hippiechick wrote: 
The husband of a friend of my wife's was with Lehman Bros and quit two weeks before they tanked to go to Barclay's (inside info, do you think?). A couple of months later he was "depressed" about his buddies who'd lost jobs, and he'd "taken to his bed."  Poor guy, only made $2 million plus every year for years — what will become of him?

Hey, I not saying it's great this guy killed himself/was killed, but it's hard to generate much compassion of fucking leeches.

 kysmet wrote: 
Just about to post this. Hard to have the collapse of a country's economy on your consscience.

Freddie Mac Acting CFO Found Dead In Vienna

 dionysius wrote: 
One of my favorite composers!

 dionysius wrote: 
very true.

 dionysius wrote: 
At least the bald version anyway.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Just like St. Hildegard of Bingen! Apparently, a vision of Peter Frampton is a sign of the End Times.

 dionysius wrote: 
cripes,  I don't know why, but I just had a vision of peter frampton

 dionysius wrote: 
...I wonder if he would have achieved the pop culture status he has w/out that...

 smokinsean wrote: 

Sure, he can't play guitar. But let him operate the talk box with his mouth while Gilmour handles the frets, and wow!

 dionysius wrote: 
...I didn't know who he was until I heard him on division bell...

 smokinsean wrote: 
yeah, but what's that genre?

um, heavy shit?

 smokinsean wrote: 

Band name: Hawkingwind

Album name: Special Event Horizon

Single: Cosmological Operators

 dionysius wrote: 

1...band name..
2..album name...
3...first hit single...

 cc_rider wrote: 
I will not venture even to guess what will or won't work inside the horizon of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. If time itself just stops (one possibility), you could forever be right in front of the ATM about to enter your PIN, but never doing so. Might as well be doing something more fun at that moment.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

haha!

 dionysius wrote: 
Given my overdraft I'm not too concerned at the moment. Of course, when the time arrives, I might have other concerns.

* note to self - buy pampers*

 dionysius wrote: 
So what you're saying is, even if you CAN remember your PIN number, your ATM card is probably not going to work?

Does Milliway's even HAVE an ATM?

c.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

Considering that you will be crushed into a strand thinner than spaghetti once you reach the event horizon of a stellar-mass black hole, then yes, your PIN numbers will be lost. But the event horizon of a supermassive galaxy-eater is so vast that you could be far enough away from the singularity for matter to to retain its shape. You could be alive and conscious and completely unaware of even crossing the event horizon of a supermassive, apart from noticing all the stars turn red and then disappear. Then, who knows what happens? Space and time as we know them don't exist in (around?) a singularity.

Man, that's a frightening sci-fi story plot point there.

 dionysius wrote: 
Well I for one am VERY unlikely to remember my PIN numbers when I get to the other side.