About your first point: If the people are not entitled to the homes, don't give them in the first place. Giving people a home and then evicting them at a whim is cruel and barbaric.
About your second point: Have you ever heard about presumption of innocence? It's a basic principle of justice in civilised countries. You cannot punish people without a court proving the accusations and sentencing them.
Please explain how Chaves is a dictator and murdering tyrant. He was elected multiple times with demolishing majorities in elections that were certified as fair and free by observers from all over the world. G.W. Bush can't claim the same, and I remind some calling him the Leader of the Free World.
Soyuz rockets normally carry 3,500 pound payloads into orbit.
This extra boost allows Soyuz to deliver a 6,600 pound payload into orbit.
What's puzzling me is, why would someone want to send all that money into orbit? And, if it's in French Guiana, why do they send British Pounds instead of Euros?
American students really need to start learning a language much earlier than high school. Even the "gifted" kids who get to start in ~7th grade would be better served by starting a few years earlier...
I'm appaled. here in Portugal, kids start learning English in 1st grade. And a second language (Spanish, French or German) is added in 7th grade.
It's the same, here. I've been checked a few times. I wouldn't dream of trying to game the system, but there should be the occasional idiot who does it. Authentically random flagging above a certain percentage guarantees security. If they pick people by their appearance or whatever, forget it.
I always choose self-service when I'm not buying a lot of stuff. I hate waiting, specially in lines. I find it really strange that most people prefer the regular cashiers. For example, I've used an electronic toll device in my ever since it appeared in the 90's. Toll booths are always full of stopped cars. I just pass by and wave them. I wonder why the poor jerks prefer to waste their time waiting and have to worry about keeping cash, instead of just not even thinking about it, like me.
That's the whole point of letting the smartphone and no-clerks checkout lines do almost all the work (and clever marketing algorithms to try to attract your attention with the correct e-coupon at the good time).
I could live perfectly without "marketing", clever or not. I guess I would live even better, but hey, that's just me.
I don't have time to be up to date with all the coupons, promotions and all that shit. Shopping the way you describe here is a nightmare of wasted time, and time is also money.
Most of the time I go to a chain that's some 3 Km away from my house. Their slogan is "no discounts, no promotions, we have the lowest prices all year round". And they do.
Stores assume people will buy more, which won't happen, because people have no money and are avoiding spending as much as possible. I did my job, I cut all my expenses really hard, every time I go to a supermarket, I take a shopping list that I follow strictly. I only buy what I really need, and always buy the cheapest products that don't suck.
Funny, because here in my country the big retail tycoons are the most vocal about reducing wages and social benefits. They forget that people without money can't buy the fancy shit they sell.
Al Qaeda are not Shiites, but ultra-radical Sunites, based in Saudi Wahabism. Al Qaeda considers Shiites as heretics. There made many bombings against Shiites in Iraq and Iran.
This must only be bullshit. Everybody knows solar power is a pipe dream and will never be viable. Data centres should be burning good ole coal and oil, or even tires.
This solar power silliness reminds me of those crazy dudes in the past wasting all taxpayers' money to invent flying machines. Or cures for infections. Or transmitting images over the air in "invisible" waves. All pipe dreams.
I don't think there's any benefit for Nokia. Looks like Microsoft and Accenture planted Trojan horses inside the Nokia board to help them bleed it dry. It's not like it never happened before, specially in government.
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How is this illiterate and ignorant piece of shit rated "Interesting"? I guess stupidity is more broadly distributed than I thought.
About your first point: If the people are not entitled to the homes, don't give them in the first place. Giving people a home and then evicting them at a whim is cruel and barbaric.
About your second point: Have you ever heard about presumption of innocence? It's a basic principle of justice in civilised countries. You cannot punish people without a court proving the accusations and sentencing them.
Please explain how Chaves is a dictator and murdering tyrant. He was elected multiple times with demolishing majorities in elections that were certified as fair and free by observers from all over the world. G.W. Bush can't claim the same, and I remind some calling him the Leader of the Free World.
Rampant starvation? Are you crazy? We're talking about China, not Somalia.
