Yes, they are pretty sick. Those "drunken" "Wall Street brokers" are, at least in their words during their drunken stupor, glorifying a character (played by a member of the "uber-rich Hollywood elite") who bled companies dry for immediate benefit. If you defended Bud Fox, who was slightly noble even before his turnaround, I'd be more inclined to agree with your comments.
It's too bad you are modded up for this. I just saw Wall Street for the first time a week ago and thought of corporate raiders.
In case you may not know, there is an upcoming sequel coming out next year. I believe the title is "Money Never Sleeps", taking place in the present day and Gordon coming out of prison to take a piece of the hedge fund market. Michael Douglass is returning as Mr.Gecko.
Interestingly enough, it's amazing that a lot of people who are brokers look up to the fictional Gecko... Here's a quote from a NY Times article:
Speaking by telephone from Bermuda, Mr. Douglas said he wouldn't mind if he never had "one more drunken Wall Street broker come up to me and say, 'You're the man!' "
Their cars are expensive, inefficient, underpowered, and poorly-made compared to the competition.
That's not entirely true, especially on the quality portion. Take a look at the JD Power 2007 Brand Quality Ratings. Surprisingly, Lincoln did better than BMW, and Ford and GM are in the middle of the pack.
Interestingly enough, the words you spat out in the above quote seem to be some sort of weird side effect of some proto-viral marketing that came about in the early 90s.
I understand what I'm about to speak of is considered heresy since global cooling seems to be equivalent to saying "I love Jack Thompson", but here goes...
Since you're talking about TRENDS, it seems you won't go as far to identify how many points are needed to make it such. Some people in this discussion have asked why are we identifying things as trends since we've only been truly measuring things like ozone for 30 years, temperature for around 100 years, and so on.
You also don't point out that at least until the 1970s there was in fact a global cooling trend, which actually seems to be part of a much larger significant cooling period starting around 65 million years ago. I would say in terms of time, the global warming TREND (sorry habit you got me into), while is very real and due to some man-made interaction, would be seen as a short term anomaly by those looking at the much longer TRENDS.
Interesting no one else had brought up this documentary. For the past couple weeks since I saw it, I thought I was the only one who viewed it.
The parent is right on this. According to the documentary, global warming is only a very tiny trend, which gets heavily outweighed by global cooling, which for some reason the "open minded" folk here seem to have their minds set doesn't have any affect on us. I would recommend looking at the wiki article on the Cryogenian period which produced a "Snowball Earth".
As it relates to the discussion of man-made affects on climate, the documentary points out continental drift has a much more significant impact on climate as it affects ocean current. It appears drift has even a much larger impact on the grander scheme of things than the impact that killed off the dinosaurs.
...and all the other developing economies. Why race a country that's already gone to the US. This is mostly a battle to prove who is the best of the fastest growing economies.
You are suggesting that being an only child predisposes children to become obsessed with games? Absolutely not. If you read what I said, you would know what the sociologists are suggesting.
I said the younger generation of Chinese is essentially full of single-child families. In most other countries, there is a natural (not regulated by the government) mixture of single-child and multiple-children families which causes a what most of us would perceive a healthy society. Imagine a generation where almost no one has siblings. You nor I could imagine all the outcomes, and this gaming addiction would seem to be one of those.
Please note I am not discrediting or looking down on single-child families, regardless of cause.
I heard a really good article a few weeks ago on NPR where sociologists were looking into the root cause of internet/gaming addiction in China. One interesting theory is that this generation of gamers is the product of the "one child per family" policy in China. Essentially this generation in China is full of only-children. This is bound to cause social issues, and this internet/gaming addiction is only a symptom of a larger sociological problem.
These people will be the business analysts and the technical architects that feed the people off shore. While they say that these companies are creating jobs in the United States, the truth is that most of them will be landed resources also from India under H1B visa.
