Linux at NASDAQ OMX

Posted Oct 31, 2010 6:18 UTC (Sun) by Np237 (guest, #69585)
In reply to: Linux at NASDAQ OMX by giraffedata
Parent article: Linux at NASDAQ OMX

You are completely missing the point.

I dont care about people playing casino in such places. As long as they dont do it with our money.

There are ways to prevent people from using money and goods from our countries in such places. Running a competition for which country has the laxest laws to allow the fastest transactions with the least control is not one.

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Posted Oct 31, 2010 7:04 UTC (Sun) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (3 responses)

if all you are worried about is your money, then just don't give your money to money managers that do things you don't like.

unless you are forced into a union, they don't force you to give them any money, you can do whatever you want with it.

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Posted Oct 31, 2010 7:24 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Have you forgotten about the great bank bailout of 2008?

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Posted Oct 31, 2010 7:51 UTC (Sun) by Np237 (guest, #69585) [Link]

Do you actually know how the economic system works?

Not everyone of us wants to spend his life alone in the mountains raising goats.

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Posted Oct 31, 2010 8:13 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

if all you are worried about is your money, then just don't give your money to money managers that do things you don't like.

I don't think anyone is posting worries about his own money, even though the posts might be worded that way out of simplicity. What people are worried about is their wealth, and having a mattress stuffed with money doesn't make you wealthy if the price of everything is high. Certain behaviors of financial institutions make prices high so that no matter what one person does with his own money, he ends up poorer.

And it's rather arbitrary what money we call mine and what money we call yours (laws can easily change that accounting), so it's legitimate to complain about things that waste "our money."

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Posted Oct 31, 2010 7:59 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

You are completely missing the point.
I don’t care about people playing casino in such places. As long as they don’t do it with our money.

No, I just wasn't addressing that point. I was addressing the point from your immediate previous post that the Cayman islands, etc. are today the finance capitals of the world, and that that revelation should disappoint zlynx (who said places like North Korea could become finance capitals if laws were to restrict trade in today's finance capitals).

If those weren't points you intended to make, you shouldn't have said it.