Hah. Privatization is a great idea? Look what is happening in the financial industry right now. They are so screwed up that the government, crooked and incompetent as it is is having to bail them out. And you want to turn Social Security over to them? Ask Enron employees how their 401Ks and pensions worked out.
Actually Social Security is not in that bad a shape. A tweak like taking off the cap on contributions would probably fix it. It is Medicare that is screwed.
It makes a lot of sense to have energy as the universal currency. Gold is fscking useless - can't do anything with it except make wedding rings. Energy though....
Exactly. After 15 years of hard work and careful budgeting I am nearing completion of the mortgage on my house. I certainly feel no sympathy towards those less diligent or careful in managing their finances who are being foreclosed.
As to those greedy fucks who have manipulated the financial system into it's current mess... the Constitution prohibits what I would like to see done to these jerks.
Unfortunately reality is that the system is sick and may need some support by the government to give stability to the banking system. I sure don't want to seen this spiral into a depression or see my money market deposits, 401K etc. in jeopardy. But for every bank, financial institution or investment firm that receives this help I want to see the senior executives and boards out on the street, stripped of their stock options, golden parachutes and fat pensions, along with a deep anal probe to determine if there was anything illegal going on as well. If there was they can rot in jail next to the Enron etc. scum.
And I want the government to insist on senior warrants that insure that any money loaned can be recovered.
over 65 per mile accident rates start to increase after 75-85 per mile accident rates are equivalent to teenagers over 85 is the worst group on the road today per mile.
But insurance rates don't reflect these per mile rates because elderly drivers generally use good judgment - not driving at night, sticking to local roads, driving less, etc.
Many states have tried programs like vision tests, road tests, and so on. None of these programs has had great success in sorting out who is fit to drive and who is not. However just putting the tests in place does seem to discourage marginal drivers from continuing to drive.
Buy and hold long stock positions works well if you are in a secular bull market. These last about 15 years or so, the last one ended in 2001 or so. We are now in a secular bear market, which has another 7-10 years to go. In that market you need to be ready to rotate between commodities, bonds, real estate and stocks. Cash maybe ok if you are trying to figure out what to do next, but not for anything more than a month or two.
The market is always being heavily manipulated. The key thing is that there are many good companies out there going for depressed prices. This is an opportunity.
The "Ownership Economy" included private equity accounts funded by your social security payments. As you might imagine that idea would have most of America up in arms right now.
your own government doesn't stick to the rules anyway
All governments try to fuck over their citizens.
This is why the American concept of natural rights (derived from the Enlightenment) is so important. Rights are not something granted by government. They belong to all living beings and cannot be revoked by any government.
If the government is messing around with your rights too much it is your right and duty to fix it.
There were multiple depressions during the 19th century and early part of the 19th century. 1807-1814, 1837-1844, 1873-1879, 1893-1898 and 1929-1941.
The explanation you cite doesn't apply to the other 19th century economic crashes.
Monopolies and Cartels - the Prisoner's Dilemma does not apply to monopolies, only oligopolies acting as cartels. And it is not as simple as the basic statement of the dilemma as people ARE capable of long term thinking. This is why cartels like De Beers have lasted so long.
Yes, free market worked oh so well during the 19th and early 20th century in the US. Huge depressions evey 20 years, 25% of all workers maimed on the job, massive cartels and monopolies, child labor, food riots, dustbowls, etc.
The problem with not allowing traffic shaping is that there are some services that need this to work well. For example VOIP benefits from traffic shaping on a saturated node.
"In 2012 we will be in a true HD world. Everything from your television to your camcorder will be offering you pictures in high-definition, and we plan to offer you that HD world from all angles."
But Samsung is backing a different technology in the long-term. At the IFA trade show in Berlin this month, both Samsung and Sony demonstrated cutting-edge OLED screen televisions.
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HD and OLED are BluRay are orthogonal. All three can certainly coexist. There is no reason to expect that OLED would may BluRay obsolete unless there is some increase in resolution implicit in the adoption of OLED.
Also, there is no particular reason that BluRay need be limited to only optical media. It is perfectly reasonable that a BluRay player could support delivery of content via a network, or a flash memory device.
TFA makes no sense what so ever. It is completely bonkers.
Exactly - the article is one big non-sequitur. They state at the beginning BluRay has maybe a 5 year lifetime, that in 5 years EVERYTHING is going to be HD and that they are pumping money into OLED R&D.
Nothing about what is going to replace BluRay, and in fact the one reference to BluRay in the article is in brackets, indicating that it was no part of the quote but rather inserted by the article author. For all we know Samsung was referring to something else entirely, possibly LCD or plasma.
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Hah. Privatization is a great idea? Look what is happening in the financial industry right now. They are so screwed up that the government, crooked and incompetent as it is is having to bail them out. And you want to turn Social Security over to them? Ask Enron employees how their 401Ks and pensions worked out.
Actually Social Security is not in that bad a shape. A tweak like taking off the cap on contributions would probably fix it. It is Medicare that is screwed.
It makes a lot of sense to have energy as the universal currency. Gold is fscking useless - can't do anything with it except make wedding rings. Energy though....
Still the observation that Carly is a pretty crappy choice as an advisor is quite valid.
Exactly. After 15 years of hard work and careful budgeting I am nearing completion of the mortgage on my house. I certainly feel no sympathy towards those less diligent or careful in managing their finances who are being foreclosed.
As to those greedy fucks who have manipulated the financial system into it's current mess... the Constitution prohibits what I would like to see done to these jerks.