Of all the points I have seen on this thread, the above quote is the most legitimate. I'm a business IT consultant with a focus on custom application development. I'm one of those "technical architects" he speaks of. Our local teams are rather small with our full-time consultants to build the foundation of the applications and we then tap into a pool of contractors to do fill in the implementations as provided by the design me, my fellow consultants and business analysts construct.
One of the things the parent does overlook is that aside from experience and technical skill, clear communication skills are essential. I remember being told back in college in the late 90s I would need strong communication skills (granted English is my first language). I am not referring to only plain English but also an understanding of "International" English (to speak to our Indian associates and any other people who aren't familiar with localized metaphors) and business-speak. In addition, it takes a level of being assertive and proactive.
I'm amazed not one slashdotter here realized the point I'm about to make.
Most revisionist historians often reflect on the fear that Americans had of being obliterated in the 1950s from a nuclear catastrophe. For a midwestern American city in 1957 to have a contest to determine how many would be living there in 50 years and especially predict the winning guesser (or closest of kin) would be alive in 50 demonstrates there was hope for a future.
Since we've seen some great success with the recent DARPA Grand Rally, is this research going toward research pork spending? Will this bear be used in situations where the unmanned rescue vehicle will not be able to access?
Hmm, I wouldn't say the root cause. You're right. I should have *a* root cause.
I firmly believe that even if the American people would wake up and see the light, they still wouldn't do anything about it. It is a catch-22, because we know that no matter what happens, the government will keep taking our money and doing whatever they want with it. They'll keep fighting wars for their own financial gain and personal vendettas. They'll keep lying, stealing, and pillaging the planet. We are a brash, young, stupid nation who is asking for trouble. The problem is that we are going to get it. It is sad, because we have so much potential in this country, and we are just letting it waste away.
The problem is that when the US becomes "informed", and it's happened at least 2 or 3 times in our short history, the US becomes a very isolated country. However, due to our highly integrated economy, we can no longer do that. On the other hand, if we can as a whole become informed, maybe we can make some informed decisions at the ballot box, ultimately making candidates aim towards better causes.
There are bigger issues, but you yourself even seem to point out that root cause:
However, for the last several years, the US Government has caused the deaths of thousands of people, many of them Americans, for no good reason. We the people, have been lied to repeatedly. Our country will not be able to recover financially for at least a generation. We are making more and more enemies across the globe and have lost what respect we did have in the eyes of the world.
Many critics of US policy, both European and American, will say the major root cause is due to the ignorance of the American people. This is illustrated when the only piece of reading *most* Americans will do is on their myspace blog or the recent copy of People Magazine in the newsstand aisle.
I've skimmed through a lot of the posts, and a few bright souls seem to hit the nail on the head about people going to Barnes & Noble to read, but few rarely buy the books. I'd go a bit further than that to point out most of the people I see at B&N tend to lurk in the magazine section, reading (you guessed it) nothing but tabloid and automotive stuff.
I'm sure the book store did this to get some publicity, but it still makes me cringe when I see most Americans don't take the time to read about the outside world. We need to fix that!
I'm simply amazed and appalled, with exception to the parent post, all the posts so far about China have to do with respect to censorship. Talk about a bunch of babble from lemmings.
I was hearing a report on the parent's topic yesterday on NPR. It turns out homes are not selling as much as before due to a couple factors. First is the number of people who were purchasing via insane ARMs are drying up. This is why we now see a number of lenders filing for bankruptcy. Secondly, there is still a large insane population of people who are selling their homes but will not lower the prices, hoping they will be able to sell at a price that would have worked a year ago.
Despite the comment about 9% qualifying for home ownership, a number of people have applied in the past few years for insane ARMs to buy a home and purchase that dream SUV. However, it's because they truly can't afford a home the number foreclosures are starting to drastically increase. It's only a matter of time before all those homes are sold at much lower prices.
On the way to work today, I was hearing another NPR report (yeah I listen to it a lot) stating that the apartment market is about to boom....
