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Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:34 am

Oh yeah! In Germany the violence restricatians are majorly high, like the game Wolfenstein; when you kill someone they just fall down and dissapear. But this is more than made up for with their extremely leeway sexual content restrictions.

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 6:14 am

I live in western Virginia, which is one of the northernmost "southern" states, but it seriously feels like Alabama most of the time. There was recently a "Public Standards of Decency" ordinance brought before the council that would ban the sale of "inappropriate" periodicals (magazines that show too much sexuality, although the list they gave made it sound like they wanted to ban everything non-Christian) within the city limits. The measure failed, but only by a very narrow margin, and they're presenting a revised version in a couple of months. The same organization (known as the Valley Family Forum) brought former judge Roy Moore (the guy who wouldn't remove the Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse) here to give a presentation, and they made it sound like he was some sort of hero/martyr. Ugh. Sorry for the rant, it's just that this place feels like its own country sometimes.

erikbarrett · Postby **erikbarrett** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:02 pm

What's the average pay rate in Germany? What about taxes? They may be paying less for schools but more elsewhere.

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:00 pm

The German economy is great. It's totaly labor orianted. Corporations are required by law to have half their board seats filled by represetitives from labor. This alows Germany to have both the most vacation time and the highest salaries out of other countries. And somehow it works. Germany has the thirs largest economy in the world. Behind the US and Japan. Though China is catching up.

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:13 pm

They've got like, 31 million in such a small place and Australia has about 9 mill. EDIT: After checking the CIA site to get my facts right it turns out that Australia has about 19,731,984 people and Germany has about 82,398,326.

Elscire · Postby **Elscire** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:23 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (norsenerd @ Mar 8 2004, 06:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> The German economy is great. It's totaly labor orianted. Corporations are required by law to have half their board seats filled by represetitives from labor. This alows Germany to have both the most vacation time and the highest salaries out of other countries. And somehow it works. Germany has the thirs largest economy in the world. Behind the US and Japan. Though China is catching up. </td></tr></table>  Actually, the german enconomy has been having major problems recently, it's been going that way since the reunification, though it looks as if it may be beginning to pick up again. You are right about labour representation though, Germany has quite a high productivity rate, and they also have a very generous welfare state (which of course in troubled times is under criticism for being too generous.)

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:02 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> EDIT: After checking the CIA site to get my facts right it turns out that Australia has about 19,731,984 people and Germany has about 82,398,326.</td></tr></table>  Good job BSP *pets BSP*

IHateUsernames · Postby **IHateUsernames** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:44 pm

Denmark is cool. Exept you can't buy anything cool over here, (or up here, or down here. Depends on where you are). And we don't get all the cool channels on the TV. And public schools are designed for all pupils so the good kids get bored and don't learn enough. And our poilticians are stupid (this account for most countries). Our TV channels shove stupid commercials down your throat every time you turn it on (not as badly as most other countries tough). Most people are racists. Nobody cares about the common mans problems. Nobody is polite or anything (I try as best I can). All the new video games and movies apear half a year after they were created. The stores have extremely high prices. Nobody cares if they are polluting. Unemployment is climbing (still low, but it'll rise). But we'll survive. I hope. Unless one of the swedish nuclear plants blow up.

erikbarrett · Postby **erikbarrett** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:42 pm

I hope that doesn't happen. We'd miss you lots.

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:43 pm

yeesh, that's three people that are living real dangerously. Tavis: that nuclear powe plant thing. at least I think it's tavis. If not, feel free to correct me. Ibon: that big polluted river IHUN: see above post. yeesh, get safe you people. If you don't I'll be forced to make people place bets on which one of you dies first [/(j/k)<img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />]

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:46 am

We're all living dangerously, you just don't know it yet.

Tavis · Postby **Tavis** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:22 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (iyestorm @ Mar 12 2004, 03:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Tavis: that nuclear power plant thing. at least I think it's tavis. If not, feel free to correct me.  </td></tr></table>  Umm.. no. I live a short distance away from the Port of Houston's petroleum refineries. If my memory is correct, the Port handles about 90 percent of the nation's oil. Every first Thursday of the month, the plants test an emergency system's loudspeaker that can be heard for miles (I can hear that thing well enough to discern the test message's words while standing in a parking lot at San Jacinto College, which is on the opposite side of Pasadena.. I'd say 10, maybe 20 miles.. I might want to look that up soon.)

Zylo · Postby **Zylo** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:34 pm

Actually, I'm not in the best place, either. The mid-Atlantic (esp. DE and NJ) are full of plants and refineries and stuff, we're not very clean. Salem Nuclear Power plant is right across the Delaware River in NJ, I can see it from my house on a clear day. I'm also about 4 miles away from the Motiva oil refinery. The refinery that once had a massive fireball erupt there. Then, the next year, it had a tank with over 600,000 gallons of sulfuric acid go up in a massive explosion. One of the mantinence workers was caught in the explosion, and it was so much that they never found any remains of his body AT ALL. Then we have DuPont 10 miles up in Wilmington, and no one knows what goes on at the experimental station there. We have another nuclear plant around here, too, but I forget where. I need to get out of here, it's getting to the point that I can taste the cancer every time I breath in that fresh Delaware air.

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:16 pm

Check your nuts. That goes for all of you men too. Even if you dont' breath in cancer. Right nwio I'm in a coolege physcis bulding. I spend a lot fo time here. There are rooms here (like the men's bathroom I've been using the past couple of days) that are radioactive. Not so much that I'm woried but I wory less then I should.

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:55 pm

...and you thought they were dumping the R.W. in Las Vegas.

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