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Sie muss nun zeigen ihre Stimme!

I have to confess I haven't heard the original song in full yet, but now I have to hear if it's as outrageous as that cover was. Hooooly.

Kuulostaa just siltä saksalta mitä mä opiskelin koulussa. Sillon ku ei kuunneltu rammsteinia.

I smell Lady Gaga ITT. It's just a wild guess, though, but Google agrees with me.

I've heard Fallen and Origin and I remember both of them being incredibly predictable and formulaic. I still like the music, and I do listen to them occasionally, but I feel like I can't get too familiar with them or the lack of substance will start to shine through. :/ Amy Lee's voice alone saves much for me, though.

Not in the same way, at least. I guess that depends on how well you connect with the instrument in the first place. I didn't think that particular performance captured the emotion that well, but I've heard one that does it. For me, I mean.

I can't believe the rest of Europe (america excluded, apparently) is now under the socialist flag according to one particular cascade of facts in this thread.

It's going downhill now, so I'm just going to roll with it and conclude with "America, fuck yeah".

Woop, someone bumped the City & Colour -thread on another board I like to lurk, and behold, there are new songs up in Youtube! Well, they have been there since January...

Here's one of them:

Nonono. Watch every Sean Connery -movie ever made, and take notes.

Hey, you're the child prodigy! Tell me how it's done.

We were always behind the times. From the old i386 to 75mhz, then straight to 733mhz, and from there to AMD64. I'm a geek for remembering every computer we've had, but it's not particularly hard in my case. I'm now trying to get internet to work with 3.11 so that I can start posting here from the ancient Windows... Or I might just go back to playing Wolfenstein 3d. Still haven't finished that...

I can't even be bothered to rep you again for this stuff...

...just...

...yeah.

We didn't have a computer until I was 4. My dad taught me the basics of MS-DOS and after that it has been me teaching him.

So, is it sad that I spent fifteen hours setting up Windows 95 through a DOS emulator yesterday and today? Just to get nostalgic for a moment? Windows 3.11 was easy compared to that struggle...

The best part came when I shut it down:

Holy blast from the past.

You probably had a computer in your cradle, then. And that's not sad, that's amazing.

Is really no one willing to do the drums for this? Or is it just a classic case of "lol i forgot"?

I upgraded my OS, finally.

Shit yeah, son.

Absolutely. They are in use on most of the boards I use, but I've just learned to accept that this one is a bit more... prehistoric. Could be convenient, though.

You think we should just keep bringing it up every few months in some random thread and see if an admin catches on to it?

You know what this board needs? Spoiler tags. I'm pretty sure you can find the answer from somewhere in the internet, if you want to know.

Or maybe I was thinking more about the Rammstein song in the background

...He?

I refer to asexual people as "he".

Impressive! The child doesn't look like he wants it, though.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.

2. In each house lives a person of different nationality

3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.

2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

3. The Dane drinks tea.

4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.

5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.

6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.

8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.

9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.

10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.

11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.

12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.

13. The German smokes Prince.

14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

How many of you know this? APPARENTLY Einstein wrote it, and claimed that 98% of the world's population won't be able to solve it. There's absolutely no proof that this is Einstein's doing, though, and I'm pretty sure he couldn't have known how intelligent you have to be to be able to solve it. Aaaand the answer's not exactly simple: there are no hints about who has the fish! I found the dude who doesn't have any other of the pets, so either that means that I found the dude who has a fish, or that I found a dude who doesn't have any pets at all/has some other pet. It took me about 20 minutes, so it won't actually take long if you put your mind to it. Try it!

The senate bill is not universal healthcare. That was what I was getting at. Its only supposed to cover about 97% of the population. There is no public option and it provides subsidizes for people to get private insurance. Then there is tort reform (which is definitely needed), covering for pre-existing conditions etc. which is the stuff that is more common across the world. The basis of the bill , however, is not Universal Healthcare as that type of system would never get passed by the senate as the senate is more moderate than the House. Its overall somewhat in the middle between current American system and the European/Canadian system but that could change with the fixes they are going to try to pass with reconciliation.

Yep, I know it's not the same. I haven't read up on the reconciliation yet, though...

I mainly used Hubbalou's quote as an excuse to bring out our medicare debt, I'll admit. However, you wouldn't be saying that if you were on medicaid. My brother is on it and its quite shit. When he did finally get a part time job for about 20 hours a week (which doesn't provide insurance), he was about to be cut off which is quite ridiculous. It seemed as though Medicaid didn't want my brother to work at all. Not to mention that the benefits are practically nothing. The states don't have the money so they are giving all medicaid members very little benefits... and with the increasing amount of members the benefits keep going down. So to put everyone on that system could be catastrophic as the state wouldn't be able to pay for it (which goes into a values vs. rationality thing).

True, I have no idea how shit medicaid actually is, I'm not defending THAT at all. I would still be saying the same about how your old system is not exactly cutting edge. The money IS a question mark, and I think the democrats have thought of that as well. If anything, this should force them to review OTHER parts of their budget, because I still don't think this is the right part to cut down.

This is a values vs logic question. If we let ourselves become bankrupt then our money will become worthless and we won't have healthcare but if we do cut healthcare we're going to screw people over. The problem is with medicare that if we don't do something our country could face another great depression if not our own version of the Weimer Republic (without the paying for everyone's war debts thing). If that happens , healthcare could be the least of our problems.

Indeed, the work is not done yet. However, I'm willing to let this part in the hands of the people preparing the law, since I'm sure they know something I don't.

I was merely just trying to give information that people may not know. Obviously, this backfired.

Don't think it backfired! It was actually interesting to see USA's debt in real time. I may be arguing against you but that doesn't mean I want to kill you.

Yes, I'm well aware that it's practically impossible. That's why I said IF it was possible...

Then we're done. I didn't remember that I had scheduled a guitar student for today until he was at my door so I had to slip out again...

No, I'm not saying the old system is what we need either.

If you read what I said, you would understand that. I think that we need to make healthcare available to everyone... I don't know how many times I have to say that. Apparently a lot. Yes, this new bill will be beneficial to a lot of people, and I'm more than happy that people who haven't been able to get healthcare will be able to have it. Its not like I'm a soulless, calloused person who thinks the world revolves around me and only my family deserves healthcare. Thats not what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying that because of this particular bill, my family (and most of middle class America) is being royally screwed.

 

If there was a way to combined this bill that benefits the lower class and those that cant afford healthcare, but still allows people who already have healthcare benefits the same benefits they have now, I would have absolutely no problem whatsoever.

Good. Are you also aware that the system you're describing is pretty much impossible in practice, and the current system that is coming to effect is a sacrifice that you're going to have to make for the better of your country as a whole?

Soz, had some problems with my connection, so it took me a while...

Actually no. This "free healthcare" is only allowing my family (and I'm sure plenty others) half the cover they had before. So if we want to have the same coverage, we have to pay the "free healthcare" taxes along with additional private healthcare for the things that it doesn't cover. For instance, my brother's depression medicine is going to be close to double the price it is now because of this bill. Medicine that he needs to function properly.

 

I think that everyone should have the chance to have healthcare, and I think that the government is right in trying to make it available for everyone, but at the same time, by doing so they're screwing a lot of people over. I know you guys don't see that because you've had this kind of system forever and you don't really see the flaws in it from the standpoint that I have.

Now I'm going to have to ask you: would you rather have the old system back? Because now it seems like you are ignoring the problems that the old system had and the thousands of people that got fucked over by it. I don't think that the problems you are now facing aren't real, for the record.