Google doesn't think YouTube is worth $1.65B. It also doesn't think it's stock is worth ~$400 a share. However, the two overblown figures tend to cancel each other out.
Uh, no. If I think my shares aren't really $400, then I spend them to go buy stuff that I actually think is worth $400. That way when other people realize my shares aren't worth $400, I'm still have $400 of stuff instead of $5 shares.
I was chatting with some friends in their living room one friday night, with the windows/patio door open to let in air. The neighbour across the backyard came over to complain because she "couldn't hear the leaves in the trees".
So your complaint about "billions of dollars above what it would have cost to buy them outright" is invalid, and demonstrates your financial illiteracy.
Ummm...using your figures of $20B for cash payment and $38B for the leasing, then cash payments would indeed save the government billions of dollars.
There's a world of difference between a company people want to work for because it pays well and treats its employees with respect, and a company people need to work for because there's no other choice for work.
Yes, I fear Microsoft's power to develop something for six years!
You keep saying that, but...
1. XP shipped in 2001. That's five years ago 2. XP has had a number of updates and different editions. 64-bit, what-not. 3. They released updated versions of other OS software; Windows 2003, Windows CE
Microsoft has not been sitting idly by. That's apart from updating Office. Apart from building the.Net tools.
By logic, my or otherwise, you happen to be incorrect. The reason there is a difference in the intended use. For products like food they are intended for a single use
So when I move I shouldn't sell my coffee table. I mean if somebody buys my used coffee table the original craftsman is losing out on a potential sale! I'll just burn the coffee table instead, so that somebody has to buy a brand new one instead.
If people start buying used coffee tables the economy will collapse!
It's either one or the other, but it cannot be both.
Yes. Yes it can. The fact that the government provided and managed the social and economic structure does not mean you didn't earn your income/property. You put the time/effort/knowledge/whatever into obtaining something; you earned it. Yet, without the economic structure and social stability the government you would never have had the chance to earn anything substantial.
Fed (Greenspan, Bernanke and their inflationary cycle)
You make a) sound like it's their idea and b) inflation is purposefully designed to screw people over. It is neither.
A fiat money system is not the great evil you've made it out to be, nor is the a gold standard a perfect solution either. In the modern and global economy, the gold standard has proved ineffective. It has been tried and abandonned several times. While inflation is a problem of fiat money systems, it is _still_ a problem of gold based systems. Gold based systems also bring in the yet worse deflation.
Buying a house in your early twenties worked for you. Congratulations.
Most people starting off the careers make in the 20-40K range, assuming they're even actually able to find a career job not just temp job.
I was lucky, I started at around $36K and was up to $45K by the time I was 25. I had about $15K in the bank and great credit. It was also _impossible_ for me to by a house in the area.
At $45K, the banks would only cover a $140K mortgage. Do you know how many $140K houses there were in my mid-sized city? A couple dozen. And those were for houses that were desparate need of repairs. Sure, I may have been able to afford the house, but not the $20K for the new roof it needs.
The price of a town-home was $225K, and a single family home around $300K. Well beyond my means, and I had a stable, reasonably well paying job, _and_ savings with no debt.
Housing prices were also going up abnormally at 3-8% a year.
Contrary to your statement about buying a condo, they tend to not be an investment. In some markets, for some periods of time, they can be. However, unlike a house, you don't own the land. The actual physical structure is what you own, and that devalues over time. Normally, buying a condo is not an investment.
Contrary to your statement about people moving around a lot buying a house for a year or two, that also tends to be a money drain. Between legal costs and realtor costs, expect to lose at least 3-5% of your house's value. If you own the house 20 years and it appreciates 50%, that's not too bad. If you own it 1 year and it appreciates 2-3%, well, you've just lost money.
Plus, a house isn't a liquid asset. If you need to move or if your employment status changes, you can't just put up a for sale sign and have it sold immediately.
Except outside of the atmosphere there's a vacuum. You can't transfer heat to a vacuum! The heat generated by friction has to go somewhere, and if it doesn't go into the vacuum, then where?
The earth's circumference is ~25000miles. I as person spin around 25000miles in a day or ~1042miles/hour.
Geostationary satellites sit around 22,240miles above the surface, so the radius of their orbit is about 26000miles, which means that the circumference of the orbit they travel is 163280miles. That means they cover roughly 6300miles/hour.
