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Anyone going to be retarded enough to buy Facebook shares?

We Are Borg — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:21:32 GMT

There will likely be a massive run up on the share price over the coming weeks.

But for those of you who think Facebook is a good long-term investment, allow me to remind you of the following:

- Netscape
- MySpace
- ICQ
- Friendster
- Yahoo!
- Corel
- Novell
- etc., etc., etc.

Just for comparison, Disney Corporation's total share value is around $80-billion and McDonald's is around $90-billion. Today's Facebook IPO would put their total share value at around $100-billion.

Which of those companies do you think will be around in ten years?

Nick is currently the third most popular poster on WF.

Anna — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:19:06 GMT

Someone should invite POTN back to fight for his crown! :soma:

Final standings (rep)

Asyncritus — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:45:47 GMT

As some people might know, I keep track of rep. (Yeah, I'm a nerd's nerd for statistical analysis...) Since Nick was kind enough to wait until I got back from Madagascar Wednesday to do the reset, I got the final results for the top 50 posters, as I do every day. (I was gone again all day yesterday, but I see from the comments in the Help Desk that the change was made over a day ago, so the list I got when I returned from Madagascar is pretty close to the very final results. In all likelihood, nothing had changed.

I don't (and can't) know exact rep scores, but only approximate scores, because all I can do is keep track of the rollover "rep title" based on posters' green squares. But that gives general ideas. After each poster's name, in parenthesis, is their final rep title, as well as the range of points for which that title is used.

Here's the final list:

1 Muad Dib (tastes like chicken: 25000-29999)
2 Uncle Albert (controls the blue triforce!: 20000-24999)
3 Tamar Garish (controls the blue triforce!: 20000-24999)
4 Paladin (controls the blue triforce!: 20000-24999)
5 Elwood (is an epic 1v1 bard: 19000-19999)
6 Marso (is William Shatner: 16000-16999)
7 Ramen (is William Shatner: 16000-16999)
8 Forbin (is William Shatner: 16000-16999)
9 Volpone (is William Shatner: 16000-16999)
10 Diacanu (is allergic to door knobs, that's why he always kicks doors down: 15000-15999)
11 Mrs. Albert (is allergic to door knobs, that's why he always kicks doors down: 15000-15999)
12 shootER (is allergic to door knobs, that's why he always kicks doors down: 15000-15999)
13 Chaos Descending (arm wrestled Mr. T and won: 14000-14999)
14 Asyncritus (is your local congressman: 13000-13999)
15 Zombie (is your local congressman: 13000-13999)
16 Tex (can spare your life: 12000-12999)
17 Lanzman (has never paid taxes, ever: 11000-11999)
18 Nova (is the eJesus: 10000-10999)
19 Ancalagon (is the eJesus: 10000-10999)
20 Bulldog (is the eJesus: 10000-10999)
21 Storm (is the eJesus: 10000-10999)
22 Clyde (ate the last existing unicorn: 9750-9999)
23 Chuck (ate the last existing unicorn: 9750-9999)
24 Talkahuano (invented the internet: 9250-9499)
25 $corp (invented the internet: 9250-9499)
26 Ward (has 72 pairs of chromosomes: 8750-8999)
27 Dan Leach (has 72 pairs of chromosomes: 8750-8999)
28 Man Afraid of his Shoes (has 72 pairs of chromosomes: 8750-8999)
29 Demiurge (is the 13th Apostle: 8500-8749)
30 Linda R. (founded the Black Panthers: 8250-8499)
31 marathon (killed whitey!: 8000-8249)
32 Anna (will soon attain Statehood: 7500-7749)
33 Caboose (will soon attain Statehood: 7500-7749)
34 BearTM (will soon attain Statehood: 7500-7749)
35 Lt. Mewa (will soon attain Statehood: 7500-7749)
36 Order2Chaos (is Enterpriser in drag: 7250-7499)
37 The Defender (is a member of the Green Lantern Corps: 6750-6999)
38 Summerteeth (is a member of the Green Lantern Corps: 6750-6999)
39 Chris (is a member of the Green Lantern Corps: 6750-6999)
40 The Ayatollah El Chup (is developing a cult following: 6500-6749)
41 Bailey (is really Chuck Norris: 6000-6249)
42 gul (is really Chuck Norris: 6000-6249)
43 John (is really Chuck Norris: 6000-6249)
44 Spaceturkey (is "mmm mmm" good" 5750-5999)
45 ecky (gets more chicks then Tommy Lee: 5500-5749)
46 frontline (once saved the universe... from himself: 5250-5499)
47 tafkats (once saved the universe... from himself: 5250-5499)
48 Captain J (is a god in several undeveloped countries: 5000-5249)
49 Jamey Whistler (was the 5th Beatle: 4750-4999)
50 Nautica (was the 5th Beatle: 4750-4999)

