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Arwon Zora Level: 35  Posts: 306/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Well, I know some girls when they first start getting their periods, they can be kinda variable in timing and symptoms at first before they settle into a rhythm. YMMV, I'm not *about* to start arguing with girls about menstruation! I'll just be over here sticking forks into my eyes or something. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 307/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Australian English with a few Americanisms, and I've got a semster of Espa (edited by Arwon on 06-19-05 08:09 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 308/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| I've only ever had one blackout while drinking, and apparently that night I almost killed myself trying to lift with a rock as big as my torso. I also yelled at everyone, got kicked out, and spewed in my friends car on the way home. Top night. My craziest drinking antics involve (Over two separate nights around Comic-con last year): -Sneaking into a San Diego light-rail garage at dawn, then pretending to be a really lost and drunk tourist when I was caught, all they did was show me how to get out. Nice fellas. -Climbing a fence into the new baseball stadium in San Diego, wandering around singing really loudly and taking photos... but unfortuantely not thinking to take the opportunity to jerk off in the middle of the baseball diamond so I could have a "Craziest masturbation story" as well as a "craziest drunk" story. -Getting lonely after everyone else passed out, going for a walk, attempting to call Australia but realising I have no money... deciding in a flash of inspiration that I WILL FIND HOTEL AND MAKE A FREE PHONECALL FROM THERE. Then actually doing it. The first place I entered I found an open, empty room, so I locked myself in and phoned people in Australia for about an hour and a half. God I miss San Diego. (edited by Arwon on 06-21-05 12:59 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 310/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Yeah, but a fan boat's pretty useless when it reaches DRY LAND. (edited by Arwon on 06-21-05 01:08 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 311/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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Originally posted by neotransotaku Probably the decades of occupation and oppression in the first half of the century and centuries of antagonism before that? That would at least serve as a general backdrop. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 312/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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 Need I say more? |
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 314/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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Um... Earthquakes can't stop A SPACE STATION. |
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 315/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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Harlequin Baby is proof that there is no God. |
Also, on Jeans: Obviously, he's right. A normal pair can't fit more than three different people. It's often impossible to even cram TWO people into a pair of jeans. You'd need some sort special giant jeans to fit more. (edited by Arwon on 06-22-05 09:58 AM) (restricted) |
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 317/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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Legislating vengence and bloodthirsty emotion like "fuckers should suffer!" into a legal system seems to me to be an extremely dumb and dangerous thing to do. The mindset that thinks it's a good idea to, calmly and rationally, legitimise these darkest and most primal of vengeance impulses and have other people calmly and rationally carry them out... gah the mind just boggles. Seems about two steps from angry mob justice. |
The judicial system shouldn't be about rage and emotionalism and vengeance, dammit! (edited by Arwon on 06-22-05 10:18 AM)
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 318/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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It's like a devout Jewish person getting a job in a goyim-run butcher or a Quaker joining the army. |
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 319/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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Counterpoint to Japan: Finland - many guns, low crime. Or how about Australia and the US's broadly comparable crime rates dispite our having far fewer guns? I'm still convinced that there's almost no causal relationship between firearms and crime, because there's so many other more significant factors.
