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Bignotrance....sounds like a genre of music.
Wonder if we have a mod around that feels like changing the thread title...
Indeed. Cant let friends run out of caviar.
libertarianism
Touche
Holy shit.
Dastardly Jerks
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This brewing birther controversy should be fun to watch
Either way, labor supply continues to go up, labor supply continues to go down, and nobody will do anything about it.
You have to give them a gentle nudge every now and then to keep them fighting, but other than that yeah it's pretty hands off.
Either way, labor supply continues to go up, labor supply continues to go down, and nobody will do anything about it.
Not any more.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28140594
In any case most peoples pay and conditions are unaffected by a minimum wage. It's only the worst off who are affected hence why many in Germany (thanks to strong trade union influence) have decent pay and conditions.
The Nordic countries are a far better example (excuse the site's formatting...) of a good system without a minimum wage.
You pretty much need a minimum wage when you don't have (or are not allowed to) form unions.
You pretty much need a minimum wage when you don't have (or are not allowed to) form unions.
Or at least trade unions not as powerful as they are in the Nordic countries (which in their case is very powerful).
Dastardly Jerks
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I don't like our award system because the award rate has basically become the maximum wage. I'm not too strong in my criticism though because while we're losing a lot of business due to high costs, we have low unemployment and even the most basic wage is relatively liveable. If that chances or becomes hopelessly unsustainable we can rethink our system, but for the most part is actually seem to work out alright...
Having the working poor is just the worst.
The euro is incredibly good for Germany. It keeps costs artificially low.
And some more NBN data.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/govern...ooner-pilot-results-show-20140905-10cgdg.html
Not that one trial is indicative of a bigger rollout, but still it makes me sad.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/govern...ooner-pilot-results-show-20140905-10cgdg.html
Not that one trial is indicative of a bigger rollout, but still it makes me sad.
bobnowhere
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So I wonder what's going to happen on 60 Minutes tonight? They are promising to expose many a bombshell around the Slipper/Ashby affair and showing ominous pictures of Brough, Pyne, Abbott and Wyatt (Does he even shave yet?) Roy. I'm not really sure why they got involved in the matter, it's not like Slipper was going to win the seat.
Probably just an enormous beat-up for ratings though and only Brough will and rightly get exposed for his interference in the matter and quietly be asked to not run at the next election.
Probably just an enormous beat-up for ratings though and only Brough will and rightly get exposed for his interference in the matter and quietly be asked to not run at the next election.
Does show they were pushing in the right direction though. And yeah, sad.
To no-one's surprise, 60 minutes was nothing new.
Just a recount of the events from Ashby's perspective and the personal toll it took on him. Which is fine in and of itself, but the ads were just plain misleading about the broader significance of it.
I watched Doctor Who earlier today on iview.
Just a recount of the events from Ashby's perspective and the personal toll it took on him. Which is fine in and of itself, but the ads were just plain misleading about the broader significance of it.
I watched Doctor Who earlier today on iview.
bobnowhere
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I don't know, we did learn Mal Brough is a complete fool thinking he could get away with an interview like that.
Meh, Germany is evil. Theyve screwed over so many Euro countries while pretending to be models of economic perfection.
The EU and the Euro were stupid ideas from the start.
And what crap, Ashby is a political tool who used these allegations to just hurt some guy politically cause he fell out with the liberal party. Meanwhile Slipper was found guilty of things politicians do every day. Main lesson of the story, dont fall out with the major parties.
Just like Abbots witch hunt over Pauline Hanson.
Abbot is a political cunt of the worst order. But at least he isnt fighting with Mrs Bishop omg mum dad stop fighting omg why fight I no liek!
The EU and the Euro were stupid ideas from the start.
And what crap, Ashby is a political tool who used these allegations to just hurt some guy politically cause he fell out with the liberal party. Meanwhile Slipper was found guilty of things politicians do every day. Main lesson of the story, dont fall out with the major parties.
Just like Abbots witch hunt over Pauline Hanson.
Abbot is a political cunt of the worst order. But at least he isnt fighting with Mrs Bishop omg mum dad stop fighting omg why fight I no liek!
Elaugaufein
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I'm not sure what's more saddening, the flagrant attempts to route around the banned donation laws or how incompetent they are at it.
