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So which province will produce the best Canadian mail order brides?
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 06:12 |
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Rime posted:The interesting thing about Russia is how utterly post-development it's become. I mean, those oligarchs could be squeezing double or triple the profit out of their holdings if they were willing to upgrade the infrastructure out of the dark ages but instead they're just riding on the wreckage from the Soviet Union. For example, this is Norilsk, the largest Nickle / Palladium mine and smelter on earth: I understand what you're getting at but I'd say things like this demonstrate that Russia isn't a capitalist society, not really. It's a pure kleptocracy. Oligarchs managed to gain control of facilities like this not through the accumulation of capital but rather through patronage and corruption. No capitalist would allow their capital to depreciate that badly unless they had absolutely no choice. The oligarchs don't care because they didn't put the capital into the plant, they are pure rentiers, living off long ago invested capital of other people.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 06:25 |
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smh even andrew carnegie, humungous shithead that he was had more decency than these fuckers
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 06:56 |
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I understand what you're getting at but I'd say things like this demonstrate that Canada isn't a capitalist society, not really. It's a pure kleptocracy. SNC-Lavalin managed to gain control of facilities like this not through the accumulation of capital but rather through patronage and corruption. No capitalist would allow their capital to depreciate that badly unless they had absolutely no choice. SNC-Lavalin doesn't care because they didn't put the capital into the infrastructure, they are pure rentiers, living off long ago invested capital of other people.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 07:56 |
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less than three posted:I understand what you're getting at but I'd say things like this demonstrate that Canada isn't a capitalist society, not really. It's a pure kleptocracy. SNC-Lavalin managed to gain control of facilities like this not through the accumulation of capital but rather through patronage and corruption. No capitalist would allow their capital to depreciate that badly unless they had absolutely no choice. SNC-Lavalin doesn't care because they didn't put the capital into the infrastructure, they are pure rentiers, living off long ago invested capital of other people. It's really not the same thing.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 08:36 |
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 13:05 |
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less than three posted:I understand what you're getting at but I'd say things like this demonstrate that Canada isn't a capitalist society, not really. It's a pure kleptocracy. SNC-Lavalin managed to gain control of facilities like this not through the accumulation of capital but rather through patronage and corruption. No capitalist would allow their capital to depreciate that badly unless they had absolutely no choice. SNC-Lavalin doesn't care because they didn't put the capital into the infrastructure, they are pure rentiers, living off long ago invested capital of other people. They must be too busy deploying captial on massive infrastructure and cultural projects to keep the things that allow them to generate that captial maintained I guess?
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 14:27 |
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less than three posted:I understand what you're getting at but I'd say things like this demonstrate that Canada isn't a capitalist society, not really. It's a pure kleptocracy. SNC-Lavalin managed to gain control of facilities like this not through the accumulation of capital but rather through patronage and corruption. No capitalist would allow their capital to depreciate that badly unless they had absolutely no choice. SNC-Lavalin doesn't care because they didn't put the capital into the infrastructure, they are pure rentiers, living off long ago invested capital of other people.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 15:16 |
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Rime posted:The interesting thing about Russia is how utterly post-development it's become. I mean, those oligarchs could be squeezing double or triple the profit out of their holdings if they were willing to upgrade the infrastructure out of the dark ages but instead they're just riding on the wreckage from the Soviet Union. For example, this is Norilsk, the largest Nickle / Palladium mine and smelter on earth: If you had time, an effortpost about these places would be amazing.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 19:59 |
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etalian posted:So which province will produce the best Canadian mail order brides? Quebec, same as it ever was.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 21:17 |
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Definitely not Alberta, which already suffers from a surplus of men.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 21:36 |
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David Corbett posted:Definitely not Alberta, which already suffers from a surplus of men. So Alberta will be Canada's own Philippines? From 2 weeks ago but still hilarious: http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/housing-market-overpriced-1.2149152#ixzz3NK3WsFaz quote:The Canadian Real Estate Assocation says house prices continued to climb in 2014.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 21:59 |
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Apart from bikers and white trash, everything in Quebec is superior.
