Everything posted by Estonian dude
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Economics: more or less government intervention?
I am gonna throw a glove in here and say that communism is the best way of ruling the earth, that I know of. But it doesn't work. Because of human nature. And that, what was in Soviet Union, was not communism. That was a dictatorship. As a real world example, I have to admit that the Swiss way of governance is the best. There the goverment intervents in business quite a bit. And you can't say that it is bad country to live in. I can say the same for Norway and Sweden. For Norway, practically all bigger industries are state-controlled. Statoil is almost fully state-owned and state-controlled. Agriculture has huge government subsidies. And the economy is flourishing. Practically everyone is happy there.
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Well, beers are a pint here. And I took some scotch aswell. I can't handle beer as well as harder liquors. One thing that added up was that I hadn't eaten anything since lunchtime. And I could've written better, but I thought, da hell, I am too lazy to keep fixing my spelling on a teeny-tiny phone keyboard. And seriously, I started considering doing a trip around the world next year, after finishing high-school, taking an academic vacation for a year. Been thinking about it for over a week.
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Had 2 olympiades yesterday, 1 tomorrow, had basketball competitions today (where I got the most minutes so far this year), and I have slept 3 and a half hours during the last 43 hours. Zombie much? At least I know that my English olympiade ended in a success, I got on to the next round. And if I get through that I am quite certainly in top 5 of my country in English.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
OK, OK, OK, this is way outta your heads now. Is your freaking memory so limited or haven't you guys heard about what happened in Georgia (the independent country in the Caucasus) in 2008? Russian army occupied and still occupies South-Ossetia, which is historically a Gerogian area. And you say that Russia hasn't fought a battle since the Cold War... And besides, any nuclear strikes would be quite unthinkable for Russia, China or anyone else. Noone wants MAD. Yet the USA still needs the army, since there are ways that army is used in civil service as well as in active warfare. The USA has taken the position of the "watchdog of the world", and now they can't just leave this position, without generating direct threats to themselves. And that's also, why the USA needs an army. The size is a different matter, though.
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"I want a girlfriend/boyfriend", and other such relationship advice
Casual. She can't afford anything fancy and the notion of a boy buying something is something that she does not want to hear of. And that flirting, rather I end it abruptly, even though most of the time I start it as well. I don't know why, it comes maybe from my limited experience and social anxiety...
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"I want a girlfriend/boyfriend", and other such relationship advice
It does get a bit flirty aswell, though not too much... :(
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
OK, Canada is an awesome country and I don't know that much about it, so I can't comment other than that your prices are way higher than ours. And them 'Muricans has grown into me, but if you say so, I will stop it, and I will refer to you everybody as Americans. Deal? Anyways, I hope that Obama does try to decide more on his own, instead of relying too much on advisors. And a prosperous 4 years to you all.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
Come on, you silly 'Muricans, your unemployment benefits are nothing compared to some European countries. And somehow, the more socialist ones (I mean Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland here) don't have such large foreign debts or lack of money as you.
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Real life pictures - 4
Me and me mates from our school's film crew. I am the creepy one sitting to the right. I was forced to sit, cause otherwise I would have been too tall to be in the picture. And I know, my scanner is freaking dusty.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
That 20% ain't brutal at all. If you consider what we get from the government. And well, food and everyday objects are still a lot cheaper than they are in the USA.
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"I want a girlfriend/boyfriend", and other such relationship advice
UPDATE: Been talking with that girl quite constantly on messenger every single evening for like 2-3 weeks now. Like 3-4 hours at a time, up until one of us goes to sleep (note before 1 AM usually), once we went over 8 hours on a Sunday. I've managed to make it seem like she owes me a meal together sometime somewhere. Expecting that to happen next week, we're both super busy this week. Thoughts, comments? Am I friendzoned or not? Talk has been quite generic so far, but we both have loads of laughs. And we haven't really chatted IRL, since I simply don't see her more than like once a day, and then she is always with a friend or something or I have to rush somewhere.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
Wait, it's a bit more complicated still. We have income tax of 30-something % for everybody, yet everyone has free public healthcare and it is great. Education is also free. And the tax is the same for everybody, no matter how much you earn. But I meant flat VAT of 20%. I think it is VAT, that gets added to everything you buy from stores.
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
Well, you seriously need to fix federal tax system... Top 12 most profitable companies in the USA paid $0 in taxes this year... Freaking loopholes and thousands of pages of tax regulations... Take our example: everyone pays 20%. Nice and simple, equal for everybody. My country has possibly the lowest amount of debts in the whole EU. Flat tax rate rules!
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Discussion Thread
Well, that is if you buy it new. Luckily games get cheaper quite fast. For example, this summer I bought Deus Ex: HR for around $30. And for computers it is about $20 cheaper.
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Things that annoy the HELL out of you.
I hate that my upper jawbone is too small and I haven't worn the thing that goes on the roof of the mouth after braces get removed. I've now lost 3 shards from teeth already, last shard chipped off today...
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
Watchin at our national bradcast centre, Obama has most probably won. Yay for free food!
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2012 U.S. Elections - President Obama Re-elected
Tomorrow, in the morning, I am supposed to wake up at 5 AM to listen your American embassador babbling and commenting about the elections live in our national broadcasting centre...
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Well, the night started out with me thinking about getting home from my basketball training. I wasn't really dressed suitably for a night in town, but meh. It was 9 PM and I thought what the hell, last bus is going at 11 PM and I'd get some drinks with me mates. So I hanged out with training mates until 10 PM and then I met up with the other 3 heroes of the saturday evening. Well, it wasn't 10 PM yet exactly and we decided to firstly grab a beer each from the store aswell. They had already all had one and well, alcohol ain't sold in stores after 10 PM here. But we bought out beers and decided, [bleep] it, let's drink it straight on the street in front of the store, who cares, if it is illegal. So we each finished the beer in like 2 mins and then the pub where we were supposed the head opened right next door. Well, we went there then, was a Jimi Hendrix tribute with a live band. I was ridiculously out of style with my yellow sports hoodie and yellow snowboarding jacket :D . Anyways, we started with another round of beers. And then another one. And then we thought, what the hell, suppose they have some vodka aswell for sale to us. And we took a bottle of vodka aswell. Drank all that in less than an hour, we are at about 11 PM now. Around now, the live band came on stage and it was really awesome. Epic guitar riffs. Well, ended up one vodka, quickly came the other one. Ended that aswell, and that took us a bit longer... And then I have a black hole in my memories until about 1.30 AM. Then we had already finished a third vodka and we had yet ANOTHER round of beer on the tables. I found myself alone at the table after returning from the toilet... So I checked up and saw 2 of me mates dancing, I thought, what the hell, let them dance, and drank my beer. Then, somewhen around 1.45 AM the fourth dude arrived and grabbed my hand that if I want to stay the night at his place, I need to leave right now. Well, I had nowhere else to go and I live 20 miles from town, so I had to go along. We walked some distance and managed to grab a taxi, and then I had the first taxi ride in Estonia in my life. We went to his place, his mother had woken up and was quite horrified to see me instead of one other dude, that was supposed to come. Well, since he was supposed to come, there already was an extra bed set up and without much thought I occupied it and fell asleep. If you guys want to hear more, you've gotta ask more, but now I've got to go to basketball training. And there is a lot more to hear.
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Well, yes I can, since the story involves getting in trouble with the law and as such I think it ain't right to talk anything without them guys telling the stories themselves around. But I was the only one out of the four of us that didn't throw up last night. And I can't wait for RPG either.
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