lul

also: what are they supposed to do with the money? hide it under their bed?

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaha

I tend to agree.

Umm, what?

I guess in THEORY, yes. The banks would have no legal tender, so they wouldn't be able to give out any credit, making credit cards useless.

But I mean...you'd need a LOT of people to do this. There's what, 300 million residents on the US? At least 10% of that would need to do it to create any problems.

A side interest of mine is business and economics. I don't go to school for it, so I could be wrong 100%. Just a thought.

Even if there are only 10 people in Anonymous, this is more of a scare tactic. How many people will be inclined to follow suit if they think this is really going to happen? In case it actually gets momentum, we're taking our savings out tomorrow. Sure, it doesn't help, but damned if I'm going to be the only one without money.

Well, I'm fucked, because I don't have a lot of savings right now (In College) but I do have two things.

A CREDIT card.

And a Line Of CREDIT account.

=(

what you mean "10 people in anonymous"?

it's not a group with membership status. Some do it, others call them retards for doing it.

It's a disconnected group, but I'm sure the guy producing the video has a small group he rolls with.

or he jsut wants to see if anyone will do it

And they do - or did you forget the hundreds of people who showed up for the Scientology protests?

completely different.

chanology was about making fun of freaks who deserve it. just spend an afternoon and that's it.

In this case on the other hand, it either fails or the people successfully hurt themselves. Sure, it sounds like something /b/-tards would do, but still...

or the people successfully hurt themselves.

So where's the problem?

look up the words "difference" and "problem"

You give it as the negative possibility.

doubt it :)

sooner>later. hope it works.

It won't work because if they have any significant savings they won't be able to withdraw it all at once anyway. If they can withdraw all their money, then they don't have enough to make an impact.

The problem isn't the size of the account, but how many people hear about it. The rumor of Steve Jobs heart attack alone was enough to send shareholders into panic sales.

A bunch of 16 year old basement dwellers' savings being withdrawn from banks isn't going to crash the economy.

I know some people who will follow this that have substantially larger amounts of money. (All though the majority will probably be 16.)

gonna go with raithza here.

The only ones who will do it are kids with $10.41 on the savings account their grandma set up.

Anyone with actual money will not want to waste it.


but technically I would say yes, mass withdrawals could destroy the liquidity of the banks and make same declare bankruptcy.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
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HAHAHAH who takes these kids seriously :D i hope south park or someone makes a parody of these idiots

also: don't feed the troll. if we ignore them long enough they'll become depressed and commit suicide

what happened? you just made 2 almost serious posts!

someone hacked his account

:( useless admins

h8 trolls that are not funny

: ]

How awesome would it be, if the rumour spread and EVERYONE will get scared, and withdraw all they're money to save it... on the 16th :D

no, you're money!

Uhm, yes, it would be extremely awesome if you consider risking bankrupt companies and thereby destroying people's lives "awesome".

I consider it awesome the the panic caused by the false(?) threat, gives exactly the exact the threat was about.

self-fullfilling phrophecies aren't that rare

the thing is, the crisis is just a product of this world controlled by greed, if you'd just systematize everything, decide the basic things the people need, and work up from the basics you wouldn't have all this shit going on here ... but noone wants this :-)
everyone wants to better than others, they still could be,
material actually did not exist in nature, yet mankind defines its worth by the material, in former times mankind defined itself by its power and capabilitys ... you still could have power, you still could have capabilitys in this "managed" world ... but people who have come up in this rotten materialistic system profit very much from it,
and don't want to change anything ... it's rotten, but it's good for them :-)

guess what happened to washington mutual

source?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_mutual
"due to a $16.4 billion 10-day bank run"

"Fishman was in the CEO position for 17 days; he received a $7.5 million sign-on bonus, and received a cash severance of $11.6 million.[24]"

holy fucking shit

standard

yes, but not for 17 days.

And it shouldn't be payed at all when a back crashes and many people lose money because of it.
Pay his wage: yes.
Sign up bonus: maybe but no that high.
severance: are you kidding?

i agree that it's absolutely ridiculous, but unfortunately not uncommon at all. Former Lehman Brothers CEO received something like 75M$ USD for his part in screwing up the world's economy.

