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GG

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  1. A better note to neo Nazis is to always consider suicide as the first option.
  2. And who suffers the most in that crash that you're pining for?
  3. They're on this site. Look no further than the promises that Farage made to get the votes, while knowing full well that he couldn't deliver on them if the referendum passed. And then he had the balls to resign and leave the dirty work to others so he could snipe from the sidelines. Again, exiting EU is the right thing for Britain to do, but no one should be under any illusion that the EU will make it easy for them to leave. Know anyone who's gone through a divorce with a scorned spouse? Was that easy?
  4. The Brits were told that Brexit would be a piece of cake instead of a messy protracted divorce where they would have to give up a lot.
  5. It's not just about the Irish boarder, it's about overall duties and free flow of people and goods, much of which benefits the UK. It's also about which laws govern transactions. The EU is insisting that it won't accept British laws and regulations as substitutes for EU regulations. This is forcing many companies to bulk up their offices on the Continent and pare down their London affairs. If you want to talk in terms of this being about money, the EU is basically telling UK to ***** off, and at this point they can because the EU is a bigger market, and neither the US nor Asia are favoring the UK in the divorce. That's why the Brits are having a hard time reaching a deal - right now they need the EU more than EU needs Britain. It's a classic dog catches the car scenario. It's not a coincidence that the biggest blowhard proponent of Brexit resigned immediately after the vote. I'm all for supporting people's wishes, but only if the people were told of the consequences of their actions ahead of time. If the people voted based on a faulty premise, then adjustments need to be made.
  6. The British Empire's whole existence was due to industrial globalization which it started. A rash Brexit would throw UK back into pre-Thatcher days. In the long run, it's probably the right move, but the exit will cost dearly in the short term.
  7. My guess is that Brits didn't appreciate the high cost of exiting the EU. The right thing to do was not to join in the first place, but now EU extracting a very high price for the exit. UK is definitely in a weak negotiating position at this point. They can proceed with the exit, but the proponents undersold the near term pain that the country will have to endure. The City can also kiss its global financial crown goodbye.
  8. Works on AT&T and the latest release also works on VZ's LTE network only
  9. If you don't mind buying a Chinese phone take a look at the OnePlus
  10. I read the entire fluff interview, and there's nothing in it that shows how increased concentration of American companies is resulting in consumer harm. Tepper's only contention is that profits keep rising, but he can't demonstrate abuse. So he clings to the canards of the airline and cable industries, without recognizing the industry fundamentals that drive the eventual consolidation. If Tepper were to do honest analysis, he'd examine the economic and competitive environments over the decades and discuss the driving forces. He didn't say one peep about the effect that loosening trade barriers had on US companies and their competitiveness. Is the US consumer better or worse off after Toyota and others entered the US market? These are the kind of forces that shape industry structures, and they have a far greater effect on consolidation than anything else Tepper brought up in his piece. He's a trader at heart, and he's probably pissed that stable profits don't give him an opportunity to trade on volatility.
  11. I wouldn't have used that replay as evidence of the OL losing the one on one battles Will have to wait for the EZ angle on All-22. but it appears that more of the blame is on Murphy than the line
  12. This story popped up in my news feed earlier today, and I didn't notice until later tonight because of the ominous headline. I read it, and laughed at the progression: Sounds pretty bad But, then - Oh, never mind.
  13. Why do you insist on using examples that prove my point? You come from the economic theory that lowest prices are the only thing that matters in capitalism, while ignoring that making a consistent profit is most important. That's why competition among many players may provide a short term benefit to the consumers, but in the end they lose because no private enterprise can run forever without turning a profit. If you were right, then the regional airline boom that sprung from deregulation would still be thriving. You do admit that competition caused most regionals to fail, which is exactly what is supposed to happen when smaller players try to compete in a highly capital intensive industry and they can't generate a profit. Regional carriers cannot compete with the nationals because they don't drive enough traffic nor have the scale to buy cheaper fuel and planes. They also can't compete on lucrative routes to larger markets and international flights. The only thing they can do is try to charge lower fares, but that only results in a race to the bottom among all airlines and led to the inevitable shakeup. The airline consolidation only happened when nearly every carrier went bankrupt and the only way to salvage the industry was to shrink the field. You're also missing the broader picture of the beer market. You think that it's a given that after a brewer bottles his batch it miraculously appears in the local stores and bars. But in reality, that's where the massive scale of the nationals comes in. How does the local brewer convince the distributor to carry his brand? How does he convince the stores to allot shelf space for his six-packs and displace something else? How does his new brew break into the line up of 6 taps in the local bar? Now take that one local market and multiply by a couple of hundred, and tell me that the local guy doesn't need to either spend a boat load of money to grow his brand or to sell out if he wants to go big. And those big players acquiring a smaller brewer does help the consumer because you get more choice. If your theory was correct, by virtue of controlling 80% of the beer market, the top 2 conglomerates would easily charge $10 for a six pack of Bud and Coors. But they don't. Why not? This has nothing to do with the predatory nature of the larger/established players, but everything to do with the nature of capitalism and trying to grow something from small to big. The big players absolutely try to game regulations to stave off competition, the biggest being adding more regulations just for the hell of it because they know that smaller players can't afford the cost of regulatory compliance, let alone bear the cost of making the product itself. But even with all that, they are completely powerless against a tide of innovation that could take them down on any given day. That's why governments shouldn't be protecting companies, because nobody knows in advance where that disruptive innovation is going to come from. I continue to be blown away that we have a perfect example of sclerotic European economies that are the byproduct of protective regulatory states, and the response is that US should follow suit.
  14. More rumors about Kelly’s impending exit, could be within days.
  15. If random people on a Bills message board know of the Huber and Horowitz investigations, chances are that the Deep State is also well aware.
  16. What's the benefit of collecting absentee ballots that were probably not going to be used? BTW, did you notice the GOP's reaction to the allegations?
  17. It's actually a two syllable letter in the proper vernacular
  18. Which one needs one letter to identify himself?
  19. Story would be perfect if he was referring to Two Broke Girls. (Or to the host of Big Brother)
  20. McKittrick for Holmes trade?
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