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[caLLous]

 

[Raven]

Ah, peasants. They come out with the funniest things.

 

[Madmaxx]

 

[Madmaxx]

 

[Madmaxx]

 

[dysfunction]

Google has changed their logo!

Spoiler

 

[old.user4556]

LG G3 revealed.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/27/5753730/lg-g3-official-specs-features-and-release-date

This phone should underpin the Nexus 6.

 

[CorNokZ]

Found out that our landlord has been charging too much rent.. Roughly £5,000 over four years. Will gather up all the evidence we have, and shaft him hard once we've received deposit back. Moving out in November, to a bigger apartment that costs the same, but is in better condition and is in a better neighbourhood closer to the city centre.

We've had way too much trouble living in this place. It has been relatively cheap, but the condition of the flat just makes you feel like you're living in slum. We have a water damage in our living room which he should have fixed two years ago, but never did due to the no-profit-pure-loss on his behalf. We've got all the emails to nail him and pictures of the state of the flat when we first moved in. Bedroom ceiling was hanging down and all the electricity is pretty much illegal and dangerous. The floors are squeaky, no matter where you step, it sounds like you're just about to visit the downstair's neighbour, which you probably are. The walls look like sick in the livingrooms. I'm so fed up with the "colour". The kitchen has no counter space what so ever. Or any space at all really.. It is tiny! Same goes for toilet/bathroom. We're talking about a square metre. No window or ventilation, which means when ever you take a shower the entire flat steams up basically, and it smells mouldy if you forget to keep the door open when you're done.

Only plusses are our neighbours. They're really nice. After we got Max, the guy upstairs stopped throwing mad raves 24/7 and playing Cher's Greatest Hits, which is nice and really considerate of him.

Phew, just had to get that off my chest and didn't know where else to put it. Sorry about any spelling or grammar mistakes, I just blurted it all out in one go.

 

[ileks]

Found out that our landlord has been charging too much rent.. Roughly £5,000 over four years. Will gather up all the evidence we have, and shaft him hard once we've received deposit back. Moving out in November, to a bigger apartment that costs the same, but is in better condition and is in a better neighbourhood closer to the city centre.

We've had way too much trouble living in this place. It has been relatively cheap, but the condition of the flat just makes you feel like you're living in slum. We have a water damage in our living room which he should have fixed two years ago, but never did due to the no-profit-pure-loss on his behalf. We've got all the emails to nail him and pictures of the state of the flat when we first moved in. Bedroom ceiling was hanging down and all the electricity is pretty much illegal and dangerous. The floors are squeaky, no matter where you step, it sounds like you're just about to visit the downstair's neighbour, which you probably are. The walls look like sick in the livingrooms. I'm so fed up with the "colour". The kitchen has no counter space what so ever. Or any space at all really.. It is tiny! Same goes for toilet/bathroom. We're talking about a square metre. No window or ventilation, which means when ever you take a shower the entire flat steams up basically, and it smells mouldy if you forget to keep the door open when you're done.

Only plusses are our neighbours. They're really nice. After we got Max, the guy upstairs stopped throwing mad raves 24/7 and playing Cher's Greatest Hits, which is nice and really considerate of him.

Phew, just had to get that off my chest and didn't know where else to put it. Sorry about any spelling or grammar mistakes, I just blurted it all out in one go.

Hate to ask the obvious question but why didn't you just move out ages ago?

 

[Scouse]

Found out that our landlord has been charging too much rent.. Roughly £5,000 over four years.

How does he "charge too much"? Surely you're the one that pays the rent? How come you didn't notice you were paying £104/month too much?

 

[Moriath]

Hate to ask the obvious question but why didn't you just move out ages ago?

Was gonna ask that. Or why if it was I. That state to begin with did you move in there in the first place

 

[Ch3tan]

So you've stayed in a place and agreed rent, you've paid that rent despite thinking it's not worth it.... and now you are trying to screw your landlord over when you finally move out? Nah.

 

[DaGaffer]

Was gonna ask that. Or why if it was I. That state to begin with did you move in there in the first place

My thoughts exactly. The kitchen didn't shrink did it?

 

[Raven]

Sometimes you don't have a choice where you live...

 

[CorNokZ]

There are laws in Denmark which protects those who rent. There is a maximum how much a landlord is allowed to charge per square metre a year and he has exceeded that limit by quite a bit. We haven't moved out because we haven't been able to find anything we could afford. At the moment we have 62 m2 we wouldn't be able to live with any less, now that we got Max

 

[Scouse]

There is a maximum how much a landlord is allowed to charge per square metre a year and he has exceeded that limit by quite a bit.

That seems fair to me CorNokZ.

However, what doesn't is that you were happy to pay the rent, but now you're moving out you've done the calculation four years too late.

Your landlord sounds like a dick, but then what you're doing is also dickish...

 

[CorNokZ]

My thoughts exactly. The kitchen didn't shrink did it?

It didn't, no, but who thinks about the size of a kitchen at the age of 21, or what colour the walls are? We were offered a relatively cheap place where we saw that our family could one day expand, so we took it.

