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billybong

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billybong 29 points 2 years ago

Four members of the richest British family, worth £37bn, have just gotten prison sentences for paying 1/10th the minimum wage to their servants. Paying them a legal wage would've kept them out of prison and been like you or me dropping a penny into a charity box, but they wouldn't do it, even for people that they saw every day. Billionaires are sociopaths.

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billybong 21 points 3 years ago

It's not the first. The B2 has been around since 1997. And the F117 since 1983.

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billybong 18 points 2 years ago

Can be more about how your parents are doing financially that how much they like you.

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billybong 16 points 2 years ago

Until security updates are stopped in October next year...

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billybong 15 points 2 years ago

English is a difficult language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

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billybong 13 points 2 years ago

Patented. And the patent should run out fairly soon iirc.

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billybong 10 points 2 years ago

It began years ago. That's why things are so bad in Greece, most of the people able to leave have done already in search of a better life and leaving behind a shortage of skilled labour and labour in general. Meanwhile non economically active people, mostly children and retired still need to be supported somehow and unsurprisingly the public finances are in a poor state.

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billybong 9 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing you don't know any mixed race people.

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billybong 8 points 3 years ago

Yes. Thatcher sold it off in '89, and since then the private monopolies have accumulated ~£60bn of debts and paid out ~£58bn in dividends. Now they're arguing with the regulator that they should be allowed to pay out more dividends, increase customer fees by 40% and not have to pay as much in fines for dumping raw sewage because otherwise the companies are "uninvestable" and they won't be able to raise the money to pay their debts and will collapse.

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billybong 6 points 2 years ago

Much less. The company has like $60m in debts and $3m in assets and lost $56m last year. You need to find a way for the company to make enough to pay off its debts before becomes worth anything.

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billybong 4 points 2 years ago

Stock buybacks aren't really the issue, if they didn't exist they'd just be paying dividends with the money instead. The real issue is the reckless pursuit of maximising shareholder payouts, particularly for too big to fail corps.

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billybong 4 points 2 years ago

Can you run banking apps and stuff on that os?

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billybong 4 points 2 years ago

Not quite, you have to have the camera angled at your face. If the phone is flat on your desk it won't unlock unless you lean right over it.

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billybong 3 points 2 years ago

Oh wow, patent was only granted 7 years after the game was released so the game will be 22 years old when the patent expires if not extended. Patent law is bonkers.

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billybong 3 points 2 years ago

And if enough people die then Jack Bauer becomes president.

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billybong 3 points 3 years ago

A bombs a baad choice for close range combat.

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billybong 2 points 2 years ago

And the next government can sell it off for less than they paid for it and the cycle continues.

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billybong 2 points 3 years ago

You don't have a choice. You have to work for them.

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billybong 2 points 2 years ago

Blood sausage isn't just a UK thing, variations are found in pretty much every cuisine that eats meat. And it's not even like its super popular in the UK, its very often not even included in a full English breakfast.

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billybong 2 points 2 years ago

Single exit point is an assembly rule that was mindlessly ported to C/C++. It doesn't make sense in a structured language.

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