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 Everyone must die. If we exclude California then it will make the non-survivors feel bad. Everyone must die. Everyone. Bobo, the supernatural demon clown here will make sure that the human race ends soon.  Pwwweeaaasseee??? Come on if you nuke us who is gonna make the movies really???  We have enough california girls/guys to go around  Also thank you im totally gonna have a nightmare by now Bah, movies have been losing quality and you're welcome. |
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Baseball is the most overrated sport in the world. Girls/ladies that wear ties look ridonkulous. Roses, though nice are an overrated flower compared to many others. My answer: 1. Agreed. 2. Women in suits are hawt. Get a woman in a shirt, a tie, a jacket and a short skirt and  3. Agreed. Although I think its because of the cultural significance and because theyre a sign of love rather than them being nice flowers... lilies are nicer in my opinion  |
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Girls look good in birthday suits. They should wear them more often.
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Girls look good in birthday suits. They should wear them more often. I agree Also you missed out pictures proving your point  am disappointed. |
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Post by benzene66 on Oct 18, 2016 20:17:32 GMT
You want an unpopular opinion? Here is an unpopular opinion.
Wall Street is not evil. The subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent recession were the fault of both financial professionals and middle-class citizens.
People hate investment bankers, yet they don't even know what i-bankers actually do. Most of Hollywood films like "Wolf of Wall Streets" are not accurate portraits of high finance industry today. A full service investment bank mainly deals with institutional clients with the exception of its private wealth management department. An investment banker does merger and acquisition or financing for public companies. For example, if Google wants to acquire a new tech startup, a bank will construct financial models and run scenarios and offer advice to the firm. If a new company wants to go public, a bank will help it to raise capital and do IPO or initial public offering.
Let's talk about money. A lot of people are angry at the high compensation levels of bankers. However, that high six-figure or million dollar salary is not so easily earned. When a student who enters college and decides that he/she wants to work on Wall Street, that person must study extremely hard, achieve a good gpa, which usually means 3.50-4.00. A good grade is not enough, the student also have do lots of extracurricular activities. On top of that, most of the bankers are graduates of Ivy League or Ivy equivalent universities. (MIT, Stanford, UC Berkely, etc)
When new graduates finally get to a bank, they face extremely long hours (Average around 60-80 hours, over 100 hours per week are common) and demanding superiors. If your Managing Director told you that he/she needs a deal book or financial model changed, you have to do so, and the work must be done no matte how late it is or it's your parents/boyfriend/girfriend's birthday.
Wall Street is a lot closer to average Americans than anyone can imagine. A high school teacher or a firefighter is your typical middle-class citizen, he/she might think the world of high finance has nothing to do with me. However, if you have a pension/investment any kind, you have a relationship with Wall Street. Take a teacher's pension fund for example, the money in the fund doesn't grow magically, it needs to be invested and managed. The fund gives the money to a private equity firm or a hedge fund to manage and invest. Please think twice before you say Wall Street is evil.
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Post by Beerfish on Oct 18, 2016 20:32:28 GMT
You want an unpopular opinion? Here is an unpopular opinion. Wall Street is not evil. The subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent recession were the fault of both financial professionals and middle-class citizens. People hate investment bankers, yet they don't even know what i-bankers actually do. Most of Hollywood films like "Wolf of Wall Streets" are not accurate portraits of high finance industry today. A full service investment bank mainly deals with institutional clients with the exception of its private wealth management department. An investment banker does merger and acquisition or financing for public companies. For example, if Google wants to acquire a new tech startup, a bank will construct financial models and run scenarios and offer advice to the firm. If a new company wants to go public, a bank will help it to raise capital and do IPO or initial public offering. Let's talk about money. A lot of people are angry at the high compensation levels of bankers. However, that high six-figure or million dollar salary is not so easily earned. When a student who enters college and decides that he/she wants to work on Wall Street, that person must study extremely hard, achieve a good gpa, which usually means 3.50-4.00. A good grade is not enough, the student also have do lots of extracurricular activities. On