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There is another scary explanation, is that they have collected enough dirt on him and other politicians to become "untouchable"
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IMHO Square has more of a real business than Facebooks and Twitters of this world do and actually have solved real world problems.
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Well "Made in Germany" brand took on a hammering, the only other country manufacturing planes en masse is Russia, but their plane safety record speaks for itself. It will be a steep hill for China to climb, the question really is
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They had the PADDs on star trek more than decades before tablets where released, yet another example of star trek being ahead of its time as for your "Utopian" comment, in the last few decades we have entered the era of plenty, th
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You are correct and at $3000/month the tenants would be better off getting a mortgage and buying own property Here in Ireland there is now calls to cap rent increases which is stupid, the reason for recent rent price rises is the lack
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I live on the far west edge of Europe, unfortunately a lot of the population have a screwed stereotype vision of Americans and the US. Some of it might be deserved (the Bush years done incredible damage to the reputation of the US) a lot of
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6 months would have pretty much destroyed his life, especially when it comes to getting a job
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Seem to suggest? SEEM TO SUGGEST! fuuuuu.... Look my grandparents died a few years ago in a small tiny village by the Volga, once you travel outside of Moscow and Leningrad(StPetersburg nowadays) you may as well be time travelling into the
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I was there till the middle of 90s i see the worst of the post-collapse, yes things got worse but Putin is not some genius savior who rode in on a white horse to save Russia from evil capitalism as is the prevailing narrative nowadays. Risi
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Ah "America does it" strawman, there must be a handbook on internet trolling or something made back in the old country now. Every single time, every single time, same crap gets regurgitated. "Why are we invading yet another c
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It was never communism back in USSR, it was authoritarianism where all power flowed to the Kremlin marching under the Socialist banner, 30 years its the same shit but to the tune of Nationalism. The economy still remains resource extraction
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I was born in the Soviet Union during its dying years back then everyone knew the system was corrupt, inefficient and basically a pile of bullshit and thankfully it all fell apart. I still remember having to queue hours to get bread from b
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We do not know if "German image forensics expert Jens Kriese" who is interviewed by Spiegel was paid off or threatened in one form or another, especially if he happened to come from East Germany where the Soviet backed regime had
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Well it is not like Russian state is not known for hiring paid trolls and having a well oiled propaganda machine + control of media whose main duties include seeding doubt, spreading fud, and fueling conspiracy.
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Well its possible with nginx for sure, havent used apache in about 10 years now (first lighttpd then nginx) i think, after switching to nginx no going back. Haproxy btw is fantastic too, useful for hiding real location of web server from at
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That's Vegas for you, shinny on outside, grotty on the inside
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"The estimated cost of the police presence is more than £12m." So who should get fired for such a waste of police resources?
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Wasnt the world of Star Trek as depicted in tv series basically communist/socialist where technologies such as replicators, warp drives and very cheap energy making the "Federation way of life" possible, freeing people to exp
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On localbitcoins.com or paxful.com you can buy bitcoin with prepaid vouchers, prepare to lose 20% for keeping your identity secure.
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I use Bitcoin every day, and these steps will rule out 99.999% of users from being able to get any etherium (and hence buy this music) The biggest problem with bitcoin is getting "normal" people to acquire even small amounts witho
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I see Stripe, Paypal, Visa/Mastercard all centralized companies that do restrict access to their systems for all sorts of reasons (often not shared with the person being blocked) all are "pull" methods where your account can
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That is all well and good if you can use Paypal (As per screenshot in article) Some of us can not use Paypal (and are not being told by paypal as to why after being banned) so have to use bitcoin, bank transfers, prepaid cards and cash for
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"On average, two-thirds of the claimed gains in CO2 emissions and fuel consumption since 2008 have been delivered through manipulating tests" How deep does this rabbit hole go :( Here in Ireland the motortax for cars newer than 20
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These guys are not terribly bright in some cases One could also buy amazon.com giftcards with cash in shops in US (no questions asked) then sell them on localbitcoins.com (go check it out > https://localbitcoins.com/buy-b
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See my 2nd comment below, this is definitely happening in electronics section where Amazon fees are smaller. Losing ~20% is not too bad when clean money from a reputable source arrives in your bank account, if you are reselling lets say har
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Well 23 million is a bit of an overkill and I am sure Amazon would raise flags at some stage! but if you look on amazon for products in the 500-1000 range such as electronics (where amazon only takes 6-8% commission) there are plenty of exa
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Everyone is missing the point, this is an example of money laundering 1. Get dirty cash from drug sales, prostitution, etc and buy amazon.com giftcards in shops in US 2. Input the codes into various amazon buyer account(s) 3. Buy the book(s
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I wonder how many problems in the middle east would be solved by bringing em' easy access to porn...
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Why not? if Mars is colonized then there be 2 white dots on this flag (not sure why the moon is white) It looks quite good actually
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Some nginx configuration files are very project specific, especially when you have projects using some of the modules they offer.
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