Yes, here in Europe every country has an African country on its border to compensate, just like you explain over there. It was quite hard to bring all those countries from Africa up here, but we made it. The hardest part was fitting them in between the existing countries, but we just used shoehorns and it went smoothly. Here in Portugal we wanted Niger, but it was hard to fit such a big country between us and Spain, so we settled for Senegal.
Now seriously, what the FUCK are you talking about?
The law probably also mandated them to convert all that debt into bonds, then wrap in in incomprehensibly complex financial "products" and selling them like fool's gold to fools, while at the same time investing in their downfall buying CDSs like there's no tomorrow. Probably the law also mandated the rating weasencies to give these financial turds a triple-A rating.
Wow, the law is sooooo naughty. It made the poor bankers weep. Bad, bad law.
You surely meant "members of the Party". "Intelligentsia" consisted of artists, teachers, scientists and so on,
Yeah, you're right.
one of the bonuses of late Communism was that almost no one believed in official propaganda. Compare it to the modern Western World.
We'll get there eventually. There's only so much bullshit people can take.
Every time I see our politicians and pundits puking their bullshit on TV I remember that scene in "Mars Attacks" when aliens were walking in the middle of destroyed city streets killing every human without the slightest hesitation. While doing that, they were talking all the time. One of them was carrying the "translation machine" that translated what they were saying: "Don't run, we are your friends, we come in peace".
Jurisprudence is also used in countries that don't have common-law systems (basically most non-Anglo-Saxon countries). It's just that it has a certain weight, and it's not the prevalent mean of decision.
so many people who were 'against' the occupy movement and everyone still believes in trickle down economics.
Really if you think about it. Trickle up makes a lot more sense.
If you succeed in destroying someone's deeply entrenched beliefs using facts and logic, that person won't change his mind but will hate your guts forever.
Fortunately we don't live in a Communist system. Remember how in the former Soviet Block the members of the Intelligentsia used to commit crimes with total impunity while the common people had to obey the law and dissidents were convicted based on bogus accusations?
I'm so happy we live in Western Capitalist Democracy where none of those things happen.
I'm so glad the Eastern Socialist Block came crumbling down in pieces. Now we can enjoy the joys of freedom and democracy our Western Capitalist governments give us.
Here in Portugal, the government has mandated all cash-registers to run certified programs that regularly upload transaction data to our Tax Authority.
Tax evasion has always been blatantly huge in restaurants, bars and cafés. It's no wonder the restaurant associations are up in arms with this. They've declared war on card payments too, which is something that pisses me off. They claim the bank rates are too high, but guess what the real reason is?
Just like the constructions business, they've had practically a licence to print money during the latest decades. Now with the economic crisis, they're going down the toilet. I'm not shedding a tear for them. I just pity their poor employees that will be out of work and are certainly not finding another anytime soon. They had shit-paid, stressful, long-hour jobs, but it's better than no job.
I don't think laws about fraud and theft were thrown away and they are enough to put criminals in jail.
As they say in my country, "A ocasião faz o ladrão" (Opportunity makes the thief). If you remove the incentives for fraud, there will be less people inclined to do it. Leaving the financial sector to self-regulation will give an irresistible incentive to cook the books. Sooner or later everyone will be doing it, or they won't be able to be competitive and be thrown off the market.
Fraud and theft laws be damned, they'll stick the hand in the cookie jar first and deal with the law later. Reminds me of a movie I saw, where a vicious serial killer turned himself in to the police and then got a multimillion contract to give an exclusive interview. He used those millions to pay lawyers to get him out of jail.
Allow for any group to take hold of too much money, after a particular tipping point you won't be able to stop them any more. They'll use their tremendous wealth to sway policies and laws in their favour so they'll get even richer.
The complexity in current laws in deliberate. If the law system is a confusing mess of contradictory rules, it can be played by those with more money/lawyers/connections.
90% of the regulation in tens of thousands of pages long financial law is a feel good fluff. How many pages do you need to write don't steal, don't defraud, don't lie in financial statements, don't overleverage yourself like a retard?
THOSE regulations are being thrown away one by one, since Reagan took power. And even the few that remain were rendered ineffective by ad-hoc settlements to give jail-free cards to all the bankers and brokers involved in the subprime bubble.
These guys should have paid the price for their failure to understand how to do business so that the stockholders and the boards would understand in the future that they cannot allow bozos to run their businesses.
It never worked before. Why should it work now? There's an economic bubble busting roughly every ten years. The more deregulation, the bigger the bubbles and the bigger the bust.
People are too greedy to learn the lesson. They'll be cautious for a while and then forget it after a few years. Only state regulations can rein in all that greed and stupidity. Provided the State is owned by The People, and not in the hands of a few privileged that sway it in their own interest.
government waste, government takeover of industries that aren't necessary to be run by the government, government corruption, government redistribution of wealth which harms jobs in the country, etc.
