Slashdot's community is now more divided than I've ever seen it
Is it fuck. It's only the stupid cunts that can only think in binary terms on US politics that are divided, and the rest of us just shrug and think they're stupid.
1) Taxation is to benefit the rich and powerful people in charge
The rich and powerful can pay for their own health care, pay for their children's education, pay for their own transport. Taxation allows communities to provide all of those to the poorer members of society.
2) Taxation affect the poor WAY more that the rich, if you lose 20% a million you still have plenty to buy shit, not so if you lose 20% of $100
Except if I earn a million, I'll lose over 40% of it to income tax. If I earn $100 I'll pay no tax at all.
3) Taxation declare poor people to be worth less that rich and leaves them with an unlivable wage
Taxation makes no declarations at all. If anything, as my previous example shows, taxation policy recognises people's ability to pay and charges accordingly.
Meanwhile, taxation provides does with unlivable wages with a a level of support that keeps them fed and alive, so exactly the opposite of 'unlivable'.
I will concede taxation is not sexist, it fucks all (poor) people the same
As it happens.. taxation is sexist. Men pay three quarters of the income tax paid in the UK.
So you're basically wrong on every single statement you made. I guess you don't pay many taxes.
Not sexually harassing women isn't being Politically Correct (and nice scare caps there), it's "being a decent human being".
What the fuck does that have to do with being accused of sexual harassment?
Yes, I have been falsely accused of sexual harassment. I know it was a false accusation because (1) what I was doing wasn't sexual in nature, (2) what I was doing wasn't based on the sex or gender of the other person (as I do it to anybody) and (3) what I was doing wasn't harassment.
Not sexually harassing women is a fuck of a lot easier than not getting falsely accused of it. I need a clear an obvious defence, and that means witnesses or recordings.
The accuses is legally innocent, but doesn't mean that they didn't do the thing they are accused of. They may or may not have, we don't know.
I mention this because you seem to have assumed that all the accused men didn't do anything, but that all the accusing women definitely lied. Neither is a justified conclusion based on failure to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt.
On at least one of those cases the hidden evidence showed that the sex was consensual.
That makes it a false allegation and yes, she should be fucking prosecuted and imprisoned.
When trials are collapsing it's because there's no case to answer, not because they found the defendant not guilty. That's not a "insufficient proof" situation, that's a "oh fuck, we've been lied to by another fucking professional victim" situation.
Men are under attack from these professional victims and it's utterly fucking fantastic that the attorney general has decided this needs to be looked into.
Invent a high efficiency diesel engine that has zero NOx emissions and VW will fucking licence it from you. They don't want the high NOx emissions, and didn't fucking design it in.
How fucking dense are you all?
High NOx emissions are not a design parameter. Minimising NOx emissions is a design parameter that takes lower priority than fuel efficiency. Since both can't be achieved the higher priority one took precedence.
Give VW shit for the shit they've done but stop making new shit up because you're the cunt that looks stupid as a result.
cannot see the difference between a refugee and an immigrant
If you think Merkel was welcoming just refugees and not economic migrants then you need to read more than the Guardian and the BBC.
If you think the millions of African migrants landing in Greece and Turkey are all refugees, you're just a total fuckwit.
they want to get here so why should France pay to police them?
Maybe because they're in France and the EU illegally unless they apply for a visa, apply for refugee status or otherwise gain leave to stay. Which they should be doing in the first European country they enter, not travelling across the whole fucking continent to try and do it in the UK.
France should be fucking dealing with these people and not trying to ship them over to the UK.
low skilled jobs are minimum wage so its competing work ethics not wages.
It's not just the no-skill jobs though. Low skill jobs pay more than minimum wage, and not even just those are under pressure.
