Joakal

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by Joakal 14y ago
94% of inheritances are untaxed in UK. Why? It's because it's a rich inheritance tax. Do you think children should win the birth lottery?
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Actually, the original intention was to control information with a single distributor as requested by the church.
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As an Australian, this really grinded some of our gears. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths (This is actually altruistic copyright infringement)
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More: Pro-Copyright Judges Never Drop Cases Over Conflicts, So Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/00503119739/pro-co... A better translation of TPB here: Aftermath of The Pirate Bay Tria
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Actually, the government has no idea what's being proposed in the treaties yet the apparent American diplomats are pushing it. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120629/13095119537/ustr-r...
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There's no free speech in USA. Try threatening the president, even outside of USA. You'll be visited.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_U.S._foreign_poli...
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Since 1950s
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If he's able to prove that someone else is involved, then it appears that he's involved again.
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Sounds like the Montessori approach. Teachers are trained to encourage you to learn things, rather than order you to do them.
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Yes, copyrighted content that the copyright owners had hosted. Now they can't access it. Your point is?
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In USA, the politicians are only obliged to respond publicly on website. However, in UK and some other countries, a petition would be read out in parliament and get you a response where other members of government could discuss it.
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This person is an example of an entrepreneur in UK that is being extradited for a non-serious crime. I'm not sure how the advocates are portrayed badly when the case appears unjust, no matter how many links the person allowed on their websi
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This is outrageous. I joined the Pirate Party to combat bullshit like this by making such crimes to be prosecuted in the home country. Especially because some countries have batshit insane penalties for IP. Have you allowed people to upload
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Austerity is a great tool to starve the beast [1]. I think the three biggest issues are some spending, taxes and regulation that's spiralling out of control. However, RARELY do authoritative spending is cut, leading to broken fallacy issues
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I'm pretty sure that's why he mentioned RAM. Performance and cost. Flushing is cheap if it's done once in a while.
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That's not true in Australia. There's a 'plague' of poisoned trees to shore up property prices, especially at vantage points (water/city/etc). However, it only goes as far as to clear the view. This forces the council to begrudgingly overlo
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The American electoral system is slanted towards an effective duopoly dictatorship with FPTP. Even the most brilliant political analyst will vote against their favourite candidate in favour of one the lesser of two evils that are likely to
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That's a poor analogy because MU case is about intangible property which can't be stolen, while you're talking about depriving property of people.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-14/20110714-greenpeace-gm... Greenpeace destroyed a GM wheat crop study by CSIRO, a government research department. It's a shame because it would have found evidence whether such GM crops had problems. "
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I don't use Facebook that much. Tried MSN? I believe I know of at least one deaf person on msn (From when I posted the earlier thread). Alternatively, IRC? There's #startup, why not #deafstartup channel?
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I had similar issues with you, sarenji: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111278 (Ask HN: Deaf wannabe entrepreneur faces networking issues. How to work with it? | Hacker News) As for love, all the people I've dated were 'normal' as in
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I'm talking about government regulations in general. Environmental regulations are, by definition, authoritative because the government enforces that law. It's very hard to create laws, eg the right to enjoy backyard without smog, as even p
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Try this; socially liberal or fiscally liberal. There's also socially authoritative and fiscally authoritative. Liberal topics; social: allowing nudity, gay marriage, hacking, etc, fiscal: lower taxes, less red tape, more corporate freedom.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBGary#Fallout BoA hired HBGary to spread misinformation. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/22/unrelea... An ex-wikileaks member disagreed with wikileaks and 'destroyed' information by destr
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There's only a duopoly democracy, where the most popular two people are the only potential choices. If you don't like either the two choices, tough luck. Welcome to USA's FPTP. As for being against USA government, obviously Amazon, Visa and
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What rights are taken from ISPs?
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Free Internet Access with privacy?
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There is a possibility of censorship of the Dutch party since yesterday. Dutch court bans Pirate Party links to The Pirate Bay http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18016819
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TPPA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Econom... http://pirateparty.org.au/2012/03/04/pirate-party-australias... But USA changed the program to exclude public submissions: http://pirateparty.org.au/2012/04/05/tppa-

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