Far too much hype is what we normally read about Amazon. Remember, Bezos is a former Wall Street guy and Amazon only survived, not necessarily thrived, by dint of his "creative financing" skills (like sending out nonordered books to Euro addresses to demonstrate to unsuspecting investors how "international" Amazon was becoming --- don't believe me? Check with UPS to see how many returned:not ordereds they received.). Also, consider how many rounds of layoffs a relatively young company like Amazon has already experienced. What is it now? Four? Or five???
All those PSAs which urge us to vote have been getting on my nerves lately, as does your post. The act of voting appears to have little or no effect for the past several decades in this country. The list today of voting abuses is far and wide.
Furthermore, how people vote once they get into office has all too frequently differed from how they claimed they would vote once elected. Aside from Rep. Bernie Saunders and Senator Byrd (who was unfairly ostracized by an earlier post), very few of our elected officials can be trusted today given the laws which give the corporations and plutocrats the upper hand.
I believe it was Teddy Roosevelt who wisely created and passed legislation outlawing the ability of corporations to donate to politicians and their political campaigns. Once those laws were overturned, America has devolved into what we have today.....
Sorry, I don't in any way mean to be patronizing, but if you've been in the computer sci. field for any period of time you'll realize the absurdity of the question you just posed.
Our Republican-controlled congress is such a bunch of busy little beavers and oh so concerned with the "WAR ON TERROR" that they recently passed legislation to build fences to "secure" our southernmost border, then the same clowns passed further legislation NOT to appropriate money so as to NOT build those fences.
Next the Senate passed the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement, thus making legal the right of any and every foreign government and foreign corporation to purchase all of America's ports, utilities, etc.
Yup!! It's that gosh-durned war on terror thingy.....got to send some internets up the pipes on that thingy......
Indeed --- we must ask permission for everything once considered a right in this pathetic, corporate fascist state today that once upon a time may have actually passed for a democratic republic. Nobody asked MY permission prior to drafting me many years ago --- nobody asked my permission to allow an idiot --- whose AFQT scores were waaaay below mine to get special consideration --- and not only get into the Texas ANG --- but actually get into pilot training, which was highly questionable given his scores --- but predictable that he couldn't continue to cut it. (One can cheat on the SAT - especially rich, legacy students - but one cannot cheat on the AFQTs.)
Thank you! WSJ has a long and consistent history with not only NOT being able to predict what's best for economic survival, but an almost 100% fallibility rate at predicting what's BAD for economic thriving, i.e., their classic, "Henry Ford's new fangled idea of paying his production line workers enough money to buy his products will destroy the American economy!"
I believe anyone who recommends a Thomas Friedman book ("The World is Flat") definitely needs to read more books. Accepting his drivel places one in the realm of deep doo-doo!
We are already in a country which offshores R&D (just check around at universities over the preceding six years to find out how much basic R&D, once underwritten by the corps, is now being offshored to save itty bitty monies, not to mention the applied R&D) along with anything else that can possibly be outsourced and offshored.
Also, the Cold War may be over but its self-destructive economic model has been resuscitated by the Bush Cabal, at the same time they are completely emptying out the treasury for eons to come. While I appreciate the popular definition of why "Communism" lost (accepting the weirdest possible perverted definition of communism allowed), there were far more variables to be considered in such pronouncements.
Some books I would recommend as being farther along the evolutionary scale: Henry George's Progress and Poverty (a timeless and brilliant work on the inequities and causality of the unequal distribution of wealth), and anything intelligent on Jean-Baptiste Say.
I believe your post and parent's post to be the most thoughtful and informative. Although two items have been greatly overlooked: (1) in companies where the R&D was not immediately taken advantage of, those external companies which did profit off of another's R&D yielded products which then were later capitalized by the originators of said R&D, and (2) NASA yielded an absolutely tremendous amount of technological advances and offshoots in North American society --- everything from biomedical sciences, materials sciences, digital electronics and communications and computer technology, to packaging, etc. (And no, Velcro was not developed at NASA --- whoever started that urban legend???)
Frankly, I believe you to be a neocon troll, just tying up people's time. Now go back and reread it very sloooooowly. I stand by what I said previously...
I completely agree with you --- and that is why the future looks quite precarious today, especially when one accurately looks at the economic indicators in a discerning manner.
Borrowing money to invest is exactly what the real players do!!! You haven't been paying attention. The big boys have been borrowing money, where it is around zero interest rates, then buying up bonds and other instruments at higher percentages, then selling them.
You're completely missing the point! When did this congress (Leave No Child A Dime, Leave No Billionnaire Behind) suddenly become concerned with children??? It's about control over the Internet and the WWW. That's all it is.
