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Entries Tagged as 'Capitalism'

Say Hi To S.D. Windham

May 3rd, 2004 · 2 Comments

What have we done now?
S.D. Windham: a start up company with which I’m involved. Check it out.

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Tags: Capitalism

Five Million Ways to Kill A CEO

December 12th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Tell him it’s a boom in child prostitution when he show up at the stroll give him lead restitution

You could throw a twenty in a vat ‘o hot oil when he jump in after it watch him boil

Toss a dollar in the river and when he jump in if you can find he can swim
put [...]

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Tags: Capitalism · Funk, The · Funny! · Pigs · Quotes

Happy Family No Longer

December 7th, 2003 · 7 Comments

The long, slow wreck of the economy and my immersion into humanity as evidenced by working with a stupid asshole.

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Tags: Capitalism · Culture · Essay · Work

The Bitter.net Shrine to Infinite Energy

March 5th, 2003 · 4 Comments

http://www.bitter.net/infinite_energy/

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Micklethwait’s Law of Negotiated Misery

January 31st, 2003 · 1 Comment

“the ‘self-managed’ classes negotiate themselves into lives of permanent misery.”

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Tags: Capitalism · Culture · Opinions · Theories · Work

Great News in a Schandenfreude sense

November 4th, 2002 · No Comments

In what may be the most schadenfreude of scenarios, I noticed in this article that job cuts for the last quarter in the two industries in which I work (Telecommunications and High Tech, I’m a high tech contractor to telecom firms) are down.
So, if once can muster glee when one announces this, the third quarter [...]

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Tags: Capitalism · Economy · Telecommunications · Work

Something for Nothing

September 24th, 2002 · No Comments

Do YOU still pay for long distance? Why?

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Tags: Capitalism

Ouch! That’s Going to Leave a Mark

September 19th, 2002 · No Comments

EDS missed their revenue targets by 82%. The stock price rumbled by nearly 50%, to an eleven year low
This happened exactly one month after EDS CEO Dick Brown and his CFO signed statement and swore to Wall Street about the “veracity” of their financial statements and reporting.
So to those who tried to convince me [...]

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Tags: Capitalism · Work

Soooooeeeeey!!!!

August 1st, 2002 · No Comments

The piggy roundup begins.Of course, these are the small potatoes people, paraded in handcuffs to make Americans feel better about investing in Kkkorporation$ again. The real swine are slightly up from there, at the top of the pole.

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Tags: Capitalism · Pigs

Greedy Pig Companies

June 26th, 2002 · 7 Comments

Well, it looks like WorldCom has been cooking the books. Big suprise here, eh?Markets are tumbling on the news. Piggies found guilty of this type of deception should be gutted. Fair, independent audits and legitimate books are the cornerstones of a free market economy in which public ownership is involved. When [...]

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Evil Enron

May 7th, 2002 · 2 Comments

As Elliott pointed out in an earlier entry, Enron was suspected by many to have had anything but legitimate plans during the California energy crisis. Well, it turns out that Enron may have manipulated power prices for Californians suffering from the energy crunch.So the company that lied to its (stupid for having all of [...]

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Tags: Capitalism · Pigs

Guartanteed Moneymaker

March 31st, 2002 · 2 Comments

If anyone is reading this, and has a lot of money, I can guarantee you that if you open an IKEA franchise in Atlanta (preferably inside the perimiter) you will make a fortune. This town wants one, needs one, and for some inexplicable reason, we don’t have one.

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Lay is "On Crack"

January 30th, 2002 · 3 Comments

In an article on Yahoo! News today, they mentioned that a video of an Enron staff meeting has surfaced. Apparently, former Enron CEO Kenneth L. Lay read feedback from employees to their then-CEO. Here is one of the questions:``I would like to know if you are on crack. If so that would explain [...]

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Tags: Capitalism · Funny! · Pigs

Shop! It’s Your Duty!

December 6th, 2001 · No Comments

It’s interesting to note that the goverment’s request of Americans during our time of crisis was to shop. We have evolved from the world’s great producers to the world’s great consumers. I’m not saying we don’t generate a production economy, but it’s interesting to note nonetheless.

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Heartless Free Economy Freak

November 23rd, 2001 · No Comments

Heartless Free Economy Freak
I know it sounds cruel, especially around the holidays, but MARTA’s recent decision to cut service before cutting jobs really irks me.
Let’s think about this. The Authority decided to preserve jobs and cut service—so that means there will be a lot of people doing LESS work and the only cost savings [...]

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Tags: Atlanta · Capitalism · Transit