top of that, most of the bankers are graduates of Ivy League or Ivy equivalent universities. (MIT, Stanford, UC Berkely, etc) When new graduates finally get to a bank, they face extremely long hours (Average around 60-80 hours, over 100 hours per week are common) and demanding superiors. If your Managing Director told you that he/she needs a deal book or financial model changed, you have to do so, and the work must be done no matte how late it is or it's your parents/boyfriend/girfriend's birthday. Wall Street is a lot closer to average Americans than anyone can imagine. A high school teacher or a firefighter is your typical middle-class citizen, he/she might think the world of high finance has nothing to do with me. However, if you have a pension/investment any kind, you have a relationship with Wall Street. Take a teacher's pension fund for example, the money in the fund doesn't grow magically, it needs to be invested and managed. The fund gives the money to a private equity firm or a hedge fund to manage and invest. Please think twice before you say Wall Street is evil. This is a good one because it will be unpopular. I also disagree with the vast majority of it and think wall street in general and the banking industry is indeed a bane not a boon if not regulated to the extreme. |
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Post by Beerfish on Oct 18, 2016 20:57:15 GMT
Cept that one trouble maker that dresses as a Fennec from Cowgary. HEY! I resemble that remark! .. How am I a trouble maker?? Huh? Psssh...damn Edmontonian...just pissy cause the Stamps are kicking ass and the Eskies suck lemons...  Roses are red violets are blue, flames won zero games, oilers won two. |
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Post by benzene66 on Oct 18, 2016 20:57:50 GMT
You want an unpopular opinion? Here is an unpopular opinion. Wall Street is not evil. The subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent recession were the fault of both financial professionals and middle-class citizens. People hate investment bankers, yet they don't even know what i-bankers actually do. Most of Hollywood films like "Wolf of Wall Streets" are not accurate portraits of high finance industry today. A full service investment bank mainly deals with institutional clients with the exception of its private wealth management department. An investment banker does merger and acquisition or financing for public companies. For example, if Google wants to acquire a new tech startup, a bank will construct financial models and run scenarios and offer advice to the firm. If a new company wants to go public, a bank will help it to raise capital and do IPO or initial public offering. Let's talk about money. A lot of people are angry at the high compensation levels of bankers. However, that high six-figure or million dollar salary is not so easily earned. When a student who enters college and decides that he/she wants to work on Wall Street, that person must study extremely hard, achieve a good gpa, which usually means 3.50-4.00. A good grade is not enough, the student also have do lots of extracurricular activities. On top of that, most of the bankers are graduates of Ivy League or Ivy equivalent universities. (MIT, Stanford, UC Berkely, etc) When new graduates finally get to a bank, they face extremely long hours (Average around 60-80 hours, over 100 hours per week are common) and demanding superiors. If your Managing Director told you that he/she needs a deal book or financial model changed, you have to do so, and the work must be done no matte how late it is or it's your parents/boyfriend/girfriend's birthday. Wall Street is a lot closer to average Americans than anyone can imagine. A high school teacher or a firefighter is your typical middle-class citizen, he/she might think the world of high finance has nothing to do with me. However, if you have a pension/investment any kind, you have a relationship with Wall Street. Take a teacher's pension fund for example, the money in the fund doesn't grow magically, it needs to be invested and managed. The fund gives the money to a private equity firm or a hedge fund to manage and invest. Please think twice before you say Wall Street is evil. This is a good one because it will be unpopular. I also disagree with the vast majority of it and think wall street in general and the banking industry is indeed a bane not a boon if not regulated to the extreme. I would like to hear about your idea of regulations and why do you think so. Regulations can always be circumvented, and government should never be given to much power. (Yes, I am a Libertarian.) The real devil is the greed, and it lives in every human being's heart, it doesn't care if the person is a social worker who helps victims of domestic abuse or an investment banker on the Wall Street. One of the causes of the Subprime crisis was that too many people either bought houses they could afford, now never buy things you could afford was something everybody should know. Also, investment bankers deal with companies, not individuals, if there are banks that needed more harsh regulations are commercial banks. |
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Post by FraQ on Oct 18, 2016 21:05:58 GMT
Canada's #1 export is beautiful actresses.
