Working on saturday and doing nothing and staying in on Sunday.
I took today off because of the rubbish weather.
I took today off because of the rubbish weather.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: House of Usher on 05 November, 2010, 11:05:14 AMQuote from: Peter Wolf on 05 November, 2010, 01:12:30 AM
Taxation is servicing the debt and we are bought and sold as collateral.The average Serf/Slave is calculated to generate X amount of income to service debt during its working life.
Except, and even Marxists recognize this, in the capitalist economy, workers are formally free. I could, if I so wished, go and live in any country that will have me and pay my taxes there instead, or live in an offshore tax haven. There are limits to the extent I can literally be bought and sold - all any lender has a stake in is any future tax revenues that can be extracted from me so long as I choose to live in Britain and not elsewhere.
Quote from: House of Usher on 05 November, 2010, 11:05:14 AMQuote from: Peter Wolf on 05 November, 2010, 01:12:30 AM
George Osborne is just doing what he is told to do by the central bankers who control the fiscal policy of every nation that was sold out to the G20.
You let George Osborne off too lightly. You make it sound as if the Tories didn't want to cut public spending for reasons that are predominantly ideological. The current financial troubles have provided the Tories the excuse they needed to bring in a whole raft of regressive policy measures, including completely doing away with council housing as we know it. Thre are no shadowy puppet masters making them do that - it's what they Tories wanted to do.
Furthermore, you make it sound as if the Tories have no choice in the matter. If George Osborne is doing what the central bankers told him to do, then why is George Osborne doing anything different to what Labour would be doing or the Liberal Democrats wanted to do? Neither Labour nor the Liberal Democrats had plans for the swingeing cuts the coalition has implemented.
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 05 November, 2010, 10:09:36 AM
The frustrating thing is that this whole economic disaster is so easy to fix. The politicians refuse to listen, the public refuses to think about it and all the while those thieving bastard bankers continue to steal all the value from our society - just like they stole from our parents and grandparents and just as they intend to continue stealing from our children and grandchildren
until one day we wake up homeless, penniless and futureless in the country our forefathers built for us and our politicians gave away.
I weep for us all, I truly do.
Not one of these government cuts or austerity measures is necessary. NOT ONE. This country could be completely out of debt in under a year. Please, please, please watch "The Money Masters" documentary I mentioned in an earlier post - it'll take a couple of hours of your life and I promise that it will open your eyes to a world of possibilities.
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 05 November, 2010, 12:06:51 AM
http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2010/11/03/lionsgate-secure-rights-3d-dredd/QuoteThis time around, Karl Urban (you may know him as Bones from the new STAR TREK) will take on the title role, and Olivia Thirlby (Ellen Page's sardonic friend in JUNO) as his trainee/love interest.
"Love interest?"
That kiss with Hershey in the Stallone movie has a lot to answer for and is still casting its ugly shadow over people's expectations of the new film. I suspect that for people who are only familiar with Dredd through the previous movie, "love interest" is exactly what they'll expect when they see Dredd with a new female partner on screen.
Quote from: House of Usher on 05 November, 2010, 12:34:04 AM
I don't get it. I'm not an economist. But presumably the point is that if you create new money someone has to underwrite the value of that money. If a government just started issuing more money it would devalue the currency, because it has nothing to back up that printed money with. Presumably the purpose of issuing bonds and borrowing the money (i.e. getting a third party to underwrite the value of it, and paying them back with interest) is that the third party has to be good for that money in a way that the government isn't or it wouldn't have to be borrowing it in the first place.
Quote from: Paul faplad Finch on 04 November, 2010, 08:54:21 PM
The b on my keyboard seems not to want to work on the average touch. I have to keep backtracking and adding in all the b's after the fact with sharp jabs.
And yes, I had to do it for two of them in this post.
Quote from: Jared Katooie on 02 November, 2010, 08:55:38 PM
Does not violate the letter of our agreement.
Quote from: Emperor on 04 October, 2010, 11:46:08 PMQuote from: uncle fester on 04 October, 2010, 10:15:19 PM
CheersYour sketch started me off thinking what an old man would look like after a long day beating up thugs. And I reasoned that he might be follicly challenged if his helmet was left in for thirty years...
I have, myself, pondered the likely outcome of decades of helmet friction.
Quote from: staticgirl on 04 November, 2010, 12:57:39 PM
The £12 tickets had already been snapped up when I went to arrange my xmas visit to my ancestral homelands... grrrrr
Quote from: NeilFord on 04 November, 2010, 11:57:42 AM
Thanks chaps, likey will slap a bit more paint on old baldy. Aso working on a larger 2000AD themed peice, a couple of snapshots below, gonna paint it up I think.
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 04 November, 2010, 01:36:11 AM
Vince Neil will almost certainly escape being sodomized.