Operation Barbarossa - launched June 22nd 1941. Almost exactly 75 years ago to the day. But RT made a typo. Let's throw out the baby with the bathwater because of a typo. After all Russia Today must be TOTALLY biased because it makes typos. Nobody else makes typos.
the history of Europe is full of them killing each other.
The history of the WORLD is about people killing each other. Over politics. Fashion. Religion and worshiping the wrong god. Worshiping the right god in the wrong way. Speaking a funny language. Etc. Saying that Europe has a history of killing each other can't be used as a logical argument for anything, since that's pretty much the base state of all humanity anyway.
I quite agree. Anyone who packs up and leaves now was about to do it anyway since doing so would be making a decision based on zero actual information.
However Brexit has brought to light much scarier implications.
"The idea of a common European military headquarters has been revived by the head of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, shortly after the UK’s citizens voted in favor of Brexit.
“We need more cooperation in the European defense policy,” Elmar Brok told Die Welt [Original in German].
The new armed forces could be modeled after the Franco-German model, making European foreign policy much more effective, Brok believes."
Because apparently Europe doesn't feel secure enough under NATO, it requires its own army for "foreign" policy. And incidentally to crush dissent from any other member nation that attempts the wrong kind of democracy.
Why did Somali pirates attack international shipping?
Because it worked and shipping companies were paying their ransom. Likewise for hospitals. Hospitals are dumb enough to pay which makes them a target for more attacks.
So they won't trade with Russia, and they won't trade with the UK. Gee, I sure hope you enjoy your quality Chinese, Indian and African products. You won't get American products because apart from military hardware, Boeing jets, and extremely high tech stuff we all know America doesn't actually make anything anymore...
And as everyone predicted, the pound is tanking without the strength of the EU to prop it up.
This is a reaction of Asian markets. The Dow futures were down over 700 points at one point this morning too. The EU doesn't prop up the pound. In fact, it's quite the other way around. Without Germany, UK and France the EU is nothing. Well now it's still something, but less than what it was. Cable is going to move a lot in the next few weeks on speculation, but I would be very wary about highly leveraged long positions in the Euro...
Another thing you could note is the markets are recovering somewhat, ever since Cameron announced his resignation. Go figure.
Yeah have fun there trying to support the whole show there just you and maybe the French will pay more. By the way Erdogan wants another few billion euro a year or he's going to flood you with "refugees" again. But he's a nice guy and a friend let him in to the EU and give him lots of seats in the government what could possibly go wrong.
It's good to be one of the founding members, and one of the major contributors. Hell I remember back in the early 80's the massive arguments against letting Spain and Portugal into the EEC... Well here we are 40 years later and suddenly the EU seems to have turned into some form of international welfare system where poor and bankrupt countries get to join and get proportionally more say in things than the actual economies that run the show. And now they want to let the Turks in? Buh bye... have fun.
Except mama just won't stop having babies there's a new one every year, and none of the kids feel the need to work, it's just all too easy to ask daddy for money all the time. Well daddy just said "you know what? Fuck you. You're all grown up. It's time you got your own job, son".
Not to mention that what started out as an "Economic Community" is rapidly turning into a central government and bureaucracy that answers to no one. Nor to mention the fact that those who finance the EU keep having their actual voting power diluted with every new drowning rat of a nation that is rescued by the good ship EU, so your vote is worth less, you get to pay more, and the newcomers who only contribute to the expenses side of the balance sheet get to outvote you when it comes to spending your money.
The thing about vassal states is they don't get a say. The UK is the UK. Nothing has changed until they (be it Scotland, Ireland, Wales or even Cornwall) fight a civil war and get their independence. They might not LIKE it, but we and they are used to that.
Please submit your phone, laptop and office computer browsing histories for public inspection before the vote. After all, you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, right?
Serves you right for not buying the $300 Apple-approved selfie stick. No, you're using the stick wrong. Apple. Reimburse. hahahahahahahahahaha -that's a good onhahahahahahahahahahahahaha
All that bitching and moaning. You Apple fanboys just know that if Steve Jobs were still alive you would be lining up in the street for the new phone audio jack that only worked if you had to painfully shove it into your testicles at least every 5 minutes. Don't bitch about the monster company you helped create.
Because he is taking half of what I said out of context. There are clear laws against the example he is using, and I cited quite plainly that law has the power to take rights away. You don't get to take only half of someone's argument then try to use it against them.
