2005, China bought 600 tonnes of Au with their spare dollars - this year they are talking about increasing this reserve to 2000+ tonnes. It could be used to back the yuan (instead of the US dollar ahem) so this bull has not even got going yet.
Basically the decline of the petrodollar means the decline of the dollar. The PD is the only way the dollar stays afloat today. Look what happened to Iraq when it started trading in Euros? Look what threats are made to Iran when they try to do the same. Putin is talking about Russian bourse now too - as I say this thing is only starting.
Although I understand what you say and I agree with some of it, I don't believe this is a gold bubble that will dissappear over night. The last 'bubble' in gold took place in 1980 where it touched $850 for a moment. If you adjust that $850 to 2006 dollars you'll get a top of about $3000. The Fed has abolished the M3 - I'm sure you know - which doesn't say anything good about the future of inflation or the dollar. It's obvious they're going to print, print, print. I'm guessing that we'll see $1000/oz by the end of the year - I bought at $550 so have put my money where my mouth is. We shall see.....
There's also tight links between the price of oil and gold - many people are forecasting $100 oil in a few months and I suspect gold will follow that trend.
The RE market does look very shakey in the US right now. If it unravels - I think it will when some of the newer ARMs reset this year and next - the fallout will be devastating to the whole market. The derivatives that Freddie and Fannie are playing with could go off like nukes and wreak total financial chaos. Gold and silver will protect from this, at least I hope so, and it's why I bought.
That's the price of gold compared to MSFT (just out of interest) for the last year. Gold is traditionally a very good (if not excellent) hedge against inflation and shows the devalueing dollar situation pretty well right now.
There is no way security can really improve while MS Windows is on the majority of the desktops out there. I'm sure everyone of these security professionals must know this but why kill the golden goose?
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Yes, you're right. By the end of the 80s the 3.5"was the most popular disk by far. The Macintosh started that and then came machines like the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. By the end of the eighties quite a few magazines used to come with 640k disks on the front (should be enough for anyone;-p) and even then we used to joke about the big old 5.25 disks. A couple of years on from this and the HD FD had taken over as being the disk of choice and we used to scoff at the then puny 640k disks (not enough for everyone:-p) etc etc
In fact, I've just thought, the first Apple superdrive was super because it could r/w to SD,DD and HD floppy formats. Sorry just thought of that . . . shows how the meaning of 'super' changes too.
TFA would have been better if they'd done any of the pictures to the same scale aswell.
PS: I'd like to see the Motorola RAZR put out 5W - the transportables could!
I agree with you 100% and hate the comments you've had. I include a link about DU I read recently. I think it should be understood that the US (and to a lesser extent the UK) forces are actively engaged in a low level nuclear war right now.
DU is extremely harmful stuff people! After "Shock&Awe" air meters in the UK peaked at 400% normal value radioactive(March2003). Sickens me that people can be so glib regarding this.
Seriously I thought no one trusted this now but I spose there's always the bottom 11% to consider.
Personally I gave up trusting the MSM (mainstream media) a couple of years ago and have developed my own preferences for sites to visit for news and world events. This is also more entertaining because one has to verify everything you read and not take it for granted - you naturally become a more adept critical thinker this way.
I think governments are pretty worried about this and are trying to find ways to reduce the amount of independent information out there. This is what worries me for the future . . .
I've got cable with supposed dynamic addressing but in truth it has remained the same for over a year. There was a time it changed every few days but I presume they upped the allocations or whatever. I think it's interesting what this guy is saying but (as many people are saying) the data is very confounded and many different reasons could apply.
I've been waiting for this story for a good few months. There are definite plans afoot to control the content of the net by the Whitehouse and it's going to work using the arguments of 1)kiddie pr0n, 2) terrorism.
The next strand of this attack will be something along the lines of 'terrorists used the internet to plan 9/11' - watch out for it. (This has already been mentioned but will now be reinforced).
In reality, the govt hate the fact that people are getting information from the net and not swallowing officially sanctioned news to the same degree. I believe that we will look back at this time and see it as the golden age of the internet and it's going to be the threat of pronists and the terrorists that lead us away from it.
AFAIK, child abuse begets more child abuse. People are not corrupted by kiddiepr0n, they seek it out if they are already corrupted by their own life experience (ie, they themselves were abused as children). Most abuse is within the family, not from strangers and has presumably existed for as long as there were people.
If we got out and started a good war, fewer people would die of cancer! Think of Iraq as a big anti-cancer crusade.
That's really offensive not funny. 20000 tonnes of depeted uranium have been exploded in Iraq since 2003 and cancers and birth defects are rocketing. The microscopic particles have even travelled as far as the UK resulting in a 400% rise in airborne radioactivity during March2003. Don't joke about 200,000 innocent people (many children in that number) dying, you sick w*nker.
On a similar tip, the old BBC ModelB Micro (I think it was the B) came with a NiCad battery as an option to keep the system clock running while not in use. It was considered very flash at the time but there was a serious problem. The recharging circuit was under software control and it was very simple to hack into the kernel and just tell the battery to charge permanently. If you do that to a NiCad sooner or later it either explodes or catches on fire which happened at least once I believe in the UK. Can't find any links about this now, I remember it from the time.
