Bay 12 Games Forum

ahaha, I actually remembered to get a screenshot of it

... probably will forget to get 6 hours and 6 minutes, but still! Good enough for the devil's work ^_^

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been urged by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) not to force retirement schemes to invest in riskier and complex assets, according to The Times.       

It’s said the chancellor’s preference would be for Britain’s “highly fragmented” pensions market — which the report states has roughly 28,000 defined contribution schemes — to be consolidated so as to boost investment in UK companies.

Last year, up to 35 million savers had access to the PLSA’s Retirement Living Standards through their pension scheme’s communications. In total, 124 organisations were using the Standards, including over 100 pensions schemes.

Hunt is expected to give more details in his annual Mansion House speech to City of London grandees in July, the report said.

He has also “left open the idea of ‘mandating’ pension funds to make certain investments if he cannot achieve the kind of consolidation in the industry he is seeking”.

Nigel Peaple, director of policy and research with the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, told The Times:

    “Trustees are adamant that their role is to look after the savings of their members.

    Trustees are open minded about what we can do collectively to help the UK economy but it is essential that this operates in the interests of savers.”

In the same article, Hunt said, speaking on a visit to Washington, that “Australia and Canada have found a way of making sure they get better returns by consolidating their pension fund industry in a way that makes it easier for them to invest in unlisted and potentially higher-growth vehicles”.

Sry I can allways be ragebaited when I'm working, if I weren't I'd have probably bitched about the lack of ease of use of some computer thingy, and not bothered to react. But as it stands we're like that experiment where people prefer to administer themselves electroshocks than be bored.

Don't you think people who reeaally want a kid and can afford to sink as many ressources as they want will keep pushing the record for viable after least duration of pregnancy? If one day rich women start to outsource the peoblem as to not ruin their figure, and we are having the ovussesses broodoodeded routinely after 2-3 weeks, will that then become the standard?

I think they were kinda based in antiquity in those regards. Don't like the face? Rejected after birth, better luck next time.

Ethics violations on the Supreme Court across ideology.

https://thehill.com/homenews/4091544-liberal-justices-caught-up-in-supreme-court-ethics-scrutiny/amp/

I suspect we're only at the beginning of this, since finally reporters are deciding to investigate this. It's not exactly new.

Russian Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov got Storm Shadowed in occupied Berdyansk. We had no dead Russian generals for quite some time.

In November 2010, the Investigative Committee of Russia charged Tsokov with committing fraud and abuse of power during his period in command of the 228th Regiment. The case involved a deal in which he illegally promised eleven conscripts early demobilization in return for signing service contracts, then embezzled 80,000 rubles from the soldiers' contract signing bonuses.

This case did not affect his career (LOL) and in 2011 Tsokov was transferred to serve as chief of staff and deputy commander of the 33rd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District, based at Maykop.

Russian Colonel Alexander Denisov - in charge of providing technical support for the armored vehicles of the Russian Southern Military District - was arrested in March and charged with stealing seven V-92S2 engines from T-90 battle tanks entrusted to his care, according to Moscow’s ‘Kommersant’ newspaper.

Commentators have been reporting for decades that corruption was endemic within its defense industrial sector and armed forces, at every level from the Kremlin down to the lowliest foot soldier.

A 2005 report by the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment quoted reports from the Russian Audit Chamber Chairman that in the pre-Putin days as much as 21 percent of the military budget was lost, mainly by the theft of equipment. After Putin took over it was estimated that as much as 50 percent of the funds allocated to Russia’s Defense budget was simply stolen.

Ruslan Pukhov of the Moscow-based Center for the Analysis of Strategy and Technology gave the example that in 2004 Russian foreign defense sales raised approximately $5.5 billion of which, he estimated less than 20 percent made its way back into the budget.

Notable cases of Russian corruption were seen throughout the 1990s, including the Russian general dismissed for selling UN fuel while deployed to Kosovo and reports of Russian soldiers deployed to Chechnya selling their weapons to Chechen fighters.

So apparently Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt is getting a long awaited remake/sequel?!

https://youtu.be/G-T6sA_EGXM

I never expected P&S w/ G to ever get anything ever again. It just had one of those Gainax endings that was a legendary final meta joke of how Gainax properties never get proper endings.