I'm sure this has only just appeared and it's already **** me.

yeah the **** added in ads. so now you get this white bar down bottom and some **** up the top.

now its a **** **** stack.

Get the ad block back out!

yep, I don't see this so called white line you are talking about

neither do i i guess my ie9 add block works well take a screen shot so we can see whats its like

I can't see any white lines Audi is probably drunk........again.

oh mr fancy pants using the microsoft product yippie kai ya ****

I don't know what you guys are ***** about. These adds have no effect on me.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've finished downloading the latest album from some group I don't really like who did the sound track to a movie I didn't enjoy but just purchased while I was ordering clothes I'll never wear. I'm so tuckered out from all this consuming that I'll have to have a coke and a pizza hut pizza before trying out my brand new Mr Matress bed, which I can adjust to help me watch my new LG tv.... It's werid. I didn't even know I needed these things.

Ah the life of the parasite feeding off the detritus of human garbage.

I used to have adblock paused on this page but that just **** me.
For reference, adding the following lines to the filter of adblock will get rid of the white bigpond ads.

The sections you want to be blocking are

Nice one Ryan, welcome to the community!

why are you welcoming him you have no right to do so

Already in his first 15 posts he has contributed more to the GA community than you ever will.

just go large with adblock plus and nuke all their silly crap

Unless you are living in the wilds, ALONE, feeding yourself you are in some way supported by the network of the billions of humans on this planet.

Your statement only proves your lack of empathy possible psychopathy and general lack of intelligence. So I wont tell you to get a job I'll tell you to get an education.

I don't let comments like that slip by unanswered any more.

Have a nice day.

SERVED

I dont see any white lines. There is a white bar with big pond written on it. Is that it?

zaraq knows things the rest of the world won't know for another hundred years

For a minute their i thought you Axel88 were the incarnation of DH5|Sh1fty McJit then i remembered DH5|Sh1fty McJit was intelligent and entertaining something not within your purview.

Having fallen through the cracks i am sure you will find work with the council you can sit on the bench and pass the time with anster.

^^ cherio.

Adblock and the Easylist subscription = no more ads. Ever.


I think I love you.

god another one of those people

JAJAJ MEXICANO!!!!!!

What sort of music do you play Zaraq?.

I agree with you, axel. There's too little empathy and too much psychopathy around here. We're all connected by luminous beams, and when you drown kittens for fun, it affects all of us. I am thankful for the billions of people working 12 to 16 hours per day just to have enough to eat, just as I am sure they are thankful that I buy their products. The truth is, I am like a god to them and it's a constant struggle to remain empathetic and humble despite the knowledge that they need me to simply subsist, and it's up to people like you and me to remind the zaraqs of the world to buy buy buy. That's why I watch my neighbours and laugh when they laugh.



They love us!

Check out the links in my sig,when ever i get a chance i play to my prevailing emotion its an odd thing i don't "play" as in a style its like this, i will play a few notes and then a few more then the music seems to take on mind of its own i particularly like aug 9 and playing off beat like 2 and 4 with a heavy back beat, lol

Sorta like MC hammer?

I used to think sweatshops and child labour should be outright abolished. Then I saw a few programs on child workers in India and sweatshops in China, and whilst it exposed the abhorent nature of the exploitation, it also highlighted that without it those people wouldn't even subsist.

Child labour in India for example, affords those kids and the entire families that they support, food in their belly and a roof over their head, and if it was abolished tomorrow hundreds of thousands would be reduced to either foraging in rubbish piles, or starving to death. What can you do?

I suppose there is a difference between child labor and child exploitation,its good to know your urchins working for 1 rupee a day are well looked after.

What can be done? well we only have to look at what we are doing for the very same people working here in Australia under similar circumstances and the answer is of course not much.

We have the anti slave police busting a few places like in the fruit picking areas and child prostitutes but its like you say you have to make a living whether its babies on demand or lifting kidneys from drunk people.

cherocha that^ is more a reflection on your own contribution,which is vapid.

It was in response to your incredibly asinine comparison of exploitation in countries like India or China to "similar" cases here, and the complete ignorance of social and political differences between our countries in terms of what can be done to combat it. It's like comparing somebody **** on the sidewalk to a tsunami.

In short, you are an imbecile of the highest order of imbeciles.

The problem is systemic and probably best understood historically.. meaning you can trace the trajectory of these situations through modern history. Then add that to a global perspective - how all countries and economies interrelate. It's not something that can be done in a few days, but it sure beats the "they need it" version of things.

