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« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2021, 04:11:39 pm »

WoT 11/21 confirmed?
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« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2021, 06:24:47 pm »

WoT 11/21 confirmed?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/collider.com/wheel-of-time-season-1-release-date-amazon/amp/
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« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2021, 06:40:07 pm »

yay!
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« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2021, 10:00:06 pm »

I find it weird that you guys seem to give Jeff Bezos personal credit for the services provided by the company he founded.  I don't give Bill Gates personal credit for the fact that I have a Windows PC, nor am I appreciative of his idea every time I play Diablo III.

I don't see the issue because it isn't my place to tell him what to do with his money.
I don't think the objection here is that Bezos et al. are spending their money on a space trip instead of 5 more vacation homes and a couple of new private jets.  Speaking for myself, I don't particularly care what they spend their money on (save when they are buying government influence).  The point is that the government should not allow them to have that much money, be it via regulations on executive pay ratios, or via confiscatory tax rates (like those we had under the well-known communist Dwight Eisenhower).
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« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2021, 10:17:05 pm »

The point is that the government should not allow them to have that much money, be it via regulations on executive pay ratios, or via confiscatory tax rates (like those we had under the well-known communist Dwight Eisenhower).
Sure they should. And do...
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« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2021, 01:52:44 am »

Here is something no one is mentioning. For the people with children what about the environmental impact? If you really want to have a better life for your future generations these flights have no scientific value at all and have quite a footprint.
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« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2021, 08:59:20 am »

I think the title of this thread, Billionaires in Space, would be a great name of an alternative band i.e. the Dead Kennedys...

"California über alles...Über alles CALIFORNIA!"

...thanks, I needed that.

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« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2021, 09:51:16 am »

"California über alles...Über alles CALIFORNIA!"

...thanks, I needed that.



LOL, I figured if anyone got the Dead Kennedys reference, it would be you. 
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« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2021, 10:00:14 am »


^^^ ...and followed it up with the Dead Milkmen's classic "Bitchin' Camaro."

My morning is going groovy so far. Wink

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« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2021, 01:27:17 pm »

I wonder if UFOs are alien billionaires?  Cheesy
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« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2021, 01:29:44 pm »

The point is that the government should not allow them to have that much money,
This is so scary to me. Our government was created by our founders to be run by the people. I don't understand the mentality that people want the government to run us. It certainly isn't based on our history. Honestly that seems like a mental issue to me.
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« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2021, 01:41:51 pm »

The point is that the government should not allow them to have that much money.

And since when does our government have the right to tell us how much money we can and can't have?   You like Socialism so much?  Pack your shit and move to Cuba.  Let's see how you feel after a year or two there.

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« Reply #27 on: July 27, 2021, 01:48:59 pm »

And since when does our government have the right to tell us how much money we can and can't have?

Literally since 1913 and the 16th amendment to the constitution.
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« Reply #28 on: July 27, 2021, 02:13:08 pm »

This is so scary to me. Our government was created by our founders

The same founders who put leeches on their bodies and called it medicine? The same founders that created laws that govern the number of lanterns you can have lit up on the back of your wagon?

Pretty safe to say that the founders never once considered the 21st century...or any of its problems, while they were doing all of that founding.



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« Reply #29 on: July 27, 2021, 02:23:28 pm »

The same founders who put leeches on their bodies and called it medicine? The same founders that created laws that govern the number of lanterns you can have lit up on the back of your wagon?

Pretty safe to say that the founders never once considered the 21st century...or any of its problems, while they were doing all of that founding.




None of your smart arse answers reveal why you feel so helpless that you would want the government to tell you how to live.
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