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"In the case of stock markets, this means that the price of a stock at any given time should represent the perceived value of the assets it represents."

Wrong. It also represents the future worth of the company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_price

Judging from someone else's analogy of purchasing a can of Coke in microseconds, it sounds like many have this misconception. Stock prices don't solely reflect commodity prices. It' s not like you can buy BP's stock under the assumption that oil costs a lot (or will cost a lot more tomorrow). There's a different class of stocks devoted to perform this function, and from my limited personal experience, fail at this function. Exchange Traded Fund USO attempts to reflect the spot price of a barrel of West Texas Light Intermediate Sweet Crude (sounds tasty! http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=USO). Regardless, stocks are not simply a reflection of current commodity prices. There's also an entire market just for commodities, the Futures Market.

"algorithms do not have the capability to make these types of judgments. Nor do they care about the present or future relationship between price and actual underlying value. All they care about is pricing inefficiencies."

That's what pricing inefficiency is. A difference in price and underlying value leads to a pricing inefficiency. Like others have pointed out, HFT's can lower spreads quicker, which is beneficial to us long term investors. BTW, humans write algorithms, and humans have judgement. If you write shitty code, or fail to evaluate fringe cases, your algorithms might have some costly repercussions. If you write elegant, robust code, you can prevent people from dying while operating machinery, fly a spaceship to the moon, or (as of late) prevent your firm from losing millions of dollars by making shitty trades.

"Why would any sane person invest in the stock market when they have no faith that asset prices are accurately reflecting the value of their underlying assets?"

Hedging. Sane people hedge their investments. Insane people don't. Then insane people complain when their retirement savings gets chopped after buying a bunch of over-priced stocks. It's possible to invest more money in the market and end up with a more conservative portfolio. Counter intuitive, ain't it? Add in some stock options, an understanding of the Black-Scholes Model (differential equation), and now you can begin hedging against a variety of risks.

I've seen soooooo many people hate on that which they don't understand without justification (or logic). Hoping they're just old geesers, otherwise we're going to continue with bubble trouble.

1. They support open source.

They have a slew of open source and free stuff:

YUI (Yahoo User Interface, a CSS and Javascript library), YSlow (page analyzer), YQL (query language for the web), APIs, and design pattern library.

http://developer.yahoo.com

2. It would be horrible to have a Google-only (or Apple-only) world. Here's hoping Google and Samsung prevail against Apple, and that Yahoo carves a niche for itself from Google.

Yegge. Steve Yegge.

And Yahoo already has been fairly decent about providing APIs.

The Yahoo Canada finance page http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/ defaults to USA markets when you enter a stock symbol.
An easy detail to fix. (Just to be clear, it should default to Canadian markets)

All of the numbers are taken out of context either intentionally or ignorantly.

The two percentages listed, taken from "operating income" and EBITDA, don't include the taxes or interest on debt for the service.

You want to see a bigger picture, take a look at the statistics.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=T+Key+Statistics
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=VZ+Key+Statistics

Interest on 64.53B and 52.39B in debt, respectively, isn't cheap and the Feds take a pretty penny in corporate income taxes as well as FCC fees.

All of the numbers are taken out of context either intentionally or ignorantly.

The two percentages listed, taken from "operating income" and EBITDA, don't include the taxes or interest on debt for the service.

You want to see a bigger picture, take a look at the statistics.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=T+Key+Statistics
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=VZ+Key+Statistics

Interest on 64.53B and 52.39B in debt, respectively, isn't cheap and the Feds take a pretty penny in corporate income taxes as well as FCC fees.

Today Best Buy closed at $19.99.

Yeah, they also didn't say what time the tweet went out. What lazy reporting. Apparently, this is the twitter feed. The first announcement went out at 9:59am. You can see a price spike a little after 10am (sadly, that link will probably be invalid after today), but the price stays up even after it was revealed as a hoax.

So what DOES the IRS think?

