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Kirjava
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Posted - 2013.05.08 00:47:00 -
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At the risk of being very unpopular....
This holds true across the spectrum with people being fundamentally broken by their parents. Reading the childhood of the Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik.... Seems that that entire thing could have been avoided if his far more mentally stable and reliable father (a diplomat in the Norwegian civil service) been awarded custody over his mother. I'm fairly certain the details aren't for on these forums, but even a cursory glance its a wonder he didn't snap sooner.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
4856
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Posted - 2013.05.08 01:08:00 -
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Alara IonStorm wrote:I know of one postpartum mom who tried to drown her kid in a steam, went to a psych clinic, got out, sued for custody from the father and got it, even before she had slept around on the father while they were married. This is with the child protests to stay with the father whom is the only parent they knew.
Courts are fundamentally biased towards mothers even sometimes at the child's peril.
This is quite a terrifying prospect. Heck if the mentalities of my parents had been the other way around and custody awarded on which one was the mother....
This kind of thing had been dumped into my sphere of interest since Adria Richards and the Dongle joke firing. It's quite surreal how the law is structured to leave judgement by the door in favour of preconceived notions. But that's a whole other kettle of fish.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
4975
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Posted - 2013.05.08 15:26:00 -
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So ultimately we all seem to be trending towards a conclusion here.
Discipline is an issue and parents are refusing to do it.
Offering a thought I've had for years, there should be National service like in Israel and Germany. I would be inside of this age group and would go for it.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
4977
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Posted - 2013.05.08 18:37:00 -
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silens vesica wrote:
Expensive, but useful, IMO.
I can't speak for America, but I think its worth it regardless. The costs of not fixing this mess could be colossal in the long run. We have business's run by people who do not have a vested interest in their own nation, we have a systematic lack of discipline as shown in classrooms where teachers are beaten and are considered the perpetrators if they defend themselves. We have similar crime issues here as in the US, but replace knives with guns.
There was no immediate benefit to going to the Moon other than the results of lessons on the journey. I suspect that there are too many people who would be embarrassed by a return to the old education styles, and I might be in the minority of my own preferred education style. I do not like learning things by hypothetical's, give me stuff to work with. Show me an issue and then a new mathematical trick or 5 and let me crack it out the hard way, that's how to build understanding.
Bascialy I think the education system needs to be rethought. If you don't learn from the way thats prescribed, you fail. If you fail, you go into depressions, and from there everything can compound and you snap like that.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
4979
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Posted - 2013.05.08 21:22:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Well if I said he and it turned out to be a girl I'd look like an ass 
Didn't know Mrs Plunderbunny was expecting, congratulations 
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
4984
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Posted - 2013.05.09 06:10:00 -
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Actually I meant more government involvement, though that said I live in a socialist country in the first place and its working out pretty well so far 
Point in context, Government pays me to go to university, I pay it back through taxes with an increased earning capacity earlier than if I had to pay out of my own pocket. Everybody wins 
And yes, monetize the debt, let the banks go bankrupt and impose capital controls to prevent outflow, perhaps also using the Swedish model of a "bad" bank to soak up toxic assets and wind them down and back to the Exchequer.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
5324
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Posted - 2013.05.12 12:04:00 -
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We tried bulldogs once and 3 people were suspended.
We never did anything physical again, gym was only for the people who were doing competitive sports. Even then, only the ones who could realistically compete were allowed to try out. I remember being asked to stop trying out for things early on (I was a late bloomer, no balls dropping or testosterone surge till I was 15). Do this day I have never broken a bone and the outcome of all this is me wanting to bring back national service and do the UOTC. Try sharpening sticks or starting a fire. ditto to sports.
Can't help but feel I missed out on something at some point, not from a rich background. Point in context I flew in a plane for the first time last summer. My god it was beautiful. Next on the list is the Milky Way.
I'm considered right wing and alarmist for saying we live in a bubble and are well fed surrounded by nations of people that want a taste of glory, that its delusional to think we have the right to a life of this quality because we were born into it. Most people in my experience want to believe simultaneously that the West rules the world for their benefit, and that the West is evil because of capitalism. They want to be given money for the sake of it, not for reason but because they have no vision to work past it, uncaring that they are screwing things up long term.