That's super advice --- but since the individual asked: Read Buffetology --- a really great book on investing. Next, follow what the top private equity firms (Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Dubai Holdings) are doing. At the upper levels everything is strictly insider trading, so by following them you usually can't go wrong.
I appreciate all your sentiments, but I suspect you are missing the point. Everything this neocon-controlled congress, and this present administration, has done is to exert an ironclad control and influence over all aspects of our society. There is nothing "Republican" nor "conservative" about any of their actions to date. This bill is a sister bill to the one recently passed by the FTC - dramatically raising the monetary penalty for uttering foul language over the radio waves -- it can and will be used to shut down the remaining few independent radio stations across the country (and at the very least, to intimidate them).
This bill will further exert control over the 'net and can be used in a similar fashion against ISPs. Nothing done by these neocons resides in the realm of stupidity as much as it always enhances their criminal profits and power.
OH WOW....the US Congress going on about someone misleading!!!!! Who would have thought it????
I mean after all, this is the august body which a little while ago voted for fences to be built on our southern border with Mexico --- then the same clowns voted down the financial appropriation for the fences --- thus rendering their first vote a complete fraud --- but then, those criminal clowns are consistent about that. Didn't they just pass the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement - allowing any foreign government, foreign government-owned corporation (can you say Dubai Holding?) and foreign corporation to buy up any and all of American's sensitive infrastructure (ports, utilities, etc.).
Plus, it further financially encourages the offshoring of the remaining jobs, new loopholes for further importation of foreign replacement workers for laid-off American workers --- and supports a country (Oman) which has been repeatedly cited for the trafficking in human slaves?????
Section 215 - something suggests to me your reading comprehension needs some work, along with any critical thinking processes one would hope you might possess. Debate isn't just about challenging people about the obvious. The entire Patriot Act violates the US Constitution --- everything the Bush Cabal has done in office challenges the US Constitution --- exactly what planet are you living on??? Have you ever done anything in life which requires any mental concentration???? Try using your time a little more constructively a start by Googling "US-Oman Free Trade Agreement" and next search on "NAFTA highway"....
Perhaps because they ignored over 200 tips - many quite detailed - which warned of the impending attack on 9/11/01. And it was the same two FBI middle managers who ignored such warnings - as they also ignored the tip on the alleged anthrax assassin for over 8 months. These two middle managers were later promoted with bonuses by Feeb Director Mueller the shyster, suckup....
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Does this have anything to do with that spaceport thingy????
Right?????
Far too much hype is what we normally read about Amazon. Remember, Bezos is a former Wall Street guy and Amazon only survived, not necessarily thrived, by dint of his "creative financing" skills (like sending out nonordered books to Euro addresses to demonstrate to unsuspecting investors how "international" Amazon was becoming --- don't believe me? Check with UPS to see how many returned:not ordereds they received.). Also, consider how many rounds of layoffs a relatively young company like Amazon has already experienced. What is it now? Four? Or five???
You keep the information (knowledge), and I'll take the money...
Furthermore, how people vote once they get into office has all too frequently differed from how they claimed they would vote once elected. Aside from Rep. Bernie Saunders and Senator Byrd (who was unfairly ostracized by an earlier post), very few of our elected officials can be trusted today given the laws which give the corporations and plutocrats the upper hand.
I believe it was Teddy Roosevelt who wisely created and passed legislation outlawing the ability of corporations to donate to politicians and their political campaigns. Once those laws were overturned, America has devolved into what we have today.....
Excuse me for stepping on anyone's joke, but information is not power --- money is power and information is control of that power....
Sorry, I don't in any way mean to be patronizing, but if you've been in the computer sci. field for any period of time you'll realize the absurdity of the question you just posed.
Our Republican-controlled congress is such a bunch of busy little beavers and oh so concerned with the "WAR ON TERROR" that they recently passed legislation to build fences to "secure" our southernmost border, then the same clowns passed further legislation NOT to appropriate money so as to NOT build those fences.
Next the Senate passed the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement, thus making legal the right of any and every foreign government and foreign corporation to purchase all of America's ports, utilities, etc.
Yup!! It's that gosh-durned war on terror thingy.....got to send some internets up the pipes on that thingy......
Indeed --- we must ask permission for everything once considered a right in this pathetic, corporate fascist state today that once upon a time may have actually passed for a democratic republic. Nobody asked MY permission prior to drafting me many years ago --- nobody asked my permission to allow an idiot --- whose AFQT scores were waaaay below mine to get special consideration --- and not only get into the Texas ANG --- but actually get into pilot training, which was highly questionable given his scores --- but predictable that he couldn't continue to cut it. (One can cheat on the SAT - especially rich, legacy students - but one cannot cheat on the AFQTs.)
