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I actually recieved an comment posted here (deleted) “informing” me that Serb-Croatian is no longer considered a language, but rather separate languages. Well to them I say - bite me, I don’t give a crap. I shall always consider Serbo-Croatian to be a language, no matter what any country or organization in the world will say.
That’s all, thanks.
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I just found the most random and awesome song possible called Amerika i Engleska by Rambo Amadeus (a Serbian rock, rap, pop, electronic, folk, every fucking thing possible musician). Here are the Serbo-Croatian lyrics and English.
Serbo-Croatian
Spanska cizma imperijalizma
uz pomoc kulturnog terorizma
zajmova, kredita i raznih satelita
permanentno blate ugled Druga Tita
Kataklizma, komunizma
kataklizma, komunizma
Svi dobro vide a niko da prizna
klimu rasizma i liberalizma
side i homoseksualizma
sve su to produkti kapitalizma
Kataklizma, komunizma
kataklizma, komunizma
Losije danas za bolje sutra
ponavljaju meni od jutra do jutra
bez takve zrtve Amerika i Engleska
nikada nece postati zemlja proleterska
Ref.
Amerika i Engleska
bice zemlja proleterska
Amerika i Engleska
nece biti zemlja proleterska
Partizani, mi smo braca
a drug Rambo nam je caca
i Japan ce ovih dana
bit’ u ruke narkomana
Kataklizma, komunizma
kataklizma, komunizma
Neprijatelj kleti iz straha i sadizma
uporno rusi temelj komunizma
stanimo na rep imperijalizmu
povratimo ugled socijalizmu
Kataklizma, komunizma
kataklizma, komunizma
Losije danas za bolje sutra
ponavljaju meni od jutra do jutra
bez takve zrtve Amerika i Engleska
nece postati zemlja proleterska
Ref.
Ne daj se, Ines
ne daj se godinama, moja Ines
Bila jednom jedna baba
nije znala sta sa radi
dosadan joj bio zivot
Kataklizma, komunizma
Kataklizma, komunizma
(2x)
English
Spanish boot [of] imperialism
with [the] help [of] cultural terrorism
Loans, debts and various satellites
Permanently dirty outlook Other Titan
Cataclysm, communism
Cataclysm, communism
Everybody good sees but nobody to accept [it]
Climate [of] racism plus liberalism
siderite [?] and homosexuality
Everything is the product [of] capitalism
Cataclysm, communism
Cataclysm, communism
Lotion today for [a] better future
[They are] Repeating me from morning to morning
without such [of] America and England
[it will] Never stop [to] become [a] country [of] proletarians
Ref.
America and England
Will become a country of proletarians
America and England
Will not be a country of proletarians
Partisans (basically Yugoslavians), we are brothers
but my friend Rambo is our grandfather
and Japan will [one of these] days
be in [the] hands [of] addict[s]
Cataclysm, communism
Cataclysm, communism
Enemies swear from fear and sadism
Trying Russians [the] base [of] communism
Stage on [the] tag [of] imperialism
[We will] Return [the] look [of] socialism
Cataclysm, communism
Cataclysm, communism
Horrible today for [a] better tomorrow
[They are] Repeating me from morning to morning
without such [of] America and England
[it will] Never stop [to] become [a] country [of] proletarians
Ref.
Don’t give up, Ines
Don’t give up [for] years, my Ines
Once there was one grandmother *(technically, but normally means wise (old) woman)
Didn’t know what she did
Boring was her life
Cataclysm, communism
Cataclysm, communism
(2x)
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Here are some nice songs that can be enjoyed regardless of language (kinda like Pavarotti I guess). You can pretty much ignore the videos unless you really want to watch them.
Maslina Je Neobrana (Dalmatian Song)
041 - Azra (Yugoslavian Song)
And fine, a song by an English-speaking person… (even if it is country music-ish =/)
Wabash Cannonball - Doyle Dykes (American Song)
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This is yet another one of my rants against Canada’s FPTP system, explanation of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorm, and an idea for an alternative in Canada. Thanks to Habbit for valuable discussions, ideas, and random stuff which I didn’t really need to know.
