Day 3: 12 Days of Xmas Quiz

SailorSam

Generali wrote: »

I'm not sure how you could price people. That sort of thing is generally frowned upon these days since Wilbur Wilerberforce got involved anyway.

Even today we all get priced whether that be the young girl just starting work in her first job and making the tea; the man working for the minimum wage or a Banker with an oversea account.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

I'm not sure how you could price people. That sort of thing is generally frowned upon these days since Wilbur Wilerberforce got involved anyway.

Are you saying you can't buy Lords? What am I paying out all that lobbying money for then?

Generali

SailorSam wrote: »

Even today we all get priced whether that be the young girl just starting work in her first job and making the tea; the man working for the minimum wage or a Banker with an oversea account.

True.

Twelve Lords a leaping. Do we take the net present value of the average income of a Lord on the basis that 12 is probably a representative sample? Perhaps the value of a life used in cost benefit analysis.

It's an interesting idea. Of the things on the list I think I've only bought a partridge and a couple of gold rings. I've been given a goose (dead, not a-laying).

Generali

The answer to the special bonus question is that the Wu Tang Clan get a single opportunity to steal back the album if they so desire.

Mistermeaner

Steal or buy? Any clause involving theft would surely be severable

Generali

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Steal or buy? Any clause involving theft would surely be severable

If you steal something you've been given permission to take you aren't committing theft! (Maybe steal isn't the best word for me to use).

Imagine I sell you a football on the basis that you have to dribble it past me in order to keep it. If I manage to tackle you and take the ball back then I get to keep it.

I think we could get a couple of lawyers to negotiate that contract in such a way that it would hold water. I have sold title to you under a set of conditions and you have accepted that.

If I attempted something akin to a football tackle in the street on a person without their permission then I could be committing a crime (assault perhaps).

Generali

What Martin Shkreli did next:

http://dealbreaker.com/2016/01/martin-shkreli-etrade-account-bail/

Former biotechnology executive Martin Shkreli, reviled for a massive drug-price increase and facing securities fraud charges, put up his $45 million E*Trade Financial Corp. account to secure his $5 million bail, prosecutors said in a filing Thursday.

Never change, Martin.


NEVER. CHANGE.

Generali

After I decided that 2016 would be a great year it has turned out to be rather less than great for Martin Shrekli. Mr Shrekli is now under investigation for securities fraud by the SEC, per the above, and was interrogated by Congress (although he took 'the Fifth' so didn't say much to them but did call them idiots).

Anyhoo, Mr S is now in the market for some more music:

https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/697897324329177088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Apparently he's a Kanye West fan as well as a fan of the Wu Tang Clan.