And now, to make your heads explode!

BearTM — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:50 GMT

YOU WILL BE TERRIFIED!

WUZ ZAAP MUTHA FUCKAS???!!!

Megatron — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:30:40 GMT

I AM BACK, BABY!

:kitty: :kitty:

NOW WE ARE GONNA HAVE SOME
FUN! FUN!! FUN!!! FUN!!!

FUCK YEAH LOSERS!

THIS WEBSITE REVOLVES AROUND ME!!
THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING, BITCHES!!

MEGATRON'S BACK!

BIGGER THAN EVAAAARRRR!!

:kitty: :kitty:

Jar Jar Binks Now Working for Iran

Tuckerfan — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:59:23 GMT

He seems to be helping them with their missile defense program.

Quote:

Iran's Mehr News Agency used a blatantly altered image to illustrate a story downplaying its ballistic missile test program. The Atlantic Wire first reported on the digitally enhanced image--which includes the "Star Wars" character Jar Jar Binks--after it was published Friday on the agency's website.

As Atlantic Wire pointed out, Friday was also the day "Star Wars" fans celebrated the 35th anniversary of the film's release.

Iran has a history of photo enhancing its missile images. In 2008, it released a photo of a missile test that included an extra missile--"a point that had not emerged before the photo was used on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites."

And the image Mehr used on Friday is old--first appearing online in 2008 and accompanying a story about Iran's missile photo-enhancing failures.

Pics at the link.

Candlelight Vigil for Zombie

Anna — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:27:49 GMT

Just noticed he got shitcanned-- What for? :unsure:

Someone always ruins the party....

ed629 — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:09:56 GMT

...introducing the Camelflage panties. These must be taken off the market at once.

Some asshole had to go and ruin it for everyone.

Before:

After:

Mac Lethal Teaches You Grammar

foil1212 — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:07:22 GMT

Arby's Gives Kid The Finger!

Black Dove — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:19:55 GMT

Quote:

Teenage Boy Finds Finger in Arby�s Sandwich

Ryan Hart, a 14-year-old boy from Michigan, had a rude surprise when he bit into his Arby's roast beef sandwich. "I was like, 'that's got to be a finger,'" he told the Jackson Citizen Patriot. "It was just nasty."

Related: The Six Worst Fast Food Hamburgers (And What you Should Eat Instead)

Reportedly, a restaurant employee cut off her finger with a meat slicer while preparing the meal. She left her station to deal with the emergency, and other employees, who were unaware of the injury, continued to complete the order.

"Somebody loses a finger and you keep sending food out the window," said the teen's mom, Jamie Vail. "I can't believe that." She added that following the gruesome discovery, her son was "traumatized," couldn't eat or sleep, and had been prescribed medication Fox News reports.

Related: Can Fast Food Make You Depressed?

John Gray, Arby's vice president of corporate communications, provided Yahoo! Shine with a statement saying, "Arby�s wants to reassure customers that we are committed to providing quality food in a safe and healthy environment. We are deeply concerned and apologetic to the guest involved in this unfortunate incident....An isolated and unfortunate accident occurred in a franchisee�s Jackson, Michigan restaurant in which an employee was injured. Upon learning of the incident, the franchisee�s restaurant team shut down food production and thoroughly cleaned and sanitized the restaurant. The franchisee fully cooperated with the Health Department during the investigation, and the restaurant was given the approval to remain open."

This is not the first time human remains have been found in a fast food meal but this case might be the most extreme.

- A Dayton Ohio man sued Arby's in 2005 for reportedly serving him a chicken sandwich topped with a piece of human skin.

