or something as I was one of the first beta testers, now they're up into the gabillions.
Of course, I used it for a while, then left it alone, graduated, lost my uni email account and then forgot all my login details. You think I have a ghost of a chance ever getting that UIN back again?....nup ! So now when I use it (rarely) I have to use my UIN that I got when I signed up again a year or two back..35347598723453465656 or something.
Who woulda thunk it ?
Stalin himself , after the war, commented along the lines of "Ahhh..if only Germany and Russia were allies, what a pair we'd have made".
Hitler needed to neutralise France and the UK as he knew they would move to defend Belgium via treaty (which he had to go through to get to France), but he wasn't hell bent on destroying them for ideological reasons. He went after Russia as it was always the prize, dreamt of since his Mein Kampf days. Territories and space in the east, gained by conquest, ethnically cleansed save for a native population of slaves, and home for 120 million German Ubermenschen. Unfortunately (for him) the UK held out and then became a massive aircraft carrier parked right off the European coast, plus the Reds under the brilliant generalship of Zhukov and others, bled the Germans dry while they were holed up in an exceptionly severe Russian winter. Don't beleive Saving Private Ryan and other US propoganda, the Russians took a while to get going but they could have (and nearly did) roll up the German War Machine all on their lonesome.
It's not like the poor old drug companies are scrimping and saving and borrowing like crazy to fund their drug researches and then have to charge like wounded bulls to make a piddling little profit. Do you have any idea how many drugs are actually researched by publically funded programs such as Universities?
1: let university develop drug
2: pay Uni piddling sum for the rights (actually, just pay a small fee to blanket cover anything the eggheads develop)
3: crank up production
4: Charge amzing amounts for the finished product
5: PROFIT
http://www.wanttoknow.info/truthaboutdrugcompanies
See how easy it is ? So YOUR taxes are funding YOUR Universities to develop drugs that the PHARMA COMPANIES get for a song to sell back to YOU for excessive amounts.
Brilliant system, no?
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Agreed.
Get whacked on weed, get hungry, talk crap, play video games, go to sleep. Rinse, repeat.
Get drunk out of your mind, act like a fool, get into fight, get punched out, you and your dead liver then fall through a plate glass window.
Get whacked on Ice/Speed etc etc stay awake for three days, see spiders all over the walls, get into fight with 6 cops, with luck you're in hospital in the crazy ward being tied to a bed , without luck you're full of holes on the street.
He's right, weed isn't even in the same ballpark.
Simple really.
"took the babies from their loving mothers.."/????/
What deluded bizarro parallel world do you inhabit ?
General consensus in Australia these days is that the so caled "Stolen Generation" is really the "Rescued Generation" and the whole thing is a political beatup designed to keep Aboriginal Incorporated on the government gravy train.
The babies were removed as they stood an extremely good chance of dying through abuse and neglect. The white Austrlians gave them health care, decent food, education, love and a future instead of leaving them to rot in filthy conditions in squalor.
Get the "one sixty-fourth Aboriginal and on the government nipple forever" propoganda out of your ears.
Klingons
Are you deluded ???
Australia is the best country in the world to live in, bar none.
Best food, best climate, best women, best society, best everything.
The US is best for crack and handguns and pimps, not much else.
So open your eyes man, Australia (and pretty much most of Europe) wipe the floor with you. It's just your insanely efficient propoganda machine that lies to you from day one that says it isn't so "Yooo Esss Ayyyy"
Canadians spend about the same amount of time waiting for "free" healthcare as Australians, Britons and French do....approximately the time it takes to drive to the clinic and read half a dog eared magazine in the waiting room.
The Europeans pay less tax to get their "free" healthcare system as you do to buy aircraft carriers and prop up GW's buddies failing merchant banks.
The US health care "system" is a disgrace.
Flaming ipods on a plane wouldn't be too healthy though hmmmm?....
Same sort of dodgy batteries as they had in the Apple/Dell laptops a while back ?
iPod catch fire
then PROFIT before Hitler and Nazi germany steal it all when the cpu power doubles.
Don't tell me..you called in the arty strike by using your credit card to pay for the call to the Pentagon after the local operator wouldn't let you call collect ?
Now where have I heard of that before???..hmmmm.....
Yeah, except that have containment fields or a teleport that just sucks the damn thing away, or beams it back into your lap.
Trust me....any aliens that are here are most probably a million years ahead of us technology wise. We wouldn't be like cavemen to them, we'd be like lemurs.
The Russians could have sent men to the moon too, years ago, but they didn't ?..why ?... not cost effective.
They sat back and thought "Let the silly Americans spend zillions on landing men on the moon. We will save our money and use it to send out unmanned probes to the Moon, Mars, Venus and gain more REAL knowledge at a fraction of the cost. It's not like we have anything to prove anyway, we were first into space......."
They were sensible. Let the US take the lead on flashy show-pony one upmanship while they got on with the job more effectively.
The US embargo is stupid anyway. It's got more to do with keeping the Florida ex-cuban population happily voting Republican than anything else.
Seems like Micheal Moore got it right.
I Am An Actual Lawyer perhaps ?
Why is that a -1 Flamebait ??
This is EXACTLY what lassise faire capitalism gets you.
