Intellectual property was not even on the radar of most Australians. Also please observe that the recent overhaul is a byproduct of the recent US free trade agreement. I am going to debate your unemployment statistics too because most of it is just playing with numbers. Less than 1/2 of the country's working age labourforce is in full time work with 1/3 of the country in casual work. This is not the low unemployment rate you quote so dearly it is an illusion. 20 hours a week is not employment.
You seem to be confusing Australia with another country. Most people don't like what the government is doing but vote for it anyway because they are scared. Interest rates, refugees, terrorists, whatever doomsday is propagated by the media and pollies next week. All I can say is it's not just the 100 million sheep in this country that go Ba Ba anymore it's most of the human population too.
There is such things as fast cook rice. It's all natural just a different size, takes about 5 minutes to cook. Beans can be bought precooked in cans at about the same price.
The worst sort of bias I have ever found in people is the self made man type. It causes retrospective thought on when(if ever) they saw a poorer person to be cast in a very negative light. I have never seen any reason to detest the working-poor or the lumpen-proletariate so much. You should head down from your gated estate and white picket fence and take a look at the world. It's bad but not as bad as you see it. The people at the bottom of your castle are just like you.
You are 100% right. There are no significant 3rd world software companies (with exception of India and some other soon to be 1st or 2nd world countries) that make this stuff. It's only really hurting profits in the first world, mainly the united states.
Hi there it looks like you need help with a hostage situation may I suggest...
*Come out guns blazing.
*Wimper about how your dad abused you over a microphone to the police.
*Execute hostages and post to al-jazera
*Take a short wizard on creating more hostages.
I'm with you 100%. Ugh... Unions need to go away, and people need to grow a backbone. Stand up for yourself, or find another job.
See the problem with this argument is the inequality between your employer and you. If I stand up to my employer he has an army of lawyers, security guards and media hounds behind him. It's not as idealistic as just standing up to one man equally, like fighting in a pub. It's standing up to hundreds and depending on the circumstances animals too. I was involved in one strike that had attack dogs and bees were released on us. Unions are about evening this gap.
Of course not to be harsh but if Bill Gates still had a soul and the world was like him/his business practices mother theresa would be suing him from beyond the grave for abusing her patent on helping sick children by use of vaccination in third world country.
This has the nice bonus that usually no-one cares about information that's boring, so as time goes on the good stuff lingers while the blogs die; it's very similar to natural selection, right down to the immortal digital information being stored in temporary bodies.
Actually I'd agree with you about unionising the IT industry. We take alot of shit. I haven't taken a coding job in a white because the conditions here are shit or laid back depending on the employer (most of the laid back ones are banks or government). I've copped the shit ones where they not only expect 18 hours a day but will fire you after your section of the contract regardless of performance. As a union organiser I disagree strongly with these sort of practices but I still need to eat. At the moment I'm working in pathology because frankly the pay and conditions are far better.
Wow what a post. Nails have been hit on the head till another floor was added to a house. Finally someone who can read and actually take valid points from something.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the Marxist sense means rule of the masses. Look up the roman meaning of dictator and dictatorship. Words change meaning over time.
A good portion of the insurgents are not iraqi people. Notice i didn't say all. Blowing up the people you fighting for doesn't neccesarily make on thier side. The Iraqi citizens have also been given an out err a peacfull way of getting us out.
A good proportion of the coalition force is also foreign. Funny that. They have been given shit in the way of "democracy" read their fucking constitution and see what I mean.
Now, here is why they are insurgents. We achived our goal of outing the dictator and gave Iraq back to it's people. The resistance don't want it. They refuse to stop fighting and allow us to leave. They refuse to take control of the government by the proccess put in place that represent the majority of the population. They blow up people who are doing nothing more then providing food and shelter for thier family (not even helping the "invaders") then they blow up a second device in an attempt ti kill anyone giving medical help to these inocent civilians that became wounded. They just want to kill people and blame it elswhere.
