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Post by lugg on Mar 19, 2024 21:06:50 GMT
Purin But oh so heartbreaking really
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2024 21:56:32 GMT
On a political and global level, yes of course it's heartbreaking. But it took the re-election of a vicious war-mongering imperialist dictator for Whatagain to finally have his typing praised instead of criticized!
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Post by whatagain on Mar 20, 2024 8:48:32 GMT
😂😂😂💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
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Post by whatagain on Mar 20, 2024 8:50:25 GMT
I managed to not forget my wife’s birthday. But Marie did. I think we will disinherit her.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2024 17:31:50 GMT
Absolutely. Turn her out of the house into the cold and snow.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 21, 2024 16:55:52 GMT
Working in blood bank I used to do the daily blood stocks order (and emergency extra runs as needed) from the the National Blood Service centre in Sheffield. The order was done online (like grocery shopping really). I was informed today by one of my ex-colleagues that NBS had sent her an email to say that my chum Alan and I have recently been taken off the system and can no longer order blood or blood products. If we want to order in future we have to go on a course. Alan retired in 2010 and I retired in 2016.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 21, 2024 18:16:28 GMT
Admin is everywhere the same.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2024 18:19:14 GMT
Does this mean the two of you now have to fly out of your homes after dark & get your blood the old-fashioned way? 🦇
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Post by questaredux on Mar 22, 2024 23:48:23 GMT
Lead story on the News as we awoke this morning was Princess Mary has been diagnosed with Cancer.
Oh yes...my State is to build nuclear submarines...signed agreements at last.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 26, 2024 9:18:15 GMT
Breaking news...a container ship has crashed into the 2.7km Francis Scot Key bridge in Baltimore and it looks like the whole bridge has fallen into the water. Happened in the early hours and there was work being carried out on the bridge, so there wouldn't have been much traffic on it thank goodness...according to the news there are up to 20 people in the water and several vehicles. Horrific
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 26, 2024 14:55:33 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 26, 2024 15:25:30 GMT
Well, I can confirm that there are some tight squeezes in Antwerp.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 27, 2024 19:53:32 GMT
Obesity stats put inhabitants of small pacific islands like Marshall Islands above 50pc ! US at 33pc UK at 28pc (surprised here( Belgium at 20pc Japan at 3pc
And North Korea is at 2pc.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2024 3:23:39 GMT
That 2% is all on the frame of their Great Leader.
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Post by deyana on Apr 10, 2024 13:59:30 GMT
Kimby, here's wishing you had more time But I get it, I am forever busy, with just life and living. But it's all good. Kimby, my forum is super-busy, always something going on, and of course always happy when you do have the time to pop in, or when K2 does. We share a history and it's nice to see old friends.
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Post by deyana on Apr 10, 2024 14:00:23 GMT
The summer is nearly here! yay. I have so much planned. Hope everyone on here is doing good.
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Post by questaredux on Apr 15, 2024 8:16:53 GMT
I don't know if this made any news in your regions.
..Australia is shocked and grieving a Shopping Mall killing spree last Saturday. A single 40 year-old man armed with a 12 inch "sword" ran around the mall stabbing mainly women and children. A woman police officer chased him and from a distance fired a single round which killed him. I don't know the latest figures, but 6 were killed and 12 in hospital. A baby, about 18 months old was saved when some lads tore new T-shirts from the racks and stuffed them into her twice slashed abdomen. The police officer is being lauded for her courage, stamina and marksmanship
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 15, 2024 8:19:30 GMT
Big news here and still ongoing.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2024 8:53:20 GMT
The news went around the world. Of course the media are now losing interest since it wasn't a terrorist.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2024 19:27:41 GMT
And horribly, there has been another stabbing event in Sydney, this time at a Mass in an Assyrian Orthodox church.
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Post by lugg on Apr 16, 2024 20:10:55 GMT
I don't know if this made any news in your regions. ..Australia is shocked and grieving a Shopping Mall killing spree last Saturday. A single 40 year-old man armed with a 12 inch "sword" ran around the mall stabbing mainly women and children. A woman police officer chased him and from a distance fired a single round which killed him. I don't know the latest figures, but 6 were killed and 12 in hospital. A baby, about 18 months old was saved when some lads tore new T-shirts from the racks and stuffed them into her twice slashed abdomen. The police officer is being lauded for her courage, stamina and marksmanship Yes I read about this with horror . I do hope that the baby survives but it is terrible to read about her mother . And now another stabbing. I know we all discuss gun crime and access to them in some countries but here in the UK knife crimes are a real problem and it seems elsewhere as well. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-deaths-by-country
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Post by whatagain on Apr 18, 2024 9:13:30 GMT
I know some don’t like when I complain about the Dutch.
But.
Last month we send a NDA (non disclosure agreement) in English as is the rule for us to a Dutch company in order to share info in a project (small one, a few hundreds k). After nearly one month we get from them a signed NDa. Theirs. In Dutch.
Fantastic. I am so thrilled to start discussing with them.
‘You sent us a document but we don’t care you will use ours’. ‘You are the client ? Who cares’.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 18, 2024 10:14:27 GMT
It is they who are the client then? Just confused for a second.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 18, 2024 17:01:51 GMT
In fairness, I would think a NDA in the official language of the signer would be more binding, as there could be no doubt that the signer truly understood what was being signed.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 18, 2024 18:24:31 GMT
‘You are the client ? Who cares’. I'm sure some people do. I love it when company policy meets company policy.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 19, 2024 9:35:53 GMT
I am the client. We are a Flemish company but international so we do all our contracts and NDA in English. We accept of course to negotiate our terms but we don’t accept as a rule documents from suppliers.
In the worst case I accepted killing both our contractual terms and conditions of sales and purchase and fully relying on the right of the country.
Here we will likely drop them if they don’t sign our documents.
Starting a relationship with a company that makes it difficult from start is hardly a good idea. The world is big enough.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 19, 2024 10:29:09 GMT
Ahh, I get it now. Your supplier wants you to sign an NDA and it is in Dutch as they are a Dutch company. You want them to sign your NDA which is in English. Your company policy is not to accept documents (does that include a contract from them?) from a supplier. No doubt they have a similar policy then from clients. You can easily choose not to then buy services/stuff from them but it depends if there are other suppliers I suppose. Due to you saying the contract is "(small one, a few hundreds k)" I doubt if they see you as particularly important and don't really mind missing out on your business for the hassle/cost of translating and approving your NDA and contract. I'm glad I never was a businessman. Good luck.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 19, 2024 11:16:36 GMT
It could simply be the matter of the incompetence of one person. "What did I do with that document? No problem, I have one just like it."
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Post by whatagain on Apr 19, 2024 11:40:58 GMT
Perfect summary Mark.
So it comes to a relation of power. As a client you try to run away from a supplier who wants to dominate you. If they make it difficult in the early stages they will make it difficult in every stage.
So we try to choose suppliers who smooth things.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 21, 2024 9:33:18 GMT
US passed - finally - a bill of nearly 100 billions in ‘package aid’. About 60 for Ukraine so that these can be used as ammo to kill Russians. Some for Taiwan to prepare to kill Chinese should they invade them. The rest for Israel so that they can bomb Iran.
Tbh I am glad we arm Ukrainian troops to repulse Russia but I wonder what we could do in a world not dominated by egocentric assholes with all that money.
Build hospitals, schools, invest in research build non polluting energy plants explore our oceans maybe clean them.
Nah. Weapons. We are finally a race that likes to destroy. Not build.
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