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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
On October 27 2015 02:04 KwarK wrote: We have an eve topic on tl if you're interested. Don't play eve. i dug myself into PoE but the thing about EVE is that its probably the best SciFi around  i check the drama once in a while. | ||
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Bleak
Turkey3059 Posts
Fixed the issue. Apparently, your phone and your computer must share the same clock for the login to work. | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On October 27 2015 02:04 KwarK wrote: We have an eve topic on tl if you're interested. Don't play eve. You're out of the ISK Sharking game Kwark? | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24143 Posts
http://www.twitch.tv/bobross | ||
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TMG26
Portugal2017 Posts
On October 30 2015 10:12 GreenHorizons wrote: Anyone else amused by how popular Bob Ross on Twitch is? http://www.twitch.tv/bobross The twitch chat is amazing | ||
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On October 30 2015 11:27 Dark_Chill wrote: Why is Canada fairly dependent on oil when education costs are so low? I spent some time parsing through what you could possibly mean and what causal link you were trying to look at, and came to the conclusion that you're not being serious with that question. | ||
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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
On October 30 2015 11:58 Djzapz wrote: I spent some time parsing through what you could possibly mean and what causal link you were trying to look at, and came to the conclusion that you're not being serious with that question. My reasoning is this: Canada has a bit of a reliance on oil economically. I don't quite see why this should be the case, since I'd think low costs for education would allow for more jobs in multiple different sectors, meaning exports from Canada would be a lot more varied percent-wise. | ||
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riotjune
United States3394 Posts
Wow, he was a USAF Master Sergeant | ||
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Spiller
United States106 Posts
On October 30 2015 12:52 Dark_Chill wrote: My reasoning is this: Canada has a bit of a reliance on oil economically. I don't quite see why this should be the case, since I'd think low costs for education would allow for more jobs in multiple different sectors, meaning exports from Canada would be a lot more varied percent-wise. Well, higher education generally has more to do with the service sector than creating goods for export. Doctors, engineers, etc are all service jobs that don't really involve creating exports that bring money into country that wasn't already there. This is more reliAnt on farmers, and the natural resources of the country (I don't know what canadas other main resources are). I imagine Canada isn't producing a Ton of cash crops (maybe they do well with livestock though), and they may not hAve many other resources go draw from besides oil. But back to the original question, producing goods for export is generally far more reliant on the less educated labor force (farmers/factory workers/loggers/miners) than college graduates. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On October 30 2015 12:52 Dark_Chill wrote: My reasoning is this: Canada has a bit of a reliance on oil economically. I don't quite see why this should be the case, since I'd think low costs for education would allow for more jobs in multiple different sectors, meaning exports from Canada would be a lot more varied percent-wise. Oh, well to put it simply, it's because when any national economy is sufficiently invested in one sector of activity, like Canada is invested in oil, its other sources of wealth can't spontaneously make up for a drop in one industry. Canada is not as dependent on oil as you might be led to believe, though, because as you accurately point out we have access to education, and so we have a variety of different industries. Yet we're "dependent" indirectly because of the way the market works. We're dependent on the jobs that are generated by the oil industry, we're dependent on the oil industry's exports. Essentially, it's an extra revenue that we've grown accustomed to, on top of the more technical and knowledge-based industries. This ties into the fact that capitalist countries are dependent on growth, and so there doesn't even need to be a decline in GDP for stuff to get bad - a mere reduction of the rate of growth can hurt. So the dependence in the oil industry can be summarized to the fact that Canada and other such countries are spectacularly sensitive. Essentially think of it like this, you make $28,000 from your job and you make $2000 on the side repairing electronics or something. You spend most of that every year. If you lost your $2000, you'd have to make cuts somewhere. The difference is, you can make those cuts. But in a country, if you lose revenues and you try to cut your budget, people will point out that they're dependent upon that spending. So if Canada says, we've lost the oil revenue, there's few programs that they can cut without hurting other industries or certain people. So they borrow. It's a web of fuck. | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On October 30 2015 10:12 GreenHorizons wrote: Anyone else amused by how popular Bob Ross on Twitch is? http://www.twitch.tv/bobross It makes me really happy actually, my grandma would have him on growing up. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10924 Posts
And i hate it. | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji it's probably the anime culture who's responsible. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On November 05 2015 17:57 xM(Z wrote: Emoji (絵文字（えもじ）?, Japanese pronunciation: [emodʑi]) are the ideograms or smileys used in Japanese electronic messages and Web pages, that are spreading outside Japan. Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji literally means "picture" (e) + "character" (moji). The characters are used much like ASCII emoticons or kaomoji, but a wider range is provided, and the icons are standardized and built into the handsets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji it's probably the anime culture who's responsible. May be a bit marketing reasons as well. Does your phone support emojis? No? It only does smilies? Mine does emojis. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24143 Posts
It seems worse for police to do it in practically every way and they do it more frequently. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On November 07 2015 14:33 GreenHorizons wrote: Why is it that [any crime] by [not law enforcers] gets so much more attention than when it's done by [law enforcers]? Indeed.... Who guards the guards? Or another angle: On November 07 2015 14:33 GreenHorizons wrote: Why is it that [any action] by [famous people] gets so much more attention than when it's done by [not famous people]? | ||
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JumboJohnson
537 Posts
(An aside, should the question mark be inside the quotation mark, outside or both?) | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24143 Posts
On November 07 2015 14:45 Cascade wrote: Indeed.... Who guards the guards? Or another angle: I suppose I should say: Why aren't more people upset that our paid protectors commit domestic violence at a rate much greater than the NFL and the population in general than they are about an NFL player? Asked another way: In what way is it appropriate for a rational person to express more outrage about the NFL than the police committing the same crimes (at a much higher frequency). | ||
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