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August 29th, 2008 by eyal | Filed under Uncategorized. |
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The answer to all 5 questions is: Yes, plans are in place. Otherwise I think I would gone mad, crack under pressure, quit, or all of the above, long ago. But plans are never foolproof. Oh yeah and what's this "mental" stop thing ?
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Terrible economic policies, again and again day after day. People's tax money squandered and billions flowing into the pockets of those close to the government. If only those taxes had gone into things like improving public transport system, education, job creation, environment protection, well basically anything other than where it's going to now.
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MEANING:
noun: Excessive or insatiable covetousness.ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek pleonektein (to be greedy), from pleion (more) + ekhein (have).USAGE:
"Don McClanen thinks a condition called pleonexia has overtaken the U.S. 'Pleonexia is an insatiable need for more of what I already have, and it has penetrated our culture to the point where people are angry at the poor,' he states." -
Jim points out that the Facebook terms of use give them almost free reign over any of the content uploaded to their site. That includes your holiday photos, family snaps, artistic works, poems, songs, writing, your blog posts fed by an RSS feed even.
That picture of you in the bar singing and drunk doesn’t seem so funny now does it? What if it was used in a Facebook advert seen by millions?
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"When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
