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DnD Central / Re: Grammatical Mutterings
How would you replace "bibles" by the New York Times?With "newspapers".

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How would you replace "bibles" by the New York Times?With "newspapers".
Really? Is there a difference? I consider the difference as imaginary (or rather unnecessary) as between Internet and internet. (As to "the", Estonian - and Finnish and Russian - don't have it and I'd rather we never did.)Perhaps it's because we live in a Christian (Dutch: christian) nation. The distinction is somewhat imaginary when talking about bibles that contain the Bible but there are also bibles in the sense of authoritative works in general.
From another video of his it appears that he is brother of Tech Lead (as a millionaire) who is probably familiar to you.Somewhat. Insofar as I am I definitely don't want to watch him.
I have thought about the controversy that Emacs does not adhere to "Unix philosophy" that programs should be small, do just one thing and do it well.Since you mentioned Xah.
I like forums. I don't like blogs much. And while microblogs like Twitter and Mastodon are OK, they are not really forums.You probably noticed already, but Vivaldi started a Mastodon instance.
I don't follow Dutch press at all, so he may have been exposed earlier.That doesn't seem to be the case, no.
These are oligarchs by themselves, not agents in somebody else's pocket.Someone like Musk does have massive business interests in China. I'd imagine he wouldn't want to rock the boat too much if he can help it.
There are countless front pages of newspapers, books and documentaries devoted to the troubled relationship between political and economic power. Diamonds, pesticides, oil, agri-food, automobile, public works, pharma... all of them are entitled to the dilatory strategies of the shadowy influencers.
And in doing so, the trust of citizens in our political system is eroded a little more. Ecolo can thus condemn Maggie de Block as "Minister of Lobbies" rather than Minister of Health.
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To date, there is no direct regulation of the activity of lobbyists in Belgium. Parliamentary commissions and codes of ethics have been put in place, without however recognizing lobbying in the strict sense.
The Belgian Association of Public Relations Consultants (BAPRC) has therefore been given the task of drafting ethical codes for its members. This is a welcome self-regulation, but it does not replace the legitimacy of the law.
The Federal Parliament has therefore decided to move forward on the subject. Overshadowed by other issues such as pension reform or the migration crisis, the work of the "Political Renewal" group and a first bill to create a register of lobbies have begun to recognize the activity.
However, citizens are likely to be disappointed. The proposed register of lobbies contains little information (name, telephone, company number). More surprisingly, the federal executive, the main instigator of the laws, would not be subject to this register and would continue to consult lobbies in the shadows.
My guess is by July, perhaps as early as June.I still think July or early August would've been perfectly possible if there hadn't been annoyingly weird complications but oh well, we made it in the nick time. We purchased on the 21st and moved on the 26th.
Scholz is playing a solo Nein-policy.Still?
Traffic lights for pedestrians over here are still not halfway as bad as in USA though.Oh yes, in the US they're completely absurd. Here's a video about it, but I've experienced it firsthand. They had a sign saying something like "wait for cars to turn right before crossing." The first time I did that… and never was able to cross. The second time, I stepped in front of the cars as if I was in Italy.[1]