A lot of Polish tradesmen and craftsmen (e.g. plumbers, builders, etc) came over and accepted lower wages than the locals. This helped the building industry but not the people displaced or forced to compete at lower wages.
so shoot the correct target
It's hard to find the correct target, let alone get the chance to shoot for it. As the EU is a material factor and was available to be shot down, people took the opportunity.
it is subsidising most of the rest of the UK with its tax revenues
It's also getting higher spend per capita than anywhere else, and has done for decades. Big fucking surprise, area with high investment outperforms areas with fuck all investment.
Bear in mind virually everyone in the UK has immigrant blood since the Roman times.
"Native" Brits are very much mongrels, and that includes the ones in Celtic areas. There's continued acceptance and welcoming of new migrants, just not at the current scale. The country is full, we need lower population not another million people very three years.
I worked for a company that replaced the furniture in one of its largest meeting rooms with bean bags, so that people would be comfortable and relaxed and more creative.
The women refused to sit on them while wearing a skirt. The men refused to hold meetings there because the women couldn't sit down. The room stopped being used entirely.
The room's sponsor continued to be confused that people didn't want to be creative..
If anything, leaving the EU will further diminish the limited opportunities in the North as the economy shrinks still further.
When you have to compete for work with cheap European labour and wages depress as a result, the economy isn't really working for you in the first place.
So why not vote for change. It doesn't feel it can get any worse.
Further, you have not understood the problems of immigration and the full extent of controls permitted under EU law.
I understand that half of the residents of my country's capital city are born outside of the country. I understand that a million economic migrants were welcomed by Germany and will soon be eligible to come to my country - and we can't stop them. I understand that the EU fails to apply its own rules on immigration, resulting in millions of Africans traversing Europe instead of being correctly assessed and accepted or rejected in Greece. I understand that France demands that the UK pay for its Calais migrant facilities, instead of acknowledging that these people are in France and should fucking well stay there.
I also understand that the UK government are spineless cunts that allow excessive migration from outside the EU too. We just haven't been given a vote on that one.
The problem is that this happened in the early 80s and since then successive governments have continued to under-invest in the North and especially the East side of the country north of Essex.
When the coal mining jobs vanished and industry went overseas entire communities ended up fucked senseless and haven't recovered.
It's not coincidence that many of these areas voted so heavily to leave the EU.
My crazy brand strategy is that we should join forces with Russia and Assad and overthrow Erdogan. The man is really that bad to want to do this. My connection to that part of the world casts my sympathies with Kemalism, and Erdogan is the point-of-no-return for Turkey.
Fuck Russia and Assad, Erdogan's biggest threat are the Kurds. Once they've dealt with ISIS there's a good chance they're going to show how fucked off they are with Turkey illegally bombing them.
The challenge for the UK, US and others is that Turkey is a NATO member. That makes it diplomatically close to impossible to engage militarily against Turkey, let alone join a Russian or Assad led offensive. Anybody attacking Turkey gets fucked by NATO.
The Kurds on the other hand have a claim that they were attacked by Turkey. That changes the NATO obligations, and that's why this is the interesting option.
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It's wrong for us to catch a blatant traitor committing treason!
Can someone just fucking step back a moment and tell me what fucking treason has been committed?
Just that I'm entirely fucking confused by all this.
Russia's attack on America
What fucking attack?
All Russia appears to have done is encourage the fuckwits in America to get pissed off with each other. Which they were already doing anyway.
You come across as unhinged, so if there's some straightforward evidence then do please fucking share.
Slashdot's community is now more divided than I've ever seen it
Is it fuck. It's only the stupid cunts that can only think in binary terms on US politics that are divided, and the rest of us just shrug and think they're stupid.
What's he done that's treasonous or seditious?
1) Taxation is to benefit the rich and powerful people in charge
The rich and powerful can pay for their own health care, pay for their children's education, pay for their own transport. Taxation allows communities to provide all of those to the poorer members of society.
2) Taxation affect the poor WAY more that the rich, if you lose 20% a million you still have plenty to buy shit, not so if you lose 20% of $100
Except if I earn a million, I'll lose over 40% of it to income tax. If I earn $100 I'll pay no tax at all.
