I am a white person, and I have lived in what you would derisively describe as 'ghettos'. You may consider yourself sophisticated for reading the Independent, but your apologetics for a party that advocates ethnic cleansing, gives Nazi salutes when they think the cameras aren't looking, and has almost as many convictions for violent assault as it has members.
You support the BNP, ergo you are a fascist. Foreign readers should not take my word for it. The Internet has plentiful information on this little band of brownshirts. It saddens me how much support they have, not only from street thugs but now from the chattering classes posting on Slashdot.
If the day ever comes when your Aryan chums in the BNP take power in this country it will be the day I assemble my first IED. They shall not fucking pass.
"failed attempt at multiculturalism" is a code word for "i hate the darky". Multiculturalism works fine amongst my circle of friend and in all the workplaces I've been in. I've lived in some of the poorest, most un-white areas of Birmingham and I have never seen the much touted 'failure' of multiculturalism. Don't try and imply that your hateful, racist beliefs are backed up by political reality because they simply aren't.
The BNP are the only ones willing to 'do anything'? If by 'do anything' you mean turn Britain into a fascist state, then yes. They advocate ethnic cleansing and military expansionism - including the insane policy of reclaiming the Republic of Ireland by force.
Your comments regarding the BNP betray your far right sympathies. You are one of the many fascist scum rotting this country from the inside as you worship Enoch Powell's ghost and long to return to our blood-stained imperial past. You, not the immigrants, will destroy this country.
Oh please, the idea that the UK is a hairs breadth from going Sharia is utter bullshit put out by the right-wing media to scare people.
The actual threat in this country comes from the far right whose rhetoric you are mouthing. The BNP, with financial support from certain people in America, managed to basically double their share of the vote each time over the past few elections. The Daily Wail and other such trash papers have got about 60% percentage of the British public believing in key BNP policy points.
Our main threat is not from angry young Muslims who wouldn't know an explosive device from a gas canister. The threat is from white youths who attack racial minorities converting that undirected anger into support of a fascist regime.
Your idea of "take any job or you are lazy" suggests to me you've been fortunate and privaleged and have no idea what it is like for normal people who have to make their own way in the world.
This article is dripping with bullshit neoliberal mythology about the nature of property. Its seen as some kind of holy grail to attract all-powerful capitalist wizards that make things happen.
The fact is, no profit based enterprise has ever sent men beyond sub-orbital hops. Most attempts at private exploration fail hilariously. There is no evidence, beyond the blind faith in the 'invisible hand' that capital can drive space exploration. Even if states are failing, the solution is not to place matters in the hands of corporations who are largely structured in the same way as government agencies and have the added disadvantage of being enslaved to the profit motive.
I graduated in 2002 and had a very similar experience. In 2006 I was earning £12k in a web design/typsetting position with a magazine, until I decided to go back to uni and do physics. Prior to going back, I took a temporary clerical job with the police which paid the equivalent of £14,000 a year, and it was the highest paid job I ever had. I was a CS graduate with web design experience, and I was better off rubber stamping magistrates court files than actually doing computer science.
Not experienced any of those, but I can completely believe such things happen. Most companies now, even relatively small ones, have 'Human Resources' departments which are exactly as bad as they sound, and reduce interviewees and employees to variables in a brutal (and usually wrong) equation.
There is the widespread attitude that no matter how bad graduate work is, you've got to grin and bear it. Old IT hands will tell you every time "Thats where I started, and now I'm successful rich and happy." regardless of it thats true or not. It usually isn't because conditions in the IT industry change rapidly and most of that change is negative for people entering the industry.
It is fine explaining to young people they have to work their way up, but this bottom rung is getting fucking ridiculous. McDonalds workers have been known to get more money, respect and job satisfaction than recent IT graduates. I was advised by a career centre that it I was better off claiming benefits (reasonably generous in the UK; you won't be homeless but you won't be partying either) than taking most entry level jobs.
It is fine making people work for respect, but entry-level work these days feels more like unusually vindictive hazing rather than a job. The upper echelons seem to take a delight in torturing the fresh-faced graduates, and then moan and whinge when they can't get good people with experience. Its because most of the good people fuck off and find a more rewarding career before they get experience you idiots!
