#brokers

This is a nonsense. NO, iKON never did such a thing. It is true that during that time, the news about illegal music streaming(sajaegi) came out but iKON is also another victim of that report. During that time, JTBC, who first reported about sajaegi took a screenshot of MelOn’s Real-time music chart to use as the image for their news report. Unfortunately, during that time, iKON’s was charting #1 in all music charts. It was clear that the image was only used as a reference, just to show people how music charts look like, but some people took it in a wrong way and thought JTBC was trying to say that iKON was doing sajaegi.

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K-fans got very upset, and asked JTBC to clarify their report but they never did. Which is why I’m still a bit upset about JTBC’s way of reporting news, that they weren’t fully responsible for their report. However, YG did respond. Yang Hyun Seok constantly mentioned about digital sajaegi even before this incident, he’s the one who’s been saying that sajaegi is a big problem in K-music industry and YG will do their best to help investigate any illegal streaming in the industry.

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Also, JTBC’s report got a lot of criticisms from K-fans, not only from iKONICs but K-idol fans in general. Everyone was outrageous, because what JTBC claimed as sajaegi were the multiple accounts created by idol fans to stream their idol’s songs. That’s not illegal, nor it should be called sajaegi. Sajaegi is when a company pays brokers to operate thousands of unregistered mobile devices to stream songs so that it could chart higher in music charts. That’s the definition of digital sajaegi. What JTBC reported about was mass streaming by idol fans, which is conducted by fans with their own money and time. All of the MelOn IDs JTBC showed during their report were created by fans, not by brokers.

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When brokers create illegal IDs, they use a pattern such as ‘id1, id2, id3...’ because they have to create thousands of IDs to operate at once. They don't take time to come up with normal usernames. However, fans have their own unique IDs that they create, mostly like ‘iKON0915, iKONdebuteplease, LTNS0915, etc.'

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Fans also PAY FOR STREAMING PASSES AND DOWNLOADS OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKET. No one pays K-idol fans to stream their idol’s songs; we put in our own budget, or help each other getting streaming passes. Thus, JTBC’s report was a total misreport, which manipulated K-idol fan culture.

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So please don’t misunderstand, iKON and YG had nothing to do with digital sajaegi, they never did and will never do.

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I wouldn't choose 1, because to lead a happy life requires a person to form bonds and connections with other people. And having an extremely high IQ might be an impediment in this case, because you will look at the world from a different point of view that is startlingly different from the mundanes and you can't relate to them.
2 is definitely a no. There's more to life than being a Casanova.
Medical technology nowadays is progressing at a remarkable pace. Although there isn't a panacea for every life-threatening disease, I think it's succinct to treat or prevent most fatal ailments. So, 3 is rather redundant in my opinion.
I'm living in a city where there's an abundance of food source and water supply. Plus, the chances of me being washed up on a deserted island where food is scarce is probably nil. So, 4 isn't required.
Best case scenario for ingesting pill 5, being contained in an isolated cell where my every movements are being monitored by the Pentagon since the USA has labelled me a threat against humanity for possessing such powers. Worst case scenario? I'm probably being experimented by scientists in order to discern the nature and source of my abilities.
Flying is actually quite fun, but I might be shot down for being mistakenly identified as an enemy drone.
Having a time based restraint on an ability is such a pain. What can you do with 5 mins of seeing the future? If you want to change the future, you would have to use your ability to see the underlying causes of it and fully comprehend the whole process of the future that you want to change. We used more than 5 mins to work on an add maths question or memorizing just a single page of Sejarah. What makes you think that it's possible to do something as complicated as that under 5 mins? Plus, you might cause a paradox which will disrupt the very fabrics of space and time.
Invisibility is quite handy, but then again, it has a time restraint and you might end up like scenario 5.
So I would opt for 6. 'Everything' about a person isn't just limited to their personality and general information about them, it can be a very detailed, personal information that you can use to blackmail a person if the necessity ever arise. That's why in most movies, information brokers are the ones that pull the strings of an operation. With that ability, you can easily manipulate everyone as long as you have a person's vital information. Finance won't be a problem as well since you know everyone's deposits pin and credit card number. Information is power.

