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Pepsi > Coke

On my way home :)
Only 90 minutes in the sweaty hot train with disgusting people left to go...

Good idea, so every time I give someone a ride I can scream "GET TO ZE CHOPPA!"

3 hours commute every day is stolen lifetime.

To Split the UK would kill us.

This all about self respect, we're going to stay in the union and we'll be the damn patriots

Right. But on the other hand this is growing into a serious problem.
We have several departments where about 75% of the staff are permanently sick, and they cannot be fired (which is originally a good thing).
Problem now is that the remaining 25% get so drowned in work that they quickly burn out and call in sick themselves. It's paralyzing the entire system.
There are many people unemployed, hoping for a good job- and the work is there, only the position is occupied by someone who hasn't shown up for a year or so....


/rant

(fake edit: I am the 25% )

Take tertiary education, its free in some places not because a place is rich, but because it makes the population wealthier in the long run and hence pay more taxes.

Explicit though is the fact that in the statistical majority of cases a higher paid job requires either experience or an educational substitute. To receive a return it requires an investment, and if a society has developed a concept of a pension or more importantly a state and its associated beurocracy it requires funding via taxation.

There are tradeoffs between private and public spending, but it seems historically and statistically that nations with a lower spread in inequality are happier and generally more successful. Much of Scandinavia follows this model for instance.

And yes, nothing is free but with respect to natural monopolies and necessities that more often than not state actors are more effective than private enterprises. Point in context the medical industry where the US model uses 17.6% of gdp against the British NHS which consumes 8% while covering the entire population and having the second best dental system. Water within the UK has privately owned under invested regional monopolies in England versus the still nationalised Scottish Water.

It boils down to good governance and regulation, either by elected officials or a transparent market, but both of these models requires an underlying educated and well informed population, of which I think it is not theft to fund, but a necessity implicit in a capitalist democracy of any composition.

Were a nation to invest in this via a tax funded education system, it puts that nation at an advantage for the lifetime of that individual. Taking the differential between their say High School level of education and in may cases being a net drain on the Treasury, a small investment early on will increase earning capacity, and push income into net positive territory. This is risk management, and looking towards the long term future as opposed to short to mid term, which a nation with a fiat currency is capable of doing.

I am looking at this from a national point of view, not the individual. Methinks we have a fundamental disagreement as to the nature of a tax as a function.

In essence, a nationalised entity is a publicly company whose shares are owned by the state, a similar structure but with the priority being on supply availability and cost mitigation. For the record, I would only be in favour of nationalised entities where such a natural monopoly emerged, utilities such as water, electricity and gas in the distribution networks where production granularity was low for those to be included too (electricity distribution on the National Grid versus a power plant).

The reason I quoted the health care systems as a percentage of GDP was to illustrate the efficiency of such a system.

I'm not a socialist by any stretch, but from where I'm standing with the data it appears that a hybrid mixed economy like both our countries enjoy to varying degrees has through national competition ended up as the superior model, on the precondition the respective electorates are sufficiently well informed and educated upon the matters involved.

I would like to use this for my sig. That ok?

Ahhh, another new page and some more LIKES to distribute and harvest.






DMC

Well, I don't really like to toot my own horn but..............

My main claim to fame is 'The Plan'. I've also created and edited multiple pages in both Evelopedia and Eve Survival, not to mention posting helpful info here in the forums whenever I can.


DMC

Dear Ben Bernanke, included is your Birthday present....

Train is even worse than I expected. I really don't get how a big city like Hamburg can have unclimatized public transportation.

Middle Management Gecko?

Wait... Debian needs me to select something highlighted by hitting space, then hit enter?

As someone who has worked on human interface systems before, they botched this by neither stating this, nor making an intuitive system. Trying to figure out how to fix this now....

I get that its intended for people who know their way about a computer's architecture and technically minded but an omission on how to select without using a standard?

Thats just silly.

Out of interest, how well known is it that she's a Scottish writer?...

I liked your post but you are getting really close to being offensive. What up, really ???