Coming from the UK, I would hope you realize part of the reason Americans are like this is because of the lack of tolerance from your original home. Perhaps that lack of understanding you are illustrating reflects the attitude the majority of people had in the UK back then. And yes, I know most people came from England for the purpose of making a buck.
In the wikipedia article, I see a mention of a case dealing with privacy but I don't see what section of the Human Rights Act privacy directly falls into.
Naomi Campbell and Sara Cox both sought to assert their right to privacy under the act. Both cases were successful for the complainant (Campbell's on the second attempt)(Cox's attempt was not judicially decided but an out of court settlement was reached before the issue could be tested in court) and an amendment to British law to incorporate a provision for privacy is expected to be introduced. Can anyone give me some more insight?
Good points, but keep in mind, a military is in place to prevent attacks which could happen and has happened, not just what currently is happening. We don't stop the development of fighter jets because we haven't had a serious dogfight in over 35 years.
You got me on the bombers comment. I'm no military expert, so i had to look it up again. What I meant to say were cruise missiles. Regardless, the destroyer has become more of a defensive weapon instead of a offensive.
Possibly not. Keep in mind destroyers can also be used to defect incoming missiles directed toward carriers. I'd imagine this rail gun system could be integrated with whatever replaces AEGIS, which was the system used to use massive automated machine guns to intercept incoming projectiles.
Possibly overkill, but I'd imagine a smart system could also intercept crazy suicide bombers, as in the case with the USS Cole.
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And, "Pretty sick"? No, get a grip.
Slow down on the parsing Turbo!
Yes, they are pretty sick. Those "drunken" "Wall Street brokers" are, at least in their words during their drunken stupor, glorifying a character (played by a member of the "uber-rich Hollywood elite") who bled companies dry for immediate benefit. If you defended Bud Fox, who was slightly noble even before his turnaround, I'd be more inclined to agree with your comments.
It's too bad you are modded up for this. I just saw Wall Street for the first time a week ago and thought of corporate raiders.
In case you may not know, there is an upcoming sequel coming out next year. I believe the title is "Money Never Sleeps", taking place in the present day and Gordon coming out of prison to take a piece of the hedge fund market. Michael Douglass is returning as Mr.Gecko.
Interestingly enough, it's amazing that a lot of people who are brokers look up to the fictional Gecko... Here's a quote from a NY Times article:
Speaking by telephone from Bermuda, Mr. Douglas said he wouldn't mind if he never had "one more drunken Wall Street broker come up to me and say, 'You're the man!' "
Pretty sick, eh?
Their cars are expensive, inefficient, underpowered, and poorly-made compared to the competition.
That's not entirely true, especially on the quality portion. Take a look at the JD Power 2007 Brand Quality Ratings. Surprisingly, Lincoln did better than BMW, and Ford and GM are in the middle of the pack.
Interestingly enough, the words you spat out in the above quote seem to be some sort of weird side effect of some proto-viral marketing that came about in the early 90s.
I understand what I'm about to speak of is considered heresy since global cooling seems to be equivalent to saying "I love Jack Thompson", but here goes...
Since you're talking about TRENDS, it seems you won't go as far to identify how many points are needed to make it such. Some people in this discussion have asked why are we identifying things as trends since we've only been truly measuring things like ozone for 30 years, temperature for around 100 years, and so on.
You also don't point out that at least until the 1970s there was in fact a global cooling trend, which actually seems to be part of a much larger significant cooling period starting around 65 million years ago. I would say in terms of time, the global warming TREND (sorry habit you got me into), while is very real and due to some man-made interaction, would be seen as a short term anomaly by those looking at the much longer TRENDS.
Interesting no one else had brought up this documentary. For the past couple weeks since I saw it, I thought I was the only one who viewed it.
