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I am assuming that he miscounted it and
as for stone granate - Wiktionary[^]
cheers,
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Even if I miscounted - again - you got it.
In Australia, an English POMMIE
stone GRANITE
is said (sounds like)
to be a Fruit!
POMEGRANATE
You are up tomorrow.
One of these days, I really must learn to count ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
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So it wasn't just me, it did actually say 10 to start with?
I considered pomegranate too, but quickly discarded it due too count of letters. Perhaps if I had tried to work out the solution to it then it would have led me to question your counting.
Oh well, it's all for fun so it doesn't matter
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[PinocchioMode] No, no - it was 11 all time ... [/PinocchioMode]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Now this is was unexpected.
So I have to setup again. Yikes.
cheers,
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18. Gangster and sailor table solution. (5)
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ALTAR, religious table. AL (Capone), TAR (sailor)
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My USB hub is just worn out.
Looked at...
- TigerDirect
- BestBuy
- eBay
- Amazon
What ever happend to the simple inexpensive USB hub ?
Used to be $8 and you get 8 ports.
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I get them on fleabay
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try the department store (k-mart, walmart, tesco depending where you live), even seen them in the dollar shops
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It's just a typical capitalist ploy.
USB hubs were being produced for next to nothing and sold really cheap, and the marketing/sales morons couldn't do anything about it.
Then came USB 3, which gave them a chance to pretend that it was a new product -- one that had a captive market, because no-one would want USB 2 hubs, any more.
So now USB 3 hubs are being produced for next to nothing and sold with immense profit margins, and we customers suckers can't do a damned thing about it.
It's capitalism; the American way. Be proud that you're part of it.
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And there was me thinking the Dutch invented capitalism, after all, VoC shares were sold to the public in what what is, 1640 or some such?
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The Dutch invented the stock market.
WTF has that invention got to do with capitalism?
Consult a dictionary, not wikipedia.
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You dont think that a company, seeking capital from the public, by selling shares, is capitalism?
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You might as well say that the person who invented money invented capitalism.
The idea of using a market to fund companies' growth has got nothing to do with capitalism. It was capitalism that turned that market into a betting shop.
Now go away, troll, and look up the word "capitalism" in a dictionary, not on wikipedia.
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'Raising capital', 'venture funding', these were all Dutch inventions I believe, as is the ability of a government to issue debt.
Isnt the fact that many of these Dutch ships, each one a 'pop up company', created and funded by shares, for one voyage only, never returned make it a bet?
Those did return, laden with spices, made vast profits of thousands of percent for the shareholders, the average joe who bought his 1 gilder share.
FOr someone living in Holland to suggest America invented all this is rather silly, and quite frankly daft, I would be proud of the fact!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: 'Raising capital', 'venture funding', these were all Dutch inventions I believe, as is the ability of a government to issue debt. And they have nothing to do with capitalism.
Some of them may be used by capitalists, but so are a lot of things -- "the ability of a government to issue debt" not being one of them, as it can be defined as anti-capitalist (I told you to use a dictionary, not wikipedia).
Munchies_Matt wrote: Isnt the fact that many of these Dutch ships, each one a 'pop up company', created and funded by shares, for one voyage only, never returned make it a bet? No.
Each ship's failure to return was a tragedy, to the sailors, their families, and their communities.
But I wouldn't expect you to show any respect to those who died the worst possible death at sea, so I am not surprised by your illogical abuse of their memory, in your trolling.
Munchies_Matt wrote: Those did return, laden with spices, made vast profits of thousands of percent for the shareholders, the average joe who bought his 1 gilder share. Investment is not capitalism. They are separate words, with very different meanings.Munchies_Matt wrote: FOr someone living in Holland I do not live in Holland.Munchies_Matt wrote: suggest America invented all this I did not suggest that the US invented investment, the stock exchange, capitalism, or any of the other things mentioned in this thread, troll.
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Soapbox for further rantings please.
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Now, why would you be saying this to me?
Talk to the troll, if you want the Lounge to remain an hospitable place.
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Well, ranting about the behaviour of tech firms is one of the things the Lounge is here for.
Trolling, on the other hand, is not.
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Who is ranting, certainly not me. It was a calm and considered discussion about the origins of the modern financial world. As least that is the way I see it.
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