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Property taxes are going up up up and away. Those bastard rent seekers, how dare they to own property? Tax them up the wazoo

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5y&s=GLD&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=&c=^GSPC&c=^IXIC&c=^DJI

Gold was overbought at the start of the 07-08 crash, and then overbought at the end.

In between, it crashed along with stocks.

You were better off being in cash.

Since then, it's risen slightly better than stocks, but not enough to make up for the fact that it's a bloated commodity with no real value of its own except for electronic contacts and bling. If there's anything on this earth whose value is phony, it's gold's.

The point is that resources are actually scarce, government systems make the treatments more expensive by putting government money there, and this ends up costing lives at the end, while in a free market the medical costs would be coming down, not going up all the time

The USA pays more than double per capita what the UK does for it's healthcare, for much worse outcomes (and far more inequity).

What you get with the system you have is a vast twisty apparatus designed not to provide as much healthcare as possible for the money it is given, but to provide as little healthcare as possible, and extract as much money as possible. And this has been the intention right from the outset.

One of the many reasons the UK NHS, is suffering is because technology tends to make the costs of healthcare increase, not decrease. New technology means that you save more lives that need more care. New technology costs more, because it's patented. And these costs increases are very much driven by the corporate side of the equation ; drug companies are not adverse to lobbying to get existing generic treatments off the market, simply so they can make a buck selling exactly the same medicine at 10x the price.

The medical sector considers 15% a low profit margin. Wal-Mart operates at a profit margin of around 3.8%

Quite aside from the ethics of making profits from healthcare, when those resources could be diverted into more healthcare instead ; if corporate involvement in healthcare was really operating to introduce competition and drive costs down, you'd expect a margin more like Wal-Mart. Instead they have margins closer to Gucci and Hermes.

Why are you paying for a luxury healthcare system and getting a Wal-Mart healthcare system?

To start with, I'd suggest anyone who had an email blocked contact yahoo! and ask why they are reading and censoring your email in violation of their own privacy policy.

http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/

Better might be to contact their office at:

Yahoo! Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
(408) 349-5070

Being Swedish, I can ensure you that kidnapping is not the major concern here. There is a big cultural difference between Sweden and USA regarding leaving your kids unattended, as seen here: http://news.yahoo.com/swedish-woman-left-baby-outside-restaurant-investigated-152033738.html. In this case, I think they just want to make sure the sure the children don't run away, as they are not staffed enough to keep track of all of them all the time.

The majority of RedHat's income is from investments, not software...

Red Hat's Statement of Cash Flows says otherwise. Over the most recent 12 months reported Red Hat had $23,378,000 in investment income against $107,278,000 in Net Income and $909,277,000 in Revenue. That works out to about 2.5% of Red Hat's income coming from investments. Last time I checked, 2.5% does not constitute a "majority".

Empirically though, the difference isn't that bad. OK, it's bad if you look at the 10% difference at the end of the chart; but it's good when you look at correlation over time. Do the Dow stocks always do better because a small index has a more obvious "must buy because it's in the index" effect, or is this just true over the timeframe in the chart? Left as an exercise for the reader.

FWIW, the Dow concept of "the biggest 30 are really all that matter" is interesting; but yes, market cap weighting would certainly make a lot more sense. The current methodology has to be tradition. The Apple problem could be solved with a "virtual split" when enterred into the index; but that'd be cheating.

China shut down a solar panel factory on Monday after hundreds of angry residents staged days of violent protests over pollution, the second such incident in as many months.

it doesn't matter: the amount of energy that goes into the production of those panels is a significant fraction of the energy they generate over their lifetime. whoops... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090201062719AATwL62

Maybe I missed something - the article you referenced seems to say that the energy generate equals the energy used in about 4 years, for panels with a lifetime of 20+ years. Seems like a net gain of a factor of 4 or 5, which isn't that bad in my opinion. I guess 20% is perhaps a "significant fraction" in some situations, but you seem to be implying that "going solar" is illogical from an energy-of-production point of view, when it certainly is not.

it doesn't matter: the amount of energy that goes into the production of those panels is a significant fraction of the energy they generate over their lifetime. whoops... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090201062719AATwL62

Are we only in a recession because companies who are going to say we're in a recession are allowed to be counted in the DJIA?