The parent is right on this. According to the documentary, global warming is only a very tiny trend, which gets heavily outweighed by global cooling, which for some reason the "open minded" folk here seem to have their minds set doesn't have any affect on us. I would recommend looking at the wiki article on the Cryogenian period which produced a "Snowball Earth".
As it relates to the discussion of man-made affects on climate, the documentary points out continental drift has a much more significant impact on climate as it affects ocean current. It appears drift has even a much larger impact on the grander scheme of things than the impact that killed off the dinosaurs.
I would have preferred a roflcopter.
...and all the other developing economies. Why race a country that's already gone to the US. This is mostly a battle to prove who is the best of the fastest growing economies.
You are suggesting that being an only child predisposes children to become obsessed with games?
Absolutely not. If you read what I said, you would know what the sociologists are suggesting.
I said the younger generation of Chinese is essentially full of single-child families. In most other countries, there is a natural (not regulated by the government) mixture of single-child and multiple-children families which causes a what most of us would perceive a healthy society. Imagine a generation where almost no one has siblings. You nor I could imagine all the outcomes, and this gaming addiction would seem to be one of those.
Please note I am not discrediting or looking down on single-child families, regardless of cause.
I heard a really good article a few weeks ago on NPR where sociologists were looking into the root cause of internet/gaming addiction in China. One interesting theory is that this generation of gamers is the product of the "one child per family" policy in China. Essentially this generation in China is full of only-children. This is bound to cause social issues, and this internet/gaming addiction is only a symptom of a larger sociological problem.
These people will be the business analysts and the technical architects that feed the people off shore. While they say that these companies are creating jobs in the United States, the truth is that most of them will be landed resources also from India under H1B visa.
Of all the points I have seen on this thread, the above quote is the most legitimate. I'm a business IT consultant with a focus on custom application development. I'm one of those "technical architects" he speaks of. Our local teams are rather small with our full-time consultants to build the foundation of the applications and we then tap into a pool of contractors to do fill in the implementations as provided by the design me, my fellow consultants and business analysts construct.
One of the things the parent does overlook is that aside from experience and technical skill, clear communication skills are essential. I remember being told back in college in the late 90s I would need strong communication skills (granted English is my first language). I am not referring to only plain English but also an understanding of "International" English (to speak to our Indian associates and any other people who aren't familiar with localized metaphors) and business-speak. In addition, it takes a level of being assertive and proactive.
The attention-whore Florida attorney...
Hold on... has Jack Thompson moved on from gaming?
I'm amazed not one slashdotter here realized the point I'm about to make.
Most revisionist historians often reflect on the fear that Americans had of being obliterated in the 1950s from a nuclear catastrophe. For a midwestern American city in 1957 to have a contest to determine how many would be living there in 50 years and especially predict the winning guesser (or closest of kin) would be alive in 50 demonstrates there was hope for a future.
Since we've seen some great success with the recent DARPA Grand Rally, is this research going toward research pork spending? Will this bear be used in situations where the unmanned rescue vehicle will not be able to access?
Hmm, I wouldn't say the root cause.
You're right. I should have *a* root cause.
I firmly believe that even if the American people would wake up and see the light, they still wouldn't do anything about it. It is a catch-22, because we know that no matter what happens, the government will keep taking our money and doing whatever they want with it. They'll keep fighting wars for their own financial gain and personal vendettas. They'll keep lying, stealing, and pillaging the planet. We are a brash, young, stupid nation who is asking for trouble. The problem is that we are going to get it. It is sad, because we have so much potential in this country, and we are just letting it waste away.
The problem is that when the US becomes "informed", and it's happened at least 2 or 3 times in our short history, the US becomes a very isolated country. However, due to our highly integrated economy, we can no longer do that. On the other hand, if we can as a whole become informed, maybe we can make some informed decisions at the ballot box, ultimately making candidates aim towards better causes.
There are bigger issues at stake right now.
