Interesting Links for 28-10-2015

[andrewducker]

• Westboro Baptist Church protests Kim Davis (such awesome quotes)
  • I love that they want her to do her job. And go back to her first husband. It's just too good to be true!
  • (tags: religion funny true LGBT Christianity usa viaZornhau )
• Europe finally abolishes mobile phone roaming charges
  • (tags: mobile_phones Europe )

Comments

[radiumhead]

The westboro church cant be real. They gotta be a group of trolls. They fuck with EVERYBODY. Even people who (at least on paper) are on their side.

[andrewducker]

I know - it's fantastic. I've seen lots of conspiracy theories about them.

[gonzo21]

They were pretty compellingly crazy on the Louis Theroux episodes he did about them.

[steer]

Yes, I'm pretty sure at this point that they don't really believe much of it. Certainly they have earned money from beating lawsuits brought against them.

[bart_calendar]

Wow.

Obvious Ponzi Scheme is obvious.

[andrewducker]

Surely not!

And yeah, I'm torn between "Jesus, they have no intention of delivering this stuff" and "These people are just mindnumbingly incompetent".

[bart_calendar]

If you can raise $90 million that you could easily and legally distribute into various bank accounts as salary and expenses and then not have to pay back once you eventually declare your corporate entity bankrupt there is at least one thing you are competent at.

[danieldwilliam]

They would not be the first organisation to raise a lot of money for an innovation and then fail to deliver the innovation. Not the first to do so deliberately and certainly not the first to do so in good faith.

A thing to check might be who owns the working capital.

If it is at heart a fraud then you might see something like money from "investors" comes in, money goes out to "owners", money comes back in to fund working capital in the form of a preferential loan, thus allowing "owners" to float the organisation whilst pocketing all the money when it goes pear-shaped.

[agoodwinsmith]

Thank you for the health things you post.

[snarlish]

I second this thanks.

[andrewducker]

Appreciated :-)

[andrewducker]

Pleasure!

I'm largely posting things that help me figure stuff out, or add onto a picture I'm using to help keep me on the right track, food-wise.