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- HappyScrappy, on 03/24/2009, -3/+26How is this the Dutch outsmarting the USA?
- skyjis6, on 03/24/2009, -1/+21Super Bogus Title.
- wonderbriefs, on 03/24/2009, -2/+14Yeah, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, the stock market, New York, the slave trade, gouda, the microscope, telescope, CDs, the submarine, the rings of Saturn, who ever heard of any of those things?
And just to be blatantly obvious...
/s - sheasie, on 03/23/2009, -3/+11"Asks" ?? As in, "Will you pleeeasse with sugar on top give us back the bonus we gave you?"
(I can only guess what the answer will be.) ;) - WillFight4Beer, on 03/24/2009, -2/+9Maybe the title was in relation to drug policy.
- Daan01, on 03/24/2009, -0/+6We also invented short selling, option trading, debt-equity swaps, merchant banking, unit trusts and other speculative instruments. (source: wikipedia)
Look how that turned out... :/ - KingRocket, on 03/24/2009, -1/+7You forgot orange carrots.
- bubba9999, on 03/24/2009, -0/+5I don't think I understand the concept of "bonus". I always thought it was extra money received for better than expected performance.
- inactive, on 03/24/2009, -3/+7with a ***** title and descrip[tion like this, it is a good thing chicagojack diggs 3-4 pages of submissions in 10 minutes )seriously...check his Digg history) or else he would never get to the front page
- insanebrain, on 03/24/2009, -0/+4All digital ?? I wish. ..
- wijzewillem, on 03/24/2009, -1/+5ING is not german
- tavallai, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3That'd be "ING voorall."
- lex0nyc, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2I guess the answer would be related to the question, "am I likely to make as much money with the company in the next two years as I did in getting that 2008 bonus?!"
- NJank, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2yeah, but when the 'performance' is contractually defined in a way that makes it impossible to lose, and it's done that way because "that's just how the industry works", well... what you see is what you get.
- enantiodromia, on 03/24/2009, -1/+3i did not imply that it was.
- tgc1, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2Oh you won't return them? Well I guess it's a new tax for you then. 100% of what we gave you. Pay up now. Thanks.
- raada, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2Youre right, the $165mill in bonus is not much in comparison, BUT it was given using tax money so anything over $0 is just bad.
AIG should return all tax money and deal with their finances themselves. It is a market economy. - HappyScrappy, on 03/24/2009, -1/+3Apparently you need to go back to school.
If you want to use "are" here, you need to say "How are the Dutch outsmarting the USA?" Then the question would be a query about ways in which the Dutch are outsmarting the USA.
My question is "How is this the Dutch outsmarting the USA?" There's some implied words in there, it really could be read as "How is this (article giving an example of) the Dutch outsmarting the USA?" Which means I am expressing disbelief that this article shows an example of the Dutch outsmarting the USA. And it is grammatically correct. - gkiltz, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2Soooo, they return bonuses, then promptly split for large SIGNING BONUSES(Separate, not paid from the same accounts!) at other firms NOT owned out of The Netherlands! There are a lot of New York firms that clawed back bonuses two! That's a lot of people THEY lost to foreign owned firms. It's not like there wont be any big signing bonuses available!
Who benefits?
And the seasons they go round-and-round, and the painted ponies go up and down! - cyberdork, on 03/24/2009, -1/+3Wow, may I call you an arrogant piece of *****?
You know the Dutch actually financed the independence struggle of you ***** country and were the first to recognize it? - jgzman, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2I'm sure you missed a few words in there. $165 seems like the kind of bonus I might get after a GREAT year, if I ever got bonuses.
Last I checked, AIG issued $165 million, or $0.165 billion in bonuses. - kingatrock, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1and add to the list no sense of humor. But it's nice you list slave trade as a human achievement, no wonder you guys supported the Nazi's!
- yaosio, on 03/24/2009, -1/+2The Dutch are trying to stop bonuses, just like the USA. See.
- HappyScrappy, on 03/24/2009, -0/+1biased. Bias is a noun (an idea), you add the ed to make it an adjective.
- loneraver, on 03/24/2009, -10/+11The Dutch are always a step ahead of us. They were the first in the world to go all digital for TV. Then again, I'm bias. And yes, I do have a hard-on for the NL.
- Swivelstick, on 03/24/2009, -0/+1Please tell me that was sarcasm, if not I have something to sell you...
- Sublimin4L, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1My guess is that they'll all head to Amsterdam to talk about this over "coffee".
- mithrasinvictus, on 03/24/2009, -0/+1Just tax anything that is over a reasonable income @ 100%
- charlie6969, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1Not me.
Good server, bad food;15%
bad server, bad food; a penny.
(since the server didn't cook it, you see.) - mithrasinvictus, on 03/24/2009, -0/+1also: stocks
- Sublimin4L, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1HappyScrappy you are my hero.
- crunchyeyeball, on 03/24/2009, -0/+1Joni Mitchell lyrics? on Digg? These are strange times indeed.
- tsotha, on 03/24/2009, -0/+0Why would you think it's sarcasm? The people responsible for the banking system meltdown are all basking in the Cayman sun now. Breaking contracts as a result of mob frenzy is no way to respect the rule of law.
- Recruiters, on 03/24/2009, -1/+1Exactly like that 15% tip you give the waitress who offers crummy service and that same 15% tip you give the waitress who gives you stellar service.
- phramus, on 03/24/2009, -1/+1How is this "outsmarting" anybody? Buried for crap headline.
- cyberdork, on 03/24/2009, -1/+1It's not the Dutch's fault other countries take those ideas and let them run wild unregulated...
- Sertechaun, on 03/24/2009, -3/+1Just for comparison:
AIG recieved $180 billion in bailout money and gave out $165 in bonuses to its executives.
ING recieved $13.69 billion in capital injection and gave out $410 in bonuses to its staff. (what staff?)
oh and, viva la Amsterdam! 8) - DarQraven, on 03/24/2009, -5/+1*are
(From the Netherlands, btw) - Kannebas, on 03/24/2009, -7/+2Pfft... The Dutch.
- inactive, on 03/24/2009, -5/+0http://dwarfurl.com/007c0 wow!!
- enantiodromia, on 03/24/2009, -7/+1ING uber alles
- factsahoy, on 03/24/2009, -8/+0ChicagoJackoff, you don't represent our city.
BURIED AS INACCURATE. - tsotha, on 03/24/2009, -10/+0This is a really stupid move for the US Congress, and it's no less stupid for the Netherlands. The people who screwed things up are long gone, and all they're doing by making the current people insecure is making the situation worse.
- kingatrock, on 03/24/2009, -17/+3and back to obscurity for the Dutch in the importance of humanity in history.
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