ktizo

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by ktizo 14y ago
Is the secret international BBC fish news. Headed covertly by Michael Fish from his secret space-plaice.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Well, at least you believe in hope to some degree.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Was thinking about this. If I ran a union for taxi drivers and Uber came to my city, I would just make sure that the union was open for sedan drivers to join as well.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I'll completely accept that some specific unions, almost always in concert with bits of government, get captured by organised crime in some places and then the market is then manipulated to serve neither the members of the union, or people
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by ktizo 14y ago
In libertarianism, presumably labour unions are free to flourish and do what they like as organisations in a market free of government intervention. Remember also that the history of labour unions predates their acceptance by government by
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by ktizo 14y ago
Reminds me of the gang theory of politics, that the definition of the government is whoever are the current most dominant gangsters. I find this is not necessarily a good general model, but for certain specific circumstances it can be prett
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by ktizo 14y ago
Ahhh! The burning! My eyes! I think I may have nightmares about this now. The strange broken slidey scrolling animation bizarreness is a wonder to behold. I wonder how many meetings it took to get all of that agreed and signed off, and if a
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by ktizo 14y ago
You also need to factor the benefits to Canada of improved trade relations, as well as the saving in bureaucracy that you get from having a liberal immigration policy, rather than merely focusing on the direct cost or benefit of a given ind
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by ktizo 14y ago
Fair point, but India has a legal maximum of 48 hours a week, though it does not appear to be enforced much and it seems quite hard to find any figures. Everything I can find seems to indicate that the average US worker does not have a lot
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by ktizo 14y ago
The average US worker apparently takes about 20 days of holiday per year, out of an offered 25, and apparently it is more or less the same for Indians. http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/for-days-of-holiday-and... http://www.rediff.com
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by ktizo 14y ago
Do things become more real if you say real in capital letters?
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by ktizo 14y ago
Canada has a lot of economic emigrants living in the middle east, mostly working for the oil fields. They follow the same pattern of moving to and from the middle east as the people you have a problem with, only they were born in Canada. An
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by ktizo 14y ago
I do find it somewhat dishonest and greedy. That's my opinion, and I'm entitled to it as a Canadian who is personally affected by such things. And I'm entitled as a random person on the internet, to point out that I find your stated opini
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by ktizo 14y ago
Sounds to me like thoroughly sensible and responsible behaviour. If I lived in a country that was on the brink of war I would also cover all bases. If I had kids, I would almost definitely try and arrange something like this. And besides, w
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by ktizo 14y ago
Is both a free trade and a human rights issue. The desire to migrate and live and work in different places around the world should need no greater justification than mere idle curiousity and I believe that the current approach to state bord
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by ktizo 14y ago
Marketing via nerdsniping. http://xkcd.com/356/ It has to be a challenge to make it interesting.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Ok, sorry for my somewhat colourful expression of annoyance. It is completely true that I shouldn't get so wound up by bobbins on the internet. However, I got annoyed because I thought you were being extremely closed minded by seeming to fi
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by ktizo 14y ago
I don't understand this... Well it is lucky I came prepared then. Here, I brought this map along. Have a look, this bit is a continent called "America". The bit at the bottom is what was first referred to as America by colonists from Euro
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by ktizo 14y ago
It seems like the OP is a "citizen of convenience" like those in Lebanon who only wanted to make use of their Canadian citizenship when war broke out How unimaginably selfish of them, trying to avoid death by manipulating poor hardworking
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by ktizo 14y ago
I am not an American, although Canadians are, last time I checked. And anyone can lecture on open borders and minds irrespective of nationality, that sort of goes along with the concepts.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I'm not shocked that, eventually, someone stopped you and said, "Not all is as it seems here." I completely agree. I mean, who is going to believe such an absurd cover story as a family moving around between countries and working and goin
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by ktizo 14y ago
Yes, how dare he go to school in the US while his mother was working there. Absolutely despicable. I mean, it is one thing for foreigners to try and steal all those cushy nursing jobs, but to have the gall to bring their kids along and abov
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by ktizo 14y ago
newly made and patented Screwitall-B I assume this is the new trade name for a variation on Viagra.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Is possibly just thermodynamics.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Pharmaceuticals are also the classic case for an existing massive public and charity funded research and development network for absolutely vital medicine, that the industry is not willing to do because the existing model is completely and
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by ktizo 14y ago
I would say, because they are obvious. If you had just watched an episode of The Jetsons and then were presented with a global communications network attached to computers with video screens, live video communications would be about the fir
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by ktizo 14y ago
Where's my incentive to do all that R&D? Curiosity, love, boredom, responsibility, etc... There are a lot of incentives other than profit and billions already gets spent in R&D for reasons other than profit. But if profit is your
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by ktizo 14y ago
Phones compete with watches though. Personally, I don't really care about people making knockoff Mondaine watches, I just find this funny and feel it is that peculiar form of justice that is generally known as "live by the sword, die by the
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Forget Rock Band, here's Cello Fortress(gamasutra.com)
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by ktizo 14y ago
I'd say that there are quite a few business models where you don't need to provide real value, or even have the people you are getting money off to perceive any real value and still make money. And some of these business models are even leg

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