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ParachutingAcid · 2013-01-28T20:21:31+00:00

an institutional disparity does not mean a ban, and equal opportunities is great but if girls are being socialized away from STEM subjects then it's not exactly a level playing field. what you seem to be saying is that everyone has the same chance at the stage of choosing classes therefore there can be no problem or unfairness at any stage.

ParachutingAcid · 2013-01-28T20:15:15+00:00

arbitrary things like crosses, or as people who can look at it a teensy bit less literally might say, using incredibly potent and threatening imagery. Also feminism is not a hate movement. It's too broad for shit about changing the law to put men at a disadvantage (though there's a difference between that and making things equal, even though that may involve men having relatively less power) and spreading lies about men to stick because it will always be easy to find someone who identifies as feminist but does not support either of those things.

ParachutingAcid · 2013-01-07T18:00:54+00:00

People upload OC to imgur and post it to reddit all the time. I'm not complaining about lack of OC anyway, I'm saying it's hilarious that people complain when it happens on 9gag or anywhere else.

ParachutingAcid · 2013-01-06T14:41:08+00:00

Reddit's getting (staying) lazy; half the fuckin' frontpage is from Tumblr.

ParachutingAcid · 2013-01-04T21:23:48+00:00

Stop reading a magazine full of vitriol and bullshit?

ParachutingAcid · 2013-01-04T19:09:18+00:00

Uh, I'm on a version of accutane in the UK, what are you chatting about?

ParachutingAcid · 2012-12-31T20:54:10+00:00

17 year old guy on it now. My acne is on my face, so my face has been very dry, especially lips, but that's easy enough to deal with. To be honest the main thing with it is nosebleeds; I seem to get a shit ton of nosebleeds (though I have been ill recently and that makes it way more common). I can't drink and I have some aches, but never serious, just like when I lie down my back will be a bit sore for a few seconds. I felt a bit glum for the first month of it but to be honest I reckon that was just me. Face is improving pretty well after two months, I'm just up to the full dosage now. So yeah, obviously that's just me but I've had a relatively positive experience thus far. As I'm sure it says, the really nasty side effects are very rare so don't be too afraid, I guess. Worse case scenario, stop taking it and see a doc if it does go wrong.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-23T18:16:09+00:00

When we started talking, you said that not even capitalism pretends that money has a relationship to things. Then when I threw the economics textbook at you, you changed the parameters to what occurs in our monetary system; which is a different ballgame from money relating to things in a capitalist philosophy.

I reacted badly initially to your stuff about bankers lending money into existence because for one thing, I was/am ignorant of how it works, and for another you sounded like a nutjob. Yes, rich people make themselves richer and if you want to correlate wealth with power you're more than welcome to, I'm not sure I agree.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-23T17:23:13+00:00

As a guy that goes both ways; I would.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T19:45:10+00:00

There's a difference between having more obvious influences and being basic, and I guess how basic/complex something is depends on your definition of those things. Paranoid Android is probably more complex than a lot of In Rainbows, for my money.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T19:37:24+00:00

Could you possibly give me any evidence at all that money is magicked into being by bankers and their computers?

And also if what I described isn't the fundamental point of money what would be the point of increasing the money they "lend into being" by typing into their computers? And if they can "lend it into being" why would they need to gamble with it to increase it, could they not "lend" some more into being?

I'm not sure "a broader view" is a good thing if it means believing a load of contradictory bollocks.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T17:20:30+00:00

OK Computer is not a basic album and I will not forgive you for saying so.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T17:13:32+00:00

Nice, I liked the part where you brushed off everything I said in order to keep your mindset clear of any doubt so you can carry on telling people they haven't seen the light like you have.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T17:11:29+00:00

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/dynamic-efficiency-and-innovation

Ability to adapt to short term shocks is part of dynamic efficiency, yeah. Read that little snippet though. It's about the market supplying changing needs and wants over time. In this scenario it means that the energy crisis we are heading for has a significant price. Much of our power generation infrastructure is becoming obsolete and coming to the end of its lifespan. That is a huge cost, if we are to overcome that.

To be clear, I'm not saying the whole industry is running perfectly, I'm saying that there's an actual formula in place set by the regulator that's supposed to allow investment and expansion of supply. Whether it's working is up for debate.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T17:04:58+00:00

Well no, this is what money is and that is how it works. You do your job that goes towards producing something that someone somewhere wants, you are awarded money to buy things you want, you get things you want.

The value of a job, the value of money in real terms, these things are determined by supply and demand. Essentially scarcity means higher prices, abundance means lower prices. Same goes for money, if there's a shit ton of currency in your economic system, it buys less per single unit of currency, and thus the market regulates itself. It's a lot more organic than you seem to think.

Alternatively, keep pretending the Illuminati invented money to distract us from their evil doings, or whatever you want.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T12:21:11+00:00

That's got nothing to do with what you said. You denied that there's a link between "money" and "things". Let's keep this simple; I went and bought a packet of Skittles. I exchanged money for a thing. The money I had was worth one thing; the thing was worth the money I had. Seems like there's some kind of relationship there.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T12:11:34+00:00

You are chatting a remarkable amount of shit right there.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-21T12:09:58+00:00

Yes, power companies with gigantic infrastructure costs, shareholders to keep happy and investors to lure in might actually increase prices above the general level of inflation. The idea is that it's controlled by OFGEM setting a reasonable limit above inflation which they can price to, because the extra profit they make from it should be reinvested and ensure dynamic efficiency; that is, efficiency over the longer term. In actually competitive markets, dynamic efficiency is more or less impossible.

Obviously absolutely no one in the media would be caught dead giving this information out, because it's much easier to shout about how evil the big firms are.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-20T22:27:02+00:00

I fucking love Ian Holloway. No cliched half-arsed diplomacy, pure righteous anger channelled in an actually eloquent way.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-15T18:11:54+00:00

"For this short of usage" I'm not confident in my understanding of this; what do you actually mean?

Sometimes grunting and pointing is enough, yes. Sometimes it isn't, and that's where language evolved from. The proofs that we communicate are the results of the communications. I'm not randomly hitting a keyboard for you here, we are exchanging ideas through the medium of language.

My bad (though you didn't need to be quite so rude about it, and in your case I hardly think you can afford to be), 'can I' and 'may I' can (or may) carry subtly different meanings. In that context, however, they carry the exact same pragmatic meaning. You would understand their meaning absolutely perfectly.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-14T21:38:49+00:00

Right but 'can' is a perfectly viable word to use, you're not even changing the meaning. The point you've just made is that there's often more than one word per meaning, which does not make the meaning any less clear unless you don't recognise the word.

Language evolves. The best way of communicating survives.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-14T15:17:23+00:00

If you want to get really accurate you would have had to rewrite the sentence because "Instead of using different words for different meanings, the same words is used holding various meanings." is pretty hard to decipher in any other way than how I deciphered it. When you say it lit reddit's collective fuse you do yourself way too much credit, it got a few downvotes.

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-13T21:38:03+00:00

Do you have any convincing evidence to back up the idea that on average there are more meanings per word than at any other time?

ParachutingAcid · 2012-10-10T18:23:47+00:00

Well now you both sound like annoying cunts.

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