Posts by Burkhard Kloss 25 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Sep 2008
The point is that he didn't make you safer, and mortgaged your children's and grandchildren's income to pay on a completely ineffective splurge on public services.
Not to mention being a completely authoritarian bastard. RIPA anyone?
The only good thing Labour did while in power was to give the bank of England independence. And they even fucked that up by excluding housing from the inflation measure, directly contributing to the boom and bust.
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I'm sure there are lots of things that are hindrances to their investigations, both for reasons of cost and potential delay. Habeas corpus, a judicial system, PACE, people being allowed to move around, not having CCTV in everyone's bedrooms (although that could be a potentially profitable public service. I digress).
McGregor and Thornton are clearly unfit for public office.
> Things based on 2 and 3 are great for sub dividing and eye-balling.
If you have trouble dividing metric measurements (i.e. 10s and 100s) by 2 or 3 (to a practical accuracy), then it doesn't matter whether beer's sold in pints or litres, you've had enough.
Trying to change the measurements is a complete waste of time though, since it attempts to solve a non-existent problem. Clearly we've managed to fix the political system and the economy while I was having a post-prandial nap
If it's not a crime here, why are we extraditing?
I'm pretty sure that Rick Santorum has said a few things which are homophobic enough to get him prosecuted on the east side of the pond - any chance of getting him prosecuted over here?
Thought not.
In the meantime, anyone sad enough to look for US TV shows online since they haven't come out over here yet will probably watch them again when they finally cross the ocean, and then buy the DVD box set.
> It’s banker’s greed that led to all this in the first place, and until we tackle the problems of unregulated greed driven banking, then this problem is not going to solved and will probably reoccur.
Because the bankers FORCED the Greeks and Spanish and Portugese governments to borrow all that money? Or the Irish to invest like mad in property? [The Irish are a different kettle of fish from the others... they just made a monumentally stupid decision by not letting their banks fail and instead guaranteeing them with taxpayer money]
> The regan/thatcher light touch free market policies have failed, just as communism has failed
Ah yes, Thatcher was famous for running up huge government deficits wasn't she? [ Reagan did actually run up a huge deficit, despite talking about a smaller state, but then he was trying to outspend the Soviets]
Such a long post... and so short on logic.
> he does something he must know is illegal
The fact that apple doesn't like it doesn't make it illegal. You buy something, you can do what the hell you like with it - use it, trash it, sell it.
> That's why Ticketmaster tries to control the purchase of tickets by scalpers, so that you and I can buy them for less than £500 a piece for bad seats.
So Ticketmaster charges extortionate fees to protect me from extortion? How altruistic of them.
Pull the other one, mate, it's got bells on.
The home secretary is free to ignore expert advice and prove himself an idiot - if he's paid for it out of his own pockets (and not expensed it!).
If my tax money gets spent on setting up a council of people who actually know what they're talking about, then I want that advice followed.
EC
While your statement
"If you short a share, how much can you lose when prices go up? In the first case your losses are limited to the value of the share when you bought it (limited liability) but in the second, your losses are potentially unlimited."
is technically true, de facto large jumps are much more likely to the downside than to the upside.
And I don't think Dominic argued that naked shorts are less risky, just that a long-short strategy is less risky.
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