Then perhaps the writer of the article should have chosen a better voice to have written his article in.
As written, these rogue genetic elements multiply in the brain tissue of the deceased in response to stress.
Or better yet, a better voice in which to have written his article.
Of course if you're a pregnant schizophrenic zombie, chances are you've got plenty of stress in response to which these rogue genetic elements might multiply.
God damn it, I had zounds of mod points until yesterday, and when I finally read a very funny entry... they're gone.
...
I wanna see the "posts from the mysterious future"-predicting algorithm they use around here to give you lots of mod points but never when you're really going to want them.
I'd be willing to pay for it, but I think Tivo's service fee's are way to expensive. $500 for a lifetime pass, or $15 a month (last time I checked). What are you getting for that?...
A license to use the proprietary software they created.
Whether it's worth it is a decision for the individual to make concerning their own situation.
Some decide in favor, some against.
And some of us pick up used lifetimed machines at good prices because they need the hard drive replaced or the power supply cured of "capacitor plague".
140 bucks per month for Dish... I'm really thinking about going to just streaming and getting the Tivo with 4 ota tuners.
There are TiVos with 4 digital cable tuners that can be used simultaneously (provided one also rents a cable card from one's cable company, and possibly a Tuning Adapter as well to enable getting Switched Digital Video), but I'm almost certain there are no models with 4 OTA tuners.
TiVo is kinda moving away from OTA and concentrating on cable these days, and probably looking to get into deals with cable companies to provide hardware/software packages which the cable companies would rent to subscribers, rather than rely on individual TiVo owners for as much of their overall income as previously.
Of course you can always get 2 dual tuner Series 3 or Series 4 TiVos or the low end Series 5.
Much information, from TiVo owners helping each other out, is available here:
I put quotes around it because I was pretending that it was GM saying that it's not GM's fault that the federal government was unable to time the market.
In other words, if GM could get away with just laying it out there instead of having to be all diplomatic about it, that's how I envision them answering this ridiculous notion of covering losses the government brought on itself by selling at the wrong time.
If GM has any sort of moral obligation to the government or to show gratitude to the government, it's not in this particular area.
...Killing the svchost.exe process to shut down Windows Update is the equivalent of paint removal with a 12 gauge shotgun. It'll work, but it causes a lot of other problems at the same time...
But you must admit that sounds like a lot more fun than doing it with a putty knife and a heat gun.
Government is no better than other investors, and often worse. Take Solyndra as an example: private investors basically gave up on it until corruptocrats at DoE decided to funnel cash down that toilet. There's also a conflict of interest when government has a big stock position in certain companies. Given that the US has traditionally not made that kind of investment in private companies, I certainly do hold the government responsible for losing taxpayer dollars there. Do you think private investors are, or should be, off the hook when they make money-losing investments?
If you're going to talk about Solyndra, you really should include mention of China dumping solar cells on the U.S. market below cost as a big part of Solyndra's woes.
And how the federal government didn't really do anymore to prevent that then they did to keep the Japanese from destroying domestic television set production via dumping back in the '70s, despite the government's ability and duty to regulate commerce.
The government did not issue a loan, they bought a large amount of stock.
a) Would they have purchased that stock if it hadn't been a "bailout"?
b) A "loan" would have left them with nothing if the company had tanked. A stock purchase would entitle them to some company assets to sell off, this is what most people call "security".
You don't seem to have as good a grasp as you might about how stock ownership works.
Stockholders are the last in line when it comes to dividing up the assets of a failing company and paying off creditors to the extent possible.
That's the risk of ownership.
Just ask those who were still holding shares in the previous corporation known as General Motors.
Some of those shares were purchased at around $100 per share back in the mid to late '60s when that would have bought 300 gallons of gasoline.
Although they received dividends over the years, those who bought a share at that price and held that share 'til the bitter end lost all $100.
Meanwhile, what assets there were went towards partially paying off all of the creditors in line ahead of those shareholders.
they should have gone bankrupt - or loaned money backed by their assets... having a pool that's kept only to keep failing companies running belongs to the history of the ussr.
Who should have gone bankrupt? General Motors? They did.
Or at least the previously exisiting corporation known as General Motors did. And the value of the shares of stock in that corporation fell to $0, and that corporation doesn't really exist any more.
A new corporation also known as General Motors came into being, and issued stock, and it is some of that stock which the federal government purchased and then chose to sell for less than what they paid.
He didn't take the money, Treasury chose to invest the money under direction of both the Bush and Obama administrations, in order to keep GM and its supply chain from collapsing. While they lost money on the face of it, the economy gained value, likely in excess of the $10B loss. If the end result exceeds the scenario where government did nothing, then government did it's job by stabilizing the economy.
This isn't personal. His job is to protect shareholder value. He indicated, in the interview, that if he paid back the $10B loss he would be opening GM up to lawsuits from every other shareholder who lost money in the bankruptcy.
The shareholders who lost money in the bankruptcy were those who held the previous shares, the ones from GM's first Initial Public Offering from back in the early 20th century, or shares issued subsequently, but before the bankruptcy.