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Post by Beerfish on Oct 18, 2016 21:16:15 GMT
This is a good one because it will be unpopular. I also disagree with the vast majority of it and think wall street in general and the banking industry is indeed a bane not a boon if not regulated to the extreme. I would like to hear about your idea of regulations and why do you think so. Regulations can always be circumvented, and government should never be given to much power. (Yes, I am a Libertarian.) The real devil is the greed, and it lives in every human being's heart, it doesn't care if the person is a social worker who helps victims of domestic abuse or an investment banker on the Wall Street. One of the causes of the Subprime crisis was that too many people either bought houses they could afford, now never buy things you could afford was something everybody should know. Also, investment bankers deal with companies, not individuals, if there are banks that needed more harsh regulations are commercial banks. It's extreme buck passing and nativity to suggest that the banking industry was merely provided a service in that whole affair with out encouraging it, coming up with creative ways to exploit it, (packing and selling mortgages in large lots, selling insurance re failures which ultimately brought them down. Then there is the whole mantra of the free market system being better with minimal government control and that the weak, the foolish, the inefficient the greedy will fail. The sub prime issue 100% debunked this key part of the free market and as usual when business screws up bad enough they come running to governments to save their hides. Aside for the whole sub prime bad behavior we have the current Wells Fargo scandal which is as bad if not worse. As for the compensation issue, ever notice that to retain the best people you have to pay through the face but when the shit hits the fan these guys are always totally unaware of whats going on when called to account? It isn't even the amount of compensation that is the problem, if you are very good and create long term wealth and viability for your company you deserve to be very well compensated, unfortunately the packages are set up to pay a premium no matter what the result, usually huge golden parachutes are included and the almost all intensive is to increase the company wealth short term. Leading to the actions of companies like wells fargo. I totally agree with your comment about education and hard work in the industry, people are not lazy and do work very hard. The most troubling thing for me about our whole economic situation is that the wealth is controlled and made more and more by sectors that produce nothing in the way of goods. The banking industry does not explore for resource, produce food, produce consumer goods, produce utilities. They make vast amounts of money by shuffling paper from one pile to the next often on speculation. (of course these days it is digital paper.) |
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Post by nanotm on Oct 18, 2016 22:19:37 GMT
I would like to hear about your idea of regulations and why do you think so. Regulations can always be circumvented, and government should never be given to much power. (Yes, I am a Libertarian.) The real devil is the greed, and it lives in every human being's heart, it doesn't care if the person is a social worker who helps victims of domestic abuse or an investment banker on the Wall Street. One of the causes of the Subprime crisis was that too many people either bought houses they could afford, now never buy things you could afford was something everybody should know. Also, investment bankers deal with companies, not individuals, if there are banks that needed more harsh regulations are commercial banks. It's extreme buck passing and nativity to suggest that the banking industry was merely provided a service in that whole affair with out encouraging it, coming up with creative ways to exploit it, (packing and selling mortgages in large lots, selling insurance re failures which ultimately brought them down. Then there is the whole mantra of the free market system being better with minimal government control and that the weak, the foolish, the inefficient the greedy will fail. The sub prime issue 100% debunked this key part of the free market and as usual when business screws up bad enough they come running to governments to save their hides. Aside for the whole sub prime bad behavior we have the current Wells Fargo scandal which is as bad if not worse. As for the compensation issue, ever notice that to retain the best people you have to pay through the face but when the shit hits the fan these guys are always totally unaware of whats going on when called to account? It isn't even the amount of compensation that is the problem, if you are very good and create long term wealth and viability for your company you deserve to be very well compensated, unfortunately the packages are set up to pay a premium no matter what the result, usually huge golden parachutes are included and the almost all intensive is to increase the company wealth short term. Leading to the actions of companies like wells fargo. I totally agree with your comment about education and hard work in the industry, people are not lazy and do work very hard. The most troubling thing for me about our whole economic situation is that the wealth is controlled and made more and more by sectors that produce nothing in the way of goods. The banking industry does not explore for resource, produce food, produce consumer goods, produce utilities. They make vast amounts of money by shuffling paper from one pile to the next often on speculation. (of course these days it is digital paper.) and you know rumour has it that left on their own there are some folks who create loan accounts in their mates names sell those account details online and create identity theft just so they can get monthly bonuses for signups.... regulate the shit out of them and for every id theft case fine the banks that gave out the credit packages along with arresting the individuals who created the accounts and sling em in jail for 25+ years for bank fraud for each instance and you wont see it happen so often... Bernie Madoff is what happens when you don't regulate enough, wells fargo is what happens when you don't regulate enough, libor rigging and a whole host of other stuff, the IRS is large enough that it could have computers running live audits on banks and stock market traders but so far nobody has every suggested they do it because so much of what banks do or permit to be done is illegal, and there scared of not being able to generate money out of thin air if big brother is watch too closely ..... |
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Post by docsteely on Oct 18, 2016 23:36:33 GMT