They restrained a Brazilian electrician then shot him in the head 7 times suspecting him of being a terrorist. His name was Jean-Charles De Menezes
After the police essentially investigating themselves for the incident, it was decided that it was a health and safety violation. Mark Steel dryly commented in the Independent "Shooting people in the head is both unhealthy and unsafe"
Utter rubbish. The idea that radical Islam is more of a threat than the IRA were at the height of their power is easily refuted by comparing the effectiveness of their attacks. Al Qeada are a far lesser threat, and would be even less threatening with some minor changes to foreign policy.
Wrong. Studies have shown social mobility is lower in the US than in most western European countries. Creating massive barriers to the poor leading healthy and well educated lives kind of makes it hard for them to succeed in life....
I'm aware of at least some of the downsides of France, but I still think on balance I would like to work there (especially seeing as I want a career in the space industry; the pinacle of our rocket technology is the Skylark, the pinacle of theirs is Ariane 5 - its a no brainer really).
But you are of course right on the money. We could have the best of each country in both if we had a healthier relationship other than spitting 'Frog!' and 'Rosbeef!' across the channel at each other puncutated by the occasional minor trade war.
IMHO the most important advantage France has is its mature nuclear industry. Their comparative energy independence is looking more attractive by the day, and if the UK is going to catch up we probably need their help.
Needed to be said. As a Briton I've more fondness for France than America (an unusually position as most people here loathe them both with equal measure) and am getting tired of these French=Cowards jokes. In many ways their country is better than ours, and this should be a source of embarrassment for us because they have a similar sized economy and population. I guess that is why it is deemed necessary for the media to lay on the French-hate so thick, in case British people start to say "Hey, why can't we have fast trains that turn up on time?" and such stuff.
There is a whole list of problems we might have with China, but can we just shut up about them for five seconds to discuss this specific situation?
As far as any government can, they've done everything right with regard to the earthquake. The Premier (who is IIRC a geologist which I guess would be useful) went straight to the scene with thousands of troops to organise relief work.
Foreign aid was requested almost immediately, and the government allowed them to get on with their jobs and not use their presence or not as a grisly bargaining chip (unlike some other regimes we could mention). This openness has even extended to the US military of all people.
Shutting down entertainment services for the duration of a major disaster is not a totalitarian move, seeing as it isn't affecting news media. And it isn't like they are alone in doing so. How many sitcoms could you find on US and British TV on 9/11?
Because you mongloid the question is not 'are the majority of people using it' it is 'CAN the majority of people use it' and the answer is clearly yes.
Seeing as my mum and stepmum already use Ubuntu quite happily (and aren't phoning up every 10 minutes complaining that something is broken/they've got a virus) it seems Linux is already at that stage.
Is anybody even shocked any more when George Lucas chugs down his favourite diuretic and lets rip on the fan base that made him a millionaire? The man, however talented he may have been 30 years ago, is an utter cretin. We should've boycotted the mongloid when he was doing the Star Wars prequels. The fact people paid to see them only encouraged him.
Are you trying to be a Minbari or something? Following a fictional religion from the 1990s is no worse than following one from thousands of years ago, but still its hardly smart.
Watch the Adam Curtis documentary 'The Century of Self' - it can be easily found on your favorite video sharing site.
Modern society is so deeply invested in stoking peoples unconscious desires for profit that it is no longer possible for us to engage in large scale rational action, like a space program.
The 'ring of steel' - a collective name for the omnipresent CCTV and a series of traffic checkpoints around the centre of London - did its job.
It was instigated after the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing (Incidentally, the PIRA fucking schooled al-qaeda on asymmetric warfare. £1 billion damage for a £3000 operation, and their bombers all survived) and prevented a bombing on that scale happening right up until the completion of the peace process. So, it kinda worked.
But then it didn't end. It was scaled back a little, probably for the sake of expediency and a quick tax cut than for the sake of liberty, but it is still present. Of course, given recent events it has started to expand its scope again - but comparing the ferocious ANFO truck bomb the PIRA used in 1993 (which blew out windows 500m from the centre of the blast) to the almost comically failed 'explosives' that feature in most al-qaeda attacks suggests that we aren't facing nearly the same level of threat, so why a similar level of response?
It certainly doesn't justify shredding 800 years of civil liberties, as Blair and co have done.
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Islamization? Muslims are a tiny proportion of our population and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Immigration is going down not up.
Your blind hatred of non-whites sickens me, and your lack of knowledge about the reality of Britain amuses me.
