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What We Need To Get Us Over This Financial Crisis http://uk.youtube.com:80/watch?v=Dk-R6BbsxiY :) :) :)

What Some Engineers Do With Their Time When They Retire http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/c :) :) :)

THE LAWS OF ULTIMATE REALITY * Law of Mechanical Repair After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll have to pee. * Law of Gravity Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. * Law of Random Numbers If you dial a wrong...

I Think I've Seen This One Before A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand. "Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document here with lots of money riding on...

Coffee Stealing someone's coffee is called 'mugging'. Drinking too much coffee can cause a latte problems. Is coffee your daily grind? When he spilled coffee on her shirt she showed him dis-stain. Coffee has bean the grounds of many a heated and strong discussion...

An FBI investigation The phone rings at FBI headquarters. "Hello? I'm calling to report my neighbor, Clifford. He is hiding marijuana inside his firewood!" "Thank you very much for the call, sir." The next day, FBI agents descend on the neighbor's house. They search the shed where...

Council and housing association complaints The following are real extracts from actual complaint letters sent to various councils and housing associations throughout the UK. What a literate bunch the Brits truly are! I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my...

From one of my favorite poems by Victor Hugo: "Tres bon, dit l'officier, on va te fusiller, attend ton tour!" (Very well, said the officer, we're going to shoot you, wait your turn!) :) :) :)

OK you guys, let's be correct here or else someone over there may take offence and surrender prematurely and who wants that? 12 years of French school, way back when, remind me that the correct spelling of the verb "to cry" is "pleurer" ... so there! :)

LOL! Good post, short and right on the money... :)

Good post, I agree with the spirit of what you are saying.

Truth is, I don't know. But I believe that huge salaries change the person, make them almost like a monster who needs to devour everyone else to satisfy his lust for money and power. That cannot be good for business.

I think that spectators are sucked away by the artificial allure of the "mega players" of the majors. But if they (mega players=mega salaries) didn't exist (original hypothesis) then much more customer loyalty across a fundamentally more uniform field would follow. I think. Of course...

I saw first hand what happened when AT&T "modernized" its executive pay in the late 80s and hired professional guns from the market, people who didn't know anything about telecom and couldn't care less about the company. I was there. A terrible infighting ensued, execs focused only on themselves...

Imo, the game would be open to more people and it would also be more fun to watch!

C'mon now folks, we are traders, professionals at that. Who among us wants to "catch a falling knife?" Give MORE money to the auto companies to waste it exactly the way they have wasted gabillions of $$ and 90% original market share so far? Not until the have convinced Congress and the...

I've heard a version where he was also spinning and mumbling something to the effect that to win a Nobel Prize one should be outstanding in their field and a true revolutionary... :)

No, seriously, I agree. Maybe that should worry you. Cheers! :D

Not that I disagree with the essence of what you are saying, or want to point a finger at an adversary, or call you names like "liberal", etc, etc, but, I think, what we all need in this country is to START SPELLING BETTER! :)

LOL!