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SirRumpole said:
Yes, I think I agree with all of that.

This table is interesting

20 happiest countries in the world

1 Paraguay
2 Panama
3 Guatemala
4 Nicaragua
5 Ecuador
6 Costa Rica
7 Colombia
8 Denmark
9 Honduras
10 Venezuela
11 El Salvador
12 Indonesia
13 Philippines
14 Thailand
15 UAE
16 Canada
17 New Zealand
18 Australia
19 Chile
20 Argentina

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-23/australia-the-worlds-18th-happiest-country/5471108

You wouldn't think Panama, Paraguay and Guatemala were particularly rich countries would you ?

So there is more to happiness that material satisfaction.
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Makes me less than happy when I see lists that put us near the bottom of the pack :mad:

I'm guessing the key to happiness is over population, endemic poverty and lack of education ... which doesn't bode well for number 8 :D
 
Value Collector said:
It's not just r and d that has risk, take Woolworths attempt to expand into hard ware, massive capital outlays, and huge monthly losses all paid for by share holders funds, but that's the thing with business, nothing is really a sure thing, share holders take all that business risk.
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I remember, as a young buck in my twenties, being sat down and chatting with the boss of a really big business here and now internationally, who wanted me to jump ship into his fiefdom and his take of shareholders and the nuisance factor they represented.

Shareholders might think they are integral to a corporation's well being, but in reality they are chooks that like to be fed, but need to be reminded now and again that the granary belongs to management.
 
Tisme said:
Makes me less than happy when I see lists that put us near the bottom of the pack :mad:

I'm guessing the key to happiness is over population, endemic poverty and lack of education ... which doesn't bode well for number 8 :D
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Yeah, ignorance is bliss in a few of those countries I reckon.
 
Tisme said:
I remember, as a young buck in my twenties, being sat down and chatting with the boss of a really big business here and now internationally, who wanted me to jump ship into his fiefdom and his take of shareholders and the nuisance factor they represented.

Shareholders might think they are integral to a corporation's well being, but in reality they are chooks that like to be fed, but need to be reminded now and again that the granary belongs to management.
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Yeah, There is always ego centric managers out there.

But have you read Berkshire Hathaways "Owners manual", it lays out how Warren Buffets thinks about his share holders.

Although our form is corporate, our attitude is partnership. Charlie Munger and I think of our shareholders as owner-partners, and of ourselves as managing partners. (Because of the size of our shareholdings we are also, for better or worse, controlling partners.) We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own the assets.
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The full text is here

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/owners.html
 
Tisme said:
Makes me less than happy when I see lists that put us near the bottom of the pack :mad:

I'm guessing the key to happiness is over population, endemic poverty and lack of education ... which doesn't bode well for number 8 :D
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Stop whining too much and maybe Australia could move up a few rank.
 
Tisme said:
:D You reckon

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For sure. There's the whining Poms - those must have pulled OZ down ten runk all on their own; then there's the Irish, who tend to be happy since they're often drunk (so that push us up a bit), but then their drunkeness and ahem, IRA-leaning-ness make a few unhappy; Then there's the Muslims who's scaring everyone.

Leave it to the Chinese - they already own all the place (even though they're way behind the Poms and the Yanks and a few others).
 
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Planning on having kids, stay away from this place...

Abortion ban linked to dangerous miscarriages at Catholic hospital, report claims​

Five women suffered prolonged miscarriages, severe infections and emotional trauma at Mercy Health Partners when staff neglected patients’ health to uphold religious directives against inducing delivery, report reveals.

The woman inside the ambulance was miscarrying. That was clear from the foul-smelling fluid leaving her body. As the vehicle wailed toward the hospital, a doctor waiting for her arrival phoned a specialist, who was unequivocal: the baby would die. The woman might follow. Induce labor immediately.

But staff at the Mercy Health Partners hospital in Muskegon, Michigan would not induce labor for another 10 hours. Instead, they followed a set of directives written by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops that forbid terminating a pregnancy unless the mother is in grave condition. Doctors decided they would delay until the woman showed signs of sepsis – a life-threatening response to an advanced infection – or the fetal heart stopped on its own.

