On 1/8/17 11:04 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:39:28 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:

"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 1/8/2017 1:06 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 1/8/17 2:20 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 01:02:45 -0600, Califbill
wrote:


I pretty much gave up on stick shifts for daily drivers in 1968. I
remember miles long traffic jams from Laguna Seca raceway via Gilroy of
stop and go traffic. My leg would start shaking from the clutch
work. And
pulling a race car trailer. Later, drop it in drive, and enjoy power
brakes.

I still like actually driving my sporty cars. A slush box is fine in
vans and trucks. I have worked very hard to avoid stop and go traffic.
I worked midnights for the past 11 years I was in DC. It was great
driving home in empty lanes on the beltway and watching the cars piled
up going the other way. SW Florida was very rural when I moved here
and a few tricks to avoid the trouble spots kept me moving right along
most of the time. They did not have much in the way of computer
customers in the tourist areas



I grew up on stick shift vehicles and in the winter I earned a few bucks
with my dad's jeep and plow. I always thought the stick shift gave you
more control over what the wheels were doing and made stopping safer
because you could more easily shift the vehicle out of gear. After my
experience yesterday and today with the 4WD stick shift truck, I still
think I am correct. Though we only got about 7" today of snow, I got
through a couple of drifts two and three times that height (where the
roadway was plowed) without problems.


If you are doing some serious plowing, it's hard to hold the plow
controller in one hand, steer with the other and try to shift if
necessary. Auto transmission makes it a lot easier.


Do you think Harry was making it all up?

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Has he ever done that before? :-)

I'd be seriously surprised if he's ever done an honest day's work in
his life.



No one would have more expertise on a lifetime of dishonest work than a
bankster like Wayne who spent his career working for a dishonest bank.
As examples of these practices still going on:

On October 19, 2011, Citigroup agreed to $285 million civil fraud penalty.

In 2015, Citigroup Inc.'s consumer bank was ordered to pay $770 million
in relief to borrowers for illegal credit card practices.

That's about a billion dollars in fines recently for the bank's "honest
day's work."

Is it a Trump bank?

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 05:51:47 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

No one would have more expertise on a lifetime of dishonest work than a
bankster like Wayne who spent his career working for a dishonest bank.
As examples of these practices still going on:

On October 19, 2011, Citigroup agreed to $285 million civil fraud penalty.

In 2015, Citigroup Inc.'s consumer bank was ordered to pay $770 million
in relief to borrowers for illegal credit card practices.

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Happened after I retired, and of course we folks who were managing
technology platforms had nothing to do with it. Citi has always been
a leader and innovator in banking technology.

On 1/9/17 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 05:51:47 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

No one would have more expertise on a lifetime of dishonest work than a
bankster like Wayne who spent his career working for a dishonest bank.
As examples of these practices still going on:

On October 19, 2011, Citigroup agreed to $285 million civil fraud penalty.

In 2015, Citigroup Inc.'s consumer bank was ordered to pay $770 million
in relief to borrowers for illegal credit card practices.

===

Happened after I retired, and of course we folks who were managing
technology platforms had nothing to do with it. Citi has always been
a leader and innovator in banking technology.


Are you implying your employer wasn't engaging in banksterism prior to
your retirement? Really?

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:14:05 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 1/9/17 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 05:51:47 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

No one would have more expertise on a lifetime of dishonest work than a
bankster like Wayne who spent his career working for a dishonest bank.
As examples of these practices still going on:

On October 19, 2011, Citigroup agreed to $285 million civil fraud penalty.

In 2015, Citigroup Inc.'s consumer bank was ordered to pay $770 million
in relief to borrowers for illegal credit card practices.

===

Happened after I retired, and of course we folks who were managing
technology platforms had nothing to do with it. Citi has always been
a leader and innovator in banking technology.


Are you implying your employer wasn't engaging in banksterism prior to
your retirement? Really?



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Define banksterism - can't find it in my OED. Is it worse than union
thuggery, loan fraud, tax cheating or spouse abuse?

On 1/9/17 1:23 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:14:05 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 1/9/17 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 05:51:47 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

No one would have more expertise on a lifetime of dishonest work than a
bankster like Wayne who spent his career working for a dishonest bank.
As examples of these practices still going on:

On October 19, 2011, Citigroup agreed to $285 million civil fraud penalty.

In 2015, Citigroup Inc.'s consumer bank was ordered to pay $770 million
in relief to borrowers for illegal credit card practices.

===

Happened after I retired, and of course we folks who were managing
technology platforms had nothing to do with it. Citi has always been
a leader and innovator in banking technology.


Are you implying your employer wasn't engaging in banksterism prior to
your retirement? Really?



===

Define banksterism - can't find it in my OED. Is it worse than union
thuggery, loan fraud, tax cheating or spouse abuse?


Your OED? What a laugh.

Bankster

A portmanteau of the words "banker" and "gangster." These are intergral
to the capitalist system. While the nightly news might have you believe
that young black and latino men with 9mm's are the biggest threat to
your life, banksters are far more dangerous. While a gangster might
steal your posessions with a knife or a gun, a bankster will steal your
possesiions with a pen, paper and "legal" (read "unjust") mumbo-jumbo
snakeoil bull****.

Bankster: Any member of the financial services industry; primarilly
interested with the welfare of the capitalist class and their lackeys.

Execs of banks who lined their own pockets first, when the economy was
starting to crumble, then foreclosed on small town america

A portmanteau of "banker" and "gangster", popularized by (among others)
the economist Murray N. Rothbard, used by him to attack what he held to
be the inherently fraudulent nature of Fractional-Reserve banking (as
opposed to 100% gold reserve banking, which he defended as the only
honest form of banking). Frequently used in reference to The Fed.

In more recent popular usage, often refers in a vague way to the forces
of "Wall Street", or to those persons in the financial services industry
who grow rich despite the continued impoverishment of those who depend
on their services, and despite their apparent inability to succeed in
business without constant government assistance.

"The Fed is an organized cartel of banksters, who are creating
inflation, ripping off the public, destroying the savings of the average
American."

"The banksters crashed the economy, but thanks to generous federal
bailouts, they won't have to sacrifice their fat bonuses."

steal your posessions with a knife or a gun, a bankster will steal your
possesiions with a pen, paper and "legal" (read "unjust") mumbo-jumbo
snakeoil bull****.
.....

Is that what happened to you? Harry is that why you're so bitter?

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:54:49 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


steal your posessions with a knife or a gun, a bankster will steal your
possesiions with a pen, paper and "legal" (read "unjust") mumbo-jumbo
snakeoil bull****.
....

Is that what happened to you? Harry is that why you're so bitter?

I am not sure what happened to Harry, I am not that interested in
pursuing public records but I will say I have been in the data centers
of banks and the people there are no different than the data people at
NIH or National Geographic.

Tim Wrote in message:

steal your posessions with a knife or a gun, a bankster will steal your
possesiions with a pen, paper and "legal" (read "unjust") mumbo-jumbo
snakeoil bull****.
....

Is that what happened to you? Harry is that why you're so bitter?


No. Harry is a tax cheat. A
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 13:51:10 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:


Bankster

A portmanteau of the words "banker" and "gangster." These are intergral
to the capitalist system.

OK Harry now define plagiarist


http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=Dano2

On 1/9/17 4:30 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 13:51:10 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:


Bankster

A portmanteau of the words "banker" and "gangster." These are intergral
to the capitalist system.

OK Harry now define plagiarist


http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=Dano2





Really? No effort was made to claim authorship. In fact, it was obvious
several sources were cited.