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Re: Tory MP

jolyonwagg1 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:03:04 -0000

If Sarkozy keep his job, or looses to Hollande, makes no difference as France will not change, clinging to its bloated over staffed public sector, and national finances that have been in the red since the 1970's. France is basically bankrupt as a nation

Re: Two Perspectives on the Marriage Debate

Who's the fool — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:32:27 -0000

James, I'm in favour of politicians who are truthful about their intentions. To pretend that "we are not going to..." when you know full that the thing you're denying is exactly what is going to happen is a plain lie.

Re: Two Perspectives on the Marriage Debate

James Manwaring — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:24:44 -0000

Agree with both of the above. But perhaps unlike the first poster, I'm all in favour of the Equality Act taking precedence.

Re: Two Perspectives on the Marriage Debate

John Tyler — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:10:08 -0000

Might the answer to this issue be to abolish marriage completely in favour of a "simple registration of intent", a legal registration, that is followed by whatever ceremony or celebration the participants wish.

Re: Two Perspectives on the Marriage Debate

Who's the fool — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:01:11 -0000

"I want to set the record straight once and for all: we are not changing religious marriage."
Is Lynne Featherstone being naive, or does she think the rest of us are? Her proposed legislation with its distinction between "religious marriage" and lets call it "civil marriage," is almost certainly going to fall foul of equality legislation, and we all know which will win.

Re: Apple: Tax Dodger Extraordinaire

ASDlasjk — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:40:04 -0000

Didn't that nice man David and his chums abolish all UK taxes on overseas earnings last year?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm... Such a nice fellow and dead against tax dodging!

Re: Party Funding: 4 Key Points

Asdljkasjld — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:44:23 -0000

If we don't pay for it, we will get what they (the wealthy donors), pay for. Tax payer funded, like say Germany, and we, the general tax payer, might be the ones they serve.

Re: ‘No!’ to an Independent Press Standards Agency

Damageman — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:38:18 -0000

Presumably the problem is the desire to be seen doing something? A quango and a code of practice are reletively easy to set up and if a disaster can be removed just as quickly.

Otherwise passing a new piece of legislation is bound to take away time from parlimentary debate and may not be effective unless luck and skill come together?

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Cody Gunter — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:14:48 -0000

So how do I take the Unusual hats I have and turn it into cash? Paypal or what?

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Sfgsdfg — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:55:05 -0000

the split is 3:1. the community contributors get 25% of the sales; if you explore around the Steam Workshop terms & conditions for contributions, you can find this number. so it's $8 million, not $4.

Re: Cameron: UK is Christian Country

Damageman — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:06:14 -0000

I agree the suggestion that religion and morality are linked is a brave one to make if you care about evidence.

I would suggest instead as an argument that religion (and christianity in particular) seems very good at either giving excuses for doing whatever you want or for doing what you want and then granting 'absolution' .

Especially worrying is the suggestion that people cannot be supposed to be moral without being watched by a higher power. That may say more about the religous than the godless.

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Bluetshirtguy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:45:17 -0000

Just to let you know that buds are no longer worth 20$ They are worth(in keys) 18 keys, 18 * 2.49 = 45$(in est). PLUS the author may not know this but the TF2 Unusual Market(those involved have a Vast amount of wealth and influence. wich in itself is odd) Is in a depression. This was caused by Buds(the bread and butter) going up due to inflation. People are selling their unusuals for dirt low prices, desperate to find shelter from the storm.

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Oliver — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:28:01 -0000

Don't put in "TF2 in a nutshell" on youtube :P

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Fuzzdad — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:51:20 -0000

I meant to say you see your own hat...all you need to do is a taunt.

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Fuzzdad — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:49:47 -0000

One correction...you do see the other players hats. It's one of the reasons I love this game...it's Loony Tunes meets Counter Strike and I LOL all the time playing it. How can you not laugh when a player has a birdcage on his/her head muttering "umprf, umprf" all the time.

Also...I've easily dropped $300 or so on in-game stuff...from about $100 to support the Tsunami effort to buying a few $20 dollar gift boxes per year to give to players on the server I frequent the most and other stuff. I think people know EXACTLY what they get from this game...it's an FPS Hat Simulator game and it appeals to those of us who like lunacy and spam in their games.

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

herpaderpa — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:17:05 -0000

Not scamming, as you said, its ripping people off. Also known as buy low sell high...

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Herpaderpa — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:16:01 -0000

Except that the people hes getting them from arent retarded people. they are people who are basicly spending money on a lottery ticket without knowing what the possible winnings will be. Perhaps valve should let people know that the expensive hats are expensive.

Even so, I doubt it would take more than a google search to find that their 2000 dollar item is worth more than 5

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Dude — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:31:31 -0000

Isn't that how pretty much every business works - you buy something for less than you sell it? People willingly traded virtual items for other virtual items, much like people willingly trade hundreds of dollars for an overpriced dinner or commodity.

