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| macgobhain | Mar 30 2012, 01:18 AM Post #106 |
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Well I guess since the admin is posting it in here the official topic on it is mute... Yes, that's precisely what I'm saying. Politicians will always keep promises that fit into the wider agenda of their employers: the globalists, or the party that they represent (it depends on the country). Very few actually have personal agendas that they follow through on. The promises they put out for us, the perceived personal agendas, are normally just bullshit so that we'll elect them, and they have nothing to do with the real issues that need to be addressed. Edited by macgobhain, Mar 30 2012, 01:20 AM.
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| Tartarus | Mar 30 2012, 01:42 AM Post #107 |
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The Jedi are not all-knowing. The setting makes it quite clear that while the Jedi have incredible powers and lots of knowledge, they are still mortals and not immune to flaws. As for how Palpatine managed to deal with Jedi Council members without getting noticed is that he used his immense mastery of the Force to shield himself, so that the Jedi could not sense that he was a follower of the dark side.
Well, the Jedi and Sith had already been enemies since thousands of years before the last Sith defeat. So I imagine the hard feelings would not go away easily. In the Darth Bane book trilogy it is shown just how the defeat of the Sith a thousand years before the movies occured. It's actually not quite as simple as merely a case of the Jedi defeating them (though I won't give away the exact details). Its also possible Sidious fed Maul heaps of propaganda about the Jedi, making them sound like worse enemies than they actually were. |
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| macgobhain | Mar 30 2012, 02:10 AM Post #108 |
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Hmmmm.... and how does this whole galactic civilization keep itself going without some kind of a societal melt down? |
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| Zoroaster | Mar 30 2012, 02:16 AM Post #109 |
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I've never read any of them either - the whole idea seemed half-arsed in the first place.... but one interesting thing - before Alan Dean Foster (the king of the paperback treatment post-movie) knew it - he'd written a sequel to 1977's Star Wars movie in which Luke gets to pork Leia or at least they get romantically involved with one another, but then George Lucas decides they're brother and sister in subsequent movies... It's a shame she wasn't really his mother, because he's a painful little motherf--ker.... |
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| seascorpion | Mar 30 2012, 02:22 AM Post #110 |
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@macgobhain, HAHAHA, yes the healthcare in Australia is obviously way worse off than the USA's. Bullshit. Obviously the healthcare in a country that is 23 on the iHDI index is going to be better than the the country that is number 2 on the iHDI index. Clearly a country where you have to pay to go to a doctor is going to have a healthier populace (especially of people in poverty) than a country where you don't. But then again this is coming from the guy who won't give his kids vaccinations because of an incredibly minor risk, of mercury poisoning (of all things) for fucks sake. Seriously, I think you should have stopped a while ago. |
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| lamna | Mar 30 2012, 03:15 AM Post #111 |
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I can't really think of a really bad film that I've watched, not without Joel and the Bots to see me though. There was that one time I accidentally saw the Asylum Films Journey to the Centre of the Earth, but I think I thought it was ok. |
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| macgobhain | Mar 30 2012, 03:34 AM Post #112 |
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Well seascorpion, in all of your being 17 years old I can see you know a whole lot about the world, don't you? lol. "Clearly a country where you have to pay to go to a doctor is going to have a healthier populace (especially of people in poverty) than a country where you don't." Do you know your head from your ass about anything there little man, or are we going to have to wait till you graduate from school and join the real world where us adults know that A) NOTHING is free, and the quality of something you PAY FOR is almost assuredly going be superior to something that comes off the tax payers tab? Hmmm... I wonder what happens when the government controls something as astronomical as health care? Normally, your tax rate goes through the roof to pay for it. I wonder what happens when the government, which does not take a direct pay cut if it loses customers runs something? Obviously, the quality of service is going to go down. Now, I understand that in Australia you have a duel government and private health care system, but the problem with this is that the government is in complete control of the "private" health insurance, so there's nothing really private about it since the government is subsidizing all of it. This, will inevitably drive your country into debt.Australia has taken the concept of "too big to fail" to a whole new level. Your government actually requires health insurance companies to bail each other out if one or the other goes bankrupt. Besides, all of your "private" health insurance companies are subsidized by your government, which will also drive you into debt in the next 50 years. Now, in a private system (which is anything but what we have here in the US), you get what you pay for. In a public system, you get put on a waiting list. Your waiting lists in Australia are, very, very, very long. In the US, those who can afford health care at the prices the insurance industries that are in bed with our federal government charge almost ALWAYS get their surgeries within a month. 25% of Australians who need surgery will wait more than 5 months. That's kind of high, don't you think? I mean, let's say I play rugby at high school, and I tear a tendon. I'm almost definitely going to wait more than a month, and I have a very good chance of waiting more than 5. I will probably never play rugby for my school again. And the dental waiting lists? Let's not even go there. And the question as to whether the States are using Commonwealth supplied funds to run their hospitals effectively, is another perennial topic of political discussion. You guys also give out a quota for people on their "free" health care, and if you happen to be one of those people that's sick all year, then you have to wait for your "universal" coverage. Also, if you are above a certain income level, the government will punish you with a 1% higher income tax if you do not buy the "private" healthcare. Isn't that nice? The government tells me what I have to buy, or else I have to pay a fine? While your system seems really nice right now, it's unsustainable, just like any "universal" system. But more importantly, I was referring to how prescription drugs are pushed to people in Australia and New Zealand as the only means of solving medical problems far more than they are in the U.S., since our government hasn't fully taken over the production of vitamins, etc. And I didn't say I wasn't going to immunize my kids, I just said I was going to wait till they're older. |
