I think prawns can become horseys and (however unlikely) rooks and bishops too.
If they can transform species like that then I think a penis or a womb here or there is no big deal.
I think maybe they’re more like snails, who’ll do whatever it takes to secure a mate.
I think Europe is about the location of seas, oceans and plate boundaries.
Downvote for BBC - state propaganda/MI6 vehicle. And generally just shit journalism. Grauniad is pretty shite too - the crossword is ok.
00 on cheques . That normally has a line connecting at the top, that’s the only one I can think of.
Because seven ate nine.
Unfortunately it needs a safety cage around the bottom end. That’d probably spoiling the visuals - though clear acrylic might work.
The tuning was the the other huge issue, he didn’t actually say how long it took to get in tune tune, nor how long it held tune.
cool though
Yes, not necessarily “because” they hold wealth, but as a consequence of how they got there. It’s more of a symptom. Although collateral makes it easier to borrow from a bank, and banks create money supply, thus creating inflation every time they make an investment that wasnt productive. (edit: timing matters here, probably better to say they create general inflationary pressure until their investment becomes productive).
Any transfer not connected to production can create inflation, especially if they borrow money to do it.
TBF second hand house purchases do this if transacted for a higher price - and linked to a mortgage. So all property owners are at it to some degree - unless there is price regulation , rent control, or sufficient social housing to prevent housing congestion.
Same is true for amassing market power in other markets where you do it to extract supernormal profits rather than increase production. Simple example would be to monopolise a product - a rational monopolist will jack up prices and withhold supply. So long as they’re not regulated directly or by a credible threat of market entry and competition.
Now combine the two, convince a bank to lend you money in order to buy out all your competition and amass excessive market power. Then you’ve created both money supply driven and product specific inflation. Nice!
Might as well grift some govt subsidies that don’t actually commit you to producing anything whilst you’re at it - if govt borrow to do it then you might get some more money supply based inflation.
If you’re effective at this then dumb short sighted investors keep throwing money at you in the hope that you’ll keep doing it and give them a slice of your monopoly profits - in fact it might be “short-term” rational to do this - but i suspect / hope that is due to an underestimated risk.
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edit: fuck this, fucking webshite,. its fucking my ascii-arse
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fml
Is it even true?
I’d have thought if i find the right wine prefix, use some winetricks type thing on it, execute whatever installer, then it should modify that game files / env?
I’m not saying i’ve ever done it, but it feels like that would most likely work just fine.
I mean as a uk steaming turd, i’d take the cash ( so long as it didn’t require age verification), but there are way more egregious infringements of competition in this cuntry that get off scott free even after CMA “investigations”.
yep.
“If you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true.”
Akshually, . . . copypaste . . . mostly google removed the GNU Scotsman.
Linux picks a random user out of the hat to prove it - gets someone using android with play services. erm . . . ignore them . . . that doesn’t count.
yeah definately. i mean pretty much anything live. people sitting in a room entertaining each other, that’s fairly social, and much less capital intensive than big media entertainment .
I block users who say cuntish stuff. That’s not censorship, they can still say it. I just have my fingers in my ears.
Mods on an internet forum don’t really have the power to censor, they can stop you spreading your shit via their webshite, but they cant stop you from spreading it elsewise.
It’s not censorship for me to wipe your graffiti off my wall. It’d be censorship for the police to lock you up for the content of your message. Or for the govt to make writing what you wrote a crime.
If they just do you for criminal damage though that’s fine.
you do what you can.
Substitute labour intensive alternatives. Its generally quite easy for recreation just go to an open mic night in the pub or a pwyf concert instead of all these streaming things. or take a walk in the park, or a hike in the hills instead of spending money on entertainment. Something like a game of football/soccer is pretty ultimate socialism entertainment - just don’t pay to watch other people get your kicks for you.
Go out of your way to use public transport as much as possible even if it’s slower or more inconvenient. This good practice in compromise to try social efficiency and sharing assets over individualistic self centredness - this is basically tragedy of commons/prisoners dilemma though so . . . ultimately your society will need some general trust for this to work - and it will break down often.
If you need stuff prefer patent expired or open source stuff, or just old second hand stuff. also get buy it for life stuff. Personally i can have hours of fun with a discarded wood pallet and some very old hand tools.
Patent expired i.e. more open to competition/“free” market forces is like one step more socialised than the oligopolised stuff. (That is where the free applies to the trades in the market and access to it, not to the people who want the ‘freedom’ to restrict trade and market entry.)
You can also try to share stuff with your friends and neighbors - that’s pretty sociable. At the end of the day though land and food is essential, so if that’s not available socially, you’re fucked. Grow what you can and share it around i guess.
No, capitalism now owns all the carrots and all the sticks in the world.
Turnips and branches have never successfully motivated anyone.
I use fydeOS btw.
50 thousand give or take 10 thousand.
For me active means in motion, floating on water, where that motion (net of tides and currents) was exclusively caused by human operated oars or paddles.
The Danish navy re-floating a load of viking longships to prepare for WWIII does not count; due to the wind assistance.
There are not many objectively provable monopolies and i doubt that English law would support that claim without extremely strong evidence, generally utilities are the only ones that’d get close. A necessity with high fixed costs and infrastructure lock-in.
Steam has high market share in a segment, but not necessarily a distinct segment, I’m sure steam would argue that there are enough consumers who can and do substitute between pc and console and mobile, as well as other vendors so that their market power is mitigated by a fair amount of consumer mobility.
So what you’re looking to prove is unlikely to be a pure “monopoly” but ‘excess market power’, and ‘abuse of market power’. That is a complex legal art that the competition regulator is usually not that successful at proving, at least in English law.
Abuse of market power has to impact consumers not producers. There are always marginal producers struggling to make a profit - that happens in competitive markets, producers bidding prices down, some going out of business. I’m not saying I agree, but that’s more or less how the law sees it, lookup what they let supermarkets get away with in contracts with farmers.
To show consumer harm from upstream market manipulation you’d probably have to show a material dearth of choice being created by steam policies in order to jack up prices. Maybe that can be demonstrated, but it’s not simple and more likely to come down to subjective interpretation of the arguments and evidence from both sides rather than any unarguable objective truth.
If it were unarguable or objectively true then the CMA might lead the investigation itself instead of this being a private action. Though maybe this is too small a market for them to worry about.