"“We reassemble the Reagan coalition. We bring together fiscal conservatives and social conservatives and national security conservatives. We stand strong for economic growth. But we also stand for life and marriage. We defend constitutional rights but we also stand and lead the fight against ISIS and a nuclear Iran.
They'd probably follow Rotten Ronnie's example by secretly selling them nukes in order to finance a bunch of thugs fighting another government they don't like.
Under the new tax regime, companies with an annual turnover of £10m will have to tell HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) if they think their company structure could make them liable for diverted profit tax.
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Once HMRC (the Tax Office) has assessed the structures, and decided how much profit has been artificially diverted from the UK, multinationals will have only 30 days to object to the 25% tax.
The rate of 25% is above the new rate of proposed Corporation Tax of 20%.
The government is the friggin' dragon!!!!!eleventyone!
Otherwise, let's see if this is actually going anywhere.
There are 53,766 US troops in Germany. Merkel needs to give them exit visas.
Last time the US closed some bases in .de there was a freakout - the local economies would lose half their customers ( these bases tend to be in rural areas, call it unofficial foreign aid ). Same happened when the german military said it would close some of their own. There would probably be much rejoicing if the US military got out of the Frankfurt airport though, it's getting kinda crowded. But then again, that's probably the one they would keep the longest.
What annoys me to no end is that comcast forces you to buy a TV package in order to get internet.
I don't like Xfinity's TV service. Perhaps I just don't watch tv enough to be used to it. Over a year now and I still haven't mastered the interface, lol.
I just don't watch TV. And my wife works for DirecTV so we get their everything-and-the-kitchen-sink package for almost free. The comcast box isn't even hooked up anymore yet we have to pay for it.
Comcast is a virtual monopoly around here. The only alternative is DSL, which gives you significantly less speed per buck since it's not subsidized by TV subscribers.
I have Centurylink DSL, which has been experiencing solid growth around here and the equivalent plan from Comcast costs considerably more. Their downside is incompetent tech support. There was an outage, so I tried to call them after the normal solutions failed me. So their tech support guy said there was maintenance in Las Vegas, but my address /should/ be okay and I have no problems since Google can load (despite the fact if I tried to click any link from the search results, that site wouldn't load.) It turned out that the issues was Century Link's DNS servers, but the tech support guy apparently had no way to know this. But I wonder if Comcast's "tech support" is really any better trained and better tools and can do much more than tell their customers to unplug their modem and plug it back in.
What annoys me to no end is that comcast forces you to buy a TV package in order to get internet. And their sneaky pricing models - "Oh, that's the regular price. I can give you something lower just for bugging us about it! <whisper>For a time. And may Great Cthulhu make you forget to pester us again when it expires.</whisper>"
CenturyLink's DSL is available in the general area, I'm not sure if that includes my house though. Then again, they've been busy building net infrastructure all over the place for the last few years.
That said, Google's public DNS server is as 8.8.8.8, always good to have as a backup ( and I did have problems with comcast's DNS servers in the past ). There are others too, but with less memorable IP addresses
This is in-disputable! Which brings the rationality of terminological determinism into disrepute… Can we agree, that the word-based -definitional- proofs of God's existence are … deficient?
As are all other "proofs." In fact, they aren't proofs at all.
I think the term you're looking for is "pseudo-intellectual wankery"
Oak-- I'd like to know why you think AT&T and Comcast have any interest in protecting your freedoms. Their running record isn't terribly good to date, given free reign they would have monopolies in no time and you would have to accept poor service at outrageous prices, with no recourse.
Comcast is a virtual monopoly around here. The only alternative is DSL, which gives you significantly less speed per buck since it's not subsidized by TV subscribers.
My Internet speed is currently 50/4. It used to be 70/2.5, but the subscription changed. The modem actually synced at 70/6 when I last checked, meaning that's the maximum speed I could get over VDSL if I paid almost twice as much. Over cable a slightly higher speed might be possible, but not for less money and besides the cable company has horrid policies.
We're supposed to get something like 20/1 although actual measurements indicate something closer to twice that. Since this is comcast cable my guess is that this: They use the same wire for IPTV and internet, bandwidth is shared. The bandwidth used by the TV service varies and so does the amount of noise on the cable, so they advertise a lower speed than what they actually run at so they can more or less guarantee that's what you actually get. Also, data throughput is necessarily lower than actual line speed - think protocol overhead, control messages and all that.
Now, imagine for a moment that we change things up a bit. Elections are coming in the United States. The sitting president is up for re-election but his numbers are not by any means certain-- he gets the idea--- and carries it out-- of murdering his likely replacement. Would Howie defend the sitting US president? ... (For the record: I know that Obama is not up for re-election. He's had his two terms. The above was for example only at this time.)
There are plenty of lunatics who keep saying he'll do something like that in order to stay in power for years now.
If this runs like it usually does, the women you actually WANT to see running around half naked never will. You'll see the Rosanne Barr look-alike women running around like that.. making you actually pray to go blind so you won't have to see that.
Works the other way around too. How many of the men that run around bare chested do any women actually want to see? ( and why does that even matter? )
I've been actually watching the way these big telcos and cable companies work,
Have you also been watching how 80% of internet's physical nodes are located or controlled by your country despite the complains from all the world?
I don't believe that. 80% of all IPv4 addresses - sure, because in the early days they handed huge chunks of address space to just a few companies. But not 80% of all physical nodes. At least not anymore.
Norwegian uses bygg(e(r)), building (build (builds/builder)) instead, as does Icelandic. Bo would be the equivalent of Wohn, by* a town or a city, which of course in Swedish as in German is stad (or simply -sta(n)) or Stadt. Norwegian sted and English stead instead means small settlement (in Norwegian it primarily means place, as it once did in English, and in Dutch stede I see). By comparison in Swedish it is by* that means small settlement.
Might be a false friend. In german there is: Stadt - town, city Staette - place
There are some subtle (and not-so-subtle) differences between Norway and Sweden. Swedish has 'inhemsk' (in-home-ish). I guess that is the distinction in the two German words as well, based on the roots, but I wouldn't bet on it as false friends lurk.
It works exactly as you describe in german as well.
Since Sweden has largely lost the use of 'in-born' (native) clumsy phrases like "domestically born" are used instead.
It's similar in german - 'Eingeborene' is usually seen as an oldfashioned, outdated and vaguely racist term and was replaced by 'Ureinwohner' - more or less 'original inhabitants'.
Global desertification is picking up... ...and I am not so sure about the quality of the "invulnerable areas". Estonia for example has been rapidly and radically deforested during the past two decades. In our climate there's no agriculture possible without sufficient forests to circumscribe the fields. And cities are of course desert landscape from the ecological point of view.
I assume the little yellow blob in .de is more or less the state of Brandenburg, also known as "Germany's sandbox". Not exactly a dry area ( go a couple centuries back and much of it is swamp ) but prone to erosion without sufficient vegetation.
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