Considering that the IRS is so lazy and incompetent about checking their data that they sent 2,137 refunds totaling $3.3 million to a single address, and that fact is now known to the public, they should realistically expect the amount of fraudulent refunds to be dramatically higher than the $21 billion estimate.

Today, after the stock dropped 50%, analysts are beginning to downgrade the stock from buy to hold. Excellent analysis there!!!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/knight-capital-downgraded-hold-buy-155956204.html

I did a quick calculation. Using 100W = 3 square feet. That is roughly 3.2 square miles/gigawatt of solar cells.

Hmm, I am only getting 1/3 of that.

1GW=10^9W
100W=10^2W
10^9W/10^2W=10^7

3sf*10^7 / 5280^2 sf/sm = 1.1 sm

In any case, total US energy consumption is 3,300 GW, not 200,000 GW.

There's a lot of drivel there that doesn't deserve comment ("very few decent places to eat"? are you old or broke?), but this is ridiculous:

I lived in the PHX area 2003-2007 and there are indeed few decent places to eat. Most restaurants are chain and/or shitty. The thing that surprised me the most was how hard it was to find a decent Mexican restaurant in the PHX area. Forget about Asian cuisine.

It's been rated by several places as the worst city in America to drive in, mainly because it's so chaotic and because there's no consistent driving style (the frequent road-rage shootings don't help).

What's the problem, does the square NS-EW street grid confuse you? You're going to need to back up that claim, because Phoenix is nowhere near the worst cities to drive in:

http://fillmyemptyblogspace.com/2010/12/24/10-worst-american-cities-to-drive-in/ http://www.businessinsider.com/cities-with-most-car-crashes-2010-10?op=1 http://autos.yahoo.com/news/15-dangerous-cities-for-driving.html http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/22/going-nowhere-10-worst-u-s-cities-for-traffic/

In fact, if you look closely, you can see Chandler listed by Allstate as one of the safest cities to drive in.

If it is so damn safe to drive, why were my auto insurance rates double what they were in Chicago while I lived in PHX? I routinely found myself at 4-way stops where everyone stared at each other wondering who should go next. There were major crashes on the 10 almost daily. People drive as if they are wandering aimlessly. If I am on the road, I have a destination in mind and want to get there.

You can't bicycle here (one of my favorite outdoor activities) because of the heat most of the year

People bike here year round, Facebook posts from other people doing just that are proof. You choose not to, that doesn't mean other people don't do it also. There are people enjoying the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, Dreamy Draw, and South Mountain year round.

Yes, crazy people bike there year round. I was amazed by how many people I saw out jogging at 2pm in 105 degree heat. Pure insanity. Not only the heat, but it is so dusty and dry, outside exercise is pure torture most of the time. Not to mention the threat of valley fever. The other thing that got me is that even though it is a desert, people use insane amounts of water. Every new subdivision has a big water feature out front. Most people opt for a big green lawn (that has to be watered daily). The drinking water is absolutely terrible unless you get an RO system or get bottled water. Public transportation is a joke, mainly because the population density is not high enough to merit the infrastructure. They build roads like crazy, though. The other factor is the people. This is purely subjective, but the PHX area has a lot of evangelicals and conservative religious types. And don't forget the plain old (and I mean old) conservatives. Maybe that's your cup of tea.

There's a lot of drivel there that doesn't deserve comment ("very few decent places to eat"? are you old or broke?), but this is ridiculous:

It's been rated by several places as the worst city in America to drive in, mainly because it's so chaotic and because there's no consistent driving style (the frequent road-rage shootings don't help).

