Hey Scylla, why do you hold property rights above civil rights?
Scylla, don’t flatter yourself that I have any interest in wasting my time getting involved in a useless point/counterpoint with you. Not only don’t you get to dictate which posts I must respond to, but I don’t intend to respond to any of them because you are a vile piece of filth unworthy of a spot on the bottom of my shoe, let alone in the forefront of my mind.
Now, since you’re such a tiny little peabrain, you will, of course, declare victory for yourself. Have at it.
It will be the last victory you will be able to congratulate yourself for.
2012 is nigh.
I have not told you recently enough or often enough how much I admire and respect you. Thank you for the thoughtful dignity you bring to the world around you. I absolutely adore you 'luci.
It would feel funny wishing you a happy celebration of the time when we escaped your part of the world, but I hope you’ve had an awesome day today, TwistyCakes. Love and miss you, friend.
Happy Thanksgiving
I don’t think I said I did. I wouldn’t say something so general. That sounds to me like the kind of thing Elucidator would make up and pretend I said.
Shayna:
I am sorry to hear that you won’t be engaging in any facts or using any reason, here. I had hopes.
I guess though that it is kind of self-qualifying. If you are smart and use facts and reason, by definition you don’t support the occupy movement.
If I had a shred of modesty left, I would probably blush. Backatcha, Shayna, Queen of the Jungle.
Not perzackly, you just did your faux-naif shtick, gosh, Unca 'luc, why can’t a man spend his money any way he likes, its his money, why can’t he spend as much as he wants to support his political ideals?
Because, effectively, that means that a rich man can buy more political power than someone else. Which is true, but shouidn’t be true. We should work on that, rather than accepting it. Because, effectively, that means property rights trump civil rights.
Your kids can probably explain that to you, if you have any problem. I know mine can, if he ever gets back from Skyrim.
Well, that certainly settles that!
There’s no real point with interacting with Scylla in this thread unless you want to hear fiat pronouncements from the Lord High Financier.
Granted, those pronouncements amuse the living hell out of me.
Or you know, you could try having some facts, or a cite, or knowing what you are talking about.
That would be a novel thing for you to try.
Let’s just take one example.
I said, I was offended by every stupid-ass MBA I’ve heard who insists that companies should always expect X% growth, whatever it is.
Scylla’s bizarre, otherwordly response, is to cite a bunch of companies who made more than that, as though I were talking about some kind of growth ceiling.
In other words, totally missing the point of my sentence–today’s business student has been taught that if you’re not getting X% annual growth, you need to change something ANYTHING until you get there. When I got my business degree, X was 15-20%.
That’s fucking retarded. If you’re going to talk about a growth floor below which your business is less able to ride out the month-to-month vargaries of the market, it’s absolutely and only valid to talk about it in terms of inflation.
The Lord High Financier ought to practice his reading comprehension a bit more before he presumes to lecture further on finance.
Hey, I’m not going to be one of the assholes out of a job when the general public gets pushed too far. I provide a useful service, and I don’t charge too much for it, you see. Because, unlike the vast majority of finance and business fuckers currently in place, I know how to plan for a time horizon longer than six months without having “rape the people who do useful work out of any access to their productivity gains, because I just have to have a seventeenth gold-plated yacht” on my agenda.
I mean, I can tell you’re panicking at the thought of the financial industry’s house of cards getting blown over, but don’t take that out on ME.
What school did you go to where they taught you such a thing? I’m calling bullshit. You show me a textbook that has this in it.
You are totally making shit up.
Prove me wrong. I dare you. In fact, I know you re lying. There’s no textbook that teaches any such thing. Never was.
Nice try.
Give him the address for the Library of Congress, tell him “It’s in there, good luck!” Gander sauce.
That’s the funny thing about this thread.
The Lord High Financier is free, free as a bird with his DEMANDS for cites from everyone else. He requests cites like my infant daughter requests breastmilk–loudly, barely coherently, and with complete assurance that the world revolves around him.
But when it comes to providing them, he lacks sorely. Instead, he demands again: that we accept his expertise as gospel truth.
This is as good a metaphor for what he thinks the distribution of money vs. labor should be and who should control it (respectively, “as much as can be hooked or crooked to my masters, who are going to make me one of the 1% ANY SECOND NOW, and screw everyone else” and “my banking overlords”) as any.
You’ll just have to accept it comes from the same sources as your pronouncements about the financial industry.
Except that I’ve actually worked with venture capital idiots who demanded it. Watched people on the dope claim it as fact in support of YOUR side of the political spectrum.
And, y’know, had classes where it was taught as fact. In those heady days of 2000 when it was all possible.
When y’all are done measuring your manhoods, please be sure to wipe down the countertop.
Well then you should have no problem providing cites shoeing this to be the case, not to mention that still without having provided a cite, you are already moving a bar.
What you said was that students were being taught this. I called you a liar and asked you to prove your bullshit.
Still no cite from the lying ass bitch.
So it should be trivial to cite.
I also call bullshit. Or else you really should ask for at least a partial refund.