Feniks

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by Feniks 9y ago
"when revenue start to decline then the politicians either have to cut services or more likely what they do is raise rates for other taxes" This is something Americans will never get. There is a political obsession with lowering t
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by Feniks 9y ago
Yep, the Mafia actually got started with cigarette smuggling from Turkey. And Greeks are very good at not doing receipts. The black market economy is significant.
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by Feniks 9y ago
This is happening in my country and the government has said they'll back any pharmacy deciding to mix the drugs themselves. Healthcare costs are spiralling out of control. It'll lead to a metric ton of courtcases all the way to St
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by Feniks 9y ago
Valve made Steam literally into a Facebook and WhatsApp for gamers...
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by Feniks 9y ago
This. Nobody will ever leave Steam now because they lose their library and social media. Steam is a lot like Facebook, leaving Steam for the competition would be like deleting years of your life.
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by Feniks 9y ago
GOG still does curation. Valve used to decide what got on their store too but they opened the floodgates for any old crap. Mind you Valve still has a policy against porn. Lots of games still have to link to uncensored patches.
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by Feniks 9y ago
In fairness Steam forces updates too. In the old days you could play games without updating to the latest version. Now game updates are mandatory. So MS followed Valve on this.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Amusing since Cape Town was founded by the Dutch as a place to resupply for the long voyage to the Spice Islands. Including clean drinking water.
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by Feniks 9y ago
We'll see. As it stands there aren't a lot of YT clones. Hosting a billion videos that will continue to multiply for eternity can't be cheap. Lets face it most of the stuff on YT has very little ad revenue.
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by Feniks 9y ago
The reason why Foxconn is building a plant in the US is to hopefully exempt the company from a US-China trade war that Trump might possibly be stupid enough to start. Wisconsin was the lowest bidder.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Still amused that the jobs Trump promised will end up to be Foxconn jobs. Not really the jobs people wanted and certainly not the jobs that will rebuild the nation. And ofcourse those jobs will be automated in 20 years max anyway. The Chine
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by Feniks 9y ago
The US didn't meddle, NATO was co founded by European governments. My own country literally begged the US to house nuclear weapons in order to keep the Soviets out.
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by Feniks 9y ago
In hindsight the US should have just supported Ho Chi Minh and his government. The man was more of a nationalist and anti colonialist than a Soviet pawn.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Looters versus unarmed peaceful protest in broad daylight? And I think it was even common sense back then that breaking curfew was dangerous.
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by Feniks 9y ago
The US has always been fractured, the country wasn't even created by choice as much as necessity. The whole Electoral College system is in place to keep it politically unified. There comes a point were States like New York and Californ
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by Feniks 9y ago
Because the US would destroy Mexico. Remember Panama? Hell my own country tried to fully legalise cannabis in the 90s and it did not go down well.
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by Feniks 9y ago
The US war on drugs and the US insatiable demand for said drugs has destabilized the entire region. Not something the US media likes to talk about though... The only way to quash the cartels is lowering demand. But yeah that's too hard
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by Feniks 9y ago
That would be a problem, I can't even withdraw more than €1000 from an ATM. Most of my transactions are plastic or digital, like 99%.
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by Feniks 9y ago
I cut down on eating meat to 3 times a week but Burgers won't like that. An alternative is organic free range meat but damn that's too expensive.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Well TRULY life transforming tech doesn't happen all that often. Oh sure the tech companies are going to say that 2018 TVs and smartphones are so disruptive from last year...
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by Feniks 9y ago
Already done. Sadly Linked In adheres to US law and not Dutch/EU consumer rights. I have no faith any US administration will ever do anything good for its citizens but keep fighting the fight.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Life was good there because ignorance is bliss. East Germans didn't know what a BMW or Munich shopping street looked like. There's one secret ingredient to socialism: it requires a well run capitalist economy to afford it long ter
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by Feniks 9y ago
Well what keeps your country from uplifting itself? My own country is one of the safest, wealthiest and politically stable on the planet but just a hundred years ago there were slums with child prostitution and cholera. As recent as the 195
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by Feniks 9y ago
Not really true. Thanks to advances in technology POTUS had 10 minutes to launch by the 1970s before Washington was toast. It was an open secret that nuclear retaliation could be instigated without White House or even Pentagon approval if t
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by Feniks 9y ago
Nice going fools. Next time people will just ignore it. Hope somebody gets fired for this.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Some of us are assholes though and don't really care about helping you out with making money. No offense intended.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Add-ons perhaps? Does Brave support those?
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by Feniks 9y ago
Tip for Android users: Fennec F-droid. Firefox wants to be (a less evil) Chrome, which is great for the 90% but that leaves the rest of us scrambling. No I don't need my browser to support DRM in order to watch Netflix ffs... https:&#
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by Feniks 9y ago
Doesn't matter. US political system only has 2 parties. If you don't like blacks, browns and gays but DO like privacy were do you go? Exactly. There is no alternative to the Republicans. If the US had 15 parties in Congress the ga
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by Feniks 9y ago
American telecom market is a joke. Only very few Americans buy their own phone. So you have to make deals with the big carriers if you want to reach beyond the technophile crowd. Those carriers are shit.

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