capitalism *is* fun :-)

My good old friend Dan, who went from a free-thinking entrepreneur to a full time corporate slave, got himself the $1000 flop clock. Everytime the clock flops, he makes $1000 for the corporation. $10 is used to pay him. $990 goes to us, shareholders (Shareholder = The people with the serious faces, who once a year tell the employees after looking at the profits: Is this all you could do?). The governmint takes $1.6 tax from him (16%). Also, he pays 19% VAT on every useless crap he buys. He gets the change :) 

because here comes the real deal from the Russian Standard Bank. The Imperia credit-card, which has no limits on how much money you can spend. No wonder, Mr. Putin just declared in the Moscow Times, that Russia will become the best country to live in. I make my bet on that. What else do you need? Beautyful women and credit-card with no limits The russian way of life, which is a nice mix of comunism and capitalism run by a bunch of oligarhs, it’s starting to look good. 

Turning on to wider markets, the RTSI russian index is up 1.16%, which is good, as I have a small stake in russian equities
They sure have a good chance. As poor as they are, they are still a cash based society, backed up by tremendous amounts of natural resources. Their future looks better then that of eco-friendly/web 2.0 loonies in western countries

Seriously. I am having a hangover. Please don’t continue to convince me how cool the MacBook Air is, after reading this post. I am not in the mood. I get this crap everyday, when people ask me why do I need a 200 bhp car to go shopping? It’s not a matter of NEED. It’s a matter of CAN. Period. Same thing with the MacBook Air. It’s not what you need. It has been nicely designed, keeping in mind the most important aspects of it’s usage. It will fit nicely with the furniture in SBUX, it comes in gray to reflect enough light to cause eye-damage to anyone looking at it, and MOST important, the battery will always outlast the time you spend in SBUX keeping it open and pretending that you are actually using it. It can be *clearly* seen from the outside, by lower class people passing by with their children saying: “Look mom, that guy has a MacBook Air”, and mom giving him the obvious answer : “Now son, don’t be a hater. God loves every person equally”.

If God would have wanted men to all have MacBook Air’s, he would have give them more money.

I love to collect those free glasses you get when you buy packs of your favourite refreshment drink. Coca Cola had one of those giveaways again. So I got a pack of 2 bottles. When I got to the checkout, I noticed that I needed 3 (three) bottles to get a free glass. So why don’t you pack 3 bottles in a pack? Why 2? I know! So that I buy 2 packs (= 4 bottles), so that I have 3 bottles and get a glass. And next time, the same thing over again. It’s like I really need 8 litres of the drink. 

The MacBook Air is out. It has one 1 USB port (but look, it’s so thin!), and I can’t upgrade it’s hardware (but look, it’s so thin!) and I can’t use a second battery (but LOOK! it’s so thin!) … ok! So it’s thin. So what? What’s that good for? I don’t know … it’s thin. It’s the new trend. Ah! Now I got it! It’s like that slim fashion phone I just got (LG Shine Titanium). It looks good, it’s pretty expensive, and I miss not being able to read my emails on the go, and much more … but it looks so good, and it shines! I think I know why the MacBook Air was made so thin. This way they can include a realsize cartoon model of Steve to expose in your room, along with a leather covered book, entitled : Mac worshiper’s guide. It’s made in genuine leather, printed on non-recycled paper and if you put the Macbook Air, the cartoon model folded on top of it, and then the book, it will still fit in a decent sized box, made of non-recycled paper, printed with lead based ink.

It’s those darn Aston Martin’s that fill every street on the planet, with their huge V12 engines that pollute the planet and cause global warming, says Sir Mark Moody-Stuart. Indeed, and upon further research, the main cause of the planet’s population growth, is the accidental tear of condoms. Let’s ban those Aston Martin’s and Ferrari’s. Moving on to wider markets….There are so many Aston’s and similar luxury cars, that if we would ban them, we would immediately see a decrease of air pollution of about 0.000000000000000000001%. Offcourse, nobody has the balls to tell that we are almost 7 billion people living our lives on resources that are limited, and more difficult to obtain each day. It’s better to find a boogey man, and point the finger to those Aston Martin owners (that earned their privilege by contributing and developing the society we live in) as the main cause of global warming, pollution, gas prices, terrorism, AIDS and God knows what else. Offcourse, when no solution lies in the horizon for the above mentioned issues, it’s simple to find a boogey-man and blame him for it. They did this back in the days of the KKK. Let’s do it again. Let’s put them white caps on and burn some afro-americans. That will solve our global warming issue. P.S: Offcourse, we will be allowed to further drive Aston Martins, as long as their gas consumption is reduced. This means that the engine under the hood will be replaced with a windshield wiper motor that runs on solar power. This is pretty much like having sex with an inflatable woman, and calling it “the same thing, except more eco-friendly”.

Yes … the ultimate Visa card. Check it out here.What is interesting, are the countries in which is available. Venezuela, Kazakhstan, etc … and no America? No England? … What do most countries in that list have in common? Oil, natural resources, “terrorists”, comunism?  

5.61 US dollars for a gallon of gas here. Just filled up my tank and reset the trip computer. I used 105 litres (27.73 gallons) of gas in January, to drive around town. My car does 14.25 mpg. I mean come on … all over the web people see the end of the world if a gallon of gas goes to $5. It’s much more here, it’s not the end of the world and I still love the smell of fresh burned gas and oil from my turbocharger.

One evening, I was having the usual chat with my Steve Jobs worshiper friend, Dan. As usual, he was showing me the latest Apple related stuff he found on the internet (and which he can now afford, as he has a fancy job in an office building, working overtime to increase the company’s market capitalisation). I was doing about the same thing, except I was looking for more serious things, then chinese iPod speakers. Like this P’7122 Motive Floor Lamp from Porsche Design: Dan immediately pointed out the fact, that it’s not available in the US and Canada. Offcourse it’s not.  Due to it’s high price, the item is only available in Eastern European countries, where the abundace of oil, corruption and cheap labour makes possible the existance of people with the buying power to aquire this item. Read the rest of this entry »