I was there in 2010-11. The only people who thought it was rolling were the delusional democrats who just had a couple full years of owning Senate, House and White House. That's why the Republicans won the house, then the senate, and now the White House. They will likely lose the house in 2 years, the Senate and possibly the White House in 4, because they are that stupid.
Oh, I have no doubt there is a bubble in the market, similar to 2007, for essentially the same reason. However, rather than blaming everyone but the people responsible (Republicans and Democrats in congress), we're blaming the people trying to make a buck doing whatever they can (often shady) to avoid or comply with stupid regulations in creative ways.
I am not familiar with REITs except in a very general sense, but Real Estate has been fucked up since Frank-Dodd social engineering via legislation was enacted. Rather that understanding the crux of the problem in under represented communities, they blame everyone and anyone for those problems, rather than the people actually responsible.
People are looking for security in a world less secure than it was a few years ago, in spite of all the people in DC promising to protect them from whatever boogie man triggers the fear instinct in people.
There is no security, except that which you provide for yourself. If you're looking for others to secure your blessings, you'll always be disappointed.
"States can" isn't necessarily a good motto for why federal shouldn't
That's cute, A complete opposite of what the Constitution actually says in the 10th Amendment. It says (basically) that unless it is specifically authorized by the Constitution, it is reserved to the States and People. The real reason for the Civil War wasn't slavery (and white supremacy), it was Federal supremacy. We won the battle (slavery), but lost the war (tyranny) in the process. We're just discovering how costly that loss really was.
At some point in the future, V-Ger will return to its creator, having attained knowledge of everything. At that point, we're screwed, unless we have a sexy bald officer on hand.
The real value of Oil (or anything really) is the difficulty in producing it, and rarity. While is easy to extract, and is plentiful, it will be less expensive than the harder it is to get, and how rare it becomes. Because it is used up (burned), there is a constant need for supply, and therefore, the work done with oil (cars, heating etc) is equal to, or less than the cost to generate it.
Understanding supply demand curves is still important. As demand increases, the supply drops. As supply drops, the price goes up. As price goes up, the growth in effort in increasing supply, and demand drops. As demand drops, supply and prices drop. It all works towards a imaginary point of equilibrium.
However, I would like to suggest that Data wants to be free (easily duplicated, see Streisand Effect for example), and People want data to be secret. The ONLY valuable data is that which remains under control of dissemination.
Data itself isn't powerful, what is powerful is what it can do or what it can prevent. Think of it this way, when man learned he could control fire, that was huge, but not as huge as learning how to generate it. The data (ability to control fire) led to all sorts of things. And it was once only in control of a few "enlightened" people, who realized not only could fire produce heat, and cook, and all the things, but it could also control people. And that was the beginning of the "secret arts" of the Magicians, Shamans, Wise-man and Chiefs. Data is the same thing. Secret information has power, but when everyone learns what that data can do, it has less power.
Which gets me to my point, which is, the things of value in this world are things that are hard to attain / gain. Common things are not valuable. Now that everyone has (or can have) a box of matches or a lighter, the value of fire is less than the kingdom it once was. Real value is created when you provide something that is Unique to the marketplace. Something nobody else has, that everyone else wants; Fire 10,000 years ago, data gathering today.
I had insurance before and after ObamaCare, My premiums have gone up every years, not down. ObamaCare was supposed to save money, but my deductable has doubled, my out of pocket / copays have gone up, my monthly contribution is doubled.
I didn't say it was enough to use just Google Play Store, I said it was the best option. The other option is installing the same apps from untrusted sources, which have surely been compromised rather than the probably more legit ones in the store.
The best option is only install Apps you actually need, from companies that have been around a while. Most of the Crapware is on Crap apps that don't actually do anything, using permissions sets that should set of all kinds of alarms.
I get a new phone every two years or so. I don't buy top of the line, Samsung/Apple phones, or from the carrier. My current phone is a OnePlus 3T which is far better than my previous Google Nexus 6P in just about every way I need it to be. The one area that the 6P was better, was the special bands my carrier uses in my area to extend range, which my current phone does not have. But it isn't standard LTE frequencies,and only Tmo has them.
The phone was about 1/2 price of the top of the line phone, and compares well against it. I can afford a phone every two years, or top of the line one every 4. Now you know.