No. The DJIA and S&P 500 track each other pretty well over the long term. Look.

Get out while you still can

I do. I contribute a higher percentage of finances to the economy already. Turns out that the President's claims about the tax rates are complete horseshit (shocker).

http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-rich-taxed-less-secretaries-070642868.html

Not to mention that I do this for my business, my personal income, and again on my investments.

So what's another $30,000 this year going to matter?
How about next year?
How about the year after that?
When is enough, enough? When will you feel that I have contributed my "fair share"?

Regardless, for every [insert arbitrary number] that shouldnt matter that you say is fair for me to add, there's a decent probability that I don't make an investment in something (helping a business who hires people expand?), or don't make some luxury purchase (which supports a business and jobs), or contribute to a charity. You assume I give nothing extra to the community, and you again assume that it is more appropriate for government to choose where that extra contribution goes....

Buffet most likely pays more in taxes than his secretary makes in a year even if he is paying the Capital Gains rate of 15%. After all he is one of the richest men in the world.

Second, there is no way that anyone's salary is twice your salary and paying half your rate.

Third, well, I'll let the AP say it.

You didnt show why at all. You made a statement and expected me to accept it as fact. I know you wish that I'd just take what you say as gospel, but the facts say otherwise.

Unfortunately for your arguments the fact checks are coming in quickly today on the "Buffett Rule". Seems that the arguments that the rich are being taxed less than the low or middle class is complete horseshit. This marks one of the very few times in the last decade that the reporting groups on the left and the right are in agreement, with this data being discussed on a myriad of programs last night.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/news/economy/buffett_rule_milllonaires/index.htm?iid=RNM
http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-rich-taxed-less-secretaries-070642868.html


And for fun I ran through the first 100 or so people on the Fortune 500 list. Almost all were self-made. More holes in your arguments...

If by this, you mean your post, I agree.

easy citation

About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability. That's according to projections by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research organization.

If anyone deserves to be fired it is the Netflix CEO.

This. Who's chairman of the board over there?

The CEO:
http://ir.netflix.com/committees.cfm

The shareholders need to demand new leadership immediately before all of their stock value evaporates.

Ain't gonna happen, obviously.

> The shareholders need to demand new leadership immediately before all of their stock value evaporates.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NFLX&t=1y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

Oh noes! The panicked selloff has brought the stock price down to levels not seen in nearly 11 months! Fire everybody!

Well, there's one potential benefit - maybe Amazon will acquire Qwikster and we can be done with the boneheads who have killed the formerly great Netflix.

And again, one more thing that ain't gonna happen. The business model Qwikster represents is dying. It'll take another decade before Qwikster no longer breaks even on their operations, but it's not something Amazon is going to run right out and invest in -- not that Netflix has any interest whatsoever in selling it. The CEO founded Netflix and made it the company it is today -- he's not killing it, he's just not doing things the way you (a customer and not an investor) want him to. Get over yourself.

Is this bad customer relations? You bet your ass. Is this a bad business move? Well, that remains to be seen.

"Have you looked at the actual table [wikipedia.org]? For a single person, the Earned Income Tax Credit isn't available if (s)he earns more than $13,460. "

Really? Have you ever looked at the "big picture"?

In recent years, credits for low- and middle-income families have grown so much that a family of four making as much as $50,000 will owe no federal income tax for 2009, as long as there are two children younger than 17, according to a separate analysis by the consulting firm Deloitte Tax.

"If you're not swayed by arguments such as "don't kill people with taxes""

Silly rhetoric. It's not "killing" when asking them to get invested in the system. If a person pays SOMETHING, they are more likely willing to make responsible voting choices if they know that asking/getting MORE stuff from the fed will mean they will pay MORE in taxes. It's far too easy for someone who pays NOTHING to ask for more.