See the thing is thats all fluff. The Iraqis don't won Iraq while there is a foreign army in their country. Just like the 'american' settlers didn't own the US until the brittish were out.
A resistance wouldn't do someting like this. the french resistance didn't go around blowing up wine shops with no german soldiers around and yell, "that will teach them germans!". They didn't goto weddings and blow up the reception knowing no one there has done anything besides get married. They didn't blow up churches just because they were a different religion then thiers (albiet a small difference). A resitance attacks military targets. Targets that have value to the oposing force. A resistance comunicates troop movement and level to others and aids those attempting to help the resitance.
The resistance forces in iraq are targeting combatants. They are using bombs which always have a chance to miss their target. The fear bombing stuff about iraq isn't true. The main targets are the iraqi police and US soldiers. I agree timed bombs sometimes hit at the wrong time. Arguing that the iraqi resistance is targetting civilians is stupid and untrue. I've been to iraq have you.
What we have is a blood thirsty group of people who entire goal is to strike terror into the citizens by any means neccesary. They are killing because of some religous zealotry and a terrorist agenda. they are common criminals and nothing more. You don't kill inocent people to scare them. Thats what every evil powerr has done in war and they were labeled evil and it was deemed wrong. There is no valor in killing for fun or because you can and that what these insurgents are doing.
Ok by this point I'm wondering why I am even responding you have lost the plot. Your shockjock mouth is covered in saliva from the thought of this and you have a erection. Please man show some dignity and don't resort to such base emotions and bloodlust you yourself are ultimately just as guilty of.
Did you have a "communists are under you bed" poster as a child? Did you go out with your parents to catch subversives performing lewd acts? Do you own a bomb shelter fully stocked for armageddon? I'm sorry sir you are a nut.
The OP made a valid point. Freedom does make it easier for you to bring down a government. Hell my countries government has about 30 police guarding it. If someone did want to go in storming they could. Freedom is what should be encouraged in iraq but its not. If it were up to freedom and democracy the US would leave and they would sort it out how they, the Iraqi people, want. Forget what the media tells you about civil wars. The one thing about most of them is that without foreign intervention they end quickly which is much better than war without end presently. As for taxes lets see how your country fairs without them. Anarchy and Libertarianism in all forms are like Capitalism, and Marxism and the rest of it. On paper they work but who has ever seen them work perfectly in reality? No one, ever, so far in all of history.
Any talk of an ideological war is a load of mur. A war of ideas isn't a war its doublespeak for cloak and dagger tactics. "Islamic Fascists" you say? You don't seem to know what the meaning of fascism is by the way you throw that term around. Also if you actually read or listen to anything terrorists say you would see they are actually trying to destroy the west and retake israel which is somewhat different to "forcing the world to convert to Islam". Also if your interested in crimes against humanity why don't you have a look at colonialism which is where most of this still stems from. You need to fuck up pretty bad for people to hate your nation for things you did 200+ years ago.
I am a self sufficient hermit on an abandoned island, I farmed the electrons for this post myself and don't even know what this gasolene you speak of is.
Your knowledge of the history of working conditions is clouded by ideological abstractions. Marx himself did this. When he studied the parliament statistics on the social conditions of the British proletariat (AFAIK, the name of these were "blue books", but I'm not sure this is exact since English isn't my primary language), for example, he selected as bibliography for the Capital only those volumes that showed a descending standard of living, but selectively refused to include those that showed, after the decline, how their standard of living increased afterwards. Since your argument comes directly from this biased selection, it is also biased, even if you yourself aren't.
Marx lived in a very different academic time to today. References are not to be found in most historical, political and philosophical works of the time. To somehow juxtapose anything from any other time onto the present day is plain stupidly. Marx's work like all other works of any time must be viewed in the context of the time they were written. It would be foolish to think that language and beliefs do not change over time. They do, times change. To assume that any work transcends time is fundementalism and like all zealots you should be treated with disdain and contempt.