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# ? Dec 29, 2014 22:29 |
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Montreal is best city since it has its own unique identity instead of trying to be the NYC of the north or a knockoff SF.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 03:11 |
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I'd say Vancouver has a pretty unique identity, it's just a really lovely one. It's not trying to be anywhere else and has actually influenced a lot of other places. The whole glass "po-to" condo tower James Cheng style condo forest is a proud Vancouver export.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 03:54 |
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Baronjutter posted:I'd say Vancouver has a pretty unique identity, it's just a really lovely one. It's not trying to be anywhere else and has actually influenced a lot of other places. The whole glass "po-to" condo tower James Cheng style condo forest is a proud Vancouver export. Vancouver, the cayman islands for Mainland china
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 03:56 |
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etalian posted:Vancouver, the cayman islands for Mainland china
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 04:01 |
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Wtf is a hootsuite?
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 04:39 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Wtf is a hootsuite? imagine you wrote a cron job to send a tweet at a very specific time of day.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 04:40 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:imagine you wrote a cron job to send a tweet at a very specific time of day. Nicely done.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 05:00 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:imagine There we go.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 05:30 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:imagine you wrote a cron job to send a tweet at a very specific time of day. For years I described them as "not sure" and "an elaborate scheme to spam users" but this is now my go to.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 05:51 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:imagine you wrote a cron job to send a tweet at a very specific time of day. lol
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 06:12 |
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 06:48 |
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Penthouse in Victoria's latest high-end condo building sold for 3,900,000 when it was first built a couple years ago, just re-sold for 3,100k. 800k drop. Buildin' that equity. Then again the type of poo poo head who can afford a Victoria condo penthouse to use a couple times a year doesn't really give a poo poo about that.
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# ? Dec 30, 2014 20:09 |
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Just in case any of you still have doubts about BC's LONG TERM ECONOMIC PLAN. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-oil-price-crash-claims-182142245.html?l=1 quote:
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 06:17 |
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At least the LNG pipe dream is collapsing before the government pisses away countless dollars to subsidize TFW built refineries, then proceed to collect next to zero tax revenues all to try and save face.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:13 |
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less than three posted:At least the LNG pipe dream is collapsing before the government pisses away countless dollars to subsidize TFW built refineries, then proceed to collect next to zero tax revenues all to try and save face. You're tempting fate with this optimism.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 07:34 |
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I believe HootSuite can also allow multiple people access to the same Twitter account without having to share the password for the Twitter account with all of them, a feature which is necessary because Twitter was created by morons apparently. That's the only useful feature I can find in their entire system, frankly, and it's being done better by other people (and a Twitter feature to allow this is in public beta, I think).
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 16:33 |
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It's barely housing related, but I simply can't get enough of this guy's shoddy financial analysis. I even added his site to my RSS reader! http://www.freedomthirtyfiveblog.com/2014/12/2014-year-end-review.html
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:41 |
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Lexicon posted:It's barely housing related, but I simply can't get enough of this guy's shoddy financial analysis. I even added his site to my RSS reader! Debt should be a human right. Not having access to credit is a scary place to be in. Instead of borrowing money to fund my purchases I have to rely on savings, which is not fun at all. It’s like my finances are being suffocated. Imagine how constrained a start up business would feel if it can’t get a bank loan. Without using debt I feel like my options are severely limited. I can’t wait for the new year when I can go on shopping sprees again.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:56 |
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lol at that loving freedom 35 idiot ATTN: MILITANT ATHEISTS COVER THINE EYES Qur'an 30: 39 posted:TO him who is of kin to thee give his due, and to the poor and to the wayfarer: this will be best for those who seek the face of God; and with them it shall be well. Ezekiel 22:12 posted:In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God. 25:35-37 posted:If your brother becomes poor, and his ability [to earn a living] is weakened - give him a hand - so that he can live with you. Do not take from him interest; you shall fear your G-d and let your brother live with you. Do not lend him your money with interest, nor your food shall you lend at an increased price.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:16 |
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I wish it was a little harder to get credit, honestly. Then maybe I wouldn't have been given a $2000 Visa when I was 19 and making $7/hr. The people at RBC who set me up with that card should really be ashamed; what made them think it was appropriate to give someone with no credit history that much limit? I'm choosing to believe in good faith here, guys, that they didn't screw me on purpose
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:31 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I wish it was a little harder to get credit, honestly. Then maybe I wouldn't have been given a $2000 Visa when I was 19 and making $7/hr. The people at RBC who set me up with that card should really be ashamed; what made them think it was appropriate to give someone with no credit history that much limit? I hate to break it to you buddy, but...
