this might be a cause of why tuition is out of control.
however, you might wonder, why an organization that supposedly has limited budgets is spending money on these projects.
who benefits?
and who benefits when tuition goes up?
i humbly suggest learning about the mortgage market 2000-2008, then realizing the same thing is happening in education; hedge funds are creating a bubble so they can get rich. fuck the students, fuck the social contract. they bubble the student loan market; they securitize the loans, they sell them off to investors. even better; mortgage debt is forgiven in bankruptcy; student loans are not.
if the money comes from the government; the university has no incentive to cut costs... they just tell the students the price will go up. the students get bigger loans from the government, they are too young to understand what it means. the hedgies get rich slicing, dicing and reselling this debt.
and by hedgies, i include the trading desks at 'banks' like Goldman Sachs.
it's been so long i've forgotten most of it. but essentially there are a tangle of tables for various parts of a book record, and a bunch of proprietary indexing garbage. hell i even wrote a layer of python to talk to it... it interfaced with a layer of java that itnerfaced to an ODBC driver... anyways. they were using Oracle and Unix as a backend, but i didnt get to play with that part.
the other staff used to tell me that before they bought it, they went through this survey process; all the librarians and staff liked other systems better, but the main dude decided to buy voyager anyways.
oh there is also an article about voyager in 2600, how it keeps records of every database search, by IP address, and it also keeps records of who checked out what, even long after the records should have been purged. Oh, and did you know that thanks to the PAtriot Act, librarians can get national security letters from the FBI to handover records, and then they cannot talk about having gotten them? (conflict of interest.. i uhmm wrote the rant)
Apparently there is some new version of ARM called EABI and instead of breaking compatability, debian decided to go with a whole new 'arch' to support the changes.
'armel' is the 'new arm'. 'arm' is apparently deprecated.
, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. Allen & Company LLC and UBS Securities LLC are the co-managers.
or some other derivatives they have created that i dont even know the name of?
all they need to do is find some idiot fireman's pension fund to take the other side of the CDS (through 'marketing' and 'distribution') and blammo! its CDO land all over again!
You can google around the web for linkedin bookrunners Here they are
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. Allen & Company LLC and UBS Securities LLC are the co-managers.
these people made a lot from the IPO by getting payed a fat 'fee' for 'arranging it'.
of course some of these, Morgan and Merrill especially, were involved in the first Tech Bubble, and many, many books were written about all of the fraud, lying, and theft that went on in that era.
now the CDO ponzi scheme got shut down, they can go back to the IPO ponzi scheme.
of course Goldman made money, Goldman always makes money. They obviously had a 'special arrangement' with the bookrunners to get a sweet deal on their shares, sell them on the first day. that way, they dont get fucked by the media for screwing everyone if they sell high. someone at goldman is throwing a chair through a window for losing all that potential profit, but someone else is telling them to calm down, they are making it back some other way.
seriously, how fucking stupid do people have to be before they realize that destroying the economy of the entire fucking planet for their own personal benefit is going to end badly? when people start starving to death on a mass scale, you are going to get a revolution. Do they never read the history of Russia or China?
The bank that 'handled' this IPO will make millions off this IPO. it will be spread very well to a few 'bankers' in the 'IPO' department.
IE the bookrunners. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. Allen & Company LLC and UBS Securities LLC are the co-managers.
Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, two of the same companies behind winners like Pets.com.
they cant run the mortgage and CDO ponzi scheme anymore
so they go back to this IPO crap.
and the hedge fund managers who help their 'wealthy investor clients' spot 'market trends' and 'go aggressive' in the 'new paradigm' of 'social entrepeneurship'.
client is another word for sucker.
boosted by bullshit PR stories in the media, like that one about the Princeton people that slashdot faddishly linked to a few weeks back... oh im sure that had nothing at all to do with this IPO. Im sure! oh im so.. oh. oh god
you realize that bear stearns, which funded a lot of those tech IPOs, doesnt exist anymore, right? its dead.
Morgan Stanley, which did a lot of other IPOs... it almost ceased to exist. it had to get bailed out at the last minute by a Japanese company. It was 2 minutes to midnight for Morgan Stanley; it came within a hair's breadth of becoming another Lehman Brothers.
All of that happened because in the late 1990s, they took off all regulations of bubbles. You can say, MAYBE, that it boosted the tech sector. Not something i particularly believe without seeing any evidence but whatever. But that principle, the 'lets go bubble!' thing, as if bubbles are actually positive.... its ludicrous. The major bubbles of history, as described in Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor, in general, produce nothing, no advancements. they only produce skimmed off wealth for an elite who dont do much actual work.