No, he's having a race with Leo Apotheker to see who can destroy a company fastest. He was off to a slow start, but has pulled ahead.

I know this thread has already died by now, but just for the record:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110117211823AANKiB8

Court judgments CAN be included in a bankruptcy. Student loans and certain other government debts are excluded, but court judgments can be dismissed.

it's good to know that crows are equally black everywhere

ALOT ISNOT AWORD

no but as has been proven, with your support and less than 15 cents a day.. it could be. that's not alot.
http://news.yahoo.com/merriam-webster-adds-tweet-other-words-095422189.html

Are you all sure this entire story is not a huge lie, that this one trader is not used as a scapegoat, a fall guy for a larger systemic problem at the bank? On one hand knowing how Credit Swiss and UBS handle customers I can sort of believe that there is large level of confusion and things are not, as you would expect them, at least not what engineering types would expect it to be. It's like you are always trying to build a better system, a system that handles transactions properly, a system that does not allow errors, but when you deal with some banks, it's as if they are still ran with pen and paper, it's amazing. (though it's not true, they do have computer systems, but sometimes it feels like their computer systems have routines there, that create chaos, havoc and confusion on purpose). But seriously. 2 billion dollars in this case. There was a guy who lost 6-8 billion a year ago or so in some French bank.

Maybe, maybe. Or maybe the bank is using this guy as a stooge, a sap, somebody to take the fall in case some shady deals go wrong. After all, do you hear about banks catching such cases, where money was made and not lost? I mean if somebody used bank resources to trade and to make money for themselves personally, they would have to draw that money out somehow.

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In other news the Federal reserve bank and national banks of UK, Switzerland (fuckers) and Japan came out with a strategy to ensure that the paper currencies are destroyed even faster by printing more of it to buy all the outstanding short term securities that USA is issuing or that are maturing. It's all nonsense, it forced a bunch of people to cover a bunch of short positions in a bunch of commodity markets (those who hedge against their dollar and other currency reserves by using commodities), because this news of the national banks is more inflation, the relative prices of commodities must go higher, so people are buying to cover shorts.

The DOW and other markets go up in dollar and other currency terms of-course, because again, this is more inflation.

Interesting times, as always, wrong solutions driven by wrong understanding of economics, as always.

they most certainly CAN track all this

You can't mean that.

No, you really can't mean that.

You want a company to track ownership of their product per character through an ever increasing string of edits.

I get the feeling I'm wasting my time here.

You know very well that any version control system can do that. Heck, a wiki can do that. It's not that hard with derivative works (which is what edits are to existing lines) to track who checked in what. And for all-new code, you just have to look at who did the original check-in. If everyone who checks in code has already signed off on an agreement that any check-in they do is covered by them granting a specific license, what is the problem? Oh, right - this looks like it isn't about tracking code changes and copyright ownership - its about code capture via copyright assignment by throwing up artificial roadblocks to any other sort of arrangement. You're swimming with sharks. BIG sharks, as in $9 Billion sharks.

Please do your research on Reed-Elsevier (the parent company). They track copyright ownership and do rights management for so many of their print and paywall properties that they cannot claim that they don't understand the concept. It's their core business. They understand it well enough to know that they should always try to grab as many rights as they can.

If LexisNexis was giving you a contrary impression, they've yanked your chain good and hard. Here, start on the HPCC TOS page

LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

Who is Reed-Elsevier? Reed-Elsevier is worth over 9 billion.

