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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6343 Location: Estonia
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Ridiculous stuff
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:26 am |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
I feel like robbing someone.
_________________ "Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:47 am |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
In before Satis saying he owns half of these things. Well, not the bike, he IS American.
_________________ "I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:51 am |
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Satis
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Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16661 Location: On a slope
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
haha, yea, I don't own any of that. Though the RED epic camera really isn't fair to put on that list. That's high end cinematography gear. The rest, though... sheesh.
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:32 pm |
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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6343 Location: Estonia
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
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_________________ When someone asks how rich you are, quote Rinox " I don't even have a rusty nail to scratch my butt with...!"
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Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:39 pm |
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Rinox
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
_________________ "I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."
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Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:36 am |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
_________________ "Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:54 am |
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Peltz
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
The airline business is something that defies common sense anyway. They are always broke busted and in huge debt but things just keep on spinning. There has to be a god damn scheme behind this.
_________________ When someone asks how rich you are, quote Rinox " I don't even have a rusty nail to scratch my butt with...!"
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:50 am |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
Yet another example of how our current economic (and by now also political - one controls the other) system is continuing to hollow out society. Big companies say "we made X million profit this year!" to shareholders, and have to make more X millions profit every year or their stocks crash and they tank because of speculation.
So they apply pressure to governments (aided by international neoliberal programs like the IMF) to give them huge tax breaks, under the guise of being important for the economy and/or employment. Their cronies in the governments and lobbies push it through, government cuts typically in social and cultural programs to finance this. But after a while the company hits a peak anyway, both because you can't keep growing profits forever and because consumers are becoming weaker exactly because of this vicious circle, and their only way out (that is, to make profits) then is to fire people and to force the people still at the firm to work harder for less return. The stockholders or debtors are happy for another year or two, until shit goes downhill again because there is no sensible way to keep making profits from less work. You can't keep squeezing out a dollar or pound or euro. So, it ends with bankrupcy, and the small shareholders and the employees getting fucked hard. Not the board members or big shareholders, of course.
Over here in Belgium, the biggest energy company (it's almost a monopoly) pays almost no taxes to the state, makes billions (literally) profit every year, and yet every year I get a letter saying that since 'energy prices have gone up' or 'it was a mild winter' or some other BS excuse, I gotta pay more money that year. It almost makes me laugh. I barely use ANY energy at all, and I still pay a lot of money every month. God knows how people with a big house with 3 children actually manage to pay their electricity & gas bills. I pay 50 € a month for a (big-ish) studio where I rarely heat, only shower when I have to and don't use any appliances much other than PC and fridge. Boggles the mind how much it would cost for a house like I described then.
And in general, very rich people (private persons) seems to pay almost no taxes at all. Unlike the common man, they use their access to tax specialists to set up constructions to avoid most if any taxation. And yet they use the roads too, and their children go to schools, and they use the health care system. And even with all that money, they can't give back? Shit.
I've decided to try and get hired by one of the ridiculous exempt moguls (international organisations, big companies) in the hope that I can ride the system instead of become a victim to it. Principles are one thing, but I don't want to become part of the growing underclass before too soon.
_________________ "I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:10 am |
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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6343 Location: Estonia
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
_________________ When someone asks how rich you are, quote Rinox " I don't even have a rusty nail to scratch my butt with...!"
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Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:31 am |
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Satis
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Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16661 Location: On a slope
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
Here's a trailer for a crowd-sourced movie coming out called Iron Sky. Imagine that the Nazis had a secret space program and ran away to the dark side of the moon following WWII. Now they're coming back with an army of flying saucers. How awesome is that? Watch the trailer to have YOUR MIND BLOWN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc#
_________________ They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:17 pm |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
holy crap thats awesome. and lol @ obvious Palin lookalike
_________________ "Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:22 am |
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Rinox
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
haha yeah, apart from the Southern accent that is totally Palin. It actually looks pretty kick-ass...I may have to look out for this one.
_________________ "I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."
- Coach
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:22 am |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
Some BBC article within the economics section:
_________________ "Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson
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Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:16 am |
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Rinox
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Re: Ridiculous stuff
Hah, yeah. Incredibly rich people have huge state-of-the-art real estate that they barely use, but God forbid us normal people would dare to ask for them to give something they don't even use or need back to society. Instead, we have to "work harder" and suffer cuts in our social security and wages. Where did all that money go? Did it just disappear in the last 10 years? Once you start looking into the larger economic systems that lead to this, you start to wonder how it even was possible that people put up with is (and are putting up with it). Create a little "crisis" here and there, use it as a cover to push through all the pro-big money economic 'reform' plans, tell people they have to pitch in and voila...everybody thinks that's the only way out. And you don't want to be seen as a part of those goddamned hippies and thugs protesting and looting either. So yeah, it's a fucked up situation. We're moving to either a police state with huge splits between the rich and the rest, or towards popular uprisings in the West against neoliberalized governments.
_________________ "I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."
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