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Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi'

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 16 2017, @10:14PM   
from the aren't-you-a-little-short... dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A princely escort:

The princes' highly recognizable faces (and Harry's iconic red hair) are hidden by their costumes, but in-the-know fans can be on the lookout for one specific scene. Boyega, who plays the former stormtrooper now known as Finn, says they appear guarding him in an elevator along with two other famous stormtroopers -- actor Tom Hardy and Gary Barlow from British pop group Take That.

  "It was a great experience," Boyega said of the scene with the princes, who are second- and fifth-in-line for the British throne. The London-born actor also called the elevator moment "the best of both worlds for me."

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• ''Coops are still capitalist enterprises'' ''Coops are still capitalist enterprises'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @05:04AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @05:04AM (#598072)

  Are those chicken coops or pigeon coops?
  (The standard shortening for "cooperative" uses a hyphen: co-op.)

  Coops are still capitalist enterprises

  It's just pathetic how many people defend Capitalism and don't even understand what it is.

  In a co-op, everyone is an owner; in Capitalism there is an Ownership Class and a separate Worker Class.
  (If workers are called "employees", that's Capitalism.)

  no longer pyramid structures

  You just defined Anti-Capitalism AKA Democracy in the Workplace AKA Socialism.

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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• Re:''Coops are still capitalist enterprises'' Re:''Coops are still capitalist enterprises'' (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 17 2017, @06:02AM (1 child)

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday November 17 2017, @06:02AM (#598083) Homepage

  You may just yet get your wish, commie - there was an article on Zerohedge today that speculated that the mass media's embrace of communism is to prepare the public first for NIRP, then for universal basic income.

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  • ''You may just yet get your wish'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @08:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @08:57AM (#598109)

    You haven't mentioned anything that corresponds to my vision of a proper future.

    communism

    My vision of Communism is that that follows widespread Socialism, with Socialism being worker-owned cooperatives.
    As I see it, Communism comes with the gov't (including a very tight feedback loop from The Workers/The Voters) managing the things that are natural monopolies.[1]

    NIRP

    A negative interest rate policy has zero overlap with Socialism/Communism.
    It's strictly a FIRE sector thing.
    N.B. Shakespeare got it wrong; first we kill all the bankers.
    ...and while we're at it, let's get the assholes who bailed out those crooks.

    NIRP is also called "bail-ins".
    Ellen Brown wrote about it a while back.
    Bail-Ins Begin: a Crisis Worse than ISIS? [counterpunch.org]

    At the end of November [2015], an Italian pensioner hanged himself after his entire €100,000 savings were confiscated in a bank "rescue" scheme. He left a suicide note blaming the bank, where he had been a customer for 50 years and had invested in bank-issued bonds.

    But he might better have blamed the EU and the G20's Financial Stability Board, which have imposed an "Orderly Resolution" regime that keeps insolvent banks afloat by confiscating the savings of investors and depositors. Some 130,000 shareholders and junior bond holders suffered losses in the "rescue".
    [...]
    The rescue was a "bail-in"--meaning bondholders suffered losses--unlike the hugely unpopular bank bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis, which cost ordinary EU taxpayers tens of billions of euros.

    Correspondents say [Italian Prime Minister] Renzi acted quickly because in January, the EU is tightening the rules on bank rescues--they will force losses on depositors holding more than €100,000, as well as bank shareholders and bondholders.

    ...letting the four banks fail under those new EU rules next year would have meant "sacrificing the money of one million savers and the jobs of nearly 6,000 people".

    universal basic income

    I'm not really a fan of that notion.
    I think everybody should have a job and should produce useful stuff.[2]
    In his State of the Union Address for 1944, FDR proposed an Economic Bill of Rights and said that every USAian has The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wikipedia.org]

    [1][2] I recently read a guy's idea that all useful stuff should be produced by The State and that making frivolous junk should be left to Capitalists (speculators).

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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