In the end, it was sepsis. When the woman delivered, at 1.41am, doctors had been watching her temperature climb for more than eight hours. Her infant lived for 65 minutes.

This story is just one example of how a single Catholic hospital risked the health of five different women in a span of 17 months, according to a new report leaked to the Guardian.

The report, by a former Muskegon County health official, Faith Groesbeck, accuses Mercy Health Partners of forcing five women between August 2009 and December 2010 to undergo dangerous miscarriages by giving them no other option.
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What a time to be alive. To think that people take a man made fantasy so seriously...


Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists in new law to crack down on political dissidents​

Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.

In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi King Abdullah has clamped down on all forms of political dissent and protests that could "harm public order".

The new laws have largely been brought in to combat the growing number of Saudis travelling to take part in the civil war in Syria, who have previously returned with newfound training and ideas about overthrowing the monarchy.

To that end, King Abdullah issued Royal Decree 44, which criminalises "participating in hostilities outside the kingdom" with prison sentences of between three and 20 years, Human Rights Watch said.
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Saudi man gets 10 years, 2,000 lashes over atheist tweets​

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) ”” A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts.

Al-Watan online daily said Saturday that religious police in charge of monitoring social networks found more than 600 tweets denying the existence of God, ridiculing Quranic verses, accusing all prophets of lies and saying their teachings fueled hostilities.

It says the 28-year-old man admitted to being an atheist and refused to repent, saying that what he wrote reflected his own beliefs and that he had the right to express them. The report did not name the man.

The court also fined him 20,000 riyals, about $5,300.
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What's old mate Rabbi looking at 6 year old girls for in the first place?

Ultra-orthodox Israeli rabbi bans girls over five from riding bikes because it is 'provocative'​

An ultra-orthodox Jewish leader has reportedly banned girls aged five and older in some areas of Israel from riding bicycles - claiming it is “immodest”.

The rabbi of the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Nahloat distributed the stringent decree to his followers in synagogues across the area.

He had said young girls riding bicycles could “cause serious damage to their modesty” and that bicycle seats caused young girls to sit in a way men found “provocative”, according to the Arutz Sheva 7 website.

The ruling said: “We inform parents that they are obligated to forbid their daughters from age five and up from acting in this illegitimate way.”

Those affected by the ruling are members of the ultra-orthodox Haredi branch of Judaism.

In December ultra-orthodox rabbis requested women in Israeli city Bnei Brak refrain from studying in higher education, according to Yeshida World News website.
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The hierarchy of everything in my life has always bothered me. I'm bothered by power. People, whoever they might be, whether it's the government, or the policeman in the uniform, or the man on the door - they still irk me a bit. From school, from the first nun that belted me - people used to think of the nice sweet little ladies … they used to knock the **** out of you, in the most cruel way that they could. They'd find bits of your body that were vulnerable to intense pain - grabbing you by the ear, or by the nose, and lift you, and say 'Don't cry!' It's very hard not to cry. I mean, not from emotion, but pain. The priests were the same. And I sit and watch politicians with great cynicism, total cynicism.

Irish Comedian Dave Allen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Allen_(comedian)
 
Tisme said:
I'm guessing the key to happiness is over population, endemic poverty and lack of education ... which doesn't bode well for number 8 :D
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If you add "sexual liberation" to your list, then Denmark could well fit the bill. And who would deny that a good old romp in the hay increases happiness :happy:
 
I scored a solid 8 :

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luutzu said:
Wondering where is Christ that one can run straight to?
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Run there in the mind. Just have to ask for acceptance unto the Lord and the mind begins to discard the weight of guilt. That is how the devout folk can sin then ask the Lord for forgiveness, so all can be pell again.
Then there are the righteous types that point the finger while blind to or obscuring their own sins. The ones who have sinned that cast the quadrillionth stone. Then the cunning so and so's. It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack.
 
The story on 60 mins. about the wife forced to sexual gratification by her Baptist extremist husband was another example of how far from reality believers are. If you meet a Preacher on the road, kill him. Well not in a physical way.
 
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