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The Politics Thread

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by Wandering Yid, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. Treble

    Treble Keyser Söze

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    Ah my bad, I thought that was in response to furlough.

    Either way, Tugendhat gave him a bloody nose.

    I genuinely think Tugendhat thought, enough of this bollox.
     
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  2. Left on the Shelf

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  3. Diego

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    It's downright robbery in plain view.
    Let me put it like this, if you have a bog standard drivers seat that you have to slide backwards and forwards and wind up and down it would cost much less to replace than one that is fully motorised. Simple so far, yet if they fitted the fully motorised seat in every model that would go onto the cost of the car yet you wouldn't be able to use it unless you paid "extra" to have it activated (same with electric mirrors, heated windscreen, etc etc)
    You are paying more for something in the build of the car that you can only use if you pay even more to have it activated.
     
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    Simply coincidence! <doh>
    Mind you, after last night's ****show, Liz is going to need more than just dressing up like Thatcher to last past Monday!
     
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  5. PowerSpurs

    PowerSpurs Well-Known Member

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    It's perfectly normal in Software to have code which performs differently depending on how much you have paid. There is no reason in principle why that shouldn't apply to hardware. Anyway we live in a capitalist market driven society so anything which makes money must be ok, because if it wasn't people would buy a different car and market forces would hence stop it happening? At least I think that's what the theory is.
     
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    The old gammon in the front row not clapping, his BP must have been 120psi <laugh>[/QUOTE]
     
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    It may be "normal" , but you have not given the true reasons
    as to why tis done. There is appears to be a very low education
    here on the physical/economic realities of the R+D and operation
    of such systems.


    "Anyway we live in a capitalist market driven society so anything which makes money must be ok,
    because if it wasn't people would buy a different car and market forces would hence stop it happening?
    At least I think that's what the theory is."

    Once again, how are you going to defend against cartel/cabal
    behaviour (if the entire automotive sector decides they are
    going to move to a subscription model) .... ??
     
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    Ivana Trump died after taking a fall down a flight of stairs

    Oh sure, that's a cause of death that's not going to lead to a few follow-up questions considering how convenient the timing of it was...
     
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  9. PowerSpurs

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    I didn't give any reasons so your inference that I don't know the true reasons is uncalled for.
    I think we are a long way away from a cartel in the car market. If anyone thinks that government regulation is needed to stop BMW leasing hardware they have a weird idea of priorities.
     
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    Thatcher never offered actual leadership, though, all she had was the exact same Divide & Rule tactics that we've had for the last dozen years

    More than anything else, Thatcher's legacy is that she normalised openly seeing people as "lesser" as part of political discourse, and we've been reaping those seeds ever since
     
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    Not difficult at all for the automotive sector to exhibit
    cartel/cabal behaviour,, and agree this is the sales model
    they will collectively use for selling functionality to customers.


    "If anyone thinks that government regulation is needed to stop BMW leasing hardware they have a weird idea of priorities."

    BMW is :

    1. one manufacturer, not a cartel
    2. not leasing "hardware"
     
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    Also sounds like bollocks.
     
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    Okay, first of all, this is actually a real person

    Secondly, which other cities is she planning to demolish if she gets the "prize" she's spoken about?
     
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    The bot farms did not think this through...



     
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    Levelling Stoke would probably be a vote winner, honestly.
     
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    The real question is why that Tory looks uncannily like the offspring of Michael Gove and a guinea pig
     
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    Anyone fancy flying something into Big Ben?
     
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