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| macgobhain | Mar 30 2012, 03:46 AM Post #113 |
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In no way do I mean to dis Australia because it has an unstustainable healthcare system or because its government pushes drugs to its people. What a government does is not necessarily a reflection of its people. Nor am I saying the United States is not in need of health care reform. A more simple solution to the problem of health care would be to completely withdraw government involvement, and allow the insurance companies to compete nationally/internationally with one another. That will drive the price of care down, and the quality of service up, because there's nothing that gets you customers like a good deal for less money. If I may state a word of advise, AGAIN, to all of you on here, younger, older, or equal in age, that you read the other side of an argument before you choose to argue it. I doubt that any of you have really done any research on a free market or fluoridated water or the effectiveness of vaccines or what's in them. I have 3 main hobbies in life: physical exercise, creative writing, and political science. To make sure that I can argue effectively, I read, instead of slapping a stamp on something and calling it stupid, which is what every single one of you that has responded to what I've said here with the exception of colddigger has done. Don't judge a book by its cover. If you don't believe me, get out there, READ, and prove me wrong. Now, I've really had enough of this. Can we be done? Edited by macgobhain, Mar 30 2012, 03:50 AM.
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| dialforthedevil | Mar 30 2012, 04:52 AM Post #114 |
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| macgobhain | Mar 30 2012, 05:11 AM Post #115 |
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Oh and seascorpion, despite being a very biased source of information, the Human Development Index rated the United States #2 in 2011. Spain was #23
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| seascorpion | Mar 30 2012, 05:20 AM Post #116 |
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iHDI not HDI. Add the income inequality to the HDI and you get what's called an income inequality adjusted HDI. Also, No the USA is actually number 4 without income inequality. With income inequality it goes down to 23. |
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| macgobhain | Mar 30 2012, 05:34 AM Post #117 |
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Well the point of the discussion, smart one, is not where either country ranks on the iHDI, since the iHDI is in large part a measurement of how countries around the world compare to Scandinavian models. The discussion is whether Australia has good health care. The answer is sort of, and that situation is temporary given the national debt compared to the population of the country, which as it grows with the current rates of government spending, will be completely unsustainable. If Australia were as big as the United States and spent at its current rate (not including an expanded military industrial complex), than every Australian would be born roughly 140,000 in debt. And the original discussion was whether or not fluoride is harmful, not even whether or not governments stand to benefit off of that fact. The facts are: YES, fluoride is harmful, and that is more of a scientific fact than the idea that it does anything for your teeth, and YES, governments stand to make profit from the harms that it does. Every last one of you in the very same topic that you have accused someone of being a troll for not properly arguing (or arguing at all) his point are guilty of doing the exact same thing. Saying that you think what I say is bullshit when you are not familiar with the research is as pathetic as this Mio kid posting a topic that he hates Star Wars when he has never even seen the films. Every last one of you, again with the exception of Colddigger, are guilty of hypocrisy. I am beginning to understand why some of the older members left these forums. Open the right can of worms, and you guys become incredibly close minded, ignorant, and hypocritical quite literally at the drop of a hat. I am truly, truly shocked, and even more so disappointed. I really thought that this was a community of open minded people.... what a shame. I don't want any more part in these forums. Is there a way to terminate my account, Parasky? I don't really care. So long guys. |
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| lamna | Mar 30 2012, 05:47 AM Post #118 |
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I guess that's a pretty firm "no" on you linking me to those studies. |
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| Russwallac | Mar 30 2012, 07:41 AM Post #119 |
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So... he's leaving because we don't believe in a conscpiracy theory? |
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| lamna | Mar 30 2012, 07:58 AM Post #120 |
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No, because we have closed minds and won't just believe what we're told. |
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the quality of something you PAY FOR is almost assuredly going be superior to something that comes off the tax payers tab? Hmmm... I wonder what happens when the government controls something as astronomical as health care? Normally, your tax rate goes through the roof to pay for it. I wonder what happens when the government, which does not take a direct pay cut if it loses customers runs something? Obviously, the quality of service is going to go down. Now, I understand that in Australia you have a duel government and private health care system, but the problem with this is that the government is in complete control of the "private" health insurance, so there's nothing really private about it since the government is subsidizing all of it. This, will inevitably drive your country into debt.


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