Technically, the corporation of which those shares were shares no longer exists.
And those who bought bonds issued by that previous corporation have a much more legitimate gripe than the government.
GM would be facing suits by others who bought the same shares the government did, the shares issued after the bankruptcy.
The federal government brought the loss on themselves by first buying some of those shares and then holding them until they went down in value and then selling at a loss instead of continuing to hold them in the hope that they would go back up again.
Those shares have done what stock sometimes does, declined in value relative to the IPO price.
In the future they may go down even further or they may go up again.
Are you talking to me or the parent poster who talked about escaping the dictatorship of the CCP and then launched into the Malaysia diatribe without me seeing any sign of a connection?
that and also the prestige of having ENTERPRISE hardware.
Kind of like how businesses pay extra for Windows XP Professional even though XP Home has all the features they ever use.
But with XP Pro, the volume control doesn't disappear on restart the way it does on 95 through XP Home no matter how many fricken boxes you have checked.
So obviously it's designed to prevent the delay of commerce by protecting cubical drones from the minor annoyances to which the mere home user is subjected.
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If you are an American (or even if you are not) I recommend reading this: The Constitution of the United States of America.
Too bad they keep trying to shelve it in the Fiction section these days.
Then perhaps the writer of the article should have chosen a better voice to have written his article in.
As written, these rogue genetic elements multiply in the brain tissue of the deceased in response to stress.
Or better yet, a better voice in which to have written his article.
Of course if you're a pregnant schizophrenic zombie, chances are you've got plenty of stress in response to which these rogue genetic elements might multiply.
Today's problems are tomorrows answers.
Unfortunately today's answers are far too often tomorrow's problems.
I'm gathering you haven't heard about the "Murder the Post Office in Slow Motion" law passed in 2006?
There are no degrees of unique, so one cannot be more or less so than someone or something else.
You either is or you ain't.
But that doesn't mean that two unique things or persons cannot be almost exactly the same.
God damn it, I had zounds of mod points until yesterday, and when I finally read a very funny entry... they're gone.
...
I wanna see the "posts from the mysterious future"-predicting algorithm they use around here to give you lots of mod points but never when you're really going to want them.
How can they possibly know ahead of time?
"Today, Mims works on many scientific projects including climate change research."
To learn whatever's there to learn or to seek evidence to support a previously reached conclusion or opinion?
I forget if you were in PE or R-E or both (and the back issues are in boxes on a high shelf), but I used to enjoy reading your stuff back in the '70s.
I'd be willing to pay for it, but I think Tivo's service fee's are way to expensive. $500 for a lifetime pass, or $15 a month (last time I checked). What are you getting for that? ...
A license to use the proprietary software they created.
Whether it's worth it is a decision for the individual to make concerning their own situation.
Some decide in favor, some against.
And some of us pick up used lifetimed machines at good prices because they need the hard drive replaced or the power supply cured of "capacitor plague".
140 bucks per month for Dish... I'm really thinking about going to just streaming and getting the Tivo with 4 ota tuners.
There are TiVos with 4 digital cable tuners that can be used simultaneously (provided one also rents a cable card from one's cable company, and possibly a Tuning Adapter as well to enable getting Switched Digital Video), but I'm almost certain there are no models with 4 OTA tuners.
TiVo is kinda moving away from OTA and concentrating on cable these days, and probably looking to get into deals with cable companies to provide hardware/software packages which the cable companies would rent to subscribers, rather than rely on individual TiVo owners for as much of their overall income as previously.
Of course you can always get 2 dual tuner Series 3 or Series 4 TiVos or the low end Series 5.
Much information, from TiVo owners helping each other out, is available here:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/index.php
Not to be confused with anything on the actual tivo.com site--they have people who monitor TCF, but it is independent of TiVo, Inc.
I put quotes around it because I was pretending that it was GM saying that it's not GM's fault that the federal government was unable to time the market.
In other words, if GM could get away with just laying it out there instead of having to be all diplomatic about it, that's how I envision them answering this ridiculous notion of covering losses the government brought on itself by selling at the wrong time.
If GM has any sort of moral obligation to the government or to show gratitude to the government, it's not in this particular area.
I'm really - I mean really, uncomfortable with the thought of Microsoft planning this kind of thing 12 years in advance...
But I'm comforted by the knowledge that they aren't nearly competent enough to actually have successfully done that.
...Killing the svchost.exe process to shut down Windows Update is the equivalent of paint removal with a 12 gauge shotgun. It'll work, but it causes a lot of other problems at the same time...
But you must admit that sounds like a lot more fun than doing it with a putty knife and a heat gun.
Government is no better than other investors, and often worse. Take Solyndra as an example: private investors basically gave up on it until corruptocrats at DoE decided to funnel cash down that toilet. There's also a conflict of interest when government has a big stock position in certain companies. Given that the US has traditionally not made that kind of investment in private companies, I certainly do hold the government responsible for losing taxpayer dollars there. Do you think private investors are, or should be, off the hook when they make money-losing investments?