- In a famous 2005 hoax, a Las Vegas woman found a human finger in Wendy's chili but police later discovered she had cooked her husband's colleague's finger (which he had lost in a work accident) and slipped it into the bowl herself.

- An Albany-area man allegedly found a bloody bandage in the crust of his Pizza Hut pie in 2011.

- Also in 2011, Texan woman found blood on her French fries while eating at a Houston-area Crackle Barrel.

:finger:

What would be an appropriate response if...

Midnight Funeral — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:17:17 GMT

A prison van transporting Viktor Bout along a rural highway fails to reach its destination at the expected time.

A search along the road discovers the van pushed off the road into undergrowth.

The driver and prison officers are found bound and gagged inside. Mr. Bout is nowhere to be found.

The driver and corrections officers state that they were stopped by an unknown paramilitary outfit, comprising at least 10 heavily armed masked men, who motioned them off to one side, tied them up and departed with Mr. Bout without speaking, either to the officers or among themselves, at any point in the holdup.

Soon after, a journalist discovers Mr Bout living in Russia.

Vladimir Putin appears on TV and denies knowing anything about this, and states that Russia had nothing to do with it, and that they would never authorise such a thing.

What are you willing to support?

actormike — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:34:23 GMT

Conservatives: Would you applaud a devastating terrorist attack on the US if it guaranteed the election of Mitt Romney?

Liberals: Would you applaud a devastating terrorist attack on the US if it guaranteed the re-election of Barack Obama?

How far are you willing to go to get "your guy" in office?

Obama Admin Wags the Dog

sandbagger — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:56:26 GMT

So much for that Peace prize.

Plans to strike Iran "ready," says U.S. Israel envoy

Quote:

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available", the U.S. ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear arms.
Like Israel, the United States has said it considers military force a last resort to prevent Iran using its uranium enrichment to make a bomb. Iran insists its nuclear program is for purely civilian purposes.
"It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatically and through the use of pressure than to use military force," Ambassador Dan Shapiro said in remarks about Iran aired by Israel's Army Radio on Thursday.
"But that doesn't mean that option is not fully available - not just available, but it's ready. The necessary planning has been done to ensure that it's ready," said Shapiro, who the radio station said had spoken on Tuesday.
The United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germa

Comic books - were they f@cking with us, or just reaaaaalllly stupid?

Demiurge — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:44:27 GMT

Goldman caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Again.

Demiurge — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:25:44 GMT

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...ling-says.html

Quote:

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Merrill Lynch & Co. employees discussed helping naked short-sales by market-maker clients in e-mails the banks sought to keep secret, including one in which a Merrill official told another to ignore compliance rules, Overstock.com Inc. (OSTK) said in a court filing.

The online retailer accused Merrill, now part of Bank of America Corp., and Goldman Sachs of manipulating its stock from 2005 to 2007, causing its shares to fall. Clearing operations at the banks intentionally failed to locate and deliver borrowed shares for clients shorting stocks, including two traders who were fined and suspended from the industry, Overstock�s attorneys said in court filings earlier this year.

Lawyers for Overstock, whose California state court lawsuit in San Francisco was dismissed in January, asked a judge to make public e-mails sent in 2005 and 2006 that it said �reflect business decisions to put profits and corporate ambition over compliance� at Goldman Sachs and Merrill. The banks� decisions to intentionally fail to deliver Overstock shares caused large- scale naked short selling of the company�s stock, according to the filing.

After a Merrill executive expressed concern that a colleague intentionally failed, or didn�t complete, a short sale, an executive at the clearing unit responded with an expletive, telling the executive to ignore �the compliance area -- procedures, schmecedures,� Overstock lawyers said in the filing, citing an excerpt from a May 2005 e-mail. The Merrill executive later told a judge the statement was a joke, Overstock said in the Feb. 9 court document.

In other words, Goldman and Merrill were caught selling stocks they didn't own to negatively impact the stock value of Overstock.com which would benefit their own positions.

We know this is true because a attorney for Goldman Sachs accidentally included the relevant proof in a public filing. Prior to that they had been successful at keeping it hidden by court order since 2007.

Yes, its illegal. We'll see if anything happens.

More at the Economist and Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...lling-20120515

http://www.economist.com/node/21555472

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