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  1. Re:Pound is in the toliet on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your premise is wrong. The UK is still a major manufacturer.

    Your logic is also wrong. Whether it's goods or services, the demand curves bend the same way.

    But don't beat yourself up for being ignorant. The peanut gallery loved it!

  2. Re:Different expectations on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Plan to throw one away. You will, anyway.
    --
    Fred Brooks

  3. Re: You made it, Syrians! on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They never got round to it when they were blowing the shit out of each other, so I doubt it's a priority right now.

  4. Re:Researchers Ignore Real World Concerns Yet Agai on Study Finds Password Misuse In Hospitals Is 'Endemic' (securityledger.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Implant all the staff with chips. The kind they use for pets.

    Then they can log on by head-butting the computer.

  5. Re:End of Great Britain? on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you laugh enough at the stupid poor people, eventually they get pissed and start voting against you.

    Nah. If you're even remotely subtle about it they don't even notice.

  6. Re: You made it, Syrians! on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    now there will be no counterweight at all to the Germany-France tandem

    Don't be silly, there's Italy.

    (Pffffff!)

  7. Re: You made it, Syrians! on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a union for corporations trying to maximize their profits, there is not anything tangible in it for the people in the union or their economies beyond the interests of the corporations.

    Well apart from the ability to export stuff easily. Or go somewhere else to work. Nothing that would be useful to a small business or an individual at all.

  8. Re: Rationale aside... on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Most countries don't have a fixed exchange rate - so devaluing is entirely the market's choice, not the central bank's.

    Go read about the Weimar republic and learn why what you wrote is completely stupid.

    Of course a big exporting country benefits from sharing a currency with weaker countries.

    No it doesn't. It benefits from having a weak currency, shared or not.

  9. Re: You made it, Syrians! on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I reckon Scotland will be leaving the UK

    Build a wall, and make the Romans pay for it.

  10. Ginger twats on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Merge them and the Scots as Transkintyria. Or if you prefer, Paddyjockoland.

  11. Re:Is it a binding referendum on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Despite what the tabloid leak said, HMtQ was pro remain.

    After all, most of her relatives are krauts.

  12. Re:Congratulations, Britain! on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He thinks Boris is going to win and he wants there to be someone with a worse haircut than his at summits and shit like that.

  13. Re:Good for them on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But they have to change the name to Airstrip One.

  14. Re:End of Great Britain? on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just seen Strawhead Boris and that horrid pipsqueak Gove on the telly and if you'd just come out of a coma you'd assume by the way they're talking that a) one of them had just become PM and b) Camer-hun had just died.

  15. Re:End of Great Britain? on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leavers are older than 45, live in rural and small town regions, mainly in the East and North of England and in Central Wales, and have no university degree.

    A bit like Trump supporters? I wonder if they can be traced back to a common ancestor.

  16. Re:Rationale aside... on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well it would be two fingers, but yeah. Look at the financial markets, they certainly didn't like it.

    But then they're a bunch of jewish masonic lizards...

  17. Re:End of Great Britain? on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. Part of Britain's appeal, business wise, was that it's kind of an interface with one foot in the EU and the other in its former Empire.

    It'll probably mean cheaper bananas.

  18. Re: Rationale aside... on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a proper constitution, it doesn't say you can have guns!

  19. Re:End of Great Britain? on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they going to send her back to Germany?

  20. Re: Rationale aside... on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Germans pushed for the Euro because they benefitted hugely from artificially devaluing their currency and stimulating exports

    I don't get this argument. Devaluing your currency isn't difficult. The Germans, of all people, are aware of that.

    As to Greece, they had two problems.
    One: they were able to borrow cheaply, and instead of investing it in things like infrastructure and training they pissed half of it up the wall and used the rest to speculate on property.
    Two: none of them paid any tax.

  21. Re:No liberal bias? on Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The government is banking on a future generation of children to pay their money into their system, and if there are no children then the entire system collapses, and it can't fulfill its obligation to pay a rent to you.

    And what value will investments have if there are no children?

  22. As Butt-head might say on Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Is All Electric, Agile, and Has A Capable Face-Arm (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Err ... what?

  23. Re:So... they are making a feature phone? on Huawei Is Working On Its Own Mobile OS In Case Things Sour With Google (theinformation.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand that other people might need or want different apps to me.

    What I don't understand is why they're installed as standard on my device, and why I can't delete the fucking cunts.

  24. University of Woolamaloo - Rule 2 on Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Would this be like the "beating up sooties" training some police departments use? IOW, how not to get caught doing it?

  25. Re:Quit trying to teach non-programmers to program on Google Launches Android Programming Course For Absolute Beginners (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I've programmed in assembler, and I have trouble understanding anything written in scripting languages. I think it's because by the time I've got to end.of.ridiculouslyKZF_long.identifier.poettering.factory.subobject.valInt223a I've forgotten what day it is, never mind what the beginning of it was or what problem I'm trying to solve.