What's the problem, does the square NS-EW street grid confuse you? You're going to need to back up that claim, because Phoenix is nowhere near the worst cities to drive in:

http://fillmyemptyblogspace.com/2010/12/24/10-worst-american-cities-to-drive-in/
http://www.businessinsider.com/cities-with-most-car-crashes-2010-10?op=1
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/15-dangerous-cities-for-driving.html
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/22/going-nowhere-10-worst-u-s-cities-for-traffic/

In fact, if you look closely, you can see Chandler listed by Allstate as one of the safest cities to drive in.

violent home invasions are common

Define "common". The police claimed that for 2008 there were "over 300" home invasions and kidnappings (fewer than 1 per day, in an area with 4.2 million people), and that claim was investigated by the feds to see if it was exaggerated to get more funding:

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2011/01/26/20110126phoenix-crime-stats-federal-audit.html

You can't bicycle here (one of my favorite outdoor activities) because of the heat most of the year

People bike here year round, Facebook posts from other people doing just that are proof. You choose not to, that doesn't mean other people don't do it also. There are people enjoying the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, Dreamy Draw, and South Mountain year round.

They used to have Mill Avenue in Tempe that was kinda fun to walk along, which used to have a bunch of quirky little independent shops, but the Tempe government drove all those out of business to make room for a bunch of mall stores and high-rises, which of course went south when the economy crashed, so most of the place is boarded up now.

Really? The main recreational area next to the largest university by enrollment in the country is boarded up now, huh? That's weird.

This place sucks, and I can't wait to move out in a couple of months.

Neither can I. Let me know if you need help leaving.

With some Facebook bots starting at $30 to $50 to build, of course people are doing that. Facebook has bigger problems than giving a crap about this company's complaints or requests. If our SEC wasn't a toothless corporate captive, the company would already have been halted for securities abuse.

If they really want to reduce the amount of offensive postings, they would moderate their forums. I find that the sites with human-moderated forums are very much clean of the drivel you usually see on other sites. Granted, human moderation brings its own set of issues, such as the prejudices of the moderator, but the results are plain to see. Just compare a human moderated site, such as boargamegeek to an unmoderated one, such as IMDB , or Yahoo News.

Microsoft's lost decade is this

They stopped being a growth company, and their share price reflects that. Exponential growth followed by a plateau. Since there's inflation the shares have shrunk in real terms.

Samsung made what amounts to a copy of the iPad.

The British courts disagree: Apple must run "Samsung did not copy iPad" ads.

They had the dominant smartphone OS AND the dominant dumbphone OS. They had an experimental high end, Linux-based OS that was almost ready to retake the top spot in mindshare. They had the best development tools, which would allow one to target those 3 OSs simultaneously. And they were developing this new Linux-based dumbphone OS that would be created around those tools.

Now they have Windows Phone.

Amazing to think that was little more than a year ago.

This is re-writing history. One year ago Nokia was loosing scaringly fast on all fronts, to iPhone and Android, and this was why Kallasvuo had to step down as CEO. The last 3 years before Elop's appointment Nokia lost 70% of it's market value (!) due to this trend.This is their 5-year stock trend.

Otherwise, when you spend long periods of time in public, there is no reason to have one on you.

Tell that to the 71-year-old man in Florida who stopped an armed robbery because he was carrying. Or the 57-year-old grandmother who fought back against two armed carjackers. Yep, no reason at all. Because it won't do any good.

iPads come with a tablet? Wow. I guess I'll have to keep that stuff they fill the box with the next time I buy one.

These iPad boxes came with REAL tablets - like the millenia-old original issue types. Even Microsoft was late to that game.

Because I was getting the impression that the point of sports was to shift more Big Macs and pitchers of Coke

You're not kidding. All branded food/drink except McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Cadbury and Heineken will be banned during the London Olympics (as well as any Olympics-related free speech). I'm lovin' it.

Related article: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-no-boom-telco-equipment-firms-4g-revolution-104449682--sector.html While the phone makers are making the money, the networks are not seeing the same profits let alone the equipment makers. As we can do more with less, there is less $ to be made and that market looks to be shrinking as well even as we do more and more things with more data on our mobile devices.

