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271.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
Its a very common way to say "white people pay for everyone", without actually having to say so. Which is why the 4 million taxpayers typically matches the number of white adults.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Don't all 60 million also pay fuel levies, consumption taxes on alcohol and tobacco, and VAT on purchases? Your tax base might be wider than you are alluding to.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
For the love of all things rational, please, please show us where any scientist on the IPCC ever claimed the Australian fires were the worst. I am begging now.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> you have an initiative to enlarge the second group. Only if the efficiency and quality is worth it. Which, having had the pleasure of meeting some of our local incarcerated, its vanishingly unlikely.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Won't you be darling, and just 1. LINK the exact IPCC report you found blatant lies in 2. copy in your correspondence with the authors of the papers 3. copy in your own data that exposed the lies. You won't, because you cannot.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Their best move is to make WeChat the operating system. Hell, there are already >50 000 mini-programs that run inside WeChat. Then get maps from the Europeans. Then sponsor the development of the top 20 local apps in their top 50 markets
277.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
Perhaps, just perhaps he is considering their competence to help in end Google's monopoly, rather than their ethics - which is orthogonal and irrelevent to the task.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> …will carry their views to their graves Ever consider then that you might be wrong? No, of course not.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
I envy you: it must be nice to participate in a debate and get to be the one who makes the rules up as you go.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Then perhaps we will get fusion-powered, self-driving cars in one go.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Afrikaans: opgewonde → excited Dutch: opgewonde → aroused. :)
282.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
When I learnt Dutch is came is a surprise that ‘opgewonde’ does not mean excited. I told many an executive at KPN that I was opgewonde to work on their project. :)
283.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
The space shuttle also flew for along time without problems. Until … it didn’t.
284.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
Then Ephesians 6:5-8 and Colossians 3:22 telling slaves to obey their masters is going to be a doozie to implement and defend.
285.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
Indeed, but it’s not the Japanese whining all day and all night about how the Chinese are stealing their precious gifts to the world. :)
286.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
I had to write and sign a letter to a Vodafone group company testifying that I would always wear my seatbelt when driving to their offices. Even though that is the law of the land.
287.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
> it is is fair to make comparisons to 18th/19th century events? Yes
288.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
Then use the car industry as an example: the American car manufacturers' internal combustion engines looks identical to those of the the Germans. To quote you: "who figured out how to build them first."
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
No, don't be daft.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> 1 hour morning prep to go out What on earth are you doing?
291.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
When you add the Gemstone/S transparent object database to the mix is is truly astonishing.
292.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
My guess is the proof the Germans were shown was a plan to tax their cars at 40%.
293.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
Well, don't foget In-Q-Tel: the CIA's very own venture capital company. What better way to launder look-away money, or insert code. Have a gander at the companies they have had their paws on: Palantir, Inktomi, Docker, ArcSight, e
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> At least in the US there is some legal procedure, accountability and civil society culture around limiting govt power. No: go read about National Security Letters.
295.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
Given that almost none have ever tried, what would you base your opinion on. As in, what facts?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
I’ll let the Washington Post explain... “If Washington can cut China off from American technology at will, China will be determined to build its own technological infrastructure, top to bottom.“ https://www.washingtonpost.com&#x2
297.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
> Keeping point A and point B truly anonymous Read and write encrypted packets to alt.anon ?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> aggressive implementation of inflicting "pain" in their systems via economic measures. You might find this becomes their Sputnik moment.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Yip, and a former British colony. Hence… 'A' is for aardvaark.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> You don't have a boss. Unless everyone can make equally large payments on behalf of the company, you most certainly have bosses. Find those people. They are the bosses. Everything else is theatre.

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