And regarding companies, they are neither good nor bad. The profit goal is amoral, in the sense that it can lead to one thing or the other depending on the conditions on which it is allowed to flow. Under a set of pro-monopolist legal rules, where the appearing of competition is forbidden or made almost impossible by existing laws, profit comes from smashing salaries and driving prices to the highest possible value. Under a set of anti-monopolist legal rules, where the market is open to as much competition as it's able to sustain, providing higher salaries (to attract the best workers) and diminishing prices (by optimizing production means) are the means to higher profits. This concept applies to all profit seeking groups, including worker's unions.
That argument is wrong on so many levels. If I make a company thats sole purpose is raping people for money (from people who watch or whatever else) that company would be immoral. Even if it turned a profit. Profit still comes from what Marx noted as a Labour value. You cannot sell for less than the cost of making it (on a whole of your company including external forces) and make a profit. That's basic maths I can't buy something for $10 and sell every item for $5 and make any money. You seem to also forget that laws are made by states. A state does not exist in a free market, and laws also cannot exist. If a state does exist it is not at all a free market. Therefore any laws at all contradict your free market ideals and hense you are really just an anarchist. A rebel without a brain.
You must understand, above all else, that Marx, although important, is dated. The science of Economics advanced by leaps and bounds since he wrote the Capital, and almost all of his concepts have been surpassed by now. Much has happened in the field since the 1860's.:)
So what has changed so much? We are still living in a capitalist world. There is still a class heirarchy. Marx's work like many other economists and philosophers is still relevant when viewed in a historical sense. Society, economically speaking is still very simmilar to Marx's time. Just like morality is still a question today that many find many much older texts to answer (ala bible, etc.).
I honestly don't care what anyone else thinks for this post/rant. If you don't think about these things you might as well just die because historically you would be just as useful to humanity as if you never existed.
Honestly talk to some Nigerians from this area. I have and their photos and words showed a different picture to the one you paint. Not everyone in 3rd world countries dies from those infectous and bactial problems. The gas flares are 100metres high for fucks sake. They keep all towns and villages within 100kilometres of them in a state of perpetual twilight. Deafness is another common problem in these villages from the sound of the gas flare explosions. Rape and murder occur at a much greater rate than the rest of the country, and that is saying something, around these factories and refinaries. There has been at least 1000 people killed directly by the security forces of these plants. Most of those killed were squaters or landless peasants looking for a place to live in abandoned villages. I don't have any links, I heard it directly from a Nigerian unionist who has scars from being shot and beaten for organising at these plants., as well as some Nigerian refugees. To say these plants don't cause problems is an insult and inhuman (and not unhuman, inhuman you don't deserve to be in this species if you think that).
Taxes from oil in nigeria go back to the government and assist it in its present state of dictatorship. This is the same nigeria that stones women to death and funds militias in its neighbours. Basically corruption causing corruption.
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Intellectual property was not even on the radar of most Australians. Also please observe that the recent overhaul is a byproduct of the recent US free trade agreement. I am going to debate your unemployment statistics too because most of it is just playing with numbers. Less than 1/2 of the country's working age labourforce is in full time work with 1/3 of the country in casual work. This is not the low unemployment rate you quote so dearly it is an illusion. 20 hours a week is not employment.
You seem to be confusing Australia with another country. Most people don't like what the government is doing but vote for it anyway because they are scared. Interest rates, refugees, terrorists, whatever doomsday is propagated by the media and pollies next week. All I can say is it's not just the 100 million sheep in this country that go Ba Ba anymore it's most of the human population too.
There is such things as fast cook rice. It's all natural just a different size, takes about 5 minutes to cook. Beans can be bought precooked in cans at about the same price.
The worst sort of bias I have ever found in people is the self made man type. It causes retrospective thought on when(if ever) they saw a poorer person to be cast in a very negative light. I have never seen any reason to detest the working-poor or the lumpen-proletariate so much. You should head down from your gated estate and white picket fence and take a look at the world. It's bad but not as bad as you see it. The people at the bottom of your castle are just like you.
