The hippies, homeless people and Black Panther wannabes aren't really paying property taxes, are they?
The corporates and the people who work for them are.
So who's to say the people running the city government won't tell the former to go fuck themselves in favour of the latter? That'd be consistent with the logic of the free market a-la-USA.
I saw something about this the other day, and simply figured I'd stumbled across Prison Planet or something similar... any suggestion that it isn't feels really creepy.
Unbelievable that these Muslims should be allowed to get away with what they do in an Christian part of the world. I certainly hope that somebody teaches them a lesson, especially seeing that lawlessness cuts both ways, and makes it a lot easier for Whitey to come and clean house -- again.
Sure, keep displaying your ignorance with that false dichotomy, and demonising people who don't want to pay to have their countries filled up with illiterate, violent scum.
Sure, you might be happy to have your kids pack-raped by roving gangs of young Muslim men. YOU might be happy with suffering disrespect and hatred at the hands of foreigners in your own country. Just don't inflict it on me or my kids, and furthermore, don't expect me to pay for it.
I DON'T want to be forced to pay through the nose for the slum-ification of my country because some fucking liberal hipster wants to smoke shisha.
"Past performance is not indicative of future returns".
The Green Revolution has run its course. Increases in yield per acre are stagnating, in some cases, dropping, because of resource depletion and bad farming practices.
Because the easy wins have been made, and improvements in yields are stagnating, if not, falling (because of loss of topsoil, aquifer depletion, salination, etc).
Yet, the Third World population is spiralling out of control. Our looming resource-depletion Armageddon will start in places like Egypt first, where they have drastically exceeded the land's carry capacity, and they're culturally totally incapable of getting a grip on the situation. They think Allah will make it all good, and will do so until Western border guards start shooting at the refugees.
When the end comes, it'll hit us HARD. I, for one, are hoping we're tooled up for a fight, because it'll literally be a fight for survival.
The story was that he killed himself because he was a Muslim who couldn't handle taking orders from a female authority figure -- a female policeman in this case.
Exactly. Muslims rioting, doing illegal immigration, etc, is at its root, a resource grab by feckless, morally, culturally inferior people, against people who work hard, don't hyper-breed, and do the right thing.
The Muzzies are in for a rude awakening when we start mining the borders and shooting at the boats.
Oohhhh, and if we don't always, constantly show "empathy" (and of course, soon after, give free money and lebensraum to people who fuck up, and want everyone else to take responsibility for it) for others, we are BAD people.
Right.
This place is turning into a low-rent knockoff of Comment Is Free.
Fuck "empathy". If Third World assholes can't keep their legs crossed and they end up in a Malthusian catastrophe, why should we bail them out.
I would DEARLY love to see Apple give all the rent-seeking parasites in the medical industry a few black eyes.
Better yet, I'd love to see some real disruption come from the emerging economies. There is no reason why medical equipment should cost what it does, when most of it is decades old, and operates according to very well-known principles.
At worst, I'd rather see Apple profiteer, than to see this evil gerontocracy prevail.
It wouldn't surprise me if these parasites quietly call cord-cutters "deadbeats", just as credit-card companies call customers who pay their bills every month "deadbeats". It'd jive with their big-business culture of greed and entitlement.
I don't buy that. I came from a rough background and got kicked out of home with nothing but 3 years of high school and the clothes on my back. Yet I managed to find a way to find work, make the right choices, and build a future for myself. I know several other people who managed that.
My advantage was that I had the right attitudes and behaviours, and made the right decisions when I was young.
As far as 'marriage as title' goes, I think it's a bit more than that.
The sneering 'social justice' hipsters hate it, because they know that marriage entrenches "privilege" in the white middle class. 'Marriage', done properly, is designed to preserve and grow cultural, social and economic wealth in the white middle classes.
You're right -- it's just a "label". It's a powerful one, though.
I suspect that when women want to settle down and marry, they're after stability. Obviously, a man who has his act together enough to have an IT degree and a steady-paying job is stable, is likely to make a reliable husband/father, and is thus, worth marrying.
