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The govt = fool collecting taxes until the new lottery manager devises ways to save on taxes.
 
Next time I write something for an inspection it shall be preceded by:

1. Issue rag from store.
2. Spit on said rag, use calibrated quantity of spit.
3. Use spit induced rag to clean surface.

4. (Formerly step 1) read the ******* date of manufacture from the wrench flat.
5. Write it on piece of paper and send it back to me.
 
When it comes to world war 3, if it ever does, we'll be fuked. We own nothing as far as services go here, and are only selling more of them, fuel, electricity, food, cars, guns, its all made overseas's now with our raw ingredients that they all stock up on.

We just have a heap of old manufacturing plants and the such turned into retro cafes and night clubs, they'll all do us well :huh:
 
shaunous said:
We just have a heap of old manufacturing plants and the such turned into retro cafes and night clubs, they'll all do us well :huh:
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We'll be able to party like it's World War III.
 
There will never be a world war 3, or if there was we wouldn't know about it for long.

And if there was another world war, if be hoping the keezer was stocked the fridge had some steaks in it and the weather was nice enough to jump on the pool. You may aswell enjoy your last day.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if some interesting **** happens within my lifetime, as the US continues to descend into anarchy and China becomes the dominant force in the Pacific. If the US end up with a ultra conservative, pro-military government in the near future, sparks could fly. It only takes a few ********* at the top to change the course of history.
 
If there is another one I look forward to Tom Waterhouse giving the odds on Eurasia taking some new territory this week during the ads in the news.
 
pedleyr said:
I'm going to have to call ******** on this unless you can give a link to said research.

I'd also refute in the strongest terms that 10% impact is "about zero". If it's even half that, and the company makes $100m, she's clearly worth $5m.
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Meant to dig the links up yesterday but super busy. I'll dig them out over the weekend for you. Might shoot them in a PM as the rant seems to have moved on.

I do a lot of organisational change management so researching this sort of thing is my day job.

Summary - there is a long history of research on this that shows that the CEO effect (as its called in the research community) is pretty much a myth in large companies. In small-med companies the head has a huge effect but as things scale up they are less and less influential (but get paid more and more... go figure). Main reason is that any strategy they set or change they want is filtered through multiple layers of underlings and generally never reaches the bottom before corporate inertia kills it. The one exception is companies that are on the verge of going broke or facing some other threat to their survival. Self preservation kicks in and makes change happen.

CEOs do have an impact on share price (mostly due to the ceo myth) as the market latches onto their every utterance but their impact on actual fundamentals - revenue, profit, etc is minimal.

Anyhoo... i'll shoot you some links.

Cheers
Dave
 
jlm said:
If there is another one I look forward to Tom Waterhouse giving the odds on Eurasia taking some new territory this week during the ads in the news.
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I never look forward to Tom Waterhouse.
 
Not For Horses said:
Not even if he is about to wrapped in barbed wire and fed to the lobsters?
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OK. You got me there.
 
Liam_snorkel said:
If the US end up with a ultra conservative, pro-military government in the near future, sparks could fly. It only takes a few ********* at the top to change the course of history.
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Don't be silly Liam and stop worrying about this ever happening! The last Bush [SIZE=11.818181991577148px]ultra conservative, pro-military government gave the world the beautiful new democratic country of Iraq.[/SIZE]

real_beer belief: [SIZE=11.818181991577148px]'Politicians are way beyond[/SIZE][SIZE=11.818181991577148px] any voters control especially in the USA, so were all going to travel down the road giant corporations decide to take us I'm afraid'[/SIZE]
 
Liam_snorkel said:
I wouldn't be surprised if some interesting **** happens within my lifetime, as the US continues to descend into anarchy and China becomes the dominant force in the Pacific. If the US end up with a ultra conservative, pro-military government in the near future, sparks could fly. It only takes a few ********* at the top to change the course of history.
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Which would then take us all to the recent zombie apocalypse thread, yep a few ********* at the top would see us in the **** no doubt and in a short time frame.
 
SU carburrettors are wonderfully simple devices. Easy to tune and last longer than dinosaurs...

But f%k...the outside castings have to many nooks and cranies to get a toothbrush or wire brush into....even after being soaked in petrol over night.

Any way...I have an 1 1/8 & 3 x 1 1/4 for sale...
 
Liam_snorkel said:
I wouldn't be surprised if some interesting **** happens within my lifetime, as the US continues to descend into anarchy and China becomes the dominant force in the Pacific. If the US end up with a ultra conservative, pro-military government in the near future, sparks could fly. It only takes a few ********* at the top to change the course of history.
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Iran already has that, with added homicidal theocracy for good measure. All they need is the nukes. I genuinely shudder to think what would happen.

Also, more than a few *********. Actually a surplus. Unfortunately they run the country and military.
 
Liam_snorkel said:
I wouldn't be surprised if some interesting **** happens within my lifetime, as the US continues to descend into anarchy and China becomes the dominant force in the Pacific. If the US end up with a ultra conservative, pro-military government in the near future, sparks could fly. It only takes a few ********* at the top to change the course of history.
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I have held this belief that something will happen in my life time, a war between USA and China, doubtful, America owes too much money to China plus I think the Americans are waiting for China's industry to fire up then they can dip their bread in our soup and supply China with gas & coal.
My money would be on a good old fashioned pestilence, we are long overdue for one, it would have to be a real ball biter not some wimpy one, it would give the gene pool a good clear out, to many sick people have been dipping their feet into it adding their faulty genes after modern medicine has saved them, the aged would go first, then the obese (their immune system wouldn't be up to scratch) would solve governments headaches with welfare/ pension payments, bury the dead in huge pits with a couple of barrels of lime, hell of a lot cheaper than a war
 
Pestilence is so new testament.
I call tsunami.
And volcanoes.
Or a meteor strike.
 
I really like the word pestilence has a nice ring to it, plague sounds dull, with pestilence their is no collateral damage like there would be with natural disasters, normal service would be resumed quite quickly
 
Well yeah as far as pestilence goes there is the increasing number of antibiotic-resistant super bugs thanks to the over/misuse of antibiotics in humans and food animals, also the avian virus is only a couple of mutations a away from being carried & lethal to humans. Yay!
 

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