[sanchez8]

Originally Posted by MSchu

Chintz: brightly colorful but gaudy and tasteless.

Ha its ALWAYS the NYers

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

False equivalency.

You need to eat. You don't need to gamble and breathe tobacco smoke on a casino floor.

Even if you choose to eat [excrement], you still need to eat.

Untrue. There is no need for him to eat. There are no necessities whatsoever -- merely wants and desires. Most people want to eat, but there is no requirement that they eat. Stop eating and Earth will not fall out of its orbit & crash into the Sun.

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by macgeek

... she gets TV's (a few in both My and my ex's are 'comped' TV's)

Now... if only she were comped photovoltaic solar panels...

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by NLVgal

Well, I'm sure we all saw this coming when they filed for BK, late last year, was it?
If I remember correctly, they somehow leveraged Caesars Palace as part of the deal.

Does anyone remember the details?

Here is a pretty good article detailing what happened. I don't think it is behind a paywall.

Caesars: A private equity gamble in Vegas gone wrong - Fortune

Here is a teaser:

There have been so many truly extraordinary twists and turns in the saga of Caesars Entertainment CZR -0.77% over the past eight years that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the whole thing went off the rails. After all, an $18.4 billion bankruptcy filing at one of the biggest gambling empires in Las Vegas tends to result in a lot of finger-pointing. But for symbolism alone, nothing can beat the evening of Nov. 17, 2012.

That was the night that David Bonderman, the billionaire founder of private equity firm TPG Capital, threw himself a 70th birthday party. It made sense for Bonderman to have it in Vegas. He and his wife had planned a lavish celebration with 1,000 of their closest friends. Actor and comedian Robin Williams would serve as the emcee, with music legends Paul McCartney and John Fogerty rocking out. Bonderman had also agreed to make a $1,000 donation in the name of each guest to the charity of his or her choice, and every attendee would receive an iPod filled with the private equity mogul’s favorite tunes. It was the kind of event for which top-tier casinos are made.

And Bonderman just happened to be part owner of one. In 2008, TPG had joined with Apollo Global Management APO -0.44% , the buyout firm led by former Drexel Burnham Lambert banker Leon Black, to take Caesars private. Four years later, Caesars was straining under its heavy debt load, and the two private equity shops stood to lose the bulk of their $6 billion equity investment. By having his gala at Caesars Palace, the company’s crown jewel, Bonderman could have made a high-profile show of support.

Instead, Bonderman took his celebration to the Wynn Resort WYNN -0.38% , Caesars’ biggest Vegas rival...

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

Untrue. There is no need for him to eat. There are no necessities whatsoever -- merely wants and desires. Most people want to eat, but there is no requirement that they eat. Stop eating and Earth will not fall out of its orbit & crash into the Sun.

Ridiculous. Try ridding yourself of your want and desire to breathe a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere for four minutes and get back to me on what constitutes a want vs a need.

[EA]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

Untrue. There is no need for him to eat. There are no necessities whatsoever -- merely wants and desires. Most people want to eat, but there is no requirement that they eat. Stop eating and Earth will not fall out of its orbit & crash into the Sun.

Uh, if you stop eating, you die pretty quickly.

Need
noun 1. a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.


2. a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary: to fulfill the needs of the assignment.


3. urgent want, as of something requisite: He has no need of your charity.


4. necessity arising from the circumstances of a situation or case: There is no need to worry.


5. a situation or time of difficulty; exigency: to help a friend in need; to be a friend in need.


6. a condition marked by the lack of something requisite: the need for leadership.


7. destitution; extreme poverty: The family's need is acute.




Necessity.

noun, plural necessities. 1. something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.


2. the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing.


3. an imperative requirement or need for something: the necessity for a quick decision.


4. the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable: to face the necessity of testifying in court.


5. an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something: not by choice but by necessity.


6. a state of being in financial need; poverty: a family in dire necessity.


7. Philosophy. the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.

[mojavedxer]

This thread is gotten so stupid. Did City Data merge with 4 Chan.

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Ridiculous. Try ridding yourself of your want and desire to breathe a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere for four minutes and get back to me on what constitutes a want vs a need.

Neither food nor oxygen are needed. There is nothing necessary about continued life, as the dinosaurs and the Dodo Bird found out.

Food, water and air are wants and desires.

[ScoopLV]

You're being willfully dense.

Yes, Virginia, we need to breathe. It's absurd to suggest otherwise. Libertarians never cease to amaze me.

[unf0rgiven6262]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

Untrue. There is no need for him to eat. There are no necessities whatsoever -- merely wants and desires. Most people want to eat, but there is no requirement that they eat. Stop eating and Earth will not fall out of its orbit & crash into the Sun.

That's a pretty absurd statement.