How much did he "donate" to the National party to be granted citizenship in New Zealand despite having been here for a total of 12 whole days, then never returning or investing the money he said he would.
I imagine there was a payoff to the Labour party as well, because I can't imagine why there has never been an inquiry about the whole matter.
Not that it's an isolated incident, no-one is really sure what this criminal is called, but the minister of immigration gave him citizenship as well, against the advice of officials.
I have no doubt you're correct, but their problem in my city is that taxis are not the overpriced, dirty, scummy service that some people complain about on slashdot.
My son uses Uber if he's out drinking (because he's a dirty millenial) but pays either the same or more than he would if he called a cab.
The only time I used Uber was last year, and the guy driving me was on his last night, as Uber pays so much less than driving a cab. That trip was my only one with Uber because the trip cost me $45 instead of the usual $25 or so because of "surge pricing" whatever the fuck that is.
Not yet. Apparently I can stream Civ VI from my windows box to my Linux box, but I'm not sure why I would want to do that.
In my view Civ VI is not (yet) as good as Civ V anyway.
When I get home tonight I'm going to finish crushing Shaka's coastal city with my fleet of frigates, then finish researching flight, so that I can spam out a bunch of bombers and take out his Impi army.
Using Linux Mint on an oldish Lenovo laptop. Steam and Civilization V run really well.
While you make a good point, my local news had a longish piece last night about Black Panther as if yet another superhero movie is something remarkable.
Where I live I can't see printed newspapers surviving another 10 years, but it is because of the awful quality.
There are two newspaper groups nationally, and they attempted to merge with each other last year. Thankfully the regulator told them they were dreaming.
Their real problems are the fact that they have no idea who their audience is any more. They print an endless parade of celebrity tittle-tattle and no world news to speak of. Their opinion pieces are all written by 25 year-old who who know fuck-all about anything because they got rid of anyone with any real experience years ago.
Even the standard of the photography is rubbish now, because they laid off all the photographers.
The idiot managers do however wonder why no-one wants to pay for their product.
I worked at a printing supply company and the paper guys could talk endlessly about their products.
It is nerdy, but the charm wears off during the third hour of that weekly sales meeting.
The summary talks about a million dollar printing press which is like a big office copier. In the real world a million dollar office copier is just an office copier, and can't compete with a real offset press.
The cheapest one we sold cost about $5.8 million and if you really specced our top of the line model up you would not get much change from $25 million.
It's a totally different beast, for a totally different market.
As does every other Olympic level athlete.
it's not restricted to Russia and never has been. They have just been the most blatant at it, and the organised.
You may have heard of Florence Griffith-Joyner who was American and won many medals in running in the most suspicious circumstances possible, then died in suspicious circumstances at the age of 38.
You may also have heard of Lance Armstrong who has now admitted to being a drugs cheat despite never failing a test.
As far as I'm concerned they are the tip of the iceberg, and anyone who wins a medal at this or any other Olympics is a drugs cheat.
Based on the track record of any of the "content owners", Disney will make an awful mess of any music (or video on demand) service they decide to get into.
As an aside, I went to a specialist music store I know of, looking for a particular CD they might have (the search function on their site is broken).
They now have a huge room downstairs full of old-fashioned 33 rpm records, with a bunch of bearded men looking through them.
That's a fashion trend that will die (again).
You beat me to it.
None of things he listed were invented by Americans (except, arguably the aeroplane, but then the Wright Brothers' patents prevented the US developing any new designs and the French became the masters of the air).
According to the idiot troll below, the real inventors were murdered for doing so however.
I don't like Kim Dotcom at all, and as I am a New Zealander, I will be helping to pay him if he wins.
I really, really hope he does win. The New Zealand Police rolled over like a pack of craven lickspittles when the US government called despite the case being terrible (as subsequent court rulings have shown).
The other thing that smells bad about the whole thing is the way they went in guns drawn as if he was some kind of threat. The police here do not routinely carry firearms, and that's the way we like it. If a couple of detectives had walked up to his front door and knocked, they would have achieved the same end.
I have often wondered why the video of the armed arrest was shown on the TV news the very night of the raid. Is it appropriate for the police to conduct trial by media?
Well, if by quite recent you mean a thousand years or so, you might be right (in the Christian context). After all the University of Bologna has been handing out theology degrees since about 1088.
However, if I was a priest telling the villagers that thy needed to give me some of their harvest and pray to this statue over here to ensure another one next year, then I had better have a pretty good justification for it.
I imagine that's a possible basis for theology.
Theology has probably been "studied" since the first priest caste formed maybe 10,000 years ago when the species began forming structured societies.
That really does not make theology anything other than arguments about what to believe.
The business morons always make this type of prediction./quote>
No, no it's all the Socialists fault, because:
Their lack of understanding about the true nature of economics means that their policies will always be pushed too far, and will eventually destroy the economy that is hosting these socialists.
It must be true because some idiot A/C believes all the far right propaganda.
Does it? Who does it work for? You should have a look at this study.
Also, The Economist Intelligence Unit thinks you have some problems, so my opinion is not really what counts here.