Canada and “The Old Ways”
If you’ve read some of my old posts (or even visited Fair Vote Canada (maybe if you were high or something)), you would know about my explanations of Canada’s FPTP system. Nevertheless I’ll re-spew it in a shortened form. Canada has a system called the First Past The Post system (or plurality, or FPTP as I shall call it). This system basically states that a country is divided up into districts and each seat = 1 district. So for a X Party candidate to win two seats, they need to get more votes than any other party in that district, e.g. In this case The B Party wins with 40% of the vote.
A Party: 30%
B Party: 40%
C Party: 30%
Seems fair enough when presented like that for one seat doesn’t it. But when you enlarge that by several hundred seats, it is hardly fair. Take for example in 1993 when Kim Campbell of the PCs won two million votes nation wide, yet only won two seats. This was because in no place in Canada was she higher than the other competing candidates. She won around 16% of the vote, but got 50 less seats than the reform party who won 52 seats with 18% of the vote. Very fair (if you’re a retarded twat).
Now what I mean by Canada’s old ways, is that most countries have moved to another system rather than staying on a plurality system in hopes of making votes count more (with the exception of the UK). There are two main classes for electing a MP - single-member and multi-member. FPTP, plurality, two-round (often for Presidents, Chancellors, etc.), and Condorcet are all single-member system. Meanwhile proportional representation (including d’Hondt, Sainte-Lauge, Mixed member, STF (single transferable vote) are all examples of multi-member. What multi-member does is it attempts to make the percentage of votes close to the percentage of seats one. Here’s an example of the 1993 election (sorry for picking on you Kim Campbell). The first number is the amount of seats with the FPTP system, the second is the d’Hondt method (a form of PR) and the third is the percentage of votes.
Liberal Party: 177 | 127 | 41.24%
Bloc Quebecois: 54 | 41 | 13.52%
Reform Party: 52 | 57 | 18.69%
NDP: 9 | 21 | 6.88%
Progressive Conservatives | 2 | 49 | 16.04%
Well now, 47 seats is quite a lot isn’t it. Especially when you consider that only 295 seats were up for grabs that election. In this situation the Liberals did not achieve a majority because they did not have 51% of the vote, and the PCs did not achieve 2 seats because they did not have <1% of the vote! In a FPTP system, its quite easy to get a majority even with 40% of the vote, but with the PR system, that is never the case. Now, on to Arrow’s good old Impossibility Theorem.
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
Also known as Arrow’s Paradox. This Theorem basically states that no matter what electoral system is used, democracy shall not TRULY be democracy where every single person’s voice is heard. Take for example an imaginary election in the land of Pommeraniacansuckmyass. They are holding a presidential election between three candidates, it is the first round, here are the results.
Biteme: 36%
Merrdicksucks: 22%
Asdf: 42%
So Merrdicksucks was eliminated (I wonder why…).
Biteme: 51%
Asdf: 50%
Now they voters who supported Merrdicksucks have to choose between two candidates who they do not care about. Therefore 22% of the voters did not truly get to choose. And the voters who choose Asdf are not happy, because originally they had more votes, and due to the Merrdicksucks demographic, they lost out. Therefore only about 36% of the people are truly happy, and votes actually counted. Even in a pluarlity system not EVERYONE’s vote can be taken into account.
Take a Page From the Book of Germany
So Nikola, if no election system works, why bother? Nothing works so lets go with the best system, the PR system! Woah there, slow down you dumb twats. There are problems with the PR system, such as the case in Spain, where the MPs are loyal only to their party, rather to their constituents, resulting in something that is not really representation (thanks Habbit for the help!). Well, the best thing to do then is to combine both systems! The FPTP system where MPs are loyal to their constituents, while a further amount shall be elected via the PR system, making everyone’s vote count! How great! Now what I recommend for Canada is the following. 120 seats elected via the FPTP system.
40 in Ontario
29 in Quebec
14 in BC
11 in Alberta
5 in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
4 in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
3 in Newfoundland
2 in PEI
1 in Nunavut, Yukon, NWT
That’s about 308/2.6 = 120. That’s how I got the number (rounded from 2.5). The rest of the seats shall be distributed through the provinces via the PR system. That means that 188 seats shall be distributed via the provinces and a PR system.
