Wall Street Protests

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by tw

Who spends more time searching for irrelevant dirt? Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, or TheMercenary?

The first three rabidly want America to fail. A trend is apparent.

Honestly? I think it's too late. I had hope for America, but no longer. 101 million dollar earning CEOs don't care, and their pet sheep don't care, and you can't fight millionaire hall.

I'm completely serious here. I just wish it would happen faster, so I don't feel like the only one drowning. I can live by the train tracks with the other former members of society. We'll live in the boxes discarded by the rich. If they'll let us have them. That might seem like socialism, all that welfare.

Done. Done. Done. Let them take the country and kill us all. I can't care anymore.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Obama is protesting...

He is Occupying Oahu for the 18 days....

At a cost of $750,000 to the tax payer as he says we should be saving money for the little guy.

You are what you read. You should consider avoiding the political sites you have been going to. They are not making you smarter.

It's a real phenomenon.

Abstract

Media priming refers to the residual, often unintended consequences of media use on subsequent perceptions, judgments, and behavior. Previous research showed that the media can prime behavior that is in line with the primed traits or concepts (assimilation). However, assimilation is expected to be less likely and priming may even yield reverse effects (contrast) when recipients have a dissimilarity testing mindset. Based on previous research on narrative comprehension and experience as well as research on media priming, a short-term influence of stories on cognitive performance is predicted. In an experimental study, participants (N = 81) read a story about a stupid soccer hooligan. As expected, participants who read the story without a special processing instruction performed worse in a knowledge test than a control group who read an unrelated text. Participants with a reading goal instruction to find dissimilarities between the self and the main protagonist performed better than participants who read the story without this instruction. The effects of reported self-activation and story length were further considered.

This is the "Jersey Shore" study that showed that people consuming stupid media content actually perform worse on tests than a control group.

In your example, you are condemning your political opposition for doing what all past presidents have done. Take a trip. It's perfectly normal and standard. 18 days may seem long, but there have been others who took longer vacations. And as we all know, the President is never really off the clock.

[SamIam]

What Glatt said.

Meanwhile the Occupy movement continues to evolve and support for its efforts is continuing to grow. Just one example is the Occupy Our Homes protest:

The new campaign, Occupy Our Homes, teams up with a number of community groups long-focused on housing issues and homelessness. It also comes with a specific agenda: putting homeless families into the millions of homes that have been taken over by banks and sat empty since the housing bubble popped, and helping those families on the verge of foreclosure resist eviction.

Occupy is not going to go away just because the police chased them out of some parks. Time Magazine considers OWS the top story of the year. And Coloradans continue to Occupy Denver. (See? I told you we don't mind the snow!)

[BigV]

Sour grapes, you crybaby.

[classicman]

Here is another link to what glatt said.
I actually called Mr. Cassino, still awaiting a response to some questions I have.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by classicman

Here is another link to what glatt said.

?

[Undertoad]

Called who for what now?

[BigV]

someone crossed the streams, I believe that post by classicman relates to the man cave thread.

[infinite monkey]

I've told you guys to use the urinal in front of YOU, you're not supposed cross pee into each other's urinals.

[classicman]

Corrected link
Would a moderator please correct. kthx

[Undertoad]

fixd

[classicman]

thanks. That was pretty funny actually.

[Lamplighter]

We were watching TV, and I realized that the OWS movement is lacking one
of the things that made the movements of the 60's so successful.
Music of the OWS.

Here's a good role model from earlier days:

[henry quirk]

Monkey Vs Robot
James Kochalka


Monkey play in the jungle
Robot work in the factory
they will have a giant rumble
Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot

Monkey hate technology
Robot hate the monkey
they will fight eternally
Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot

Monkey Mate in the jungle
Robot replicate in factory
They both love their mother
why must they hate eachother

Why cant we all get along
would that be oh so wrong?
why cant we all love eachother
monkey and a robot brother

Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot

M-O-N-K-E-Y MONKEY
R-O-B-O-T ROBOT
M-O-N-K-E-Y MONKEY
R-O-B-O-T ROBOT
M-O-N-K-E-Y MONKEY
R-O-B-O-T ROBOT
M-O-N-K-E-Y MONKEY
R-O-B-O-T ROBOT

Monkey play in the jungle
Robot work in the factory
they will have a giant rumble
Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot

Monkey hate technology
Robot hate the monkey
they will fight eternally
Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot

Monkey Mate in the jungle
Robot replicate in factory
They both love their mother
why must they hate eachother

Why cant we all get along
would that be oh so wrong?
why cant we all love eachother
monkey and a robot brother

Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot
Monkey Versus Robot

M-O-N-K-E-Y MONKEY
R-O-B-O-T ROBOT
M-O-N-K-E-Y MONKEY
R-O-B-O-T ROBOT
M-O-N-K-E-Y MONKEY
R-O-B-O-T ROBOT
M-O-N-K-E-Y MONKEY
R-O-B-O-T ROBOT

[tw]

Back to the topic.

Microlending was successful by tapping new technology (ie internet) while doing the purpose of any and every business. To advance mankind. A European could loan a few hundred Euros to a small business woman in Africa. Who in turn might create a telephone kiosk based in cell phones. These resulted in massive productivity increases in that African village. It advanced mankind. Both lender and borrower prospered and therefore profited.

Then business school graduates and other Wall Street types tried to subvert it for self-serving profits. Small farmers in southern Asia were suddenly stuck with multiple microloans they could never pay. Because Wall Street and business school types ignore the purpose of that business. Their solution? Offer him another microloan. Corrupt bean counters did what they also did to American homeowners.

Wall Street and MBA types consider 'loan sharking' to be good. Believe the purpose of a business is only profit. Even insist every transaction will result in one winner and one loser. Wall Streeters, et al are no different than the mafia. They are the reason why microlending suffering so many failures.

Two types of people exist in this world. Those who learn, work for, and advance the product. Who therefore advance mankind. And who **earn** their profits. The second are mafia and business school graduates, so worshipped on Wall Street, who have no idea how the work gets done. Who cannot bother to learn. Whose only purpose in life is to enrich themselves at the expense of America and the world. Who mock the concept called "the advancement of mankind". Who gleefully created in early 2000 the recession we all suffer from. And who now deny there are only corrupt.

Of course, Wall Streeters and business school graduates could not see an innovation even if they sucked it up their nose - which is why cocaine addicts are so common on Wall Street. Which is why drug addiction is good for any mafia business.

Microlending performed by investing in something productive did so much to advance mankind; especially in emerging nations. Once the MBA smelled a profit, then microlenders were suddenly 'loan sharks'.

Every business deal must result in both sides profiting. Honest lenders make sure their borrower will profit. Perverting a successful concept – microlending – if directly traceable to those so corrupt as to say “the purpose of a business is profits - screw the product”. Same people built GM cars. And blamed the unions for some of the world’s crappiest products. Same also want to buy T-mobile to simply eliminate competition. Same also subverting internet growth in the US by enriching and protecting only two local providers (ie Verizon and Comcast).

The purpose of every corrupt organization: make profits by screwing all others. The product be damned. Corruption of microlending is simply another example of the cancer openly protected by wacko extremists and other nasty people. Who gleefully enriched the rich a decade ago and therefore destroy businesses and jobs today. Even harmed emerging populations by corrupting microlending.