The point I was trying to make is that you have exactly the same system you had in 1776. Maybe it's time for a look at it.
Also, I'm unsure why you think I'm in the UK, I never said I was. My country actually overhauled our voting system about 20 years ago, because we got sick of first-past-the-post governments being able to rule with 38% of the vote. We went with a proportional system, which has been a huge success.
My Prime Minister formed a coalition with two other parties within a few weeks of the election we had, and it will be stable for the three years of her term, (probably).
If the coalition does break down no-one will panic, we will have another election.
I am not in the UK. Our Prime Minister has just announced she's pregnant, if that helps.
Our framers pretty much set things up this way at the federal level...
Which is the problem as far as I can see. Your system is not nearly flexible enough, because you've written rules into your constitution so nothing changes. The easily corrupted 18th century system is still being used (and corrupted) in the 21 st century.
Those of us who live in a former British Dominion are happy with the fact that we can change our voting system, which we have done to the benefit of the voters but not the politicians.
I'm not surprised that folks on the other side of the pond don't get how this works.
I'm not sure why you would think we don't understand the US system, it's not hard to follow, it's just that there are so many better ways of electing your government, and there are examples in use all over the world today, but you continue to put up with the gerrymandering and lobbying and riders being attached to bills and all the other graft and collusion and still feel like you might have some influence over those who rule you.
It just proves that nobody quite does propaganda like the Americans I suppose.
You still think you have two distinct parties in the US?
What I wonder about is why Americans think having two parties is normal and not to be questioned.
The UK currently has 6 parties in it's parliament, and the tiny little country I live in, of only 4 million people, currently has 5 parties represented.
Until recently we had as many as 8 parties but apparently the US, a country of 320,000,000 agree with each other to the extent that they only need two parties.
Of course no-one does propaganda quite like the US.
That person that jumped to their death from the factory window could be your mother or uncle in a year, or less.
Except that it won't be, and you know it.
When Mr. Trump says something, there is no reason to believe him, he says lots of things. Some of what he says can be understood, and some of the things he says are even nearly true, but "bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US" is not something anyone really believes.
Including Mr. Trump.
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Thiel still wanted citizenship here.
Yes, in very dubious circumstances.
How much did he "donate" to the National party to be granted citizenship in New Zealand despite having been here for a total of 12 whole days, then never returning or investing the money he said he would.
I imagine there was a payoff to the Labour party as well, because I can't imagine why there has never been an inquiry about the whole matter.
Not that it's an isolated incident, no-one is really sure what this criminal is called, but the minister of immigration gave him citizenship as well, against the advice of officials.
They want to put taxis out of business...
I have no doubt you're correct, but their problem in my city is that taxis are not the overpriced, dirty, scummy service that some people complain about on slashdot.
My son uses Uber if he's out drinking (because he's a dirty millenial) but pays either the same or more than he would if he called a cab.
The only time I used Uber was last year, and the guy driving me was on his last night, as Uber pays so much less than driving a cab. That trip was my only one with Uber because the trip cost me $45 instead of the usual $25 or so because of "surge pricing" whatever the fuck that is.
Not yet. Apparently I can stream Civ VI from my windows box to my Linux box, but I'm not sure why I would want to do that.
In my view Civ VI is not (yet) as good as Civ V anyway.
When I get home tonight I'm going to finish crushing Shaka's coastal city with my fleet of frigates, then finish researching flight, so that I can spam out a bunch of bombers and take out his Impi army.
Using Linux Mint on an oldish Lenovo laptop. Steam and Civilization V run really well.
...were in fact free Tesla/SpaceX advertising....
While you make a good point, my local news had a longish piece last night about Black Panther as if yet another superhero movie is something remarkable.
Where I live I can't see printed newspapers surviving another 10 years, but it is because of the awful quality.
There are two newspaper groups nationally, and they attempted to merge with each other last year. Thankfully the regulator told them they were dreaming.
Their real problems are the fact that they have no idea who their audience is any more. They print an endless parade of celebrity tittle-tattle and no world news to speak of. Their opinion pieces are all written by 25 year-old who who know fuck-all about anything because they got rid of anyone with any real experience years ago.
Even the standard of the photography is rubbish now, because they laid off all the photographers.
The idiot managers do however wonder why no-one wants to pay for their product.
As long as we allow corporations and rich people to run the government through their bribes, we are screwed.
What choice do you have? I don't think the average American is allowing this to happen. Your system of government is set up to work this way.
I worked at a printing supply company and the paper guys could talk endlessly about their products.
It is nerdy, but the charm wears off during the third hour of that weekly sales meeting.
The summary talks about a million dollar printing press which is like a big office copier. In the real world a million dollar office copier is just an office copier, and can't compete with a real offset press.
The cheapest one we sold cost about $5.8 million and if you really specced our top of the line model up you would not get much change from $25 million.
It's a totally different beast, for a totally different market.
How long until Americans realise their country is slowly becoming a corporarocracy?
I think that ship has sailed, these guys agree with me and did some research into the subject.
Of course your question is a good one, and I don't know the answer because the one thing America does really well is propaganda.
