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Comment What a freak (Score 2) 678

There is never too much water, and frankly this is what you get when you build in a desert.

It won’t be much longer before mountains have no snow, then there will be no rivers, no fish, nothing.

When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money
-Cree Indian

Comment Re:A bit off topic (Score 1) 301

You did notice the he said it to Truman correct? It was not stated as part of his speech even though the dates match.

- Winston Churchill to Truman (Fultun, USA March 1946)

Since it is a quote between 2 people you can't prove it didn't happen, and I can't prove it did.

So you went and dug up his Fulton speech but you didn't even notice it was between Truman and Winston.
Or did you?

In addition, I believe I stated it may be propaganda.

Turns out, unless you have video of them saying it, quotes are difficult to prove either way.
With video only slightly less difficult.

There's nothing funny about it, all humans lie and obfuscate, take a look at the Palestinian conflict...

Comment Re:laugh (Score 2) 96

HFT is physical of course, hardware, network, etc, but it resides in a digital domain while Uber is out and about in the physical World.
Yes they use their systems to manipulate pricing, location, etc to their advantage.

But the results occurs in the physical.
Nothing "physical" about stocks... unless you want to argue minutiae.

Comment Re:Unless (Score 1) 301

You might just say that Christians, in particular, the Lutherans were awful pikers and sought to use antisemitism over paying their debts

Pikers... LOL.

You know when I consider the psychology of the average human beings I have come into contact with, the reason for all this grief for Jews could be as simple as their being successful.

I read example after example where Jews show up in a new land with nothing, and become successful.

Nothing generates as much hate as success, in those that do not have it.
In addition, nothing shows you where you stand, or what you are, as well as another persons success in an area you have none.

If a person works their whole life in a town, and one day a man shows up with nothing, then 10 years later owns a profitable business, and a home, and the life long townie still has nothing...
Imagine what a weak person might conjure in their minds to absolve themselves of their failure and explain the others success.

We even have a contemporary saying for this: "haters gunna hate".

Comment Re:Unless (Score 1) 301

Yes, we are the 99%; common people versus wealthy bankers. Guess what percentage of the pre-WWII population the Jews represented, and guess what industries they were associated with?

The problem with this thinking is that we take a percentage of a group, we find their behaviour repugnant, but then rather than address the individuals involved, people take the path of blaming the entire group.

This was one of the reasons Spinoza (a personal hero of mine) was kicked out of his Jewish community in Amsterdam.
The Jews there were trying to escape the "purges" of the times, they knew anyone causing trouble in their community may wind up getting them all blamed.

And they were correct in this thinking, history shows this.
It didn't help he wanted to learn Latin either, or could not simply "accept" church dogma.

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