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Not even!
They're a chess knight's move away from each other!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Throwing the slug with string and a short ritual? (7)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 16-Sep-16 8:15am.
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Have you only got hard ones left now? 
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I figured we'd had too many really really easy ones (because people didn't want to do them the next day) so I'd have a proper think about a couple and try to get them "right".
I didn't think this or yesterday's was particularly difficult - but obviously I'm wrong... 
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Reminds me of one of mine on my list. I made it up but forget to write the answer down. When I check the list months later it take me a couple of hours to work it out again. 
Old age catching up on me...
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Throwing the slug makes me think of a trap or skeet. After that blaaaaank....
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Good starting point. 
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Nope!
(And I have no idea how you got there from here!  )
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Routine??
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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A frayed knot...
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Is the right - sorry, wrong - answer!
I've posted the answer - perhaps you'd like to post the solution?
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I'm confused! 
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I was joking is all - it was the wrong answer, I just thought I'd get your hopes up!
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They could have made it a slightly other number to keep us guessing.
Wout
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Absolutely love it.
The US should simply tell the bank to pay the fine to EU and that they'll collect DB's fine instead from Apple.
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Definitely. The net result would be DB paying tax in EU, and Apple paying tax in the US.
Would this be a ploy to make these evil corps pay more taxes in a roundabout sneaky way?
Wout
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Well, if you would be in the business, you would know that 14 billion is the answer to life, the universe, etc...
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One big difference in the fines . . .
"$14 billion fine of their own to Deutsche Bank to settle an outstanding probe into the company's trading of mortgage-backed securities during the financial crisis."
DB took part in a morally criminal enterprise from the world is still recovering. Really, if the EU thinks Apples deserving of a $14B fine for entering into an agreement with a sovereign government than Deutsche Bank should pay many times that amount.
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You're still angry! (I knew it)
I'll give you this, going back on the Ireland/Apple deal is sub optimal. But from the EU point of view having had to bailout Ireland in 2010 worth of 85B, the EU figured it had to have a closer look at where all this money was going. So Ireland was kinda sovereign, but not so sovereign when it needed 85B.
Wout
modified 16-Sep-16 7:40am.
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wout de zeeuw wrote: You're still angry! (I knew it)
Actually, amused.
Don't you see? the bigger picture? It's a new version of a trade war! The overseas competitors will be driven out of the country by excessive fines through the legal system. It's much like keeping products out with tariffs!
Pay attention !
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Definitely seems they're trading blows at the moment. Not as much a trade war, but a war of governments trying to recuperate some of the tax payer money from big corps and banks that went into bailouts.
Wout
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8 years later...
That's not due diligence or degree of complexity. That's simply politics.
Pathetic.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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