AFAIK it's based on this:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SCOR+Interactive#symbol=scor;range=my;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

Why would you base it on that? Yahoo!'s stock symbol is YHOO.
 

That torrent of PR nightmares a few years ago, combined with Google's success, led to financial nose dive after nose dive.

Yet, looking at their annual financials (which you don't seem that have done) shows a healthy profit and margin.
 

I was one of the people predicting Yahoo!'s utter destruction, and I was far from the only one. It's honestly kind of natural for people in the know, to have trouble believing that anyone DOES use Yahoo for anything, anymore.

Or, in short, you don't actually know anything and can't actually be bothered to look up anything - you just parrot what you've heard elsewhere.

...or maybe actually this. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=YHOO+Interactive#symbol=yhoo;range=my;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined; /facepalm

AFAIK it's based on this:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SCOR+Interactive#symbol=scor;range=my;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

That torrent of PR nightmares a few years ago, combined with Google's success, led to financial nose dive after nose dive. I was one of the people predicting Yahoo!'s utter destruction, and I was far from the only one. It's honestly kind of natural for people in the know, to have trouble believing that anyone DOES use Yahoo for anything, anymore.

I wish a Nokia costed just $49 and nothing more.

They are working on it. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOK&t=5y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

What I really see is from the security scandal and many many other problems including spammers taking over, and feature rott, are all a sign of a lack of vision and people just giving a damn about their products. Their products reak, porn spammers even go into the children's chat rooms for crying out loud and spam every 1 minute!

Here's another pathetic example. Yahoo was the inventor of the DKIM system for cryptographically signing email in 2004. It's a valuable tool for fighting spam. When you get spam from a yahoo or gmail address, you can tell whether or not the return address is forged. If it's not forged, you can complain using a web interface. But within the last year or so, yahoo eliminated that interface, so they're no longer getting the full benefit of the DKIM system that they themselves invented. Here is the URL where the form used to be; it now redirects to a useless help page.

Nothing to do with weapons.

NIF is, in part, a nuclear weapon stockpile research program. Substantial periods of the NIF operational calendar are devoted to defense research. This fact is frequently used to smear the program.

One common attack is that the fusion energy aspect of NIF is a cover for nuclear weapons research. How one is supposed to believe the US needs cover to do things it often does in public view I'm not sure, but that's the claim.

NIF offers the possibility, however remote, of abundant `clean' energy. As such it has a lot of enemies. Energy scarcity – self inflicted or otherwise – is an important enabler of hair-shirt statism.

That debt has been repaid ... with money borrowed from the treasury.

the top execs are always willing to accept reponsibilty and accept an obscene bonus

Who decides what is and what is not obscene? Shouldn't that be the decision of the shareholders? If the shareholders vote for the bonus, the what business is it of those who aren't shareholders? If you want a say on pay at Goldman then buy some of their shares and vote them. If more of the occupy people did this instead of screaming in the streets and voted as a block, then perhaps something might actually change. Maybe they should each buy 20 shares of Goldman Sachs instead of that Mac Book Pro? A strong minority vote at the shareholder's meeting, binding or not, can provoke greater scrutiny and perhaps lead to bonuses more in line with long term performance of the company and the value thus created for shareholders who are in fact the owners of the business.

Let's suppose a million people do what you say. That's 97.43 * 20 * 1M = $1.9B. That's 3.9%. So they all march into the shareholder meeting. Oh look, they can't . It's closed. Well how about voting on executive pay? Oh look, its not on the ballot and there's no way to put it on there. The board controls what goes on the ballot and they like things the way they are. I hate to break this to you, but companies are not democracies. And the big institutional shareholders don't care either. Why? Because GS isnt' taking their money and paying bonuses, they're taking it from schmoes who trust their money to crooked banks.

the top execs are always willing to accept reponsibilty and accept an obscene bonus

Who decides what is and what is not obscene? Shouldn't that be the decision of the shareholders? If the shareholders vote for the bonus, the what business is it of those who aren't shareholders? If you want a say on pay at Goldman then buy some of their shares and vote them. If more of the occupy people did this instead of screaming in the streets and voted as a block, then perhaps something might actually change. Maybe they should each buy 20 shares of Goldman Sachs instead of that Mac Book Pro? A strong minority vote at the shareholder's meeting, binding or not, can provoke greater scrutiny and perhaps lead to bonuses more in line with long term performance of the company and the value thus created for shareholders who are in fact the owners of the business.

