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Cain

Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on May 15, 2012, 02:57:19 AM
Wow, what a picture.  I wonder why the police shields are in English.

Historically there is a strong British/American influence on the Greek security services.  The shields are probably manufactured in British or American factories, and so don't have Greek letters set.  Changing them would involve a higher cost, and besides, there is something almost poetic about Greek police being armed with shields in the lettering of a foreign power.

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Damn, and here I was thinking it was left over from the last time they played england at home  :lulz:

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Triple Zero

Quote from: Cain on May 14, 2012, 07:30:35 AM


Like PMZ, my initial reaction was being very impressed how striking the picture is. Because damn, orange fire on the right, blueish glow on the left, two teams meeting at the corner of a block in textbook two-point perspective...

Why are the police standing in the middle of that fire, btw? Is it even a fire?
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Cain

Looks like the masked anarchists on the left (lol) are throwing Molotov cocktails at them.  I suspect the police did not decide to have a pleasant evening stroll and play in a fire they just found.

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The Greeks are having a run on their banks, to the tune of $894 million in the last 24 hours.
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Cain

SYZRIYA have got a lot of people nervous - despite the fact that, unlike other Greek leftists, they actually at least want to stay in the EU.

I say if German bankers want their filthy drachma so fucking badly, they can pay for an army to go collect it.  It'd be cheaper than this nonsense.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Cain on May 16, 2012, 05:37:50 PM
SYZRIYA have got a lot of people nervous - despite the fact that, unlike other Greek leftists, they actually at least want to stay in the EU.

I say if German bankers want their filthy drachma so fucking badly, they can pay for an army to go collect it.  It'd be cheaper than this nonsense.

Interesting thing:  The German banks made loans to other countries that they would never have made to Germans.  How G/S sold them on allowing people to borrow for consumption is beyond me.
Molon Lube

Cain

For the Germans, loans were always means to an end - the end being control of the Eurozone's finances.  They saw how well conditional loans were in helping to bring down the Warsaw Pact (Hungary in particular was susceptible to German economic pressure), and they wanted that to be their means of pulling the strings on Eurozone economies.  It wasn't so much about turning a profit as controlling the debt.

SO THAT WORKED OUT REALLY WELL.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Cain on May 16, 2012, 05:41:56 PM
For the Germans, loans were always means to an end - the end being control of the Eurozone's finances.  They saw how well conditional loans were in helping to bring down the Warsaw Pact (Hungary in particular was susceptible to German economic pressure), and they wanted that to be their means of pulling the strings on Eurozone economies.  It wasn't so much about turning a profit as controlling the debt.

SO THAT WORKED OUT REALLY WELL.

Well, it marginally beats marching into Belgium, which is what they usually do.
Molon Lube

Cain

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The problem with marching into Belgium nowadays is one may actually have to be responsible for it.

I suppose the fact the Germans now see that the violence of government should be covered by the veneer of international finance is some form of improvement, though no doubts most Greeks would disagree.

Interesting fact: 50% of all Athenian police officers voted for the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn.  The Golden Dawn are anti-austerity as well, so I doubt they'll be used directly as pawns by international finance, should SYZRIYA fail to cobble together a coalition, but it's still worth noting.  Should the ECB try and pull off a technocratic coup like they did in Italy, they may find a higher level of resistance than was present in Rome.

And the Greek army, of course, can never be discounted.  More than a few ranking generals and colonels now were bright young lieutenants during the junta, after all.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Cain on May 16, 2012, 05:55:26 PM
The problem with marching into Belgium nowadays is one may actually have to be responsible for it.

I suppose the fact the Germans now see that the violence of government should be covered by the veneer of international finance is some form of improvement, though no doubts most Greeks would disagree.

On the other hand, it's not like they were forced to take loans at gunpoint, back at the beginning of all this mess, in 95-07.

Quote from: Cain on May 16, 2012, 05:55:26 PM
Interesting fact: 50% of all Athenian police officers voted for the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. 

Hardly a shock.  Argentinian cops were pretty similar in the 40s, and I don't think I need to mention Daley's cops in 1968.  They didn't wear armbands, but they would cheerfully have voted for Mussolini.
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Cain

Prepare for one of the biggest market corrections of all time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18105608

QuoteFacebook shares will begin trading in New York on Friday in one of the most eagerly-anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.

Demand is set be high as this week the social networking site said it would be selling 25% more shares than planned.

The sale is expected to value the company at about $100bn (£63bn), the same as internet shopping giant Amazon.

But questions remain about the firm's ability to generate profits and take advantage of mobile phone platforms.

There are also concerns that once the company has to answer to shareholders, there may be a greater emphasis on advertising to generate profits.

Facebook advertising doesn't generate shit in the way of profits, as can be evidenced by the "quality" of said advertisers.  You're not getting 800 million views turned into clicks - you're getting 800 million people skipping past adverts to play Farmville and look at the pictures from Mike's party last night.

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Also GM has decided to pull all paid advertising from FB, but will maintain its FB page. :lulz:

I suspect that there will be an even greater push towards selling and sharing PII of FB users once they realize how little revenue they will get from selling ad space, or there will be even more intrusive ads on FB which will push people out of FB.