Showing posts with label Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Street. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The 99% Is Printing Infographics on Money to Show the 1% the Reality of Occupy Wall Street [Occupy Wall Street]

By Casey Chan Oct 16, 2011 8:54 PM 75,029 120

There's something going on with Occupy Wall Street—good, bad, monumental, anarchy, I don't know—but there is a clear disparity between the 1% and the 99% and the voice of the 99% is slowly ringing louder. Here's one way to get the 1% to pay even more attention: taint their money.

Occupy George is a movement that hopes to print and stamp infographics that highlight the economic disparity in the US and then circulate that money around the world. The point being they could ignore and muzzle the Occupy Wall Street movement but the 1% can't ignore the money.

Facts like how 400 Americans control as much wealth as the bottom half of the country and pie charts illustrating the share of income growth and images saying this money is the future property of the 1% are all printed on dollar bills. It's clever, probably illegal but if executed properly, could gain a lot of attention. I'd start printing and stamping $100 bills though... Check out the Occupy George movement here. [Occupy George]


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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

An Insane First-Person BASE Jump into a Crowded City Street [Video]

By Brian Barrett Oct 14, 2011 2:20 PM 29,026 68

An Insane First-Person BASE Jump into a Crowded City Street Thank goodness there are so many certifiably insane people in this world. That way the rest of us don't have to strap a camera to our helmets, ride up dozens of stories on the outside of an elevator, and plummet to near-certain doom in the middle of a busy Spanish city on a busy afternoon. Like these guys did.

For reference, these gentlemen are BASE jumping from the Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm, Spain, a 610 ft. monster of a tower and the second-tallest building in Spain. I'm honestly not sure which would be more terrifying: the part of the elevator ascent where you're high enough up to die but too low for your chute to work? The descent into the street not knowing if a truck is around the corner? Or that one guy's facial hair? [SISTF via TDW]

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Apple without Steve Jobs Scares the Shit out of Wall Street (Updated) [Apple]

Apple without Steve Jobs Scares the Shit out of Wall Street (Updated)Just how deeply is Steve Jobs intertwined with the existence and vitality of Apple? Every time concerns over the company's former-CEO have risen, Apple's stock took an appreciable tumble. Today's resignation news appears to be no different.

After each dip, AAPL's rebounded, climbing to today's enormous price. But that price is already slipping in after hours trading as I write this. We'll see if there's a rebound.

Aug 1, 2004 - Jobs undergoes pancreatic surgery
Apple Price Stock Chart

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Jan 14, 2009 - Jobs receives a liver transplant
Apple Price Stock Chart

Apple Price Stock Chart by YCharts

Jan 17, 2011 - Jobs announces a medical leave of absence
Apple Price Stock Chart

Apple Price Stock Chart by YCharts

538's number wiz Nate Silver chimes in with an expectedly staggering factoid via Twitter:

AAPL has lost $18 billion in market capitalization since the Jobs news broke, about the same as the GDP of Paraguay.

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