You mean, all those things that also exist (to a huge extent) in the private sector?
As to the redistribution of wealth: The rich have never been richer, corporate profits have been growing more than salaries for decades and the income unbalance is near record highs. You should be complaining about the redistribution of money from the poor to the rich, but I suspect it's not the case. If it's the other way around, you're worrying about a fiction.
Are you really sure you want to use that example? It's exactly the opposite.
Greece is a place that went bankrupt, in part, because working people pay all the taxes while the rich blatantly evade them. That's the direction you're heading NOW, not the direction you'll be heading if you tax the rich!
Sorry, but the public sector is not a parasite of the private sector. The public sector generates wealth, just like the private does.
The public sector provides services that have to be paid for. When a private company sends invoices for services it provides, it doesn't attract the same kind of hatred the public sector gets.
Many years of corporate media propaganda have have created people like you, mindlessly repeating the same false memes over and over and over.
I don't have management studies, but I read some books and I keep up with articles about it on the web. All the things they tell us to do are exactly the opposite of what I see most managements doing. The bigger the company, the worse it gets.
Dilbert is not a "comic" strip. It's a "tragic" strip, because it's true.
Looks like your company fails to follow two important business rules:
Retain your talent (a.k.a. "don't treat people like shit");
Document your procedures.
To me looks a lot like poor management. But somehow, in your mind, it's the leaving employees' fault. Well, we don't want all those MBAs bothering about pesky things like... managing, do we?
"Geeks of colour"? What colour are they? Blue? Green?
Is it so hard to use the word "black"? I've worked in Africa. Guess what word Africans use to refer to themselves. I give you a clue, it's not "colour".
Racism will only be over when little shit like this doesn't matter any more.
Funny thing: they call me "white" or "pula" in Africa. In my own country or other countries in Southern Europe I'm simply yet another white guy. In the US or Northern Europe, I'm not considered white. Pretty stupid, isn't it?
I can't remember any porn start named Anonymous Coward. But it must be some kinky thing involving masks and submission. I'm not particularly attracted to that kind of stuff.
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Yes, here in Europe every country has an African country on its border to compensate, just like you explain over there. It was quite hard to bring all those countries from Africa up here, but we made it. The hardest part was fitting them in between the existing countries, but we just used shoehorns and it went smoothly. Here in Portugal we wanted Niger, but it was hard to fit such a big country between us and Spain, so we settled for Senegal.
Now seriously, what the FUCK are you talking about?
The law probably also mandated them to convert all that debt into bonds, then wrap in in incomprehensibly complex financial "products" and selling them like fool's gold to fools, while at the same time investing in their downfall buying CDSs like there's no tomorrow. Probably the law also mandated the rating weasencies to give these financial turds a triple-A rating.
Wow, the law is sooooo naughty. It made the poor bankers weep. Bad, bad law.
Black kids in America do as well as black kids in Europe. But America has more black kids (and poor hispanic kids too).
Well, Spain is full of Hispanic kids. I think nearly 100% of the kids are Hispanic...
Yes, people like you here in Slashdot.
Yes, but maybe I misunderstood it.
Let me analyse your logic. I hear this type of non-sequitur a lot:
You got Aristotle turning in his grave.
You surely meant "members of the Party". "Intelligentsia" consisted of artists, teachers, scientists and so on,
Yeah, you're right.
one of the bonuses of late Communism was that almost no one believed in official propaganda. Compare it to the modern Western World.
We'll get there eventually. There's only so much bullshit people can take.
Every time I see our politicians and pundits puking their bullshit on TV I remember that scene in "Mars Attacks" when aliens were walking in the middle of destroyed city streets killing every human without the slightest hesitation. While doing that, they were talking all the time. One of them was carrying the "translation machine" that translated what they were saying: "Don't run, we are your friends, we come in peace".
Jurisprudence is also used in countries that don't have common-law systems (basically most non-Anglo-Saxon countries). It's just that it has a certain weight, and it's not the prevalent mean of decision.
And yet,
so many people who were 'against' the occupy movement and everyone still believes in trickle down economics. Really if you think about it. Trickle up makes a lot more sense.
If you succeed in destroying someone's deeply entrenched beliefs using facts and logic, that person won't change his mind but will hate your guts forever.
Fortunately we don't live in a Communist system. Remember how in the former Soviet Block the members of the Intelligentsia used to commit crimes with total impunity while the common people had to obey the law and dissidents were convicted based on bogus accusations?
I'm so happy we live in Western Capitalist Democracy where none of those things happen.
I'm so glad the Eastern Socialist Block came crumbling down in pieces. Now we can enjoy the joys of freedom and democracy our Western Capitalist governments give us.
Here in Portugal, the government has mandated all cash-registers to run certified programs that regularly upload transaction data to our Tax Authority.
Tax evasion has always been blatantly huge in restaurants, bars and cafés. It's no wonder the restaurant associations are up in arms with this. They've declared war on card payments too, which is something that pisses me off. They claim the bank rates are too high, but guess what the real reason is?
