I'm an American, and I think borders are archaic. I don't want stronger borders, I want no borders. Given, thats not yet a practical solution. But walls and cameras are a step in the wrong directions. In the mean time, amnesty for all undocumented immigrants would be a good start.
This guy shouldn't presume to speak for all Americans when saying what Americans want....
1) Yes, opening the IPO to the public (or customers, in this case) is a red flag... but keep in mind that the Google IPO was also open to the public, and look what happened there.
2) If you are getting 1.5% on your savings account, you need to get a better savings account. On line banks are offering over 4% these days.
Also, the investment bankers who hung this IPO out to dry ought to be shot.
Why should it be about having something to hide? What if I just don't want the government to have absolute power? If encrypting conversations will make enforcing tyranny just a little more difficult, encrypt away...
My fear is that the State will barge in and regulate this to its death, since it's to do with money and lending and there's a LOT of State regulation of such industries, to the harm of everyone who wants to borrow and to the benefit of the banks, since it greatly reduces the competition they have to face.
Right, because not regulating the banking industry back in the 1980s worked out so well for the all the Savings and Loans...
I just tried to put it on my Windows XP Professional box and and found out it also wants IIS to be installed and running before it will intstall. Screw that....
Yeah, I bonds are about the best "risk-free" return you can get... though they are indexed for inflation, so if inflation goes down, so does you interst rate. On the other hand, if it goes up, so does your interest rate. You can buy them at TreasuryDirect.gov
Agreed. Gold speculators have been saying this about gold for years. And while the US economy could be a lot healthier, its not exactly teetering on the brink. There has been a moderate expansion going on for three years now, interest rates are low, inflation is higher than I would like, but still more or less in check, and wages are finally starting to inch their way up.
The trouble with gold is that it doesn't do very much. It just sits around and is shiney and pretty. If you are so inclined, you can make jewlery out of it..... but its still never going to earn you a return. On the other hand, if you buy a bond, you are buying a future stream of interest payments. If you buy a stock, you are buying a share of a company's earnings - and a lot of stocks will pay you dividends every quarter.
With gold, you are only speculating that the price may go up, and the only way that will happen is when more people decide they feel safer with a shiney lump of metal than with income producing securities that are the economic foundation of the economy. But I guess there has been a bull market in fear, lately, and precious metals have risen accordingly.
Just watch out.... gold can become as much of a speculative bubble as dot com stocks ever were.
This might be useful in, say, a crowded national park, which gets plenty of traffic, but is isolated enough so its not on the grid. Putting in one of these would result in a lot less visual blight than stringing electric wires from telephone poles, and would probably be cost-competitive as well.
It will only change if you're pipes are made of iron. If you have copper plumbing, or PVC, or something else non-magnetic, it shouldn't make a difference.
The contraction of "you will" is spelled "you'll", not "u'll". The word meaning "belonging to you" is spelled "your", not "ur".
The English language has standards for spelling, and sticking to them help us all to read and comprehend your comments quickly. Please, don't go breaking standards just because you are on the Internet. Don't be like Microsoft.
As long as the expected rate of return on real estate is significantly higher than inflation, the RE market will not bust. All the fed actions to keep inflation in check will prevent a real estate bust
All the fed can do is tinker with a short term interest rater. There are long term fiscal conditions which suggest the party may not continue.
I don't know if you've noticed, but inflation has been creaping up as of late. That extra 5 or 10 bucks you pay to fill your gas tank these days might not make it into the Consumer Price Index, but it has inflationary reverberations throughout the economy as it costs more to truck everything everywhere.
Meanwhile, China is becoming less interested in purchasing US government debt as its own domestic investment opportunities become more mature. Less demand for debt means higher interest rates; they won't be subsidising our mortgages forever.
Meanwhile, the Government has to pay for a war, service on the debt, rebuilding the gulf coast, bridges in Alaska, and prescription drug benefits for old people - which means it must either tax, borrow, or print money. Higher taxes lead to higher prices, borrowed money leads to higher interest rates, and printing money leads to weaker dollars. Any way you slice it its inflation.