3) Taxation declare poor people to be worth less that rich and leaves them with an unlivable wage
Taxation makes no declarations at all. If anything, as my previous example shows, taxation policy recognises people's ability to pay and charges accordingly.
Meanwhile, taxation provides does with unlivable wages with a a level of support that keeps them fed and alive, so exactly the opposite of 'unlivable'.
I will concede taxation is not sexist, it fucks all (poor) people the same
As it happens.. taxation is sexist. Men pay three quarters of the income tax paid in the UK.
So you're basically wrong on every single statement you made. I guess you don't pay many taxes.
Of course I can. Atari were fucking great, whether they were run by a puritanical nun or some bloke that likes hot tubs.
Incidentally, one of those two classes is responsible for genuinely horrific systemic child abuse, and it's not blokes that like hot tubs.
Not sexually harassing women isn't being Politically Correct (and nice scare caps there), it's "being a decent human being".
What the fuck does that have to do with being accused of sexual harassment?
Yes, I have been falsely accused of sexual harassment. I know it was a false accusation because (1) what I was doing wasn't sexual in nature, (2) what I was doing wasn't based on the sex or gender of the other person (as I do it to anybody) and (3) what I was doing wasn't harassment.
Not sexually harassing women is a fuck of a lot easier than not getting falsely accused of it. I need a clear an obvious defence, and that means witnesses or recordings.
let them enjoy banging two rocks together trying to cook the leaf they caught for dinner
While I don't agree with your main point, that bit did make me laugh.
The accuses is legally innocent, but doesn't mean that they didn't do the thing they are accused of. They may or may not have, we don't know.
I mention this because you seem to have assumed that all the accused men didn't do anything, but that all the accusing women definitely lied. Neither is a justified conclusion based on failure to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt.
On at least one of those cases the hidden evidence showed that the sex was consensual.
That makes it a false allegation and yes, she should be fucking prosecuted and imprisoned.
When trials are collapsing it's because there's no case to answer, not because they found the defendant not guilty. That's not a "insufficient proof" situation, that's a "oh fuck, we've been lied to by another fucking professional victim" situation.
Men are under attack from these professional victims and it's utterly fucking fantastic that the attorney general has decided this needs to be looked into.
That's not a nation, that's a district of the UK that has stupid rules about road signs.
Any purchase inflates the value (not price) of Bitcoin
Given bitcoin's value is arbitrary and moving closer to zero all the time you've got that exactly the wrong way around.
Yes, bitcoin is heavily overpriced right now.
Eggplant is usually associated with penis
You just made that up, right?
Eggplant is usually associated here with cooking, eating or a scene from a Tony Scott movie.
Invent a high efficiency diesel engine that has zero NOx emissions and VW will fucking licence it from you. They don't want the high NOx emissions, and didn't fucking design it in.
How fucking dense are you all?
High NOx emissions are not a design parameter. Minimising NOx emissions is a design parameter that takes lower priority than fuel efficiency. Since both can't be achieved the higher priority one took precedence.
Give VW shit for the shit they've done but stop making new shit up because you're the cunt that looks stupid as a result.
cannot see the difference between a refugee and an immigrant
If you think Merkel was welcoming just refugees and not economic migrants then you need to read more than the Guardian and the BBC.
If you think the millions of African migrants landing in Greece and Turkey are all refugees, you're just a total fuckwit.
they want to get here so why should France pay to police them?
Maybe because they're in France and the EU illegally unless they apply for a visa, apply for refugee status or otherwise gain leave to stay. Which they should be doing in the first European country they enter, not travelling across the whole fucking continent to try and do it in the UK.
France should be fucking dealing with these people and not trying to ship them over to the UK.
low skilled jobs are minimum wage so its competing work ethics not wages.
It's not just the no-skill jobs though. Low skill jobs pay more than minimum wage, and not even just those are under pressure.