I am a white person, and I have lived in what you would derisively describe as 'ghettos'. You may consider yourself sophisticated for reading the Independent, but your apologetics for a party that advocates ethnic cleansing, gives Nazi salutes when they think the cameras aren't looking, and has almost as many convictions for violent assault as it has members.
You support the BNP, ergo you are a fascist. Foreign readers should not take my word for it. The Internet has plentiful information on this little band of brownshirts. It saddens me how much support they have, not only from street thugs but now from the chattering classes posting on Slashdot.
If the day ever comes when your Aryan chums in the BNP take power in this country it will be the day I assemble my first IED. They shall not fucking pass.
"failed attempt at multiculturalism" is a code word for "i hate the darky". Multiculturalism works fine amongst my circle of friend and in all the workplaces I've been in. I've lived in some of the poorest, most un-white areas of Birmingham and I have never seen the much touted 'failure' of multiculturalism. Don't try and imply that your hateful, racist beliefs are backed up by political reality because they simply aren't.
The BNP are the only ones willing to 'do anything'? If by 'do anything' you mean turn Britain into a fascist state, then yes. They advocate ethnic cleansing and military expansionism - including the insane policy of reclaiming the Republic of Ireland by force.
Your comments regarding the BNP betray your far right sympathies. You are one of the many fascist scum rotting this country from the inside as you worship Enoch Powell's ghost and long to return to our blood-stained imperial past. You, not the immigrants, will destroy this country.
Oh please, the idea that the UK is a hairs breadth from going Sharia is utter bullshit put out by the right-wing media to scare people.
The actual threat in this country comes from the far right whose rhetoric you are mouthing. The BNP, with financial support from certain people in America, managed to basically double their share of the vote each time over the past few elections. The Daily Wail and other such trash papers have got about 60% percentage of the British public believing in key BNP policy points.
Our main threat is not from angry young Muslims who wouldn't know an explosive device from a gas canister. The threat is from white youths who attack racial minorities converting that undirected anger into support of a fascist regime.
The idea that the only reason not to work is laziness is utter bullshit, and right wing propaganda:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/graduates+better+off+on+dole/1944947
Your idea of "take any job or you are lazy" suggests to me you've been fortunate and privaleged and have no idea what it is like for normal people who have to make their own way in the world.
This article is dripping with bullshit neoliberal mythology about the nature of property. Its seen as some kind of holy grail to attract all-powerful capitalist wizards that make things happen.
The fact is, no profit based enterprise has ever sent men beyond sub-orbital hops. Most attempts at private exploration fail hilariously. There is no evidence, beyond the blind faith in the 'invisible hand' that capital can drive space exploration. Even if states are failing, the solution is not to place matters in the hands of corporations who are largely structured in the same way as government agencies and have the added disadvantage of being enslaved to the profit motive.
I graduated in 2002 and had a very similar experience. In 2006 I was earning £12k in a web design/typsetting position with a magazine, until I decided to go back to uni and do physics. Prior to going back, I took a temporary clerical job with the police which paid the equivalent of £14,000 a year, and it was the highest paid job I ever had. I was a CS graduate with web design experience, and I was better off rubber stamping magistrates court files than actually doing computer science.
Not experienced any of those, but I can completely believe such things happen. Most companies now, even relatively small ones, have 'Human Resources' departments which are exactly as bad as they sound, and reduce interviewees and employees to variables in a brutal (and usually wrong) equation.
There is the widespread attitude that no matter how bad graduate work is, you've got to grin and bear it. Old IT hands will tell you every time "Thats where I started, and now I'm successful rich and happy." regardless of it thats true or not. It usually isn't because conditions in the IT industry change rapidly and most of that change is negative for people entering the industry.
It is fine explaining to young people they have to work their way up, but this bottom rung is getting fucking ridiculous. McDonalds workers have been known to get more money, respect and job satisfaction than recent IT graduates. I was advised by a career centre that it I was better off claiming benefits (reasonably generous in the UK; you won't be homeless but you won't be partying either) than taking most entry level jobs.
It is fine making people work for respect, but entry-level work these days feels more like unusually vindictive hazing rather than a job. The upper echelons seem to take a delight in torturing the fresh-faced graduates, and then moan and whinge when they can't get good people with experience. Its because most of the good people fuck off and find a more rewarding career before they get experience you idiots!
