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@Gorth and @Chairchucker You guys must have heard the shameful news, the Oz immigration minister has cancelled Djokovic's visa....he cant play now I think this was a political decision to pander to the anti-Novak sentiment on the streets in Australia, its not how a decision like this should have been made

I have been considering for years investing in VR, Im just not sure the technology is advanced enough? Wormie imagine VR Romance arcs with Isabella in DA2

Does this mean we are going to entice you into voting? Because no vote...no free things from government

https://www.outa.co.za/blog/newsroom-1/post/court-declares-aarto-unconstitutional-and-invalid-1113 Great news, our high court has declared the AARTO system of penalizing drivers with a demerit system of 12 points unconstitutional. I always believe human rights lawyers get somethings right

But the obvious difference and benefit of Odyssey is this is an active experience and all the sights are living, for example you cant fight the minotaur in RL...you know you cant Melkie

@melkathi Whatever you decide dont play that mode, its boring and pointless. If you cant kill civilians and enemies whats the point of playing any Ubisoft game. Play the game like its suppose to be played

You mean Andrew Yang? What did he say that he was right about, I found him to be well meaning but I dont agree with much of what he suggests

It works, I dont remember it being elegant but it works and you also get to use ranged weapons like energy weapons

Melkie didn't you appreciate the historic realism of AC Odyssey and how they accurately recreated Ancient Greece? My question has nothing to do with your current post but I always meant to ask you but I kept forgetting, I am interested in your view as a Greek citizen and what you think about the overall job Ubisoft does in creating their various gameworlds ?

Im currently watching the following exciting new series Season 5 of Animal Kingdom: Gripping crime drama about an antihero family who only survive through criminality and wrong doing : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Kingdom_(TV_series) Season 4 of The Sinner : A murder mystery with the same main cop protagonist who deals with bizarre and unusual murders and more importantly the motives of why people murder various people in the series : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sinner_(TV_series) Dam : A South African drama\horror around a women who returns to SA for her fathers strange " suicide " funeral. Its got some hotties in it but its also not bad from an overall entertainment factor and I like to support worthwhile SA series because there aren't many : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13635918/

I like this definition of Social Democracy as this is how I see the Nordic countries? I hope @Elerond and @Zoraptor read this link I particularly agree with the point " rather than revolution as characterized by orthodox Marxism " The idea that somehow a revolution by workers and policies of forced nationalization( never forget this will always be seen as theft of assets by any investor ) is going to lead to a positive economic outcome is just rhetoric and fantasy

@Gorth and @Chairchucker Do you guys now feel your government is going to far with this Djokovic issue, meaning its time to accept he should be able to play after the ruling of the Oz judge. But apparently Djokovic can still be deported I am looking for your personal views as citizens and not what the general public sentiment is or isn't ?

Yes I agree with this and I also agree that hybrid socialist models like some of the examples you mention absolutely work. We have discussed at length the success of the Nordic countries which are Socialist\Capitalist hybrids IMO meaning they have adopted socialist ideas but these countries dont go around nationalizing or stealing the assets of foreign investors like we have seen in Cuba and Venezuela Because what is the definition of socialism? If you think that socialism is defined as the state having control over everything then it will fail as we have seen throughout history with China being the exception but who wants to live in China? So if you mean socialism like in the Nordic countries then yes it can succeed and be beneficial but these models are not like the socialist failures of Venezuela where the state not only ignored the rule of law and order but also decided that nationalization was fine. Citizens and investors have to buy into these systems and not be forced to comply by the state and security forces

Please tell me we not suggesting Venezuela is your example of a well run Socialist country? Dont citizens have to want to live in country, the economy can't collapse and their shouldn't be tens of thousands of people immigrating before we sing the praises of any government ?

No its not that we overlook that fact, we just dont care about the Communists\socialists

But that sounds perfectly reasonable,that is exactly what I have always thought was why people get detained. You dont get detained if you have papers and enter legally ?

Thanks, you made some good points and I will think about them

We have had this debate before around what should we call the Oz immigrant detention camps but you weren't online at the time, as far as I remember, so your opinion would be appreciated. I am one of those people who has a problem when societies use words to describe things in the wrong way or context, I feel the correct definition should be used to describe things because it reduces hyperbole and grandstanding when we discuss these events and reflect on them. But I am sometimes wrong in these debates, for example after reading Amenteps post about 6 January violence I did some further research and realized I was wrong. It can be called an insurrection and I will make a specific post about this But back to this debate, I dont think its accurate to refer to the Oz detention camps concentration camps anymore than its correct to call the ICE immigrant detention camps in the US concentration camps. This is the definition of a concentration camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment and to quote from the link The term "concentration camp" or "internment camp" is used to refer to a variety of systems that greatly differ in their severity, mortality rate, and architecture; their defining characteristic is that inmates are held outside the rule of law.[6] Extermination camps or death camps, whose primary purpose is killing, are also imprecisely referred to as "concentration camps". But this is what the Oz immigrant detention camps are ( Im just using wiki for convenience ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_immigration_detention_facilities Do you really believe the Oz detention camps operate completely outside the rule of law because only people trying to enter Oz illegally get detained, isn't that using the rule of law in the first place ?

Malc did you get out of the wrong side of bed this morning, why you so mad?

https://www.newsweek.com/police-pepper-spray-novak-djokovic-supporters-chaotic-scenes-tennis-australian-open-1667389 @Gorth and @Chairchucker I can only imagine how outraged you guys must be with this egregious excessive force used by the Oz police...they used pepper spray to subdue innocent and peaceful protestors !!! Will you guys be protesting everyday to demand these police are arrested

Malc I said some good points

Did you watch the interview with his family, they made some good points

You make some good points and some are convincing, I need time to think about

It looks like Novak will be able to play, I hope so

She sounds wise GD, definitely a keeper