Friday, Nov 21, 2008
Merry Christmas Swindon
The Times: Honda to close Swindon plant for two months
"Honda, the Japanese carmaker, today said it will close its factory in Swindon for two months, leaving nearly 5,000 workers with only basic pay during February and March."............I wanted fair house prices not this many families will suffer the christmas.....Banking elite and politicians are fine though so its all ok phew
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1. titaniccaptain said...
OOPS should of been a full stop in there after "this"..................ah well you all know im cr@p gramaticaly...........and my spelling is not much better either
2. mark said...
i am curious how will these people suffer with a paid extended holiday....
3. shipbuilder said...
Actually I think fair play to Honda, the workers still have their jobs for now. This is typical of Japanese car companies - being primarily engineering focused - their very foundations are highly trained and skilled employees and they know it would be utter stupidity to lay them off. Unfortunately most western auto manufacturers are money and management driven and so have no such hang-ups. We are currently seeing which is the right philosophy in the long term.
4. jack c said...
"i am curious how will these people suffer with a paid extended holiday...." - because they likely based their standard of living on the full wage which would probably include shift allowance, overtime etc... and the mortgage and loan payments are probably based on this too. I'm not totally familiar with Honda or the Swindon area but this would be my best guess (based on experience of similar situations elsewhere)
5. sold 2 rent 1 said...
No-one said the end-of-evolution would be easy.
As we head into the singularity I can see "paid" empoyment eventually falling to zero
As the world of materialism ends we will just have to work for the good of mankind instead.
All this, although only 3 years away, is still a million miles away from people's understanding.
The near vertical rise of the "hockey stick" of the exponential change curve does not get going until Spring 2011.
6. jack c said...
sold 2 rent 1 - some people only learn the hard way and there are big changes ahead for many.
7. last_days_of_disco said...
"Hockey sticks" don't happen in the real world. They are a mathematical construct. In the real world non-linearities in the system intervene and change the dynamics of the system in unexpected ways. This is known as chaos. Applting simplistic mathematical models to the real world results in these sorts of predictions which are usually wrong.
8. James said...
Oh do stop going on s2r1. You're quite mad. Quite, quite barmy. I am happy to bet you an ounce of gold that the 'world of materialism' will not end in anything like you envisage it by 2012, or indeed, in my lifetime.
TitanicCaptain - how do you reckon the bankers are alright? Did you not see the job losses from virtually every bank? The outright closure of many? Literally 10s of thousands without work, or the prospect of it any time in the near future?
9. sold 2 rent 1 said...
I see the new trailer for the film 2012 is out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXa82AuwHU
Looks like it is based on planet X hitting the Earth and causing a massive tidal wave.
This is of course NWO sponsored Hollywood garbage that will initially entertain and then by 2011 cause fear and widesparead panic.
The religious groups will declare the Book of Revelation to be coming true - this is yet another smoke screen.
The real truth about the "End Times" will remain hidden right until the the end.
Great times to be living in.
10. Maihem said...
@sold 2 rent 1
I will always have to be paid -- either in money, or in warm-fuzzies, or in tea and biscuits -- otherwise I won't work. Also the exponential change curve is always at the near vertical rise of the "hockey stick" it just depends on which scale you use on the vertical axis when you draw it. Thirdly, who said change is on an exponential curve?
I thought the nutcases' singularity (the end of the Mayan calendar) had come and gone. We're all still here, the Farmers are still providing food in exchange for labour to give them more time off, or more certainty in the size of their next harvest, etc. In the case of deflation those of us with savings get to have those of us with loans do lots of work for us, in the case of inflation those of us with loans get to have those of us with savings do lots of work for us -- same as ever.
11. phdinbubbles said...
Suspect I might regret asking this, but what is the real truth about "End Times" ? Do I need to hoard baked beans, bottled water, etc?
12. sold 2 rent 1 said...
last_days_of_disco,
If you have read Calleman's books then you will understand that his model subscribes to your view of chaos theory.
Globally stable - locally unstable
I agree that almost all J curves turn into S curves.
But "evolution of consciousness" is the ONE exponential curve that is heading into a singularity.