Tulipomania being the perfect example. Just because there is a stupidly large market for tulips, doesn't mean that tulip growers really benefit from the bubble in the end. In fact, they are harmed, because their friends, neighbors, and relatives are likely to have lost money, unemployment rocketed up, and people were thrown into poverty. That doesn't benefit anyone except the most braindead, callous, heartless, disconnected jerk-offs who have no concern for the type of society they live in , and would be just as happy behind a walled fortress in some 3rd world country with a privately hired mercenary force as they would be in a walkup in new york city next to a park, a school, a library, a cafe, a jazz club, a theatre, a fire station, an autobody repair shop, etc.
but you know. fuck being an honest buiness person. that is so old fashioned. right?
whats the harm in a little stock manipulation, fraud, skimming, etc? its not wrong, hell. fuck those liberal commies. am i right?
capitalism. greed is good. more is good. the most is better.
get that cash any way you can, fuck the haters, fuck the naysayers, and fuck the police.
am i right? better yet, buy off the police, and buy off the congress who oversees the police. hell yeah.
i love that our entire economy is based upon the business model of the fucking drug mafia. i used to think people watched the Sopranos to ponder the nature of morality. now i understand they watched it because they admired tony soprano.
you realize, the crisis of 2008 caused food riots all over the world? people were starving to death?
if you want to know why the world hates 'the west', this shit is why. this shit is why everyone laughs when Obama says he wants to stop corruption in the middle east. we practically have become a nation that is built on corruption. honesty is a fucking joke, the only way to get payed is to whore yourself out to some bank who, in fact, only exists because the taxpayers, all those window washers and mcdonalds cashiers and walmart shelvers, bailed it out.
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oh well, at least they can still work at best buy or mcdonalds.
oh wait, mcdonalds is automating checkouts too.
well, at least they can still work at the mall selling dippin dots.
it's the ice cream of the future.
the only people benefiting from tuition hikes are corrupt contractors and banks/hedge funds.
this might be a cause of why tuition is out of control.
however, you might wonder, why an organization that supposedly has limited budgets is spending money on these projects.
who benefits?
and who benefits when tuition goes up?
i humbly suggest learning about the mortgage market 2000-2008, then realizing the same thing is happening in education; hedge funds are creating a bubble so they can get rich. fuck the students, fuck the social contract. they bubble the student loan market; they securitize the loans, they sell them off to investors. even better; mortgage debt is forgiven in bankruptcy; student loans are not.
if the money comes from the government; the university has no incentive to cut costs... they just tell the students the price will go up. the students get bigger loans from the government, they are too young to understand what it means. the hedgies get rich slicing, dicing and reselling this debt.
and by hedgies, i include the trading desks at 'banks' like Goldman Sachs.
it's been so long i've forgotten most of it. but essentially there are a tangle of tables for various parts of a book record, and a bunch of proprietary indexing garbage. hell i even wrote a layer of python to talk to it... it interfaced with a layer of java that itnerfaced to an ODBC driver... anyways. they were using Oracle and Unix as a backend, but i didnt get to play with that part.
the other staff used to tell me that before they bought it, they went through this survey process; all the librarians and staff liked other systems better, but the main dude decided to buy voyager anyways.
oh there is also an article about voyager in 2600, how it keeps records of every database search, by IP address, and it also keeps records of who checked out what, even long after the records should have been purged. Oh, and did you know that thanks to the PAtriot Act, librarians can get national security letters from the FBI to handover records, and then they cannot talk about having gotten them? (conflict of interest.. i uhmm wrote the rant)
nowdays you can predownload cataloging data partially filled out
if we let people have any old package they want, it would be total anarchy! chaos! disorder!
i do not think i exaggerate when i say that this so called freedom to choose the packages on one's system is the common argument of the terrorist.
man, did i wake up on the wrong side of a time travel machine?
and/or "incestuous".
its very strange indeed. how do they recharge their cellphones?
sounds like some kind of disease...
theres an old uhm article about why the C language and/or Unix became popular, i think its called 'Worse is better'.
nor of my Monster mouse cable
http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Debian_lenny_arm_small.aj.qcow2.zip
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arm vs armel
Apparently there is some new version of ARM called EABI and instead of breaking compatability, debian decided to go with a whole new 'arch' to support the changes.
'armel' is the 'new arm'. 'arm' is apparently deprecated.
Please see http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ and http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort
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enjoy! right now all they have is like the stuff you could buy at Dollar Tree , but i think its only a matter of time.
dude that happened like last year, more than 20 people got killed
but dead-on funny satire
that was a damn fine rant. accurate too. would have liked more details myself but at least you 'get it'.
the bookrunners for linkedin are as follows:
, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. Allen & Company LLC and UBS Securities LLC are the co-managers.
