Random Rants
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eBay sucks for sellers, utterly pointless.
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It largely sucks for buyers, too. 90% of the time I look for something on eBay, I can find the same thing on Amazon for the same price or less, and I get free shipping and easy returns on Amazon.
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yeah ebay is a real piece of shit. I kind of feel like an ass when people find my stuff through ebay and I just convince them to do the sale outside of ebay, but I just can't accept a 10% fee and waiting weeks for my money.
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I sent in a re-order for Obenaufs. I got the response "we no longer ship internationally". I pointed out that they did not ship internationally, as I organised a UPS pick up from them. Made no difference. So when the current stocks are gone, they're gone. Won't make a lot of difference to you Stateside folks, but it is a damn shame for everyone else. I could buy in bulk from a US retailer like I once did, but I'm fecked if I'm going to make any effort selling shit that the parent company can't be arsed to help with.
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Have a look into Huberd's, it's better in my opinion
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Wesco boot care… Problem already solved.
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Whilst sitting in the waiting room at a recruitment agency earlier, I flicked through a copy of The Australian. It's one of the main broadsheets down here, and part of the Murdoch stable.
I found an opinion piece on it in which the author first railed at any vaguely left-leaning politics, before claiming that global warming was part of a UN conspiracy based on inaccurate science to impose socialism on the world. OK, I'm probably paraphrasing a bit here, but that was the general gist.
The author, Maurice Newman, was a top banker, CEO, and all that, but came over like some nutter you'd find lurking on a badly designed website on one of the recesses of the net. And this was in a broadsheet paper!
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Whilst sitting in the waiting room at a recruitment agency earlier, I flicked through a copy of The Australian. It's one of the main broadsheets down here, and part of the Murdoch stable.
I found an opinion piece on it in which the author first railed at any vaguely left-leaning politics, before claiming that global warming was part of a UN conspiracy based on inaccurate science to impose socialism on the world. OK, I'm probably paraphrasing a bit here, but that was the general gist.
The author, Maurice Newman, was a top banker, CEO, and all that, but came over like some nutter you'd find lurking on a badly designed website on one of the recesses of the net. And this was in a broadsheet paper!
Raving sociopath like all of that ilk. If I had his bankroll I could have my left of Eugene Debs socialist rants published too. Then again if I had his cash I'd think he was right.
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@steelworker I think that there are two issues here.
The first is that the solutions to Global Warming tend to require government restrictions on behaviour. Those to the right of Attila the Hun consider any such impositions to be socialism. So I think that there's a cognitive bias towards decrying the research as being flawed.
Funnily enough, none of these critics ever seem to have a scientific background.
The second is that significant changes in society tend to hurt the rich disproportionally, as new groups are likely to make money off it, whilst old groups lose it. So they've got an interest in maintaining the status quo, and moving to a low carbon economy is likely to shake things up.
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@steelworker I think that there are two issues here.
The first is that the solutions to Global Warming tend to require government restrictions on behaviour. Those to the right of Attila the Hun consider any such impositions to be socialism. So I think that there's a cognitive bias towards decrying the research as being flawed.
Funnily enough, none of these critics ever seem to have a scientific background.
The second is that significant changes in society tend to hurt the rich disproportionally, as new groups are likely to make money off it, whilst old groups lose it. So they've got an interest in maintaining the status quo, and moving to a low carbon economy is likely to shake things up.
A thoughtful and reasoned opinion, Graeme. Damnit.
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Yes, but this is what the locals are like… :o
On a positive note the beer must be stellar!
On a negative-that's the worst hangover ever.
Great doctors though!