They restrained a Brazilian electrician then shot him in the head 7 times suspecting him of being a terrorist. His name was Jean-Charles De Menezes
After the police essentially investigating themselves for the incident, it was decided that it was a health and safety violation. Mark Steel dryly commented in the Independent "Shooting people in the head is both unhealthy and unsafe"
Utter rubbish. The idea that radical Islam is more of a threat than the IRA were at the height of their power is easily refuted by comparing the effectiveness of their attacks. Al Qeada are a far lesser threat, and would be even less threatening with some minor changes to foreign policy.
Wrong. Studies have shown social mobility is lower in the US than in most western European countries. Creating massive barriers to the poor leading healthy and well educated lives kind of makes it hard for them to succeed in life....
I'm aware of at least some of the downsides of France, but I still think on balance I would like to work there (especially seeing as I want a career in the space industry; the pinacle of our rocket technology is the Skylark, the pinacle of theirs is Ariane 5 - its a no brainer really). But you are of course right on the money. We could have the best of each country in both if we had a healthier relationship other than spitting 'Frog!' and 'Rosbeef!' across the channel at each other puncutated by the occasional minor trade war. IMHO the most important advantage France has is its mature nuclear industry. Their comparative energy independence is looking more attractive by the day, and if the UK is going to catch up we probably need their help.
Needed to be said. As a Briton I've more fondness for France than America (an unusually position as most people here loathe them both with equal measure) and am getting tired of these French=Cowards jokes. In many ways their country is better than ours, and this should be a source of embarrassment for us because they have a similar sized economy and population. I guess that is why it is deemed necessary for the media to lay on the French-hate so thick, in case British people start to say "Hey, why can't we have fast trains that turn up on time?" and such stuff.
There is a whole list of problems we might have with China, but can we just shut up about them for five seconds to discuss this specific situation?
As far as any government can, they've done everything right with regard to the earthquake. The Premier (who is IIRC a geologist which I guess would be useful) went straight to the scene with thousands of troops to organise relief work.
Foreign aid was requested almost immediately, and the government allowed them to get on with their jobs and not use their presence or not as a grisly bargaining chip (unlike some other regimes we could mention). This openness has even extended to the US military of all people.
Shutting down entertainment services for the duration of a major disaster is not a totalitarian move, seeing as it isn't affecting news media. And it isn't like they are alone in doing so. How many sitcoms could you find on US and British TV on 9/11?
Because you mongloid the question is not 'are the majority of people using it' it is 'CAN the majority of people use it' and the answer is clearly yes.
Seeing as my mum and stepmum already use Ubuntu quite happily (and aren't phoning up every 10 minutes complaining that something is broken/they've got a virus) it seems Linux is already at that stage.
Is anybody even shocked any more when George Lucas chugs down his favourite diuretic and lets rip on the fan base that made him a millionaire? The man, however talented he may have been 30 years ago, is an utter cretin. We should've boycotted the mongloid when he was doing the Star Wars prequels. The fact people paid to see them only encouraged him.
Are you trying to be a Minbari or something? Following a fictional religion from the 1990s is no worse than following one from thousands of years ago, but still its hardly smart.
Honestly, do questions of this format need to be posed anymore? If there is ever an option for more corporate pandering, it will be taken.
Watch the Adam Curtis documentary 'The Century of Self' - it can be easily found on your favorite video sharing site.
Modern society is so deeply invested in stoking peoples unconscious desires for profit that it is no longer possible for us to engage in large scale rational action, like a space program.
The 'ring of steel' - a collective name for the omnipresent CCTV and a series of traffic checkpoints around the centre of London - did its job.
It was instigated after the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing (Incidentally, the PIRA fucking schooled al-qaeda on asymmetric warfare. £1 billion damage for a £3000 operation, and their bombers all survived) and prevented a bombing on that scale happening right up until the completion of the peace process. So, it kinda worked.
But then it didn't end. It was scaled back a little, probably for the sake of expediency and a quick tax cut than for the sake of liberty, but it is still present. Of course, given recent events it has started to expand its scope again - but comparing the ferocious ANFO truck bomb the PIRA used in 1993 (which blew out windows 500m from the centre of the blast) to the almost comically failed 'explosives' that feature in most al-qaeda attacks suggests that we aren't facing nearly the same level of threat, so why a similar level of response?
It certainly doesn't justify shredding 800 years of civil liberties, as Blair and co have done.
Give me a Ford Nucleon any day. Just don't drive too close, ok?
I seriously doubt that