Their profile

Reed Elsevier PLC provides information solutions in the areas of science, medical, legal, risk, and business sectors primarily in North America and Europe. The company's Elsevier division publishes scientific information books and journals in print and electronic forms for scientists, academic institutions, research leaders and administrators, corporations, and governments; bibliographic data, indexes, and abstracts, as well as review and reference works; and provides abstract and citation database of research literature. This division also publishes medical journals, books, major reference works, databases, and online information solutions to health professionals and healthcare facilities; and offers marketing services to the pharmaceutical industry. The company's LexisNexis division provides data, analytics, and software services to property and casualty personal and commercial insurance carriers; and offers investigative solutions, as well as focuses on employment-related, resident, and volunteer screening solutions. This division also provides legal, tax, regulatory, and business information to law firms, corporations, and government principally through electronic services and workflow tools. The company's Reed Exhibitions division organizes exhibitions and conferences that encompass various sectors, including broadcasting, TV, music, and entertainment; building and construction; electronics and electrical engineering; engineering, manufacturing, and processing; jewellery; interior design; life sciences/pharmaceuticals; marketing; property and real estate; energy; sports and recreation; and travel. Its Reed Business Information division provides data services, and information and marketing solutions to business professionals; produces industry critical data services, lead generation tools, and online community and job sites; and publishes business magazines in various sectors. The company was founded in 1894 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

They know how to track this sort of stuff. Really, they have people whose only job is to live and breathe

they most certainly CAN track all this

You can't mean that.

No, you really can't mean that.

You want a company to track ownership of their product per character through an ever increasing string of edits.

I get the feeling I'm wasting my time here.

You know very well that any version control system can do that. Heck, a wiki can do that. It's not that hard with derivative works (which is what edits are to existing lines) to track who checked in what. And for all-new code, you just have to look at who did the original check-in. If everyone who checks in code has already signed off on an agreement that any check-in they do is covered by them granting a specific license, what is the problem? Oh, right - this looks like it isn't about tracking code changes and copyright ownership - its about code capture via copyright assignment by throwing up artificial roadblocks to any other sort of arrangement. You're swimming with sharks. BIG sharks, as in $9 Billion sharks.

Please do your research on Reed-Elsevier (the parent company). They track copyright ownership and do rights management for so many of their print and paywall properties that they cannot claim that they don't understand the concept. It's their core business. They understand it well enough to know that they should always try to grab as many rights as they can.

If LexisNexis was giving you a contrary impression, they've yanked your chain good and hard. Here, start on the HPCC TOS page

LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

Who is Reed-Elsevier? Reed-Elsevier is worth over 9 billion.

Their profile

Reed Elsevier PLC provides information solutions in the areas of science, medical, legal, risk, and business sectors primarily in North America and Europe. The company's Elsevier division publishes scientific information books and journals in print and electronic forms for scientists, academic institutions, research leaders and administrators, corporations, and governments; bibliographic data, indexes, and abstracts, as well as review and reference works; and provides abstract and citation database of research literature. This division also publishes medical journals, books, major reference works, databases, and online information solutions to health professionals and healthcare facilities; and offers marketing services to the pharmaceutical industry. The company's LexisNexis division provides data, analytics, and software services to property and casualty personal and commercial insurance carriers; and offers investigative solutions, as well as focuses on employment-related, resident, and volunteer screening solutions. This division also provides legal, tax, regulatory, and business information to law firms, corporations, and government principally through electronic services and workflow tools. The company's Reed Exhibitions division organizes exhibitions and conferences that encompass various sectors, including broadcasting, TV, music, and entertainment; building and construction; electronics and electrical engineering; engineering, manufacturing, and processing; jewellery; interior design; life sciences/pharmaceuticals; marketing; property and real estate; energy; sports and recreation; and travel. Its Reed Business Information division provides data services, and information and marketing solutions to business professionals; produces industry critical data services, lead generation tools, and online community and job sites; and publishes business magazines in various sectors. The company was founded in 1894 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

They know how to track this sort of stuff. Really, they have people whose only job is to live and breathe

Maybe not for long though.. Disclaimer: I work for Cavium, a competitor to NetLogic.

Money does not fail.

Gold is money, anything else that is printed is a promise note - currency. Currencies fail.

Currencies fail, money does not.

Here is a clue by 4 - this is what US 10 year bonds have been doing since the 60s. Note how the yield is now lowest ever? The price for that bond is highest ever, while the currency is being printed out of existence, which is given to banks and by doing currency swaps it's also given to foreign national banks, all while foreign national banks also hoard US currency?