If you're going to talk about Solyndra, you really should include mention of China dumping solar cells on the U.S. market below cost as a big part of Solyndra's woes.
And how the federal government didn't really do anymore to prevent that then they did to keep the Japanese from destroying domestic television set production via dumping back in the '70s, despite the government's ability and duty to regulate commerce.
Shares of General Motors Company (GM) hit new 52-week high of $33.77 on May 17, which is above its previous level of $32.44 as well as the Initial Public Offering (:IPO) price of $33.00 (held in Nov 2010) for the first time since May 4, 2011.
The government could have sold then and turned a profit (or at least a capital gain).
They chose to wait and sell after the share price had gone back down again, and to not wait and see if it went back up in the future.
GM had no control over those actions.
I'm sure many others who bought at the IPO have sold their shares at various times since then, and taken the then-going price.
If they did so at a loss, GM doesn't owe them anything, and if they did so at a profit, they don't owe GM anything.
The government did not issue a loan, they bought a large amount of stock.
a) Would they have purchased that stock if it hadn't been a "bailout"?
b) A "loan" would have left them with nothing if the company had tanked. A stock purchase would entitle them to some company assets to sell off, this is what most people call "security".
You don't seem to have as good a grasp as you might about how stock ownership works.
Stockholders are the last in line when it comes to dividing up the assets of a failing company and paying off creditors to the extent possible.
That's the risk of ownership.
Just ask those who were still holding shares in the previous corporation known as General Motors.
Some of those shares were purchased at around $100 per share back in the mid to late '60s when that would have bought 300 gallons of gasoline.
Although they received dividends over the years, those who bought a share at that price and held that share 'til the bitter end lost all $100.
Meanwhile, what assets there were went towards partially paying off all of the creditors in line ahead of those shareholders.
uh that makes no sense at all.
they should have gone bankrupt - or loaned money backed by their assets... having a pool that's kept only to keep failing companies running belongs to the history of the ussr.
Who should have gone bankrupt? General Motors? They did.
Or at least the previously exisiting corporation known as General Motors did. And the value of the shares of stock in that corporation fell to $0, and that corporation doesn't really exist any more.
A new corporation also known as General Motors came into being, and issued stock, and it is some of that stock which the federal government purchased and then chose to sell for less than what they paid.
He didn't take the money, Treasury chose to invest the money under direction of both the Bush and Obama administrations, in order to keep GM and its supply chain from collapsing. While they lost money on the face of it, the economy gained value, likely in excess of the $10B loss. If the end result exceeds the scenario where government did nothing, then government did it's job by stabilizing the economy.
This isn't personal. His job is to protect shareholder value. He indicated, in the interview, that if he paid back the $10B loss he would be opening GM up to lawsuits from every other shareholder who lost money in the bankruptcy.
The shareholders who lost money in the bankruptcy were those who held the previous shares, the ones from GM's first Initial Public Offering from back in the early 20th century, or shares issued subsequently, but before the bankruptcy.
Technically, the corporation of which those shares were shares no longer exists.
And those who bought bonds issued by that previous corporation have a much more legitimate gripe than the government.
GM would be facing suits by others who bought the same shares the government did, the shares issued after the bankruptcy.
The federal government brought the loss on themselves by first buying some of those shares and then holding them until they went down in value and then selling at a loss instead of continuing to hold them in the hope that they would go back up again.
Those shares have done what stock sometimes does, declined in value relative to the IPO price.
In the future they may go down even further or they may go up again.
That's the risk of capitalism.
Yes, I would love to hear the economic rationale for selling when they did.
To shut up all the people whining about the government being in the car business?
Go ask the guy who runs Ford if there would still be a Ford if GM and Chrysler had gone under.
Or if the sudden collapse of the suppliers relied upon by all 3 would have put them out of business as well.
I thought you wrote "wife".... put a completely different complexion on the post.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wi-fi.
Are you talking to me or the parent poster who talked about escaping the dictatorship of the CCP and then launched into the Malaysia diatribe without me seeing any sign of a connection?
She was in a wheelchair at the time.
The mother, that is, not the daughter.
Wait for the Bearing Strait to freeze up, and you can make it.
Hey, it's spelled Bearing Straight!
No, actually you'd be driving north for a while and then you'd be bearing right when you draw up level with Alaska.
There's a Rahinah Ibrahim and a Rahimah Ibrahim (well, there's at least one of each).
Which one are you talking about?
And is CCP Soviet Socialist Republics?
And wasn't Malaysia not a part of that?
that and also the prestige of having ENTERPRISE hardware.
Kind of like how businesses pay extra for Windows XP Professional even though XP Home has all the features they ever use.
But with XP Pro, the volume control doesn't disappear on restart the way it does on 95 through XP Home no matter how many fricken boxes you have checked.
So obviously it's designed to prevent the delay of commerce by protecting cubical drones from the minor annoyances to which the mere home user is subjected.