Turtlicious posted:

Why aren't the police officers beating / shooting these people?

Moridin920 posted:

this retard took his $33k and turned it into -$106k by placing a short with no limits on a $2 stock which then shot up 800+% today



he's started a gofundme page and already has $5k and is hiring a lawyer to try and get out of paying E*trade


just lmao he's hosed

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I was holding KBIO short overnight for what I thought was a nice $2.00 fade coming. At the close of the bell I saw the quote montage clear out and figured today there was no action after hours in the stock. So I went to my office for a long meeting. I got out of the meeting and saw a message from one of my buddys, he asked if I was ok since I was short KBIO....my heart dropped. "Shoot did I blow up my account, everything I worked for? I don't want to lose all $37,000 that would be terrible." ---It was much worse.

The stock was at $16 and my account was negative over 100k. I figured it was a mistake, Etrade would never let that happen, they must have cut the position when my account got to $0....nope. I immediately called them and they confirmed I still owned all the shares. He says that it got out of hand too fast for them to cover me, he says that all he can do right now is cover. I was devistated. I asked him to cover at $16 and he waited trying to find me a good exit. I told him to do it asap and the fill was around $18.50 avg.

At the moment not only is my $37k gone, but I now owe ETrade the negative balance of over $106k. I always knew I could blow up an account and I was financially able to "afford" to lose the $37k. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Etrade would NOT have some sort of stop or circuit breaker in place that would automatically cut a position if the account went to $0.....how could they ever let it get to -$144k loss on a account that small!

don't trade on margin and do idiot poo poo like that, ladies and gentlemen.

poopzilla posted:

sell "short" means you are selling a stock that you do not currently possess. in the hopes that the stock price will drop by the time you actually have to fork over the stock you sold, which can be like 3 days or longer depending on how you do it. its basically seen as a lovely thing to do because your hoping poo poo fails .

apparently this idiot did it on a large margin and now he's totally hosed. not a chance in hell he gets out of it unless he goes bankrupt

Roro posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAVKp_T8hH8

There's a lesson to be learned here. Use-by dates are not to be ignored.

Testekill posted:

When you're working in a public role, maybe you shouldn't post things on facebook that make you look like a gigantic oval office. I mean, who thinks "junkie" when they hear "someone dying" at a restaurant? You would think that the first thing that comes to mind will be a food allergy or a heart attack.

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

You realize that the flaw is that it can convince people to confess to things they didn't do, right? Not that it's vulnerable to some dastardly lawyer arts.

Roro posted:

Haha, this is great. I was wondering where the payoff was after the first guy ran past and there it was

Memento posted:

Same deal except we don't bother with having a handset plugged in.


It just took me 21 seconds for google to find my phone for me. You're right, that's unacceptable

Wampa Stompa posted:

I’m a born citizen of the United States and I recently spent some time in Toronto. Even though I was only there for about a week, my experience has caused me to completely reevaluate my conception of American society. Basically, it was surreal to be in what seemed to be a fundamentally functioning society, as opposed to an essentially dysfunctional one.

Toronto’s streets were clean, the mass transit ran like clockwork, there was far less advertising littering the landscape, the population was well-integrated racially and ethnically, and people, on the whole, seemed much happier, healthier, and smarter than their American counterparts. I walked through the entire city and didn’t feel unsafe or conspicuously well-off once; there were no pockets of urban decay or visible poverty. Nearly everyone I spoke to seemed well-educated and thoughtful, and was well versed on how their local, provincial, and federal government functioned. I looked up the statistics, and there’s an absurdly low crime rate and a very high standard of living. Additionally, Canada's educational system is ranked far ahead of the US despite about equal expenditure per student.[

The reason I went to Toronto was to attend a conference, and I sat in on a panel about the Canadian health care system where I learned a lot. While it isn’t perfect, the single-payer model Canada employs seems mostly effective and humane, and ensures that comparatively few citizens are left for dead. Even drug prices (which the government insurance doesn’t cover) are negotiated by the Canadian government and are orders of magnitude cheaper than they are in the US. Canada’s social safety net is also miles ahead of the US and the whole “if you’re poor or sick you deserve to be poor” mentality doesn’t seem to exist there. I know that there’s a significant issue of scale at play (the entirety of Canada is only ~35 million people as opposed to 319 mil in the US), but that doesn’t fully explain it. Canada just doesn’t seem to be a pathologically dysfunctional society in the same way that the US is.

