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  4. BITCOIN A lot of monkeys lived near a village. One day a merchant came to the village to buy these monkeys! He announced that he will buy the monkeys @ $100 each. The villagers thought that this man is mad. They thought how can somebody buy stray monkeys at $100 each? Still, some people caught some monkeys and gave them to this merchant and he paid them $100 for each monkey. This news spread like wildfire and people caught monkeys and sold them to the merchant. After a few days, the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys @$200 each. The lazy villagers also ran around to catch the remaining monkeys! They sold the remaining monkeys @$200 each. Then the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys @$500 each! The villagers start to lose sleep! ... They caught six or seven monkeys, which was all that was left and got $500 each. The villagers were waiting anxiously for the next announcement. Then the merchant announced that he is going home for a week. And when he returns, he will buy monkeys @$1000 each! He asked his employee to take care of the monkeys he bought. He was alone taking care of all the monkeys in a cage. The merchant went home. The villagers were very sad as there were no more monkeys left for them to sell at $1000 each. Then the employee told them that he will secretly sell some of the monkeys @$700 each. This news spread like wildfire. Since the merchant now buys monkeys @$1000 each, there is a $300 profit for each monkey. The next day, villagers made a queue near the monkey cage. The employee sold all the monkeys at $700 each. The rich bought monkeys in big lots. The poor borrowed money from money lenders and also bought monkeys! The villagers took care of their monkeys & waited for the merchant to return. But nobody came! ... Then they ran to the employee but he had already left, too! The villagers then realized that they have bought the useless stray monkeys @ $700 each and are unable to sell them! BitCoin explained.  Â
  5. Well just what have you been up to that makes something like that in the hands of a civilian a threat?? . . . . Is the background perhaps a clue??
  6. After he had examined the elderly gent, the Doctor said to him: "You appear to be in good health. Do you have any medical concerns you would like to discuss with me?" "In fact, I do," said the elderly chap, "After I have sex with my wife, I am usually cold and chilly, and then, after I have sex with her the second time, I am usually very hot and sweaty." “I see,” responded the Doctor, “I’d like to examine your wife before I can make any comment on that peculiar condition.” Later, after examining his elderly wife, the Doctor said to her: "Everything appears to be fine and you seem in particularly good health. Do you have any medical concerns that you’d like to discuss with me?" She replied that she had no questions or concerns. The Doctor then said to her: "Your husband had an unusual concern. He claims that he is usually cold and chilly after having sex with you the first time, and then hot and sweaty after the second time. Do you know why?" "Oh that crazy old fart," she replied, "That's because the first time is usually in July and the second time is in December."
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  8. There was an Irish actor who did Shakespearean plays, but he had aged and could no longer remember his lines. After many years, he finds himself in the Globe Theatre in London, where they were prepared to give him a chance to shine again. The director says "This is a most important part, but luckily it has only one line. You walk on to the stage carrying a rose. You hold the rose to your nose with just one finger and thumb, sniff the rose deeply and then say the line "Ah, the sweet aroma of my mistress." The Irish actor is thrilled. All day long before the play he was practicing his line over and over again. Finally, the time came. The curtain went up, the actor walked onto the stage, and using just one finger, as directed, he delivered the line, "Ah, the sweet aroma of my mistress." The theatre erupted, the audience was screaming with laughter and the director was steaming! "You fool!" he cried "You have ruined me!" The Irish actor was bewildered "What happened, did I forget my line?" "No!" screamed the director. "You forgot the bloody rose!" ►
  9. Great to hear that Trump is the new great peace maker. This is the same guy who has picked fights with Mexico, Canada, China, the EU, the G7, his own justice department and half of his own party. My thinking is that the whole lot are being played as fools by China. North Korea only came into existence because the Yanks were tired of the war and drew a line (Dean Rusk?) at the 38th parallel. Then non-nuke North Korea only continued to survive at the grace and favour of China who desired a buffer between China and the US-influenced South Korea. A nuclear NK is a different story. China's now best bet is to draw NK into their net and get some control over KJU's nukes. But that almost removes the buffer. Best way to get rid of the buffer problem is to have the two Koreas united as one nation and with the yanks kicked out of the South. Many in the South and the North would love to get rid of the division. The South government is democratic but is essentially run by Samsung and the other big industrials. They in turn would gain vast potential markets if they threw their lot as a united Korea in with China. I expect that in the not too distant future we will see a united and China-aligned Korea throw the yanks out. KJU has had half an hour with Trump but much longer and more often with Xi. One can speculate that the real instigator of the Singaporean summit was China who certainly won't be displeased at the suspension of the war games. 'dems my thoughts. IP Address: Logged
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  11. Subject: Nesting Falcon I know that my friends would recognize a Falcon because they are older and mature. I'm not sure I can say that about their offspring. It is a beautiful sight to see one nesting high up in a majestic Eucalyptus tree. I've seen many remarkable, nature photographs over the years but this photo of a nesting Falcon in an old tree is perhaps the most remarkable nature shot that I've ever seen. Please send this to your older friends, since the younger ones probably have never seen a falcon and wouldn't recognize it. [MEDIA=imgur]YW6Fufm[/MEDIA]
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  14. Chickenhawk by Robert Mason Hellfire by Ed Macy
  15. Marty did say "......a vision of a future without women sounds like hell to me. " I would reckon so!! My wife often propounds her favourite solution to the worlds' problems. ie remove all testicles at 14 and replace them at 45.
  16. Perhaps it is time to give " A brief History of Time" another go, if for no other reason than to honour the author the late Stephen Hawking. I like many others purchased a copy and despite every good intention did not finish it. Carl Sagan's summarised "A Brief History.." as Specifically, Professor Hawking was attempting to answer the famous question posed by Einstein: how much choice did God have in constructing the universe? As Mr Sagan puts it, A Brief History Of Time ultimately suggests the universe might have "no edge in space, no beginning or end in time, and nothing for a creator to do".
  17. [quote=" BTW, there is a simple logical benefit of removing procreation from the female body:- humans are the only species where the female birth canal is too small for females to give safe 'natural' birth without a lot of outside help. A case of not-so-intelligent design! At each big jump in the evolution of humans there has been an increase in the size of the cranium and a consequent need to adjust the female pelvis to accommodate, hence the need at this stage for "outside help". If there was to be another jump along the same lines then birth for that line of humans could only be by C section, possibly leading to a divergence into two races one with the ability and resources to support sufficient C Sections to survice as a race, and another stuck in the evolutionry groove where we currently find ourselves. This could over time lead to there being two separate H sapiens species.
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  20. First computer I played with was a mate's Altair, First I owned was Tandy TRS 80 z80 processor to which I added a "stringy floppy" drive a big step up from audio cassette storage as they provided a random access of sorts. I can't quite remember if Tandy used CPM operating system or did they have a system of their own?
  21. Thanks Octave Suprisingly few cars in that view.
  22. Had the type XXI submarines made it to active service earlier they could have essentially stopped the north Atlantic convoys, as it was the type never fired a shot in anger, at least not under German command. Several saw service with various allied forces after 1945 and contributed major design improvements replicated in modern diesel submarines today.
  23. At least knowing where their parents and grand parents were born there'd be no dual citizenship confusion. P.S. Do you have to be and Israeli citizen to select a national capital?
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