1) Retail is dead. Probably has more to do with Amazon than anything else. I can go to Amazon, pay less, have it delivered than get it locally at the neighborhood store. Hell, I'm buying more and more stuff via Amazon simply to save money.
2) is a repeat of #1
3) is a repeat of #1
4) Atlanta FED is only one, and may be "regional". Since you didn't post a source, I don't know.
5) In my area, restaurants are booming business. I suspect that will change when Min Wage get raised and Robots take over. Any job that can be replaced by a robot probably should be.
6) Factory Orders are up, not down. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/04... "Excluding aircrafts, nondefense orders were up 0.5 percent, the sixth straight month of positive growth. " - http://www.econotimes.com/US-f... Of course, I can cherry pick numbers that describe exact opposite of your un-documented cherry picked numbers.
7) Labor Participation rates are the lowest in 40 years. This one is on Obama, the Democrats and Republicans for not addressing during the last 8 years. Must be GWB's fault.
11) "The US Economy is NOT ok " Yup, pretty much what a lot of people have been saying for the last 15 years or so. I personally blame both the D and R parties for not caring enough about the economy, and more concerned with Men peeing in the Girls Bathroom and who can marry who, and "hands up don't shoot", and just about everything else, but the economy.
IMHO, the Government should get the fuck out of the way of people who want to be productive, and work. Stop punishing success, and rewarding failure. Stop the ever increasing tax burden on middle class, and focus on actually making EVERYONE's lives better.
You really think the Democrats care about people's health care, or more concerned about creating another entitled voting class of citizens?
I can assure you, as ObamaCare premiums were skyrocketing, as was deductibles, while choices/options were falling, the Democrats didn't give two shits for the people actually paying for their health insurance. They don't care, they pretend to care better than Republicans, which is why you think "hurry up and die" is only a Republican issue, when the reality is, "hurry up and die" is nature itself, and a key function of evolution. You believe in evolution, right?
Well, 9 Months was long enough for GWB to orchestrate the biggest massacre in US History (9/11), and coordinate a huge "War for Oil"... all the while being a "Idiot". And 8 years of Obama was also blamed on GWB. So, GWB, in 8 years screwed us for 16 years. Now, we're actually entering in the fallout of the last 8 years of Obama, and anything good for the next eight years is all on Obama, but all the bad stuff will be on Trump or GWB.
Most of the "discovered" malware is in APKs (where's the Appy App Guy?) that is on sources other than the Google Play Store. You have to want to be infected to be infected. Kind a like saying "My google was hacked" during the last few days, when the reality is, you "allowed" it to be installed.
"Build the wall" is considered "hate speech" even though it doesn't conform to any of the GP posts list. I've argued that Cameron Diaz being "Hispanic" being blond and having blue eyes wouldn't conform to the "brown skin" narrative the left loves to portray. That narrative, which wrongly groups entire ethic and racial populations into a group that is neither racial or ethnic, anymore than French are a race/ethnicity.
This is the problem with "hate speech" definitions, is that the "groups" keep changing depending on the context of the "oppressed" group. Me personally, any time a Democrat ignores the violence in Democrat run cities like Chicago and Philly, or worse, blames it all on "white racism" (which does conform to the GP post) as TRUE hate. They claim to care, but when push comes to shove, they fucking HATE inner city blacks, and practically restrict them via government programs from ever leaving.
Again, it is all about how you look at things... but I am a racist, what do I know.
Or how about the recent stabbing attack in Austin, stopped by a Concealed Carry gun. Oh wait, that bit never hit the MSM news so you might not know about it. Or the thousands of other crimes stopped by armed citizens.
Personally, I am more scared of a disarmed populace in the face of a well armed government, than I am of a random attack, one even in a "no gun zone".
The problem with you Americans is that your electoral scheme
It isn't our electoral scheme, it is the binary nature of our electoral system, that wasn't designed to be binary. Early on, there were plenty of parties that participated, and won elections. But as the power corrupted people, the two parties colluded to add in "rules" about how primaries were supposed to work, and now we have everyone from Commie Pinkos to Moderately conservatives in the Democrats, and Far Right idiots to liberal RINOs in the Republicans.
The system wasn't designed to be this way. The Elections of the REPs (aka House) was supposed to represent the communities. The Senate was supposed to represent the States (as a whole) and the Presidency was designed to be a balance between States and Communities (electoral college).
