XyloJW posted:

*invites beautiful woman back to his apartment, turns down the lights, pours some fine wine, puts on a record of traditional Khmer folk songs as played by the survivors of the Cambodian genocide.*

Avshalom posted:

e: If you have any questions for Ariel, please direct them via me.

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

How do people in the east survive during the summer, anyway?

ErichZahn posted:

It turns out my dad wasn't with Ollie North! He's just a piece of human poo poo who lied about everything other than being a Republican! He's a fake marine instead of a real one so I don't need to deal with any awkward poo poo at all!

razorrozar posted:

Pineapple on pizza is a goddamn travesty.


This sounds quite interesting, can you expand on it?

Exclamation Marx posted:

comes along bort posted:

e: Anyone seen these popping up lately? I guess it's the new hotness in publicly announcing you have tiny genitalia:

ReindeerF posted:

Sorry.

Sewth Effrickens awl leev een puhth neaw thanks to theh blehcks.

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Crude oil derivatives and futures: speculation or fundamentals

Since 1991 the CFTC has given secret exemptions from hedging regulations to 19 major banks and market participants, allowing them to accumulate essentially unlimited positions.[21] These exemptions came to light only after the 2008 financial crisis had unfolded and Congress requested information on market participants. A trader or bank granted an exemption as a bona-fide hedger can affect the price of a commodity without being either its producer or consumer.[22]

In December 2007 during the subprime mortgage crisis, the CFTC began investigating transportation, storage and trading of U.S. crude oil for price manipulation, which included a probe of U.S. crude oil futures.[23] [notes 2] By May 2008, when the price of crude oil futures showed a meteoric rise of 40% to a record $US 135 a barrel there were concerns that the record prices may have been the result of "manipulation or fraud."[23] Michael Haigh, head of U.S. commodities research in New York at Societe Generale SA, and former CFTC associate chief economist, said in an interview “It’s unprecedented for the CFTC to say that they are in the midst of an investigation.[..] “They may be under pressure from Congress to look at this market given the high prices.” Some argued that crude oil market fundamentals drive the price, not the speculative market.[24]

On June 25, 2008 Speaker Pelosi sent a letter to President Bush calling on him to direct the CFTC to use its emergency powers to take immediate action to curb excessive speculation in energy markets, to investigate all energy contracts and that despite growing reports of excessive speculation in energy markets, the CFTC refused to take actions they have taken in the past.[25] The Energy Markets Emergency Act of 2008 was a failed bill that would have attempted to curb excessive speculation in the energy futures markets.

In a campaign speech August 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama argued that loopholes in CFTC regulations contributed to skyrocketing prices and lack of transparency on oil markets.[26]

In April 2010 Reuters reported that of the "40 major figures in the oil industry, including traders and analysts at some of the largest banks, trading houses and oil companies" interviewed, the vast majority (73 percent) thought increased speculation boosted prices beyond what supply and demand fundamentals dictated.[27] Peregrine Financial Group analyst Phil Flynn argued that in terms of supply and demand fundamentals, oil markets were only the messenger.[27] By April the CFTC began to "rein in" speculation in energy and commodity trading, especially oil, and proposed limiting the number of futures contracts financial players can hold at any one time." [27]

Discendo Vox posted:

Sorry, I just finished grinding up and snorting a copy of Hacker's A Writer's Reference, 5th Ed, and now I'm tripping semes. Good stuff.

cheerfullydrab posted:

It's odd. Things that happen here seem to fall into a news void.

Thanatosian posted:

Shabazz Palace just came out with a new album.

zoux posted:

Israel definitely has nukes.

Shageletic posted:

This book then might be for you.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/eric-schlosser-command-control-excerpt-nuclear-weapons

Swan Oat posted:

I would like to use this post to wish President Barack Hussein Obama a very happy birthday.

quote:

Anguish: The sweet one. Think of running through a field, getting kicked in the face and landing on a bushel of raspberries.

Grief: When tasting grief, it's mildly sweet, it's savory, and it's generally pleasant the way a five-day roadtrip with the in-laws would be. (Allergy notice: contains organic honey)

Sorrow: You're in Germany and you're hungry so you stop at a food cart. Why, if you're here, do they have curry sauce on their wurst? This is something like that, only it kicks like a mule and the heat lingers like a one-night-stand that wants breakfast.

Distress: Tastes like the morning after a Tennessee party. A bit like smoke, a lot like whiskey, and with a moral hangover you won't be able to shake off for months to come. (Contains a minimal amount of alcohol)

Bane (Special Batch): Like getting in a fight with a child. You can't win, you can't kick them back. It's very elementary and simple, but it still makes you angry and it burns to the core. My personal favorite since it's the most versatile.

Torment: Scared of going to Mexico because of all the gang and drug related violence? This is that Mexico you don't know and therefore fear. It's less spicy than what you'd imagine but the rabbit hole sinks deeper than you ever fathomed.

Thanatosian posted:

Horses are really the worst. They're enormous, incredibly strong, and scared of loving everything. They will murder you by accident because something 1/1000th their size moved too quickly in their peripheral vision.

zoux posted:

I am now adding lions to the list of animals that I demand be domesticated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lugqyjbENME

SedanChair posted:

I think you could do that with a lion. However, he may pop your head like a grape if he takes exception.

Solkanar512 posted:

Touché, but I have no regrets a year after getting my BRZ.

Solkanar512 posted:

A few inches of snow is really fun, but that's all we ever really get here.

What did you end up with instead? WRX?

Braking Gnus posted:

He was Babychoom from the Eastern European thread if you read that.

Cheekio posted:

I consider participating in The Libertarian Thread to be a harmless perversion only to be discussed between consenting adults, but in this case I have to bring it up.

Does the page 23 of the Libertarian Thread load for anyone else?

This one

Page 22 seems just fine.

R. Mute posted:

a friend of mine recently started working at an app start-up and even through all her relentless optimism and denial, it sounds pretty horrible. it was a two-man deal when she came on, with one guy being The Money and one guy being Actually Useful and it's all falling apart already. the Money keeps making promises to customers they can't keep, skips meetings at random, doesn't actually know the value of money and fucks everything up. like how they're getting a visit from a process server this week because they ended their contract with a particular company a year ago... but they forgot to actually tell that company and now they own like a lot of money. or how they forgot to extend their application for subsidies and now have to pretend like the application got lost in the mail or go bankrupt. now they're even borrowing money from another start-up those two guys are involved with, just to stay afloat.

they'll probably be bankrupt in less than a year (their app is kinda rubbish anyway) and my friend will have learned a lot about "making do" and "committing borderline-fraud" - or as it's called on your cv "creative problem solving"