There are bigger issues, but you yourself even seem to point out that root cause:
However, for the last several years, the US Government has caused the deaths of thousands of people, many of them Americans, for no good reason. We the people, have been lied to repeatedly. Our country will not be able to recover financially for at least a generation. We are making more and more enemies across the globe and have lost what respect we did have in the eyes of the world.
Many critics of US policy, both European and American, will say the major root cause is due to the ignorance of the American people. This is illustrated when the only piece of reading *most* Americans will do is on their myspace blog or the recent copy of People Magazine in the newsstand aisle.
I've skimmed through a lot of the posts, and a few bright souls seem to hit the nail on the head about people going to Barnes & Noble to read, but few rarely buy the books. I'd go a bit further than that to point out most of the people I see at B&N tend to lurk in the magazine section, reading (you guessed it) nothing but tabloid and automotive stuff.
I'm sure the book store did this to get some publicity, but it still makes me cringe when I see most Americans don't take the time to read about the outside world. We need to fix that!
I'm simply amazed and appalled, with exception to the parent post, all the posts so far about China have to do with respect to censorship. Talk about a bunch of babble from lemmings.
Doing a quick google search uncovers Sudan is in China's pocket: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/26.htm
I forgot to also mention that in Orange and Los Angeles counties, the apartment occupancy is at 97%.
I was hearing a report on the parent's topic yesterday on NPR. It turns out homes are not selling as much as before due to a couple factors. First is the number of people who were purchasing via insane ARMs are drying up. This is why we now see a number of lenders filing for bankruptcy. Secondly, there is still a large insane population of people who are selling their homes but will not lower the prices, hoping they will be able to sell at a price that would have worked a year ago.
Despite the comment about 9% qualifying for home ownership, a number of people have applied in the past few years for insane ARMs to buy a home and purchase that dream SUV. However, it's because they truly can't afford a home the number foreclosures are starting to drastically increase. It's only a matter of time before all those homes are sold at much lower prices.
On the way to work today, I was hearing another NPR report (yeah I listen to it a lot) stating that the apartment market is about to boom....
No, you're not the only one. There's at least one other -- me. =P
Anyway, I think it's always been the case with religion that the loudest people in discussions are the ones with points to protest.
Coming from the UK, I would hope you realize part of the reason Americans are like this is because of the lack of tolerance from your original home. Perhaps that lack of understanding you are illustrating reflects the attitude the majority of people had in the UK back then. And yes, I know most people came from England for the purpose of making a buck.
By far, the clearest answer to any question I've seen on here. Thanks a bunch!
Looks like Article 8 is clear enough, but does the UK document serve as just an extension of the ECHR?
I googled to find any sort of UK "Bill of Rights", and so far the only item I found was the Human Rights Act 1998, which seems to not list much about privacy. I'm referring my comments based on skimming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Act_(UK
In the wikipedia article, I see a mention of a case dealing with privacy but I don't see what section of the Human Rights Act privacy directly falls into. Naomi Campbell and Sara Cox both sought to assert their right to privacy under the act. Both cases were successful for the complainant (Campbell's on the second attempt)(Cox's attempt was not judicially decided but an out of court settlement was reached before the issue could be tested in court) and an amendment to British law to incorporate a provision for privacy is expected to be introduced. Can anyone give me some more insight?
Good points, but keep in mind, a military is in place to prevent attacks which could happen and has happened, not just what currently is happening. We don't stop the development of fighter jets because we haven't had a serious dogfight in over 35 years.
You got me on the bombers comment. I'm no military expert, so i had to look it up again. What I meant to say were cruise missiles. Regardless, the destroyer has become more of a defensive weapon instead of a offensive.
Possibly not. Keep in mind destroyers can also be used to defect incoming missiles directed toward carriers. I'd imagine this rail gun system could be integrated with whatever replaces AEGIS, which was the system used to use massive automated machine guns to intercept incoming projectiles.
Possibly overkill, but I'd imagine a smart system could also intercept crazy suicide bombers, as in the case with the USS Cole.