In the way the system was designed, People would vote for their Representatives with each Representative accounting for 30,000 people. The small city I live in, would have 5 of them, but currently we share ours with like seven other cities and towns, across several counties.The State legislatures would elect the Senate, and the Whole Nation in a balanced approach would elect a President. We were supposed to be a Representative Republic.
The Two party system has ruined this, completely. And right now, nobody can see past the two party system to get to a real solution to the problem, and get us back to a Republic. The simple fix would be as follows:
1) Revert the Senate Elections back to the States Legislatures. 2) Increase the Number of Representatives by a factor of 4. (Better and Closer representation) 3) Change the format of the Presidential Primary "Open" with run offs as needed. Use the Electoral College even in the Primary. First person to the required number wins. 4) NO party indicators on any ballots allowed.
I realize that the stupid people won't know how to vote "party line" without having a (D) or (R) behind their name, and perhaps that isn't such a bad thing.
I've used Cyanogen when it had TrueCaller Support. It was very helpful in weeding out unsolicited phone calls (robo-calls, telemarketers etc). A phone number should identify who is calling. If you don't want people to know your number, then hide it using a proxy phone service or get something like GoogleVoice that protects your true number from anyone you don't like.
Also, you can disable it (not use it). No big deal
Trying to avoid a "lawsuit" by not naming them. I'm all for Name n Shame, but the lawyers will sue when the vendor's stupid app was named and they claim it didn't (even when it did) and they lost "Millions in revenue" (previous 8 months they did $50).
Sad world we live in, where the lawyers fuck everything up protecting the guilty.
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I was there in 2010-11. The only people who thought it was rolling were the delusional democrats who just had a couple full years of owning Senate, House and White House. That's why the Republicans won the house, then the senate, and now the White House. They will likely lose the house in 2 years, the Senate and possibly the White House in 4, because they are that stupid.
Oh, I have no doubt there is a bubble in the market, similar to 2007, for essentially the same reason. However, rather than blaming everyone but the people responsible (Republicans and Democrats in congress), we're blaming the people trying to make a buck doing whatever they can (often shady) to avoid or comply with stupid regulations in creative ways.
I am not familiar with REITs except in a very general sense, but Real Estate has been fucked up since Frank-Dodd social engineering via legislation was enacted. Rather that understanding the crux of the problem in under represented communities, they blame everyone and anyone for those problems, rather than the people actually responsible.
People are looking for security in a world less secure than it was a few years ago, in spite of all the people in DC promising to protect them from whatever boogie man triggers the fear instinct in people.
There is no security, except that which you provide for yourself. If you're looking for others to secure your blessings, you'll always be disappointed.
"States can" isn't necessarily a good motto for why federal shouldn't
That's cute, A complete opposite of what the Constitution actually says in the 10th Amendment. It says (basically) that unless it is specifically authorized by the Constitution, it is reserved to the States and People. The real reason for the Civil War wasn't slavery (and white supremacy), it was Federal supremacy. We won the battle (slavery), but lost the war (tyranny) in the process. We're just discovering how costly that loss really was.
I want to invest in Exxon/Google but they still haven't looked at my merger suggestion.
At some point in the future, V-Ger will return to its creator, having attained knowledge of everything. At that point, we're screwed, unless we have a sexy bald officer on hand.
The real value of Oil (or anything really) is the difficulty in producing it, and rarity. While is easy to extract, and is plentiful, it will be less expensive than the harder it is to get, and how rare it becomes. Because it is used up (burned), there is a constant need for supply, and therefore, the work done with oil (cars, heating etc) is equal to, or less than the cost to generate it.
Understanding supply demand curves is still important. As demand increases, the supply drops. As supply drops, the price goes up. As price goes up, the growth in effort in increasing supply, and demand drops. As demand drops, supply and prices drop. It all works towards a imaginary point of equilibrium.
You're more or less correct.
However, I would like to suggest that Data wants to be free (easily duplicated, see Streisand Effect for example), and People want data to be secret. The ONLY valuable data is that which remains under control of dissemination.