All of this currency goes into buying T-bills, so this is the clear indicator of where inflation is taking T-bills and thus where the reverse is going (interest rates on the 10 year bonds.)

This is the destruction path that I am talking about, this is going to burst and explode, and when it does, you are going to be stuck with nothing if you do not have real money.

Oh, and I wrote a couple of journal entries, one on HFT and the reasons as to why people don't understand it and don't understand what is causing it, and the other on this entire broken /. moderation system.

Enjoy

In every case I have heard so far, all computers and removable media and USB drives in the residence were confiscated and searched at a government facility.

Personally I have no issue with that when it comes to child porn.

Given what falls under the definition of CP, you bloody well should have.

Consider the following fragment of (bad) prose: "... then I took of her blouse and started playing with her nipples. She had amazing tits for someone 41 years old".

Nothing special, right? Crap like this can be found in paperbacks available in book-stores and public libraries, PG-13 movies, what have you. BUT, reverse the digit order and suddenly just writing a couple of sentences becomes a crime of the highest degree, punishable by ruining the person's life forever.

Think that can never happen? Well, it does in Australia, Ontario, Ohio, etc.

Hell, even federal judges have an issue with the fact that mandatory sentences for possessing CP are harsher than those given to actual child abusers.

So, if I happen to meet you and hear that, in the course of your jury duty, you helped put away a child molester, I will happily treat you to a beverage of your choice. However, if you were instrumental in ruining the life of somebody whose only crime was committing his fantasies to paper, the tone of the conversation will be very different.

http://news.yahoo.com/longshoremen-storm-wash-state-port-damage-rr-144921214.html

and the last to think.

Anything that requires thought will done using the internet.
When we die the internet will need fags* to fix them.

*If you have seen Idiocracy you won't be offended.
For those that haven't: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Idiocracy+fags

Oh! And look here. Fresh from today!

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

So I guess I'll be seeing posts from about how people on the left are terrorists.

I am probably in the minority here but I still use a number of yahoo products.

Messenger - I have had my account since probably 1997 and it is still my #1. I have MSN, Facebook, Skype & GTalk as well however if they all went dark tomorrow I would still be OK. Without Yahoo I'd lose 95% of the people I regularly converse with.

Flickr - A really good place to post pictures and really has taken over for Yahoo groups. There isn't much spam and the groups are still regularly updated and have a good interface. Plus is the best place on the web for porn - bar none.

Sports - I prefer Yahoo Sports to everyone else I have ever found - including TSN, ESPN & CBC (I am Canadian BTW). Their hockey coverage and analysis is top notch and they have one of the few professional blogs which cover the Canadian Football League (55 Yard Line). Also their fantasy leagues are pretty darn good.

Oh, I've topped that one, it was just one of the better ones to come to mind. Hows this for recent? I've gotten front paged on the Art of Trolling a few times since then as well.

Sometimes the askers make it too easy to pass up. Yes, I'm a proud troll.

Peacefully? In your dreams. Tea baggers are terrorists because they use scare tactics to get their way. Take health care town hall meetings of 2008. Retired tea baggers with drugged, crazy eyes yelling "Government hands off of my Medicare" and lunging at congressmen and opponents with their fists. Using these imbecile but scary tactics they managed to force many seniors to oppose health care reform even though most of those seniors already use government-provided Medicare.

It wasn't the Tea Party people that bit off someone's finger at a town hall. How about the SEIU beating up a black conservative in St Louis at a town hall meeting?

Do you have any actual examples of these "retired tea baggers with drugged, crazy eyes" commiting violence or are you just regurgitating rhetoric the way you happen to remember it?

Remember Alan Grayson talking about how the GOP plan is for everyone to die quickly? Or shots being fired at Eric Cantor's office?

Speaking of Medicare, the Democrats cut it by a half trillion dollars to fund ObamaCare, but when the Republicans came out with a reform package this summer, what did the Democrats do? ran an ad about how Republicans want to literally push grandma over a cliff."

So yeah, it's those Republicans pushing their scare tactics on their constituents, commiting acts of terror. Actual violence committed by Democrats? eh, that's not terror under the same definition because, well, they're on your side.

