Cape Town Getting Ready to Shut Off the Water

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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 15, 2018, 02:54:41 AM
Never trust marketers.  Even when they say things that seem undoubtable, they lie.

I read a consumer article in the Washington Post that showed that.  Apparently, a chair manufacturer can say the chair is covered with "100% split cowhide leather" and it can legally still be an artificial material.

No joke!

"Made in America" no joke ;-(
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Táadoo ánít’iní.
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Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 18, 2018, 08:55:36 PM
"Made in America" no joke ;-(

So what do you think about the lies about products?
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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 19, 2018, 02:14:08 AM
So what do you think about the lies about products?

Caveat Emptor.  Nothing that a bloodthirsty Roman Emperor couldn't deal with, before the afternoon orgy.

BTW -- President Zuma stepping down, maybe will help S Africa.  He was getting rather .. Mugabe .. in his old age.
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Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 19, 2018, 07:28:20 AM
Caveat Emptor.  Nothing that a bloodthirsty Roman Emperor couldn't deal with, before the afternoon orgy.

BTW -- President Zuma stepping down, maybe will help S Africa.  He was getting rather .. Mugabe .. in his old age.

So why should it be that way?  Just to allow snake oil salesmen to get rich?  Couldn't they have more productive jobs?
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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 19, 2018, 08:00:45 AM
So why should it be that way?  Just to allow snake oil salesmen to get rich?  Couldn't they have more productive jobs?

An informed consumer is a succesful consumer ... which is why public and private sector purveyors of services and products, work very hard to keep them uninformed, or at least misinformed.  Otherwise 1792 happens all over again.
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Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
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Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 19, 2018, 08:22:16 PM
An informed consumer is a succesful consumer ... which is why public and private sector purveyors of services and products, work very hard to keep them uninformed, or at least misinformed.  Otherwise 1792 happens all over again.

1792 was a very good and interesting year (https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1792).  But what did you have in mind specifically?
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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 25, 2018, 03:38:25 AM
1792 was a very good and interesting year (https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1792).  But what did you have in mind specifically?

The malefactors of wealth didn't enjoy Paris that year.
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Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 25, 2018, 08:27:40 AM
The malefactors of wealth didn't enjoy Paris that year.

Ah let them eat cake then.  Or Bread.  Or whatever.  Why do they care which?  Won't make any difference to ME!

MA

"Poor old Marat, they hunt you down.
The soldiers are searching all over the town..."

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Baruch

#68
Quote from: Cavebear on February 25, 2018, 02:28:56 PM
Ah let them eat cake then.  Or Bread.  Or whatever.  Why do they care which?  Won't make any difference to ME!

MA

"Poor old Marat, they hunt you down.
The soldiers are searching all over the town..."

Brioche ... something like a pastry.

“Qu'ils mangent de la brioche” - but Rousseau wrote that, and Marie didn't say it.  It was a meme.  And wasn't noted at the time, but in later pro-revolution French historians.  Most of the things people think happened, didn't, at least not the way they thought it did.  People don't have memory, they have free confabulation.
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Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
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Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 25, 2018, 09:00:08 PM
Brioche ... something like a pastry.

“Qu'ils mangent de la brioche” - but Rousseau wrote that, and Marie didn't say it.  It was a meme.  And wasn't noted at the time, but in later pro-revolution French historians.  Most of the things people think happened, didn't, at least not the way they thought it did.  People don't have memory, they have free confabulation.

Few famous sayings are actually accurate.  Several people at Lincoln's death said Seward claimed "Now Lincoln belongs to the Angels" but he improved that to "Now he belongs to the Ages".  As Ceasar probably didn't say "et tu, Brute?", but rather "Et peperit filium fornicationum, insidiatoris".
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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 28, 2018, 04:59:29 AM
Few famous sayings are actually accurate.  Several people at Lincoln's death said Seward claimed "Now Lincoln belongs to the Angels" but he improved that to "Now he belongs to the Ages".  As Ceasar probably didn't say "et tu, Brute?", but rather "Et peperit filium fornicationum, insidiatoris".

That produces a typical Google Translate fail ... "She Harlots bandit".  "insidiatoris" by itself translates in Google to "bandit".

So what part of your own memory is confabulation? (rhetorical).
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Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 28, 2018, 06:23:54 AM
That produces a typical Google Translate fail ... "She Harlots bandit".  "insidiatoris" by itself translates in Google to "bandit".

So what part of your own memory is confabulation? (rhetorical).

Well, you are disputing GOOGLE!  Remember the coke machine scene in Dr Strangelove? 
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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 28, 2018, 02:30:11 PM
Well, you are disputing GOOGLE!  Remember the coke machine scene in Dr Strangelove?

My loving is strictly vanilla.  Nothing strange about it.
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pr126

#73
Another Zimbabwe in the making.

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The Cape Town Water Crisis and Hating Israel
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Former Israeli Ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk, current Ambassador Lior Keinan, and Israel’s economic attaches to South Africa all made repeated overtures to the relevant bodies to assist with the Cape Town water crisis. Scientists were prepared to share their knowledge. Volunteers were ready to come to implement them. Organizations were ready to help in the planning and even in the financing for what was required to prevent Day Zero from becoming a reality.

But the governing body of Cape Town sides with the Palestinians. That makes Israelis the enemy. And that allowed hatred to trump sanity and enmity to prefer calamity over offered salvation.

In the early part of 2016, when it already became clear that parts of South Africa would be facing one of the most severe droughts in its history, an important conference was called to make plans for the initiation and implementation of specific programs to prevent catastrophe. Listed on the program as one of the delegates was Israel’s ambassador to South Africa, Arthur Lenk, who had already spent considerable effort in educating and assisting the region wherever possible. No sooner did this become public than Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti of the University of Pretoria, withdrew his participation. That was immediately followed by the BDS movement successfully lobbying the South African government to entirely cancel the water conference due to Israel’s participation.

Thanks to the growing influence of the increasing Muslim population and the leadership of the pro-jihad President Jacob Zuma aligned with the BDS, South Africans rejoiced at their ability to “tell off the Israelis” and to deny Israel the ability to claim credit for any humanitarian aid.


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Baruch

This is the problem with democracy ... majoritarianism.  That is why I would suspend all elections, everywhere.  Cattle pens for all the ape people, especially Blonde/Blue eyed ones from Germany.
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Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
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Don't do that.