Did Coco-Cola change the drink's formula after acquiring it? As an independent brand, Barq's was a delicious root beer, something I used to look forward to whenever I visited the South. Coke turned it into generically over-sweet blandness.
I'm not seeing it, James. I'm in a position of authority at a financial institution. I'm making a ton of money in salary, fees, and commissions doing stuff that I know is risky as hell. I keep at it because, well, ton of money. Also because if I stop, I'll be replaced with someone who'll keep it up. I know that if the house of cards falls over, my employer will likely be taken over by some healthier bank, and my job eliminated.
Why do I give a crap whether the depositors get paid off? Other creditors won't, and none of them are coming after me personally. I say they act exactly the same way without deposit insurance, and my best argument is to point at financial institutions that weren't banks and were every bit as irresponsible.
When you require someone to give mortgages to someone who can’t afford them and then allow them to pawn off the risk on to someone else
And all the crappy mortgages that had nothing to do with the CRA, that is, the majority of them? And there's a word for the shell game that was CDOs: fraud. That used to be illegal.
We all agree that it's not rat poison. Neither is tobacco. It kills almost always slowly and some people not at all. If their health claims are only true kinda sorta maybe if you look at them the right way, I say nail the bastards to the wall, if only that someday our grandkids can live in a world where bullshit isn't the predominant mode of expression.
Thing is, that wasn't true of the tobacco companies. Documentedly so, over a period of decades. When there's a lot of money involved, people lie, often stupidly
That is, James, that something intended to protect normal people (FSLIC insured the depositors, not the S&L itself) wasn't careful enough not to enable the natural sociopathy of the S&L's owners and management. You're not doing much of a job of defending them
It's possible that TARP was unnecessary. I'd have preferred putting them all in prison, myself. Surely the enemy combatant designation fits well enough. But 2008 and the S&L debacle show what unregulated finance capitalism lead to. How many times do we need to run that experiment?
Pro- or anti-TARP is a silly argument. Needing to put out a fire doesn't make you pro-arsonist.
There is a common denominator in the institutional inefficiencies and ineffectiveness of schools, finance, health care. health insurance, welfare, and government employee retirement planning and I suspect it isn’t sociopathic rich people. Care to guess what it is?
That we live in a world that isn't a perfectly spherical free-market paradise.
I'm with Todd. If they always cast someone who looks 22 to play a 35-year-old, I don't see why it matters that she really is 35. It's like, if they change a character who was black in the book to white to get a bigger audience, I don't really care if the white-looking actor has a black great-grandmother.
So, when she arrived on The Shield, Jay Karnes was 43 (and looked it), while Garces was 32 but looked about 25. A bit creepy, and made more so by his "I'll be your mentor -- at first" M.O. (You're probably aware of this, but the pretty lawyer who asks Dutch out in the very last episode is his real-life wife.)
There's a definite asymmetry in the political process. Republicans try to win by suppressing Democratic votes. Democrats try to win by enabling Republicans to vote.
On “Coca-Cola, Big Tobacco, and Why the Personal Responsibility of the Consumer Should Not Be Allowed to Excuse Corporate Malfeasance”
I've had the same reaction with Reed's ginger beer.
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Did Coco-Cola change the drink's formula after acquiring it? As an independent brand, Barq's was a delicious root beer, something I used to look forward to whenever I visited the South. Coke turned it into generically over-sweet blandness.
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Compare the damage done by Enron to that done by Swartz, and then compare the severity of the sentences. Something does not compute.
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Dumping crap (of both sorts) right outside the door was human behavior, unchangeable until it, you know, changed.
On “It’s Time to Rethink Head Start”
You want to abolish finance capitalism? Cool. What's the plan?
On “Coca-Cola, Big Tobacco, and Why the Personal Responsibility of the Consumer Should Not Be Allowed to Excuse Corporate Malfeasance”
And sewage flowing through the street gutters? Always been like that. Why would you want to change it?