All of these combined factors just might be why mortgages just hit a 17 month high and will probably continue northward in the long run.
So as mortgage rates go up, people can buy less home, and house values stagnate or decline. As such, your "rate of return" compared to increased rates of inflation will decline. If it happens quickly, then the bubble is burst and a lot of people loose money to panic selling. If it happens slowly, then its a gentle deflation and house prices stagnate for a while.
Either way, the party is almost over. I just can't tell you when.
1) Adapt and combine existing open source products to provide a service that meets the specific needs of an industry 2) Sell your service to businesses within that industry 3) Profit!
So what if its a bubble. Bubbles take a long time to burst. Alan Greenspan noticed there was "Irrational Exuberance" in the stock market in 1996 - but the bubble didn't pop until 2001. The real estate bubble is supossed to pop in the US any day now.... but it hasn't yet. While I have no doubt it will pop one day - probably soon - its a fools game to try and time the thing. The thing about economic bubbles is that they last a lot longer than anyone expects they will.
So, open source is a bubble.... fine. But to say its "about to burst" is a reach. If its like other bubbles of late, now that its been declared a bubble, it won't burst for a few years yet. My advice, then, is get on that train and make some money while the getting is good.
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The Football World Cup sounds cool though, is that like the Super Bowl? Go Redskins!
A stronger border is what Americans want
I'm an American, and I think borders are archaic. I don't want stronger borders, I want no borders. Given, thats not yet a practical solution. But walls and cameras are a step in the wrong directions. In the mean time, amnesty for all undocumented immigrants would be a good start.
This guy shouldn't presume to speak for all Americans when saying what Americans want....
1) Yes, opening the IPO to the public (or customers, in this case) is a red flag... but keep in mind that the Google IPO was also open to the public, and look what happened there.
2) If you are getting 1.5% on your savings account, you need to get a better savings account. On line banks are offering over 4% these days.
Also, the investment bankers who hung this IPO out to dry ought to be shot.
Why should it be about having something to hide? What if I just don't want the government to have absolute power? If encrypting conversations will make enforcing tyranny just a little more difficult, encrypt away...
My fear is that the State will barge in and regulate this to its death, since it's to do with money and lending and there's a LOT of State regulation of such industries, to the harm of everyone who wants to borrow and to the benefit of the banks, since it greatly reduces the competition they have to face.
Right, because not regulating the banking industry back in the 1980s worked out so well for the all the Savings and Loans...
Was that the same episode where Hannibal dressed up in a goofy costume, Face flirted with some hot chick, and BA got angry at Murdoch's crazy antics?
I just tried to put it on my Windows XP Professional box and and found out it also wants IIS to be installed and running before it will intstall. Screw that....
We must all fight back against corporate ownership of the English language. Screw the trademark, they will always be legos to me.
3 to 5 years is good to shoot for, but the thing is.... sometimes you jump the ship, sometimes the ship jumps you.
One of the user names is "das".... as in http://test.doit.wisc.edu/~das/
So run that against a dictionary and see if you can get in....
Except in England and Canada, where it means the opposite...
I agree.... and all NASA references should refer to "gravity theory", as well, rather than just "gravity". After all, gravity is just a theory.
Without the DOD there would be no Internet!
That doesn't mean I want Rumsfeld reading my blog.
Yeah, I bonds are about the best "risk-free" return you can get... though they are indexed for inflation, so if inflation goes down, so does you interst rate. On the other hand, if it goes up, so does your interest rate. You can buy them at TreasuryDirect.gov
Agreed. Gold speculators have been saying this about gold for years. And while the US economy could be a lot healthier, its not exactly teetering on the brink. There has been a moderate expansion going on for three years now, interest rates are low, inflation is higher than I would like, but still more or less in check, and wages are finally starting to inch their way up.
