Comments on: Will CEOs control risk if compensation’s at stake?

By: Horrendous Stakes

Horrendous Stakes — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:44:39 +0000

Man’s ingenuity in creating ever increasing, shameful and agonising deaths for his fellow men is incredible but few can exceed the act of impalement for its sheer agony, shame and the untold of horror it brought with it. The act itself was simple enough when placed in the hands of a skilled executioner and it was perhaps, this simplicity, that made it so terrifying. Thought to have been first used in the ancient lands of the Babylonians, Vlad excelled at it and introduced it proper, to the rest of the world.

By: Horrendous Stakes

Horrendous Stakes — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:26:25 +0000

A true hero to the Romanians, for his defence of their religion and culture against the Turks, the rest of the world will always revile Vlad Dracula Tepes, for his fetes of barbarism and inhuman brutality to both his enemies and kinsmen alike. As with the tale of ErzsebetBathory, care should be taken in what to and what not, to believe. Vlad had many enemies and, just as in politics today, the peoples of 15th Century Europe, were not above carrying out smear campaigns. However, there can be very little doubt of the atrocities carried out by this man and which made him the most feared ruler of all time. As his nickname “Tepes” would suggest, Vlad’s preferred method of punishment and justice, was Impalement.

By: jeh

jeh — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:32:23 +0000

Remember the government encourages this kind of risky behavior too – by taxing capital gains at lower tax rates.