"The important lesson for the outside stock-market investor is to ignore all transactions by large shareholders, " he says.

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To judge all social networks by Facebook and Twitter standards is to ignore the future success of tools that are built for a completely different use.

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Indeed, some observers argue that the banking system is already, in effect, nationalised, with government policy doing all it can to keep banks alive by allowing them to ignore problems for as long as possible while obstructing attempts by some banks to heal themselves.

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In addition, opponents of spending cuts ignore that all spending has to be paid for by taxes now or in the future.

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Calvert's death finally convinced the government that it could not ignore the pirate broadcasters, and all were closed down by the end of 1968.

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"For example, if there's a bunch of hooligans or people playing up and a police car goes by and they all cat call at the police car all too often the police car is just going to drive by and ignore it, " he said.

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At the end of Part Two, of course, EzRa is once again called out by the Hosts, who have in present (or Latterday) begun to almost entirely ignore all the humans and Ambassadors, and have fixated almost entirely on the new Ambassador and their hypnotic speech.

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