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by swarnie 5y ago
At this point why are you not just buying BRK-B?
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by swarnie 5y ago
There have been other periods of global peace caused by domination of a single power, no one else argues that it was a good thing for everyone else involved. I could try and argue India is now a better place because the period know as Pax B
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by swarnie 5y ago
It'd be nice if OP used the keyword then instead of needing child commentators with clairvoyance to explain then.
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by swarnie 5y ago
> The last 70 or so years have been the most peaceful in human history. IRAQ WAR (2003-2011) WAR IN AFGHANISTAN (2001-PRESENT) GULF WAR (1990-1991) VIETNAM WAR (1959-1975) KOREAN WAR (1950-1953) This is ignoring an entire array of coups,
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by swarnie 5y ago
None of the 11 definitions offered by google mention the murder of people, maybe your confused? The closest answer is the 3rd: put down phrasal verb of put 3) suppress a rebellion, coup, or riot by force. "the security forces put down
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by swarnie 5y ago
Not in civilised countries.
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by swarnie 5y ago
I'll be honest i didn't expect this forum of all places to be so pro-union. I understand why some people need collective bargaining to raise their position in the workplace but i thought this forum was full of talented professiona
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by swarnie 5y ago
Interesting that my phrasing is the only thing you seem to have issue with. I assume you agree with my general analysis of the unions effect on Britain?
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by swarnie 5y ago
Because they had an amazing crack at trashing the country and needed to be put down. 3 day work week, rolling black outs, propping up of old dead industries. Not to mention all the dead companies they striked in to the ground. Bloody crimin
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by swarnie 5y ago
We've had a similar media blitz in the UK, luckily we dealt with most our unions in the 80s. Despite getting an email from Amazon about twice a week i could never see myself working there.
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by swarnie 5y ago
/r/UK is mainly full of people who hate the county but are too young or unappealing to other countries to leave it. Its a weird British-themed sob fest
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by swarnie 5y ago
Which one? UK, UKpol, and even AskUK all creep there on occasions.
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by swarnie 5y ago
If you fancy annoying people go to a UK subreddit and claim Brexit was about workers rights, workers compensation and was humanitarian issue to help those most in need. Hilarious results will follow.
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by swarnie 5y ago
That's the old system. People would come in, live on site and be feed on site, work hard for 3 months (maybe moving sites as demand came and went) then leave and go back home. The 3 months of hard work and bad conditions was worth it
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by swarnie 5y ago
Versions without a watermark are freely available from your local neighbourhood torrent site. I consider my companies 1000+ server/desktop licences payment enough tbh.
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by swarnie 5y ago
Outside of audited companies who is actually paying money for Windows? Seriously....
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by swarnie 5y ago
A great answer in the late 70s, what's the reason for holding on to them today?
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by swarnie 5y ago
Because they can. Who's going to take it off them?
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by swarnie 5y ago
I can see why.... Three times i've tried using OCI to move Oracles own products from on-prem to cloud. All three times they told me not to bother as it wasn't supported. Seriously if Oracle can't figure out how to run RDBMS,
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by swarnie 5y ago
But you are pretty divided from an outside perspective. You still haven't universally grasped very simple things the rest of the world nailed almost a century ago. Little things like "vaccines are good", "Nazis are bad&q
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by swarnie 5y ago
Maybe we need a new definition for these extreme groups? I've always found using left and right to describe authoritarian hellscapes to be a little off... And to be honest I've always found using left and right when viewed from an
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by swarnie 5y ago
I'm not sure anyone has a clue what you're on about. Care to expand?