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 320/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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The old "trade brings peace" argument, eh? You're aware that international trade among the European powers in 1914 was comparable to today's levels, right? |
And really, I don't think you can separate the "trading and not fighting" thing from the supranational administration. Going right back to the European Coal and Steel Community, one of the main ideas at work was of economic prosperity and harmonisation creating a stable foundation on which to build political unity. The demise of the EFTA (anyone remember that?) in favour of EU I think illustrates that there's a desire for a more complete cooperation beyond just removing trade barriers. And on the Yugoslavian disintegration, I don't think you can blame a reaction against centralisation for that. If anything, the problem with Yugoslavia was that it wasn't centralised enough... Tito held it together through force of personality, but he left in place separate replublics which could form the framework for disintegration, and more importantly, his policies actively encouraged identification as Serbian or Croatian - the parallel systems of education, administration and so forth didn't encourage people to identify as 'Yugoslavian' - it was a disadvatnage in day to day life, so even the significant proportion of the population that was of mixed ancestry mostly chose to identify as belonging to one group or another. Even so, on a census taken at some point, people were asked to identify their ethnicity, and over a million identified as "Yugoslavian" rather than Serbian or Croatian or such. There's a case to be made that the disintegration of Yugoslavia was due at least partly to incomplete centralisation. That said, the bitterness and animosity from the WW2 period ran fairly deep (I don't buy the "500 years of antagonism" line... I mean, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians mostly manage to live in the same countries without massacring each other... the bitterness from WW2 and the partisans and so forth however was fresh and the wounds deep), but it didn't have to be insurmountable. (edited by Arwon on 06-22-05 12:58 PM)
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 321/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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Private property uber alles? So you approve of "Whites only" signs then? |
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 322/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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Pharmacists have a duty of care much like doctors and are failing in that pretty spectacularly... to the point of negligence, really. They do take an oath afterall. |
If someone has a prescription, then why should the pharmacists have the right to deny that medical treatment is beyond me. Especially since, in my understanding, there have been cases where pharmacists have refused to transfer the prescription elsewhere, basically withholding the damn thing in a very time critical situation. I don't think this is a simple libertarian "someone else will do it" issue. Walmart has refused to stock these things, which given that it's driven other pharmacists out of business, is often the only easily available option, is a big problem. So does some poor Arkansas teen get to miss out on birth control because Walmart is exercising its private proprty rights? Moreover, the pressure exerted by the Taliban Wing of Christianity through lobbying and boycotts and protests and stuff in some parts of the US can mean that phatmacists are under pressure and may decide it is less costly to lose the business than face that lobby. Again the situation of small Southern towns springs to mind. What's more, in the US, in the absense of a universal single healthcover system, not all pharmacists might be on your health insurance... in a timecritical situation like these B drugs, people don't really wanna have to search round, or go to the next town 50 miles away, just because some jackass thinks he has the right to tell you you can't get a drug you have a prescription for. There's a lot more flying around here than just "property rights". ---\ EDIT: I jut noticed the issue of government intervention at the top here. Now, pharmacists need a license, right? You lot do have an FDA deciding what drugs are safe and available under prescription, right? Then, it seems to me that the pharmacist is already UP TO THEIR ARMPITS IN EVIL EXCESSIVE STATE REGULATION OMFG and that as such it's not exactly a big ask that they be "forced" to give people stuff they have a legal prescription for. Actually, if the prevailing regulation they're working under says "this is legal and available for prescription" and then the pharmacist says "no i dont think i'll accept that" and denies someone their legal prescription... then they're being negligent, they're not doing their job, and they're breaking the law. I wonder if these same assholes hand out bloody viagra. (edited by Arwon on 06-22-05 01:56 PM) (edited by Arwon on 06-22-05 01:57 PM)
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 323/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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I'm not saying everyone should be placed under big uniform governments, I'm not advocating any universal principles here and seldom do. I'm just, specifically to the post-war Titoist Yugoslavian context, saying that Yugoslavia *was* a viable multiethnic society for decades, and it didn't disintegrate due to excessive centralisation alone, but a generally poor structure that divided everything by ethnicities that were not pure or easily divided. |
Really now, there's just as many examples of successful big multiethnic countries as there are dismal fKitten Yiffers. I do hope you're not going to try to take a universal position on "centralisation versus decentralisation" here. India used to be a patchwork of petty little entities and is now the largest democracy in the world. 200 years ago French was a minority language in France and now it's the very model of a centralised nationstate. Italy and Germany were a collection of tiny little entities dominated by other powers. Spain appears to be going to cope with its many regionalisms quite successfully. Russia is still a huge multiethnic nation under a very centralised and autocratic government as it has basically been for centuries. Canada, the US and Australia are all successful federations of smaller components that once had quite divisive squabbles that, in the beginning, endandered their very inception. I notice that you've sneakily inserted the word "uniform" there since your last post. It shouldn't be there, no-one's advocating complete assimilation into some big homogenising authoritarian European entity. Europe is not going to go all Francoist and there's a huge difference between enforcing cultural identity uniformity and merely establishing a supranational union. "Also, what happened to people being able to establish their own identities and live in their own communities, rather than being forced into one big community?" That's what federalism is (edited by Arwon on 06-22-05 02:14 PM)
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 324/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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Not always... Switzerland and Canada are two examples of federal structures where the central government is relatively weak. Spain's another example of a state that has actually gone from a more centralist structure to a more regional one. Indonesia's post-Sueharto constitution, likewise, devolved more power to its many provinces. What you describe is not a rule in any useful way. |
And really, "in a few decades European troops might force you to stay!" is an incredibly weak argument against European Union.
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Zora Level: 35 Posts: 325/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min.
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Originally posted by TanookirbyOriginally posted by Arwon A God that inflicts that on newborn babies? Mysterious ways my ass. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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