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KMMI77

Posts: 1821
Joined: Jul. 26 2009
From: The land down under

RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to Arash)

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somehow i like this guy

Me too

He certainly is entertaining

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 21 2012 10:23:19

mezzo

Posts: 1409
Joined: Feb. 18 2010
From: .fr

RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to Ruphus)

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He must be having some excellent connection

yeah I have no doubt about that. If he really washing money like the fbi says then he must have corrupt alot of influent people.

Look at his mansion. This guy is a megalomaniac. He wanna be a Godfather but he just not act with the discretion this status require...

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 21 2012 10:37:17

Elie

Posts: 1837
Joined: Apr. 10 2010

RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to rombsix)

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Ruben rules! (he's actually blocked me on FB for some reason, but I still like him)

lol c'mon are you serious hahahahah you know I can't imagine him banning you but I could easily imagine you banning him Lulz

anyway can we know those reasons ... they should be funny

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But one could find it anyway. Try it with : flamencoasecas

flamencoasecas has his PDFs uploaded to megaupload, and megaupload is gone

anyway it seems that :
SOPA Stopped: 'Bill delay major victory for Internet freedom'

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 21 2012 12:40:26

XXX

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Joined: Apr. 14 2005

RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to BarkellWH)

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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH

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Even Europe, which is oh so famous for economic cooperation and piece, is falling apart just because this very fact that every nation only cares for itself.

Wrong, Deniz! Europe is falling apart (at least the southern tier: Greece, Italy, Spain, and to an extent Portugal), not because "every nation only cares for itself." Rather, Europe (the southern tier) is falling apart because it promised its public too much in terms of social welfare, and it borrowed far more on the international market than it could pay for in order to finance this bloated social welfare policy. Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portuigal) is now paying the price of unsustainable public spending and borrowing.

You cant say Europe and then only concentrate on the "southern tier". I am talking about how Europe (not just southern) as a mutual governance fails in the media on a DAILY BASIS. You are a conservative and therefore want to point out that they lived beyond their means. This is very detached from reality and im not interested in fulfilling political doctrines on the cost of truth. The truth is the southern countries simply fell back in terms of competition compared to Germany and maybe France too. If cutting social welfare would lead to having more competition, we would live in a world with 0 social welfare because every nation has the aim to be the most competitive. By the way, especially the southern states, it is more the family who cares for the social support and less the state. Like kids caring about parents/grandparents, things like that. In northern countries, it is more common to get support from the state as an individual person. It is also a cultural difference.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 21 2012 15:24:38

rombsix

Posts: 7808
Joined: Jan. 11 2006
From: Beirut, Lebanon

RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to Elie)

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lol c'mon are you serious hahahahah you know I can't imagine him banning you but I could easily imagine you banning him Lulz
anyway can we know those reasons ... they should be funny

I really have no clue. I think we used to be friends on there for a bit, but the other day Kudo was asking me about a post by Ruben, and I couldn't see it. I couldn't even access his profile after Kudo sent me a direct link to it. So he's blocked me, but I don't know why.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 21 2012 15:53:31

BarkellWH

Posts: 3458
Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC

RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to XXX)

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The truth is the southern countries simply fell back in terms of competition compared to Germany and maybe France too. If cutting social welfare would lead to having more competition, we would live in a world with 0 social welfare because every nation has the aim to be the most competitive. By the way, especially the southern states, it is more the family who cares for the social support and less the state. Like kids caring about parents/grandparents, things like that. In northern countries, it is more common to get support from the state as an individual person. It is also a cultural difference.

I agree that the southern tier countries have been less competitive in the marketplace than the northern countries. Certain social policies have countributed to the southern tier's lack of competitiveness though, among them an inflexible labor market. But the main problem with their social welfare policies is they were too generous and cost much more than the countries could afford to finance from their own GDP, particularly in Greece, where the current ratio of debt to GDP is 150 percent! Since they were unable to pay for those social welfare policies and were unwilling to cut back on them, they had no choice but to borrow funding to finance them. They borrowed far more than was prudent, and now they are paying the price in economic hardship and financial austerity.

Frankly, I don't see how Greece, in particular, can survive in the Eurozone. It might be better for Greece to go back to the drachma, which at least would allow it to set its own interest rates and devalue its currency, thereby increasing exports. But even then, Greece would have to cut back its social welfare programs in order to keep its budget under control, in my opinion.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 21 2012 16:13:22

mezzo

Posts: 1409
Joined: Feb. 18 2010
From: .fr

RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to BarkellWH)

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It's not that I don't "like" Wikipedia, Mezzo; its just that I find it a poor resource for serious research because it is often wrong or misleading.

Ok sorry for that simplification.

I saw this 1st part documentary from BBC. There were 4 episodes. (if you have a few hours to spend)

like this sentence from this docu : "...you don't need to be anybody to become a somebody". Talkin about egalitarism

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 23 2012 17:09:03