The transition point where women are happy to marry, is usually 20-ish for people without tertiary qualifications, 30-ish for people with bachelor degrees or better. What I've seen in the IT industry bears this out -- everyone under 30 is either single -- or if they have good social skills -- dating. EVERYONE over 30, without exception, is married. Even the complete, unwashed neckbeards.
In contrast, the people I've known, who were cocky winners in high-school, but otherwise dumb as dogsh*t, and stuck on low-paying jobs or the dole? Single, or bouncing between unstable, shitty relationships with fat ugly single mothers.
My HECS bill never went away when I went abroad. It was still sitting there getting indexed, until I had the brains and means to pay it off.
Luckily, it only got indexed once a year, so I got clever. I went abroad, worked my arse off, laid my hands on all the cash I could, and then and paid off the debt a week before the annual index date -- and got the 10% "rich man's discount" for paying up front, to boot.
Never mind ignition, as big an achievement it'll be. It'll be the engineering challenges of building a fusion power plant that'll bring them unstuck.
I'm keen to see how they're going to cheaply and automatically manufacture, load and position the targets to micron-accuracy in the chamber. I'm also interested in seeing how they're going to engineer the chamber to harvest the energy from the reaction, and to withstand the tremendous punishment it'll have to take, being jackhammered by tiny fusion explosions 10 x a second.
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If somebody determined to get up to mischief, they'll do it anyway, regardless of whether or not your car is networked over CAN or Ethernet.
What you're suggesting, is that security by obscurity works, not that CAN is all that obscure...
The hippies, homeless people and Black Panther wannabes aren't really paying property taxes, are they?
The corporates and the people who work for them are.
So who's to say the people running the city government won't tell the former to go fuck themselves in favour of the latter? That'd be consistent with the logic of the free market a-la-USA.
I saw something about this the other day, and simply figured I'd stumbled across Prison Planet or something similar... any suggestion that it isn't feels really creepy.
Place has always been a bit lawless; see every terrorist and criminal piece of shit on Earth is attracted to the place.
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Unbelievable that these Muslims should be allowed to get away with what they do in an Christian part of the world. I certainly hope that somebody teaches them a lesson, especially seeing that lawlessness cuts both ways, and makes it a lot easier for Whitey to come and clean house -- again.
How else did that crazy windbag manage to sucker Google into hiring him?
You'd think that frauds and kooks would get found out pretty fast over there, but obviously not.
Sure, keep displaying your ignorance with that false dichotomy, and demonising people who don't want to pay to have their countries filled up with illiterate, violent scum.
Sure, you might be happy to have your kids pack-raped by roving gangs of young Muslim men. YOU might be happy with suffering disrespect and hatred at the hands of foreigners in your own country. Just don't inflict it on me or my kids, and furthermore, don't expect me to pay for it.
I DON'T want to be forced to pay through the nose for the slum-ification of my country because some fucking liberal hipster wants to smoke shisha.
Heh, the liberals who cry "Islamophobia" at the drop of a hat, are the same people that Lenin once called "useful idiots".
"Anti-racists" are useful idiots for extreme-right Islamists who want to subdue and rape the world.
"Past performance is not indicative of future returns".
The Green Revolution has run its course. Increases in yield per acre are stagnating, in some cases, dropping, because of resource depletion and bad farming practices.
Because the easy wins have been made, and improvements in yields are stagnating, if not, falling (because of loss of topsoil, aquifer depletion, salination, etc).
Yet, the Third World population is spiralling out of control. Our looming resource-depletion Armageddon will start in places like Egypt first, where they have drastically exceeded the land's carry capacity, and they're culturally totally incapable of getting a grip on the situation. They think Allah will make it all good, and will do so until Western border guards start shooting at the refugees.
When the end comes, it'll hit us HARD. I, for one, are hoping we're tooled up for a fight, because it'll literally be a fight for survival.
Agreed. The fact that there is some kind of human right to breed out of control is a complete nonsense, and must end.
The story was that he killed himself because he was a Muslim who couldn't handle taking orders from a female authority figure -- a female policeman in this case.