Yep, the film industry is going to keep milking the 3-d cow for a while. What is a 4-D movie? "It refers to physical effects that are coordinated with the images on the screen that involve your other senses," says media analyst and entertainment lawyer James Hirsen. "It is things like moving seats during a chase scene, the smell of gun powder when there is an explosion on the screen and during a spooky foggy scene you are surrounded by real fog." http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/4-d-movies-coming-soon-theater-near-172042434.html

No one wants Microsofts products? Really.

Revenue grew 12% and profits 23% over the past year
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT+Income+Statement&annual

Granted Apple has had an phenomenal past few years. But that doesn't mean MS is Nokia.

>>(...) evolution has been an insanely successful theory. We literally wouldn't have today's understanding of biology without it.

If you and the previous commenter give some documented examples, you might make me believe in macro-evolution again. I already believe DNA allows certain variation within species ( micro-evolution ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroevolution

>> You seem to be terribly confused. First, there has been no "retraction", just publication of two papers which disagree with the original one.

I'll trust you on that one

>> the actual claim was "We found this bacterium living in an arsenic-rich environment on earth , (....) That never meant "OMG BACTERIA CAN GROW ABSOLUTELY ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!!".

You're quite alone in your opinion. I googled hundred of major magazines, newspapers and blogs. They somehow made the same association I did:

Time magazine: “Scientists who hope to discover alien life someday”
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2034601,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8174040/Life-as-we-dont-know-it-discovery-could-prove-existence-of-aliens.html
http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-nasas-form-life-untrue-015324767.html
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

>>You're parroting a really stupid creationist lie () that Zadel's fraud had anything to do with evolution or abiogenesis.(...)nobody outside of creationists ever thought Zadel's paper had any implications for abiogenesis.

On the hoax, the reputable Science magazine stated:
"they initially hailed the result, which appeared to have major implications for the pharmaceutical industry as well as for understanding of the origins of life."
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/pdf_extract/265/5168/21

>> failed fruit fly experiments ( ) you've grossly misinterpreted the meaning of the results as a fatal failure for evolution. (The abstract you linked pretty clearly indicates that evolution took place!)

The abstract states: “We conclude that, at least for life history characters such as development time, unconditionally advantageous alleles RARELY arise, are associated with SMALL net fitness gains or CANNOT FIX because selection coefficients change over time.” [ emphasis mine ] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20844486

>> nothing more than an example of creationist quote mining

I did not mine for quotes. I was informed of many problems of abiogenesis at a presentation by Dr. Wing Sung. Such as lack of protection from UV damage in reducing atmospheres and from oxidation reactions in atmospheres like ours.

Background on Dr. Sung: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoVZe1NhmOI

I still have photocopies of his presentation slides with sidenotes in Mandarin. I can scan and email them to you if you like.

>> (...) have to expect from people who have decided that anything which contradicts their interpretation of a religious text must ipso facto be false. (...) They're not in it to discover reality, they're in it to preserve their delusions.

Before seeing Dr. Sung's presentation, I used to be a theistic evolutionist. I accepted your “reality”, sir. I accept the gap theory.

Yahoo is currently running this Reuters article, in which we are told quite the assortment of lies about US spy agency operations. The spokesman expresses acute concern about respecting the privacy of US Citizens, and claims that US Spy Agencies do not spy on US Citizens except as absolutely needed for anti-terrorism operations. Wow, what a pack of lies!