Data itself isn't powerful, what is powerful is what it can do or what it can prevent. Think of it this way, when man learned he could control fire, that was huge, but not as huge as learning how to generate it. The data (ability to control fire) led to all sorts of things. And it was once only in control of a few "enlightened" people, who realized not only could fire produce heat, and cook, and all the things, but it could also control people. And that was the beginning of the "secret arts" of the Magicians, Shamans, Wise-man and Chiefs. Data is the same thing. Secret information has power, but when everyone learns what that data can do, it has less power.
Which gets me to my point, which is, the things of value in this world are things that are hard to attain / gain. Common things are not valuable. Now that everyone has (or can have) a box of matches or a lighter, the value of fire is less than the kingdom it once was. Real value is created when you provide something that is Unique to the marketplace. Something nobody else has, that everyone else wants; Fire 10,000 years ago, data gathering today.
'That time I hired a call girl to do my taxes while I fucked my accountant' - McAfee
I had insurance before and after ObamaCare, My premiums have gone up every years, not down. ObamaCare was supposed to save money, but my deductable has doubled, my out of pocket / copays have gone up, my monthly contribution is doubled.
Anecdotal evidence is best!
I didn't say it was enough to use just Google Play Store, I said it was the best option. The other option is installing the same apps from untrusted sources, which have surely been compromised rather than the probably more legit ones in the store.
The best option is only install Apps you actually need, from companies that have been around a while. Most of the Crapware is on Crap apps that don't actually do anything, using permissions sets that should set of all kinds of alarms.
I get a new phone every two years or so. I don't buy top of the line, Samsung/Apple phones, or from the carrier. My current phone is a OnePlus 3T which is far better than my previous Google Nexus 6P in just about every way I need it to be. The one area that the 6P was better, was the special bands my carrier uses in my area to extend range, which my current phone does not have. But it isn't standard LTE frequencies,and only Tmo has them.
The phone was about 1/2 price of the top of the line phone, and compares well against it. I can afford a phone every two years, or top of the line one every 4. Now you know.
1) Retail is dead. Probably has more to do with Amazon than anything else. I can go to Amazon, pay less, have it delivered than get it locally at the neighborhood store. Hell, I'm buying more and more stuff via Amazon simply to save money.
2) is a repeat of #1
3) is a repeat of #1
4) Atlanta FED is only one, and may be "regional". Since you didn't post a source, I don't know.
5) In my area, restaurants are booming business. I suspect that will change when Min Wage get raised and Robots take over. Any job that can be replaced by a robot probably should be.
6) Factory Orders are up, not down. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/04... "Excluding aircrafts, nondefense orders were up 0.5 percent, the sixth straight month of positive growth. " - http://www.econotimes.com/US-f... Of course, I can cherry pick numbers that describe exact opposite of your un-documented cherry picked numbers.
7) Labor Participation rates are the lowest in 40 years. This one is on Obama, the Democrats and Republicans for not addressing during the last 8 years. Must be GWB's fault.
8) Tax reciepts are at record levels ... - http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...
9) We've been saying for some time that sales have plateaued at a high level, - http://www.businessinsider.com...
10) Have no idea where you get these facts.
11) "The US Economy is NOT ok " Yup, pretty much what a lot of people have been saying for the last 15 years or so. I personally blame both the D and R parties for not caring enough about the economy, and more concerned with Men peeing in the Girls Bathroom and who can marry who, and "hands up don't shoot", and just about everything else, but the economy.
IMHO, the Government should get the fuck out of the way of people who want to be productive, and work. Stop punishing success, and rewarding failure. Stop the ever increasing tax burden on middle class, and focus on actually making EVERYONE's lives better.
You really think the Democrats care about people's health care, or more concerned about creating another entitled voting class of citizens?
I can assure you, as ObamaCare premiums were skyrocketing, as was deductibles, while choices/options were falling, the Democrats didn't give two shits for the people actually paying for their health insurance. They don't care, they pretend to care better than Republicans, which is why you think "hurry up and die" is only a Republican issue, when the reality is, "hurry up and die" is nature itself, and a key function of evolution. You believe in evolution, right?
But remember, if this was Obama, the answer would be exactly the opposite ... yes, yes and no.
You see, Obama would NEVER do such a thing ... ever.
