Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 20:58:34 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Graham Thurlwell wrote in news:caf0e3ac4d.jades@d.thurlwell.btopenworld.com: > On the 14 Sep 2005, weirdwolf wrote: > >> Graham Thurlwell wrote in >> news:b5a372a94d.jades@d.thurlwell.btopenworld.com: >> >> > On the 7 Sep 2005, Nick wrote: >> > >> >> Graham Thurlwell wrote: >> >> >> >> > On the 1 Sep 2005, Nick wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> The water in New Orleans will not naturally recede. Every bit of >> >> >> it will have to be pumped out. Yeah, it is stupid to put a city >> >> >> below sea level that is surrounded on all sides by water but, >> >> >> hey, we didn't put it there. We inherited it. >> >> > >> >> > You bought it from the French. :-/ >> >> > >> >> >> >> Not me, personally. >> > >> > Your taxpayers' money at work. Are you /sure/ they didn't insist on >> > having the money in monthly installments? ;-) >> > >> >> I dunno one qualification and your setting up offshore tax havens >;-) > > I've been playing too much Football Manager. You can set up some > beautifully intricate structured deals for buying players. On the > fee paid to the club alone, options include:- > > Up-front fee > Fee paid in monthly installments > Fee after number of league appearances > Fee after number of league goals > Fee after number of international caps > Percentage of next sale > Buy-back clause > Include player exchange > Arrange friendly > > And various other stuff. It's actually possible to sign or sell a > player with no money changing hands at the time the deal is completed. > > Sadly, they've tightened up the AI so it's now pretty much impossible > to sucker a club into accepting a deal where most of the money is in > International Appearances for a player whose only chance of playing for > his country is if every single other player in his position has a freak > injury all at the same time. > > And I haven't even started on the joys of negotiating the contract with > the player himself, or the frankly weird Italian system where you can > buy half of a player. > Still not allowed to buy a player for a case of champagne though, I mean how can it be viewed as ultra-realistic if you aren't allowed to do that. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .