w00pla

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by w00pla 16y ago
> Maybe they weren't so consumed about fighting with each other since they had a common enemy to focus on. <rant> And who would this “common enemy” be? The Spiel that white people considered black people their enemies during Apa
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by w00pla 16y ago
> People will die as a result of pretty much any peak oil scenario. Not really. South Africa was a third world country under heavy sanctions. Yet it created industries to produce petroleum from coal (and even today these companies produ
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by w00pla 16y ago
> but it's us stinky hippies that bang on the loudest and for the longest about sustainable transport solutions, renewable energy and sustainable population. Nope. Wasn't the "stinky hippies" the groups that consistently protested again
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by w00pla 16y ago
It is not google news but sites which aggregate search terms. A good example is www.eudict.com which repeatedly puts up other peoples' search terms as real words. (If you are searching for some words, you are flooded with EUDicks search spa
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by w00pla 16y ago
> just blacklisting a few of the larger and more egregious content farms seems like a decent band-aid. The real band aid would be to enable users to blacklist sites that they don't want to see. I often search for things and come across
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by w00pla 16y ago
It is not as simple as that. There are many countries in which the official work day is less than the real work day. As an example, in Japan no-one leaves before the boss leaves (so it can be longer than the official time). Also, in some co
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by w00pla 16y ago
> I knew it was big, but a third of the British workforce? That's insane. The British East India Company is nothing against the Dutch East India company. From WP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company ) > was a char
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by w00pla 16y ago
Yeah, my country has worse drivers than Greece (trust me). Here is how I cross the road in Japan: I wait at a place that I want to cross, but I turn my body away from the road. That way they think I am just standing there and drive past (in
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by w00pla 16y ago
I came year wanting to say exactly the same thing. I walk each day past a primary school and all kids arrive unassisted. There are however teachers welcoming them at the gates and one police officer at the road crossing. But other than that
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Greek shipbuilding was probably on its way to China anyways (just like US steel making, and uncounted other It doesn't have to be that way. Japan has some of the highest labour rates and expensive electricity. It has to import both ir
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by w00pla 16y ago
Making drugs legal (contrary to popular internet belief) does not make them less addictive or less harmful.
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by w00pla 16y ago
How many lives do you think one drug dealer ruin before they are caught?
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by w00pla 16y ago
Firstly, a lot of studies (esp. in the USA) shows that corporal punishment have negative outcomes. This is because they do not control for other variables (such as socio-economic circumstances). Poorer parents often hit their kids more (and
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by w00pla 16y ago
> graffiti and vandalism on bus stops by sandblasting motifs into the glass: http://trimet.org/publicart/busshelters.htm That addresses the consequences of a problem and not the root causes. It is important to stop the cause of petty
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by w00pla 16y ago
> which isn't free, and the other is that customers strongly prefer to shop where free parking is available. It is not just that. The mere act of shopping at most stores requires a car. In Japan for example all fairly big items (such as
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by w00pla 16y ago
I agree. Reddit&Digg have their own (what I can only describe as troll sites) such as DailyKos. IRL, that is generally what I like about Europeans (or at least my impression of them) - they have more mild beliefs. A lot of Americans see
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by w00pla 16y ago
Especially the handicapped and elderly like bikes (or not). A good train system (such in Japan) is much better). That way even children and elderly can travel long distances.
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Ok so now we're being nostalgic about fucking apartheid? You are completely misrepresenting my views (again)! It seems that you are disinterested in having a coherent argument, and just like to impress your very warped views onto othe
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by w00pla 16y ago
> but most of what I've read indicates that there isn't a ton of discrimination against white people, especially considering recent history. Then you read interesting material. There is quite a bit discrimination against white people. I
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by w00pla 16y ago
> In most countries on earth (and I believe this is true in south africa as well), it's just plain easier to be white. This is your naivety speaking. A poor white person in South Africa is fucked. Here is why: - It is impossible to get
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by w00pla 16y ago
Really? You know that my parents were piss poor, and it is just through luck (and hard work) that I've achieved anything in life. But yeah. I was recently insulted by an American person (apparently referring to someone you just met as “[Rac
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by w00pla 16y ago
> If you're a white American male, I am not a white American male. I am a young white South African. > Grow up and take responsibility for your own situation. This is a bullshit argument. You say that people who are discriminated a
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Shuttleworth comes from South Africa, so he lived in a place where nationalism/tribalism is rampant. Especially black nationalism (such as is practiced by the next president [Malema]( http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn2010031004
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by w00pla 16y ago
> Yes, a criticism of liberals, the media, and the NAACP, that hinges on doctoring a video to make an innocent woman look like a racist. Criticism of the media hinges on the fact that they cover some things (e.g. white kids beating up a
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by w00pla 16y ago
Can't you stop crawling sites that dish up your search terms for you (without any content)? A good example is eudict.com - search for an obscure word and this is the first that pops up. It then returns a page with your search queries and no
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by w00pla 16y ago
> That's why I remain convinced that this leaker should receive the death penalty. That is the standard penalty for high treason. The USA should also maybe consider taking Julian Assange prisoner as an enemy combatant. > And to sugg
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by w00pla 16y ago
I don't know why you are downmodded. It is pretty clear that Wikileaks (at least Assange) has a very strong political viewpoint and is not objective. When he was asked if it was okay okay to selectively show video (and label it as "collater
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by w00pla 16y ago
The Bill&Melissa Gates foundation wasted a lot of money on the "Love life" programme. It was essentially a program that was supposed to use advertisements to encourage youths to practice safe sex. It turned out into more of a sex advert
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by w00pla 16y ago
Because the nature of economy changed. In the old times, any able bodied person could do manual labour. Now manual labour isn't needed that much (industrialisation, etc...). Another reason is longer life expectancy and subsidized health car
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by w00pla 16y ago
> used to fill entire factories with labor for private benefit, while taxpayers foot the bill and prisoners work without fair wage. How would taxpayers foot the bill if the prisoner's wage is used to finance his stay? At worst, it would

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