I wish to, once again, remind readers about ECHELON, the UK/USA global signals intelligence system. We already know, from numerous leaks that have occurred over the years, that the USA intercepts all the electronic communications it can get at, regardless of whether or not it involves US citizens. We already know that the NSA avoids its prohibition on spying on US citizens by swapping data with non-US spy agencies that are allowed to spy on US citizens (e.g. MI6). So, please, don't be fooled by the outright lies and disinformation currently spewing from the marketing wing of US Cyber-command. They see everything, they examine everything.

Note that NSA et al can penetrate public key encryption via the QC system they have had online since the late 1990s, so any PKI-based cryptography tool is transparent to Five Eyes. I'd like to suggest one excellent truly open-source encryption tool which, while it is not perfect, probably renders your actual words opaque to ECHELON.

yes

This film may have captured the scenario in a nutshell. They make an excellent point. The aliens may be getting the slowest delivery of a "gold-master" disc short of the BMG music service, but they could've been making mix-tapes of our pop-hits for decades now! Better call your lawyer Chewbacca, and cut that hair hippie! http://omg.yahoo.com/news/review-zero-fresh-clever-funny-182115042.html

1) The "Bush Tax Cut" which ensured the US federal government had insufficient taxes to do their job, combined with the trillions spent on overseas wars.

Passed by Both Houses of Congress based on what was thought to be good information at the time.

2) Governments that preceded him being unwilling to regulate the financial sector, resulting in the meltdowns in 2008. (I blame Clinton here too - His presidency is largely to blame for the subprime mortgage mess.)

It's good you mention Bill Clinton's administration on this.

3) An obstinate congress which blocks anything, regardless of whether or not it is good for the country.

Oh Like when Obama's Administration with a Democratic House and Senate majorities failed to pass budgets?

Look, this is Slashdot and Politics aside there's a ton of blame for the mess we have. As Will Rodgers once said "If you find yourself in a hole the first thing you do is stop digging."

The fundamental problems with our government are created by the people who vote for these idiots over and over again. From the people who vote for corrupt politicians to those who vote for people with IQs less than the McDonalds dollar menu prices.

Speaking from direct experience, the leadership we have is no better than what you find in an episode of "The Office", what should we expect? It doesn't matter, Democrat or Republican and there is the problem, there's only two degrees of separation between them. Close your eyes and you get the same turd sandwich, it's all shit just go ahead and take a bite. Both parties have rigged the political processes, the election laws and created a million barriers for qualified people to run for office. What ever happened to write-in candidates? That's a whole other discussion.

Back in Feb. 2009 I flew from DC to RDU and sat behind two congressmen. One was so myopic that even with glasses he had to keep the paper an inch off of his nose. When they boarded they were high-fiving each other saying "We passed it" referring to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). During the flight they kept passing pieces of paper back and forth, you couldn't help but overhear occasionally even on a noisy plane. One quip was disturbing "I didn't know that was in there" referring to the ARRA
legislation.

So, two congressmen who voted yes on a bill that became law and they didn't read it. Two votes making decisions for you and I. I can't fault their political views or party affiliations but I can fault them for not at least reading the damn legislation that they were voting on. It sounds like they should be part of a human centipad.

True leadership means making the decisions that are best, not politically expedient and not all of them will be popular. Doing your best also means researching the problem and understanding what you're trying to solve. Unfortunately nowadays everybody in this country has the attention span of a 4 year old and now we have an entire generation of adults who grew up not paying attention, barely passed their courses in College and now are running things.

Nobody can fault somebody for serving in public office, but it would be nice if there was at least some brighter individuals who would run. Yeah, you'd get rocks thrown at you but at least you'd be doing the country's business rather than trying to

From the financial chart, it doesn't look as if the Nokia-Microsoft deal has produced much results. That a company would abandon its own OS in favor of a rival companies just beggers belief. Yet another case of death-by-microsoft?

> Apple thinks they're winning, when in reality they're losing.