So where are my 10 cool points? BTW, I think it's a Chuck Jones one... Your cool points? They are lumped in with your expiring air miles points. That is really inspiring... as I don't have air miles. P.S. Oh, wait, I remember! I am again all stirred up...  |
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Post by benzene66 on Oct 18, 2016 23:47:29 GMT
I would like to hear about your idea of regulations and why do you think so. Regulations can always be circumvented, and government should never be given to much power. (Yes, I am a Libertarian.) The real devil is the greed, and it lives in every human being's heart, it doesn't care if the person is a social worker who helps victims of domestic abuse or an investment banker on the Wall Street. One of the causes of the Subprime crisis was that too many people either bought houses they could afford, now never buy things you could afford was something everybody should know. Also, investment bankers deal with companies, not individuals, if there are banks that needed more harsh regulations are commercial banks. It's extreme buck passing and nativity to suggest that the banking industry was merely provided a service in that whole affair with out encouraging it, coming up with creative ways to exploit it, (packing and selling mortgages in large lots, selling insurance re failures which ultimately brought them down. Then there is the whole mantra of the free market system being better with minimal government control and that the weak, the foolish, the inefficient the greedy will fail. The sub prime issue 100% debunked this key part of the free market and as usual when business screws up bad enough they come running to governments to save their hides. Aside for the whole sub prime bad behavior we have the current Wells Fargo scandal which is as bad if not worse. As for the compensation issue, ever notice that to retain the best people you have to pay through the face but when the shit hits the fan these guys are always totally unaware of whats going on when called to account? It isn't even the amount of compensation that is the problem, if you are very good and create long term wealth and viability for your company you deserve to be very well compensated, unfortunately the packages are set up to pay a premium no matter what the result, usually huge golden parachutes are included and the almost all intensive is to increase the company wealth short term. Leading to the actions of companies like wells fargo. I totally agree with your comment about education and hard work in the industry, people are not lazy and do work very hard. The most troubling thing for me about our whole economic situation is that the wealth is controlled and made more and more by sectors that produce nothing in the way of goods. The banking industry does not explore for resource, produce food, produce consumer goods, produce utilities. They make vast amounts of money by shuffling paper from one pile to the next often on speculation. (of course these days it is digital paper.) I agree with you that the financial industry had played important parts in causing the subprime mortgage crisis. I am not trying to defend the actions of many high ranking executives. However, financial instruments such as mortgage backed securities, credit default swap and collateralized debt obligations had been in existence for decades before the crisis, long before the the subprime mortgage boom, they were not instruments invented to exploit lower-income and middle-class families. As far as golden parachutes, only top ranking executive get them, not your average analysts and associates or even managing directors. Now as far as investment banking goes, originally it was a business built on relationship and trust between a bank and its clients, the companies. The old-fashioned banking means that a banker would give his/her honest advice to a client, even if that decision could cost the bank money, the clients would come back in the future because the bank was honest. That was a business built on trust and experience. I think a better option than regulation would be making investment banks become private partnerships again, like they were in 1960s. A partnership means that the senior management now has to worry more about the firm's long term performance since it is their own money involved in the daily operations, not some random shareholder on the stock market. If they gamble, they would loss their own money with no golden parachutes. A private partnership also means that the banker can actually afford to loss some money by giving an honest opinion to his/her client, because the pressure to show an immediate profit is gone. The low-skill labor jobs are not going back. Automation will replace more and more low-skill labor or low-skill jobs in general, software and robots will eventually even replace outsourcing. America still produces goods, she produces high-technology and complex goods that require skill. China/India/Mexico is not going to be able to manufacture a 747 competitor anytime soon. Speaking of agriculture, the U.S is a major producer of ag products. In face, agriculture products is one of the U.S's major exports. Some I'd say American is producing a lots of stuff. |
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Post by Ravenous Bear on Oct 19, 2016 18:50:29 GMT
American football is boring to me. The game barely has any actual gameplay, the game moves at a sluggish pace, and too many bloody commercials. I grew up watching the game but my interest has died off the past few years. The last Superbowl's best moments were the commercials; I only partially watched it because of family.
These days I watch hockey.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Oct 19, 2016 19:11:04 GMT
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Post by The Hype Himself on Oct 19, 2016 23:44:01 GMT
American football is boring to me. The game barely has any actual gameplay, the game moves at a sluggish pace, and too many bloody commercials. I grew up watching the game but my interest has died off the past few years. The last Superbowl's best moments were the commercials; I only partially watched it because of family. These days I watch hockey. The stop-start mechanic isn't as poor as many realize. Compare it to rugby, which is largely about endurance compared to AF, which is brief spurts of charging and hitting at 90%-100% power the entire game. Rugby gets boring when you start to see the players worn out at the end, whereas for football, barring an injury, nearly all players are going strong right to the very end. The commercials are an issue, and that has to do with the increasing media sensationalism of the sport. I stick to College Football for the most part, since it doesn't have as much commercialism. |
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Post by heathenoxman on Oct 20, 2016 0:01:36 GMT
Alrighty.....