You are offending a specific race of people. For no reason. We don't do that here.

WOW! Upon 3rd viewing......"Cloud Atlas" is just freaking amazing...........

Its a wee bit of a bagpipe.... without the bag part... found my old one and recorder when I was digging out my clarinet.

No.

Edit: 2183 GET

Well up yours then.

(j/k :D)

GUISE I'M CRYING

We are Euro, we've watched Obama go "don't worry its only for foreigners" and thought we would kindly like him to go **** himself .

Same boat as you Miz, seems the best idea is to look into running your own webserver or something. More complicated, but more secure.

After all, I am a tax-cattle

Huh... Saw a guy in town yesterday who looked like Clinton.

Read the news today, holy **** it was Clinton

Or just a coincidence maybe, but hey I'll take what I can get

That would be awesome- maybe not this weekend, but a purple fleet showing up and going "SHOOT ALL THE THINGS" would be hilarious.

Is this racist?! =)))

Ohnoes! Here we go again!

Actually though I can't be sure if it's really wormhole psychosis - either that or Bob really does speak to her.

"Bob says kill mammoth, kill alllll the mammoth"

This thread really did die D: WHERE ARE ALL THE REGULARS?

Hmmm - I just rang my fave kebab shop and got asked if I wanted "The Usual"

Too many kebabs?!

You also insult our spirits by calling Whisky Scotch!

Wh.... Why would you do that?

Also Jack Daniels isn't a Whisky, its a Bourbon

You mean this kind of water?

Yeah, I'd think it's healthier to just stay with beer and skip water entirely.

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trolling bad posters in GD

BMW>You

You smoked an M3?

Come on now...

You seem to have mixed up the sexy raging beast that is the M3 for a Mercedes or Lincoln, sir.

I found a leprechaun once.

He was shouting something about a terrorist attack before I managed to get his gold.

And what spells will you be casting today mr. Tumahub?

No tipping in japan, its an insult.

Ugh....Mid 80's and humid as hell.

I'm not built for this. Where is my cool weather.

Thats American.

And I love it

Been puzzling something and unable to sleep over thoughts on a current project.

Suddenly Eureka in my dressing gown at 1am in the morning in a garden with a fox looking at me and a cigarette in hand.

Mycroft Holmes you absolute marvellous Bastard, huzzzah!

3.5 hours. They found a fracture and he will now get pins/screws in his elbow. Damage was more extensive than originally expected. They are doing a bone graft now.

Man, this is killing me....

Died, this thread has.

He's too trolly to be dead zimmy.

Kid is heavily medicated and watching TV.

Almost spilled my beer when I read this.

Genius.

Well...that is certainly an incredibly stupid overreaction...

"SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY"

Between what?

Hey people. I'm back. I think. Had to take some time to think about life and things like this, so i took 2 days in the woods with my tent, no cellphone, no computer, no technology.. Feels good to be back on the interwebz. :)

JUMPING JESUS ON A POGO STICK.

Roll on the glorious European Federation

Also the problems you have in the US are based on your first past the post voting system, not the existence of a federated state.

That says a lot about the quality of your mass produced beers

Oh Tuma....

I feel so sorry for you. (urp!)

You know there's people who don't get the joke and theres people like this.

Kind of explains why there's that kid locked up in Texas now I think about it.

FRESH FISH

I hear you ISD types have blood that tastes like Maple Syrup on an unrelated note

Two posts, meant to be humorous, but trolling in the extreme have been deleted.

yeah yeah ; ISD types :)

Ok guys, lets play nicely in this thread, we don't want to actively have to start moderating here, we'd much rather have fun, like you all do!

Okay?
Please fly (and post) safe

Explain that logic as i just cant see any. Not that PETA are rational anyway but this is just a moment.

It's the difference in how emissions standards are written that make European and Japanese diesels hard to get in the US. The US restricts NOx, CO2 and possibly hydrocarbon emissions, whereas everywhere else restricts the CO2 and HCs because of their pollution and greenhouse effects.