What the original poster said was the that because the satellites are going so much faster, the time is ever so very slightly different.
But they're moving faster. It's like a line of skaters spinning around one end. The guy who is at the center move one rotation of a circle, but slowly. The guy at the outside moves one rotation too, but with a larger circumference so he's going faster. He remains stationary relative to the inside but moves faster.
Are you saying that religion is synonymous with the economic and political systems of the middle ages?
In so far as we are talking about Europe? Yes. Though religions and politics entwine themselves in a number of cultures too. But you seem to have a Eurocentric view of civilization and history, so we'll consider just that. The church and theology were fundamental building blocks of both the feudal and post-feudal/eary nationalist systems. The nobility and monarchs derived their power from the church. With the church, the royalty's claim to power based on divine right would never have existed, thus weakening their power.
But a lot of religious artwork has been paid for by private citizens.
A lot of it commissioned by nobles, who likewise exploited peasants.
Handel
Again, an employee of the aristocracy/church. Paid for with the more-or-less forced labour of the peasants.
all of the monks with the illuminated manuscripts who preserved literacy through the dark ages ("How the Irish Saved Civilization")
Maybe if world consists of Europe only. Literacy, mathematics, and science were well preserved throughout the rest of the world. Greek and latin was still being used throughout the middle east. The Indians had developed the principals of calculus a few hundred years before Newton.
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Google doesn't think YouTube is worth $1.65B. It also doesn't think it's stock is worth ~$400 a share. However, the two overblown figures tend to cancel each other out.
Uh, no. If I think my shares aren't really $400, then I spend them to go buy stuff that I actually think is worth $400. That way when other people realize my shares aren't worth $400, I'm still have $400 of stuff instead of $5 shares.
should be as quiet as rural North Dakota,
I was chatting with some friends in their living room one friday night, with the windows/patio door open to let in air. The neighbour across the backyard came over to complain because she "couldn't hear the leaves in the trees".
back in the days of yore, decided it would be better to measure fruit by liquid measurements and not by their mass.
Probably the people who picked the fruit and put in containers: "Hey I have 9 containers of fruit"
And if the other guy has a knife too then there are two dead idiots.
And that benefit is something else than making more money?
It can be, yes. Like better and safer working conditions, vacations, a 5 day work-week, a 40-hour work-week.
If Ike really had huevos, he should have done something when he still had the power to do so, rather than escalate the cold war
Like what? He said to beware the military-industrial complex, but he also said it was a necessary evil.
We want to have so much power that the rest of the world is FORCED to follow our lead or pay the price for getting in front.
Such arrogance might explain why global sympathy for the US isn't too high, no?
Subsidizing by not taxing. What side of the world did you wake up on?
Read up on external costs.
So your complaint about "billions of dollars above what it would have cost to buy them outright" is invalid, and demonstrates your financial illiteracy.
Ummm...using your figures of $20B for cash payment and $38B for the leasing, then cash payments would indeed save the government billions of dollars.
There's a world of difference between a company people want to work for because it pays well and treats its employees with respect, and a company people need to work for because there's no other choice for work.
Yes, I fear Microsoft's power to develop something for six years!
.Net tools.
You keep saying that, but...
1. XP shipped in 2001. That's five years ago
2. XP has had a number of updates and different editions. 64-bit, what-not.
3. They released updated versions of other OS software; Windows 2003, Windows CE
Microsoft has not been sitting idly by. That's apart from updating Office. Apart from building the
By logic, my or otherwise, you happen to be incorrect. The reason there is a difference in the intended use. For products like food they are intended for a single use
So when I move I shouldn't sell my coffee table. I mean if somebody buys my used coffee table the original craftsman is losing out on a potential sale! I'll just burn the coffee table instead, so that somebody has to buy a brand new one instead.
If people start buying used coffee tables the economy will collapse!
Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
And when you accidently cream someone's car, injuring them and their family at the same time, how is your personal responsibility going to help them?
Microsoft chose to continue along the monolithic path,
Windows, especially NT, is very much a modular, micro-kernel. Linux, on the other hand is a monolithic kernel.
It's either one or the other, but it cannot be both.
Yes. Yes it can. The fact that the government provided and managed the social and economic structure does not mean you didn't earn your income/property. You put the time/effort/knowledge/whatever into obtaining something; you earned it. Yet, without the economic structure and social stability the government you would never have had the chance to earn anything substantial.