I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots half the time, and delusional special pansies the other half.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
5328
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Posted - 2013.05.12 12:38:00 -
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Aye, hence why I have a half dozen children's books written in Mandarin and took the optional modules.
And trying to figure out how to get involved in space is tricky, I'm hoping it isn't one of those professions where you need to know someone on the inside to get into.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
5351
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Posted - 2013.05.12 13:08:00 -
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Well its a long ways off, still doing the Undergrad for another 2 years. I'd hit myself if I didn't ask, but were PhD's given any kind of advantage in the applications over Masters? I'm in one of those periods of life I think where I bug everyone for as much information on this as I can, mums an ex Hippie and Eve taught me most of my business acumen.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
5354
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Posted - 2013.05.12 13:20:00 -
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Point taken, never thought of that. 
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
5375
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Posted - 2013.05.12 15:48:00 -
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Well looking at welding classes, seems interesting. It's odd, I work on designs for welds and bolting, but have never actually done it myself. I just take a column and an I beam and connect them into a single entity. This may turn out to be the best piece of advice I've been given if that certificate ends up on my CV....
Sorry to sound like a rusty record, but I'm a noob surrounded by intelligent experienced people and I feel it's a waste not to try and get some of that wisdom
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
6120
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Posted - 2013.05.14 15:12:00 -
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Switzerland has the highest gun ownership per capita in the world.
Its Americas culture that's ****** up and has guns in circulation, not a problem with the guns themselves. Switzerland hasn't been invaded and even the ****'s didn't step foot inside knowing ever man was legally obliged to have a gun, ammo and take marksmanship training.
Silens covers the American side better than what I had typed up.
That said Australia and the UK prove you can disarm a gun loving nation without much trouble, took 3 months from proposal to no the firearms buyback after a mass shooting in Australia, so if the US government chose to do so there is already a precedent for disarmament successfully.
Also have you seen the 3d printer panic? Theres proposals to regulate and monitor usage of 3d printers. It's as if these people didn't know that you can build guns pretty easily, but those bullets are a bit more difficult.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
6120
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Posted - 2013.05.14 15:33:00 -
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Fair enough, but Australia has a similar mentality. Large landmass, frontier mentality away from the motherland, highly independently minded, former British colony. And that applies to both the US and Australia. Large chunks of Australia had to be conquered in wars, and defended against Japanese expansion, lets not even begin on Gallipoli. Australia has the old British mentality before we dismantled the Empire after WW2, or so friends and family have told me.
And I've got the plans to the Liberator on my computer here, back of the envelope calculations looks like had a high chance of exploding in my face if I printed it off and had access to bullets. I would prefer a copper pipe and a shovel handle to this thing, its a Nerf gun with the barrel diameter of a standard round and the option to stick a nail in as a firing hammer.
The reaction is hilarious, its as if it didn't occur to anyone that you could kill someone with rat poisoning a crossbow or bare hands.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
6194
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Posted - 2013.05.14 19:11:00 -
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Generally I don't like criticising other countries internal things....
But there appears to be a systematic problem. Both parents working full time, no time to parent. They both work full time to pay the bills which are relatively higher than they were 30 years ago due to wage stagnation. Even the US Navy considers this to be one of the biggest defence related problems : lack of a competent citizenry to train.
At the moment the US is treading water, but the initiative is in Asia now, lets not even begin talking about the EU... We don't think a war could happen at all due to the safety bubble, heck thats why Russia of 140M and an economy made of Wensleydale is a military match for the EU, 500M and the largest economy on Earth, how the hell does that work out?
I suppose what I'm getting at is that this is a symptom of issues, not the core issue itself. Stabalise the economy, crack down on the wealth distribution problem by investing in the bottom up. The ironic thing is that the left which would be the most likely to have reason to rebel against the government at the moment are the ones against the means to conduct said rebellion.
TAFTA is going to make things very, very interesting. Negotiations ongoing about creating a free trade block between the EFTA and NAFTA states. My inner geopolitical armchair general is screaming incoming unified Western World
Silens, I looked up Australian rebellions, there have been q few but not on the scale as the US ones I think, but Australia was founded as a Penal colony so pretty much everyone sent in the initial waves were criminals against the Crown. Whether the people whose crimes would be considered petty theft by today's standards is another thing, but I hope you get what I mean.
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