This is the coup of the century. Mac market share could easily double or triple because of this - I know lots of Windroids who are now saying - the time is now, I'm switching. I feel Jobs has planned this master stroke for years and it's like a Pearl Harbor style attack on MSFT dominance, who have nothing to defend themselves with. Although we know the VMWare approach is the most desirable the general public don't know this and will be very attracted by a machine that plays both VHS and Beta. For instance my parents next machine will be an iMac - they're losing nothing but gaining something which they will begin to like and use. Eventually the Win install will bog down and become infested whilst the OSX side will remain good. Before long they've become true switchers with virtually no pain. They'll even see that Win has poor graphics and text rendering when it's all on the same screen.
I never really bought Steve's power consumption argument as being the whole story - it's true of course - but didn't really warrant the speed that Apple moved the Intel chips thru the product lineup. They are about to capitalize on the delay of Looooooonghorn and make 2006 a great year for Apple. I expect the stocks might go to $100 soon enough.
Sorry for being so enthusiastic -- I know people may argue some of my points -- but this is a major major advance for Apple. Hooray.
Bought and set-up a 2.1GHz MacBookPro for a client. Managed to arrange things so I had the machine at home for three days as my little perk. Machine was great - best laptop I've ever used - but then on day3..... Dead Pixel!!
Couldn't believe it - it was right in the centre of the screen aswell. Had to give it back to the client and knew he was going to blame me for it as I knew he had no understanding of the dp concept. Got to his place and said there's some bad news, there's a dead pixel and proceeded, after his obvious shock and dissapointment had settled down a little, to fire it up to show him. A miracle occoured and the pixel was 100% working again. I just couldn't believe it.
I mean what happened there? Was I touched by the hand of Jobs?
2 weeks later the pixel is still fine . . .
Anyone ever had this on a screen before I really would like to know.....
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This is coming I think too.
2005, China bought 600 tonnes of Au with their spare dollars - this year they are talking about increasing this reserve to 2000+ tonnes. It could be used to back the yuan (instead of the US dollar ahem) so this bull has not even got going yet.
Basically the decline of the petrodollar means the decline of the dollar. The PD is the only way the dollar stays afloat today. Look what happened to Iraq when it started trading in Euros? Look what threats are made to Iran when they try to do the same. Putin is talking about Russian bourse now too - as I say this thing is only starting.
Although I understand what you say and I agree with some of it, I don't believe this is a gold bubble that will dissappear over night. The last 'bubble' in gold took place in 1980 where it touched $850 for a moment. If you adjust that $850 to 2006 dollars you'll get a top of about $3000. The Fed has abolished the M3 - I'm sure you know - which doesn't say anything good about the future of inflation or the dollar. It's obvious they're going to print, print, print. I'm guessing that we'll see $1000/oz by the end of the year - I bought at $550 so have put my money where my mouth is. We shall see.....
There's also tight links between the price of oil and gold - many people are forecasting $100 oil in a few months and I suspect gold will follow that trend.
The RE market does look very shakey in the US right now. If it unravels - I think it will when some of the newer ARMs reset this year and next - the fallout will be devastating to the whole market. The derivatives that Freddie and Fannie are playing with could go off like nukes and wreak total financial chaos. Gold and silver will protect from this, at least I hope so, and it's why I bought.
Um, no, the dollars are worth less - that's all that's happening.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT&t=1y&l=off&z
That's the price of gold compared to MSFT (just out of interest) for the last year. Gold is traditionally a very good (if not excellent) hedge against inflation and shows the devalueing dollar situation pretty well right now.
There is no way security can really improve while MS Windows is on the majority of the desktops out there. I'm sure everyone of these security professionals must know this but why kill the golden goose?
that should be subrooting no?
(runs away)
Yes, you're right. By the end of the 80s the 3.5"was the most popular disk by far. The Macintosh started that and then came machines like the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. By the end of the eighties quite a few magazines used to come with 640k disks on the front (should be enough for anyone ;-p) and even then we used to joke about the big old 5.25 disks. A couple of years on from this and the HD FD had taken over as being the disk of choice and we used to scoff at the then puny 640k disks (not enough for everyone :-p) etc etc
In fact, I've just thought, the first Apple superdrive was super because it could r/w to SD,DD and HD floppy formats. Sorry just thought of that . . . shows how the meaning of 'super' changes too.
TFA would have been better if they'd done any of the pictures to the same scale aswell.
PS: I'd like to see the Motorola RAZR put out 5W - the transportables could!
It's been 20 years since I read it but didn't they end up using the bomb in the end - 2000 years after 'our' time used it?
I agree with you 100% and hate the comments you've had. I include a link about DU I read recently. I think it should be understood that the US (and to a lesser extent the UK) forces are actively engaged in a low level nuclear war right now.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vi
DU is extremely harmful stuff people! After "Shock&Awe" air meters in the UK peaked at 400% normal value radioactive(March2003). Sickens me that people can be so glib regarding this.
