Those you us working in the financial industry
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For those working in the financial industry how have your companies reacted to the OWS protests?
Well, who doesn't release stuff like that ? Microsoft software is just as bad. Christian Graus That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
They are neither a client nor a potential one. Just ignore 'em. They will go away much like the rain that is expected this afternoon. :)
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For those working in the financial industry how have your companies reacted to the OWS protests?
Well, who doesn't release stuff like that ? Microsoft software is just as bad. Christian Graus That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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For those working in the financial industry how have your companies reacted to the OWS protests?
Well, who doesn't release stuff like that ? Microsoft software is just as bad. Christian Graus That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Well, from what I hear, they just saw "you can just use alternative entrances." It's funny because I get to see both sides. Tons of local actors, musicians, videographers, and photographers are jumping in just for the audience and attention it has drawn. Most in the financial arena could care less. It seems like a lot of the protesters are not local, and as long as they don't get violent, they are spending their money downtown. Just another type of tourist.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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For those working in the financial industry how have your companies reacted to the OWS protests?
Well, who doesn't release stuff like that ? Microsoft software is just as bad. Christian Graus That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Protests - what protests, Singapore does not approve of protests. I suppose somewhere on the island there are a number of students being their irritating selves but they certainly aren't in the city!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Well, from what I hear, they just saw "you can just use alternative entrances." It's funny because I get to see both sides. Tons of local actors, musicians, videographers, and photographers are jumping in just for the audience and attention it has drawn. Most in the financial arena could care less. It seems like a lot of the protesters are not local, and as long as they don't get violent, they are spending their money downtown. Just another type of tourist.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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wizardzz wrote:
Most in the financial arena could care less.
I keep hearing this from American people, I'm pretty sure what you mean is "couldn't care less" - the exact opposite.
Then stop listening to American people.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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Then stop listening to American people.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
wizardzz wrote:
Then stop listening to American people.
Yeah yeah but which one did you mean? If they could care less then they're currently at a care factor > 0. If they couldn't care less (and assuming a care factor is always >= 0) then their care factor must be 0. I'm pretty sure that what you said is the opposite of what you meant. How on earth does a saying like that become common place?
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wizardzz wrote:
Then stop listening to American people.
Yeah yeah but which one did you mean? If they could care less then they're currently at a care factor > 0. If they couldn't care less (and assuming a care factor is always >= 0) then their care factor must be 0. I'm pretty sure that what you said is the opposite of what you meant. How on earth does a saying like that become common place?
sarcasm
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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Unfortunately this is neither the first nor the nastiest protest to date. For me, they're unwashed mofus who don't like 'them'; whoever 'them' may be. They protest about BigCo using their BigCo computers, sending messages over networks provided by BigCo, wear BigCo clothes and buy from BigCo grocers. They love the benefits but can't stand that someone has done well as a result of their greed - for the latest computer, cheapest clothes, unseasonal fruit, etc - so desperatly need to blame others to placate their guilt. F'em I say. F'em with taxes. F'em any which way.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
they're unwashed mofus
Really? Yet that picture much bandied about the net'o'sphere clearly shows them wearing designer goods and otherwise attending to their appearance in a normal way.
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
who don't like 'them'; whoever 'them' may be
As if you dont know. Clearly, since they are protesting in financial districts, it is the same 'them' who the rest of us hate. Those cunts who have got away with shafting us for billions. You obviously feel you are rather superior with your 'I have two houses and come from Hungary and I worked for it mentality', lets just hope the banks remain solvent and dont foreclose on your houses. If they do, you are fucked for life. (For the simple reason that the price at auction wil be so far below what you paid for them you will be saddled with a negative equity debt running into hundreds of thousands).
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
they're unwashed mofus
Really? Yet that picture much bandied about the net'o'sphere clearly shows them wearing designer goods and otherwise attending to their appearance in a normal way.
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
who don't like 'them'; whoever 'them' may be
As if you dont know. Clearly, since they are protesting in financial districts, it is the same 'them' who the rest of us hate. Those cunts who have got away with shafting us for billions. You obviously feel you are rather superior with your 'I have two houses and come from Hungary and I worked for it mentality', lets just hope the banks remain solvent and dont foreclose on your houses. If they do, you are fucked for life. (For the simple reason that the price at auction wil be so far below what you paid for them you will be saddled with a negative equity debt running into hundreds of thousands).
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[answer only to provide information] I own my homes. All are paid for, I have no debt.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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[answer only to provide information] I own my homes. All are paid for, I have no debt.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
I own my homes. All are paid for, I have no debt.
