hartpuff

5 ms·

1.
by hartpuff 10y ago
You won't experience my life. So why should you get a vote on anything that affects me?
2.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> Young people are still building their lives, trying to establish their career. They're likely going to be denied the opportunity to live and work in 27 countries. Why? Do you think only EU citizens are allowed to live and work in
3.
by hartpuff 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution HTH
4.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> they are known for being violent ones Which imperialist was the non-violent one then? > Of small comfort then, is the fact that the English have abolished slavery in 1833. I imagine it was a major comfort to slaves at that time. But
5.
by hartpuff 10y ago
It's even less mentioned that the French abolished slavery about 40 years before that.
6.
by hartpuff 10y ago
Actually the Glorious Revolution had such relatively few deaths it is also known as the Bloodless Revolution.
7.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> But let's not be mistaken about its origins. Let's not make nonsensical statements like US independence was completely inspired by the Lumières then. Most notably, US independence was also inspired by the Glorious Revolutio
8.
by hartpuff 10y ago
I think the same way about droll as I do begs the question .[1] I don't see the point of insisting the original/archaic meaning of a word is 'correct' if, in the English-speaking world we live in today, essentially no
9.
by hartpuff 10y ago
Hopefully the parent of your post was joking - the site he linked to is a "joke" site - but either way, it's misleading and unhelpful (particularly to non-English speakers) to pretend that "begs the question" was us
10.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> But I don't see a great reason why aside from squatting or having tons of companies why someone should own 200x .coms. How about because they paid for 200x .coms? BTW, for you and some others here: Domain squatting is when someo
11.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> An idea I've been tossing around: What if domains cost $100 if more than one person wants it? The idea here is to squeeze the squatters with 000s of domains. So they dump all their crap, no resale value names that don't bring
12.
by hartpuff 10y ago
Domains used to cost $0 to register. Edit: LOL Which idiot downvoted this? The chronic lack of basic tech/internet knowledge among some people here is ridiculous. In 1995, the NSF authorized NSI to begin charging registrants
13.
by hartpuff 10y ago
So "crims" (if they're criminals why isn't it a simple case of prosecuting them and confiscating their ill-gotten gains?) are making otherwise unusable IPv4s usable? That seems to be the bottom line to this story.
14.
by hartpuff 10y ago
Someone trots out Hitler analogy #879274032890, and it's the poster who at least turns it into a laugh who gets downvoted? Edit: And this post downvoted within seconds . What a fucking joke this place is thanks to assholes abusing the
15.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> the majority of the rest are trying to provide useful services to improve their users lives And if the ads or results on subjects you're interested in just happen to take a line against what you personally believe on the subject,
16.
by hartpuff 10y ago
LOL No answer (because your post made zero sense) but downvoted. Pathetic.
17.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> Not sure why my previous comment was voted down Same reason mine was. Tedious and predictable Ali fanboys. It's really nice that he finally got around to expressing some kind of weak regret decades after the event - as if the only
18.
by hartpuff 10y ago
Which comment is misogynistic or racist, and who is 'calling it out'?
19.
by hartpuff 10y ago
It's somewhat ironic that your comment was also posted twice. :) FWIW, I don't disapprove of you submitting this twice. I, like most people, did not see the original submission, so why not.
20.
by hartpuff 10y ago
Ali's friend, Malcolm X, hardly an "Uncle Tom" - as Ali disgracefully called another friend he betrayed, Joe Frazier - had turned away from the anti-white racism of the NOI by the early 60s (and been killed by the NOI as a re
21.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> There are many things that are curious in the UK legal system. This week, a guy has been sentenced to 30y in jail for gun trafficking [...] items that are not even illegal in countries like the US If you tried to smuggle this: http:&#
22.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> Ali wasn't "allowed" anything. He lost his livelihood for roughly a third of his athletic prime for standing up for his beliefs. He faced constant racism and bigotry. Joe Frazier supported Ali financially when he was una
23.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> Even triple has the right prefix. Unlike, say, three?
24.
by hartpuff 10y ago
So it's simply grinding an axe against London, and not that, according to the UK National Crime Agency, "hundreds of billions of US dollars of criminal money almost certainly continue to be laundered through UK banks, including th
25.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> if the Maffia recycles money into legitimate assets in Italy then trades those assets in London, it's pretty rich for an Italian to try to pin that on London It's not rich to criticise London if London is aware of or suspects
26.
by hartpuff 10y ago
"some of the City’s biggest investment banks – including Goldman Sachs and UBS – are charging the government a £1 fee for work that would normally cost tens of millions of pounds." "Oliver Holbourn, head of market investments
27.
by hartpuff 10y ago
"the share price had been at 400p as recently as February, leading critics to blast the decision to sell now and question the relationship between banks and the Treasury " http://www.express.co.uk/finance/cit
28.
by hartpuff 10y ago
Other than every quote in my two posts?
29.
by hartpuff 10y ago
I wasn't addressing the veracity or otherwise of the "100% success rate" claim, I was using a different quote from the article that was linked, stating the UK's financial regulator told a whistleblower to not contact th
30.
by hartpuff 10y ago
> The premise is that because corruption involves money and money involves banks and London has lots of banks, transitively, London is very corrupt. I thought it was based on the premise that: London is the drug money laundering ca

More ›