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[DisturbedPervert]

Just didn't think it could be done.  Glad I was wrong

[Syt]

Second episode of IMPS is out:
http://impstherelentless.com/tek9.asp?pg=chapter2

Better production values than the first one (and not quite so dorky). Good Imperial Military Porn. Kind of like Star Wars meets Aliens meets Apocalypse Now, but not much action.

Plus, the they have Optimus Prime as their narrator.

[Sophie Scholl]

That was an awesome view Syt.  Thanks for the share.  I'll watch the first episode later, but the second one was great.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

except the part about big corps taking out life insurance on employees. How is that shit legal?

Why wouldn't it be legal?

The company has an insurable interest - if they're willing to pay the premiums they can do whatever they want.

Without your permission? That's fucked and wrong.

The wal-mart example, the dude (with 18 years at the company) never got to have any insurance on his wife himself, but the company gets 81k for a P/t employee who was not employed anymore, staying home with the kids. How is that right? She didn't even work there anymore, and it was a pre-existing condition.

[Neil]

Second episode of IMPS is out:
http://impstherelentless.com/tek9.asp?pg=chapter2

Better production values than the first one (and not quite so dorky). Good Imperial Military Porn. Kind of like Star Wars meets Aliens meets Apocalypse Now, but not much action.

Plus, the they have Optimus Prime as their narrator.

Only six years after Episode 1.

[Admiral Yi]

Without your permission? That's fucked and wrong.

The wal-mart example, the dude (with 18 years at the company) never got to have any insurance on his wife himself, but the company gets 81k for a P/t employee who was not employed anymore, staying home with the kids. How is that right? She didn't even work there anymore, and it was a pre-existing condition.

How is that wrong?  How did the employee lose out on the deal?

[Neil]

How is that wrong?  How did the employee lose out on the deal?

His life has become a commodity.

[Syt]

Only six years after Episode 1.

According to their website they're already editing Ep. 3. Of course they had that posted for Ep. 2 for two or three years, too.

Was worth the wait, though.

[Habbaku]

That was surprisingly well-done.  Chapter I was a bit choppy and some of the lines stilted, but the humor made up for it.  The second chapter was simply awesome, and I'm glad they refined the production.

[Syt]

I liked that they obviously thought a bit about how combat operations for an Imperial unit could realistically look like (even though it doesn't chime too well with the banzai tactics used by the dumbtroopers in the movies).

[Grey Fox]

except the part about big corps taking out life insurance on employees. How is that shit legal?

Why wouldn't it be legal?

The company has an insurable interest - if they're willing to pay the premiums they can do whatever they want.

Without your permission? That's fucked and wrong.

The wal-mart example, the dude (with 18 years at the company) never got to have any insurance on his wife himself, but the company gets 81k for a P/t employee who was not employed anymore, staying home with the kids. How is that right? She didn't even work there anymore, and it was a pre-existing condition.

It's a bet with better ods then in Vegas, that's all.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Without your permission? That's fucked and wrong.

The wal-mart example, the dude (with 18 years at the company) never got to have any insurance on his wife himself, but the company gets 81k for a P/t employee who was not employed anymore, staying home with the kids. How is that right? She didn't even work there anymore, and it was a pre-existing condition.

How is that wrong?  How did the employee lose out on the deal?

he didn't know there was a deal. He owes 100k for his wife's medical bills ( a few days of dying in the hospital) while Wal-Mart who employed her for 18 months and was not currently employing her as she had left several months before her death to be a stay at home mom.... ended up netting 81k off of her death.

Interestingly if her husband wanted to get insurance for her, his rates would have been prohibitive as she had a pre-existing condition(which led directly to her death... High rates are no barrier for Wal-Mart to be a vulture in this sense.

What bugs me about this whole thing is the Vulture aspect., and the calling of the victims(and they are victims imo) "dead peasants" in the internal memo trail. Vile. Even if it's "legal" it's still the most horrible example of profit off the backs of wage slaves that I've ever seen.

[Barrister]

Without your permission? That's fucked and wrong.

The wal-mart example, the dude (with 18 years at the company) never got to have any insurance on his wife himself, but the company gets 81k for a P/t employee who was not employed anymore, staying home with the kids. How is that right? She didn't even work there anymore, and it was a pre-existing condition.

How is that wrong?  How did the employee lose out on the deal?

he didn't know there was a deal. He owes 100k for his wife's medical bills ( a few days of dying in the hospital) while Wal-Mart who employed her for 18 months and was not currently employing her as she had left several months before her death to be a stay at home mom.... ended up netting 81k off of her death.

Interestingly if her husband wanted to get insurance for her, his rates would have been prohibitive as she had a pre-existing condition(which led directly to her death... High rates are no barrier for Wal-Mart to be a vulture in this sense.

What bugs me about this whole thing is the Vulture aspect., and the calling of the victims(and they are victims imo) "dead peasants" in the internal memo trail. Vile. Even if it's "legal" it's still the most horrible example of profit off the backs of wage slaves that I've ever seen.

Again though - the "wage slave" lost nothing on the deal.  Not one cent.  There is no way this was made "off the back of" this person.

[Admiral Yi]

he didn't know there was a deal. He owes 100k for his wife's medical bills ( a few days of dying in the hospital) while Wal-Mart who employed her for 18 months and was not currently employing her as she had left several months before her death to be a stay at home mom.... ended up netting 81k off of her death.

Interestingly if her husband wanted to get insurance for her, his rates would have been prohibitive as she had a pre-existing condition(which led directly to her death... High rates are no barrier for Wal-Mart to be a vulture in this sense.

What bugs me about this whole thing is the Vulture aspect., and the calling of the victims(and they are victims imo) "dead peasants" in the internal memo trail. Vile. Even if it's "legal" it's still the most horrible example of profit off the backs of wage slaves that I've ever seen.

None of the things you mention would have changed if Walmart had *not* bought the policy.

Fucking Beeb.

[garbon]

Finally got around to watching Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story". Didn't learn much I didn't already know (and despair of) except the part about big corps taking out life insurance on employees. How is that shit legal?

I am less optimistic than I was yesterday. (which wasn't very.)   (Yes I know that Moore is a bit of an exploiter of human misery, but compared to these big banks (or say "reality" televison, or "the news"... etc) he's a piker.

:monocle: :monocle: :monocle: :monocle:

Learning things from Moore.