Weeeeell... That's partly true. What is not being mentioned here is the fact that the guy who is going with stock options has a very real chance of losing his shirt. Just because you stick a wad in stock option is no guarantee that it is going to be profitable. Some years you'll do OK. In other years you'll do…

It is true that lobbyists and other people have way too much going 'on the inside', but ultimately speaking no financier can write a single law. It takes a compliant congress to do that. The true corruption is in Washington. For example, even though AIG was pushing for the change - it was Barney Frank and others…

The anger in the OWS movement was certainly justified, but it was aimed at completely the wrong target. This is one reason why most of America viewed OWS as a bunch of pathetic losers, because they were so woefully misguided and foolish. "Wall Street" and the so-called "1%" have done nothing illegal. OWS may whine…

That's your opinion. The number of @$$hats in the Democrat party is legion. Reading the Democrat roster is like reading off Batman's rogue gallery, but but much less cool.

You see - the creepy thing is that there really are people in the Warmie movement who say this kind of stuff in perfect earnest. However, I assume that you are totally in satire mode because I can't imagine any sane human being with two brain cells to rub together being serious when saying such stuff. :)

I'm already running my washing machine to clean socks, shirts, towels, and other articles of clothing - so I might as well toss my jeans in there with everything else.

"You should read the whole article..."

The images that were going to be put on the boxes were not facts. There were propoganda. No - really. Every person that picks up a ciggy or a seegar is not going to end up with holes in their throats, smoke them around infants, a face full of sores, or teeth like driftwood. These were images designed to provoke…

Quite honestly, how many people go to work in the morning, sit down in a chair, and then NEVER GET UP until they head home? Really. This just sounds like another "scare people with crappy science" study that we get 2 or 3 of every week. I'd love to see the internals, but I would bet diamonds to doughnuts that…

I remember walking into the theatre to see PM and there was an air of excitement and interest. Then the movie started and I could literally FEEL the excitement drain out of the room as palpably soda pouring out of a 2 liter bottle. At first people cheered everything. Then the cheers became fewer... And fewer... …

"everyone hates everyone else who makes money, until they start making money too, and then they don't want to share any of it"

"I'm not making any assumptions"

"What kind of ego does it take to truly believe that your own personal situation constitutes an accurate barometer for the rest of the country; strike that, the rest of the world? ... I really don't understand any of the negative reactions to the protests."

"i want criminal acts to be prosecuted"

"How can Samsung's legal team look any judge in the face and argue that their device didn't copy the Apple product that came before it?"

It is a big, multinational corporation. They have to have a decent profit margin, or they'd go belly up in a year. They support clinical labs, manufacturing facilities, shipping centers, CRO centers, and dozens of other smaller organizations. Only 1 in 10,000 new drugs ends up earning the profit needed to keep the…

Indeed. I am a statistician, clinical analyst, and certified CRA. I deal with this kind of stuff every day. A so-called "big pharma" company has literally hundreds of potential new drugs that it screens every year. They have to screen through all these and decide which ones get Pre-clinical trials for safety. …

Eeeeehh... It's much more intricate than that. Why is it so hard for a drug company to make a profit on a drug? There are products that are on the market that are made in quantity for much smaller markets than these specialty drugs. Are we trying to say that it is impossible to make a profit on them? Obviously…

So what if it effects 40 million people in the NY area? Why should the other 220 million people in the US have to put up with the news media's narcacisstic obsession for days on end? Irene was worth maybe ONE national news story. After that, it was 100% pure self-absorbed pandering and no-one west of Ohio or south…

Oh they're the same - and you yourself explain why. Because they take funding from the same source - which means they are politically beholden to that source the same way Fox News is beholden to its sponsors. That means they both march to the same drums, and end up having the same message.