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Arwon Bazu                 Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Can I call dibs on the movie rights? | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| DrJ beat me to it. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| This might sound obvious, but:
STOP SHAVING AT ALL. Seriously. It might take weeks, but it will grow. Some people's facial hair just doesn't come in that fast or thick. My beard (It's just around the jawline, I shave the rest and I keep the beard short) took at least two months to cultivate... you have to go through a "what the fuck is that?" phase when it's noticable growth, but not looking good or refined enough to be deliberate. Such is life. Also, some people just can't grow good facial hair. You should try once though... just stop shaving at all and see what happens. (edited by Arwon on 01-06-06 10:46 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Nice girls talking to me = good.
Duh. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Is giving up the car an option? They're amazingly expensive beasts. | |||
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS. A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS.
And drowns people, no doubt. |
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| What's this "you" and "we" business? All ethnic minorities shoot and rob and carjack all whites?
Also, when someone talks about gay pride or black pride or whatever, they're almost never exp To me, "White pride" is not asserting equality or lack of shame and inferiority, but superiority, supremacy... establishing or maintaining dominion over others. You don't need to exp Boo fucking hoo, move to Zimbabwe. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| You quoted the wrong person, then misquoted my post anyway, xxwhateverxx. Well done, son. Kinda blunts any accusations you make about my alleged lack of intellegence.
And for the record, I mean move to Zimbabwe if you wanna experience white "oppression" because it simply does not fucking exist in the Western world, and anyone who believes otherwise has a pretty tenuous grasp on reality, and on the workings of society. --- Just spotted another bit of idiocy in that quote: "You have Cesar Chavez Day You have Yom Hashoah You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi" Uh. Racially, Chicanos, Ashkenazi Jews and Arabs are ALL FUCKING WHITE. They're all caucasians. --- Chevey: Cesar Chavez organised Chicano (Mexican-American, usually 1st or 2nd generation I think) farm labor in California, founded what later became United Farm Workers, and was generally a hero of workers rights. California has a state holiday for him, Texas later adopted it too. Probably the only labor leader to have a holiday in Americaland. In my experience in California, different school districts have off for different days... where I lived had Colombus Day off, but down the road in Imperial Beach in a majority latino area, they had Cesar Chavez Day off instead and didn't have Colombus Day. Whoever wrote this is most likely a Californian, probably some angry suburbanite kid in a mostly white suburban area. There's been a worrying increase in White Power presence in such areas... East County San Diego, for example. Oh and the other two are Holocaust Rememberence Day (DING DING DING, that should ring some bells about the dude who wrote this) and Mohammed's Birthday. (edited by Arwon on 01-20-06 10:24 PM) (edited by Arwon on 01-20-06 10:34 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| This is all premised on the idea that it's a GOOD thing to spread nuclear power ever wider.
Until we come up with nuclear powerplants that are inherently safe (as in, laws-of-physics-make-meltdowns-impossible safe), instead of relying on fallable "engineered safety" measures, I'm extremely skeptical of the scope for expanding nuclear power. The dangers are too great, especially if we're proposing to spread it to countries with less developed infrastructure. Just because nuclear power is relatively safe in America, who says it's going to be safe elsewhere? And of course no-one's solved the nuclear waste disposal issues yet. Many European countries with extremely safe nuclear energy programs are rolling them back for that reason alone. Then there's the mind-boggling expense... nuclear energy is hideously uncompetitive, requiring huge initial outlays of funding and constant subsidisation. Since the 1950s the subsidies to nuclear energy worldwide have amounted about a TRILLION dollars. Annual British subsidies to the nuclear industry cost the UK government more than a BILLION pounds. Are you prepared to foot THAT bill for dozens of other countries? If there are to be massive funding outlays of that size going to energy, it should not go to the energy industry which has had a half a century and billions of dollars to prove itself and still has major problems. Throw it into the bevvy of renewables which have shown promise at a fraction of the cost, and the technology is moving ever-forward. Safety, cost, waste disposal, the potential alternatives... these are compelling reasons why we don't want reactors blooming across the world. And as for the actual case, beyond the assumption that nuclear energy is an unambiguously good thing: Providing nuclear energy as a bribe to not proliferate weapons seems dangerously insane to me, I don't understand how it's supposed to stop weapons proliferation. Here's a riddler for you: how do you de-nuclearise India, Pakistan and Israel? The first two aren't non-proliferation signatories (Iran is, which is the only reason we have any leverage at all) and Israel doesn't even openly admit its nuclear capabilities. (edited by Arwon on 01-20-06 10:50 PM) (edited by Arwon on 01-20-06 10:57 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Probably the time I snuck into a hotel in San Diego at 4 in the morning, managed to find a vacant, open hotel room, and made about an hour and a half's worth of international phonecalls to my friends and family back in Australia. Never figured out whose room it was or who would have to pay for it.
Hey, I was homesick! (edited by Arwon on 01-20-06 11:04 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I think you're confusing race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and culture, you seem to be using them interchangably.
