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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #209935 is a reply to message #209919] |
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How the hell are they gonna know who did it event if they find a picture??? 
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...fatally die to death...
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I don't know if you meant to do that, but triple redundancy for teh win. I LOL'ed.
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Awesome l337 people= Icedog90, Blazea58, Canadacdn, Crimson, jonwil
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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #209958 is a reply to message #209926] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 04:03 |
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| z310 wrote on Wed, 26 July 2006 22:56 |
Aw. Lemonparty.
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #209984 is a reply to message #209919] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 07:53 |
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Ick, I hate goatse but this bill scares me more than that for some reason.
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The goddess of all (bread products)
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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #209989 is a reply to message #209919] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 08:31 |
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I don't mind goatse being banned(Even though up to 10 years in jail is ridiculous, and I have no idea how it is going to be enforced.)
And I am 16 too(Well, about to be 17) and I think the U.S. Government sucks! (But I can't say it's the worst)
Our freedoms are either becomming infringed, lost or altered. One after another.
...It just bothers me that so much stuff is done right under our noses.
..And this.. this just pisses me off.
A little while ago a minimum wage bill that would've increased minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour was denied by the senate, and they claim that it would be too big of an increase and many people would lose their jobs... Well, The Senate has rejected 11 attempts to raise the minimum wage since 1998.
(Alot of people that are poor and are already in debt, can't raise a friggin family on 5 to 6 dollars an hour)
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeware
(The government wants to put policeware on our computers, Hasn't happened yet, but it's very possible it can. The car part isn't bad though.)
Sorry, this topic just got me thinking, and I guess I just need to vent.
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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #209993 is a reply to message #209989] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 08:46 |
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| krayons wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 11:31 |
A little while ago a minimum wage bill that would've increased minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour was denied by the senate, and they claim that it would be too big of an increase and many people would lose their jobs... Well, The Senate has rejected 11 attempts to raise the minimum wage since 1998.
(Alot of people that are poor and are already in debt, can't raise a friggin family on 5 to 6 dollars an hour)
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You're 16, and you have no knowledge of even basic economic processes. That's to be expected, though.
See, minimum wage sounds good, but looking beyond the short term benefits, you'll see nothing but negative.
Think about this: You're a company. You've maximized profits and production. All of a sudden, you're now being forced to pay your workers even more money per hour. This greatly affects your profits. In order to keep profits up and keep from having a deficit, you're now going to have to charge more money per good/service because now it costs more to produce that good/service (thanks to higher wages being paid out).
Imagine this happening to ALL companies (which it would). Prices for everything have now jumped. What good has raising minimum wages done? It just forced prices to jump, and now we're back to status quo.
Not only does that just cancel out the raising of minimum wage, but now it weakens our currency. Instead of taking $.50 to purchase a candy bar, it now costs $.75. Where $1 used to buy you 2 candy bars, it can now only buy you 1. Therefore, the value of a dollar has decreased. This hurts us with trade. The USD is weaker than the GBP and the EUR.
What good has minimum wage ultimately done? Sure, it gives people a short-term advantage of being able to buy/save more, but what happens down the road?
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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #209996 is a reply to message #209992] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 09:06 |
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| Aircraftkiller wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 11:44 |
Minimum wage is a bad idea to begin with. Employers can't afford to pay some grease monkey at a McDonalds $7.25 for tossing french fries into a basket eight hours a day. Wages increase as skills and knowledge increase. When you make yourself worth more, you earn more.
It's already hard enough to find a job in Florida as it stands, since the state's minimum wage rate is $6.40 per hour.
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Wow, we actually agree on something for once.
cause = time
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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #209998 is a reply to message #209919] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 09:09 |
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Oh, to add to my previous post.
On too many jobs being lost... it's true. Like I said, it would cost more to produce the good/service.
You're not only paying more for wages, but the resources that you purchase from other companies to create your good now costs more because of raised prices (thanks to higher wages). That hits you two ways. In order to maximize profits, downsizing the company due to issues like this is bound to happen. You can only raise the prices so much and have people buy so much of it. The simple law of Supply and Demand controls that aspect. Once you maximize your profits according to Supply and Demand, you have to cut costs. How do you cut costs? Get rid of what isn't necessary any more. Now that demand has lowered because of higher prices, companies don't need to produce as much. You need to minimize losses, and if you can't produce as much, you don't need as much labor to produce less of your good/service. Jobs are then cut.
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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #210006 is a reply to message #209993] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 09:36 |
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[quote title=j_ball430 wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 11:46]| krayons wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 11:31 |
Not only does that just cancel out the raising of minimum wage, but now it weakens our currency. Instead of taking $.50 to purchase a candy bar, it now costs $.75. Where $1 used to buy you 2 candy bars, it can now only buy you 1. Therefore, the value of a dollar has decreased. This hurts us with trade. The USD is weaker than the GBP and the EUR.
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Our prices pretty much doubled since the introduction of the euro. Let me tell you people weren't too happy to find out everything is double the price from one day to another. Oh and don't think our wages doubled too... But $5 an hour... That's even less then people on welfair get in Holland for sitting at home.
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| Re: goatse is now ILLEGAL in the US! [message #210028 is a reply to message #210007] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 11:58 |
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| j_ball430 wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 12:44 |
| PackHunter wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 12:36 |
Our prices pretty much doubled since the introduction of the euro. Let me tell you people weren't too happy to find out everything is double the price from one day to another. Oh and don't think our wages doubled too... But $5 an hour... That's even less then people on welfair get in Holland for sitting at home.
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You have to love it, eh?
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I don't think I get your point...
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