 

[Gwadien]

but who thinks about the size of a kitchen at the age of 21

You have a gf

Shit gf.

 

[Gwadien]

I don't get this

Was he like 6 when he went to war?

 

[DaGaffer]

I don't get this

Was he like 6 when he went to war?

What war was that then? The Americans didn't join WW1 until 1917...

 

[Fweddy]

Snopes says it's lies.

 

[Scouse]

Looks like my argument is gaining traction

The heads of the IMF and the Bank of England are getting together with some of the 87 people who control half of the world's wealth (that number of people fit on a single red double-decker London bus, yet control more wealth than 3.5 billion other humans) - and they're gonna have a *private* (press not invited) conflab, with people like Prince Charles, about capitalism and the way it's going.

Stuff like this is to be discussed:

Stateless power is drawn from three fundamental flaws in the economic system, evolved to benefit the ruling class over centuries, but these flaws have been expunged from economic discourse:

Flaw 1. Private capture of the value of land, resources and other commons (such as water, the radio spectrum, genes, nature and knowledge), gifts from nature (or God), the value of which is communally created. The value of these must be shared for the good of all to fund public services and an unconditional citizens dividend.

Flaw 2. Interest on money creates no wealth but systemically drives inequality, environmental destruction, conflict and exponential, unsustainable debt growth. Debt must be unenforceable in law and usury (lending money at interest) illegal. Debt must revert to a social construct rather than its current role of facilitating wealth extraction, exploitation and oppression.

Flaw 3. Increased mechanisation and technology has rendered full employment unachievable, unnecessary and undesirable. The means to life cannot be conditional on paid employment but is a right for all and must be provided in the form of an unconditional citizens dividend sufficient for a decent life.

What's that Scouse? Systemic change?

I'll believe it when I see it.


Edit: Interesting that there's an acknowledgement of interest on money not creating value - but being a tool to steal wealth. That's very much what Islam (and early christianity) bangs on about eh?

 

[caLLous]

Next thing you know they'll be making games that actually push PCs to the limit.

(to be fair, Watch Dogs is making my PC work harder than it has recently and it looks lovely)

 

[Scouse]

Watch Dogs

Available on xbox one, ps4... tech from 4 years ago.

 

[Zarjazz]

Looks like my argument is gaining traction

So you managed to get Capitalism, Religion & Royalty into one post. Top marks, that's like the trifecta of trolling

 

[Gwadien]

My PC is struggling playing Metro Last Light, it's a PC focused game.

 

[caLLous]

Available on xbox one, ps4... tech from 4 years ago.

Sigh. Why don't you actually try it?

"Whatever the case is or was, the game looks amazing when set to ultra on the PC. The visuals are spectacular and I found myself often being drawn away from the gameplay to admire how great it all looked."

 

[old.Tohtori]

Sigh. Why don't you actually try it?

Because it won't run at 1 FPS on Scouses £20k PC, so the industry is useless.

 

[DaGaffer]

Looks like my argument is gaining traction

The heads of the IMF and the Bank of England are getting together with some of the 87 people who control half of the world's wealth (that number of people fit on a single red double-decker London bus, yet control more wealth than 3.5 billion other humans) - and they're gonna have a *private* (press not invited) conflab, with people like Prince Charles, about capitalism and the way it's going.

Stuff like this is to be discussed:


What's that Scouse? Systemic change?

I'll believe it when I see it.


Edit: Interesting that there's an acknowledgement of interest on money not creating value - but being a tool to steal wealth. That's very much what Islam (and early christianity) bangs on about eh?

I think we know how well that conversation is going to go.

NB. I think some of the "Flaws" as described are simply not true, particularly the first one and an important part of the third one. e.g:

Flaw 1. Private capture of the value of land, resources and other commons (such as water, the radio spectrum, genes, nature and knowledge), gifts from nature (or God), the value of which is communally created. The value of these must be shared for the good of all to fund public services and an unconditional citizens dividend.

First of all "commons"? Says who? Second of all, "communally created"? Nonsense. The reason why capitalism exists in the first place is because of its efficiency in creating the conditions to maximise the exploitation of resources. You can argue such resources should be shared, but the reality is that if they were, they wouldn't be used in such a way as to add value to them in the most effective way (or indeed, at all). The problem with utilising resources for the common good, is that most people don't know what the common good is until the resources have been exploited in such way to give them value; e.g. the oil industry.

Flaw 3. Increased mechanisation and technology has rendered full employment unachievable, unnecessary and undesirable. The means to life cannot be conditional on paid employment but is a right for all and must be provided in the form of an unconditional citizens dividend sufficient for a decent life.

I agree that full employment is unachievable and unnecessary, but that doesn't mean its an undesirable goal. It just means we have to redesign the nature of "work". The idea of a universal dividend for no return to society is horrific.

I kind of agree about flaw two though.

 

[Raven]

Available on xbox one, ps4... tech from 4 years ago.

limited to 30fps and (probably) 900 resolution and crap draw distance on the peasants machine of choice. The master race can whack that up to 60+fps 1080 with a decent draw distance.