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:33 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I'm choosing to believe in good faith here, guys, that they didn't screw me on purpose Lending is basically a license to print money.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:35 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I wish it was a little harder to get credit, honestly. Then maybe I wouldn't have been given a $2000 Visa when I was 19 and making $7/hr. The people at RBC who set me up with that card should really be ashamed; what made them think it was appropriate to give someone with no credit history that much limit? It's still your choice to spend or not spend the money. I have access to around $30,000 in credit between my business and personal cards, and I've had most of that since I was 21, and yet (because I don't want to pay interest) I've paid perhaps $10 in interest, on a single cash advance I used because Interac sucks and doesn't work in Cuba. It's not rocket science: debt is a dangerous but useful tool, and you need to be able to understand what situations you should use it in.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:42 |
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PT6A posted:It's still your choice to spend or not spend the money. [...] debt is a dangerous but useful tool, and you need to be able to understand what situations you should use it in. Sure, and I agree with this. I did make the choice to blow money with no regard to how I'd afford it later. At the time, I was a complete imbicile about money. I spent and spent and eventually maxed the card out with interest and such. I'm still paying it off, ten years later, because I just didn't know enough about how credit works to have been given that kind of access to it; I've been in lovely finances since and only been concentrating on paying it down the past year or so. I'll get there eventually. Anyway, I really should not have been given the limit I was given. I hosed myself with a generous amount of help from my bank, and I'm still dealing with the fallout. Not all of us grow up in financially competant homes, after all; both my parents are so bad with money they've each declared bankruptcy twice. Neither one of them was competant enough to advise me on how to handle that card, and I've had to learn an excruciatingly hard lesson as a result. (My avatar says the things it says to remind me.)
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:56 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Sure, and I agree with this. I did make the choice to blow money with no regard to how I'd afford it later. At the time, I was a complete imbicile about money. I spent and spent and eventually maxed the card out with interest and such. I'm still paying it off, ten years later, because I just didn't know enough about how credit works to have been given that kind of access to it; I've been in lovely finances since and only been concentrating on paying it down the past year or so. I'll get there eventually. I'd say the obvious solution is to use schools to educate children on financial responsibility, and how various financial instruments work. Cutting off access to credit is only addressing a symptom, not the cause, and there are circumstances in which it would be advantageous to have a moderate credit limit like $2000. If your car is hosed and you can't go to work, better to get it fixed on credit and keep making money, and then pay that off with a secured loan at a lower rate, for example. There are tons of cases where temporary use of credit is useful or necessary, none of which include carrying credit card debt over the long term.
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# ? Jan 1, 2015 00:02 |
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^ it'll never happen, but I agree completely that education is the ideal solution here. See also: discussion in the politics thread about the old chestnut "I can't do any more overtime or I'll be bumped into the next tax bracket and make less money"
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# ? Jan 1, 2015 00:08 |
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Lexicon posted:^ it'll never happen, but I agree completely that education is the ideal solution here. Oh Jesus christ, this times 1000. On the other hand, why do we even need "brackets?" Couldn't we have a piecewise function where, between a minimum and maximum income, your tax rate is a function of your taxable income, such that it's progressive and simple to understand that you'll never lose money from having more income? Brackets seem so inelegant.
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