A lot of Polish tradesmen and craftsmen (e.g. plumbers, builders, etc) came over and accepted lower wages than the locals. This helped the building industry but not the people displaced or forced to compete at lower wages.
so shoot the correct target
It's hard to find the correct target, let alone get the chance to shoot for it. As the EU is a material factor and was available to be shot down, people took the opportunity.
it is subsidising most of the rest of the UK with its tax revenues
It's also getting higher spend per capita than anywhere else, and has done for decades. Big fucking surprise, area with high investment outperforms areas with fuck all investment.
Bear in mind virually everyone in the UK has immigrant blood since the Roman times.
"Native" Brits are very much mongrels, and that includes the ones in Celtic areas. There's continued acceptance and welcoming of new migrants, just not at the current scale. The country is full, we need lower population not another million people very three years.
At least they're clutching at the few democratic straws available. Not sure how long that can last.
You missed the part where I suggested not being fucking stupid.
High NOx emissions are a well know effect of pushing a diesel engine to combust more efficiently
Oddly enough the design criteria is "efficient combustion" not "high NOx".
Fucking amazing that. Who would've thought you'd be stupid enough to contradict yourself.
Their "clean diesel" cars were designed to emit large amounts of NOx.
Don't be fucking stupid. No, VW did not design their cars to emit NOx.
Failing to mitigate a side effect does not mean you've designed it in.
I worked for a company that replaced the furniture in one of its largest meeting rooms with bean bags, so that people would be comfortable and relaxed and more creative.
The women refused to sit on them while wearing a skirt. The men refused to hold meetings there because the women couldn't sit down. The room stopped being used entirely.
The room's sponsor continued to be confused that people didn't want to be creative..
if you locate where the cost of business is the lowest, the talent will relocate there to work for you -- and be unable to find any competing jobs
That rules Austin out then, on cost and competition.
Who the fuck censors cocktail?
If anything, leaving the EU will further diminish the limited opportunities in the North as the economy shrinks still further.
When you have to compete for work with cheap European labour and wages depress as a result, the economy isn't really working for you in the first place.
So why not vote for change. It doesn't feel it can get any worse.
Further, you have not understood the problems of immigration and the full extent of controls permitted under EU law.
I understand that half of the residents of my country's capital city are born outside of the country.
I understand that a million economic migrants were welcomed by Germany and will soon be eligible to come to my country - and we can't stop them.
I understand that the EU fails to apply its own rules on immigration, resulting in millions of Africans traversing Europe instead of being correctly assessed and accepted or rejected in Greece.
I understand that France demands that the UK pay for its Calais migrant facilities, instead of acknowledging that these people are in France and should fucking well stay there.
I also understand that the UK government are spineless cunts that allow excessive migration from outside the EU too. We just haven't been given a vote on that one.
The problem is that this happened in the early 80s and since then successive governments have continued to under-invest in the North and especially the East side of the country north of Essex.
When the coal mining jobs vanished and industry went overseas entire communities ended up fucked senseless and haven't recovered.
It's not coincidence that many of these areas voted so heavily to leave the EU.
You seem to be throwing out terms without understanding their meaning.
Could you please indicate where corruption occurred and which civil rights were abused?
My crazy brand strategy is that we should join forces with Russia and Assad and overthrow Erdogan. The man is really that bad to want to do this. My connection to that part of the world casts my sympathies with Kemalism, and Erdogan is the point-of-no-return for Turkey.
Fuck Russia and Assad, Erdogan's biggest threat are the Kurds. Once they've dealt with ISIS there's a good chance they're going to show how fucked off they are with Turkey illegally bombing them.
The challenge for the UK, US and others is that Turkey is a NATO member. That makes it diplomatically close to impossible to engage militarily against Turkey, let alone join a Russian or Assad led offensive. Anybody attacking Turkey gets fucked by NATO.
The Kurds on the other hand have a claim that they were attacked by Turkey. That changes the NATO obligations, and that's why this is the interesting option.
Or maybe he was offered a screenplay, took a look and went, "Yeah, I can make a film from that"
It wasn't the greatest film but it didn't suck excessively.