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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    11/09/09

    In reply to 'Holy Shit' Indeed: Analyst Curse-Out Like a Bracing Cold Shower for Garmin
    Well, "Shitty Margins" usually equates to a more affordable product!
    Way to go Garmin! Socialislamofascists.

    FWIW, having a GPS (Garmin, in my case) at the ready has made my driving life a lot less anxiety prone. #modernandawkward
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    11/09/09

    In reply to 'Holy Shit' Indeed: Analyst Curse-Out Like a Bracing Cold Shower for Garmin
    Do we know he's an analyst or could he be a short? #modernandawkward
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/19/09

    In reply to Raj Rajaratnam's Awesome Insider Trading Adventure
    I heard he owns all the Sri Lankan-run porny shops in New York City. Gents, get your tugs and mags in today, tomorrow they may be shuttered. #crime
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    10/19/09

    In reply to Raj Rajaratnam's Awesome Insider Trading Adventure
    Between High Frequency Trading sucking out billions from the equity markets before everyone else (with no corresponding value-add) and hedge funds reliant on schemes like this, it'll be a looong time before the markets are seen as safe for 98% of investors.
    Way to screw the economy, guys. Thanks! #crime
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    10/19/09

    @Trai_Dep: Am I just cynical now or was I naive before because it just all seems so completely corrupt. #crime
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    10/19/09

    @bboston88: These are not mutually exclusive emotions. The last year or two have been a painful education for many of us. #crime
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    10/20/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: Glad I'm not alone. I feel like I've been so stupid and naive for so long. Thinking people were actually...honest (for the most part). Crazy me :-) #crime
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    10/19/09

    In reply to Raj Rajaratnam's Awesome Insider Trading Adventure
    Isn't "Mr." Moffat actually Buffalo Bill? #crime
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    10/19/09

    @Mount_Prion: My brain is pickled by that reference but the rest of me applauds you. #crime
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Raj Rajaratnam's Awesome Insider Trading Adventure
    Danielle looks like she was rode hard and put away wet. Yikes. #crime
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Raj Rajaratnam's Awesome Insider Trading Adventure
    seeking alpha, indeed #crime
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Raj Rajaratnam's Awesome Insider Trading Adventure
    On or about August 22, 2008 at approximately 11:00 a.m., BUD FOX called WEIRD GUY IN SOME NEWS ROOM on JACKSON-STEINEM Landline D. When WEIRD GUY picked up his line, BUD FOX said "Blue Horseshoe Loves Big Blue" . . . #crime
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Raj Rajaratnam's Awesome Insider Trading Adventure
    But it isn't it beautiful that this wave of financial scandals looks more like America than any previous wave? And it's not over yet. #crime
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/14/09

    In reply to Round Numbers Will Fix All Your Money Problems
    According to Yahoo! Finance, my troubles were over eight points ago!
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Round Numbers Will Fix All Your Money Problems
    Above 10,000 right now. Our troubles must be over.
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    09/21/09

    In reply to Smallest Perceptible Ray of Light Shines in Newspaper Industry's Coffin
    In a couple more quarters they might just turn this around, of course by that time the newspapers be paying the advertisers to take pages.
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    09/21/09

    In reply to Smallest Perceptible Ray of Light Shines in Newspaper Industry's Coffin
    You remember when Spiderman couldn't fly anymore because flying was so Superman but he tried anyway and fell from on high and his drop was retarded in more ways than one but this one by a canopy over a door on the ground floor?

    He hit the street anyway.
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    09/21/09

    @Tremonius: His call while he was up high was "I'm back!" but when he hit the pavement it was "My back!"
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    Image of Valerie Flame Valerie Flame
    09/21/09

    In reply to Smallest Perceptible Ray of Light Shines in Newspaper Industry's Coffin
    The ad decline is bound to stop. Once ads hit zero.
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    09/21/09

    @Valerie Flame: Is it so? There were famous spots for a waitperson in a classy joint for which the prospects would pay the management for the positions because tips were astronomical. So salary costs for these positions were in the negative numbers.

    Perhaps sometime next year the big newsies will pay for the right to brag that Apple advertises with them.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/16/09

    In reply to Suicide Kicks Off Tax-Cheat Hell Week
    I'm curious whether Finn's tax obligation is actually $100 million in tax, or $100 million total after the completely effed way in which the IRS tallies their penalties, interest and compounded f*ck-you-in-the-bum accounting of taxpayer wrongdoing.

    Suicide? These Repugs really take it seriously when they say they don't want the gub'ment spending their money, don't they?
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: What does it matter (it does include fines, by the way)? So he dodged $50 mil or $25 mil or $70 mil? It's still him sucking money out of the country that he profited from, while the rest of us on ADP's automatic take-out-your-taxes payroll somehow pay 100% of our obligation.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: My interest was actually operating in the opposite direction than what you suggest: If he owed $100 million in unpaid tax ONLY, I grow pale and slightly nauseous to think what sort of penalties and interest this would accrue. If he were assessed those amounts in the same fashion that Joe Working Class is, his actually "amount owed" the IRS could be as high as a billion. Yeah, bullet in the head would seem like the appropriate answer in this case.
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Apparently, he was dying of cancer (renal).
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: oops, sorry Paisley!

    Even better, the IRS put liens on his four (grown) sons' trust funds, because they suspect the trusts haven't been playing fair ball either. Selling your name out for a few extra mil... damn, really - can it possibly be worth it? Hard to imagine ANY of the people deciding what to do this week even having to debate this. UBS is giving up the names of its clients to US authorities in a few months, according to the settlement. Seems like a big losing bet.

    And all 4 sons went to Harvard Law - where Daddy donated tens of millions. Of money that was owed so, say, we could have a couple more childcare programs or a healthcare plan or God forbid, a lower deficit. How I hate tax cheats.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: No worries!

    These are the SAME mofos who claim working class people dodge their taxes, or don't work at all and are a drain on the government? It boggles the mind the pathological level of a sense of entitlement these f*ckers have enjoyed.
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    09/16/09

    @son of spam: Karmic return in the form of a ticking time bomb of a tumor.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: I finally got the link to allow me access to the story--high traffic!
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