Fed (Greenspan, Bernanke and their inflationary cycle)
You make a) sound like it's their idea and b) inflation is purposefully designed to screw people over. It is neither.
A fiat money system is not the great evil you've made it out to be, nor is the a gold standard a perfect solution either. In the modern and global economy, the gold standard has proved ineffective. It has been tried and abandonned several times. While inflation is a problem of fiat money systems, it is _still_ a problem of gold based systems. Gold based systems also bring in the yet worse deflation.
Buying a house in your early twenties worked for you. Congratulations.
Most people starting off the careers make in the 20-40K range, assuming they're even actually able to find a career job not just temp job.
I was lucky, I started at around $36K and was up to $45K by the time I was 25. I had about $15K in the bank and great credit. It was also _impossible_ for me to by a house in the area.
At $45K, the banks would only cover a $140K mortgage. Do you know how many $140K houses there were in my mid-sized city? A couple dozen. And those were for houses that were desparate need of repairs. Sure, I may have been able to afford the house, but not the $20K for the new roof it needs.
The price of a town-home was $225K, and a single family home around $300K. Well beyond my means, and I had a stable, reasonably well paying job, _and_ savings with no debt.
Housing prices were also going up abnormally at 3-8% a year.
Contrary to your statement about buying a condo, they tend to not be an investment. In some markets, for some periods of time, they can be. However, unlike a house, you don't own the land. The actual physical structure is what you own, and that devalues over time. Normally, buying a condo is not an investment.
Contrary to your statement about people moving around a lot buying a house for a year or two, that also tends to be a money drain. Between legal costs and realtor costs, expect to lose at least 3-5% of your house's value. If you own the house 20 years and it appreciates 50%, that's not too bad. If you own it 1 year and it appreciates 2-3%, well, you've just lost money.
Plus, a house isn't a liquid asset. If you need to move or if your employment status changes, you can't just put up a for sale sign and have it sold immediately.
The Candu reactors in Canada are like that. They're been like that since they started being built in the 70's
So, what exactly does a lock on a screen door protect against?
It protects against toddlers accidentally opening the door. It protects against animals opening the doors, my cats do this if it isn't locked.
It prevents little neighbourhood kids from wandering in.
Except outside of the atmosphere there's a vacuum. You can't transfer heat to a vacuum! The heat generated by friction has to go somewhere, and if it doesn't go into the vacuum, then where?
The earth's circumference is ~25000miles. I as person spin around 25000miles in a day or ~1042miles/hour.
Geostationary satellites sit around 22,240miles above the surface, so the radius of their orbit is about 26000miles, which means that the circumference of the orbit they travel is 163280miles. That means they cover roughly 6300miles/hour.
What the original poster said was the that because the satellites are going so much faster, the time is ever so very slightly different.
But they're moving faster. It's like a line of skaters spinning around one end. The guy who is at the center move one rotation of a circle, but slowly. The guy at the outside moves one rotation too, but with a larger circumference so he's going faster. He remains stationary relative to the inside but moves faster.
Are you saying that religion is synonymous with the economic and political systems of the middle ages?
In so far as we are talking about Europe? Yes. Though religions and politics entwine themselves in a number of cultures too. But you seem to have a Eurocentric view of civilization and history, so we'll consider just that. The church and theology were fundamental building blocks of both the feudal and post-feudal/eary nationalist systems. The nobility and monarchs derived their power from the church. With the church, the royalty's claim to power based on divine right would never have existed, thus weakening their power.
But a lot of religious artwork has been paid for by private citizens.
A lot of it commissioned by nobles, who likewise exploited peasants.
Handel
Again, an employee of the aristocracy/church. Paid for with the more-or-less forced labour of the peasants.
all of the monks with the illuminated manuscripts who preserved literacy through the dark ages ("How the Irish Saved Civilization")
Maybe if world consists of Europe only. Literacy, mathematics, and science were well preserved throughout the rest of the world. Greek and latin was still being used throughout the middle east. The Indians had developed the principals of calculus a few hundred years before Newton.
Gays are allowed in WoW, they are just not allowed to talk about it. It's like not allowing the black panthers
So you're comparing gay people to a terrorist organization?