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Which country was it that had set up a national wage for everyone? Was it a pilot scheme or something set in motion for the whole country?
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Canada tried out Mincome in one town of one province as an experiment. Switzerland voted on it in one canton, I think. Finland are discussing it.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:00
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Oberleutnant posted:loooooooooooool NOT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY I hope they all die. Ober, stop getting probated in GBS. mehall posted:Which country was it that had set up a national wage for everyone? 5 year Pilot scheme in a state of Canada showing 93% continued employment and the dropouts were almost entirely parenting voted on and denied by the Swiss, gently caress the Swiss.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:00
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Taear posted:I find it really weird that they haven't blocked Showbox. Since it's easy to use and a lot of people use it and don't even consider it piracy since they can get it as an app or whatever.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:20
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ThomasPaine posted:So apparently the BBC is going to start making it a legal requirement to pay the license fee even if you only watch iPlayer. I think this might win an award for the single least enforceable law ever written. 
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Mar 2, 2016 18:22
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ThomasPaine posted:So apparently the BBC is going to start making it a legal requirement to pay the license fee even if you only watch iPlayer. I think this might win an award for the single least enforceable law ever written. After you payed your fee you get the login credentials for the new and revamped iPlayer. That's the method the US networks are already using for their webplayers.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:27
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Spangly A posted:I hope they all die. Ober, stop getting probated in GBS. I love that that's your segue.  Ober, first pots indeed.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:28
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Zephro posted:They haven't even blocked The Pirate Bay. Now you just get a site with a huge list of proxies for it instead. Maybe for you, I have to specifically google the proxy site!
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Mar 2, 2016 18:41
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Ludicro posted:Currently a large number of NIMBYs in northern Kent are getting their panties in a knot over the proposals to build a second Kent-Essex crossing in the Gravesham area to take the strain off of the Dartford Crossing. Naturally according to them the whole reason this is needed is because of immigration and benefits and nothing to do with the South East being the main access hub for the rest of Europe for trade and there being one loving road to get from the South East to the eastern side of the country further up. They luckily have sensible solutions like reducing the population, cutting benefits and getting out of the EU and oh wont anyone think of are property values??!!!1. I know this is a while ago but I felt like I should comment. I work in Grays, Essex. I live in Greenhithe, Kent. As the crow flies I work 4 miles from my place of residence. Here is the snag - it's across the Bridge. Last month, one Thursday, there was an accident (a lorry, obviously). I spent 9 hours stuck in traffic. 9 hours to travel 4 miles. gently caress NIMBYs. gently caress lorry drivers.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:51
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Zephro posted:They haven't even blocked The Pirate Bay. Now you just get a site with a huge list of proxies for it instead. But then with the government's understanding of tech it wouldn't surprise my if they tried a blanket ban on all 'peer-to-peer' technology in general.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:56
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haakman posted:I know this is a while ago but I felt like I should comment.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:02
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South Essex is the worst place on Earth for that kind of thing. My mum phoned me up in tears once because the council were considering allowing new builds down the road from my house. It was rejected, of course, because the entire county is filled with people exactly like that.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:07
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:South Essex is the worst place on Earth for that kind of thing. My mum phoned me up in tears once because the council were considering allowing new builds down the road from my house. I... what? 
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TACD posted:Now they're playing Whac-a-mole with torrent sites and TPB mirrors, but PopcornTime and ShowBox are already much easier to use.l. As long as google-cache works, it doesn't matter how many sites they ban - it's not like you have to do anything difficult or clever even
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Mar 2, 2016 19:18
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Renaissance Robot posted:I... what? There's a certain species of home owner that dedicates their lives to preventing other people from becoming home owners and takes any sort of house building as a personal defeat.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:23
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XMNN posted:you should invest in a microlight imho Zipwire and copious supply of model rocket engines for the return trip.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:24
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Renaissance Robot posted:I... what? They might be bought by Those People (i.e. people who aren't old and haven't owned their house since the 1970s), you see.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:25
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Renaissance Robot posted:I... what? Edit: It wasn't even her bloody house, it was mine, and I can't express how little I care about whether some more houses go up a couple of roads over. In fact I positively encourage it - house prices around here are loving mental, and houses are for living in, not investing. NO FUCK YOU DAD fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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haha remember when the dartford crossing paid for itself and is now free and dartcharge isn't real gently caress essex, it's full of the white flight. e; there are some good essex in this thread who I am fond of but you must understand the greater good
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:South Essex is the worst place on Earth for that kind of thing. My mum phoned me up in tears once because the council were considering allowing new builds down the road from my house. Did you tell her that if she doesn't stop this nonsense she'll be among the first against the wall come the revolution? Surely that would make her welcome houses.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:34
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has there ever been a toll that was supposed to pay for the construction costs that got cancelled? I know the mersey tunnels didn't, and I suspect when they do it for the bridges at runcorn it won't
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If we can compare the migration patterns observed in the White Flight, driven by a desire to stay away from black people and keep your house price, and the migration pattern of The European Migrant Crisis, which should be properly named gently caress, We Didnt Bomb All Of Them, we come to a simple solution involving trident launches to create a massive tidal wave, wash essex clean, and settle All The Migrants there. This is the most absolutely Correct opinion imo XMNN posted:has there ever been a toll that was supposed to pay for the construction costs that got cancelled? do the Mersey Tunnels stalk you online and send you automatic penalty notices three days after crossing a bridge should you not use their deliberately broken website?
