The PE ratio of the market as a whole is about 44. That is to say, the total investment in the market is making a return of slightly over 2% per year. How to beat the market consistently and legally is an unsolved problem. So, unless you are hoping to make money off of new investors in the pyramid, you might be better off buying his website after all. (Of course, he didn't tell us what his costs were.)
Yeah, but that's the _whole_ market, including cheap non-performers. If you put your money in ANY decent mutual fund (maybe an index fund) and you'll get a hell of a lot better than 2% over time. T
You are angry and scared - you key a Land Rover that is parked in front of your house. The act may be wrong, but the motivation is neither simple intolerance nor simple resentment.
It's still just petty bitterness. Life goes in cycles. San Francisco wasn't going to last as it has. It has a nice bay, nice weather (to me) and a close proximity to Napa and Sonoma Valley's, never mind Skiing in Tahoe, etc. It was bound to occurr, it's just happening faster than normal. To quote Denis Leary: "Life sucks. Get a fucking helmet".
Yet efforts to extend subway service into the suburbs have been consistently blocked by the suburbanites because they don't want to give easy access to the city people (blacks) to their neighborhoods so they don't reduce their property values, rob & steal, bring the inner city bums with them, etc. This is an example of racial seclusionary behavior
I hope you can see how different the situation in San Francisco is from that of old white suburbanites who don't want black folk reducing property values.
These are the kinds of views that perpetuate racism. People aren't denying subway access to their neighborhoods because there might be (god forbid!) black people on them! They're doing it because there might be crooks/thieves/bums/homeless/rapists and all other undesirables coming into their communities. It has nothing to do with race. The fact that most, not all (you yourself said there were lots of gays who were "since most of the homosexuals were yuppie white people with good income" - who's race profiling now?) of the people living in the center of the doughnut are black.
I am a white man born in New England. I have some relatives (also white) that I wouldn't want wandering around my neighborhood. I would put a gate up in my community and fight public transportation to prevent it. It's not a racist issue, it's an attempt to protect your investment (your house and belongings), your piece of mind and your family.
Now, as for the _cause_ of most of the poor inner city people being black, that I can't say isn't racism, but the other issues are not racists issues.
I have long felt powerless to fight things like software copyrights and things. Unfortunately, like most geeks my age (late twenties), I am unwilling to petition people or actually become a political activist because I positively loathe politics.
I don't understand what all this hype is about... Connect a cable (S-Video, RCA jacks, whatever) to the video and audio out jacks in your DVD player or your video card on your PC. Attach a VCR to the other end (or some other recording device)... Voila! Copied movie!
People have been copying movies as long as they have existed! What are they bothering with all this litigation for?
Also, to all those out there claiming that this is about Linux: I'm sorry, but it's not. For you, it may be, but it's about copyright violations. They (the MPAA) don't see the reason _why_ the "people" do what they do, but they do see the _potential_ of what was done. It's just like anti-gun activists: The gun can kill people, so they are evil-and-must-be-destroyed(actually, I'm in support of more gun control).
This kid doesn't deserve to be prosecuted and harrassed like this. The people in the MPAA just need to be educated better and realize that they can't protect their copyrights anyway, regardless of the deCSS stuff.
"The Sun" and "The Times" are probably two of the most used names for newspapers in the entire world. Maybe next time you will specify to which ones you are referring.
I recently did some consulting for a security startup in Northern Virgina. We had some press folx come to take pictures for a Washington DC magazine.
Since the developers all looked so normal, they had one guy put on some company-logo "croakies" (those things on your glasses to keep them on your head) and they planted some Cheese Doodles and Mountain Dew next to his PC when they took his picture.
This way, they could perpetuate the caffeine and junk food pounding stereotype. No wonder there aren't very many Computer Science graduates in this country!
- Tom "now I've got to go drink some Jolt and eat some chocolate" McKearney
Farmers in the US have been paid not to grow food for decades. It's not just in Europe!
But, I believe that our thought is more so that our country doesn't become agriculturally dependent on any other countries. For instance, in the case of widespread chemical or biological warfare, we could produce all the food we need internally.
If you're a movie buff, just take a line from one of your favorite movies, like, say Pulp Fiction. "Royale With Cheese" Then, you can just jam the words together. Maybe insert some special chars in front, in the middle, or at the end.
Examples: "Royale*With*Cheese" or just "1Royale" "Pig%Filthy" "African&Swallow" (Holy Grail)
OR, for those of you who are Brazil (the movie) fans, use the elevator password: "ereiamjh"! (jeremiah scrambled)
Anyway, otherwise, you could use things like book titles or your favorite cars. Not too hard at all.
I agree. This hasn't fixed crap. I use hotmail as my own SPAM filter. From November 4th until yesterday morning, I received 28 SPAM messages. Doesn't sound like a good filter to me...
Is it possible to guarantee that those people won't get into trouble? Nope! I was fired for forwarding on a joke about Ebonics from a mutual fund company a few years ago. I didn't make it up. I didn't even send it to the person who was upset. My friend thought it was funny. He forwarded it to someone else. That person printed it. Yet another person read that and *I* got fired! So, don't make decisions on who will and who won't get fired. You may be wrong. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom McKearney
Well, you should try to do some development on SCO. No one support sthem. There are NO memory leak detectors on the market for SCO anymore. Everyone's dropping support. Their tech support is abysmal. I may be wrong, but the OS (OpenServer 5.0.5) didn't even seem to support threads! Instead, the "task library" (based on papers by Bjarne back in 1987) is included to provide thread emulation.