Additionally, Germany takes advantage of how the European Union works with the whole free movement thing. Migrant laborers are paid like shit and treated like shit but its theoretically legal. In the agriculture and foodstuffs industry, that's why countries like France aren't happy with Germany since their labor costs are far lower. In fact, I think even the trade unions over there aren't happy about it either because fuck rich people exploiting the vulnerable.
I feel like the European Union is a good idea in that bringing some level of political cooperation between the European nations is makes a lot of sense.
The Euro currency was a very silly idea invented by very silly people.
After three devastating wars between France and Germany, bringing those two nations to the table was an incredibly sensible thing to do....
Political Union...trying to force together countries without their consent in a continent that's characterised by ancient animosities and without anything to unify them, whether it be language, ethnicity or history...is incredibly problematic.
Also there is an argument that a currency zone between Germany and the Netherlands and very few other northern European countries would have been OK. I don't quite know what those arguments are, I just know that they exist...apparently...
See to me it seemed like a good idea given the amount of intra European travel. Only need to carry one currency seems good. That said as a history geek the loss of national currencies makes me said.
It's convenient if you're a traveller, marginally....and for businesses in that you don't have to continually adjust for Forex fluxes, but the drawbacks are so staggering that any convince gained from a free movement area is buried deep behind an inflexible interest rates an inability to devalue and absurd bond yields.
Elaugaufein
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Average upload speed results from SpeedTest are already higher than 2024's project demand. What a joke.
(I know that it's only a sample of "People who use SpeedTest" but still)
Huh. I wonder if SpeedTest skews high or low overall given there's likely 2 distinct user groups a) Show offs who want to demonstrate their leet high speeds and b) People who tech support are getting to use it to verify line / speed problems.
French fear drove the Euro and the EU.
And when hasn't French fear been a good basis for policy making?
But it began as a limited economic union over coal or somesuch. Now its a marriage till death do them part. Trying to turn the EU into a USA is doomed to failure. The USA is a new country with no past. The EU is an old continent with one of the bloodiest pasts and entrenched national interests.
Australia, NZ, Canada and the USA are lucky (Non indigenously) in that they are new countries with a civic model of citizenship not based on blood. (mostly)
But hell, look at Europe, Scotland still wants independence? Theyre basically the same people, we have had Scottish PMs... etc... you name it, but its still this thousand year idiocy of 'freedom'. Europe has hyped nationalism to help destroy many states outside its own borders. And its being eaten away inside by the same disease.
Scotland gets independence. Then what? Spain will get split in a few pieces. Belgium?... you name it.
Well whatever, Europe has consistently been let down by its political class since..... well I don't know... Decent rule in Europe... im sure its happened here and there.
And when hasn't French fear been a good basis for policy making?
But it began as a limited economic union over coal or somesuch. Now its a marriage till death do them part. Trying to turn the EU into a USA is doomed to failure. The USA is a new country with no past. The EU is an old continent with one of the bloodiest pasts and entrenched national interests.
Australia, NZ, Canada and the USA are lucky (Non indigenously) in that they are new countries with a civic model of citizenship not based on blood. (mostly)
But hell, look at Europe, Scotland still wants independence? Theyre basically the same people, we have had Scottish PMs... etc... you name it, but its still this thousand year idiocy of 'freedom'. Europe has hyped nationalism to help destroy many states outside its own borders. And its being eaten away inside by the same disease.
Scotland gets independence. Then what? Spain will get split in a few pieces. Belgium?... you name it.
Well whatever, Europe has consistently been let down by its political class since..... well I don't know... Decent rule in Europe... im sure its happened here and there.
I use it to verify problems then demonstrate my leet high speeds once it's fixed. Also from Ookla:
Either way it shows that it's likely a large segment of the population won't be adequately serviced by the network by the time they start building it.
giving up fiscal sovereignty was an awful idea without any federal government of Europe
Not so much showoffs I don't think as people who are testing their newly acquired connections and who care about the speed they are actually getting. So I'd think its skews high, as the second group probably have never even heard of speedtest. They probably only use it as part of a tech support query with their ISP.
What are you talking about? Those sorts of irrational policies are the foundation of modern Australia.
I think a combination of the heat and us trying to throw them under the bus in WW2 has given them a deep-seated urge to torch the country
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