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

your_mother — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:15:54 -0000

my kid wouldn't fall for that cuz he's not a dumbass. retarded kids shouldn't be in business. the kid was trying to make a profit that is part of business, you can play it honest or you can play it dirty but legal regardless. the term of scammer should only be reserved for those that say they will give something but they don't. it's your fault for being ignorant and your fault your own.

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Blue Scout — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:47:09 -0000

Well, I wouldn't exactly call "The Gaben" (or adamater or whatever he goes by) a scammer, but rather a shark.

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

butthurt basement dweller — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:32:03 -0000

What the 15-year-old did amounts to a person stealing candy from a baby. Preying on the ignorant.

It's like going to a retarded person and giving them $5 for their $20 and telling them that their $5 is more valuable than their $20. Some of you don't see anything wrong with this. "It's their fault for not being informed, herpderp." What if your kid got "robbed" out of a $1000 hat?

-Made $5k selling hats. Bought in bulk on websites. Making around 5-30% profit on each. Sometimes 0 profit out of a hat, but I attracted new customers and they bought my other 'products'.

Re: The $50 Million Virtual Millinery

Chwrober — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:11:43 -0000

Oy, as a regular buyer and seller of TF2 items, this article does a great job of giving context to the people who ask, "Why? What's the point?" Well, the point is that I can do something I enjoy and make enough money per month to pay for my rent and utilities bills.

In addition, I'd like to point out that the 15-year-old has been outed as a "scammer," in the sense that he knowingly ripped people off for what amounted to thousands of dollars worth of items. Players like him give the honest ones a bad name.

Re: The Virtue of Unionism

LeahH — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:18:34 -0000

"Enlightenment, Union?" Seriously!

Please understand that the 'Union' (and let's be honest, it was an abusive marriage at best) makes up LESS THAN 0.03% of our Scotland's settlement history! If you call everything before that 'irrelevant' then you are, quite honestly, an idiot!

It's the 0.03% of our history that is 'irrelevant'. It is completely 'irrelevant' in fact. It only happened due to trickery and deceit (not as Westminster would tell you 'because it was what Scotland wanted, we saved them'). The Union should never have happened and so it should be reversed as if it never had happened.

My language owes nothing to Union, my culture owes nothing to the Union, my genetics (even) owe nothing to the Union. All of my history stems back to before the Union. You may not be a Gael, I am. (N.B. only a minority of Scots are actually Celts but as Gaels/Picts my family make up part of that minority). You will have a different language and culture to me, I do not try and refuse you YOUR culture and language (as you can see I'm bilingual), so I object to anyone who supports a regime that tries to refuse me MINE! And Westminster has historically always tried to make everyone 'British', the very nature of 'Britishness' and 'British culture' requires me to throw aside my own culture.

My culture isn't something I can just throw away, it is a part of me, it is what I know and who I am. No-one has the right to think that their culture is more important than mine, it isn't, it's just different.

So, think how you would feel if Britain was invaded by Greeks to the extent that Greek culture was forced on you and your culture was slowly but surely eroded. Not by the people but through intentional moves taken by the Government. If you wouldn't like that then you have absolutely no right to support a Government that tries to quash the Gaelic culture.

Mind you, if you class yourself as British you probably don't even have any idea how different Gaelic culture is.

Re: Collecting All The Tax Would Make Us Poorer

Timworstall — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:29:09 -0000

"As a business owner employing 150 people i often feel like i am drowning
in paperwork following legislative requirements. If i follow your logic
should my competitiors be allowed to set up without those same hurdles
to the market and if so when do they get to join the same race as me?
"

No, they shouldn't but there are diminishing returns to everything. Which is my very point really. A 150 person illegal, non tax paying business competing with you? No, chase it down, close it down.

But are we really interested in a society where the bloke who does 5 hours a week, cash in hand, who is indeed competing with you, also gets closed down?

Not convinced personally.

Re: Collecting All The Tax Would Make Us Poorer

Damageman — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:20:19 -0000

Ok - thank you for your reply.

I work in the health sector and i often use your brickie example but replace it with an ambulance following people round in case they have a heart attack.

you were concise and clear. Let me ruminate on your points to see if they are compelling. Particularly going to think through how stressed i am by losing activity so marginal that it goes away when subjected to normal difficulties of trade.

Whilst i certainly agree that some stuff is not worth the effort of pursuing that to me is more about the return on cost of collection.

The argument seems to have shifted in subsequent posts to the problem of examples and everyone assuming that if one person is allowed to evade tax everyone will attempt to evade tax. Can i rephrase that? As a business owner employing 150 people i often feel like i am drowning in paperwork following legislative requirements. If i follow your logic should my competitiors be allowed to set up without those same hurdles to the market and if so when do they get to join the same race as me?

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