Well, 9 Months was long enough for GWB to orchestrate the biggest massacre in US History (9/11), and coordinate a huge "War for Oil" ... all the while being a "Idiot". And 8 years of Obama was also blamed on GWB. So, GWB, in 8 years screwed us for 16 years. Now, we're actually entering in the fallout of the last 8 years of Obama, and anything good for the next eight years is all on Obama, but all the bad stuff will be on Trump or GWB.
Duh.
No.
Most of the "discovered" malware is in APKs (where's the Appy App Guy?) that is on sources other than the Google Play Store. You have to want to be infected to be infected. Kind a like saying "My google was hacked" during the last few days, when the reality is, you "allowed" it to be installed.
"Build the wall" is considered "hate speech" even though it doesn't conform to any of the GP posts list. I've argued that Cameron Diaz being "Hispanic" being blond and having blue eyes wouldn't conform to the "brown skin" narrative the left loves to portray. That narrative, which wrongly groups entire ethic and racial populations into a group that is neither racial or ethnic, anymore than French are a race/ethnicity.
This is the problem with "hate speech" definitions, is that the "groups" keep changing depending on the context of the "oppressed" group. Me personally, any time a Democrat ignores the violence in Democrat run cities like Chicago and Philly, or worse, blames it all on "white racism" (which does conform to the GP post) as TRUE hate. They claim to care, but when push comes to shove, they fucking HATE inner city blacks, and practically restrict them via government programs from ever leaving.
Again, it is all about how you look at things ... but I am a racist, what do I know.
I'll take threats of "suing" over the BlackBloc riots actually stopping free speeches. But yeah, you totally have your priorities spot on.
Or how about the recent stabbing attack in Austin, stopped by a Concealed Carry gun. Oh wait, that bit never hit the MSM news so you might not know about it. Or the thousands of other crimes stopped by armed citizens.
Personally, I am more scared of a disarmed populace in the face of a well armed government, than I am of a random attack, one even in a "no gun zone".
The problem with you Americans is that your electoral scheme
It isn't our electoral scheme, it is the binary nature of our electoral system, that wasn't designed to be binary. Early on, there were plenty of parties that participated, and won elections. But as the power corrupted people, the two parties colluded to add in "rules" about how primaries were supposed to work, and now we have everyone from Commie Pinkos to Moderately conservatives in the Democrats, and Far Right idiots to liberal RINOs in the Republicans.
The system wasn't designed to be this way. The Elections of the REPs (aka House) was supposed to represent the communities. The Senate was supposed to represent the States (as a whole) and the Presidency was designed to be a balance between States and Communities (electoral college).
In the way the system was designed, People would vote for their Representatives with each Representative accounting for 30,000 people. The small city I live in, would have 5 of them, but currently we share ours with like seven other cities and towns, across several counties.The State legislatures would elect the Senate, and the Whole Nation in a balanced approach would elect a President. We were supposed to be a Representative Republic.
The Two party system has ruined this, completely. And right now, nobody can see past the two party system to get to a real solution to the problem, and get us back to a Republic. The simple fix would be as follows:
1) Revert the Senate Elections back to the States Legislatures.
2) Increase the Number of Representatives by a factor of 4. (Better and Closer representation)
3) Change the format of the Presidential Primary "Open" with run offs as needed. Use the Electoral College even in the Primary. First person to the required number wins.
4) NO party indicators on any ballots allowed.
I realize that the stupid people won't know how to vote "party line" without having a (D) or (R) behind their name, and perhaps that isn't such a bad thing.
I've used Cyanogen when it had TrueCaller Support. It was very helpful in weeding out unsolicited phone calls (robo-calls, telemarketers etc). A phone number should identify who is calling. If you don't want people to know your number, then hide it using a proxy phone service or get something like GoogleVoice that protects your true number from anyone you don't like.
Also, you can disable it (not use it). No big deal
Lawyers.
Next question!
Trying to avoid a "lawsuit" by not naming them. I'm all for Name n Shame, but the lawyers will sue when the vendor's stupid app was named and they claim it didn't (even when it did) and they lost "Millions in revenue" (previous 8 months they did $50).
Sad world we live in, where the lawyers fuck everything up protecting the guilty.
'yes', 'no', and 'fake it'.
This is pure evil genius.
See OnePlus 3(t) slider, which is three position for alerts, but similar to what you are asking for. As in "Doable".
What I would like is a programmable slider, one that I could make it disable mic or camera.