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  Scottish independance in two days what do you think?

  by barry in

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  one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.

  if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?

  even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .

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  besty

  simon - its perfectly possible to ascertain why people voted the way they did.

  You call a bunch of them afterwards and ask them ;-)

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/20/scottish-independence-lord-ashcroft-poll

  http://whatscotlandthinks.org/ is also an excellent resource

  People voted yes because of self-determination, Westminster politics and whats happening with the NHS

  People voted NO because of risk, pensions and the pound.

  Independence is a processs, not a referendum date. It has been successfully underway since 1998. It's surprising people are unable to see the bigger picture.
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  Scottish independance in two days what do you think?

  by barry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.

  if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?

  even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .

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  besty

  Scotland 'owns' about 85% of UK North Sea oil by geography and yet is allocated only 8% of it on a per capita basis.

  If oil revenue was allocated by geography Scotland would be a slight net contributor to the UK pot.

  https://fullfact.org/scotland/how_much_money_tax_would_scotland_have_spend_uk_scottish_independence-33426

  Of course Londoners also receive +24% subsidy compared to the rest of England, but you don't hear so much about that...
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  Scottish independance in two days what do you think?

  by barry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.

  if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?

  even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .

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  besty

  interesting article dozy - I'm not in scotland as you know so don't have any idea really what the mood on the street is - I guess YMMV as usual.

  the author does speculate on what would have happened following a YES vote, and for me thats entirely the problem - speculation.

  what we can observe now is how the NO vote will work out.
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  Scottish independance in two days what do you think?

  by barry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.

  if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?

  even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .

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  besty

  I think Scotland could & should go it alone and 1.6m fellow Scots agreed.

  Having said that I respect the 2m Scots who disagreed and I expect that going forward together we hold the Westminster feet to the fire to deliver in a timely manner on their promises.

  There has been one recurring theme on this thread which needs people to do their own research to form their own view, not that peddled as fact in the MSM - and that is that Scotland is a net recipient of more than its fair share of UK public spending. (and by implication Scottish people should be grateful to the UK (read England) for its largesse which enables them to drink themselves silly whilst eating pies and fighting, all on England's dime).

  Reading material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula https://fullfact.org/scotland/how_much_money_tax_would_scotland_have_spend_uk_scottish_independence-33426
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  Scottish independance in two days what do you think?

  by barry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.

  if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?

  even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .

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  besty

  why didnt us lot south of the wall get to vote on the matter--? or did the powers that be know full well that if we did--the result would be overwheming.

  because you, like me, are not resident in Scotland
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  Scottish independance in two days what do you think?

  by barry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.

  if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?

  even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .

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  besty

  I would vote Yes if I had a vote - the reasons for the Union of 1707 are no longer valid.

  If the UK goes to war with Argentina to enforce the right to self-determination for Falkland Islanders you must logically offer the Scots the same right.

  The truth is no-one knows how a Yes (or a devo super max+ powered No) will work out in practice. So all the posturing on this thread and in the MSM is meaningless. Chimps have a more accurate grasp of world facts than the media or you do.

  (and if you buy into the Bitcoin/Blockchain theory of everything its all change from a global finance perspective for all of us anyways )

  Good luck Scotland - may you prosper tomorrow and always.

  An absent son,

  xxxxx
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  The insensitivity and opportunistic nature of witness at the 9/11 site !

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  i saw an online post with pictures of all the witnessing carts all around the 9/11 site during the anniversary of the tragedy.... im appalled at how opportunistic they are, and how they prey on people in a mourning and vulnerable state!.

  apparantly they boast of: "there are 65 carts, with 200 witnesses manning the area... and so far 15 new studies started!".

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  are they actually having carts on the memorial site? hopefully they will get booted....
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  Anyone else notice the new Terms of Use on jw.org?

  by leaving_quietly in

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  i first noticed it today... slides up at the bottom.

  i wonder why they felt the need to do this?

  this is just silly for a religious website..

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  besty

  But of course the issue is that it's tupical for businesses ... and that's what they are. If they really had a lifesaving message wouldn't they be telling the world to copy and paste it anywhere they could?

  Did Jesus get everyone to sign an NDA before the sermon on the mount?

  He probably at least took all their cell phones ...

  haha ye :-) idiots...!
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  Bitcoins - anyone here mining?

  by Jim_TX in

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  howdy!.

  it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

  i am, and am having fun doing it.

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  besty

  happy to answer any specific questions as factually as possible based on what I know as of today.

  What's not clear <to you> with BitCoin is exactly what problems it's trying to solve and how specifically it will solve them

  If you need certainty then wait for the shrink-wrapped software bundle in Walmart :-)

  What problem did the Internet solve in 1990?
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  Bitcoins - anyone here mining?

  by Jim_TX in

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  howdy!.

  it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

  i am, and am having fun doing it.

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  besty

  @simon - a man persuaded against his will is of the same opinion still - Dale Carnegie I believe.

  I agree with you - there probably are a lot of shysters attracted to BTC for all the wrong reasons. We treat that as background noise in much the same way as the Internet was all porn and gambling and Nigerian scams in the early days - or remember how spam was going to kill email? Bad actors and problems will always exist - the trick is to separate the noise from the signal.

  BTC is more pseudonymous than anonymous. KYC and AML and other compliance is essential.

  BTC will achieve the value people ascribe to it, same as fiat does today. Lets check back in 5 years as neither your or I or anyone else really knows how this is going to play out. My sense is that digital currency is here to stay.