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Yeah, but that's the _whole_ market, including cheap non-performers. If you put your money in ANY decent mutual fund (maybe an index fund) and you'll get a hell of a lot better than 2% over time.
T
It's still just petty bitterness. Life goes in cycles. San Francisco wasn't going to last as it has. It has a nice bay, nice weather (to me) and a close proximity to Napa and Sonoma Valley's, never mind Skiing in Tahoe, etc. It was bound to occurr, it's just happening faster than normal. To quote Denis Leary: "Life sucks. Get a fucking helmet".
Tom
I hope you can see how different the situation in San Francisco is from that of old white suburbanites who don't want black folk reducing property values.
These are the kinds of views that perpetuate racism. People aren't denying subway access to their neighborhoods because there might be (god forbid!) black people on them! They're doing it because there might be crooks/thieves/bums/homeless/rapists and all other undesirables coming into their communities. It has nothing to do with race. The fact that most, not all (you yourself said there were lots of gays who were "since most of the homosexuals were yuppie white people with good income" - who's race profiling now?) of the people living in the center of the doughnut are black.
I am a white man born in New England. I have some relatives (also white) that I wouldn't want wandering around my neighborhood. I would put a gate up in my community and fight public transportation to prevent it. It's not a racist issue, it's an attempt to protect your investment (your house and belongings), your piece of mind and your family.
Now, as for the _cause_ of most of the poor inner city people being black, that I can't say isn't racism, but the other issues are not racists issues.
Tom
P.S. I'm already in a startup ;-)
The public (or many people) also pronouce "nuclear" as "nuke you ler".
The public (most people) also believe that we're already in the new millenium.
Point? Just because lots of people believe something that's not true doesn't mean that you should start calling it true.
TM
I have long felt powerless to fight things like software copyrights and things. Unfortunately, like most geeks my age (late twenties), I am unwilling to petition people or actually become a political activist because I positively loathe politics.
Tom
It's not a spiral. It's concentric circles(sectors).
T
Voila! Copied movie!
People have been copying movies as long as they have existed! What are they bothering with all this litigation for?
Also, to all those out there claiming that this is about Linux:
I'm sorry, but it's not.
For you, it may be, but it's about copyright violations. They (the MPAA) don't see the reason _why_ the "people" do what they do, but they do see the _potential_ of what was done.
It's just like anti-gun activists: The gun can kill people, so they are evil-and-must-be-destroyed(actually, I'm in support of more gun control).
This kid doesn't deserve to be prosecuted and harrassed like this. The people in the MPAA just need to be educated better and realize that they can't protect their copyrights anyway, regardless of the deCSS stuff.
Anyway, I'm rambling, so I must be way past done.
Tom
We don't all live in your neighborhood, you know.
- Tom
I recently did some consulting for a security startup in Northern Virgina. We had some press folx come to take pictures for a Washington DC magazine.
Since the developers all looked so normal, they had one guy put on some company-logo "croakies" (those things on your glasses to keep them on your head) and they planted some Cheese Doodles and Mountain Dew next to his PC when they took his picture.
This way, they could perpetuate the caffeine and junk food pounding stereotype. No wonder there aren't very many Computer Science graduates in this country!
- Tom "now I've got to go drink some Jolt and eat some chocolate" McKearney
Do you think I could get my employer to reimburse me for the Aeron chair I just got? How about a nice new desk? Bigger monitor?
Oooh, it's like Christmas all over again!
Farmers in the US have been paid not to grow food for decades. It's not just in Europe!
But, I believe that our thought is more so that our country doesn't become agriculturally dependent on any other countries. For instance, in the case of widespread chemical or biological warfare, we could produce all the food we need internally.
Tom
If you're a movie buff, just take a line from one of your favorite movies, like, say Pulp Fiction. "Royale With Cheese" Then, you can just jam the words together. Maybe insert some special chars in front, in the middle, or at the end.
Examples:
"Royale*With*Cheese" or just "1Royale"
"Pig%Filthy"
"African&Swallow" (Holy Grail)
OR, for those of you who are Brazil (the movie) fans, use the elevator password: "ereiamjh"!
(jeremiah scrambled)
Anyway, otherwise, you could use things like book titles or your favorite cars. Not too hard at all.
T
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Tom McKearney
I agree. This hasn't fixed crap. I use hotmail as my own SPAM filter. From November 4th until yesterday morning, I received 28 SPAM messages. Doesn't sound like a good filter to me...
T
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Tom McKearney
Is it possible to guarantee that those people won't get into trouble?
Nope!
I was fired for forwarding on a joke about Ebonics from a mutual fund company a few years ago. I didn't make it up. I didn't even send it to the person who was upset. My friend thought it was funny. He forwarded it to someone else. That person printed it. Yet another person read that and *I* got fired!
So, don't make decisions on who will and who won't get fired. You may be wrong.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tom McKearney
Well, you should try to do some development on SCO. No one support sthem. There are NO memory leak detectors on the market for SCO anymore. Everyone's dropping support. Their tech support is abysmal. I may be wrong, but the OS (OpenServer 5.0.5) didn't even seem to support threads! Instead, the "task library" (based on papers by Bjarne back in 1987) is included to provide thread emulation.
Thanks, but I'll stick with Linux.
Tom
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Tom McKearney