[0721] Goldman Sachs Does The Right Thing
└ posted on Thursday, 24 September 2015, by Novil
- Caption: Goldman Sachs, sincerely concerned that imprisoning 47 million SnapPic users could lead to the total collapse of American civilization, decided to do the right thing – at least this one time – and lobbied successfully for a general amnesty.
- Caption: While Goldman Sachs had to dip deep into its vault for that, the strengthened relationship with the President and Congress eventually paid off after only a few years.
- Caption: 24 carat pure gold
- Caption: Little changed, thank goodness, for Larisa. Firstly, it’s always been social suicide to bully the prettiest girl in school. Secondly, her schoolmates were way too afraid for that anyway…
- Larisa: Cool, my 5000th new watcher on DeviantArt!
- Sandra: Chris Hansen must be extremely interested in that list.
- Caption: … either of Larisa herself,
- Caption: … or of her best friend and his family.
- Caption: Landon, on the other hand, wasn’t immune to some teasing.
- Benjamin: Hey, Landon! Bow chicka wow wow!
- Caption: … But that quickly died down.
- Theo: Teasing doesn’t work that well when your envy is oozing out of every orifice.
- Benjamin: What does he have that I don’t?!
- Caption: So in the end, everybody was happy…
- Caption: … except, of course, John Kiriakou, the famous C.I.A. whistleblower, who was the only person exempted from the general amnesty and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his crime.
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@ Hope:
That’s why he has her. 😉
I had to reread 221 comic strips before I finally found where have I seen the words from panel before last before.
Ugh. The ending of this storyline just fell flat. It was somewhat amusing for most of it, but ending it with Larisa corrupting Woo’s kids would have been better than this ending. The 47 million jailed thing was kind of funny, but the way they resolved it was nothing more than an eye roll.
Also, I can’t understand the hero status people receive for putting the lives of others at risk in order to gain fame for themselves. That’s flat-out not okay.
GnarlyDoug wrote:
nicktyrong wrote:
The ‘right thing’ just happened to coincide with Goldman Sachs’ best interest.
Ahahahaha A+++
This is reality in a nutshell.
@ Shanunu:
Cat pictures, Post cat pictures.
Teddy Boragina wrote:
Given that he got that gold ball from Goldman Sachs, the chances are about 98% that it has a Core of solid Lead with maybe a few Golf Balls as “Filler” to make sure the Weight/Density calculations come out “Right”.
this seems like a really nitpicky bit at this point, but i’ve always been under the assumption that “carat” refers to the weight of a gemstone, while “karat” is the degree of purity of gold.
While I’m not shore if Larisa is really the prettyist girl in school. I do know it is suicidal to get on the shit list of a girl that owns her own flamethrower.
@firedome
You are correct sir. It should be karat and it is nitpicky.
http://grammarist.com/usage/carrot-carat-karat-caret/
This arc was almost perfect. The only thing to get rid of would be the ridiculously over-the-top previous page.
Red5 wrote:
I don’t know if it would be considered “over-the-top”
Consider the US’ current president and vice president, then consider the candidates for the next election… on BOTH sides of the aisle.
I just LOVE how Landon is blushing while she’s kissing him, but completely accepting at the same time.
I am trying to imagine his reaction when she asks for a… let’s call it a genetic donation.
Valkeiper2012 wrote:
US didn´t have a decent president since Reagan retired… come on, he was about the last one who could have a serious conversation and not bable stupidities while having a trouble composing a solid longer sentence.
It seems to me everyone who followed (well maybe Bush senior was somewhat decent but hardly as good) could not make a speech without reading it.
Just put “time for choosing” into youtube (1964)… come on it is over 25 years since he left… could you find someone with “natural intelligence” and not puppets that just read what someone writes for them after half day practicing?
Because whenever your last 4 presidents had to create a spontaneous response to anything they proved utterly incapable to do so…
If they can´t respond in speech, how the hell can they decide anything MORE complicated… (would be nice if that could be contained to US but whole world suffers for this nowadays)
Jerry wrote:
well do you have the gold? in 1964 someone said you have none left (you store it but it is not yours)
(the guy who said it became president of USA in 1981)
Why is cloud’s mom drawn with a katana? She’s Burmese, so she should be drawn with a Dha instead!