1. I'm an intellectually curious person. I like science AND art, but I'm more inclined towards art. Science nerds who take it upon themselves to shit on my Liberal Arts degree are insecure ninnies who are just salty because they couldn't score higher than a B- on their English term papers.
2. Science AND art are valuable to human civilization.
3. The world would be 30% better if people would learn to mind their own business.
4. Genre fiction is just as legitimate as "literature."
5. Most people are in a never-ending quest to find some reason to feel superior to others, even if it means nit-picking petty bullshit ("Oh my god, she watches soap operas. I'm so much smarter than she is!")
6. Loud, gregarious extroverts who decide that the quiet, introverted person needs to "come out of their shell" are being extremely rude.
7. Star Trek > Star Wars
8. People who walk into a restaurant ten minutes before it closes, and then proceed to stay for an hour, are arsewipes.
9. The horror genre is not misogynistic.
10. The Mass Effect Trilogy was just a rip-off of Alastair Reynold's "Inhibitor Trilogy."
I guess this is more of a pet-peeve list, but it'll do in a pinch.
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Post by Nayawk on Oct 20, 2016 1:09:17 GMT
I see this one a lot, it's almost like you can't have a conversation about either without the other being brought up for some reason, they are linked in peoples minds as being the same but I'm not sure why the comparison even comes up. One is Science Fiction, the other is Space Fantasy. No-one routinely says Star Trek is better than the Hobbit in every Hobbit thread, but it's basically the same comparison. Sorry pet peeve. |
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Post by The Hype Himself on Oct 20, 2016 1:37:53 GMT
Alrighty..... 1. I'm an intellectually curious person. I like science AND art, but I'm more inclined towards art. Science nerds who take it upon themselves to shit on my Liberal Arts degree are insecure ninnies who are just salty because they couldn't score higher than a B- on their English term papers. 2. Science AND art are valuable to human civilization. 3. The world would be 30% better if people would learn to mind their own business. 4. Genre fiction is just as legitimate as "literature." 5. Most people are in a never-ending quest to find some reason to feel superior to others, even if it means nit-picking petty bullshit ("Oh my god, she watches soap operas. I'm so much smarter than she is!") 6. Loud, gregarious extroverts who decide that the quiet, introverted person needs to "come out of their shell" are being extremely rude. 7. Star Trek > Star Wars 8. People who walk into a restaurant ten minutes before it closes, and then proceed to stay for an hour, are arsewipes. 9. The horror genre is not misogynistic. 10. The Mass Effect Trilogy was just a rip-off of Alastair Reynold's "Inhibitor Trilogy." I guess this is more of a pet-peeve list, but it'll do in a pinch. 1. I'm a science nerd who went the Liberal Arts route (though I'm somewhat farther along the science route than you are since my degrees are in the Social Sciences), and ended up studying many of the sciences and engineering in my own free time. I know the pain of derision from a few science majors (though most of the scorn came from the Business/Professional degree types). I'm thus much more inclined towards the scientific method and practical applications rather than interpretative humanities. So, as a fellow liberal arts major, I'll ask how your degree helped you out with the same stuff that scientists do? I'd honestly rate your average calculus exam as being more intellectually demanding than any English term paper to be honest. Not to rain on your parade, but two can play at that game  2. That may be the case, but as a pragmatist, I'd have to say that the field that helps us figure out how the universe and society is more important than figuring out how we feel about it. Thus, IMHO, Science > Art. 3. The world would be 100% better if people actually took the time to stand up and argue and debate over discourse, reason, logic, and science. After all, you get plenty of time for silence in the grave. 4. I don't understand the context here, and I don't care much about it either. 5. Very true, and I'm arguably the largest offender of that on these boards. Hell, I'm doing it right now with you! Deprecating humor aside (towards myself and my awareness of my considerable personality flaws up to and including my black hole-sized ego and pride), it's often a case of posturing, insecurity, comparison, or social construct. There are a variety of reasons for this, many depending as much on the culture you grew up in to your own personal nature. 6. Agreed, but I'd argue that the introverts trying to be extroverts are even worse. All that said, and as I mentioned it on this forum, I think life simultaneously is and is not a popularity contest. 7. You know what's better than both? Studying orbital mechanics, astronomy, physics, etc. Because reality completely blows both franchises out of the water. 8. Yep. Yep. Yep. Asswipes indeed-y. 9. I have no comment on the matter. I'm not a particular fan or follower of horror films. They don't really interest me much. 10. I have not read that series, but given Mass Effect's overt nature of including homage and nods to many science fiction tropes, cliches, and plots, I wouldn't say it's a rip-off so much as just using a lot of the same general ideas that are common in Sci-fi. |
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