You are 100% right. There are no significant 3rd world software companies (with exception of India and some other soon to be 1st or 2nd world countries) that make this stuff. It's only really hurting profits in the first world, mainly the united states.
Hi there it looks like you need help with a hostage situation may I suggest... *Come out guns blazing. *Wimper about how your dad abused you over a microphone to the police. *Execute hostages and post to al-jazera *Take a short wizard on creating more hostages.
A war is when two armies fight - Bill Hicks.
That sounds like the internet already. I can see this leading to more charges due to people lying about there age.
Of course not to be harsh but if Bill Gates still had a soul and the world was like him/his business practices mother theresa would be suing him from beyond the grave for abusing her patent on helping sick children by use of vaccination in third world country.
Actually I'd agree with you about unionising the IT industry. We take alot of shit. I haven't taken a coding job in a white because the conditions here are shit or laid back depending on the employer (most of the laid back ones are banks or government). I've copped the shit ones where they not only expect 18 hours a day but will fire you after your section of the contract regardless of performance. As a union organiser I disagree strongly with these sort of practices but I still need to eat. At the moment I'm working in pathology because frankly the pay and conditions are far better.
My workplace is alot more casual with hours and such, I've got the rest of the week off.
Wow what a post. Nails have been hit on the head till another floor was added to a house. Finally someone who can read and actually take valid points from something.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the Marxist sense means rule of the masses. Look up the roman meaning of dictator and dictatorship. Words change meaning over time.
Did you have a "communists are under you bed" poster as a child? Did you go out with your parents to catch subversives performing lewd acts? Do you own a bomb shelter fully stocked for armageddon? I'm sorry sir you are a nut.
The OP made a valid point. Freedom does make it easier for you to bring down a government. Hell my countries government has about 30 police guarding it. If someone did want to go in storming they could. Freedom is what should be encouraged in iraq but its not. If it were up to freedom and democracy the US would leave and they would sort it out how they, the Iraqi people, want. Forget what the media tells you about civil wars. The one thing about most of them is that without foreign intervention they end quickly which is much better than war without end presently. As for taxes lets see how your country fairs without them. Anarchy and Libertarianism in all forms are like Capitalism, and Marxism and the rest of it. On paper they work but who has ever seen them work perfectly in reality? No one, ever, so far in all of history.
Any talk of an ideological war is a load of mur. A war of ideas isn't a war its doublespeak for cloak and dagger tactics. "Islamic Fascists" you say? You don't seem to know what the meaning of fascism is by the way you throw that term around. Also if you actually read or listen to anything terrorists say you would see they are actually trying to destroy the west and retake israel which is somewhat different to "forcing the world to convert to Islam". Also if your interested in crimes against humanity why don't you have a look at colonialism which is where most of this still stems from. You need to fuck up pretty bad for people to hate your nation for things you did 200+ years ago.
I am a self sufficient hermit on an abandoned island, I farmed the electrons for this post myself and don't even know what this gasolene you speak of is.
Honestly talk to some Nigerians from this area. I have and their photos and words showed a different picture to the one you paint. Not everyone in 3rd world countries dies from those infectous and bactial problems. The gas flares are 100metres high for fucks sake. They keep all towns and villages within 100kilometres of them in a state of perpetual twilight. Deafness is another common problem in these villages from the sound of the gas flare explosions. Rape and murder occur at a much greater rate than the rest of the country, and that is saying something, around these factories and refinaries. There has been at least 1000 people killed directly by the security forces of these plants. Most of those killed were squaters or landless peasants looking for a place to live in abandoned villages. I don't have any links, I heard it directly from a Nigerian unionist who has scars from being shot and beaten for organising at these plants., as well as some Nigerian refugees. To say these plants don't cause problems is an insult and inhuman (and not unhuman, inhuman you don't deserve to be in this species if you think that).
Taxes from oil in nigeria go back to the government and assist it in its present state of dictatorship. This is the same nigeria that stones women to death and funds militias in its neighbours. Basically corruption causing corruption.
Your job or your life hey? I'd rather be unemployed than dying anyday.