I have a feeling that you know little about Burma, don’t you? Are you a Weeaboo?
@ I_hate_Weeaboos:
The Burmese military are commonly equipped with dhas, so I’d assume it’d probably not be her first weapon of choice…
What Landon has? Appreciation of fine art in all forms.
…. She’s going to die on panel isn’t she?
Also HOLY CRAP 5000 DA WATCHERS!? The comments must be brutal Oo;
Paeris Kiran wrote:
You proved my point.
Lol! seems like everybody won lol…
The panel with Clouds family is epic!
Yuna is totally a mad scientist!!!
@ Identity withheld:
No, no we don’t.
Heh, if Larisa’s only got that much time left to live, someone should probably think about getting her some skydiving tickets before her vision goes out.
I_hate_Weeaboos wrote:
According to Wikipedia, the Dha varies so much that her sword Could as easily be a Dha as it could a Katana.
Impossible to tell from the level of detail seen here.
I’m glad we finally found out Larisa’s secret… kind of explains why she’s such a chaotic neutral. You go, Larisa! Ah, I love this comic series… T^T
Slick Racoon wrote:
Just don’t post a link to them here, I was once banned from posting for a month for posting
a link to a cat picture here.
Apparently around here raccoons are the only acceptable pets. ^_-
Or maybe the wording in my link description was just misunderstood… ^_-
Jerry wrote:
Actually Lead is only about half the density of Gold, lead is pretty close to the density of Silver
but the only things (normally) cheaper than Gold that are at least as dense are:
-Tungsten (AKA Wolfram)
-Uranium (Preferably depleted Uranium for safety reasons…even that’s not so safe. ^_-)
-Osmium (but I don’t think there is that much Osmium available on Earth)
Although Platinum is denser than Gold and _currently_ slightly cheaper per ounce that
is not the typical pricing situation. Also anyone buying that much Platinum would likely
push the price back up over the Gold price because Platinum is quite a bit rarer than
gold so it’s a small market that’s easy to move.
So for faking a Gold object Tungsten is the most likely candidate.
Largest (real) Gold coin ever:
https://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?key=1e6a1a1efdb011df84894040444cdc60&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn2-b.examiner.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F%2Fbc%2Fff%2Fbcff2393be14959ebd0231d9c7323b3e.jpg
Assuming that the president is AT MOST 2 m tall, the ball of gold has a volume of at most 4.189 m^3, or 4189 litre. With gold weighing 19,32 kg/l that means it weighs less or equal to 80.931 metric tons. Sounds like a lot, but if you divide it by the 47 million prisoners it means less or equal to 1.722 g of gold per prisoner.
Prizes being around 37,000 USD per kg gold, so they had to pay at most 63 Dollar and 72 cent per Prisoner.
I’ve heard of higher ransoms^^
@ Glen:
Oh, it would be a bittersweet sense of irony if they paid him in Wolfram, now that we know about Larissa, wouldn’t it?
@ Glen:
Yes, 70 tons of uranium would reach criticality fairly quickly, and likely take out a good portion of the eastern seaboard to boot. So not optimal for this particular venture.
Sarusig wrote:
Future? How is it a few years in the future?
When and how did they age? They look the same, are the same and everything, how did you come to the conclusion that they aged?
@ Alex C:
Also, Landon has Larisa.
CIA Whistleblower John C. Kiriakou: the Gonzo Today Interview I’ve been under house arrest for almost two months now. I have a month to do. Every time I start to feel sorry for myself or angry that I can’t do something I want to do, I remind myself that house arrest is so much better than prison. My house arrest ends on May 1 and then I start three years of “supervised release
Larissa is the prettiest girl in school? Huh. Guess it really is a subjective thing, beauty.
Since S&W implicitly takes place in the Gunnerkrigg Court universe, which runs on the Pratchett Mechanism (belief makes things real), I wonder if Thomas J. God (pretty obviously only the American Christian God – he wears the all-seeing eye because it’s on the money and blah blah They Live reference) ended up staring at his hand in horror as it started to fade away Marty McFly style. The death of America means the death of America’s self-absorbed brand of Christianity.
Identity withheld wrote:
Perchance a cherry pie?!