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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Renewable Energy Tech
- Replies: 135
- Views: 3128
Re: Renewable Energy Tech
Regarding tidal and wave energy, people complain about solar and windmill lifespan and end of life waste. Sea based structures are obviously an order of magnitude worse than that in both regards - it's an extremely harsh environment. Just getting in there to maintain the thing would be a nightmare. ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9355
- Views: 308539
Re: Israel declares state of war
https://x.com/lrozen/status/1779342130793632220 G7 meeting for what will hopefully be a calm diplomatic response. So glad Biden is president right now and not Trump. Said that too many times the last 3 years. Jeez. The exact opposite is true right now . This is Biden mess I heard that Biden wanted ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bondi Junction Shooting
- Replies: 294
- Views: 7576
Re: Bondi Junction Shooting
A security guard killed during the Bondi Junction mass stabbing has been identified. The Admadiyya Muslim Community of Australia says it is mourning the loss of Faraz Tahir, “a cherished member of our community and a dedicated security guard who tragically lost his life while serving the public dur...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Brumbies v Waratahs FFS!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 1222
Re: Brumbies v Waratahs FFS!
I can't even stream this game, how am I going to care? Might look at the highights tomorrow if I could be bothered.
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Summer trip to Northern England (maybe Wales) - advice?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 1655
Re: Summer trip to Northern England (maybe Wales) - advice?
Any trip to England would be incomplete without a night in Oundle.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 95
- Views: 3507
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
yeah I don't buy it
big ship hits bridge, inspection crews engaged. would you keep cars on it? I doubt it. then again this is the US....
big ship hits bridge, inspection crews engaged. would you keep cars on it? I doubt it. then again this is the US....
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: When AI generated images are not quite on point
- Replies: 6
- Views: 450
Re: When AI generated images are not quite on point
Not image related, but chatGPT had me wondering the other day with this exchange: Me: list of ww2 inventions ChatGPT World War II was a period of significant technological and scientific advancements, driven by the demands of the war effort. Many inventions and innovations emerged during this time. ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: BTC
- Replies: 73
- Views: 6328
Re: BTC
we've been through this before
it's a giant scam
wash traded in an unregulated environment using tether. it's so blatantly obvious to anyone with experience in financial markets that it is laughable.
it's a giant scam
wash traded in an unregulated environment using tether. it's so blatantly obvious to anyone with experience in financial markets that it is laughable.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53730
- Views: 2374719
Re: War in Ukraine...
Spot on. A vertiable Machiavellian psycopath. I dare say he's got Trump over a barrel too.Sense I got is that he's a master manipulator of people who can show them what they want to see but also keep his true motivations hidden.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dispute with employer over pay
- Replies: 28
- Views: 694
Re: Dispute with employer over pay
what happened during the mediation?
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: What Do You Think Is The Reason First Marriages Have A Lower Divorce Rate Than Second/Third etc.?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4038
Re: What Do You Think Is The Reason First Marriages Have A Lower Divorce Rate Than Second/Third etc.?
what do you mean by 2nd marriage? is it one or both of the couple who are on their second?
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne Rebels... SAVED?!
- Replies: 861
- Views: 46951
Re: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?
An unpaid caterers’ bill was the reason tickets are still not on sale for the Melbourne Rebels’ season opener against the Brumbies on Friday. Rugby Australia urgently worked out a renewed agreement with the AAMI Park caterers, who have not been paid in a year with the Rebels in a dire financial sit...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Capitalism in its current unsustainable incarnation be damned.
There is no meritocracy that can exist and thrive when people are paid to do nothing in their sleep. And democracy rests on at least a semblance of meritocracy.
There is no meritocracy that can exist and thrive when people are paid to do nothing in their sleep. And democracy rests on at least a semblance of meritocracy.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne Rebels... SAVED?!
- Replies: 861
- Views: 46951
Re: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?
And here is the statistical summary collected over time in all its glory!!! https://i.ibb.co/fnxjz16/Screenshot-2024-02-17-at-06-58-14.png 30k+ kids play rugby in schools on: - ovals that do not exist - under referees that do not exist - with jerseys that I bet my left-nut do not exist Four-fold in...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne Rebels... SAVED?!
- Replies: 861
- Views: 46951
Re: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?
Since taking over, RA has to renegotiate the hiring of AAMI Park for the Rebels to be able to play there... Apparently they're aiming for tickets to go on sale later today. Ticket sales, however, have been put on hold for all Rebels home games while officials wade through $20 million of debt, inclu...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Melbourne Rebels... SAVED?!
- Replies: 861
- Views: 46951
Re: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?
Since taking over, RA has to renegotiate the hiring of AAMI Park for the Rebels to be able to play there... Apparently they're aiming for tickets to go on sale later today. Ticket sales, however, have been put on hold for all Rebels home games while officials wade through $20 million of debt, inclu...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Kiptum GONE
- Replies: 13
- Views: 467
Kiptum GONE
Kelvin Kiptum, the only person to run the marathon in less than 2h, has been killed in a car crash.
Damn.
