It a grotesque way, the mob rule issue can be defended these days by the argument that the opposing parties will always water down referendum decisions. It is ironic, but good.
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And that guy Meili who exposed the scandal was ostracised and forever remained unemployable. He was not a banker either, he was a security guy in a bank.
Lets not forget that the italian fascists and the nazis safely parked their looted money in switzerland.
Switzerland was used as a corridor by Italy and Nazi Germany to transports "goods".
Its a little known fact that the allies bombarded switzerland towards the end of ww2, a bit of a reminder for product weapons to the axis of evil as a neutral state.
The neutrality is used for propagating "you and your money are safe here", which is true at first glance. They are ready to take it from you as soon your seat gets a bit too hot for your liking.
The 1814 neutrality was granted after Napoleon invaded the confederation and made it a republic, only to be saved by Russia, no less, so a different solution had to be found.
They were dirt poor back then.
No country was afraid of Switzerland doing anything, they had no military might whatsoever, the current militia model was introduced in fear of a Nazi invasion.
Your statement about constitional changes is vastly incorrect, omitting many things, see here https://www.parlament.ch/de/%C3%BCber-das-parlament/parlamen...
There is no poverty is switzerland, even the worst off are better off than us citizens on food stamps. The treasury returns so much money to the cantons, they could build a socialst utopia if they wanted, so long the economy as a whole is fine. They already have such a thing on a federal level, its just not called guaranteed minimum income. Its been in place for a while. This all is before corporate and income taxes and vat.
Say what you want, but soviet russia and yugoslavia and such, exepct for the communist elite did not give an iota about appeasing the rich. Not saying it was the best way, but they stood their ground until they sank. Switzerland will sell out 1000 times any day before that happens.
They probably did not give away their military gear because the price or conditions they have envisioned were not right.
Make no mistake, Switzerland is right up there in the top 5 as far corrupt government and institutions go, they just have the better suits, camouflage and clandestinity.
Sure, life is good in Switzerland for most, the system is one of the best as far median income and level of wealth goes, but that did not fall from the sky.
This country had to ration food until not too recently, and before that, Russia had to save them from Napoleon.
They have done so much more bad things, things not mentioned in this thread.
And after the US intervened, they carried on with the same, just even more sophisticated.
How Swiss banking has a good name should be beyond anyone. Assume it is all careful, decade long marketing and PR stuff.
I in details know about some internal things regarding employee conduct which is Holywood material worthy.
Then google could find themselves in deep trouble rather soon than late, I wager.
I am certain the Swiss government will bail them out, direct democracy be damned.
Edit. I just realized, in the us, if there is no bidder, the fdic can close down the bank or run it itself.
Do they get the investments from the banks or do they park the investment money in this bank?
And why this bank, when there are many more risk averse institutions out there?
They have to pay backbas usual, right?
And the predictive text spits out what it thinks you want to type.
And backups are possible even if you never had one before.
This is so very dodgy to me.
Maybe its e2e from the moment you submit until it arrives at the desired destination.
Which brings me to the next issue, they need to parse the text to display and when you quote a text, does it just blindly quote a blurb?
I do not believe in conspiracies and such, but there are so many double speech possibilities here...
I would always prefer the cash and be done with it.
When you have a mandate and say "I am calling on behalf/from/for Citrix, Emc, dell and such, they will often speak.
Your approach is the first one, sometimes a bit more is needes or you will sell a bunch of nothing.
I went from newbie to top performer within 3 months, this includes lead generation and closing the sales, depending on the campaign.
First it depends if you are getting a request by them or if you are cold calling, both have pros and cons. Cold calling is great if youre selling networking devices, you can specifically target hotels, campuses and such.
One thing, generally, do not even try with government entities they have long standing contract and crazy regulations, theres no decisionmaker there , unlike in private companies.
Rule number one: You must get the head of IT on a call, email will not work, and nobody else, you do not need the cfo , cto or such, the it dept head is your target.
You have to get to him via secretary or other workers, you need to find out their numbers, you need to be creative, pretending you know him already "whats his name again?", then save to your crm and next time you call and ask for him by name.
If he has no time to speak, ask for a convenient time, they are chatty if you know your tech.
Now, the head of it has time and you have him on the phone, its showtime!
Do not pitch your stuff, let him speak. Find out his infrastructure, software and such, and the contract renewal times. Ask how frequently they replace servers, ask them if they are happy with the hypervisor ware etc.
We all know that hard and software always has some issues and inconveniences, find their pain points.
Then find out when they could consider a change, contractual obligations.
Now you pitch your product, offer a free trial, convince them how good support will be.
And then you ask them if theynare interested for more info and total cost of overship/implementation when the time comes.
Mention to them that its always a good idea to present 2 or more proposals to the cfo(this means youre doing the work for them, theybappreciate that, believe me, they must justify to cfo).
Price does not matter, support and reliability and ease of integration and use is all.
And them schedule a call when the time comes, follow up with an email, dont bombard them with spam.
But maybe someone versed in phitography may chime in and educate us?
It is a bit sad that just make up wont do the job anymore, I mean the people on the covers all get a proper make up job and a hairdo.
Who and why are these ideals pushed down peoples throats?
In Europe this used to be called brashly scheduled cross dressing or something along the lines.
I am not going to try to have a surgery to make it happen.
There is nobody with no gender, there are rarities with natural double gender features, but strictly speaking, nature assigns a gender during early pregnancy.
All the ideas about gender changes occur to people later on and based on personal feelings/factors. The mind is something that develops by education and experience, not genetic urges as far I am aware.
If schools and parents would educate kids saying theres no such thing like gender and you get to choose and society lets the promoters of such go rampant, I imagine this would not lead to a net positive outcome.
Children are brutal when it comes to peer pressure and such. They do not engage in white lies, they say it as they think it is.
If you send your boy in a pink mini dress to school, you will not be doing him a favour.
There should be some rules on how humans present themselves when in public and in groups. I mean, if society would be such that ypu could walk down the city center naked with all reproductional organs exposed with nothing but a kkk t shirt, this simply would not find acceptance.
In summary, kids minds and kid environments like school are fertile grounds for bullying under peer pressure etc. It is good if a school promotes freedom of expression and tolerance, but some very vocal minority groups want everything yesterday and are pushing it down everyones throats.
Having had a close family member losing 5 years of his life and his savings to a fortuneteller crook has made me realize that people with too much of an open mind, in a crisis situation, will believe the most ridiculous coping strategies told to them by others. Kids are often insecure and easy to influence, I think they should be kept away from people promoting irreversible things like gender changes. Cigarettes , gambling and alcohol are forbidden to be promoted to minors, so should be this.
Pushing gender identity on teenagers who do not even know how to urinate in a straight line and had no sexual intercourse yet is just plain wrong, always will be.The teens do not come up with these things themselves usually its often an external influence by highly irresponsible people pushing theit agenda. To me this is more controversial than the abortion issue.
And thats right, I will openly oppose anyone who claims otherwise and I will certainly not die on any hill defending that.
I can agree to disagree and that is that.
All these who did the gender changes recently appear to be still unhappy and frustrated. Show me the success stories.
This is nothing new by the way, there have been a number of thai boys for example undergoing hormone therapy and gender change more than 25 years ago, they often would work in prostitution. The difference is, they perhaps liked the idea and did it for sexualbor monetary reasons and came up with the idea independently, not via social media.
I am just wondering if Paris and the suburbs would be as expensive as London, I will compare the relevant costs.