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[WillowLuman]

I love how GS gets fined for their role in this, not one person from them gets prosecuted, and all the yahoo commentors out there make people like him out to be the victims, as if they couldn't help themselves and really it's the government who are to blame for creating these conditions that tempted them.

[alway]

Yeah, I lost any last remnants of trust in bankers one day during lunch at a nice little British pub in downtown Austin. It happened to be really close to a bunch of big bank offices downtown, and so many of the patrons happened to come from there. Well, this particular day, a pair of investment bankers come in and start chatting about how they're going to be audited. They then continue to talk about how bad the regulators are and how easy they are to fool, telling story after story about doing so. All followed up with a wonderfully summarizing sentence.

"Just keep your head down and forget about your morals for a few days and we'll be fine."

So here's my general feeling about investment bankers: Just throw them all in jail pre-emptively; they're all probably doing something illegal. At absolute best, they're leeches on society; and that's only when they aren't embezzling the foundations out from under the entire world economy.

[SalmonGod]

I don't understand how people like that can leave their homes at this stage of society without being deafened by cries of shame.

[TamerVirus]

And at the end of the day, they'll always have more money than you

[LordSlowpoke]

actually i will repurpose this post

I don't understand how people can leave their homes at this stage of society without being deafened by cries of shame.

well i wouldn't but then i would die of starvation and/or boredom

and then nobody wants to host someone who would leech off of them in perpetuity

so i guess i'm fucked

[Vector]

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[EnigmaticHat]

I don't understand how people like that can leave their homes at this stage of society without being deafened by cries of shame.

They embody values capitalist societies hold up as ideals?  They're upper class?  Many who favor free market politics subscribe to the idea that if you have money its because you deserve money?

Shunning people that aren't universally agreed to be bad makes you look like an ass?  I'm just throwing ideas out there.

[Valid_Dark]

Some asshole hit my car tonight,

I'm driving down the road, in the left lane, there was a car in the middle lane behind me to my right,
Some guy cuts us both off coming from the opposite direction, making a left turn, crossing in front of us,
I see him and slow down, the guy to my right doesn't see him until the last second and slams on his breaks, and swerves to his left, slamming into the back right side of my car. 

I pulled over, to exchange information,  He stopped for 4 or 5 seconds in the middle of the road, and just speeds off.
I wasn't able to get his license plate.

My car isn't super fucked up,  there is a big dent in the side, and I think my rear axel might be fucked up.

I wish he stopped so I could get his insurance information,  I don't have full coverage, so my insurance won't do anything about it.
It would have easily been a few thousand from his insurance company if he stopped,  he either didn't have insurance, was drunk, or didn't have a license, or I could think of a few other reasons he didn't stop.

How's your local police department? If you can spare the time, it couldn't hurt to report the hit and run, give a description of the car, and describe what happened. Especially if you got the car model, which combined with the color and the part of their car that's damaged should help narrow down the range to a feasible one. Doubly so if you even got a partial license plate.

The local police are a joke,

I got arrested the other day because I was walking down the street, and some guy pulled a gun on me and I called the cops.
he lied to the cops and my brother and I got arrested.  He told them we were kicking his garage door, and fistfighting in his yard, which we weren't.

I don't trust local police, 

I have a friend who was walking down the street minding his own business, police told him to freeze and put his arms up, and when he did they shot him.  They lied on the report and ended up getting 2 months paid vacation, even though several eye witness reports came out that showed the cops were lying about what happened.

[Imperial Guardsman]

Some asshole hit my car tonight,

I'm driving down the road, in the left lane, there was a car in the middle lane behind me to my right,
Some guy cuts us both off coming from the opposite direction, making a left turn, crossing in front of us,
I see him and slow down, the guy to my right doesn't see him until the last second and slams on his breaks, and swerves to his left, slamming into the back right side of my car. 

I pulled over, to exchange information,  He stopped for 4 or 5 seconds in the middle of the road, and just speeds off.
I wasn't able to get his license plate.

My car isn't super fucked up,  there is a big dent in the side, and I think my rear axel might be fucked up.

I wish he stopped so I could get his insurance information,  I don't have full coverage, so my insurance won't do anything about it.
It would have easily been a few thousand from his insurance company if he stopped,  he either didn't have insurance, was drunk, or didn't have a license, or I could think of a few other reasons he didn't stop.

How's your local police department? If you can spare the time, it couldn't hurt to report the hit and run, give a description of the car, and describe what happened. Especially if you got the car model, which combined with the color and the part of their car that's damaged should help narrow down the range to a feasible one. Doubly so if you even got a partial license plate.

The local police are a joke,

I got arrested the other day because I was walking down the street, and some guy pulled a gun on me and I called the cops.
he lied to the cops and my brother and I got arrested.  He told them we were kicking his garage door, and fistfighting in his yard, which we weren't.

I don't trust local police, 

I have a friend who was walking down the street minding his own business, police told him to freeze and put his arms up, and when he did they shot him.  They lied on the report and ended up getting 2 months paid vacation, even though several eye witness reports came out that showed the cops were lying about what happened.

Oh, so you live in Detroit?

[Frumple]

... yeah, given that I probably would be trying to avoid them as much as possible.

In minor sads, I just managed to pretty much destroy an old jackie chan video tape (First volume of the Fearless Hyena, for what that's worth, box art from '95) by seeing if it'd work in an apparently junky VCR player. Thing caught the tape part of the tape and snapped it

[ChairmanPoo]

Sooner or later ex-boss is going to leave. Which will mean that the department loses it's one famous figure, and one of the three or four people who actually know what they're doing.

I kind of have a dim hope of this happening *after* I finish my residency and leave for greener pastures.

[Truean]

Available on Youtube if that helps. I hope it does, at least a little.

My mother has once again called me a failure. How lovely. The only way I can get through it is to perform some amazing mental gymnastics and laugh at it as free entertainment: her foolishness that is.  [sigh].

[Worldmaster27]

Really minor sad:
Of the ~10 I originally allowed myself for the steam sale, I have ~5 dollars left. I'm waiting for Medieval 2: Total War to go on sale for more than it is, but then I noticed Skyrim was on sale. For 5 dollars. Now I can't decide which one I want. Wait for M2 to go down farther - which it might not - and get great mods for it or get Skyrim now for probably more money but tons of good RP mods and more. Regrettably I already have Skyrim on console, so I'm slightly leaning towards to the not guaranteed but 100% brand new choice of Medieval 2.

* Worldmaster sighs

[WillowLuman]

Then again, the wonderful world of PC Skyrim mods.

[Frumple]

Available on Youtube if that helps. I hope it does, at least a little.

*waggles hand* It was more sadness for the tape than what was on it. Thing was probably... almost 20 years old? Was still working, too, until the VCR ate it. Now there's just a lonely volume 2 tape sitting on the dresser.

Was checking it for a grandparent more than anything... when it comes to media acquisition via internet, am old dab hand and whatnot.

Sentiment appreciated, though, yeah.