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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 29149 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 ![]() ![]() |
you are dealing with a type a person. trash is trash, has no value. had a construction guy doing an insurance job. he was going to haul a load of aluminum to the dump and pay through the nose for the dump fee. no you aren't! haul it to the metal recycle and get a check for delivering it. he was skeptical as all get out. he did it though. price for the job went down. hope the profits for his other jobs went up. |
rob smith ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 20767 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 ![]() ![]() |
In the UK, and no doubt in other countries, there's a fair number of empty, disused and otherwise abandoned offices. Some of these are beyond redemption and so the only way for them to go into the big crusher. But that still leaves a substantial number of buildings that with a bit of though could be brought back to use as homes for those in need of homes. But then the bureaucrats get in the way and such concepts go out of the window :-( Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17453 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Abortion: Texas teen attacks new law in high school graduation speech When Paxton Smith got up to deliver her high school graduation speech, it was supposed to be about TV and the media.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrfe27VDuRA |
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Gold Tourneys GOoD. REAL GOoD Yep ![]() May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! ![]() |
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Question for our Australian members. Is the rat problem around major Australian population centers as bad as some You tube reports have claimed or are they being widely over reported for sensationalism? Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
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Question for our Australian members. Is the rat problem around major Australian population centers as bad as some You tube reports have claimed or are they being widely over reported for sensationalism?I don't know about any rat problems around here, but we have been certainly going through another mouse plague here for the last 4 or so months. Mouse expert’s prediction for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Thankfully the little buggers have left here since the negative temps have hit (either that or the baits and traps worked). |
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Maybe they were referred to as mice but the report made the problem appear so serious. Something to do with bumper crops last growing season. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24400 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
At last, someone stands up & says "too far". Would have preferred "Enough is enough". Too many ismists out there with hidden agendas. Definitely went too far Show a teenager who never said or did anything wrong & you'll see a liar stand before you. |
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... Show a teenager ... Yep, we need to allow people to have a chance to grow and to grow up without intrusive scrutiny... And instead, we now have the lifelong embarrassment and ever more misused source that is: Social Media... Just wait until Marketing and others get hold of all our medical records from cradle to (an untimely?) grave! See: Your GP records will begin to be copied in a matter of days on the 1st July... How to opt out. That is one to consider very carefully... All for a whole new culture? All in the world we make, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24400 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Real business can get done during "the hallway conversations, the drinks at the bar", the diplomat says.So, further evidence that bureaucracies are bloated |
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https://newsletters.yahoo.net/H/2/v60000017a000c6b1e9c53b5f4bbcfb648/067673bd-be2a-4a59-a413-f4664ec07512/HTML wrote: The big takeaway from the past week in business news is that A) secretly released documents show that billionaires aren’t paying their fair share in taxes. (Gee, you think?) And meanwhile, B) hotels and restaurants and other businesses can’t find enough people to work as maids and dishwashers, etc. |
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If the very rich business owners can't be convinced that it is in their ultimate interest and benefit to increase the level of sharing of the company's profits with employees then it's not very likely that the gulf between the extremely wealthy and those who are barely making ends meet will ever shrink. Some businesses understand that keeping the employees happy helps everyone but in most cases this is still not the norm. People in general, especially those who are highly ambitious are just too damn greedy and the richer they get the greedier they become. They never ask "How much is enough?" And since most governments are controlled by those who are rich they tend to do little to reign in those at the top. So now and again a revolution happens and for a while the power and the money gets flipped, for a while. But the new leaders become greedy and in the end those who have little or no ambition sink back down to the bottom, not to mention the millions who get swept aside and trampled on while the revolution is happening ambitious or not. Meanwhile life goes on. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
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The pitchforks will come/ |
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The pitchforks will come/ until they are replaced with rifles. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
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The problem with democracies is that 3/4 of the population are too ignorant to make intelligent choices. Note, I didn't say they were too stupid. Ignorance is what keeps mean spirited corrupt power hungry elite in control. The ignorant masses don't have enough accurate information to make good choices when choosing their leaders. The American founding fathers knew this and as such never intended that the United States would be a true democracy. But how do you tell the masses that they are too ignorant to make intelligent decisions so they should leave things to their better informed neighbors. What makes things even worse is when people who are intelligent and informed still make stupid choices. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17453 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Of course, the Foundling Fathers never intended the country to become a democracy, only about 6% had the right to vote, male land owners and tax payers. |
Grumpy Swede (I stand with Ukraine) ![]() Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 8921 Credit: 49,849,242 RAC: 65 ![]() ![]() |
Of course, the Foundling Fathers never intended the country to become a democracy, only about 6% had the right to vote, male land owners and tax payers. And the U.S is heading back to that again. Just look at the new voting restrictions in Republican states. The next election will be a huge Republican win. Both in the midterm election 2022, and the next Presidential election in 2024. All because of the voting restrictions, and the way they plan to change how, and by whom the electoral votes are certified. And of course, the Republican states will also change the rules of vote counting at the polling places. A true Republican nowadays, is scared to death for the demographic change, and will rather have a Republican dictatorship, than a democracy. |
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1 must wonder now that the biggest “sting of the century” has been completed (know as "Operation Ironside") with over 800 arrests involved across the world (just over 250 here alone), that was started off by the FBI seeking the cooperation of many foreign police forces, why has there been no Americans arrested in massive ‘sting of the century’? |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 29149 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 ![]() ![]() |
Typical FAUX news, can't tell the difference between science and BS https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apps-remove-from-your-phone 3. Sketchy astronomy app astronomy = astrology at FAUX news. |
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