Remember the whole foxconn thing? (as a side note, foxconn make bottom of the line PC hardware (you'll usually find it in harvey norman/arrow computers PCs selling for $4k), and they also make mac hardware....... ) Anyway, there was this activist teenage girl on the news, hanging outside a mac store with a placard and fliers etc. She wasn't a hippie or anything - very polite, perfect hair and teeth etc., plus she owned the just released iphone 5 (or whatever it was) and said she really loved mac products... sweet young thing. A journo asked her a few questions about why she was doing what she was doing- bad conditions, bad pay etc. Then he asked if she would be willing to pay more so that the foxconn workers could have better pay and conditions: "ummm.... ahhh..... no I wouldn't." She seemed a little embaressed but otherwise certain of her convictions. She really believed that so long as she made a public display of caring about the situation, she could avoid doing the only thing that would have an impact. It's amazing how many people think and behave like this in our culture.. it's like a **** disease. (and the technical term for it is identity politics)


Ultimately, all we can do is improve their conditions by making ours deteriorate. They're poor because we're rich and the reason for the situation is complex but largely an historical accident. Yeah, yeah, global market forces and all that. Keep clinging to whatever justifcation you like. India is on the way up, and they'll go all the way to hegemonic status, and we're on the way down to peripheral status. Go go market forces! Running a trade deficit means our national assets are being bought by foreign interests.

tl;dr version: what can we do? We don't need to do anything because it's already happening.

woo epic rant. fkn trolls.

big posts full of gibberish dont make you smart. just fyi, if you want to be smart do some sciency **** like sticking your **** in a toaster thats turned on and report the findings on wikipedia.

I started studying theoretical physics and discovered that 58% of theoretical physicists are philosophically challenged.

Sure, companies have to appease shareholders and balance on a fine line in the global market, but the fact that it comes down to consumers paying more on top of ridiculous markups to abate exploitation, shows how inherently retarded the whole thing is.

Shouldn't it be up to independent regulatory bodies to audit and enforce penalties when companies outsource to sweatshops?

really do you study theoretical physics is it say interesting

Bieltanman, I have noticed over the last few days you have suddenly learned how to spell. How did you do it?

Its so true that you said: Many people are all informed, and out spoken, about how everyone should do the right thing when they make buying decisions. Many people will tell you at length they know just what the right thing to do is. How everyone should shop locally and support small business and buy responsibly while not shopping for the lowest price if its not a fair price for everyone and on and on.

Its very normal for most people to know this and in social situations to confirm that it the exact right thing to do.

But later. Behind the computer screen on their own or down the **** shops on their own and when it comes time to actually getting out their wallet they go and buy the cheapest ****. The nasty crap imported from some website and made by forced children labor.

They dont think its strange they say one thing but do something else after all: its not like they are going to do something when it actually means its their money on the line.

ITs a total culture of "im all for everyone doing the right thing so long as it wont cost me a thing"


where possible buying fair trade:



yes it will cost more then the really cheap stuff but the quality should be more too



So not just quality but better for people and environment



So its a start - oh and dont buy **** clothes

other things like: http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/takeaction/

i havent been trying strange hay

I guess the main reason I buy what I buy is who has the luxury to spend money on stupidly marked-up products produced here?

Take music equipment for example. I'd love to support local music stores but I'd end up paying more than double for some things.

I bought a Jackson RR24M from the US for $650 + $150 delivery in 2011, at the time they retailed for $2500 here at Billy Hyde's.

I buy my ernie ball slinkys off ebay because I can get them delivered for $6.50 a pack instead of $15 a pack at a music store.

i thought it looked interesting and some of the stuff they talked about undermined physics itself so I wanted to understand it... like the claim that a single particle can be in 2 places at once, and the whole multiple universes thing. But it turned out to be nonsense: theoretical physics looks at things in terms of probabilities, which is where the whole multiple universes and 1 particle in 2 places stuff comes from. The question is whether or not "probabilities" is an objective reality or merely a perspective. On this, theoretical physicists are very evenly divided.

The problem is actually a philosophical one - is the world/universe simply what we perceive or does it exist in its own right? It's like the tree falling in the woods question. Or the age-old dualism vs materialism; religion vs atheisim (treating proabilities as an objective reality is really just religion for scientists).

2 notable names have differing thoughts on the nature of probabilities/theoretical physics:
1. Stephen Hawking thinks it's an objective reality (religios/dualist);
2. Albert Einstein thought it was only a perspective (atheist/materialist).

yeah hungry kids are bad we should share our food more

ruleofbookz how very ****," hungary kids are bad",but what are they bad at? bad to look at! is that it ! are you saying the best policy is to turn a blind eye?

and the peasants are revolting!