13. voiceofreason said...
If they had stuck to a sensible steady state economy since 2003 then none of this would have happened.
I mean, how can CPI be at 2% when house price inflation was at 10% ???????????????????????????/
That is the fundamental reason why we will now pay the price.
We have to reset back to 2003 levels. But the problem is that we will now overshoot. Badly.
Take my company for instance ... 25% decline in sales .... FFS.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/11/chipmaker_nxp_lowers_q4_foreca.php
14. sold 2 rent 1 said...
phdinbubbles,
"but what is the real truth about "End Times"
Global enlightenment, co-creation, tenth dimension, understanding that we are all God..... I can only speculate.
But if any view gains mainstream appeal before late 2011 then it will almost certainly be wrong.
As for baked beans - yes - they are low in MSGs - unlike some canned soups
15. James said...
Properly mental
16. jack c said...
voiceofreason - much has been said on here over the years so what I'm about to say is pretty much a re-run of whats gone before - the ridiculous rise in UK residential property prices in recent years and the fact that many elected to withdraw equity on the way up facilitated the purchase of lots of new cars - once the cheap easy credit evoporated it was inevitable that the economy was heading for a fall.
There have been many times I have stood in a pub or sat in restraunt only for a friend to say "oh there's such and such over there - boy they are doing well - 4 bed detached + 2 cars (4x4 included) on the double drive and they have just come back from 3 weeks in Oz". For client confidentiality reasons I could say nothing but knew in reality all of it was financed via Northern Rock or Halifax etc.. on an interest only arrangement over 30 years plus.
17. theboltonfury said...
I have spent much of the day reading about Planet X and can see no evidence that it poses any threat, according to leading astronomers and physics people. It's being linked in with afftecting the magnetic poles and clearing out billions of people.
There is a conspiracy that NASA have denied it and removed it from all sky maps.
This sort of stuff only serves nutjobs to enhance book sales and yet another disaster movie.
18. sold 2 rent 1 said...
theboltonfury,
Both 'Deep Impact' and 'Armageddon' were released in 1998 with similar themes.
The NWO/Hollywood machine have been "conditioning" us for years with their films/media
How The Media Controls Your Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlr0qf0eTHU
It is not time for global consciousness to get wrapped up in 2012 mania
That time is reserved for 2011
When it happens there will be so many smoke screens to fool the masses.
19. theboltonfury said...
it's no different to how Airport 70 still scares the shit out of me to this day.
Disaster movies sell - end of
20. phdinbubbles said...
s2r1
Thanks for the advice re baked beans. But will they protect me from the earthquakes, volcanoes, etc, in 2012 or do I need to move planet? More to the point, what's it going to do for house-prices in the run up? Will I be able to pick up a bargain?
21. sold 2 rent 1 said...
Here is another cracker
HOLLYWOOD - Shocking Truth of our reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La8F-sumlm0
Hollywood movies are conditioning us all the time.
But we have been conditioned for so long we haven't got a clue.
22. sold 2 rent 1 said...
phdinbubbles,
Sell your gold in spring 2010 and buy a house in summer/autumn 2010
But most important of all "What you pay attention to, you become conscious of"
Global enlightenment will happen as the global system is very stable.
Question is: who will make it?
The NWO (Illuminati) or us?
23. mountain goat said...
S2R1 I enjoy your predictions, have you read this? 30 reasons for Great Depression 2 by 2011
24. titaniccaptain said...
Sorry James if you could read the line again that I posted...it says......"Banking elite" if I was going to have a go at the average banker I would............incase it has missed your attention their bonus payouts are as handsome as ever.........
25. whostolemyendowment said...
Back to the main topic...I'd hate to buy that 'Friday car' that's been sat on the production line rusting without a paint job for 2 months!
26. denzil said...
whostolemyendowment said:
"Back to the main topic...I'd hate to buy that 'Friday car' that's been sat on the production line rusting without a paint job for 2 months!"
I'd buy it if it is water powered.
27. James said...
TC - no, you're absolutely ignorant. GS top brass - taking a doughnut. RBS top brass - resigned. UBS top brass - no bonus this year and introducing 'maluses'. I could go on.