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  1. Re:Swiss here... on Why the Swiss Still Love Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Many small businesses will give you a cash discount equal to about half their marginal tax rate, but you have to negotiate with and pay the owner.

    It's a good deal for everyone (that matters).

  2. Re:Swiss banking on Why the Swiss Still Love Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Isle of Man. Owned outright by the Queen, the world's biggest money launderer.

  3. Re: Swiss banking on Why the Swiss Still Love Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the _old_ numbered accounts they didn't.

    Can you imagine the embarrassment if the Kennedy's swiss accounts were revealed?

  4. Re:Swiss banking on Why the Swiss Still Love Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    That's a Chinese practice.

    They are in the habit because rents don't come close to covering mortgages in China and for some reason untouched properties are worth more there.

    I'd think they'd see the rents and behave differently outside China, but it's reported in N Cal as well.

  5. Re:It's for your good protection on Why the Swiss Still Love Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the old numbered accounts owned by old money families.

    Those are still covered by secrecy laws in effect on the date the account was opened.

    If a family had an old account but not much money, I bet they could get a _lot_ for the account.

  6. The last time a Utah DA tried to claim 'community standards' the lawyer used it as a reason to supeona anonomized pron watching data from DirectTV.

    They will _never_ do that again. The only parts of the USA that come close to Utah's DirectTV porn watching is the deep bible belt.

  7. Re:Politicians are cynical yet so naive on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's 'Sir Jimmy Saville OBE'.

    Show your 'respect for the peerage'. _Always_ refer to him by his correct title, don't let the bastards forget. We're not done until people routinely turn down knighthoods, not wanting to be associated with such a bunch of scumbags.

    BTW anybody know the letters for 'knight of Malta'? Those should be in there too. He was, at least, a 'double knight'.

  8. Re: Yey Free Speech Great Britain on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You can drink beer basically _anywhere_, you just have to pour it into a plastic cup.

    The problem with naked people in public is the people that choose to do so. (Argh, my eyes.) True on both sides of the pond.

  9. Re:THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN, YOU LOSE BITCH. on Fukushima: the Removal of Nuclear Fuel Rods From Damaged Reactor Building Begins (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you measure the ROI when returns are 'hippy chick pussy'?

    I'll accept their are additional costs...lies will have to be told, hippy pussy will have to be washed. Duh!

  10. Re:Mmmhhh, peach! on Volkswagen's Former CEO Charged In Germany Over Diesel Rigging (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    But enough about your mom.

  11. The unabomber manifesto was _insane_. Have you read it? It had nothing to do with libertarianism, rather it was violently paleo.

    He was once very smart, but had untreated schizophrenia for decades. The average schizophrenic episode kills enough brain cells to cost the sufferer about 1 IQ point, it's a physical disease. But he remembered being smart, so treated his thoughts as being useful.

    By the time he was 'manifestoing' his IQ was room temperature at best. But reporters are _stupid_, anything they don't understand is 'genius'. The unabomber manifesto is a towering structure of fallacies built on other fallacies. He completely lost the thread on the first page.

  12. We're also cognizant of the history of commies pulling insane values for 'externality' out of their butts.

  13. Re:YOU'RE A MORONIC LYING FAGGOT KENDALL GET A JOB on Google Fiber To Pay Nearly $4 Million To Louisville In Exit Deal (wdrb.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cancer is coming for you.

    From the rent free tenant in your head. Your insanity will backfire. Count on it.

  14. Re:YOU'RE A MORONIC LYING FAGGOT KENDALL GET A JOB on Google Fiber To Pay Nearly $4 Million To Louisville In Exit Deal (wdrb.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Never change.

  15. Re:Microduct on Google Fiber To Pay Nearly $4 Million To Louisville In Exit Deal (wdrb.com) · · Score: 2

    'As shallow as two inches below'.

    Given it's Kentucky, that would be two inches below the bottom of the pothole, or about three feet below the regular pavement surface.

  16. Re:Official story? on Volkswagen's Former CEO Charged In Germany Over Diesel Rigging (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    As a rogue and an Engineer, I think this was hatespeach.

  17. So lockup the German state of Hannover and the Porsche family?

  18. Re:How the hell would Facebook know?!?! on EFF: Facebook Should Notify Users Who Interact With Fake Police 'Sock Puppet' Accounts (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    You don't have a copy of gimp?

    Kids these days...When I was a kid, we made fake IDs with oversized ID boards and polaroid cameras, and we liked it.

  19. When nobody knows what to do, lawyers make bank. Lawyers run the EU and all modern states.

    If you have servers in reach of the EU, get them out now. Fuck them.

  20. You keep repeating that. Fuckoff Drinkypoo.

  21. That law makes anything a federal judge doesn't like retroactively illegal...Are you a federal judge?

  22. Re:All hail the almighty advertising dollar! /s on Android TV Update Puts Home-Screen Ads On Multi-Thousand-Dollar Sony Smart TVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a new video scaling method! Super advanced.

    Just show video in native and use the rest of the screen for ads.

  23. Translated to remove ego: You're such a shitty coder, the only jobs you can get are 'pissing on fires' for organizations that build broken shit.

  24. Go away and stop bothering me, you snotty nosed malodorous pervert.

  25. HS was very much a popularity contest. Everybody got a vote, the the stupid majority ran the place. The last place they ran (before facebook).

    Now they just bitch about minimum wage being too low, everybody ignores them.