UBS just put a whistleblower in jail IIRC
or some other derivatives they have created that i dont even know the name of?
all they need to do is find some idiot fireman's pension fund to take the other side of the CDS (through 'marketing' and 'distribution') and blammo! its CDO land all over again!
You can google around the web for linkedin bookrunners
Here they are
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. Allen & Company LLC and UBS Securities LLC are the co-managers.
these people made a lot from the IPO by getting payed a fat 'fee' for 'arranging it'.
of course some of these, Morgan and Merrill especially, were involved in the first Tech Bubble, and many, many books were written about all of the fraud, lying, and theft that went on in that era.
now the CDO ponzi scheme got shut down, they can go back to the IPO ponzi scheme.
of course Goldman made money, Goldman always makes money. They obviously had a 'special arrangement' with the bookrunners to get a sweet deal on their shares, sell them on the first day. that way, they dont get fucked by the media for screwing everyone if they sell high. someone at goldman is throwing a chair through a window for losing all that potential profit, but someone else is telling them to calm down, they are making it back some other way.
seriously, how fucking stupid do people have to be before they realize that destroying the economy of the entire fucking planet for their own personal benefit is going to end badly? when people start starving to death on a mass scale, you are going to get a revolution. Do they never read the history of Russia or China?
The bank that 'handled' this IPO will make millions off this IPO. it will be spread very well to a few 'bankers' in the 'IPO' department.
IE the bookrunners. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. Allen & Company LLC and UBS Securities LLC are the co-managers.
Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, two of the same companies behind winners like Pets.com.
they cant run the mortgage and CDO ponzi scheme anymore
so they go back to this IPO crap.
and the hedge fund managers who help their 'wealthy investor clients' spot 'market trends' and 'go aggressive' in the 'new paradigm' of 'social entrepeneurship'.
client is another word for sucker.
boosted by bullshit PR stories in the media, like that one about the Princeton people that slashdot faddishly linked to a few weeks back... oh im sure that had nothing at all to do with this IPO. Im sure! oh im so.. oh. oh god
sarcasm overload. sorry.
man, i can just smell the 'financial reform'.
seriously.
you realize that bear stearns, which funded a lot of those tech IPOs, doesnt exist anymore, right? its dead.
Morgan Stanley, which did a lot of other IPOs... it almost ceased to exist. it had to get bailed out at the last minute by a Japanese company. It was 2 minutes to midnight for Morgan Stanley; it came within a hair's breadth of becoming another Lehman Brothers.
All of that happened because in the late 1990s, they took off all regulations of bubbles. You can say, MAYBE, that it boosted the tech sector. Not something i particularly believe without seeing any evidence but whatever. But that principle, the 'lets go bubble!' thing, as if bubbles are actually positive.... its ludicrous. The major bubbles of history, as described in Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor, in general, produce nothing, no advancements. they only produce skimmed off wealth for an elite who dont do much actual work.
Tulipomania being the perfect example. Just because there is a stupidly large market for tulips, doesn't mean that tulip growers really benefit from the bubble in the end. In fact, they are harmed, because their friends, neighbors, and relatives are likely to have lost money, unemployment rocketed up, and people were thrown into poverty. That doesn't benefit anyone except the most braindead, callous, heartless, disconnected jerk-offs who have no concern for the type of society they live in , and would be just as happy behind a walled fortress in some 3rd world country with a privately hired mercenary force as they would be in a walkup in new york city next to a park, a school, a library, a cafe, a jazz club, a theatre, a fire station, an autobody repair shop, etc.
but you know. fuck being an honest buiness person. that is so old fashioned. right?
whats the harm in a little stock manipulation, fraud, skimming, etc? its not wrong, hell. fuck those liberal commies. am i right?
capitalism. greed is good. more is good. the most is better.
get that cash any way you can, fuck the haters, fuck the naysayers, and fuck the police.
am i right? better yet, buy off the police, and buy off the congress who oversees the police. hell yeah.
i love that our entire economy is based upon the business model of the fucking drug mafia. i used to think people watched the Sopranos to ponder the nature of morality. now i understand they watched it because they admired tony soprano.
you realize, the crisis of 2008 caused food riots all over the world? people were starving to death?
if you want to know why the world hates 'the west', this shit is why. this shit is why everyone laughs when Obama says he wants to stop corruption in the middle east. we practically have become a nation that is built on corruption. honesty is a fucking joke, the only way to get payed is to whore yourself out to some bank who, in fact, only exists because the taxpayers, all those window washers and mcdonalds cashiers and walmart shelvers, bailed it out.