Damn.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
don't shoot the messager
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
It's like people in here can't read. Where did I propose to stop mortgages and make people pay cash for assets? I'll say it again for the 3rd time. I propose to CONSTRICT BANKS ACCEPTING HOUSING AS COLLATERAL FOR LOANS FOR HOUSING. " just build more and increase supply is the only real answer" - ye...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
In fact, if you really want to help solve the housing crisis you'd prevent or seriously hamper the ability of banks to lend against housing. You want housing priced in terms of real economic activity, not other houses. Wtaf is this utter shit ?! :lol: You’d stop the whole concept of mortgages and o...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Where did I argue for infringing on people's property rights? Constraining what asset classes people can invest in or borrow money for is restricting the right of people to deploy their capital for productive purposes. I didn't propose either of those. I proposed to restrict the ability for BANKS t...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Where did I argue for infringing on people's property rights?
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
In fact, if you really want to help solve the housing crisis you'd prevent or seriously hamper the ability of banks to lend against housing. You want housing priced in terms of real economic activity, not other houses. So all other business is conducted on a supply and demand basis, but for housing...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
In fact, if you really want to help solve the housing crisis you'd prevent or seriously hamper the ability of banks to lend against housing. You want housing priced in terms of real economic activity, not other houses.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Equity funded is worse. When housing equity is used as collateral to create more debt subsequently plowed back into existing housing and so on and so forth, debt is being created with no associated increase in economic activity. The debt is cancerous. The price of housing detaches from the actual ec...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
You’ve no idea what work a landlord did or does to secure the investment capital. True, but most of that investment capital comes from the bank bimbo. You just have to have enough to get the loan. So how do you “just get enough” to get that loan? Most would do it through hard work and sacrifice, un...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
All landlords just have this asset fall in their lap with no work? No one said they did no work. But the renter's doing more work to secure them that asset than the landlord is. I'd love to see someone try to argue the contrary. To a degree it's a necessary condition, otherwise no one would be a la...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
All landlords just have this asset fall in their lap with no work? No one said they did no work. But the renter's doing more work to secure them that asset than the landlord is. I'd love to see someone try to argue the contrary. To a degree it's a necessary condition, otherwise no one would be a la...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
I defined work. The renter works to pay his rent. The landlord does some menial tasks to maintain the property, find new renters, organise repairs etc. Work smarter not harder? That's a piss poor effort at justifying the assymettry. I'm not making a case for renters to live rent free. I'm merely hi...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
I defined work. The renter works to pay his rent. The landlord does some menial tasks to maintain the property, find new renters, organise repairs etc. Work smarter not harder? That's a piss poor effort at justifying the assymettry. I'm not making a case for renters to live rent free. I'm merely hig...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
the point is, despite the fact that the renter is paying off the landlords asset and even if the landlord is making a loss each week (a) he can claim the loss against his income (in australia) (b) he'll still pick up the asset after 20-30 years for cents in the dollar, the renter having paid off mo...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
the point is, despite the fact that the renter is paying off the landlords asset and even if the landlord is making a loss each week (a) he can claim the loss against his income (in australia) (b) he'll still pick up the asset after 20-30 years for cents in the dollar, the renter having paid off mos...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
that's in australia boy
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Typical comments section of the paper: My rent was increased by $400 per month, I tried to negotiate for a rent increase that was more sustainable for me but the landlord wouldn’t budge. My wage has not increased so it’s a struggle to find that money. Meanwhile the bathrooms have mould, water leaks ...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Apparently earning £100k a year, 3x the average wage, is a struggle these days....
- Replies: 89
- Views: 4309
Re: Apparently earning £100k a year, 3x the average wage, is a struggle these days....
It boils down to the middle and upper income classes being taxed in an attempt to compensate for increasing inequality, substituting government spending for money that the lower and middle classes would have historically earnt and spent themselves.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
- Replies: 55696
- Views: 9440293
Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
could have gone horribly wrong for both of them
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
any thoughts on saving for housing discrepencies between guys and girls?
although there are some exceptions, my experience is girls generally plan to travel/party their life away and don't think about the consequences until it is too late
although there are some exceptions, my experience is girls generally plan to travel/party their life away and don't think about the consequences until it is too late
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
I dunno bimbo. It's somewhere on that list, even if subconciously. I know it's on mine.
House -> work (+ kids) -> stress, to excess.
What will make it any better for the children? I'd love to know...
House -> work (+ kids) -> stress, to excess.
What will make it any better for the children? I'd love to know...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
- Replies: 914
- Views: 44616
Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Always the 80s interest rates chestnut...over and over it is trotted out.....
It's elementary mathematics that one is better off buying a house with high followed by decreasing (variable or reneogtiated) interest rates compared to the inverse. I'm not even going to bother to explain it.
It's elementary mathematics that one is better off buying a house with high followed by decreasing (variable or reneogtiated) interest rates compared to the inverse. I'm not even going to bother to explain it.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Cost of living - Queensland
- Replies: 146
- Views: 15998
Re: Cost of living - Queensland
Where I am at the moment, it’s a mix of locals running the joint and back packers working. Good luck finding any Anglo Australians to work behind the bar or at the cafe on Stradbroke island at the level required to actually let the business function normally! Is there any prospect whatsoever of set...