Well, I guess I can be glad this got modded "Interesting" and not "Informative." This post is such the perfect evidence of the saying "The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'."

Apple IS winning. They have the highest market cap of any company on the planet. They recently had one of the most profitable quarters in world economic history. It is going to be a LONG time before they start "losing" in any meaningful way. Your PC-buying friend is NOT the canary in Apple's coalmine.

During the 90s (yes, I was there) Microsoft was the scourge of Slashdot. Everyone here hated them and everyone predicted their downfall. But look how they did from 1995-2000. They antitrust case started in 1998 and their stock just kept going up and up. It didn't go down until the whole market imploded in 2000.

The Congressional Budget Office begs to disagree with you, with an approximately 7% reduction in healthcare costs compounded over time. But don't let that influence your thinking -- mathematics is known for its liberal bias.

The only thing that is liberally biased is the tendency to use "projections" and "estimates" and "wild guesses about potential savings" as fact. Eliminate all these "facts" and the cost the bill practically doubles: http://news.yahoo.com/cbo-obamacare-price-tag-shifts-940-billion-1-163500655.html

Disingenuous much? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamacare-twice-as-much-as-estimated/2012/03/26/gIQACSZncS_blog.html)
But that figure was pretty misleading. The CBO had merely offered a tentative guess, with significant caveats, that the health care law would reduce the deficit within a âoebroad range of around one-half percent of GDP [gross domestic product].â Democrats simply took that percentage, multiplied it against the predicted size of the GDP 20 years from now (itself a pretty fuzzy figure) and presto, they had a number. But it is a fairly meaningless one.
...
The gross-cost figure, as calculated by CBO, was actually $940 billion for the years 2010-2019. But it was a bit of a low-ball number because the law takes four years to fully implement. So it really only measured six years of major costs.
...
"The simple reality is that the cost of their bill has gone up dramatically -- as Republicans predicted it work -- and this latest news just highlights that the number they used to sell the bill was rigged," he said. "It was a budget shell game."

Not to mention the consistent ability of the CBO to wildly underestimate. Remember this? http://www.factcheck.org/kerry_exaggerates_cost_of_war_in_iraq.html
"The CBO produced three hypothetical "scenarios" for the future, and their ten-year price tag. A pullout starting next year and leaving no US forces in Iraq by October of 2008 would still add $52 billion to the total cost of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," not counting costs of reconstruction or "undistributed" costs shared among Iraq and other operations. Gradually reducing the current 160,000 US forces to 54,000 and leaving them there indefinitely would cost $233 billion through the year 2014, beyond what's already been spent."

Gotta love that CBO accuracy.

The only open question is about the frequency.

You must be talking to Kenneth.

nothing shows up because it's not on her pc, i've had spam coming from a former online friend, and more recently spam claiming to come from my own yahoo address.it turns out if you manually set the x-apparently-from yahoo will show that as the sender. yahoo explains it better here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100725063846AAoDV1T

Just think - these true believers are the people you share your country with!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/creation-museum-evolves-hoping-add-life-size-ark-170347907.html

Here, there's an AP story on Chavez recalling a governor for speaking against his policies.

Reporters Without Borders, also considered a liberal organization, reports several instances of censorship, including blocking entire topics from discussion. It lists Venezuela as 117 out of 179 in overall press freedom.

For me, Chavez is one of the less harmful dictators, but a populist dictator remains a dictator, and anybody who blocks freedom of speech and requires media to carry his opinions is a dictator.

Seems to me, this whole misbegotten idea was invented at GE. Let's see how that worked out for them.

http://www.my.yahoo.com/ - although I doubt it'll have a gmail interface, just a ymail one.

For comparison, $6B is roughly what Microsoft makes in one quarter.

Especially when shit like this happens...

Fake. Everyone knows that any time an SUV hits so much as a pothole, it will roll six times and explode.

Especially when shit like this happens...