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I thought that guy at the Kentucky Derby still owned it
What did you think it was made from?
On “It’s Time to Rethink Head Start”
I'm not seeing it, James. I'm in a position of authority at a financial institution. I'm making a ton of money in salary, fees, and commissions doing stuff that I know is risky as hell. I keep at it because, well, ton of money. Also because if I stop, I'll be replaced with someone who'll keep it up. I know that if the house of cards falls over, my employer will likely be taken over by some healthier bank, and my job eliminated.
Why do I give a crap whether the depositors get paid off? Other creditors won't, and none of them are coming after me personally. I say they act exactly the same way without deposit insurance, and my best argument is to point at financial institutions that weren't banks and were every bit as irresponsible.
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When you require someone to give mortgages to someone who can’t afford them and then allow them to pawn off the risk on to someone else
And all the crappy mortgages that had nothing to do with the CRA, that is, the majority of them? And there's a word for the shell game that was CDOs: fraud. That used to be illegal.
On “Coca-Cola, Big Tobacco, and Why the Personal Responsibility of the Consumer Should Not Be Allowed to Excuse Corporate Malfeasance”
We all agree that it's not rat poison. Neither is tobacco. It kills almost always slowly and some people not at all. If their health claims are only true kinda sorta maybe if you look at them the right way, I say nail the bastards to the wall, if only that someday our grandkids can live in a world where bullshit isn't the predominant mode of expression.
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Thing is, that wasn't true of the tobacco companies. Documentedly so, over a period of decades. When there's a lot of money involved, people lie, often stupidly
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My own personal inclinations are to say “They're corporate shills!!!” when it comes to anything that any "free-market conservative" says.
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Which is why it's necessary to fine or jail some old-fashioned flesh-and-blood type people. To encourage the others.
On “It’s Time to Rethink Head Start”
That is, James, that something intended to protect normal people (FSLIC insured the depositors, not the S&L itself) wasn't careful enough not to enable the natural sociopathy of the S&L's owners and management. You're not doing much of a job of defending them
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It's possible that TARP was unnecessary. I'd have preferred putting them all in prison, myself. Surely the enemy combatant designation fits well enough. But 2008 and the S&L debacle show what unregulated finance capitalism lead to. How many times do we need to run that experiment?
On “I Stand Corrected”
And why they were looking for the gingerbread castle.
On “It’s Time to Rethink Head Start”
Pro- or anti-TARP is a silly argument. Needing to put out a fire doesn't make you pro-arsonist.
There is a common denominator in the institutional inefficiencies and ineffectiveness of schools, finance, health care. health insurance, welfare, and government employee retirement planning and I suspect it isn’t sociopathic rich people. Care to guess what it is?
That we live in a world that isn't a perfectly spherical free-market paradise.
On “I Stand Corrected”
I'm with Todd. If they always cast someone who looks 22 to play a 35-year-old, I don't see why it matters that she really is 35. It's like, if they change a character who was black in the book to white to get a bigger audience, I don't really care if the white-looking actor has a black great-grandmother.
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So, when she arrived on The Shield, Jay Karnes was 43 (and looked it), while Garces was 32 but looked about 25. A bit creepy, and made more so by his "I'll be your mentor -- at first" M.O. (You're probably aware of this, but the pretty lawyer who asks Dutch out in the very last episode is his real-life wife.)
On “Barack Obama 2.0 = the Left’s Mitch McConnell”
There's a definite asymmetry in the political process. Republicans try to win by suppressing Democratic votes. Democrats try to win by enabling Republicans to vote.
On “Now That’s More Like It – Special Reality Edition”
I got it.
On “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”
Recite some Robert Frost.
On “Now That’s More Like It – Special Reality Edition”
When you all met in Vegas, did anyone actually see this alleged "Mrs. Likko"?
On “Commanism”
Awesome.
On “Coca-Cola Is Just Bad For You”
For the love of God, Glyph!