Thank you! WSJ has a long and consistent history with not only NOT being able to predict what's best for economic survival, but an almost 100% fallibility rate at predicting what's BAD for economic thriving, i.e., their classic, "Henry Ford's new fangled idea of paying his production line workers enough money to buy his products will destroy the American economy!"
We are already in a country which offshores R&D (just check around at universities over the preceding six years to find out how much basic R&D, once underwritten by the corps, is now being offshored to save itty bitty monies, not to mention the applied R&D) along with anything else that can possibly be outsourced and offshored.
Also, the Cold War may be over but its self-destructive economic model has been resuscitated by the Bush Cabal, at the same time they are completely emptying out the treasury for eons to come. While I appreciate the popular definition of why "Communism" lost (accepting the weirdest possible perverted definition of communism allowed), there were far more variables to be considered in such pronouncements.
Some books I would recommend as being farther along the evolutionary scale: Henry George's Progress and Poverty (a timeless and brilliant work on the inequities and causality of the unequal distribution of wealth), and anything intelligent on Jean-Baptiste Say.
I believe your post and parent's post to be the most thoughtful and informative. Although two items have been greatly overlooked: (1) in companies where the R&D was not immediately taken advantage of, those external companies which did profit off of another's R&D yielded products which then were later capitalized by the originators of said R&D, and (2) NASA yielded an absolutely tremendous amount of technological advances and offshoots in North American society --- everything from biomedical sciences, materials sciences, digital electronics and communications and computer technology, to packaging, etc. (And no, Velcro was not developed at NASA --- whoever started that urban legend???)
I just have a problem with the architect of Lotus Notes proclaiming: "Complexity kills".
Frankly, I believe you to be a neocon troll, just tying up people's time. Now go back and reread it very sloooooowly. I stand by what I said previously...
I completely agree with you --- and that is why the future looks quite precarious today, especially when one accurately looks at the economic indicators in a discerning manner.
Borrowing money to invest is exactly what the real players do!!! You haven't been paying attention. The big boys have been borrowing money, where it is around zero interest rates, then buying up bonds and other instruments at higher percentages, then selling them.
You're completely missing the point! When did this congress (Leave No Child A Dime, Leave No Billionnaire Behind) suddenly become concerned with children??? It's about control over the Internet and the WWW. That's all it is.
That's super advice --- but since the individual asked: Read Buffetology --- a really great book on investing. Next, follow what the top private equity firms (Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Dubai Holdings) are doing. At the upper levels everything is strictly insider trading, so by following them you usually can't go wrong.
This bill will further exert control over the 'net and can be used in a similar fashion against ISPs. Nothing done by these neocons resides in the realm of stupidity as much as it always enhances their criminal profits and power.
This is simply the beginning felony-backed internet laws which will seek to control -- or privatize -- the web....
I mean after all, this is the august body which a little while ago voted for fences to be built on our southern border with Mexico --- then the same clowns voted down the financial appropriation for the fences --- thus rendering their first vote a complete fraud --- but then, those criminal clowns are consistent about that. Didn't they just pass the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement - allowing any foreign government, foreign government-owned corporation (can you say Dubai Holding?) and foreign corporation to buy up any and all of American's sensitive infrastructure (ports, utilities, etc.).
Plus, it further financially encourages the offshoring of the remaining jobs, new loopholes for further importation of foreign replacement workers for laid-off American workers --- and supports a country (Oman) which has been repeatedly cited for the trafficking in human slaves?????
This is extraordinarily humorous - seeing that it originates from Boeing...
Section 215 - something suggests to me your reading comprehension needs some work, along with any critical thinking processes one would hope you might possess. Debate isn't just about challenging people about the obvious. The entire Patriot Act violates the US Constitution --- everything the Bush Cabal has done in office challenges the US Constitution --- exactly what planet are you living on??? Have you ever done anything in life which requires any mental concentration???? Try using your time a little more constructively a start by Googling "US-Oman Free Trade Agreement" and next search on "NAFTA highway" ....
Are you brain dead???? We were discussing the FBI here - exactly how many medications are you presently on????
Perhaps because they ignored over 200 tips - many quite detailed - which warned of the impending attack on 9/11/01. And it was the same two FBI middle managers who ignored such warnings - as they also ignored the tip on the alleged anthrax assassin for over 8 months. These two middle managers were later promoted with bonuses by Feeb Director Mueller the shyster, suckup....