Just like the constructions business, they've had practically a licence to print money during the latest decades. Now with the economic crisis, they're going down the toilet. I'm not shedding a tear for them. I just pity their poor employees that will be out of work and are certainly not finding another anytime soon. They had shit-paid, stressful, long-hour jobs, but it's better than no job.
I'm soooo glad you guys went there in '90 to liberate the country when Saddam invaded it, or Kuwait would be a freedom-hating dictatorship now.
care to name them?
This is good reading.
I don't think laws about fraud and theft were thrown away and they are enough to put criminals in jail.
As they say in my country, "A ocasião faz o ladrão" (Opportunity makes the thief). If you remove the incentives for fraud, there will be less people inclined to do it. Leaving the financial sector to self-regulation will give an irresistible incentive to cook the books. Sooner or later everyone will be doing it, or they won't be able to be competitive and be thrown off the market.
Fraud and theft laws be damned, they'll stick the hand in the cookie jar first and deal with the law later. Reminds me of a movie I saw, where a vicious serial killer turned himself in to the police and then got a multimillion contract to give an exclusive interview. He used those millions to pay lawyers to get him out of jail.
Allow for any group to take hold of too much money, after a particular tipping point you won't be able to stop them any more. They'll use their tremendous wealth to sway policies and laws in their favour so they'll get even richer.
The complexity in current laws in deliberate. If the law system is a confusing mess of contradictory rules, it can be played by those with more money/lawyers/connections.
90% of the regulation in tens of thousands of pages long financial law is a feel good fluff. How many pages do you need to write don't steal, don't defraud, don't lie in financial statements, don't overleverage yourself like a retard?
THOSE regulations are being thrown away one by one, since Reagan took power. And even the few that remain were rendered ineffective by ad-hoc settlements to give jail-free cards to all the bankers and brokers involved in the subprime bubble.
These guys should have paid the price for their failure to understand how to do business so that the stockholders and the boards would understand in the future that they cannot allow bozos to run their businesses.
It never worked before. Why should it work now? There's an economic bubble busting roughly every ten years. The more deregulation, the bigger the bubbles and the bigger the bust.
People are too greedy to learn the lesson. They'll be cautious for a while and then forget it after a few years. Only state regulations can rein in all that greed and stupidity. Provided the State is owned by The People, and not in the hands of a few privileged that sway it in their own interest.
So excessive entitlements and governmental corruption vis-à-vis public sector cronyism have nothing to do with Greece's fiscal problems? Do tell.
Yes, but they didn't benefit the people you're thinking about.
government waste, government takeover of industries that aren't necessary to be run by the government, government corruption, government redistribution of wealth which harms jobs in the country, etc.
You mean, all those things that also exist (to a huge extent) in the private sector?
As to the redistribution of wealth: The rich have never been richer, corporate profits have been growing more than salaries for decades and the income unbalance is near record highs. You should be complaining about the redistribution of money from the poor to the rich, but I suspect it's not the case. If it's the other way around, you're worrying about a fiction.
and careening toward Greece.
Are you really sure you want to use that example? It's exactly the opposite. Greece is a place that went bankrupt, in part, because working people pay all the taxes while the rich blatantly evade them. That's the direction you're heading NOW, not the direction you'll be heading if you tax the rich!
Sorry, but the public sector is not a parasite of the private sector. The public sector generates wealth, just like the private does.
The public sector provides services that have to be paid for. When a private company sends invoices for services it provides, it doesn't attract the same kind of hatred the public sector gets.
Many years of corporate media propaganda have have created people like you, mindlessly repeating the same false memes over and over and over.
I don't have management studies, but I read some books and I keep up with articles about it on the web. All the things they tell us to do are exactly the opposite of what I see most managements doing. The bigger the company, the worse it gets.
Dilbert is not a "comic" strip. It's a "tragic" strip, because it's true.
intellectual capital has inflows and outflows, just like actual capital.
Not true. Fortunately intellectual capital can't be overblown into bubbles that destroy the whole economy when they burst.
Looks like your company fails to follow two important business rules:
To me looks a lot like poor management. But somehow, in your mind, it's the leaving employees' fault. Well, we don't want all those MBAs bothering about pesky things like... managing, do we?
"Geeks of colour"? What colour are they? Blue? Green?
Is it so hard to use the word "black"? I've worked in Africa. Guess what word Africans use to refer to themselves. I give you a clue, it's not "colour".
Racism will only be over when little shit like this doesn't matter any more.
Funny thing: they call me "white" or "pula" in Africa. In my own country or other countries in Southern Europe I'm simply yet another white guy. In the US or Northern Europe, I'm not considered white. Pretty stupid, isn't it?
I can't remember any porn start named Anonymous Coward. But it must be some kinky thing involving masks and submission. I'm not particularly attracted to that kind of stuff.