65 in Ontario
46 in Quebec
22 in BC
20 in the Atlantic provinces (combined into one electoral district)
17 in Alberta
17 in (a combination of Saskatchewan and Manitoba into one electoral district)
2 in the Territories (combined into one electoral district)
Why I decided these numbers. Well, I believe that something similar to what Germany is doing, a distribution of seats between loyalty and fairness to the voters is the best thing. I choose a proportion a bit different from their method, simply because I felt that more seats in the PR system would be necessary in Canada considering the fact that there are large territories and provinces and even small parties can win a few seats.
Well that’s my rant, bye everybody!
Thanks for reading! (if you read to here, otherwise, screw you, damn twats).
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I’m bored, got that? So Dragonforce released a new album, Ultra Beatdown, and in my opinion it’s meh-ish. To be honest I think that they were afraid to try new things considering that most of the songs still sound the same. I was hoping that Dragonforce might take a look at songs like Starfire, and try something different like those, something that STANDS out from their other songs! Get that! Things get boring after you repeat them fifty-thousand times, and that’s what Dragonforce is doing! I understand that “maybe” they sound a “bit” different, but if you don’t want to look like a damn twat live, you might want to play songs that sound somewhat original compared to your hundreds of other ones. Anyways, that’s what I hate about the album. What I like is that there is SOME, and note the SOME in that word, originality in A FEW, and note the A FEW in those words, songs. One song that is BARELY different, but introduces SOME NEW ELEMENTS WHICH IS DAMN GOOD, GOT THAT DRAGONFORCE?!?! NEW STUFF = GOOD, OLD STUFF = BORING!!! (rant rant rant rant). Anyways the song that is barely different, but I like is Heartbreak Armageddon. The Last Journey home tries to do something different, but fails. Here Dragonforce try playing/singing slowly (oooh new concept eh?) and that’s good… so long as you make it sound good, because to be honest, it just sounds like the same thing throughout. Nevertheless, I have to say that this is my favourite song in the album because it is the most different, new, and ORIGINAL. GOT THAT ALL YOU CRAPPY POP-ROCK COPIERS, ITS ORIGINAL!!!! (more rant rant rant). A Flame for Freedom is also pretty decent… considering it sounds a bit different. I also listened to the special edition songs… and they are pretty boring to be honest.
All in all I’d have to say that although the song is relatively the same old Dragonforce style, it is probably they’re best album simply for the ORIGINALITY of it compared to their older albums. It has three, maybe four songs that honestly sound different, good and original, and feel like a good change to the old “fire, flames, dragon, soul, etc.”. I don’t recommend the entire album but just Heartbreak Armageddon, The Last Journey, A Flame for Freedom and maybe, JUST MAYBE Scars of Yesterday. I’m done ranting and using caps lock. If you skipped the entire thing, go slit your wrists in a gutter. At least Dragonforce is doing something different and “new.” If you want to complain about my lack of paragraphs, I was too lazy to use them so bite me.
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Angus-Reid released an official poll asking Canadians on how the NDP would handle being the next official opposition (opposed to the Liberals being the next opposition). The results are shown here.
Just shows you that if a party does such a bad job they can fall so far as to become lower than the official opposition (erherm that’s a warning to you wanks over at the Labour Party). Personnally I do hope that the NDP become the official opposition, because that just means that when the Conservatives screw up (and trust me, they will dig a pile of dog shit out of the hole and pile it on top of Canada, or something to that extent) the NDP are far more likely to become the official government. Yes, you heard me. See what you have done Liberals! You have made a party that has its base as being a third party, have a chance to become the official opposition and then the Government! I hope you are happy with yourselves.
Disclaimer: Several parts of this post were meant to be satiracal. Nevertheless the point is the Liberals messed up by choosing Dion, and will likely lose this election (badly) to the Conservatives and maybe even become a Third Party (yay! Go NDP)
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Putin the victor. While on a break, Putin went out and saved a TV crew filming a Siberian Tiger (which attacked them) with a tranquilizer gun. Supposedly a trapped tiger escaped and made a charge for the camera crew, while Putin reached for the gun and stopped the tiger from injuring anyone (maybe not psychologically though, but phisically). ”Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predator up close but also saved our television crew too,” a person on Rossiya television mentioned. So now, my question is, Putin VS George Bush? I wanna see that very badly… Just give Putin a semi-automatic gun.
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by nikola