After handing out the biggest corporate tax cut / windfall in history, of course the economy is doing well. But the flip-flopping foreign policies, trade wars, war on immigration, threatening to withdraw from NATO, handing Ukraine to Russia - all of that must be giving corporations pause about investing, especially internationally.
Shit, with that corporate tax cut alone - if everything else was stable, the DOW would be at 30K by now. But everything is unstable (from the top down). So yes, I agree, the economy is doing well. Could it be a whole lot better? Hell yeah.
Funny you should ask about that - 'cause I have it right now. It's my TiVo box, which has hook ups to a bunch of streaming services - *and a "TV Guide" for all of it*. I can search for a show I want to watch, and TiVo will tell me if it's on cable in the next 2 weeks, available on NetFlix, Amazon, X-Finity, etc. All in one place, available now. I've had a TiVo for ages now (on my 3rd or 4th generation of boxes) - smartest money I've spent IMO.
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Ooh! Ooh! I know this one - hard plastic shells that cannot be recycled are used to make it harder for thieves to open the package in the store and pocket whatever item is in the packaging.
Someone else mentioned not letting your gas get too old - I'll second that.
Dirk, I hope you are up on cars enough to know there is summer gas and winter gas - it is formulated differently in the winter so it does not freeze up on you. Fill your tank in the summer and you may end up with a frozen fuel line in January.
Do you add fuel stabilizer at every fillup? If you don't now, maybe you should start. Or would a fuel additive like STP be better? Even I'm not really up on those.
Or easier still - NOT fill the tank, but just put 5 gallons in at a time (unless on a road trip of course). Keep fresh fuel cycling through your tank.
I hear you Goombah99 and I agree with all your points (plus others you didn't make). Not sure what the fixation is with electronic balloting - unless it is just the elected who can't stand the tension. "Polls are closed - I want to know if I won. Not tomorrow, not next week, not at 3:00 AM - I want to know NOW"
Anyway, I'm glad DARPA has stepped up to the plate on this - there is a reason they call things "DARPA-hard problems" - they will attempt things that are seemingly just not possible, and have no compunction with saying so in the end. But they'll have Top Men working on it. Top. Men.
Oh fields! Damn what a tough course, but our prof (one of the good ones) let us create our own cheat sheets. You had 1/5 of one side of a standard piece of paper - in it you could write or draw whatever you wanted. And it got passed in with your test. You got it back though - to fill in the next 1/5 for the next test. And so on - by the finals you had the whole year one one sheet of paper. Awesome way to do it - though the tests were likely as hard as your open book ones.
I'd be more worried that every email, text message, and phone call is being intercepted. But building a traffic pattern analysis DB from our mail envelopes, that's bad too.
Hey Mark,
This is kind of a long shot, but have you tried meditation? It's not directly related to sleep, but it does calm the mind and gets the body more in tune with itself. It may also be a way for you to refresh your mind without sleep. Though, as I said, a bit of a long shot.
Okian, NO NO NO NO NO! You have it all wrong. There are 4 players in the game theory look at medical care: 1) The insurance company 2) The customer of the insurance company - NOTE: That is NOT the patient. The customer is the company the patient works for. Or the Government for Medicaid/Medicare. They choose the insurance company, they are the insurance company's customer, they are the ones the insurance company needs to keep happy (enough). 3) The patient 4) The doctors / hospitals.
You may even want to throw in a 5th player - the pharmaceuticals. This starts to get complicated! They all have different goals. Heck include the FDA if you are including pharmas. That's 6 players!
The big problem I see is that the Customer of the Insurance Company is NOT the Patient. And never has been. Unless that becomes the case, we'll never really fix this situation.
I'll have to try the leaving the wet soap for a bit.
I use a safety razor (can't be bothered to sharpen or strope a straight razor every time I want to use it) and the platinum blades - I just bought 300 of them for about 10 bucks. I think I basically have blades for life now, as each one lasts me 2 weeks or more. I do get excess moisture off the blade when I'm done - supposed to help make them last.
With the cost of disposables and canned shaving cream - best move I ever made.
Nice point PR - the very FIRST thing that should have been done once the SS "crisis" was announced was to remove the Cap on payroll taxes. Hell, I make enough to exceed the cap, so I get a little extra at the end of the year. Remove the cap and I wouldn't miss it in the least. I don't even expect any extra benefits when I retire - leave those the same. Let those that can give a little extra do so - at a flat rate for all.
Seems fair enough to me. I've got no problem being part of a solution.
My knowledge of BTC is pretty sketchy, but isn't the whole idea of the blockchain that it's a public ledger? So you can see exactly who has all the BTC. Or is that wrong?
Wouldn't anyone be able to see who is the most profitable person to attack? You may not be able to identify them - they may be anonymous - but the "big fish" should be readily spottable.
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Forget the "Barbie" guns - stick with something that packs a punch. Put 'em down, don't tickle 'em.
(See Under a Graveyard Sky for the reference)
After handing out the biggest corporate tax cut / windfall in history, of course the economy is doing well. But the flip-flopping foreign policies, trade wars, war on immigration, threatening to withdraw from NATO, handing Ukraine to Russia - all of that must be giving corporations pause about investing, especially internationally.
Shit, with that corporate tax cut alone - if everything else was stable, the DOW would be at 30K by now. But everything is unstable (from the top down). So yes, I agree, the economy is doing well. Could it be a whole lot better? Hell yeah.