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forkboy84 posted:Did you tell her that if she doesn't stop this nonsense she'll be among the first against the wall come the revolution? Surely that would make her welcome houses. I lived in Southend for a while, and when she talks about it you'd think I'd gone to live in Baghdad.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:43
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Spangly A posted:do the Mersey Tunnels stalk you online and send you automatic penalty notices three days after crossing a bridge should you not use their deliberately broken website?
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Mar 2, 2016 19:50
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Spangly A posted:haha remember when the dartford crossing paid for itself and is now free and dartcharge isn't real No, no - gently caress Essex. It is filled with horrible, horrible people. This includes me. I'm one of them. I can feel myself, every day, getting more and more incorrect living here. haakman fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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Mar 2, 2016 20:10
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Whelp, I post here sometimes, so I thought I just share that after moving from the dystopian hell that is the Medway Towns in North Kent to Cardiff in Gods Own Country... I'm much happier, everyone is friendly and, after a whole 3 weeks of looking and One interview, I've got a job here. Abandon the south east.
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Renfield posted:Whelp, I post here sometimes, so I thought I just share that after moving from the dystopian hell that is the Medway Towns in North Kent to Cardiff in Gods Own Country... I'm much happier, everyone is friendly and, after a whole 3 weeks of looking and One interview, I've got a job here. I reckon you could do a decent remake of blade runner in chatham
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I think you mean Port Talbot
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I'd love to move, but life gets in the way. Cardiff's an excellent choice, though, it's probably my favourite British city. Edinburgh's up there, too, but it's time as a British city is probably limited if the shits around me get their way.
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We got a new estate being built in our village and all the old farts are up in arms. They even tried to make a 'Memory Book' to remember the village before it gets spoiled irrevocably. My father-in-law remembers similar old farts saying exactly the same thing in the 1980s when they started building the houses that the current complainers live in. The worst of it is the developers offered 30k to build a new childrens playground, but the village council told them to stuff it out of spite. 
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OzyMandrill posted:We got a new estate being built in our village and all the old farts are up in arms. They even tried to make a 'Memory Book' to remember the village before it gets spoiled irrevocably. My father-in-law remembers similar old farts saying exactly the same thing in the 1980s when they started building the houses that the current complainers live in. But the NIMBY groups tended to marginalize the legitimate complaints, making them look less serious, and the construction company brushed everything off with "we already did traffic analysis at mid afternoon on a Wednesday and floodplain analysis in late summer" so now the legitimate complaints are riding sidecar to the NIMBYs to stall the thing and I can't see it going anywhere good either way. NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:She was apparently a bit of a Communist at school, but is now a small and petrified 60-year-old woman who's spent the last few decades having variations of "Oh No! The Blacks Are Coming!" beamed into her house via newspapers, TV and her circle of equally small, petrified friends. I don't think anything's getting through at this point.
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Mar 2, 2016 21:20
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Looks like the fash- the SDL, specifically- are going to be in Edinburgh on the 20th. 
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Mar 2, 2016 21:43
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Lol, SDL. It's always a bunch of EDL people bussed up from Blackburn or something and get a massive hiding.
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Mar 2, 2016 21:47
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Oberleutnant posted:Yanis is a vain self-publicist and DiEM25 is an opportunist reformist movement with an intellectually empty manifesto Yanis is no doubt a massive narcissist and tbqh I've not looked much at whatever DiEM25 is all, but I think you're allowed to be full of yourself a bit if you're correct. And he is, on most economic ideas.
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haakman posted:I know this is a while ago but I felt like I should comment. I can believe it. My girlfriend and I went on a trip to Great Yarmouth last October, and as expected there had been an incident earlier in the day in the crossing area and the backlog was still clearing. Took a good 2 and a half hours to get through the tunnel. Honestly unless its the dead of night if I was travelling anywhere further north above London that was not in Essex or directly above, I'd take the long way around the M25 as it would be faster. OzyMandrill posted:We got a new estate being built in our village and all the old farts are up in arms. They even tried to make a 'Memory Book' to remember the village before it gets spoiled irrevocably. My father-in-law remembers similar old farts saying exactly the same thing in the 1980s when they started building the houses that the current complainers live in. I can believe this too. I suppose its plain old selfishness mixed in with a desire to resist any kind of change at all cost. To illustrate the point I made earlier, the red overlay is the proposed Junction 10A over an image of what the area is currently like.  As you can see, its really minimal; effectively a roundabout and a single new road.The practical effect this would have of course is that all traffic that doesn't actually need to through J10 would be able to bypass it, due to the way the town has expanded J10 has become much busier over the years. Naturally there was a meeting at the church near where I live to discuss ways to oppose this development. A roundabout and a road is tantamount to concreting over the whole countryside apparently.
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At least they're not going fully pathetic and nominating something on the farm for Tree of the Year. 
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if you live within spitting distance of a motorway junction you aint in the goddamn countryside you loving morons
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Coohoolin posted:Lol, SDL. It's always a bunch of EDL people bussed up from Blackburn or something and get a massive hiding. Be fair, there's at least a couple of Ayrshire-based Rangers fans in there too.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm sure I've talked about this before, but there were roughly two groups of nopers when they tried to build new houses around here, old people scared of change who lived in houses built in the 80s, and people legitimately worried that the new houses would be shoved in without concern for flood plains, traffic, and services, which is a legitimate complaint given that the place already floods and has congestion and also given who will be building the houses. They've been trying to build new houses around here for as long as I've been alive and I can count on one hand the number of developments that have actually been built. The panic every time is that whatever unremarkable town they're building near is going to be filled with immigrants and benefit thieves, even though they're always luxury developments that start at £300,000 and only ever attract people exactly like them.
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haakman posted:I know this is a while ago but I felt like I should comment. Can't you walk or cycle?
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