Want another one? Debt ceiling ÃoecrisisÃ, entirely manufactured by tea bagger faction. This was non-issue for decades, extended automatically. This year, tea baggers yelled hysterically for months about Ãoecountry going bankruptÃ, Ãoedollar becoming worthlessà and similar utter nonsense to scare many people into opposing raising the limit, which was tea bagger goal for ideological reasons.

Wasn't it Obama that said having to raise the debt ceiling was a "leadership failure" when he voted against it in 2006? Do you hold him to the same standards as you do Republicans, or is this another one of those my team good, your team bad things?

And the crisis WAS manufactured... by Obama. The US has enough revenue that it won't default on it's debts if the limit wasn't raised. We have enough revenue to fund all of the most critical portions of the federal government too. It was a scare tactic to get people to panic so Obama wouldn't have to think about fulfilling his campaign promise to actually cut back the waste in the federal government.

Thus, tea baggers use scare tactics to reach their political goals. That, by definition, means they are terrorists.

Nice to know that everyone that you don't agree with politically is a terrorist while you ignore the actual violence and threats perpetrated by your team. You do realize that you just repeated GWB's "you're either with us or against us" rhetoric, right?

I agree, I still use Yahoo and it's great. One of the best finance sections, good news parsing, the front page has interesting stuff. I don't mind ads too much because I enjoy learning about new products. And Yahoo usually has entertaining ads on the home page, not 6 words. Plus they have a lot of pretty cool API stuff like YQL, which is the coolest thing I think I have have seen in a while. Google, sure. They have a lead in search. But I always get the feeling I'm not a person when I'm there. I'm just another data point to Google. Whereas at Yahoo they appeal to all my senses, and they have a big staff of Human Editors. Google would strive as hard as possible to remove those humans. Great, if you're a nerd, but I have emotions and other needs and I like having an expert person do little sifting no matter how perfect the algorithym was that returned the results.

Yahoo is not just going away. They have a pretty good looking balance sheet and they make money. Not hand over fist but they do make money. And they own a lot of other sites besides just Yahoo.com. And, finally, they own Associated Content which is like the AP of web content feeds. I think with something like YQL, they can really start doing this next generation of "Web 3.0" (or is it Web 4.0?) stuff where you have data and presentation separate and then some type of Human Edited aggregation service that can make up new content by summing or multiplying other sources, and then link out to the sources. If you haven't messed with YQL, check it out. No stupid SOAP or other junk required, it has a javascript console. And you can do searches with SQL type joins and stuff on almost all yahoo owned content.

Plus the world needs diversity. I can use Google and Yahoo. Nothing makes me more irritated/sad for the future than one of these Google snobs who say things like "I use only Google stuff and there's no reason to every use anything else so there. I do this nerdy thing and this nerdy thing and don't you wish you were me." Like stop sucking Google's dick, you are their product! Now granted, we are also Yahoo's product, but it seems so less cold and calculated. I don't like the coldness of Google.

I always preferred Konfabulator over the others, even Windows Sidebar/Widgets, and way better than osx spotlight or whatever. It was turned into Yahoo Widgets a few years back...

K, now for the million dollar question, were those models made without looking at the temperature data in question. Cause if the people had access to the temperature data while programming the models you're decidedly going to be looking at a computerized version of the BMI. An utterly useless metric that was originally based upon late 19th century Belgian middle and upperclassmen. The modern equations for which were backfit to the data.

If they have access to the temperature data from the sensors than the model is by definition suspect. For one, their models assume much more heat is trapped by the earth than is the case.

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html

If the models were correct and not backfit to the data, there would be a lot more warming shown since as their models assume that the earth traps more heat than it demonstrably does. Since this is not the case, the only way that their models show a close hindcast is if the algorithms used in the models were through adjustment backfit to the data.

Or this crazy idea liberals have that humans are more powerful than the Sun and seem to forget the climate of the earth has changed many times before man even arrived.

Also: http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html
Snip: NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing.

