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Bigode
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Post by Bigode » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:28 pm

Nope. "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H. L. Mencken.

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Post by JonSetanta » Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:38 pm

Well, damn. Nevermind then. >_<

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Post by Koumei » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:55 pm

I'm actually really suspicious of our current leader, Kevin Rudd. See, as soon as he was put in power, he started doing his job. He signed the Kyoto Protocol, he's already been doing things... this makes me wonder what he's up to.
If he didn't do anything, or screwed us all over, it'd make sense. We'd know "Ah yes, another bloody politician." But this is a really confusing move, so we need to keep an eye on him.

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Post by Maxus » Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:38 pm

> sigma999 at [unixtime wrote:1203095783[/unixtime]]Nope, but I hate my government. Is that good enough?

Funnily enough, hating your government is patriotic for Americans. Seriously, this country got started by hating the then-current government.
And as my 11th-grade honors History teacher explained, the Founding Fathers wouldn't object at all to people wanting to overthrow a government at any time, and part of the intention of the Second Amendment was so citizens would be able to do that (and to save the cost of guns when it came time to raise an army).
Except these days, the U.S. Government takes a dim view of people trying to overthrow it. Which is natural and all, it's what every other government does.
Some day I'll sit down and write an essay detailing my hypothesis that no 'pure' form of any system of government can be the best, and that the only perfect government would be one that borrowed a lot from the rest of them.
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Post by tzor » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:18 pm

> Maxus at [unixtime wrote:1203529128[/unixtime]]Funnily enough, hating your government is patriotic for Americans. Seriously, this country got started by hating the then-current government.
> And as my 11th-grade honors History teacher explained, the Founding Fathers wouldn't object at all to people wanting to overthrow a government at any time, and part of the intention of the Second Amendment was so citizens would be able to do that (and to save the cost of guns when it came time to raise an army).

Technically incorrect. The people did not overthrow the government. It was the governments (the various colonial governments) that banded together that overthrew the ties to the government across the ocean.
And the second amendment argument is also technically incorrect. The whole second amendment comes from a love of Greek civilization. A number of the founding fathers hated the whole idea of a national standing army, believing that if it sat around long enough eventually it would do something, like take over. The idea of the people, the average people, being as it were full time people, who could take up arms and form armies at a moment's notice to defend the nation was quite appealing. The second amendment is not about an army, it was not about a "national guard" as we understand it today. It was about a nation of "minute men."
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Post by cthulhu » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:01 am

> Koumei at [unixtime wrote:1203119716[/unixtime]]I'm actually really suspicious of our current leader, Kevin Rudd. See, as soon as he was put in power, he started doing his job. He signed the Kyoto Protocol, he's already been doing things... this makes me wonder what he's up to.
> If he didn't do anything, or screwed us all over, it'd make sense. We'd know "Ah yes, another bloody politician." But this is a really confusing move, so we need to keep an eye on him.

It's actually deeply unfortunate. There is this huge movement for honesty in australian politics recently, but we deeply need him to renege on his tax cut policy and instead put all the money in the future fund or invest infrastructure and education to releave inflationary pressures.
Incidentally, as someone who wants to buy a house, can they hurry up with the interest rate rises? I need some housing re possessions:(
Edit: Also he hasn't actually done anything. I mean he's signed the kyoto protocol and hugged some native australians, but he hasn't implemented any policies or passed any legislation (or so it seems?) from listening to news radio. The debate this morning was funny.
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Post by Maxus » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:33 am

> tzor at [unixtime wrote:1203535102[/unixtime]]

> > Maxus at [unixtime wrote:1203529128[/unixtime]]Funnily enough, hating your government is patriotic for Americans. Seriously, this country got started by hating the then-current government.
> > And as my 11th-grade honors History teacher explained, the Founding Fathers wouldn't object at all to people wanting to overthrow a government at any time, and part of the intention of the Second Amendment was so citizens would be able to do that (and to save the cost of guns when it came time to raise an army).

> Technically incorrect. The people did not overthrow the government. It was the governments (the various colonial governments) that banded together that overthrew the ties to the government across the ocean.
> And the second amendment argument is also technically incorrect. The whole second amendment comes from a love of Greek civilization. A number of the founding fathers hated the whole idea of a national standing army, believing that if it sat around long enough eventually it would do something, like take over. The idea of the people, the average people, being as it were full time people, who could take up arms and form armies at a moment's notice to defend the nation was quite appealing. The second amendment is not about an army, it was not about a "national guard" as we understand it today. It was about a nation of "minute men."

I stand corrected, though the 'patriotic' bit was just an awful joke about part of the freedom of speech meaning in America, you're allowed to talk trash about the government, and by exercising and defending that freedom a person can, by convoluted reasoning, be performing an patriotic act.
As the rest, I seriously stand corrected on that fine distinction. Truth be told, it's only of intellectual interest to me, because I'm a geology major and rocks aren't really big on forming complex societies.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Crissa » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:36 am

You mean, you want houses to come on the market via foreclosures?
'Cause higher interest rates means houses are more expensive, assuming you have to get a loan to cover the total.
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Post by cthulhu » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:58 am

Sure, but given the overheated stated of the housing market in my city the space house prices have to fall is larger than the amount my loan would go up.
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