I heard it went under on the news, but I never heard why.

now all they need is a guy wearing a mask and a black hat

Anybody want to join me outside the banks mugging this kids for the savings?

il then be depositing it into bank their after..

They should be easy to spot, they wear them masks from V for Vendetta. Me and my associates will be dressed as the 60's version of the Joker waiting to collect our winnings.

:)

You're a legion? The legion made up from anonymous nerds sitting behind their computers making crap videos.

a) The world economy is in excellent shape b) There is no such thing as recession "right now", because recession is a long-term assessment.

you added an "a" where there was one. Results in a very different meaning, not that the intended one makes much more sense, but whatever.
"Wir sind Legion" works in German, too, btw.

"but whatever" - Ithat silly idiom sums up your posts.. Hi, agardenchair, I think you made a mistake. But whatever. Hello, life. Nice to meet you. But whatever.

:D

The economy is in good shape? What? The worlds stock markets are crashing. The DOW has dropped about 5000 points this year, putting it under 9000. China, France, and a few other countries are requesting a one-world currency to help prevent this.

What do the stock markets have to do with the general state of world economy? The ups and downs of stocks don't reflect production and corporate incomes. The SM's are of a speculative nature, its people are fickle investors with very low or very high self-esteem, their psychologically questionable decisions result in low or high DOW.

afaik, some car manufacturers (for example) have pretty much stopped hiring and throttled down production because they expect people to be afraid of the future developement and therefore wait with buying in news cars.


/edit

almost forgot: but whatever!

I don't know how to rate a sentence like

'some car manufacturers (for example) have pretty much stopped hiring and throttled down production'

Would you rather see companies not have the freedom to stop hiring? Or are you saying, that fluctuations in productivity are becoming too big, such that economies are weakened?

i know it for VW, because I have friends working there, and have read reports that American manufacturers stopped hiring (even though that's also due to their demise in general.)

That why I wrote "some".

And manufacturers always reserve the possibility to slow their production (and stop their hiring process) when they expect less demand for whatever reason.
However since historical data does point out a correlation between financial insecurities of the common people and their comsumption of goods they don't really need. And given the actual financial situation it's quite safe to assume that people aren't exactly trusting when it comes to credits and also to assume the related companies expect less sales.

I'm also confident to find link to help with my assumptions but I'm not in the mood to bother right now. However, If you have a certain point you disagree on, I might.

dunno if you still care but: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,584277,00.html

99% of them will attempt to walk out of their house but be blinded by the sun after sitting in their parents basements reading 4chan their entire lives, then just say "fuck it."

Alright bitches, show the world what gamers are good for. Put those high-tech brains to good use. How can we solve the economic criseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez?

Jonesy, recessions are a fact of life to the business world. The fact that this problem is global is just an indication of how globalized our markets have become, that we all have a stake in each others markets.

There's nothing to solve that hasn't already been proposed. As long as the money is out there on the market for banks to loan out. I think the fact that governments are buying up stakes in publicly traded companies is a BAD IDEA. The message that sends out to investors is that they should wait and keep their money idle.

There's a lot of good deals on the market right when it comes to publicly traded companies on NYSE and NASDAQ and other exchanges. The only thing that is causing this slide is people waiting to see when it hits bottom and with the US Government buying stocks, it adds complexity and uncertainty to large investors mindsets.

Personally, I think the only thing, at this point that will help, is less government intervention and time. 6 to 12 months from now, it should be business as usual.

I work at a bank and I can tell you right now that the people who have their monies in the bank are not the ones who would participate in this. For example, retirees with large CDs, IRAs, money markets, etc. And large businesses and/or small business owners large carry large balances for either operations or payroll accounts.

It's very unlikely that these kind of people would subscribe to this kinda of laughably immature proposition.

hey, they managed to make a few hundred prank-calls to gamestores anyhow.
y not ruin the financial-system?

aghaghaghahahg

you just don't know how rare battletoads is.

if they did anything today it had no impact at all
it was probably a fake video made by someone trying to make anonymous look bad

Why would it be? They manage to look bad all by themselves.

it is fake

Almost a philosophical issue.

OH FUCK THE WORLDS FUCKED NOW