As long as the execs are still ordering Jetstreams, who cares about a bunch of those little people dying in their droves.
I take it by "smart" you mean "narrow minded" and by "compassionate" you mean "insular" ?
Not all, but hey, only 18% own passports (low as %7 depending on what source you believe).
You need to get out more.
And what happens when someone uses one of those laptops to hijack a plain or blow up a train? I think the US gov is being emminently sensible with these measures!
Like the guy said, citizens have no reason to be transporting encrypted laptops !
Africa.
S-u-b-s-i-d-y, and your point is ? Oh, of course, completely irrelevant. You're what we call the "Ugly American", go back to drinking hooch in your trailer park Jethro, leave the thinkin' to the big boys.
Wow, that's funny seeing as the US isn't even in the top 5 for rate of car ownership by country. Oh, hang on, what's that ?..it's number 7 ?..following Italy, Germany , Austria, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand ?
I think your feelings of "superiority" are a little on the "penis envy" side.
All that aside, if you're driving a SUV then quit whining about fuel costs, buy a Mazda instead.
I happen to own 3 V8 cars. They use a LOT of fuel and they cost me a LOT of money, but I accept that and I don't whinge and moan 'Oh, how could this be happening?...whatever will I do ?" I would take more public transport though if it wasn't so crappy and unreliable here.
Fuel is crazy cheap in the US, so what are you whining about ? Do you think it's your God Given Right (tm) to drive 8mpg gas guzzlers filled up with 40c/litre fuel forever????? Who are you kidding?
Most other countries (exclude major producers like Suadi, Venezuala) have heavy taxes on fuel and drive more fuel efficient cars. Stop whining America, you've shoved cheap oil into your veins like it was going out of fashion for the last 50 years, those days are now over. A billion and a half Indians and Chinese now want their time in the sun and they're starting to guzzle too.
If the USA wasn't run by Big Oil you'd be a lot better off. So instead of whining about how *shock horror* you can't just pee oil up against the wall anymore maybe you could DO something about it.
Start by asking why you can't start to wean yourselves off it, so you don't NEED to foul your own backyards to extract every last drop of the black stuff. And vote to INCREASE taxes on fuel (I know, pipe dream but hey...gotta try..) so reduce demand.
NEWSFLASH ---- You've had it too good for too long, now comes the pain, and this is only the beginning.
Have you ever seen pissed off Maoris? Trust me, that guy will soon be wishing prison in NZ WAS like Oz.
If the FRENCH hadn't of been "good citizens", you'd probably still be singing God save the Queen.
There we go, fixed that for you.
Well, it's really a fait acompli anyway as half of NZ already reside at Manly. We put up with the silly "anti-oz" rantings that come from some of the kiwis, while kindly allowing huge numbers of them to flee their grim homeland and live here. Of course, it goes without saying that the only people heading the other way are some bored tourists off to NZ to look at the boiling mud....and the sheep. Every time you turn around in a large Oz city you see hordes of Nz'rs bouncing in pubs, or employed as furniture movers, and lots of lots of "Ah Bro?" going on.
Not everyone is unwashed, some of us joined, then forgot passwords, didn't post for a while, and then had to rejoin later and get approriately higher id's. Let me tell you about my first ICQ account, back in the day, 1995-96 I believe. My UIN was like, 1800 or something as I was one of the first beta testers, now they're up into the gabillions. Of course, I used it for a while, then left it alone, graduated, lost my uni email account and then forgot all my login details. You think I have a ghost of a chance ever getting that UIN back again?....nup ! So now when I use it (rarely) I have to use my UIN that I got when I signed up again a year or two back..35347598723453465656 or something. Who woulda thunk it ?
Stalin himself , after the war, commented along the lines of "Ahhh..if only Germany and Russia were allies, what a pair we'd have made". Hitler needed to neutralise France and the UK as he knew they would move to defend Belgium via treaty (which he had to go through to get to France), but he wasn't hell bent on destroying them for ideological reasons. He went after Russia as it was always the prize, dreamt of since his Mein Kampf days. Territories and space in the east, gained by conquest, ethnically cleansed save for a native population of slaves, and home for 120 million German Ubermenschen. Unfortunately (for him) the UK held out and then became a massive aircraft carrier parked right off the European coast, plus the Reds under the brilliant generalship of Zhukov and others, bled the Germans dry while they were holed up in an exceptionly severe Russian winter. Don't beleive Saving Private Ryan and other US propoganda, the Russians took a while to get going but they could have (and nearly did) roll up the German War Machine all on their lonesome.
It's not like the poor old drug companies are scrimping and saving and borrowing like crazy to fund their drug researches and then have to charge like wounded bulls to make a piddling little profit. Do you have any idea how many drugs are actually researched by publically funded programs such as Universities? 1: let university develop drug 2: pay Uni piddling sum for the rights (actually, just pay a small fee to blanket cover anything the eggheads develop) 3: crank up production 4: Charge amzing amounts for the finished product 5: PROFIT http://www.wanttoknow.info/truthaboutdrugcompanies See how easy it is ? So YOUR taxes are funding YOUR Universities to develop drugs that the PHARMA COMPANIES get for a song to sell back to YOU for excessive amounts. Brilliant system, no?