Exactly. Muslims rioting, doing illegal immigration, etc, is at its root, a resource grab by feckless, morally, culturally inferior people, against people who work hard, don't hyper-breed, and do the right thing.
The Muzzies are in for a rude awakening when we start mining the borders and shooting at the boats.
Oohhhh, and if we don't always, constantly show "empathy" (and of course, soon after, give free money and lebensraum to people who fuck up, and want everyone else to take responsibility for it) for others, we are BAD people.
Right.
This place is turning into a low-rent knockoff of Comment Is Free.
Fuck "empathy". If Third World assholes can't keep their legs crossed and they end up in a Malthusian catastrophe, why should we bail them out.
Or lack of culture, as it were.
Is this just Iranians basically commiting acts of hooliganism? Is there any damage actually being done here?
I would DEARLY love to see Apple give all the rent-seeking parasites in the medical industry a few black eyes.
Better yet, I'd love to see some real disruption come from the emerging economies. There is no reason why medical equipment should cost what it does, when most of it is decades old, and operates according to very well-known principles.
At worst, I'd rather see Apple profiteer, than to see this evil gerontocracy prevail.
Are you certain you're not reversing cause and effect?
It wouldn't surprise me if these parasites quietly call cord-cutters "deadbeats", just as credit-card companies call customers who pay their bills every month "deadbeats". It'd jive with their big-business culture of greed and entitlement.
What happened to US antitrust law, anyway?
'Lack of resources from birth'
I don't buy that. I came from a rough background and got kicked out of home with nothing but 3 years of high school and the clothes on my back. Yet I managed to find a way to find work, make the right choices, and build a future for myself. I know several other people who managed that.
My advantage was that I had the right attitudes and behaviours, and made the right decisions when I was young.
"Resources" had nothing to do with it. Try again.
Stupid cookie-cutter MBA pindicks.
They were the jocks in school who got ahead because of their aggro and ego, but not their brains.
Guess what? They're now our bosses.
As far as 'marriage as title' goes, I think it's a bit more than that.
The sneering 'social justice' hipsters hate it, because they know that marriage entrenches "privilege" in the white middle class. 'Marriage', done properly, is designed to preserve and grow cultural, social and economic wealth in the white middle classes.
You're right -- it's just a "label". It's a powerful one, though.
I suspect that when women want to settle down and marry, they're after stability. Obviously, a man who has his act together enough to have an IT degree and a steady-paying job is stable, is likely to make a reliable husband/father, and is thus, worth marrying.
The transition point where women are happy to marry, is usually 20-ish for people without tertiary qualifications, 30-ish for people with bachelor degrees or better. What I've seen in the IT industry bears this out -- everyone under 30 is either single -- or if they have good social skills -- dating. EVERYONE over 30, without exception, is married. Even the complete, unwashed neckbeards.
In contrast, the people I've known, who were cocky winners in high-school, but otherwise dumb as dogsh*t, and stuck on low-paying jobs or the dole? Single, or bouncing between unstable, shitty relationships with fat ugly single mothers.
Stability is catnip for women looking to marry.
Sounds like bullshit young-Republican rightwing talking points.
Let's see some evidence that granting the private sector a license to impose debt-slavery on people actually concentrates minds in college.
My HECS bill never went away when I went abroad. It was still sitting there getting indexed, until I had the brains and means to pay it off.
Luckily, it only got indexed once a year, so I got clever. I went abroad, worked my arse off, laid my hands on all the cash I could, and then and paid off the debt a week before the annual index date -- and got the 10% "rich man's discount" for paying up front, to boot.
Easy. Do what everyone else does. Fund only first degrees with a graduate tax. Once you've got your first degree, you're on your own.
Never mind ignition, as big an achievement it'll be. It'll be the engineering challenges of building a fusion power plant that'll bring them unstuck.
I'm keen to see how they're going to cheaply and automatically manufacture, load and position the targets to micron-accuracy in the chamber. I'm also interested in seeing how they're going to engineer the chamber to harvest the energy from the reaction, and to withstand the tremendous punishment it'll have to take, being jackhammered by tiny fusion explosions 10 x a second.