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Apple and NSA

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by johnv, Jan 1, 2014.

  1. In 10 years time these will be the good old days!
     
  2. I thought it was the raison d'etre for the EU. Are you suggesting that it is a doomed cause ?
     
  3. Yes indeed. They fit together famously well. Not suitable for people who can only cope with verifiable theorems, hard facts, clear-cut answers, and black-and-white prescriptions.
     
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  4. In my lifetime, the UK economy was at its rosiest consistently from 1997-2007, i.e. in the Tony Blair era. Virtually every indicator looked good for 10 years in succession. We came to take it for granted we would win the jackpot every year. We have never seen such a favourable period before, and I doubt if we will again. But I agree with you - it's something to aim for.
     
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  5. Yeah. Those lefties know how to throw a good party :upyeah:
     
  6. And spend all the money gathered over the previous 10 years and spend all the future income too

    Ponsy scheme..
     
  7. It might be ponsy or possibly poncey.

    It's definitely Ponzi.
     
  8. I agree,Tony Blair is always someone to aim for.............
     
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  9. My father was a dyed in the wool leftie who defended Tony Blair by saying he could have gone into business and made millions but he chose politics instead. If only he was alive today.
     
  10. "If people don't know what you're doing, they don't know what you're doing wrong." Sir Humphrey Applebey
     
  11. If you can't calculate it, it is only an opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.
     
  12. "A career in politics is no preparation for government."

    can't remember if it was Hacker or Humphrey
     
  13. OK people, hold on.

    Economics may not be an exact science, but would you prefer people running the economy (because someone has to) to just flip a coin for their decisions?

    Marketing isn't an exact science either but it is untrue to say that there are no talented marketeers.

    Human nature is not an exact science. Both marketing and economics have to deal with the outcomes of human behaviour.
     
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  14. I'd sooner have a decisive benevolent autocrat. Basically Lord Vetinari is who we need.
     
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  15. Has anyone actually looked into how many laws about what you and i could do prior to the Blair /Brun years compared to the laws by the end of their reign ??
     
  16. A figure of over 3000 new ways of becoming a criminal has been quoted from a number of sources.
     
  17. And you think this current lot of twats are going to be any different?
     
  18. No. I was just answering the question from stu-pendous.
     
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