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Arwon Zora Level: 35  Posts: 446/506 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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| New Orleans will be rebuilt for the simple reason that no politicians will have the balls to vote against it. It'll most likely be given a blank cheque for reconstruction. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 447/506 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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| Nagin should have given the pre-emptive evacuation order at least 2 days earlier than he did... they could've gotten nearly everyone out. But, also, the response since the hurricane has been bafflingly slow. The NOPD was was completely shot to hell, no organisation at all. They needed a strong, organised military presence about 3 days ago, distributing supplies, maintaining order, getting people out... before things got as crazy as they have, BEFORE it got to the stage of having to declare martial law and talking about shooting to kill. Where was the National guard? Where was the Army? |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 448/506 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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| Might be a bit early to make that call Ziff... guess we'll see. Christ what a mess. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 449/506 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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| Slay, I think Presidente Bush is actually in the "normalise the situation" camp... the Republicanss are riven by a heated divide between the KICK THEM OUT and the Normalisation camps, I think the libertarian pragmatist camp is the minority and so Bush isn't too vocal about his views. (edited by Arwon on 09-04-05 10:00 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 450/506 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 a poor country (well, more accurately, a highly unequal one - 20% of the population earn 55% of the income), it's very dependent on the US economy, and America has more employment opportunities and much higher wages, and much better employment prospects for the educated (whether the US actually recognises Mexican qualificiations at all is a different issue, of course). Plus it's right next door. It's an old story of economic disparities and it's and hardly unique to the US-Mexican border. Short of building an iron curtain you're not going to stop people coming. The best solution is work visas and genuine freedom of movement, and proactive education and enforcement of their rights, so the immigrant labourers are in a stronger bargaining position and don't get exploited. Then everyone wins. (edited by Arwon on 09-05-05 02:31 AM) (edited by Arwon on 09-05-05 02:33 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 451/506 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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| Danielle, some cops were actually taking part in the looting, others were trying to distribute the spoils in an orderly manner. The point is the cops were basically a nonfunctional entity from the moment the hurricane hit... only a third of them are working, many have quit, most of their stuff is wrecked, there was no command-and-control, etcetera. They were powerless to provide order, to take any sort of command. The main reason the looting and craziness got the way it did was that there was a vacuum of civil authority due to the lack of NOPD effectivenss, that should've been filled, much quicker and more effectively, by the national guard and the military. If that had've happened order could have been maintained. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 452/506 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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| Mine was "don't be stupid, don't be evil" and so far I think I'm doing okay. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 453/506 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, Slay, I read it in the Economist, so it must be true. They seem to theink on this issue Bush's beliefs *are* at odds with the majority of his party, and probbly his constituents, so he tends to let it slide. Unfortunately, the entire situation is poison and thus you get the continuing suffering of desperate and exploited people in an unjust economic sitution, and the militaristic idiocy of groups like the Minutemen in Arizona. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 454/506 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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| This thread fails. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 455/506 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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| When did that happen? Because for the first however many days FEMA wasn't even letting the Red Cross in. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 456/506 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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| This session I'm taking Linguistics, World History in the 20th Century, European Studies (1989-present) and Spanish. Spanish is still a bitch as far as listening and speaking goes, I know the stuff we've been taught but haven't reached the tipping point where it all clicks yet, though as far as languages go it could be much harder. European Studies I usually skip or sleep through, and I'll know how hard Linguistics has been when I get my first assessment back. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 457/506 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 just ended things, such as "things" were, with a girl I'm fairly certain I love. Meh. We were not yet quite "official" when she unavoidably moved four hours away to a hellhole of a city that's hard to reach without a car (Canberra)... the whole thing was getting stupid, and angsty, and just too hard. Basically I said we might as well LJBF (lets just be friends) as long as she's down there, because whatever we had is obviously gone now. If things were meant to be, they'll work out at some future time. Glad I got to do it in person, she's not up in Sydney much. Said what was needed to be said, held her for a while outside the pub we were in, kissed her, then walked off back to central station. I cried afterwards, most of the way home, fairly certain she'd have too... but we'll deal with it. I'll just say - the right amount of alcohol - three or four beers, gives so much bloody courage it's unbelievable. Hooray for alcohol. If only I could be tipsy all the time. Hopefully she ends up moving back to Sydney in the new year, there was/is a connection there and I think it will work with less shitty circumstances, but yeah. This way I get certainty and the ability to try and move on without the vague image of her constantly hanging over my head, and she gets one less thing to be worried and angsty (and possibly guilty) over. I also get just enough vague hope for the future to keep from going insane - that's kept me going for ages in the past. I also salvage some dignity and spare some pain that would've come if she ended up hooking up with another guy down there and having to tell me "i dont wanna be with you." Bah. So fucking hard. (edited by Arwon on 09-09-05 11:28 PM) (edited by Arwon on 09-09-05 11:29 PM) (edited by Arwon on 09-09-05 11:30 PM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 458/506 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 not so much worrying, as accepting the poissibility. I'm realistic. We weren't official, she's a really friendly drunk and prone to bouts of loneliness, it happens. I know I've been looking at other girls with great interest and I'm the model of fucking reserve. That sorta stuff - random hookups - isnt a threat, it's more the "falling for someone else" thing that's scary. Either way, it's easier this way, to have some certainty. (edited by Arwon on 09-09-05 11:51 PM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 459/506 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 Thayer That probably means compliments weren't the issue. They can't make someone who doesn't like you want you, but they can help with an attraction that *is* there. Or something. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 460/506 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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| Maybe you should date the friend who says they'll hurt him. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 461/506 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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| Ooops, just noticed the pronoun that I somehow missed before. (edited by Arwon on 09-11-05 03:47 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 462/506 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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| Very little apparently. I had to fucking work then do an assignment. Meh. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 463/506 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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| Depends how open their welfare systems are to non-residents and non-citizens. Most first world nations have far better developed welfare systems than the US though. And Snika, the US is not more relaxed about religion than most other countries. even france, with its big old churches, tends to ignore religion far more than America. The US is a remarkably religious country among western nations. Um, you'd better look into visas, residency laws, immigration laws, and so forth - you can't just *go* to another country and stay there. That's called being an illegal immigrant and just because you're American doesn't mean you can't be one. (edited by Arwon on 09-12-05 09:40 PM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 464/506 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 good that he's going to kill himself. Wait, no. Disregard. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 465/506 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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| University is tertiary education. |
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