“«Я всегда пользуюсь девизом Шарля де Голля: «честь, здравый смысл и всеобщий интерес». Когда у меня возникает необходимость решить сложную задачу, я задаю себе вопросы – что мне говорит всеобщий интерес, здравый смысл и честь, - и если на эти три вопроса я нахожу один ответ, то это значит, что я нашел правильную дорогу и для себя лично, и для своей страны»” — Live_Report
No Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Resist the corporate circus -
Good. I was under the impression that everybody was happy about this perversion.
“Fritz Henderson, GM’s president and chief operating officer, became the new CEO, a Treasury Department source said. Board member Kent Kresa, the former chairman and CEO of defence contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., will be interim chairman of the GM board.” — CANOE Money - News: Obama denies bailout funds for automakers
“Imagine a worker who is hired for an hour and paid $10. Once in the capitalist’s employ, the capitalist can have him operate a boot-making machine using which the worker produces $10 worth of work every fifteen minutes. Every hour, the capitalist receives $40 worth of work and only pays the worker $10, capturing the remaining $30 which, after deduction of costs (the leather, depreciation of the machine, etc.) leaves a residual, i.e. surplus value or profit.” — Surplus value - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“McManus: Old McDonald had a farm ee i ee i o. And on that farm he shot some guys.” — The Usual Suspects (1995) - Memorable quotes
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eyas \EYE-us\ noun : an unfledged bird; specifically : a nestling hawk
Example sentence: It took about six weeks for the eyas to mature into a fully grown peregrine falcon.
“Eyas” is a funny-sounding word that exists because of a mistake. In the 15th century, Middle English speakers made an incorrect assumption about the word “neias,” which comes from the Anglo-French “niais” (“fresh from the nest”). “A neias” sounded like “an eias” to their ears, so the word lost that initial “n,” eventually becoming “eyas.” (There are other words in English that were created in this same fashion; for example, “an apron” used to be “a napron.”) The change in spelling may have been suggested by other Middle English words like “ey” (“egg”) and “eyry,” which was a spelling of “aerie,” the hawk’s nest where an eyas would be found.
” — Merriam-Webster“BC The Best Place on Earth”?? Don’t forget your bullet proof vest, ignore the homeless, a place where 25% of its children live below the poverty line, the drug trade is bigger than the resource industry as a whole (forestry, mining, fishing) and be sure to visit your “Ponzi Schemers” on Howe Street before you leave. Have a nice day!” — B.C. Securities Commission uncovers Ponzi scheme
“drug money + real estate = Vancouver. If you like living next to international drug dealers then you will love living in Vancouver. With a 10 billion dollar a year illegal drug trade British Colombia and its’ notorious third rate City Vancouver are the defacto choice for criminals from around the world to invest. With every legal industry in the province in rapid decline for the past 30 years the growth areas are Drug trade, Sex trade, and Gambling. The big news has been real estate which is used by international drug cartels to launder their money, but so has the film industry which can boast about being the fastest growing porn production capital in the world. With the collapse of the world economy in full swing Vancouver’s drive to be Sin city north has come to a screeching halt with it unsustainable property prices and an mass Exodus of honest hardworking families. The province has closed over 200 hundred schools and bulldozed hundreds of affordable homes. With politicians and political parties directly linked to drug cartels payoffs the future is not bright for this failed province. The corruption has forced international corporations to pull out of Vancouver leaving an 18 million dollar a year hole in the tourist industry. Sleaze and crime is what the movers and shakers in British Colombia sell. No jobs, No hope, No future this is Vancouver with your neighbors being Drug cartel members, gangsters, or prostitutes. You would be better off buying a cell in a maximum security prison in Colombia than to buy property in Vancouver.” — Condo developer slashing prices for pre-sale buyers
“Information wants to be $17.99” — Slashdot | Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects
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Barack Obama: “There Is No Obstacle that Can Stand in the Way of Millions of Voices Calling for Change.”
Cleaned up, humanised version: “Millions, you can keep calling all you want till you’re blue in the face.”
” — Democracy Now!“Part of the debtor mentality is a constant, frantically suppressed undercurrent of terror. We have one of the highest debt-to-income ratios in the world, and apparently most of us are two paychecks from the street. Those in power - governments, employers - exploit this, to great effect. Frightened people are obedient — not just physically, but intellectually and emotionally. If your employer tells you to work overtime, and you know that refusing could jeopardize everything you have, then not only do you work the overtime, but you convince yourself that you’re doing it voluntarily, out of loyalty to the company; because the alternative is to acknowledge that you are living in terror. Before you know it, you’ve persuaded yourself that you have a profound emotional attachment to some vast multinational corporation: you’ve indentured not just your working hours, but your entire thought process.” — Schneier on Security: Economic Distress and Fear
“Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists upon being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle. The host never knows which side of his nature is going to turn up next.” — The Quotation of the Day History