What did I just read?

Come now, there's been a lot of cliche plots from hollywood since the 80's, but surely ALL of them aren't like that.

There was kind of a lull during the 70's. (Well, aside from Star wars and Alien, that is.)

Oh yeah. I see TONS of your description in "Avatar". NOT.

Didn't they even make the guys in uniform leave ?

America in 1961 and America in 1972-74 were 2 completely different countries. There was a completely psychologically devastating war in between those dates utterly changing everything.

The Modern Era is considered having started in the 1920's and extended to 1964, the beginning of the Vietnam War. After that, we are considered the PostModern Era.

Dude. Avatar was released in 2009, a year into Obama's Administration.


Edit: Also, the left has always been anti-war. Still is. Probably will always be.

Are you for real ???

And right now the EU is arguing over what they are going to take Obama to hand over the NSA spying. It's almost as if Europes looking at the USA and wondering about its intentions given the talk about how its worse than what the USSR did and all....

Utterly different. Besides no Vietnam yet during the earlier period, the Civil Rights Act had not even been enacted.

Look. I was there. You were not. Stop trying to be 'right'. You have enough errors in your movie 'information', much less history of politics and popular culture. You aren't gaining much respect here, at all.

So just stop now before you make one of the fine posters in this thread, as they mostly are, angry.

My thoughts too, though its intriguing to watch as we scratch to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I honestly didn't see them grounding a third party transport to search for him, yet alone a presidential one. Something definately spooked them and I would be very curious to know what Obama threatened them with.

I'm keeping an eye on how Russias watching the EU, be interesting if they start getting palsy and focusing on a CIS/EU partnership instead of the EU/NAFTA talks.

*Strokes chin thoughtfully*

Fun fact, the Manhatten project was a collaboration between the British Empire and the USA. Had the USA not screwed over Britain, Allied forces would have been committed to the invasion of the USSR, rearming a German army conscripted into Allied forces and potentially the avoidance of the cold war at the cost of nuclear bombardment of the Soviets.

Soviet Supply lines war strained under the load of their conquest of Eastern Europe, it would have been a bloodbath to be sure but the Soviet Union would be occupied by 47. Cold War averted, assuming there wasn't a nuclear standoff between Britain and the USA.

(pic) National Security Agency stopped dead in it's tracks.....................

Yawr

Tennis is boring.... Most Sports are boring

The best thing about Tennis are the Women who play it.

Same.... I should sleep got work....but Meh... Not tired....

Still the same old world state administration of incompetence, it's just now we have more outlets to televise it.

Today is a super easy day! Huzzah.

We're actually ahead in our work for once and only 2 meetings.

Seems like Railguns (atleast the medium ones) are getting a dps boost: http://imgur.com/jD85X5F

That fit goes from 302 to 426 dps with guns.

So long as partisans are only willing to speak out against aggressive, militarized police tactics when theyGÇÖre used against their own and are dismissive or even supportive of such tactics when used against those whose politics they dislike, it seems unlikely that the country will achieve enough of a political consensus to begin to slow down the trend.

Just wow. Another 787 fire.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/business/boeing-787-catches-fire-at-heathrow.html?_r=0

You could always consider defunding the NSA before we make it obsolete and the US military by a third, you've got the biggest Airforce in the USAF and the second largest in the USN AW, no ones coming for your freedoms, Washington did that already.

On another note, my netbook is kicking ******* arse now that its running Debian. Its just responsive fast and holy crap if I get rich I'm going to promote the ever living crap out of open source software if this is where it gets me.

No, its only a year old and I got a copy of win8 due to it being so close to release in addition to the win7 on it.

I was tired of using the crappy public computers (I use a desktop) and got it for net browsing and for using office. Sure I can't use Office on it, but OpenOffice lets me get the majority of the work done and do final touch ups on Office 2010.

Downsides are getting used to the installer, apt-get this that and the other when instead I would just double click and be done, between Linux and Android this is reigniting my passion for computing as an artform. This must have been what it felt like to be in the late 80's/90's when computing was a virgin frontier and not ubiquitous and living in walled gardens like Facebook and Apple.

