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Everything's Great - An anti-whinge Part 1
Hiro Protagonist replied to Hiro Protagonist's topic in Way Off-Topic
No melt down on my part. I was asking questions to you which you still haven't answered. -
Everything's Great - An anti-whinge Part 1
Hiro Protagonist replied to Hiro Protagonist's topic in Way Off-Topic
You think? So you're guessing. Why not let Barothmuk speak for himself. -
Everything's Great - An anti-whinge Part 1
Hiro Protagonist replied to Hiro Protagonist's topic in Way Off-Topic
This thread got derailed. You're being targeted with racism and sexism? Do tell. And what civil liberties have you personally lost in the last year or two? And how does unsustainable resource exploitation affect you on a personal day to day level. Please note what this thread was about. -
Everything's Great - An anti-whinge Part 1
Hiro Protagonist replied to Hiro Protagonist's topic in Way Off-Topic
I can see this went over some people's heads. This was more a thread about personal things with forumites and not the general world. -
Is it just me or is there a lot of doom, gloom, rage, fear, whinge, OMG life sucks threads around... Rather than open yet another whinge thread about that, I thought I'd just open a thread to say it's all good, I'm looking forward to things, life is pretty awesome really, the beer's cold, the weather's not, and people in general are on the whole quite decent and often far more clever and interesting than they sound. That's it, really.
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What's on the idiot box Part 4 (or something)
Hiro Protagonist replied to LadyCrimson's topic in Way Off-Topic
I don't want to spoil anything as I believe it's airing in November for U.S. audiences. -
What's on the idiot box Part 4 (or something)
Hiro Protagonist replied to LadyCrimson's topic in Way Off-Topic
Supergirl pilot. ugh. So cheesy. -
What's on the idiot box Part 4 (or something)
Hiro Protagonist replied to LadyCrimson's topic in Way Off-Topic
Loved the Jay Garrick reference and same with Rip Hunter. And going by Grant Gustin's latest remarks, might be Earth Two in Season 2 which explains Jay Garrick's helmet. Hope so! -
Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
Hiro Protagonist replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
Do you mean an unblurry 3d instead of 2d? Because you don't need polarised glasses for 2d. If you meant 3d, then wearing polarized glasses won't do anything to make the 3d unblurry. It will still look blurry with one eye whilst wearing polarized glasses because each lens is different for each eye. http://science.howstuffworks.com/3-d-glasses2.htm In the above link, a person with one eye is only getting half the picture and it's still blurred. -
Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
Hiro Protagonist replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
No, not only do you need both eyes to see 3D but also both eyes need to be the same. The 3D effect doesn't work for me because my left eye isn't as good as my right eye. And one eye definitely doesn't work. -
Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
Hiro Protagonist replied to Blarghagh's topic in Way Off-Topic
Terms like 'fit and proper person' and 'person of integrity' are so foreign to the SJWs and certain parts of the gaming media that it's no wonder they act like they do. Perhaps in time they can learn these terms and concepts about honesty and integrity but at the moment it's the hypocrisy they only know. -
Have people join the military for medical aid and food?
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Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
Hiro Protagonist replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic
I don't understand all the feminist or whatever talk. Just finished up a W40K pnp session just now and one of the guys in the group mentioned something about feminism at the start of our game and I'll say it here to what I said in the group. Don't know anything about feminism or how it's got to do with the movie. It's a good old fashioned action movie and I enjoyed it. -
Mad Max: Fury Road: 99% Fresh with 190 Critic Reviews
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Saw the movie and enjoyed it. I thought it was good. Bring on the sequels, -
Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
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People will believe anything. http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/trumanpc.asp -
^ reminds me of the ending to the movie, Kingdom of the Spiders.
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Clicked link. Doesn't work.
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Mature discussion on LGBT/Feminists who want to censor games.
Hiro Protagonist replied to luzarius's topic in Way Off-Topic
I'm kinda curious how you figure that. Sounds like you missed this thread. -
Just hope you don't do anything we did 7 years ago. We already had our 2020 summit and what a waste of time and money that was.
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There's nothing deceptively simple about the question. Also note that I put deceptive in quotation marks to illustrate that there is nothing deceptively simple or otherwise about it. In fact, all it does is confuse and muddy the waters by adding it. But you're right in that you being illiterate can't understand what I write. Back to school aluminiumtrioxid.
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I have a better question. Why can't you form a logical coherent argument?
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Geezus, I can't believe some of the stuff in that article. Stuff like this: A 'deceptive' question like why are families a good thing? It's in the child's interest to be parented well? 'It looks' as if there's something very valuable in being a parent? Good grief, who are these people and how did they get anybody to listen to them let alone write an article.
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The system we have here is foreigners can only buy new dwellings (There's some exceptions but generally foreigners buy off the plan units here) and they can only buy up to 50% in a block of units iirc. eg. New building has 20 new units and only up to 10 can be owned by foreigners. Once the developer reaches 50%, they can't sell anymore to foreigners. Also, once bought by a foreigner, they cannot be sold to other foreigners. There's still problems with our system but at least it's not an open gate where foreigners are flooding in, although we are in a housing boom and it does seem that way at the moment with foreigners buying up off the plan properties. Mainly Chinese, Canadians and Americans. But there are many reasons why prices are on the rise and it's not just foreign buyers. New housing with buildings going up around the area add to the housing market which has benefits and drawbacks (eg. Infrastructure problems such as more people in an area can stress existing infrastructure). Federal Government only handles the Foreign Investment Review Board which all Foreigners must apply in order to buy any property. Stamp Duty (tax) is based on a sliding scale according to the value of the property and is administered by the State Governments. eg. in NSW a $500,000 property will have about $18,000 stamp duty (approx. 3.6%). A $700,000 property will have about $27,000 stamp duty (approx. 3.8%). The higher the value, the more tax (including the approx. percentage) you pay. It sounds like the UK may need to review their foreign ownership if foreigners are buying are property in droves.
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Or you could restrict foreign ownership to buying new properties instead of existing properties. Because you know foreigners buying existing properties doesn't add homes to the housing market. Building new properties do.
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That seems pretty high compared to previous elections? Actually, I was looking at previous election turnouts and it seems to be around that figure. 60-70 mark. I was thinking it might be lower, like America low but that's not too bad. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdGc1ZXlsdXdwTTM4dTFCUTZRWDE1aXc#gid=0