See, the feeling you're describing, feeling out of place among certain groups of people, is hardly limited to skin colour. I feel really out of place and uncomfortable and self-aware among people from Western Sydney, so called "bogans", because they are culturally quite different from me. I have friends who feel quite uncomfortable around goths and indie kids, cos it ain't their crowd, etc etc. Likewise, there'd be plenty of circumstances where the fact that you're surrounded by people of other ethnicities/races isn't even an issue because it's backgrounded by other connections. Being the only white kid on a football team, for example, is no big deal... the common ground of being on the same team will pretty thoroughly erase any feelings of outsiderness. Overall, what you're describing is essentially the social anxiety and edginess and self-awareness of being around strangers. When you don't know people, you notice the obvious characteristics, be that their skin colour, ethnicity, cultural allegiences, socioeconomic status, etc. If these don't gel with yours, you tend to get uncomfortable. There's nothing especially different just because ethnicity/race is involved. As for the humour thing. Meh. People have different tastes, and nothing is sacred in humour. See also: Dead baby jokes. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| The problem, ROM, is that nuclear is not a panacea to our energy problems. Waste disposal is a huge problem, and the costs really are enormous. As I say, even Britain's having to fork over a billion pounds a year to keep its nuclear energy plants going.
Then there's safety, which you haven't addressed. If you're giving nuclear plants to countries without rigorous safety laws and strong rule of law and low corruption levels and experience in dealing with nuclear material, you're dramatically increasing the prospect of catastrophic melt-downs. To say nothing of weapons proliferation, and beyond wishful thinking, you don't seem to have explained how you're going to prevent weapons proliferation. And then, how much uranium is there? How much will be needed, especially once China gets its nuclear programme off the ground? And especially if you start putting reactors all over the place? It's another power source with a limited, finite, onetime supply. The alternatives I'd like to see are, (for Australia at least), switching to gas in the short term and moving to as much renewables as we can in the long term as the technology improves. Natural gas is more plentiful and burns cleaner. That's an interim measure, a cleaner burnign source of fossil fuel hydrocarbons. The good thing is, there's a certain quantity of carbon emissions the planet can handle... we dont have to entirely eliminate carbon emissions, just bring them down to sustainable levels. Renewable energy is viable and continuing to advance. Photovoltaic panels, for example, cost 1/100th of what they did in 1970... how much further would they drop in price if production increased substantially and economies of scale were taken advantage of? If, for example, the level of spending poured into nuclear energy were poured into solar energy and other sources. There's just a couple of technological hurdles to be overcome. These are the problems of energy storage and variable supply. See, energy grids require a steady inflow of energy, whereas most renewables (solar, wind, geothermal, tidal) supply variable amounts, 70%-90% of which is wasted becuase the grids, built for fixed supplies, cant handle it. Thus we need something that can store the excess energy and regularise the supply--hydrogen fuel cells, which are basically batteries, are the key technology here. And they're not far-off. Once they're viable, we will see a massive improvement in the efficiency of variable renewable energy sources. Hell, some Canadian company, with only 4.5 million dollars raised mostly from the community, has managed to come up with a way to produce hydrogen from water, steel and solar power. The other issue is how much renewables vary in their supply levels. Solar and wind, especially, are intermittent, as are tides and biofuel burning to some extent. Storage can solve some of the problem, but we also need to start thinking differnetly about energy supplies. See, conventional power supply revolves around a big central source and a grid... but renewables can be distributed. We might not be able to tell when it's going to be sunny in a specific place, but we have plenty of climate data, as well as tide charts, that allow averages to be projected. By thinking in the aggreggate and using a mixture of many different supplies, we can minimise variation and, again, massively increase efficiency with these energy sources. An article explaining how a combination of distributed renewable sources could provide over half of Britain's present energy needs. "If you plan the right mix, renewable and intermittent technologies can even be made to match real-time electricity demand patterns. This reduces the need for backup, and makes renewables a serious alternative to conventional power sources." Now look, I'm not entirely against nuclear energy... the Chinese are doing some interesting things with inherently safe, mass-producable pebble-bed reactors... but there's still the problems of waste disposal and cost. The technology needs to improve before it can be considered a good option to go expanding all over the world. And since we're on the subject of the third world, ROM. Nuclear power is big and central, they require extensive grids and the maintainance of substations and so forth. Many third world nations are not in a position to provide this, nor are they in a position to undertake the level of market intervention required to keep them economically viable. Many isolated, regional areas have shitty electricity grids, or they're not even connected. Building nuclear power plants will solve none of this. In fact, various renewable energy sources are the ideal power solution for third world areas that have poor or intermittent connections to existing grids. Throw down a couple of windmills or solar plants in an area, and they've got power much closer to home, and therefore more reliable. (edited by Arwon on 01-22-06 03:43 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Jomb: Why then, are white power groups generally strongest in predominantly white, fringe suburban areas? | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by Kutske I'd have thought that'd be political suicide in Canada. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I'm a navy brat so I've moved roughly once every two years of my life. It's gotten to the stage now, where it feels natural to move fairly regularly. I moved out of home at the start of 2004, to a sharehouse in Sydney, that went pretty well. I managed my first solo move back in November of last year, and that went remarkably smoothly, especially since I had to buy a bunch of furniture.
The idea of staying in the one place for years actually really unnerves me. I don't understand how people can feel content and happy living like that. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| You didn't even have conscription during the world wars?
Hmm. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I understand that at an intellectual level, it's just that my gut feelings are that it's an unnerving idea, and I feel a mild sense of pity for people stuck in one place. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by emcee You're exactly right. It's a psycholinguistics thing. We need taboo words, words that have a strong impact and emotive content and slangy/rebellious connotations. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| He is right though. |
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