Seriously who the hell uses Facebook anyway? I've heard second hand that on the BBC somewhere an angry lass was demanding why the NSA had access to her Facebook account as she'd set the settings to private.

I don't know if it is a generational thing, I have an account as does everyone I know its just we don't use it. I know people that use it near exclusively as a platform and its handy to have something to forward messages to me from. All I get out of it is a tied Skype account which forwards stuff to my phone on Skype, more a handle or an email address with my mugshot than anything else really, I've only ever used it a few times.

Besides, its more fun in my book to keep stories to myself till we meet up and chat instead of already knowing everything from Facebook. Got into keeping Twitter running on my phone too while E3 was on, haven't even thought of it till now. Basically it seems more a personal preference mixed with being private people to begin with.

Been installing more thinks in, toying around with dpkg and currently installing wine, though I was delayed today due to issues getting a wireless driver for this as apparently its closed source. Might be something I can hunt down or emulate in Wine is my thoughts, managed to get my phone as a wifi bridge so at least progress is being made without sitting in the hall with an Ethernet cable.

Also installing Steam to see how TF2 plays on it, so many dependencies with curl ect...

Beginning to realize how absolutely **** computing classes are in the UK. I had a horrible realisation I may have made a mistake going for engineering after I realized how much fun I'm having with coding.

FML

A pity there isn't any checks on the media, could Zimmerman sue for libel or defamation of character? I know he could over here as the few clips I've seen on Youtube (granted I would have been most likely exposed to the more ridiculous ones like reporters wrestling in the office) suggest they were trying to convict him in the public court. Of course the possible reason would be that they knew this would be close, but because of race it would get attention and prime the public for a verdict of guilty.... and then they have weeks of debate after as people protest, feel cheated, possible follow up in the Supreme Court.

Disappointingly the Guardian appears to have jumped on the bandwagon about a Supreme Court appeal or a civil trial.

For the record, it annoys me that politics is polarised into left and right, plenty of scope to have opinions on both sides that get nowhere because the camps are errected with an issue on one side or the other. How the abortion debate is going to play out given technology advances constantly to redefine where viable life begins... but that's another story.

I hope people get behind him to take the media circus to hand, the Guardian has shown it is a good thing for scrutinisation of politics and business as has the Telegraph (the two main papers in the UK, Labour leaning and Tory leaning respectively) but it looks like to me they are positioning themselves as a global Anglosphere news group, Glenn Greenwald for instance is a reported of theirs based out of Brazil. All the power to them, but I'm a spot concerned its turning them into a soapbox for speaking to a global audience instead of being journalists and reporters of objective content.

The British papers are independent of the parties they happen to congregate around. The Telegraph is in favour of business interested and more blunt practicality in many cases (probably says more about my own politics that) which more often than not leads to them looking favourably on the Conservatives (current PM is from this party) but they did have good things to say about pragmatism under Blair and Brown. The Guardian started as the Manchester Guardian before moving to Fleet Street, so has an origin in the old industrial heartland with associated sympathies with the union movement and the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats (other half / quarter of the current Government under the coalition).

Both of them will happily stab any party in the back as generally they agree on civil liberties of the individual being paramount, the argument being on the methodology by which they get to that position. Not saying they are the epitome of trustworthiness by any means, just that they know their readerbase is reading more than one paper and they have to take that into account. Telegraph did the piece on the MP's expenses and the Guardian the NSA.

Can I sue the church for damages ?? Pretty please ???

Awesome movies need awesome seq... omg what the hell happened to Alice's face?

The Armed Citizen Project has expanded its Redistribution of Firepower Program to Texas and Florida, the group announced this week.

The Redistribution of Firepower Program, put simply, takes donations of unused firearms and gives the guns, as well as training, to background-checked, high-vulnerability Americans such as single women and the urban poor.

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Huh, Detroit of Michigan USA just declared bankruptcy.

Cities can do that?