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by twobits 11y ago
It's totally unfair and undemocratic for some people to be able to print money and for the rest to not be able to. Gives the former huge advantage, and creates economic inequality.
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by twobits 11y ago
That's what I have been thinking how the system should be. Just print eg 3% more money each year. Give eg 30% of the new money to the state for its expenses, give the rest equally divided to all the population. End of story. No need fo
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by twobits 11y ago
We don't know if all of them are victims of ISIS. We don't know if one in a thousand isn't ISIS, planning on attacking. ISIS actually has said they are doing that.
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by twobits 11y ago
Indeed, but a) you need to have the seed of having an open mind, that can help you later on. If you learnt to have a closed mind, then it's a fortress new ideas can't come in. b) There is a upper limit of mixing proportions, above
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by twobits 11y ago
We don't know who is coming. I don't want to learn in the Paris way. And I think the probability for that kind of events is scarily high. I didn't say they are "inherently evil". I say they are being taught since bi
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by twobits 11y ago
Did you actually see the pics on the link? Do you think a person indoctrinated since birth to hating / wanting to kill the infidels, can be "fixed" 2 or 3 decades later? I think it's a losing game, at the extremely very
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by twobits 11y ago
"we're all just human beings" Do you think these kids will "integrate": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3362342/Babes-arms-I... ? ..Of course we are all humans, but that doesn&#x2
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by twobits 11y ago
"obnoxiously large clouds" Yes, I don't like winter either.
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by twobits 11y ago
"In my experience, walking twenty paces behind a vaper vaping is even more unpleasant than walking four paces behind a cigarette smoker smoking." That's psychological issue of yours. You think that, so you "feel" th
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by twobits 11y ago
How many cars were upwind of that poor doorman throughout the day? Did he survive?!
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by twobits 11y ago
That's demonstrably not true. Experiments have been done on this with animals. There have also been experiments with filling a space with ecig vapor, and calculating how much nic was is the air. It was extremely low. You don't kno
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by twobits 11y ago
"If someone is driving a SUV down the sidewalk I would probably call the police" That's just obnoxious. "the default is not dump whatever you want into the air." Lol. Pass the news to industry. And seriously, with y
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The problem with projects. (humor)(youtube.com)
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by twobits 11y ago
As you said, "what you signed up to do", and "you volunteered to lose sleep". And you do that, because evolutionarily, you kind of like your kids. Like a lot. But without kids, under duress, try to not sleep for 3+ days.
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by twobits 11y ago
I meant olives, with extra salt on top of them. Salt, to immediately kick you off, (with no real nutritious support), and olives, for their fat and iron, and nutrients to sustain and feed you. In this case they were greek, but I suppose tha
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by twobits 11y ago
"So ultimately, we learned that you can go for 9 months without sleeping before you die" My "high score" is 3 days without sleeping. Think young, healthy, pretty physical, 1st year in university, while red alert 1 was ho
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by twobits 11y ago
Anyone can argue anything. The actual q is, how isn't this torture? And the answer is, of course it is.
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by twobits 11y ago
But when Merkel wins in 2013 with 41.5% with a voting age population turnout of 66%, with 1.5% invalid, it's ok, eh? http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/merkel-wins-thir... http://www.idea.
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by twobits 11y ago
Well, not exactly. You get a better context if you say that the two countries have a sweet little history going back to byzantium, where turks invaded, greeks invaded, turks invaded, greeks invaded, turks invaded,... PS: And yes, it was the
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by twobits 11y ago
I'd define it as me paying 90% taxes last year, while my country is still getting worse.
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by twobits 11y ago
About immigration, you should read about the "Dublin 2" treaty, and be amazed at the EU's hypocrisy.
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by twobits 11y ago
So your solution is for greece to start WW3?
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by twobits 11y ago
No, the greeks don't demand more money. They want to make the debt viable, in order to be able to pay it.
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by twobits 11y ago
But they were lending greece. And getting nice profit. When TSHTF, politicians made that private debt public.
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by twobits 11y ago
You are not paying for greece. You (and all european tax payers) are paying for Deutsche Bank. Private debts were made public. You should ask Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Schauble, why you should pay for debts that were private.
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by twobits 11y ago
The basic idea: BMW wants to sell more cars to greeks. Greeks don't have enough money so they can't buy. Deutsche Bank (DB) gives "free money" in loans. (And of course DB knows that greece isn't exactly "strong
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by twobits 11y ago
"I don't want a world where every move I make is being watched" That's already the case. There is (near) total transparency for the population. The only way to fight back, is to have total transparency for the powerful f
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by twobits 11y ago
I totally agree with this. Privacy is a lost war. We have to turn this on its head. Seems paradoxical, but anyone who doesn't like the surveillance state, having lost the war for privacy, should be FOR surveillance and accessibility to
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by twobits 11y ago
"When the message is condensed and communicated in a way that everyone understands (even if that means highlighting some relatively trivial effects because they're more universally digestible), it becomes easier for Joe Public to
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by twobits 11y ago
"I do not understand why countries want to give up so much power to foreign corporations?" Because: a) "Countries" don't give up those things. The corrupted and bribed politicians do. b) If you are not corrupted, y

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