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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 9:07am

 Beaker wrote:

Name the "phony securities" you speak of.  Demonstrate why they are phony. 

Tell us why, if such an event occurred, that it is a crime and who the perpetrators are that should be prosecuted, and under what laws.

If you can't answer any of that, you've spouting nothing more than empty populist rhetoric.
 
You're absolutely right, none of those securities were illegal. Which means everything the bankers did was perfectly legitimate business practice, right? If it's 'legal', it must be 'good'. Even if those practices amount to a legalized pyramid scheme, it's still legal and therefore a perfectly honorable way to make money. Go with that, man, if it makes you feel better.

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 8:54am

 Beaker wrote:

Wow. 

So anyone who is good at what they do in that scope of the financial industry - good determined by the size of their pay cheque / marketable skills, is a fucking leech eh?

How about we take all the "overpaid" but very skilled advertising and graphics design folks, round them up, point fingers and them, and shriek "fucking leeches!" too?

In spite of doing your own thing and paying for your groceries by means of your skill set that you hope is better than the next guy, I  guess you're really not much of a free-enterpriser after all.

Or is this just another case of selective anger / herd mentality ?  Give your head a shake and look at what message you are sending.
 
Um, what? Creating phony 'securities' with inflated values, not to mention utterly absurd risk evaluations, is a 'skill'? Safe-cracking, armed robbery, and rape are all 'skills' too, huh? Give it a rest, man. The free market ain't all it's cracked up to be.

c.

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 8:51am

 Beaker wrote:

Wow. 

So anyone who is good at what they do in that scope of the financial industry - good determined by the size of their pay cheque / marketable skills, is a fucking leech eh?

How about we take all the "overpaid" but very skilled advertising and graphics design folks, round them up, point fingers and them, and shriek "fucking leeches!" too?

In spite of doing your own thing and paying for your groceries by means of your skill set that you hope is better than the next guy, I  guess you're really not much of a free-enterpriser after all.

Or is this just another case of selective anger / herd mentality ?  Give your head a shake and look at what message you are sending.
 
Ha ha yer funny

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 8:47am

 phineas wrote:
Hey, I not saying it's great this guy killed himself/was killed, but it's hard to generate much compassion of fucking leeches.
 
His wife found him hanging from a rope. Nothing in this life is worth leaving that mess behind, or having someone else clean it up for you.


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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 8:44am

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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.
 
Yeah, I heard about some poor shmuck who lost his high-6 figure and had to deliver pizzas. Welcome to my world!

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 8:33am

 hippiechick wrote:

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

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 8:28am

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

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 5:16am

Freddie Mac Acting CFO Found Dead In Vienna
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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 1:32pm

 dionysius wrote:

Just like St. Hildegard of Bingen! Apparently, a vision of Peter Frampton is a sign of the End Times.
 
One of my favorite composers!
NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 12:43pm

 dionysius wrote:

Just like St. Hildegard of Bingen! Apparently, a vision of Peter Frampton is a sign of the End Times.
 
very true.

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:54am

 dionysius wrote:

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


 
At least the bald version anyway.


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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:48am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

cripes,  I don't know why, but I just had a vision of peter frampton
 
Just like St. Hildegard of Bingen! Apparently, a vision of Peter Frampton is a sign of the End Times.

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:45am

 dionysius wrote:


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

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

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:36am

 dionysius wrote:


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

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

dionysius

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:35am

 smokinsean wrote:

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

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

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:33am

 dionysius wrote:


Band name: Hawkingwind

Album name: Special Event Horizon

Single: Cosmological Operators

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

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:31am

 smokinsean wrote:


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

 
yeah, but what's that genre?

um, heavy shit?

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:30am

 smokinsean wrote:


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

 

Band name: Hawkingwind

Album name: Special Event Horizon

Single: Cosmological Operators
Sean-E-Sean

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:27am

 dionysius wrote:


Considering that you will be crushed into a strand thinner than spaghetti once you reach the event horizon of a 3.stellar-mass black hole, then yes, your PIN numbers will be lost. But the event horizon of a 1.supermassive 2.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.

 

1...band name..
2..album name...
3...first hit single...
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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 10:25am

 cc_rider 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.
 
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.

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