The fundamental difference seems to me to be that the Canadian government is actually beholden to its constituents’ interests. The United States government is essentially an oligarchy at this point; the SDP electoral system ensures that dissatisfied citizens have no chance to elect outsider candidates, so the Democratic Republican elite is immune to all threats to their power. Because the parties are immovably entrenched, their candidates are funneled into an intra-party rat race with each other for electoral funding, which means whoever can suck corporate dick the hardest and with the least teeth will be elected. This leaves the door open for all manner of corporate abuse and predation of the American public, and the corporations have become so adept at manipulating the media that they’ve convinced the public that that’s how it should be. It’s revolting.

The Canadian government seems to actively protect its citizens’ interests and works to improve their quality of life. I attribute this to the parliamentary model, where citizens actually have voting options other than “the party in charge now” or “the party in charge two years ago.” As a result, candidates are way less beholden to corporate interest and way more beholden to voters.

Granted, I’m sure there’s more than a little of the old “grass is always greener” effect going on here, but I can’t escape from the conclusion that the United States is a dystopian hellhole designed to trap almost all of its citizens in an inescapable web of poverty and disenfranchisement. It’s a fundamentally predatory society where corporations prey upon the horrid living conditions they pay politicians to perpetuate. Labor rights are practically nonexistent compared to almost any other first world industrialized nation, and education has been utterly gutted, twisted into a perverse game of rote memorization and fill-in-the-multiple-choice-bubbles without concern for students’ futures. Most forms of higher education are scams designed to trap young people underneath insurmountable mountains of student debt while not offering any decent career prospects. Entire generations of our best and brightest individuals are being railroaded into lives of menial service jobs, while many of those who rise to positions of power are childish imbeciles capitalizing on Daddy’s connections. Essentially, if you’re born in the United States, there’s a very good chance that you’re just utterly hosed and there’s nothing you can do (short of joining the military in the right way) to unfuck your life. “Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line.”

I’m incredibly lucky; I was born into relative wealth and managed to dodge nearly every bullet America had waiting for me, and I’m in a fairly stable, well-paying position now. And it’s totally possible to insulate yourself from the worst of all this societal sickness by sticking to the major, cosmopolitan cities. But still, knowing that I’m supporting this rotten society with my labor and citizenship makes me sick to my stomach. Am I alone in finding the prospect of staying in this sort of society morally abhorrent? I’m doing everything I can to change it (voting in local and federal elections, donating to lobbyist groups, and teaching young people how the society they live in works and how they can protect themselves), but these issues are so deeply entrenched that nothing short of a major famine or war will turn the tide. In most ways, I really like Sanders as a candidate and I’m doing my best to support his campaign, but there’s little chance he or anyone like him will ever rise to a position of real power.

I’m trying to come to terms with all this, which is why I’m making this thread. I’d be interested to hear other folks’ takes on this whole situation, especially any expatriates. At this point, I’m seriously considering emigrating within the next 6 years (I need to build up some savings first), either to Canada or the EU (since I have Irish citizenship), but until then I need to find some way to stay sane in an insane society. Probably it will involve listening to a lot of Harvey Milk and Springsteen’s “Nebraska,” if I had to guess.



tldr; I can’t escape the conclusion that the United States is objectively a dystopian hellhole designed to screw over its citizens, and that that won’t change any time soon. I’m looking for other people’s takes on this whole situation, stories of expatriates, and/or how you all cope with this knowledge.