The trouble with gold is that it doesn't do very much. It just sits around and is shiney and pretty. If you are so inclined, you can make jewlery out of it..... but its still never going to earn you a return. On the other hand, if you buy a bond, you are buying a future stream of interest payments. If you buy a stock, you are buying a share of a company's earnings - and a lot of stocks will pay you dividends every quarter.
With gold, you are only speculating that the price may go up, and the only way that will happen is when more people decide they feel safer with a shiney lump of metal than with income producing securities that are the economic foundation of the economy. But I guess there has been a bull market in fear, lately, and precious metals have risen accordingly.
Just watch out.... gold can become as much of a speculative bubble as dot com stocks ever were.
Yeah, thats fine for the summer. But right now its January, white will only get lost in the snow. Better go with black.
This might be useful in, say, a crowded national park, which gets plenty of traffic, but is isolated enough so its not on the grid. Putting in one of these would result in a lot less visual blight than stringing electric wires from telephone poles, and would probably be cost-competitive as well.
But on the whole, yeah, utility is limited.
It will only change if you're pipes are made of iron. If you have copper plumbing, or PVC, or something else non-magnetic, it shouldn't make a difference.
Sweet! Thanks for the recommendation.
So, what do you recommend in terms of sniping software?
Dude - the comment was funny. But...
The contraction of "you will" is spelled "you'll", not "u'll". The word meaning "belonging to you" is spelled "your", not "ur".
The English language has standards for spelling, and sticking to them help us all to read and comprehend your comments quickly. Please, don't go breaking standards just because you are on the Internet. Don't be like Microsoft.
As long as the expected rate of return on real estate is significantly higher than inflation, the RE market will not bust. All the fed actions to keep inflation in check will prevent a real estate bust
All the fed can do is tinker with a short term interest rater. There are long term fiscal conditions which suggest the party may not continue.
I don't know if you've noticed, but inflation has been creaping up as of late. That extra 5 or 10 bucks you pay to fill your gas tank these days might not make it into the Consumer Price Index, but it has inflationary reverberations throughout the economy as it costs more to truck everything everywhere.
Meanwhile, China is becoming less interested in purchasing US government debt as its own domestic investment opportunities become more mature. Less demand for debt means higher interest rates; they won't be subsidising our mortgages forever.
Meanwhile, the Government has to pay for a war, service on the debt, rebuilding the gulf coast, bridges in Alaska, and prescription drug benefits for old people - which means it must either tax, borrow, or print money. Higher taxes lead to higher prices, borrowed money leads to higher interest rates, and printing money leads to weaker dollars. Any way you slice it its inflation.
All of these combined factors just might be why mortgages just hit a 17 month high and will probably continue northward in the long run.
So as mortgage rates go up, people can buy less home, and house values stagnate or decline. As such, your "rate of return" compared to increased rates of inflation will decline. If it happens quickly, then the bubble is burst and a lot of people loose money to panic selling. If it happens slowly, then its a gentle deflation and house prices stagnate for a while.
Either way, the party is almost over. I just can't tell you when.
Well, for starters
1) Adapt and combine existing open source products to provide a service that meets the specific needs of an industry
2) Sell your service to businesses within that industry
3) Profit!
So what if its a bubble. Bubbles take a long time to burst. Alan Greenspan noticed there was "Irrational Exuberance" in the stock market in 1996 - but the bubble didn't pop until 2001. The real estate bubble is supossed to pop in the US any day now.... but it hasn't yet. While I have no doubt it will pop one day - probably soon - its a fools game to try and time the thing. The thing about economic bubbles is that they last a lot longer than anyone expects they will.
So, open source is a bubble.... fine. But to say its "about to burst" is a reach. If its like other bubbles of late, now that its been declared a bubble, it won't burst for a few years yet. My advice, then, is get on that train and make some money while the getting is good.
I've found the best way to permanently ignore is to delete.