Stupid World

[avgas]

Most OSH people I've met are dead ringers for those union bosses, Drones with no idea at all about cost - benefit ratios. In fact the industry's training material specifically forbids any attempt at costing safety initiatives.
Drones cause people to receive a formal warning if spotted descending stairs not holding the handrail.
Another for failing to have a lid on your hot coffee.
Another for rolling up the sleeves of your overalls.

Sounds like you had an unfortunate run with them. The guys I dealt with were mainly electrically and mechanically trained.

Now the guys I dealt with in Aussie. Those fuckers were scary. Basically turned into a pissing contest and I felt very lucky that I won. (Could have ended up all closed before it went to court......they can do that kinda shit). Really stupid too. Your coffee would have been thrown out a window incase it burned someone, and they would have shot you in the knee caps to prevent you from trying it again. Scary Morons there.

[mashman]

Don't change the currency as they've got you by the balls... instead, use the one that exists and reevaluate how you use it in regards to then effort expended by your population.

[Oscar]

Don't change the currency as they've got you by the balls... instead, use the one that exists and reevaluate how you use it in regards to then effort expended by your population.

Yeah - use a virtual currency.
You can buy virtual goods and services with it...

[mashman]

Yeah - use a virtual currency.
You can buy virtual goods and services with it...

Like bitcoin, oh, hang on..............

[Oscar]

Like bitcoin, oh, hang on..............

Yeah, Bitcoin - it lost 38% against the US$ this year.

http://qz.com/193931/bitcoin-looks-l...rld-this-year/

But that's OK, coz the US IRS says that the Bitcoin isn't currency, it's property...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/66fcba86-b...#axzz2xgjIeRhN

One implication of treating virtual currencies as property is that users would be expected to report gains or losses for the purposes of capital gains tax even if they were using it to buy goods and services in the real economy.

“This ends a couple of Bitcoin mythologies,” says Steven Englander, a currency strategist at Citigroup. “The Bitcoin libertarian epoch is pretty much over. Keeping transactions and paying capital gains (and even ordinary income taxes) is about as much inside the system as you can get.”

Yup, those Icelanders are on to a winner alright.

[mashman]

Yeah, Bitcoin - it lost 38% against the US$ this year.

http://qz.com/193931/bitcoin-looks-l...rld-this-year/

But that's OK, coz the US IRS says that the Bitcoin isn't currency, it's property...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/66fcba86-b...#axzz2xgjIeRhN



Yup, those Icelanders are on to a winner alright.

It buys non-virtual stuff and it still has financial value.

Meh, they can call it what they like, they're doing it wrong anyway.

I guess we'll wait and see whether they adopt it.

[Oscar]

It buys non-virtual stuff and it still has financial value.

Meh, they can call it what they like, they're doing it wrong anyway.

I guess we'll wait and see whether they adopt it.

Yeah, it buys 40% less than it did 90 days ago.

[mashman]

Yeah, it buys 40% less than it did 90 days ago.

And how many percent more than than it did when it began? As opposed to our "natural" currency's which buy less, right?

[Oscar]

And how many percent more than than it did when it began? As opposed to our "natural" currency's which buy less, right?

Whatever it was worth when it began will mean nought to the poor bastid that bought his in Dec 2013.
When was the last time our currency depreciated 40% in 90 dyas?

[mashman]

Whatever it was worth when it began will mean nought to the poor bastid that bought his in Dec 2013.
When was the last time our currency depreciated 40% in 90 dyas?

You can say the same thing about the stock market or housing or land or or or or or.
Don't you mean, when was the last time property depreciated 40%.

[Oscar]

You can say the same thing about the stock market or housing or land or or or or or.
Don't you mean, when was the last time property depreciated 40%.

OK, I'll play your game - when was the last time property depreciated by 40% in 90 days in NZ?



take your time...

[husaberg]

Whatever it was worth when it began will mean nought to the poor bastid that bought his in Dec 2013.
When was the last time our currency depreciated 40% in 90 dyas?

The New Zealand dollar was devalued by 20% in one Day in about 84 Gst added a further 10% decrease in buying power not long later.

[Oscar]

The New Zealand dollar was devalued by 20% in one Day in about 84 Gst added a further 10% decrease in buying power not long later.

But not 40% in 90 days, eh?

I'm waiting for Mashy to come up with the property crash....

[mashman]

OK, I'll play your game - when was the last time property depreciated by 40% in 90 days in NZ?

take your time...

No game. Dunno. When did it? Anyway, why are you shifting the goalposts to property in NZ when we were discussing virtual currency and global virtual currency?

[mashman]

The New Zealand dollar was devalued by 20% in one Day in about 84 Gst added a further 10% decrease in buying power not long later.

Let him have his moment of glory, he'll be intolerable otherwise and I doubt his missus deserves that.