Tequila Sunrise posted:

OP aren't you the dude that randomly threw someone's Citibike off a bridge just because you felt like it? Have you considered that you are not exactly a paragon of morality yourself?

Tequila Sunrise posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3749675&userid=139946

Here it is. No story behind it that he talks about, but it was him. Also, while looking through his post history to find that post I found one where he asks how much a tattoo is, because he wanted a "fairly anatomically correct skull" on his forearm.

Op, it's time. How old are you. How fat are you.

a cop posted:

Wow what a big fat piece of poo poo! You've got some work to do, OP.

ultrabindu posted:

Stuff like this will always be pure strain freude for me.

Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:

She will probably face some consequences for punching an old man though.

Janesville Teen Referred To Juvi Services For Attacking Trump Supporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCfeNfEkq5c

Ozz81 posted:

I love how one stupid, bigoted mistake leads to a massive domino effect. Pass a law that denies protections to LGBT people, then businesses refuse to come to your state or start leaving, which means fewer jobs for everyone, eventually turning NC into a bigger shithole than it already was. Nobody wins

ElGroucho posted:

Looking forward to 3 more pages of dog talk

http://i.imgur.com/E8VjBlT.webm

Subjunctive posted:

Why is this video popping up every 20 posts all of the sudden? Isn't it years old?

dmnz posted:

Unfunny Poster posted:

Why yes, that is a Killer Whale knocking a Seal several dozen feet into the air.

Retro Access posted:

I'm married to an immigrant. I spent two years working 18 hours in two jobs to sponsor the UK spousal visa. Ran myself ragged and left the UK when my husband's parents very loving generously waved a visa sponsorship at me.

My entire family knew all this poo poo and voted "leave."

I only found out this loving morning.

Our only way back into the UK, or to have stayed there in the first place was via european law.

I feel like I have had my heart torn out. I didn't know them at all and they sure as gently caress knew nothing about me.

Chichevache posted:

Power Rangers look cooler.

Related and content. This is horrifying road rash that I never want to feel.

http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=8b6_1458970372

Extremely

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Y'know, this kind of poo poo pisses me off. It's not funny at all. If you really don't wanna get married, then don't get loving married.

Your Gay Uncle posted:

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/florida-man-convicted-in-road-rage-death-shot-and-killed-after-roadside-confrontation/

Florida Man who killed someone in a road rage confrontation is killed in a road rage confrontation!

quote:

Durham served 10 years in prison and took anger management classes as part of his sentence.

canyoneer posted:

Yeah, buying video games for a kid and then forcing them to get rid of them later sends a powerful anti-consumerism message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isp8Liu_myM

Pesticide20 posted:

The Justice Department announced they'll no longer use privatized prisons.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/18/prison-stocks-plunge-after-report-justice-department-will-end-use-of-private-prisons.html

quote:

On Tuesday, officers attempted to enter the home and were told to get a search warrant, the police sources said. Detectives then waited for a warrant to search Brown's home for the weapon.

Lowtax posted:

Okay, gonna have to side with tradition and rules on this one, and unfortunately going to have to go over a moderator's head, which I absolutely do not ever like doing.

Toxx clause is a toxx clause and the people going into it knew exactly what they were doing and what would happen if they lost. Arbitrarily changing the punishment at the last minute further cement D&D as a leftist echo chamber and not actually a place where people of both sides can debate and discuss. I didn't vote for Trump and do not like Trump, but this whole thing really comes off as an arbitrary change to the rules for no reason but a political agenda. I will be enforcing the forum rules later.

firebeats posted:

would like to restate my plea that my ban reason show for the record that my toxx was the result of drunken incompetence and not shillbot solidarity

i mean I did the RAINN donation and everything

firebeats posted:

some of us were just drunk and forgot what thread we were in

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