As does every other Olympic level athlete.
it's not restricted to Russia and never has been. They have just been the most blatant at it, and the organised.
You may have heard of Florence Griffith-Joyner who was American and won many medals in running in the most suspicious circumstances possible, then died in suspicious circumstances at the age of 38.
You may also have heard of Lance Armstrong who has now admitted to being a drugs cheat despite never failing a test.
As far as I'm concerned they are the tip of the iceberg, and anyone who wins a medal at this or any other Olympics is a drugs cheat.
Based on the track record of any of the "content owners", Disney will make an awful mess of any music (or video on demand) service they decide to get into.
As an aside, I went to a specialist music store I know of, looking for a particular CD they might have (the search function on their site is broken).
They now have a huge room downstairs full of old-fashioned 33 rpm records, with a bunch of bearded men looking through them.
That's a fashion trend that will die (again).
You beat me to it.
None of things he listed were invented by Americans (except, arguably the aeroplane, but then the Wright Brothers' patents prevented the US developing any new designs and the French became the masters of the air).
According to the idiot troll below, the real inventors were murdered for doing so however.
Kim Dotcom lived in New Zealand, but the Mega companies had nothing to do with either NZ or Germany.
I really, really hope he does win. The New Zealand Police rolled over like a pack of craven lickspittles when the US government called despite the case being terrible (as subsequent court rulings have shown).
The other thing that smells bad about the whole thing is the way they went in guns drawn as if he was some kind of threat. The police here do not routinely carry firearms, and that's the way we like it. If a couple of detectives had walked up to his front door and knocked, they would have achieved the same end.
I have often wondered why the video of the armed arrest was shown on the TV news the very night of the raid. Is it appropriate for the police to conduct trial by media?
Well, if by quite recent you mean a thousand years or so, you might be right (in the Christian context). After all the University of Bologna has been handing out theology degrees since about 1088.
However, if I was a priest telling the villagers that thy needed to give me some of their harvest and pray to this statue over here to ensure another one next year, then I had better have a pretty good justification for it.
I imagine that's a possible basis for theology.
Theology has probably been "studied" since the first priest caste formed maybe 10,000 years ago when the species began forming structured societies.
That really does not make theology anything other than arguments about what to believe.
Founder Robert W. Welch Jr., Fred C. Koch
Who funds the Tea Party side of the GOP? Koch Industries.
Just a bunch of self interested billionaires spewing endless propaganda.
Rupert also owns The Sun. Rupert also spends more time and effort influencing governments than the Russians.
The business morons always make this type of prediction./quote>
No, no it's all the Socialists fault, because:
Their lack of understanding about the true nature of economics means that their policies will always be pushed too far, and will eventually destroy the economy that is hosting these socialists.
It must be true because some idiot A/C believes all the far right propaganda.
our system actually works,
Does it? Who does it work for? You should have a look at this study.
Also, The Economist Intelligence Unit thinks you have some problems, so my opinion is not really what counts here.
The point I was trying to make is that you have exactly the same system you had in 1776. Maybe it's time for a look at it.
Also, I'm unsure why you think I'm in the UK, I never said I was. My country actually overhauled our voting system about 20 years ago, because we got sick of first-past-the-post governments being able to rule with 38% of the vote. We went with a proportional system, which has been a huge success.
My Prime Minister formed a coalition with two other parties within a few weeks of the election we had, and it will be stable for the three years of her term, (probably).
If the coalition does break down no-one will panic, we will have another election.
I am not in the UK. Our Prime Minister has just announced she's pregnant, if that helps.
Our framers pretty much set things up this way at the federal level...
Which is the problem as far as I can see. Your system is not nearly flexible enough, because you've written rules into your constitution so nothing changes. The easily corrupted 18th century system is still being used (and corrupted) in the 21 st century.
Those of us who live in a former British Dominion are happy with the fact that we can change our voting system, which we have done to the benefit of the voters but not the politicians.
I'm not surprised that folks on the other side of the pond don't get how this works.
I'm not sure why you would think we don't understand the US system, it's not hard to follow, it's just that there are so many better ways of electing your government, and there are examples in use all over the world today, but you continue to put up with the gerrymandering and lobbying and riders being attached to bills and all the other graft and collusion and still feel like you might have some influence over those who rule you.
It just proves that nobody quite does propaganda like the Americans I suppose.
The same moron who thinks "true" and "truthy" are the same thing.
You still think you have two distinct parties in the US?
What I wonder about is why Americans think having two parties is normal and not to be questioned.
The UK currently has 6 parties in it's parliament, and the tiny little country I live in, of only 4 million people, currently has 5 parties represented.
Until recently we had as many as 8 parties but apparently the US, a country of 320,000,000 agree with each other to the extent that they only need two parties.
Of course no-one does propaganda quite like the US.
That person that jumped to their death from the factory window could be your mother or uncle in a year, or less.
Except that it won't be, and you know it.
When Mr. Trump says something, there is no reason to believe him, he says lots of things. Some of what he says can be understood, and some of the things he says are even nearly true, but "bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US" is not something anyone really believes.
Including Mr. Trump.