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9 minutes ago, bannork said:How the Brexit 'oven ready' deal coming on? 555
The oven is on the blink apparently.
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2 minutes ago, Loiner said:Why is it that so many of those vehemently against a full proper clean whole independent Brexit are not even UK citizens?
You can do what you want.
But just because I (an Australian), will likely be a huge beneficiary of the UKs misfortune, doesn’t mean I’ve concluded that Brexit is the smartest move in the world.
Actually, it’s pretty dumb.
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2 hours ago, candide said:
I strongly disagree (for once). Network effects and economies of scale naturally lead to monopolies for platforms, unless the market is very segmented. A network with more members has more value, and there is also a high share of fixed cost.
All good points. Except that history proves that these network effects can quickly erode. Faster than the dominance of any fixed bricks and mortar ‘natural monopoly’ infrastructure, where I agree, you do need regulation.
Network effects were a central argument in the DOJs prosecution of Microsoft in the late 90s arguing that Windows was a OS monopoly and that forcing internet explorer as a gateway to the internet was a misuse of market power.
And for a time it was, but then fast forward 5 years and Steve Jobs put paid to that with the iPhone and the Mac, Facebook came along and all of a sudden Microsoft is turning into a cloud company.
I don’t know what it will be, but something will come along to dislodge Facebook. My kids don’t use it and laugh that is for the boomers. Even Instagram is too unhip for them. So it will change and the monopoly is temporary.
By the time you legislate, it will already be not fit for purpose.
As such, I’m a big supporter of these types of initiatives which force companies to consider where they direct their advertising.
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5 hours ago, DoctorG said:
And...?
Eight of those countries are members of the EU/EEA (I’m including Switzerland in that)
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7 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:
But that’s not right is it. The right getting censored out of the “national conversation” by internet monopolies with hard left viewpoints.
they need to be split up and have laws drawn up that if you are a platform, ya gotta have equal viewpoints - or face lawsuits.
Wow, I thought you were a paid up member of the right?
And here you are advocating government interference in business independence. That’s what scummy hippy socialists want.
Strange, very strange indeed. Sure you aren’t a hippy?
There is nothing inherently monopolistic about Facebook. It’s having its technological day in the sun, and it will eventually be replaced by something else. Just like every other dominant technology that came before it.
A monopoly means there are barriers to entry to do what you do. There is no law nor unreasonable cost imposed from you trying to emulate them.
And that is market forces - you know, the thing you are supposed to be an advocate of?
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12 hours ago, riclag said:I happen to support not having to pay more taxes as in a obamacare's mandate(forced, if one doesn't have insurance or doesn't meet obamas requierment criteria), annual payment ,close to 700 dollars per person annually! It works very well for me!
Your comment is correct about the source being a source.I wouldn't think a progressive source would support my particular circumstances!
Universal health care systems involve a trade off.
Slightly higher taxes (or mandated health fund contributions in the case of some EU countries), whilst giving up having to pay eye watering for profit health insurance premiums.
Better health outcomes for half the price.
For some reason American conservatives who pride themselves on being superior economic managers seem to think that paying more and getting less is the way to go.
Truely bizarre...
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23 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:Gotta love lefties creating their own definitions for bannable and moderated offenses.
It would be like having "The Squad" moderate the largest social media platform on the planet.
Hardly ‘lefties’.
Consumer brands identifying with their demographic and putting their advertising money where they see fit.
I don’t see the evil hand of government getting in the way here.
If the wingnuts want to go and start up their own ubiquitous social media platform on which to air their views, no one is stopping them.
This is capitalism at its finest.
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7 hours ago, Cryingdick said:So long as it is voluntary. Any attempt to make a federal measure to make it mandatory should Biden win will not go well.
Its strange. People have no problem with the social construct of having to wear pieces of cloth over certain parts of our body that may cause others offence. It’s not seen as a gross infringement of liberty.
But a small piece of cloth over your nose and mouth while in public to help prevent unnecessary death?
Well, let’s start another conservative culture war over that!
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6 hours ago, impulse said:
You blame them? Boomers were born into a prosperous country full of opportunity. We went to school for peanuts, leaving college with virtually no debt. Today’s kids are born already $130K in debt (making the biblical original sin pale by comparison). They’re going to be another $100K in debt to get a degree that will take them years to pay off- if they can even find jobs that have been shipped off to India and China by Boomers.
And now, those same Boomers who have left that shameful legacy are basically saying “I’m alright Jack”, because they’re retired. Their nestegg is in (or it’s not, but whose fault is that?) While at the same time asking youngsters to put their economic future on hold because Boomers are at higher risk.
I don’t blame ‘em for giving us the finger.
