I say put everybody in jail, all of them. Kids, women, even cats, just lock every living thing up, ameoba pruaons might be a task. Just lock it all up.
On Aug 26, 2017 4:41 PM, "Robert" <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote: Banks failed because they took the wrong side of an insurance bet that paid off 100 to 1. On 8/26/17 11:58 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: > Iceland put 8 or 9 bankers in jail for that exact situation. > > It's not clear to me why the bailout here happened the way it did. It > seems like if the banks failed due to lending money that had no chance of > being paid back, why did the bailout require more money than the value of > all the loans? I'm not well informed on the topic, but the things I heard > never added up to a clear picture. > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us <mailto:af...@zirkel.us>> > To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> > Sent: 8/26/2017 2:31:13 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Volkswagen engineer > > And yet somehow all the bankers who engineered the collapse of the world >> economy never went to jail but this guy does?!?! >> >> Crazy world... >> >> Engineer environmental destruction = bad >> >> Engineer economic destruction = meh >> >> I agree with chuck too, he designed an engine to pass a test. Seems like >> the test was flawed, not the solution. It was an engineering team from a >> university that discovered the problem because they actually tested the >> emissions from the tail pipe under real world driving conditions. >> >> >> -sean >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:04 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> >> wrote: >> >> So one of the engineers at VW got a 40 month sentence for the >> emissions fiasco. >> I have to admire the clever way of getting around the test. I >> have a hard time thinking of the guy as a criminal. He looked at >> the test protocol and created an engine that would pass the test. >> Blame the protocol creators for not making a good enough test. >> >>
