Paddywack

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by Paddywack 13y ago
Oddly enough, I have lived there for a year as well. I agree that the government is incompetent, partly because of cronyism and largely because of terribly applied affirmative action. However, I did think that the enormous international sup
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by Paddywack 13y ago
Hi. I agree with a lot of what you say. However, the information that I am referring to was plausible and already in the public domain, but that they were refuting. Examples of this are the delay between the two comms engines being switched
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by Paddywack 13y ago
My conspiracy theory: The plane was hijacked and there has been contact with Malaysia/China/USA. One of the conditions for hostages to be held safely is that the Authorities do not make this public. This would explain: - the other
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by Paddywack 13y ago
The fact that Ukraine's fate is being controlled by the normal suspects is, sadly, unsurprising. What I found intriguing was the fact that this conversation was bugged and then released. It's also interesting to read the editor&#x
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Ukraine: Bugged Conversations, Meddling Superpowers(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by Paddywack 13y ago|1 comments
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by Paddywack 13y ago
If it was only "being smug" that would probably be tolerable. The issue here is actively paying for them to challenge the legality of the NSA's actions - something that would really irritate the NSA, to say the least.
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by Paddywack 13y ago
Interesting comment - I will try and find out. The other side of the coin is perhaps post-rationalisation, trying to justify to yourself why you spent the extra money in the first place re-enforcing your initial irrationality further, and m
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by Paddywack 13y ago
It is interesting to separate consumer from business when looking at this theory. Prof Baba Shiv is a Neuroeconomist from Stanford, and has been looking at the neurological effects of "emotional attraction" to a product. His curre