Hey, intra generational wealth transfer at its finest. The GOP is obviously in full gung-ho support of such a strategy. So efficient and heartless.
It will at least help cover up the fact that today’s generation in the US will be the first to have a lower standard of living than their parents.
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If only someone could have foreseen this...
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40 minutes ago, Darksidedude said:So what you condone 1000's of people gathering for the protests thinking that wont effect CV infection rates, you are a idiot
You aren’t really good at reading if you interpreted my post as condoning it.
But neither do I like people pushing BS agendas.
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1 hour ago, wombat said:
lets see...Victoria, left wing, protest march,everyone else has covid not me, back to the burbs to mummy house.
there ya go Scot from marketing. problem answeredEvery state has those marches mate...and while I think they were stupid to have them, mentioning the other state marches doesn’t fit your narrative now does it?
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49 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:Poor confused Joe said the US has 120 million deaths from Wuhan virus (a.k.a. Coronavirus). He needs to go back to his basement in Maryland.
I see what you did there. You can’t get away with lying he’s got Alzheimer’s...So you’ll call him ‘confused’.
What are the other code words are the angry old Facebook victim hood groups using these days?
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6 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:At this point I would honestly consider Medicare for All if just one single mainstream politician would lay it out in a way that ticks all the boxes and the math adds up, but they dont.
Meh. Literally every single OECD country. Better health outcomes for half the money.
But, you’re Americans, and you’re all special. So it won’t work.
Then someone will scream ‘socialism’ and you’ll all faint from shock.
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1 hour ago, mr mr said:
so i mean it only seems sensible to continue wearing my mask everywhere i go right ?
there is no further justification for wearing a mask in thailand. period.
Or maybe it’s the thing stopping those untraceable community transmissions.
I do wonder how people can be that much of a snowflake that a small face mask is such a big deal.
I guess there are still repatriation flights back the Land of the Free (TM) if you want to play this anti mask culture war.
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3 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:
The general consensus on TVF seems to be to kick all foreigners out of their home Country , but retired felangs should be allowed to stay in Thailand visa free for as long as they like
Anti immigrant immigrants are strange beasts.
Somehow sticking circa $25k in the bank to effectively stay forever is such a hardship.
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13 hours ago, samsensam said:
racism is a trojan horse, the BLM agenda is far more wide ranging and sinister
A lot of posters working themselves up into a lather of old man boomer victimhood here.
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Hi all - so I’ve gotten a decent deal down there early next month and we’ll be staying in a place which allows for self catering.
Im just wondering what the availability down there is for western basics (decent bread, breakfast cereals, meat, sausages, fresh salad). No huge loss if they aren’t available but kind of wondering if they are.
Im assuming fresh fish and other seafood would be widely available.
Also any idea on if restaurants are opening - especially for take away etc.
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4 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:He was back in 2008 with Obama. They campaigned on alot of the same issues that the right campaigns on today that gets them called racist white nationalists. The right has held firm on most of their core issues - unlike the left, which keeps sliding further and further off the charts towards communism.
You clearly only started following politics relatively recently if the above is your opinion.
Yes that extreme left socialist - what was his name - who did an amnesty back in the 1980s.
Clearly the sky fell in.
What was his name, oh yeah. Reagan.
The Republican Party is a sad shell of its former self who’s only guiding policy light is ‘how big a c^nt can we be to people?’
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As the legendary Sgt Schultz would say: I Know Nooothing!
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9 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:Just stating some inconvenient facts. I'll leave to you to find relief in wondering whether I am defensive versus simply observing actual facts.
No wondering about your posts there mate. They are about as partisan and logic defying in support of the big fella as one can get.
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16 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:Why do you think a president exercising his prerogative is in conflict with the two issues you posted about?
My my, awfully defensive aren’t we? If he’s got nothing to hide, why the conflicting stories?
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44 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:Yes. From the initial appointment of senior officers in the Justice Department by one political party to their removal by their rival party.
Nothing, nothing at all, to do with justice.
5 months before an election? Why? Thanks
Given the US system it’s more understandable you do these things at the start of a term. Getting your own people has always been the way.
It’s the timing which produces a stench typically found in this part of the world.
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51 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:Welcome to the swamp.
Swamps are complex ecosystems important for the environment and water quality.
This is a sewer.
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UK ready to quit EU on 'Australia terms' if no Brexit deal, Johnson says
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Always a sad pathetic sight seeing ex servicemen not adjusting well to the fact you can’t order people around in real life. Comes across loud and clear with a few posters on these brexit threads.
If you want people to act like trained lapdogs you should have stayed in the military.
If you don’t want to hear people’s opinion on this, you perhaps better stay in your Facebook brexiter ‘safe spaces’ where you can avoid people disagreeing with you.