I'm sorry to say this but you're ignorant. How the hell do you expect to feed 7*10^9 people?
I'm not sure, but a dead ocean certainly won't do the job.
By the way, you're an ignorant twat.
Soyuz rockets normally carry 3,500 pound payloads into orbit.
This extra boost allows Soyuz to deliver a 6,600 pound payload into orbit.
What's puzzling me is, why would someone want to send all that money into orbit? And, if it's in French Guiana, why do they send British Pounds instead of Euros?
They are dealing with rising inflation which is raising the cost of their exports.
I fail to find that relation in my faint macro-economy knowledge. In fact, it should be the opposite. Could you detail further?
Well, you Americans could really use a little Spanish...
American students really need to start learning a language much earlier than high school. Even the "gifted" kids who get to start in ~7th grade would be better served by starting a few years earlier...
I'm appaled. here in Portugal, kids start learning English in 1st grade. And a second language (Spanish, French or German) is added in 7th grade.
decimal notation changes with language?!?
Yes it does.
that's a new one.
Only for you
even if it does, the rest of your comment WAS in english.
The decimal separator on my keypad is comma. If you weren't so swift in calling me stupid, I would have explained it earlier.
Stupid is to think English is the only language in the world.
And 99,9999% of it is completely useless.
Lots of people I know think SQL is a Microsoft product, because of Microsoft SQL Server.
Needless to say, people/countries that don't pay back debts won't find a lot of investment dollars going their way. That's the price of walking away.
Who said we want dollars? Are you still living in the 80s?
It's the same, here. I've been checked a few times. I wouldn't dream of trying to game the system, but there should be the occasional idiot who does it. Authentically random flagging above a certain percentage guarantees security. If they pick people by their appearance or whatever, forget it.
I always choose self-service when I'm not buying a lot of stuff. I hate waiting, specially in lines. I find it really strange that most people prefer the regular cashiers. For example, I've used an electronic toll device in my ever since it appeared in the 90's. Toll booths are always full of stopped cars. I just pass by and wave them. I wonder why the poor jerks prefer to waste their time waiting and have to worry about keeping cash, instead of just not even thinking about it, like me.
That's the whole point of letting the smartphone and no-clerks checkout lines do almost all the work (and clever marketing algorithms to try to attract your attention with the correct e-coupon at the good time).
I could live perfectly without "marketing", clever or not. I guess I would live even better, but hey, that's just me.
I don't have time to be up to date with all the coupons, promotions and all that shit. Shopping the way you describe here is a nightmare of wasted time, and time is also money.
Most of the time I go to a chain that's some 3 Km away from my house. Their slogan is "no discounts, no promotions, we have the lowest prices all year round". And they do.
Stores assume people will buy more, which won't happen, because people have no money and are avoiding spending as much as possible. I did my job, I cut all my expenses really hard, every time I go to a supermarket, I take a shopping list that I follow strictly. I only buy what I really need, and always buy the cheapest products that don't suck.
Funny, because here in my country the big retail tycoons are the most vocal about reducing wages and social benefits. They forget that people without money can't buy the fancy shit they sell.
Would it be an American Football or Football (soccer) field?
Al Qaeda are not Shiites, but ultra-radical Sunites, based in Saudi Wahabism. Al Qaeda considers Shiites as heretics. There made many bombings against Shiites in Iraq and Iran.
Whoooosh is the sound of a flying machine going over your head. This machine is made of a metal called Irony.
This must only be bullshit. Everybody knows solar power is a pipe dream and will never be viable. Data centres should be burning good ole coal and oil, or even tires.
This solar power silliness reminds me of those crazy dudes in the past wasting all taxpayers' money to invent flying machines. Or cures for infections. Or transmitting images over the air in "invisible" waves. All pipe dreams.
I think they still have the millions of dollars and the weapons that the US government gave them in the 80's...
I don't think there's any benefit for Nokia. Looks like Microsoft and Accenture planted Trojan horses inside the Nokia board to help them bleed it dry. It's not like it never happened before, specially in government.
Why would anyone want to learn that?