Not that strange - Navy aircraft land tail first. 8-D
Um... You DO realize that not everywhere has tides, right?
Funny you should ask about that - 'cause I have it right now. It's my TiVo box, which has hook ups to a bunch of streaming services - *and a "TV Guide" for all of it*. I can search for a show I want to watch, and TiVo will tell me if it's on cable in the next 2 weeks, available on NetFlix, Amazon, X-Finity, etc. All in one place, available now. I've had a TiVo for ages now (on my 3rd or 4th generation of boxes) - smartest money I've spent IMO.
Or football
The "newbie" is on to something. Nice post Kjella! I'll remember those points next time someone brings up censorship "for the common good".
Ahem, BingoUV,
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Took me less than 30 seconds. Dumb-ass.
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one - hard plastic shells that cannot be recycled are used to make it harder for thieves to open the package in the store and pocket whatever item is in the packaging.
We can't be secretive about them any more.
We are forming an official Space Force.
Kinda implied we'll have some... well,.. *space* *force*.
Someone else mentioned not letting your gas get too old - I'll second that.
Dirk, I hope you are up on cars enough to know there is summer gas and winter gas - it is formulated differently in the winter so it does not freeze up on you. Fill your tank in the summer and you may end up with a frozen fuel line in January.
Do you add fuel stabilizer at every fillup? If you don't now, maybe you should start. Or would a fuel additive like STP be better? Even I'm not really up on those.
Or easier still - NOT fill the tank, but just put 5 gallons in at a time (unless on a road trip of course). Keep fresh fuel cycling through your tank.
I hear you Goombah99 and I agree with all your points (plus others you didn't make). Not sure what the fixation is with electronic balloting - unless it is just the elected who can't stand the tension. "Polls are closed - I want to know if I won. Not tomorrow, not next week, not at 3:00 AM - I want to know NOW"
Anyway, I'm glad DARPA has stepped up to the plate on this - there is a reason they call things "DARPA-hard problems" - they will attempt things that are seemingly just not possible, and have no compunction with saying so in the end. But they'll have Top Men working on it. Top. Men.
Oh fields! Damn what a tough course, but our prof (one of the good ones) let us create our own cheat sheets. You had 1/5 of one side of a standard piece of paper - in it you could write or draw whatever you wanted. And it got passed in with your test. You got it back though - to fill in the next 1/5 for the next test. And so on - by the finals you had the whole year one one sheet of paper. Awesome way to do it - though the tests were likely as hard as your open book ones.
Good times
Don? Is that you?
I'm not sure because the grammar in your post is correct.
Sure as shootin' is a receiving device - if it didn't receive it wouldn't be routing nothin'
I do, of course, assume y'all are talking about wireless routers..
My most pessimistic thought:
Philip K. Dick was an optimist.
I'd be more worried that every email, text message, and phone call is being intercepted. But building a traffic pattern analysis DB from our mail envelopes, that's bad too.
Hey Mark,
This is kind of a long shot, but have you tried meditation? It's not directly related to sleep, but it does calm the mind and gets the body more in tune with itself. It may also be a way for you to refresh your mind without sleep. Though, as I said, a bit of a long shot.
Just keep in mind that 7/2 is also a fraction.
Okian,
NO NO NO NO NO! You have it all wrong. There are 4 players in the game theory look at medical care:
1) The insurance company
2) The customer of the insurance company - NOTE: That is NOT the patient. The customer is the company the patient works for. Or the Government for Medicaid/Medicare. They choose the insurance company, they are the insurance company's customer, they are the ones the insurance company needs to keep happy (enough).
3) The patient
4) The doctors / hospitals.
You may even want to throw in a 5th player - the pharmaceuticals. This starts to get complicated! They all have different goals. Heck include the FDA if you are including pharmas. That's 6 players!
The big problem I see is that the Customer of the Insurance Company is NOT the Patient. And never has been. Unless that becomes the case, we'll never really fix this situation.
Basically you just said I need to be a licensed expert and be insured before I be ALLOWED to change the brake pads on my '65 mustang.
I don't usually sling mud, but yours was an idiotic statement.
I'll have to try the leaving the wet soap for a bit.
I use a safety razor (can't be bothered to sharpen or strope a straight razor every time I want to use it) and the platinum blades - I just bought 300 of them for about 10 bucks. I think I basically have blades for life now, as each one lasts me 2 weeks or more. I do get excess moisture off the blade when I'm done - supposed to help make them last.
With the cost of disposables and canned shaving cream - best move I ever made.
Nice point PR - the very FIRST thing that should have been done once the SS "crisis" was announced was to remove the Cap on payroll taxes. Hell, I make enough to exceed the cap, so I get a little extra at the end of the year. Remove the cap and I wouldn't miss it in the least. I don't even expect any extra benefits when I retire - leave those the same. Let those that can give a little extra do so - at a flat rate for all.
Seems fair enough to me. I've got no problem being part of a solution.
It scaled up too - chairs, tables, wardrobes, room dividers. There's a lot of good money to be made in woven furnishings.
"And who are you going to attack, exactly?"
My knowledge of BTC is pretty sketchy, but isn't the whole idea of the blockchain that it's a public ledger? So you can see exactly who has all the BTC. Or is that wrong?
Wouldn't anyone be able to see who is the most profitable person to attack? You may not be able to identify them - they may be anonymous - but the "big fish" should be readily spottable.
Or am I misunderstanding something?