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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by esquivalience on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:22AM (#9003340)
Life + 70 is not new - it's standard in more than 70 world countries.
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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by JanezStupar on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:03AM (#9003527)
Now there's a nice recursive definition.

First you pass a crazy law - then force your partners to adopt the same. And when you want to extend your crazy law just point at your partners and say: "Its not crazy, everybody seems to be doing it!".

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Re:Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving... by lost_name on Thursday February 05, 2015 @12:03PM (#9004336)
esquivalience is correct, assuming wikipedia is also correct: http://www.publicdomainday.org/node/39
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