You are born with the right to absolutely anything you can imagine. The only thing any law can do is TAKE RIGHTS AWAY.
You see that part in bold? Yeah. That's the part he's intentionally not reading. Hence my remark about not bothering to argue with people who can't read. You can't say I approve with people shoving hot pokers into people's asses as an "OK" thing when shoving pokers into people's asses (without their consent) is pretty clearly AGAINST THE LAW in most of the world.
But hey if you're the kind of guy who reads a recipe for a cake, stops reading where it says "break 3 eggs", and then sues the recipe book company because your cakes look a lot like eggs instead of cake, well...
So basically a bank has nothing to lose from fraudulent use of THEIR credit card system. Either the account holder pays, or the merchant pays. No wonder banks are in no fucking rush at all to deal with the gaping security holes in their systems.
a chargeback is issued and the steam keys are already long gone.
Have you ever done a chargeback? You want user hostile try doing that. First the bank will intimidate you and tell you there's a "service fee" of $25 or $50 or whatever for even TRYING to charge back, THEN they say they will "investigate" and MAYBE the charge will be reversed next week sometime. Then finally if the planets are aligned correctly and the bank really feels like it - they MIGHT approve the charge-back.
Seriously if this is such a major issue and not a flaw with this particular company's security/site design/business model (or a really shitty bank they happen to have chosen), how come absolutely everyone isn't bitching about this? I'm curious. At some point credit card fraud becomes the bank's problem and not the vendor's problem.
I mean, they are the ones handing out game codes without waiting for confirmation that the credit cards being used to buy them are in fact authentic. I think they're full of shit. Everyone else apparently can process credit card payments properly, waiting for the bank to give them the OK before giving out the codes. Apparently only these guys manage to get ripped off in an age where everyone accepts online payments/activation.
Plenty of people "bat an eye" or are you just not aware of all the cable cutting going on? The cable companies have screwed themselves out of their own market. Ain't nobody going to pay $100+ a month for the opportunity to watch Die Hard every other night on every fucking channel.
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Operation Barbarossa - launched June 22nd 1941. Almost exactly 75 years ago to the day. But RT made a typo. Let's throw out the baby with the bathwater because of a typo. After all Russia Today must be TOTALLY biased because it makes typos. Nobody else makes typos.
the history of Europe is full of them killing each other.
The history of the WORLD is about people killing each other. Over politics. Fashion. Religion and worshiping the wrong god. Worshiping the right god in the wrong way. Speaking a funny language. Etc. Saying that Europe has a history of killing each other can't be used as a logical argument for anything, since that's pretty much the base state of all humanity anyway.
However Brexit has brought to light much scarier implications.
"The idea of a common European military headquarters has been revived by the head of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, shortly after the UK’s citizens voted in favor of Brexit. “We need more cooperation in the European defense policy,” Elmar Brok told Die Welt [Original in German]. The new armed forces could be modeled after the Franco-German model, making European foreign policy much more effective, Brok believes."
Because apparently Europe doesn't feel secure enough under NATO, it requires its own army for "foreign" policy. And incidentally to crush dissent from any other member nation that attempts the wrong kind of democracy.
Why did Somali pirates attack international shipping?
Because it worked and shipping companies were paying their ransom. Likewise for hospitals. Hospitals are dumb enough to pay which makes them a target for more attacks.
There still remains that small mater of the user-hostile EULA. No thanks.
The same reason Trump will get elected no doubt.
completely by refusing to trade with them.
So they won't trade with Russia, and they won't trade with the UK. Gee, I sure hope you enjoy your quality Chinese, Indian and African products. You won't get American products because apart from military hardware, Boeing jets, and extremely high tech stuff we all know America doesn't actually make anything anymore...
And as everyone predicted, the pound is tanking without the strength of the EU to prop it up.
This is a reaction of Asian markets. The Dow futures were down over 700 points at one point this morning too. The EU doesn't prop up the pound. In fact, it's quite the other way around. Without Germany, UK and France the EU is nothing. Well now it's still something, but less than what it was. Cable is going to move a lot in the next few weeks on speculation, but I would be very wary about highly leveraged long positions in the Euro...
Another thing you could note is the markets are recovering somewhat, ever since Cameron announced his resignation. Go figure.
Yeah have fun there trying to support the whole show there just you and maybe the French will pay more. By the way Erdogan wants another few billion euro a year or he's going to flood you with "refugees" again. But he's a nice guy and a friend let him in to the EU and give him lots of seats in the government what could possibly go wrong.
