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by barking 10y ago
They choose a celebrity because they think that the little people are more likely to listen to them. But when the messenger has the whiff of hyprocisy about them, it's natural to be cynical. No one likes being patronised.
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I have celebrity environment activists in mind who regularly fly in private jets to faraway resorts and live the high life while being ambassadors for climate change action on the other. The context is different but Paul Theroux's quot
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by barking 10y ago
It's also hard to not get a little cynical when some of the people who pontificate on the subject don't look like they are making many sacrifices.
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by barking 10y ago
That's Cancer with a big C, not the operating system also known as Linux
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by barking 10y ago
My experience of david allen's GTD is that it's a little bit like dieting. Every now and then I go on a diet because I'm depressed about my weight. Every now and then I start using GTD because I'm feeling overwhelmed by
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by barking 10y ago
I have a non-reproducible bug (at least I think it's just one and I've failed to reproduce it) in my software. It causes the entire UI to disappear and the user ends up opening a new instance of the program. I only know it exists
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by barking 10y ago
Well if the Irish traveller experience in the usa is any guide then I wouldn't be too hopeful http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/irish-traveller-t...
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by barking 10y ago
It sounds like your saying that racism is a white thing. Try dating cross racially in the UK and you'll pretty quickly be disabused of that notion.
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Pretty certain and I met a few after through my work. She was strikingly pretty in the roma way (like a very fair Indian person) and was dressed in the roma style. Our town of 20,000 people went from zero to several hundred roma at that tim
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The first time I ever saw a roma it was a young lady at the checkout in front of me who was obviously just learning how to do the change of a fifty swindle. Her trainer appeared from nowhere and rescued her by interrupting and asking some d
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by barking 10y ago
Thanks. I think that works out at about 18 mpg which is better than I thought it would be. I thought it might have been single digits
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by barking 10y ago
The odd person driving a truck around africa won't cause environmental damage. Killing a few elephants won't endanger the species. Are you in favour of allowing people to shoot elephants?
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by barking 10y ago
Is this the 21st century equivalent of big game hunting? Driving around africa in a truck for 19 months isn't exactly environmentally friendly. How many miles to the gallon do those things do?
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Also the mandatory upvoted comment 'why are you using vb6'.
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Checking my predictions about clinton's health(blog.dilbert.com)
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Of course there are bad doctors but anonymous review sites are manna from heaven for assholes. Patients who complain the loudest, for example, about being kept waiting are commonly the ones who demand an appointment at the drop of a hat. Th
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The guy is 22, telling mum and dad shouldn't come into it, he got off very lightly, it's the police he needs to talk to. I've met one or two he reminds me off and they have no shame. Doing a cry-baby act like he did at the en
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by barking 10y ago
Is it possible that to be clinically depressed (on the milder end of the scale, perhaps) for years and be unaware of the fact?
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by barking 10y ago
No fault insurance is something that a lot of people would like to see in places where it's not. It allows for an environment where problems see the light of day and can be fixed. Germany commonly seems to get a lot of things right.
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There's an intersting article here on the US situation. Seems you do have good protection, though it's not absolute. http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics...
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I don't know about that. I don't know how the people who told you that can be sure. Also you aren't really talking about criminal convictions but rather, civil actions which may never end up in front of a judge except to fin
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by barking 10y ago
Every medical student hears horror stories where a doctor acting as a good samaritan in less than optimal conditions results in the person who was helped suing them afterwards.
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Revenge is a dish best served cold, they say
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"they think that opinions are distinguishable from facts to a degree not supported by the messiness of reality" Upvoted you because this is mine now.
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It was at Europe's insistence that bank debts were converted into taxpayers' debts. Ireland didn't do it willingly. Whether or not it resulted in any good for Europe, who knows. One known outcome is that the banks in questio
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>The thought that the US is not biased with its domestic brands just made me chuckle. Who suggested that, or for that matter who suggested that "VW is polluting more than US brands"? I know I didn't.
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I don't understand the moral equivalency that you are implying there exists between US gas prices etc and VW providing fabricated statistics. My point is that the EU and Germany failed to uncover this. Also Germany and France have bot
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They forced Ireland to 'take one for the team' and prevent contagion by repaying bad commercial bank loans from overseas banks to the failed Irish banks. In other words they prevented Ireland from doing an Iceland. They hinted tha
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What is in the interest of the German economy seems to be what determines EU and ECB actions, whether it's setting interest rates, applying rules or deciding what 'deals' to investigate. The EU, did it go hard after VW? But w
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by barking 10y ago
It got him all the way to the state penitentary, take that you dirty rat, BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

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