One in Hungary one in the UK? Of course if banks do run out of cash and foreclose on mortgages the effect on the UK will be so dramatic that it will implode.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
I own my homes. All are paid for, I have no debt.
One in Hungary one in the UK? Of course if banks do run out of cash and foreclose on mortgages the effect on the UK will be so dramatic that it will implode.
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3 in Hungary, one in UK. I'll not post any more on this thread, I wanted to clarify the facts but will not enter into a conversation with you.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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3 in Hungary, one in UK. I'll not post any more on this thread, I wanted to clarify the facts but will not enter into a conversation with you.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
So, came to the UK what, 16 years ago. Got a job in banking IT, bought a house here and three in Hungary which you rent out?
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
I'll not post any more on this thread, I wanted to clarify the facts but will not enter into a conversation with you.
OK, didnt realise conversation with me was so scary. :) Perhaps you might credit part of your self-congratulatory success to the collapse of the Berlin wall, and having a country close by that has an ecconomy so much more advanced than your own that you have been able to milk it successfully. Because had the first of these two been different you would probably have been one of those protesting outside some government establishment about unfairness. And if the second hadnt been there you would be free, but stuck in a shit economy and probably out of work. --edit-- by the way, it isnt me downvoting you
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wolfbinary wrote:
how have your companies reacted to the OWS protests?
Considered how the markets may respond and how we can profit from it :)
Well profiting from other people's pain is the American way after all. After all narcissism is running about as prevalent as religion and is about as useful.
Well, who doesn't release stuff like that ? Microsoft software is just as bad. Christian Graus That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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Unfortunately this is neither the first nor the nastiest protest to date. For me, they're unwashed mofus who don't like 'them'; whoever 'them' may be. They protest about BigCo using their BigCo computers, sending messages over networks provided by BigCo, wear BigCo clothes and buy from BigCo grocers. They love the benefits but can't stand that someone has done well as a result of their greed - for the latest computer, cheapest clothes, unseasonal fruit, etc - so desperatly need to blame others to placate their guilt. F'em I say. F'em with taxes. F'em any which way.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
but can't stand that someone has done well as a result of their greed
Ya see, I don't mind a person (or even a coproration) doing well, but when a company makes BILLIONS in profits, that means they're payroll isn't big enough. *Companies* are NOT individuals. GE (the company) not only paid zero taxes last year (and the year before , ad nauseum), but they got a refund. I'm sure the company big wigs paid their own personal individual tax bills, but GE *the company* paid nothing. GE *the company* can't even point to relevant job creation numbers to offset that fact.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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Well profiting from other people's pain is the American way after all. After all narcissism is running about as prevalent as religion and is about as useful.
Well, who doesn't release stuff like that ? Microsoft software is just as bad. Christian Graus That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
wolfbinary wrote:
Well profiting from other people's pain is the American way
More accurately, benefitting from someone else's misfortune is *human* nature. It's in our genes, and it doesn't matter what country you're from, so stick your elitist anti-American bullsh*t up your ass.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
but can't stand that someone has done well as a result of their greed
Ya see, I don't mind a person (or even a coproration) doing well, but when a company makes BILLIONS in profits, that means they're payroll isn't big enough. *Companies* are NOT individuals. GE (the company) not only paid zero taxes last year (and the year before , ad nauseum), but they got a refund. I'm sure the company big wigs paid their own personal individual tax bills, but GE *the company* paid nothing. GE *the company* can't even point to relevant job creation numbers to offset that fact.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997So why go after the city? If it was you and you could legally reduce your liabilty to $0, would you? Or would you big-up and and the full wack without deductions? The governments over the last twenty plus years have avoided any tax reforms that would actually make BigCo play their real taxes.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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So why go after the city? If it was you and you could legally reduce your liabilty to $0, would you? Or would you big-up and and the full wack without deductions? The governments over the last twenty plus years have avoided any tax reforms that would actually make BigCo play their real taxes.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
I don't know about all the copy-cat protests, but the OWS is going after the corporations.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
For those working in the financial industry how have your companies reacted to the OWS protests?
Well, who doesn't release stuff like that ? Microsoft software is just as bad. Christian Graus That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
My company hasn't said anything about them, as far as I've noticed... But my coworkers talk about them now and then, mostly just trying to figure them out. Personally, I think it's excellent. If I didn't have a day job, I'd probably be down there with them... During the day, at least... I'm not crazy enough to sleep in a public square (A small one, at that). I stopped by there once a week ago Saturday, and it was pretty cool to see.
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