It's good to be one of the founding members, and one of the major contributors. Hell I remember back in the early 80's the massive arguments against letting Spain and Portugal into the EEC... Well here we are 40 years later and suddenly the EU seems to have turned into some form of international welfare system where poor and bankrupt countries get to join and get proportionally more say in things than the actual economies that run the show. And now they want to let the Turks in? Buh bye... have fun.
Except mama just won't stop having babies there's a new one every year, and none of the kids feel the need to work, it's just all too easy to ask daddy for money all the time. Well daddy just said "you know what? Fuck you. You're all grown up. It's time you got your own job, son".
Not to mention that what started out as an "Economic Community" is rapidly turning into a central government and bureaucracy that answers to no one. Nor to mention the fact that those who finance the EU keep having their actual voting power diluted with every new drowning rat of a nation that is rescued by the good ship EU, so your vote is worth less, you get to pay more, and the newcomers who only contribute to the expenses side of the balance sheet get to outvote you when it comes to spending your money.
With France voting for a dumbfuck like Hollande, I hardly think anything can make them do worse in their next elections.
The thing about vassal states is they don't get a say. The UK is the UK. Nothing has changed until they (be it Scotland, Ireland, Wales or even Cornwall) fight a civil war and get their independence. They might not LIKE it, but we and they are used to that.
People are lazy. Google is the low hanging fruit everyone picks. Therefore Google has the power, power corrupts, central point of failure, etc.
Please submit your phone, laptop and office computer browsing histories for public inspection before the vote. After all, you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, right?
Serves you right for not buying the $300 Apple-approved selfie stick. No, you're using the stick wrong. Apple. Reimburse. hahahahahahahahahaha -that's a good onhahahahahahahahahahahahaha
All that bitching and moaning. You Apple fanboys just know that if Steve Jobs were still alive you would be lining up in the street for the new phone audio jack that only worked if you had to painfully shove it into your testicles at least every 5 minutes. Don't bitch about the monster company you helped create.
Post it. Been there since, well, since I had a webcam on my laptop. You want to spy on me all you will see is "a suffusion of yellow".
Because he is taking half of what I said out of context. There are clear laws against the example he is using, and I cited quite plainly that law has the power to take rights away. You don't get to take only half of someone's argument then try to use it against them.
You are born with the right to absolutely anything you can imagine. The only thing any law can do is TAKE RIGHTS AWAY.
You see that part in bold? Yeah. That's the part he's intentionally not reading. Hence my remark about not bothering to argue with people who can't read. You can't say I approve with people shoving hot pokers into people's asses as an "OK" thing when shoving pokers into people's asses (without their consent) is pretty clearly AGAINST THE LAW in most of the world.
But hey if you're the kind of guy who reads a recipe for a cake, stops reading where it says "break 3 eggs", and then sues the recipe book company because your cakes look a lot like eggs instead of cake, well...
So basically a bank has nothing to lose from fraudulent use of THEIR credit card system. Either the account holder pays, or the merchant pays. No wonder banks are in no fucking rush at all to deal with the gaping security holes in their systems.
a chargeback is issued and the steam keys are already long gone.
Have you ever done a chargeback? You want user hostile try doing that. First the bank will intimidate you and tell you there's a "service fee" of $25 or $50 or whatever for even TRYING to charge back, THEN they say they will "investigate" and MAYBE the charge will be reversed next week sometime. Then finally if the planets are aligned correctly and the bank really feels like it - they MIGHT approve the charge-back.
Seriously if this is such a major issue and not a flaw with this particular company's security/site design/business model (or a really shitty bank they happen to have chosen), how come absolutely everyone isn't bitching about this? I'm curious. At some point credit card fraud becomes the bank's problem and not the vendor's problem.
I mean, they are the ones handing out game codes without waiting for confirmation that the credit cards being used to buy them are in fact authentic. I think they're full of shit. Everyone else apparently can process credit card payments properly, waiting for the bank to give them the OK before giving out the codes. Apparently only these guys manage to get ripped off in an age where everyone accepts online payments/activation.
Is it really hacking when the password is "Trumpsucks"?
Plenty of people "bat an eye" or are you just not aware of all the cable cutting going on? The cable companies have screwed themselves out of their own market. Ain't nobody going to pay $100+ a month for the opportunity to watch Die Hard every other night on every fucking channel.