You probably knows that those Saudi freaks and their money, they’re douchebags and they lack class. One way you can really appreciate what tons of money and lack of class and tastes is like; it’s by looking at some of the most absurdly chromed cars you can find.

Middle Easterners love their chrome but instead of chroming every part of the car under the hood they thought it will be flashier outside.

Caught outside the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, this is a 100% chromed out Mercedes McLaren SLR. Look at the glass; it’s even chrome-tinted. This is a shame because a nice dark tint would look a lot better on this car.

This Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano is special. Look how shiny it is. What’s the deal, you ask? Is that a chrome finish on there? No, the 599GTB has an all aluminum body, and if you sandblast off all the paint, and spend thousands of hours polishing aluminum, you get a badass mirror finish. Say what you will, I respect the effort.

Posted: January 14th, 2009 by Kat Path
Filled Under: Must See Shit, What Grinds My Gears
With Tags: car, chromed, douchebags, dubai, ferrari, mirror, saudi freaks, tasteless
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Not new but always a South Park CLASSIC.

Merry Fucking Xmas to all!

Posted: November 30th, 2008 by Kat Path
Filled Under: Laugh Your Ass Off, What Grinds My Gears
With Tags: fucking, funny, merry xmas, parody, South Park, xmas
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As the financial crisis finger-pointing continues, eyes are turning to the business schools. What part did they play in the meltdown? And is now the time to re-think their own assumptions? As Simon Caulkin observes, it’s not just the economics-dominated MBA that’s now seen as unsustainable.

Business schools have become sausage machines — they all preach the same orthodoxies. Years later, greed and groupthink has come back to haunt us.

This is the first global crisis to have been created at leading business schools. Several of the meltdown’s major players, from Merrill Lynch’s Stan O’Neill to Hank Paulson to Andy Hornby of HBOS, are Harvard graduates. Dick Fuld, who ran Lehman Brothers, went to Columbia Business School (perhaps that’s why his bank wasn’t bailed out).

The bankers were advised by the brightest brains at McKinsey and other consulting companies, which are more or less outplacement firms for newly minted MBAs. The brilliant insight of these great brains led all the banks to the same failed strategies which is costing the world a few trillion dollars.

Contrast this with some of the richest entrepreneurs in the world — Mittal, Branson, Abramovich, Gates and Buffet are all MBA-free.

If you’re aiming to be an entrepreneur, an MBA cannot teach you any of the important lessons of success: leadership, the art of the hustle, personal bravery, resilience and risk taking. They cannot teach creativity, daring, inspiration and real insight. They can teach none of the things that matter to a successful entrepreneur.

As one who completed an MBA, they fail to teach critical thought. They all use the same text books etc and when you question their assumptions, you are criticised. Group think is alive and well in our business schools

Doubtless business schools are now writing case studies about the crisis in order to show how regulation failed, individual banks made poor choices and how economic conditions failed everyone. They’d do better to write a case study on how avoid creating a generation of corporate clones who are imprisoned by greed and orthodox thinking.

Posted: October 31st, 2008 by Kat Path
Filled Under: What Grinds My Gears
With Tags: bankers, brain, business schools, columbia business school, consulting companies, corporations, financial crisis, global crisis, greed, groupthink, harvard, hbos, lehman brothers, mba, mckinsey, merrill lynch, orthodox thinking, successful entrepreneur
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Congressman Ron Paul Schools Bernanke on the Bailout Plan

Posted: October 11th, 2008 by Kat Path
Filled Under: What Grinds My Gears
With Tags: $700 Billions, bailout, bailout plan, bankers, congressman, corporations, douchebags, financial crisis, global crisis, greed, lehman brothers, mckinsey, merrill lynch, Ron Paul Schools Bernanke
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Metallica Death Magnetic

Previous album St. Anger was crap, only 2 songs where barely ok to listen to. You need to see the DVD Somekind of Monster to understand why it sounds so crappy. They were not Metallica they where employers going to work each day and their boss was Bob Rock.

Having listened to My Apocalypse and Cyanide on Youtube, the anticipation was great with Death Magnetic. So on September 12th I got my copy for 5$ hehe.

First the box is really nice with the coffin cut out. But that pretty much stop there.

The sound?… Well you can read the thousands of threads on the Loudness Wars and my own article from 2006 (didn’t I told you about that long time ago?) Why the RIAA can suck my dick while I shit!. It sounds like crap like all other CD for the past 15+ years. I already felt rip off of my 5$.

If you still doubt it’s not the recording company fucking you good, below is the waveform of song My Apocalypse, in a comparison: top is the regular CD version, bottom is the downloadable version for Guitar Hero III. So yes they can do CD that sound like they are supposed to, but they think you are dumb shit that can’t buy decent audio gear or won’t care how it sounds on their iCrap mp3 player.

Metallica Waveform

Bands have been businesses since the 70s with the Rolling Stones and Kiss. Don’t forget Lars was one of the assholes that told you that copying his music is stealing. And because of us the will all starve and become poor. While they and many others like U2 and the Stones where incorporating their bands in fiscal paradises making sure they won’t pay more than 1% or 2% in taxes on their cd, merchandises and shows revenues. So no I don’t feel bad not buy albums that sound like craps that can’t be played loud because you think it will help you sell more albums and make you richer if you sound louder.

Nice box and shitty mastering, what’s next…? SOLO oh yes they got guitar solos, and maybe too much of them: on My Apocalypse solo is over one minute and totally screw-up the beat of the song. It’s like Kirk thought he had something to prove. Man your good, solos are nice when they fit on a song.

It was supposed to be And Justice For All with new modern touches, well it sounds more like St Anger redone with a couple of old riff and solos. Some songs changed so often of beat, riff and tempo you simply don’t know what song you are listening to.

It was supposed to be a complete return to their roots though I think they simply used a few old riffs on some new shitty songs. There are elements in their songs of the Old days with a new sound to them or maybe a sort of mixture of everything they’ve done. It gets confusing and let’s faces it: NO ONE LIKE THE NEW SOUND AND SHIT!

In resume it sounds better than the previous 3 albums but it’s a melting pot of old and new riffs more often inside the same songs that sound like a jamming sessions of peoples that want to sound old Metallica but can’t resist playing their new riffs. It’s some kind of monsters that want to wake up but have been asleep for so long that he can’t stand up. Rock and metal are feeling you don’t create a song based on the trend of the moment like a pop star its feeling and expressing what you are, a Rocker! Please James call Dave Mustain and ask him how he have been doing so many albums that sounds good while you still can’t make a decent one in 5 years.

Posted: October 5th, 2008 by Kat Path
Filled Under: Rock'N'Roll All Nite, What Grinds My Gears
With Tags: album, assholes, bob rock, fiscal paradises, guitar hero, metallica, mp3, rocker, rolling stones, somekind of monster, st anger
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