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MTV paid Kanye to make awards show interesting

Dave — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:14:16 +0000

Yes, exactly as the title says. MTV knows how bad their awards shows are tanking in the ratings department. They KNOW Kanye didn’t win any awards so they could “kick him out” after the incident. It was all a well orchestrated plan by MTV only they didn’t let Taylor know so they could get the real reaction. How can MTV have a Video Music Award when they don’t even play videos, yet they wonder why their show loses ratings every year. I also think Kanye’s “He’s new to fame” excuse card has run out as well, he so eats fish sticks.

daed needs to die in a fire – diaf

Dave — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:31:45 +0000

That’s it, daed just needs to die in a fire. diaf I just want to .goo daed diaf and have this come up! YAY!

Quick AIG “Bonus” Summary

Dave — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:59:36 +0000

Thanks to aGorilla at reddit:

About the current CEO:

* He’s being paid 1 dollar a year.
* He gets no bonuses, either way.
* He gets no stocks.
* He didn’t sign these contracts, he inherited them.

About the people who tanked AIG:

* They are gone.
* They were few.

About the people who received the bonuses:

* They did not kill AIG
* They were offered these bonuses last year, to stay for another year, and clean up the mess.
* They reduced $2.7 trillion of shit to $1.6 trillion of shit.

About the bonuses:

* They are less than .1% of the bailout money.
* They were offered last year, to retain people until they cleaned up the mess.
* They were NOT meant to retain people for next year.

What if we didn’t pay them?

* The people who are (successfully) cleaning up the mess, would leave.
* Then, they would sue (rightfully so).
* AIG would have to try to replace them, while trying to prevent losses on the suddenly ‘unmanaged’ accounts.
* AIG might be forced into bankruptcy, for defaulting (aka: we lose).
* AIG might survive, but take further losses, and need more help (aka: we lose).

Personal thoughts:

* We should have let them fail, but we didn’t, it would be idiotic to let them fail now.
* The current CEO deserves nothing but respect, but instead, he gets death threats.
* The people who stayed on, and cleaned up the mess, deserve to be well paid. They saved us a ton of money, and the bonuses are marginal in comparison.

Analogy:

The people from FP (financial products) are the burger flippers at McDonalds. The people who got the bonuses work the counter at McDonalds. The burger flippers made some seriously shitty burgers. They got fired. The counter crew has spent the last year trying to find places to safely unload those burgers (worm farms, bacteria labs, etc.) It was a dirty job, and Mike Rowe wasn’t available.

Yes, I’m contradicting a post I made yesterday. I watched the full hearings on C-Span today, and learned a hell of a lot from them. Yeah, I changed my mind, but that’s what I do when I learn that the facts don’t match my perception.

This makes a lot of sense and well why I think the amount of pay is a lot its a very small part of the monies they’ve received.

WOW! Leopard savaging a crocodile

Dave — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:54:39 +0000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/18/ealeopard118.xml

Crazy Pictures capture this first time event! I wonder what this means for crocs now that leopards can take them down, and how can I turn this into a Apple (Leopard HA) vs Microsoft (croc) hahaha! Look who wins!!!

Johnny 5 is Alive – Short Circuit Being Remade! Â« FirstShowing.net

Dave — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:11:17 +0000

Johnny 5 is Alive – Short Circuit Being Remade! Â« FirstShowing.net

Wow, They are REALLY out of ideas now!

Man Caught Having Sex with a Picnic Table

Dave — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:20:50 +0000

Man Caught Having Sex with a Picnic Table

WTF!

Engadget Editors Don’t Read Own Site

Dave — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:28:07 +0000

Sony’s “Fresh Start” getting a wide release soon? – Engadget

Yes this is good news I guess but the bigger new here is that it appears their own editors don’t read their own site (or perhaps the 100 other blogs that posted the news). What’s the “news” you ask? Well the fact that Sony has decided not to charge anyone for fresh start, yet in this very post the super smart Joshua Topolsky says “Sony’s recently introduced “Fresh Start” — the crapware-killing do-over it’s charging $50 for on VAIO TZ2000 setups — will be making its way to all of the company’s Windows devices very soon.” Even linking to the one post about the $50 fee. Then he continues to complain about it, “It sounds like a lovefest, certainly, but wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to pay a premium for our systems to be free of mucky bloatware and storage-hogging garbage? You listening Sony?” . Yes, Josh Sony is listening, in fact, your very own site posted the news of them listening here. So in the future lets try and read our own site first. Engadget still hasn’t recovered from last years apple fiasco.

Update: LOL looks like they’ve deleted the post! hahahaha

-D

Tags: lol, engadget, stupid, read

Local News | Man scammed by Craigslist ad | Seattle Times Newspaper

Dave — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:00:21 +0000

Local News | Man scammed by Craigslist ad | Seattle Times Newspaper

Wow this sucks. Interesting prank indeed, but still it really went to far.

-D

What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?

Dave — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:31:21 +0000

What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?

Pretty interesting read..

-D

How I Blew My Google Interview

Dave — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:58:02 +0000

(Totally Hotlinked the google logog too)
How I Blew My Google Interview

A good read with links to a few peoples experiences with the Google interview process. I wish we had catered lunch everyday. Damn Googlers!

-D