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Hi, Kris.
What a question!
Okay, let me use this opportunity to thank our farmers because they provide us one of the most essential needs human ever need; food.
So I had been doing the KKN thing in Kuningan for two months. It's Desa Sidamulya, Kecamatan Jalaksana, to be precise. Dari pertigaan deket Toseba Surya ke atas terus aja sampe ada Balai Desa. Okay, that's way too precise.
It's kinda sad to witness real problems our farmers facing before my very eyes. Long story short, they can't directly sell their product to the market because of the dependence to the so-called 'broker' a.k.a. tengkulak. They had an unfair agreement where the brokers get the crop without paying for it first, cut their commission out of the revenue from the sale, then pay the rest to the farmers, leaving the farmers with no choice but suffer from loss when the price at the market was extremely low because of market mechanism, but these brokers have nothing to worry about since they've nothing to lose at the first place, in fact they can always profit from every transaction made with no risk at all. That's pretty unfair, eh? But that's a custom they've been living by for decades, from generation to generation, so it's practically impossible to change it in a blink of eye.
Farming is not an easy job, I can tell. It takes a lot of money, time, energy, effort, patience, and the worst part is that it involves uncertainty be it on-farm (pest, drought, etc) and also off-farm (storage, price, distribution, etc). It's not a profession you want to do. I've never heard a kid said "I want to be a farmer when I grow up." It's not their fault, our agriculture isn't interesting enough. There are a lot of things to fix. That's why we need to appreciate our farmers more. Farmers tackle some tough jobs in some tough conditions, yet they don’t always get the recognition they deserve.
The loss of small farms has dramatically reduced our supply of safe, fresh, sustainably-grown foods; it has contributed to the economic and our national food security. If we lose our farmers, we’ll lose the diversity in our food supply, and what we eat will be tasteless protein bars, or worse, pills.
Shoutout to Desa Sidamulya, Kecamatan Jalaksana, Kabupaten Kuningan and its lovely people for a priceless life lesson it taught me. I'd really miss you! Why I'm sobbing, it's the onion I guess, don't worry I'm good.

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I am trying to figure out what I can tell you about the immediate families parents without revealing too much.

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They are the ones at the left. Their fc's are Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley. Their names are Charlotte Tabitha Hannah and Warren Riley Hannah. They are extremely hospitable and left their children, nieces and nephews with a legacy and huge shoes to fill. I cannot tell you anything more because if you role-play with me regardless of who you speak to it will come out in the thread.

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Out of the Hannah cousins I have only figured out Andy and Kyle's parents. They are the ones at the right. Their fc's are Aisha Tyler and Garret Helund. Their names were Rhyland Wade Hannah and Amber Laila Hannah. They were investment brokers and had to travel all the time for work. They died in a heist at the business meeting they were at one day. A few men barged in and made demands of their clients that were not met fast enough. Rhyland was Warren's brother, so Warren and Charlotte fought for five years for custody of Andy and Kyle.

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"Nique" tous autant que vous êtes ! J’emmerde cette ville et tous ces habitants.
J’emmerde les zonards qui font la manche aux feux rouges et qui s’foutent de ma gueule dès que j’ai le dos tourné.
J’emmerde ce mec avec son chiffon qui prend un malin plaisir à saloper mon pare brise ; trouve un boulot connard !
J’emmerde les Sikhs et les Pakistanais qui conduisent à fond la caisse des taxis en ruines et qui empestent le curry par tous les pores de leur peau, tous des terroristes en puissances ; roulez moins vite putain !
J’emmerde les p’tits mecs de Chelsea avec leurs pectoraux épilés à la cire et leurs biceps gonflés aux hormones, qui se taillent des pipes dans les allées de mes parcs ou sur mes quais et que je retrouve la nuit la queue à l’air dans ma télé.
J’emmerde les épiciers Coréens avec leurs pyramides de fruits au prix du caviar, leurs tulipes et leurs roses emballées dans du plastique ; 10 ans qu’ils sont là et « toujours pas bien comprendre ».
J’emmerde les Russes de Brighton Beach, ces mafieux qui passent leur temps aux terrasses des cafés à siroter du thé dans des petits verres, en suçant des morceaux de sucres ; Toujours à chercher des combines pour leurs petits trafics ; mais rentrez dans votre putain de pays !
J’emmerde les hassidim avec leur petite calotte noire qui déambulent en permanence sur la 47e rue, dans leur costard de merde, les épaules couvertes de pellicules et qui vendent des diamants sud-africains du temps de l’apartheid.
J’emmerde les brokers de Wallstreet auto-proclamés « maîtres de l’univers », tous ces Michael Douglas alias Gordon Geko à la mords-moi-le-nœud, qui inventent chaque jour de nouveaux moyen d’exploiter les pauvres et mieux piller la planète, tous ces enculés de chez Enron méritent d’aller en tôle jusqu’à la fin de leurs jours et d’y crever ! Et Bush et Cheney, ils n’étaient pas au courant peut-être ? Ils nous prennent vraiment pour des cons !
Et j’emmerde Oussama Ben Laden, Al Qaïda, ces hommes des cavernes et tous les connards intégristes où qu’ils se trouvent. Au nom des milliers d’innocents massacrés, je prie pour que vous cramiez en enfer pour l’éternité dans une carlingue d’avion en flammes, vous et vos 72 putes. Avec vos torchons sur la tête vous êtes tout juste digne de baiser mon royal cul d’Irlandais."

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Is LaWhore a thing now? Like when did people start being famous for being LaWhore? Is it a word? Is it a name or common place? Is it a verb or is it a noun? Damn I wish I new when all these new cool lingo catchphrases came about. Nobody ever told me. And this very great and wise person once told me that "you shouldn't worry about others and their problems because 99.9% of these people don't give two shits about you and your problems."
Let me ask you this, did Bill Gates become a billionaire by caring about only himself? Hell yes he did. Do stock brokers get rich by caring about what their customers do on a daily basis? Hell no they don't.. So moral of story: if you only care about yourself you'll see yourself become wealthy and stay long enough to see yourself become the villan and not the hero Gotham deserves...

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