The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.

Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

Really, they are surprised that people will buy things that are sold at a loss? This whole thing proves that tablets that don't have cult like fan boys are still not priced low enough to make people really want to get ride of there laptops. Though I can't imagine why they would want to make more of the things so they can lose more money, they must be some sort of a bigger plan behind this. Well that or HP really is committing corporate suicide. [Yahoo Finance]

More like a super preservative.

and we hire the lobbyists.

stop buying gasoline if you don't like them.

or at least stop buying so much gasoline

Secret police forces are accountable only to the executive branch of the government, sometimes only to a dictator. They operate entirely or partially in secrecy, that is, most or all of their operations are obscure and hidden from the general public and government except for the topmost executive officials. This semi-official capacity allows the secret police to bolster the government's control over their citizens while also allowing the government to deny prior knowledge of any violations of civil liberties.

With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department has become one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government, an Associated Press investigation has found.

These operations have benefited from unprecedented help from the CIA, a partnership that has blurred the line between foreign and domestic spying.

The department has dispatched undercover officers, known as "rakers," into minority neighborhoods as part of a human mapping program, according to officials directly involved in the program. They've monitored daily life in bookstores, bars, cafes and nightclubs. Police have also used informants, known as "mosque crawlers," to monitor sermons, even when there's no evidence of wrongdoing.

Wake up, you live in a police state.

Microsoft's stock tanked at the Dot Bust, over 10 years ago.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT+Basic+Chart&t=my

It hasn't ever recovered. When Gates left, it didn't even leave a bump in the graph.

To contrast with a different situation...

When Carly Fiorina got kicked out of HP, the market cap of HP bounced 3 billion dollars. In other words, the market thought Carly was a drag on HP by 3 billion.

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BMO

From The Article

China has banned 100 songs from being featured on websites, barring artists ranging from Lady Gaga to the Backstreet Boys apparently for being out of tune with the country's cultural authorities. The ministry of culture said it aimed to regulate the "order" of the Internet music market, adding songs that "harm the security of state culture must be cleaned up and regulated under the law". The notice, issued on August 19 and posted on the ministry's website, included American singer Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory", "Hair", "Marry the Night" and "Bloody Mary".

Dear Chinese Leaders:

You people are about as stupid as a box of fucking hair if you think Beyonce or the Backstreet Boys or Lady Gaga is somehow going to corrupt your already corrupt crony statist capitalism. Please buy a clue: Pop garbage is the BEST way to keep your people in the dark. Look at the USA. The people there fill their lives with an endless stream of horseshit, and the closest thing these boneheads have to a viable "opposition to the system" is the astroturfed morons of the Tea Party who think that government involvement in their Medicare system is a problem, which is a bit like getting the government out of the Dept of Motor Vehicles, but I digress. You get my point. Americans are so doped up on stupid "Reality" TV, barking bullshit on twitter, maundering on what they had for lunch on Facebook, and sitting glazed in front of youtube videos of kittens playing piano, that stuff like Lady Gaga is what passes for high art in these chowderhead's minds. This is NOT subversive - it only works to keep them cowed and stupid and in front of the screen and off the streets.

You should be advocating every bit of brain drool America can send you, and pretty soon your populace will be just as dull and incurious as the Americans.

Now, cheerfully go fuck yourselves you pathetic two bit losers.

RS

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The globe is warming on average. This point is virtually undisputed, and is verified by temperature readings all over the globe and by satellite IR readings.

In science there is always things to dispute

Anyone know why the stock dipped at 12:13 pm on Wed Aug 24 ?

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Basically yes. Molycorp Minerals' facility in Mountain Pass, California went under partly because of environmental concerns created by the incompetence and 'cheap bastardness' of a previous owner. The new owner is cleaning up the past owners mess, and is planning on re-opening the mine. Also, there is potential as described here. Some mines have been idled because China cut the price of minerals to uneconomic levels. With global demand and restrictions on Chinese exports, a lot of 'next cheapest' mines will have the mothballs removed and second sources come onstream.