Stalins Organ
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so much for trying to keep it simple then!
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I'm sure they would only leave outthe "u"to add color........
But no - they do not - only Jon does so
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As I understand it, no, you didn't get a mortgage from GS....but the banks you did get mortgages from sold them to investment bankers - including GS - who then traded the debt around for advantage to themselves.
Whatever it is that the infamous CDO's were - they included a considerable amount of "toxic mortgage" debt.
GS were selling CDO's off to various investors.
At the same time they were betting that those packages would collapse - taking what amounted to insurance against the value of those CDO's - if the value fell they would get a payout.
So on one hand they were encouraging people to buy them....but they were not telling people that they expected them to be worthless in short order.
Happy to be corrected....but I think that's the guts of it.
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I find the notion that some ppl should be excluded from working in one part of the world based on where they were born both illogical & distastefull.
It is completely logical from an evolutionary point of view - you have your resources, and you seek to ensure that you descendant's keep the use of them - introducing "strangers" in to the environment creates more competition for resources and increases the chance your descenadants may lose control of them.
we are not so far removed from the jungles and savannah's - recorded history is only 5k years, farming is possibly as little as 10k years old - "civilisation", "human rights", liberalism, and "Western civilisation" as we know them today arguably can only be explicitly seen in the last 1000 years, and industrialisation is, of course, only 300 years old.
None of those have done more than scratch the surface of a million years of more-or-less human evolution leading up to them!
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I guess Mike was prattling on about about his experiences in it huh? the revolution that is...not the wine......although no doubt he had something to say about these new fangled bottles.....
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Ever tried Chinese Pizza?
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The defence mentioned below seems to be the same one claimed by the peaceniks who sabotaged the radomes at the Waihopai spy-base - ie they "honestly" believed they were doing a "greater good" - it worked for them too
Greenpeace-driven economic sabotage was catapulted into the public
limelight following the non-guilty jury verdict rendered on September 20,
2000, at the criminal trial of Greenpeace UK executive director, Peter
Melchett. Melchett and 27 other members of Greenpeace had been
criminally charged on July 26, 1999, with raiding (trespass), damaging
(vandalism) and trying to remove (theft) six acres of a GM maize crop that
were being grown by local Norfolk farmers for seed company Agr-Evo Ltd
(now the agrochemical company Aventis). At trial, Melchett successfully
invoked the subjective facts-intensive defense known in Britain as “the
Tommy Archer defense” which, as the Independent wrote, "relied on the
jury accepting that the defendant genuinely believed that the action would
prevent greater damage being done."
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Thanks for correcting me - I had thought that it was a paraphrase of Alexander Dumas (the son)
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Generalisations are always wrong.
(that's irony....just so as you know......)
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*whoosh*joke*whoosh*
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JonS
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Sigh.....look...there's no nukes in orbit...k?!
Any nuking will be the old fashioned way - by bomber, by sub or by missile - the way our grand pappy's did it!
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I think you will find that we will find that he was the buggeree rather than the buggerer.
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Military applications are noted in the wiki article, of course....
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nah - that's more a rip off of other aussies......
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Ah - sorry - well in that case - good guess!
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Who remembers the Pueblo?
Juno claiming prior knowledge does actually require that you did say something earlier.......& I dont' see anything in your previous article claiming anything - indeed you say it reminds you of hte Tonkin incident....where nothing actually happened over a 2 day period.....
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lol - I love how the "slightly more humble and academic" SMH version includes a coupel of lines stunchly defending the editor who foisted this great lie upon the world - apparently you only do this sort of thing if you are
a stickler for painstaking accuracy. He went for the dull, unvarnished truth, always."- oh yeah - Aff's an Aussie.....
The irish are used to it - we've only had 150 years of having an obnoxious big brother next door who's always full of himself. And they never actually invaded us....
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I expect someone without the ability to understand English could still read it.....as long as they are familiar withhte Latin alphabet.
as a matter of interest, who should French, Spanish, Portuguese and German speakers thank?
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Any idea whether it's a bit more rational than the 1st effort?
I remember playing the demo and thinking what a great concept poorly done......
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my kids play something similar on Jagex's funorb site - albeit a bit more complicated....zombies seem to be popular again for some reason!
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Jon - you were making a point about the use of your money being illegal in some new circumstances, and I noted that it already is I think.....so you are saying that your initial point is irrlevant?
I wouldn't expect that essay to be a lot of use - it was pretty shallow! lol
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I find it's much less awkward if they take their own clothes off....
The Pacific
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So the old breed are the ones ho actually had to fight with Springfields then?