Seriously I thought no one trusted this now but I spose there's always the bottom 11% to consider.
Personally I gave up trusting the MSM (mainstream media) a couple of years ago and have developed my own preferences for sites to visit for news and world events. This is also more entertaining because one has to verify everything you read and not take it for granted - you naturally become a more adept critical thinker this way.
I think governments are pretty worried about this and are trying to find ways to reduce the amount of independent information out there. This is what worries me for the future . . .
brilliant :-)
Worthy of seenonslash.com - see you there . . .
I've got cable with supposed dynamic addressing but in truth it has remained the same for over a year. There was a time it changed every few days but I presume they upped the allocations or whatever. I think it's interesting what this guy is saying but (as many people are saying) the data is very confounded and many different reasons could apply.
I've been waiting for this story for a good few months. There are definite plans afoot to control the content of the net by the Whitehouse and it's going to work using the arguments of 1)kiddie pr0n, 2) terrorism.
The next strand of this attack will be something along the lines of 'terrorists used the internet to plan 9/11' - watch out for it. (This has already been mentioned but will now be reinforced).
In reality, the govt hate the fact that people are getting information from the net and not swallowing officially sanctioned news to the same degree. I believe that we will look back at this time and see it as the golden age of the internet and it's going to be the threat of pronists and the terrorists that lead us away from it.
AFAIK, child abuse begets more child abuse. People are not corrupted by kiddiepr0n, they seek it out if they are already corrupted by their own life experience (ie, they themselves were abused as children). Most abuse is within the family, not from strangers and has presumably existed for as long as there were people.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/MSNBC_report_on_ US_military_secrets_0414.html
So it's not exactly a Faux News scoop as mentioned.
Sheesh. When facts get called a troll. How mindwashed are these mods?
Vista uses this technique to spectacular effect.
There's a third page?
If we got out and started a good war, fewer people would die of cancer! Think of Iraq as a big anti-cancer crusade.
That's really offensive not funny. 20000 tonnes of depeted uranium have been exploded in Iraq since 2003 and cancers and birth defects are rocketing. The microscopic particles have even travelled as far as the UK resulting in a 400% rise in airborne radioactivity during March2003. Don't joke about 200,000 innocent people (many children in that number) dying, you sick w*nker.
Yes, like that. Very true I would think.
On a similar tip, the old BBC ModelB Micro (I think it was the B) came with a NiCad battery as an option to keep the system clock running while not in use. It was considered very flash at the time but there was a serious problem. The recharging circuit was under software control and it was very simple to hack into the kernel and just tell the battery to charge permanently. If you do that to a NiCad sooner or later it either explodes or catches on fire which happened at least once I believe in the UK. Can't find any links about this now, I remember it from the time.
Yes, agreed. I heard a rumor these things were already flying anyway...
Who needs Classic drawing skillz when you've got OSX drawing skillz?
I honestly thought that when I first read it - shows you where I'm at in the 'computers dominating my life' stakes.
Also Mac The Ripper and Roxio Popcorn for DVD rip'n'squash. Flip4Mac WMV to play wmv in QT player. Happy days!
This is the coup of the century. Mac market share could easily double or triple because of this - I know lots of Windroids who are now saying - the time is now, I'm switching. I feel Jobs has planned this master stroke for years and it's like a Pearl Harbor style attack on MSFT dominance, who have nothing to defend themselves with. Although we know the VMWare approach is the most desirable the general public don't know this and will be very attracted by a machine that plays both VHS and Beta. For instance my parents next machine will be an iMac - they're losing nothing but gaining something which they will begin to like and use. Eventually the Win install will bog down and become infested whilst the OSX side will remain good. Before long they've become true switchers with virtually no pain. They'll even see that Win has poor graphics and text rendering when it's all on the same screen.
I never really bought Steve's power consumption argument as being the whole story - it's true of course - but didn't really warrant the speed that Apple moved the Intel chips thru the product lineup. They are about to capitalize on the delay of Looooooonghorn and make 2006 a great year for Apple. I expect the stocks might go to $100 soon enough.
Sorry for being so enthusiastic -- I know people may argue some of my points -- but this is a major major advance for Apple. Hooray.
thanks for that. I've now got a new fixing technique .. . the rub-down.
Bought and set-up a 2.1GHz MacBookPro for a client. Managed to arrange things so I had the machine at home for three days as my little perk. Machine was great - best laptop I've ever used - but then on day3..... Dead Pixel!!
Couldn't believe it - it was right in the centre of the screen aswell. Had to give it back to the client and knew he was going to blame me for it as I knew he had no understanding of the dp concept. Got to his place and said there's some bad news, there's a dead pixel and proceeded, after his obvious shock and dissapointment had settled down a little, to fire it up to show him. A miracle occoured and the pixel was 100% working again. I just couldn't believe it.
I mean what happened there? Was I touched by the hand of Jobs?
2 weeks later the pixel is still fine . . .
Anyone ever had this on a screen before I really would like to know.....