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Re: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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Post by jrockway »

ciupicri wrote: post #50
fungi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Challenge the Lee dictatorship and comeback and tell us how little they care. Yes they do care and yes they will execute you https://duckduckgo.com/?q=singapore+execute+australian even if you are not a king pin, just some dumb kid. Also don't get stuck there with out health cover/travel insurance or you will regret it, its not malaysia/thailand.

Could you please elaborate on the health cover/travel insurance thing?

Their doctors don't work for free. If you seriously injure yourself in Singapore, you will have to pay money to have yourself fixed up.

This is confusing to people not from the US, apparently.

Re: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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Post by gort »

kirvyteo wrote: post #30
jasonjei wrote: post #16

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Great examples. You might also remember that it took Hong Kong forever to protect races and sex status. Singapore Airlines is notorious for discriminating age, sex, and looks of its flight attendants.

If I may ask, you mean you will like the government to "force" or "regulate" the airline to take over the recruitment so that there is one male and one female in every cabin and at every age group? Where is the "freedom" in that? :) And with regards to looks, you got to be kidding me. I assume you are implying they are only getting beautiful ladies. :)

"If I may ask, you mean you will like the government to "force" or "regulate" the airline to take over the recruitment so that there is one male and one female in every cabin and at every age group?"

That's not what non-discrimination means at all. What the demographic mix of the employees ends up looking like ought to bear a strong resemblance to the mix of applicants; nothing more.

Re: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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Post by ciupicri »

jrockway wrote: post #61
ciupicri wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please elaborate on the health cover/travel insurance thing?

Their doctors don't work for free. If you seriously injure yourself in Singapore, you will have to pay money to have yourself fixed up. This is confusing to people not from the US, apparently.

Do you mean that you have to pay for emergency medical services like the ones needed when you are hit by a car or you have appendicitis?

Re: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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Post by fungi »

ciupicri wrote: post #50
fungi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Challenge the Lee dictatorship and comeback and tell us how little they care. Yes they do care and yes they will execute you https://duckduckgo.com/?q=singapore+execute+australian even if you are not a king pin, just some dumb kid. Also don't get stuck there with out health cover/travel insurance or you will regret it, its not malaysia/thailand.

Could you please elaborate on the health cover/travel insurance thing?

mate was fly back to aussie from india and had a stopover in singapore.

malaria hit him and he ended up in hospital, ended up costing him many thousand of dollars.

yes paying for things like that are foreign to us but the point is if he was stopping over in kuala lumpur or bangkok then he would have paid much less for basically the same high quality of treatment.

Re: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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Post by hongkonger »

jasonjei wrote: post #2

The author hits it spot on about Singapore. It would probably have more in common with Apple than IBM--efficiently run, capitalist (to an extent), but is more or less a one-party system, as is common in East Asia (with the exception of Australia). Singapore is perhaps the best example of the so-called Apple 1984-ad state of information purity directives. OK, maybe that is an exaggeration. It is more likely the result…

No government regulation requires unlocked phones. It's purely due to competition. There are 5 mobile operators for a population of only 7 million people. A mobile operator that offers only locked phone will lose its customers to competitors.

Re: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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Post by sgpatriot »

iantimothy wrote: post #37

I am a Singaporean, born and raised here. Just starting out on my own after 4 plus years of enterprise work. The one book which my secondary school teacher recommended and put how Singapore has developed into perspective is 'The Prince'. Although I would say my country is making some of the mistakes the book warned about. With regards to freedom of speech, Singapore operates based on the principle of OB markers. Many…

Throwaway account

I'm a born and raised Singaporean as well, as well as a member of an opposition party in Singapore.

Its true that while Singapore has draconian laws like the death penalty, or the Internal Security Act (equivalent of the Patriot Act which allows detention without trial) or even the Public Order Act[1], which allows police to charge a citizen for unlawful assembly even if he's just one person with a sign, one can live life pretty peacefully without any worries like any decent citizen in any other developed country.

But that's only if you're not involved in politics that opposes the current ruling party, the People's Action Party.

There is a great double standard in the lands when it comes to the things opposition parties can do and civil society.

For one, when CASE (Consumers Association of Singapore) held its May 1st 'protest', it was not hassled or stopped by the police.

But when another opposition party goes on to do the same, its activists were convicted and faces a fine ranging from $900 to $1,000 and six or seven days of imprisonment in default.[2]

On the other hand, things are slowly being improved, but opposition leaders still face a problem getting their views heard to the mass media (media is state-owned). Contrary to popular belief, political victory is still determined on the grassroots level which consists of mom and pops, uncles and aunties who do not know how to search or read alternative political news online.

The state-media are renown to be able to shape public opinion as well as discarding letters from the public or opposition leaders from being published[3].

If there's anyone who has any questions about being a member of an opposition party in Singapore, I'd be glad to share my input from the other side of the fence.

P/S: I am not affiliated with the Singapore Democratic Party.

[1] http://www.mha.gov.sg/news_details.aspx?nid=MTM5OQ%3D%3D-3Bt...

[2] http://www.yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/4264-singapo...

[3] http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/10/22/singapores-press-fre...

Re: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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Post by chbarts »

steveklabnik wrote: post #59
InclinedPlane wrote: post #40

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I think you may be confusing libertarianism and anarchy.

I think you may be confusing "anarcho-capitlism" and "anarchy." (and "anarchism," for that matter, though I guess this isn't the time and place to argue over "is an-cap anarchism?")

Anarcho-capitalism is the only anarchy that is possible. All other forms require a state, regardless of whether it calls itself one, to enforce the "no property" dictate.

Re: Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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Post by fungi »

kirvyteo wrote: post #34
fungi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Challenge the Lee dictatorship and comeback and tell us how little they care. Yes they do care and yes they will execute you https://duckduckgo.com/?q=singapore+execute+australian even if you are not a king pin, just some dumb kid. Also don't get stuck there with out health cover/travel insurance or you will regret it, its not malaysia/thailand.

I can't say much about death punishment but.. "He said he was carrying them to Australia for a Sydney syndicate to help his brother Khoa, a former heroin addict, pay A$30,000 ($31,460) in debts." http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a... See how drugs forces people to do "dumb" things?

no i dont really see how drugs are responsible, it was government ruled by a dictator that did/does/will do the killing.

anyway maybe you will find this interesting http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/11/02/3052373...

peace

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