Comments by "roachtoasties" (@roachtoasties) on "Bloomberg Television" channel.

  1. Raise your hand if you believe Russia. "These are just training exercises."
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  2. I've been to Dubai once. It looks like the moon outside the city. Dry as a bone. Large summer heat and only about 5 inches/127 mm of rain per year. Being a desert, the ground is probably hard as a rock. When it rains in wetter regions of the world, the water usually soaks into the ground. Here, a huge deluge will just slosh around, even if they had a better artificial drainage system. I doubt cloud seeding had much to do with it. That's marginally effective and wouldn't cause widespread flooding. As far as better drainage, that would negate the effect even if cloud seeding did this. If you look at flood control infrastructure in areas like Los Angeles, maybe some of the water gets channeled to groundwater where they can, but most of the water just flows out into the ocean.
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  3. Who "forced" them to close these accounts? Didn't they just close them on their own because people opened them to take advantage of their awards program? If the awards/incentives are an issue, then just end those, and the people with these accounts will stop gaming the system. That said, I would never keep more than a token amount of money in PayPal. They're not a bank, and there are zillions of horror stories from users trying to get their money out if PayPal decides on their own that there's an issue.
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  4. I'm thinking Ghosn sneaked out by boat. When you have the money, chartering a yacht is pocket change. There's no way Japan, or any country, can patrol the circumference of the entire country, stopping every boat leaving or coming.
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