Unfortunately reality is that the system is sick and may need some support by the government to give stability to the banking system. I sure don't want to seen this spiral into a depression or see my money market deposits, 401K etc. in jeopardy. But for every bank, financial institution or investment firm that receives this help I want to see the senior executives and boards out on the street, stripped of their stock options, golden parachutes and fat pensions, along with a deep anal probe to determine if there was anything illegal going on as well. If there was they can rot in jail next to the Enron etc. scum.
And I want the government to insist on senior warrants that insure that any money loaned can be recovered.
I have not seen an equivalent increase in pay that comes close to the increase in productivity.
This is not unique to IT. It's been a real structural problem in the US economy for the past decade or so.
over 65 per mile accident rates start to increase
after 75-85 per mile accident rates are equivalent to teenagers
over 85 is the worst group on the road today per mile.
But insurance rates don't reflect these per mile rates because elderly drivers generally use good judgment - not driving at night, sticking to local roads, driving less, etc.
Many states have tried programs like vision tests, road tests, and so on. None of these programs has had great success in sorting out who is fit to drive and who is not. However just putting the tests in place does seem to discourage marginal drivers from continuing to drive.
Buy and hold long stock positions works well if you are in a secular bull market. These last about 15 years or so, the last one ended in 2001 or so. We are now in a secular bear market, which has another 7-10 years to go. In that market you need to be ready to rotate between commodities, bonds, real estate and stocks. Cash maybe ok if you are trying to figure out what to do next, but not for anything more than a month or two.
At age 24 you should not be in cash unless you are planning for an expense like a house down payment in the bext few years.
The market is always being heavily manipulated. The key thing is that there are many good companies out there going for depressed prices. This is an opportunity.
The "Ownership Economy" included private equity accounts funded by your social security payments. As you might imagine that idea would have most of America up in arms right now.
Fidelity.com
AAII.org
Vanguard.com
are two good places to start.
So, science is open to all topics except religion, eh?
Doesn't sound very open to me, or very scientific.
You obviously should spend some time reading on the philosophy of science before spouting such utter rubbish.
Limited installs is not acceptable. I am off to cancel my Red Alert preorder and leave a nasty review.
your own government doesn't stick to the rules anyway
All governments try to fuck over their citizens.
This is why the American concept of natural rights (derived from the Enlightenment) is so important. Rights are not something granted by government. They belong to all living beings and cannot be revoked by any government.
If the government is messing around with your rights too much it is your right and duty to fix it.
There were multiple depressions during the 19th century and early part of the 19th century. 1807-1814, 1837-1844, 1873-1879, 1893-1898 and 1929-1941.
The explanation you cite doesn't apply to the other 19th century economic crashes.
Monopolies and Cartels - the Prisoner's Dilemma does not apply to monopolies, only oligopolies acting as cartels. And it is not as simple as the basic statement of the dilemma as people ARE capable of long term thinking. This is why cartels like De Beers have lasted so long.
Yes, free market worked oh so well during the 19th and early 20th century in the US. Huge depressions evey 20 years, 25% of all workers maimed on the job, massive cartels and monopolies, child labor, food riots, dustbowls, etc.
The gas company charges per cubic foot, which is not a flat rate as far as I can tell.
Ultimately it is an issue of fairness. Granny WWW uses 15 MB per month. Harry P2P uses 1600 GB per month. No reason they should pay the same.
Unless ISPs can recover the costs associated with the Harry P2P's of the world they will not have any incentive to invest in infrastructure.
+1 to this. I was a big Monarch customer, but they got bought out, run into the ground and then went bust. What a shame.
So now I am looking for an ala carte integerator that will put a machine together for me like Monarch used to.
Just sit in the Pentagon parking lot with a wardriving kit and you will have no problem getting in.
I think he is thinking of the Finnish Court Ruling that stated it's ok to rip DVDs because CSS is not effective any more.
Not sure that applies in the US.
DVD vs. some low quality streamed video loaded with DRM?
Not even close to being interested. Many DVDs are available used for what Amazon is charging for a rental.
The problem with not allowing traffic shaping is that there are some services that need this to work well. For example VOIP benefits from traffic shaping on a saturated node.
Netflix download HD movies? I don't think Netflix supports HD movie downloads.
The movies that you download from Netflix probably are in the 0.5 - 1 GB range at max, less if it is a TV series episode.
If you downloaded a movie every day to each of 4 computers you are probably less than 1/2 of the 250 MB.
Here is what the article says:
"In 2012 we will be in a true HD world. Everything from your television to your camcorder will be offering you pictures in high-definition, and we plan to offer you that HD world from all angles."
But Samsung is backing a different technology in the long-term. At the IFA trade show in Berlin this month, both Samsung and Sony demonstrated cutting-edge OLED screen televisions.
-+-+-+-
HD and OLED are BluRay are orthogonal. All three can certainly coexist. There is no reason to expect that OLED would may BluRay obsolete unless there is some increase in resolution implicit in the adoption of OLED.
Also, there is no particular reason that BluRay need be limited to only optical media. It is perfectly reasonable that a BluRay player could support delivery of content via a network, or a flash memory device.
TFA makes no sense what so ever. It is completely bonkers.
Exactly - the article is one big non-sequitur. They state at the beginning BluRay has maybe a 5 year lifetime, that in 5 years EVERYTHING is going to be HD and that they are pumping money into OLED R&D.
Nothing about what is going to replace BluRay, and in fact the one reference to BluRay in the article is in brackets, indicating that it was no part of the quote but rather inserted by the article author. For all we know Samsung was referring to something else entirely, possibly LCD or plasma.