What actually counts is the fat in your abdomen, which you cannot see. Not all overweight people have signs of metabolic syndrome, but most do. And some skinny people have it too. 60% and 40% respectively, if memory serves -- figures are from a UC video I can no longer find.
Fruit isn't so bad, because it has fiber -- this keeps part of the sugar in your bowls, until it gets refined by bacteria and farted. Plus you need the vitamin. Fruit juice is another story: might as well drink beer.
They also dosed them with the same radiation total over a short period of time and observed damage.
This is akin to turning your thermostat up 10 degrees for a few weeks as opposed to heating your house up to 500 degrees for a minute.
I'm not saying I want to invest in cheap Fukushima real estate. I'm just saying that maybe this science isn't as junky as some Slashdotters think.
If I put an egg in warm water for a few hours, I'll have the same egg -- one that I can use to make an omelette. If I put it in boiling water for 10 minutes, I'll have hardened. Similar amounts of energy, different results.
A 400x radiation dose over 5 weeks does not necessarily a long term 8x dose make, and Slashdotters are absolutely correct to call this out.
No no, you're describing the historical state of affairs. It has changed in recent years because demand for the franc has been so strong that their central bank cannot keep the currency down. This then hurts exports, and thus growth, and the Swiss at large are growing angry.
Could you please citate any real warmongering that China or Russia have done?.
Could you please hop over to Google and lookup suggestions that turn up when you enter "Russian conquest of" or "Chinese territorial claims"? There are far too many to enumerate here.
It's funny how similar (and crazy) both US and UK are while rest of the world lives in peace.
This world in peace features another two States with a long history of warmongering, China and Russia, a whole continent (Africa) in which armed conflicts occurred perpetually for most of the last 50 years, a latent nuclear standoff between India and Pakistan (and China) over Kashmir, as well as actual and latent wars across the Middle East. I'd add Columbia and Mexico, but one could conceivably argue that these are small guerrilla conflicts.
Dr. Paul's ideas would be fine for certain countries of Europe, like maybe Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Switzerland.
You must be living in the US... It shows, I'm sorry to mention, because of your comment's utter display in geopolitical illiteracy.
With respect to Scandinavia, you presumably ignore that they enjoy some of the highest standards of living, best education, best healthcare and best pensions in the world. Along with one of the highest tax rates. That's not exactly Ron Paul material, but they're quite happy with it.
As for Switzerland, you might be unaware that there's a rampant and growing "screw rich foreigners, they deserve to get taxed more" sentiment. As in an über-tax the blasted creeps who buy Swiss Francs as a store of wealth, screwing exports in the process kind of sentiment. Not precisely Ron Paul material either.
The truth is closer to this: one of Ron Paul's biggest fans in Europe in France's xenophobic extreme-right wing National Front leader Marine Lepen. And the poor curmedgeon desperately sought --and failed-- to avoid her when she visited the US a few months back.
Some commentators on this side of the pond are in line with Paul's ideas, mind you. They've been continually arguing in the past years that his views ought to be applied almost verbatim in Greece. But then, the Greeks recently had an election, and they'll likely do a new election shortly, from lack of a government majority. These may very well bring "screw the banksters, and the rich, we'll just default, expropriate and hang them" extreme-left wings to power, with "screw the banksters, and the foreigners, we'll just default, expropriate and shoot them" neo-nazis as one of the opposing parliament groups.
Should the police be allowed to stop and search vehicles which show a slight level of radioactivity?
Seriously? What kind of donkey are you?
You're living in a Police State that monitors its citizens and foreigners to an extent that developing countries can only dream of, molests travelers before they can board a plane, hosts a fourth of the world's inmates, locks foreigners for a decade without trial on tropical islands, and recently murdered one of its own citizen without trial... And you're fucking worried about your car getting searched because it's slightly radioactive? How about wondering what kind of turd bought the cop a radioactive detector?
The methodology to come up with these listings invariably involves asking former US university alumni what they think the best universities are. You aren't seriously expecting them to mention institutions that offer education in German or French, are you?
If either side really wanted to offer better protection for families, they'd kill student loans altogether. This would make education prohibitively expensive at going rates, and immediately pop the education cost bubble.
You can get better education, free or nearly free, in most of Europe, and yet the US youth just sits there, saddling itself with gazillions in student loan debt -- all of which it cannot default on, because it belongs to uncle Sam himself. Shudder...
Further, the car must have two people at all times, with one behind the wheel who can take control of the vehicle if needed.
I can just picture the epic scene... Drunkard has his car drive him home while he snoozes. And gets arrested for sleeping at the wheel. Would that count as a DUI?
It doesn't make sense to own your own home. Period.
It (usually) doesn't make sense to own your own home as an investment.
If so, it is a mightily awkward one. Especially if purchased using leverage. In the latter case, your landlord merely happens to be your banker. You're additionally saddled with an illiquid asset that might prevent you from moving then and there should an opportunity arise. And whatever inflation-adjusted net profit you might eventually make would demonstrably have been better invested in growing your business or in liquid assets.
Some of the consistently profitable businesses during the gold rush sold shovels and miscellaneous supplies. Home-builders and home-centric stores were no exception to this rule during the housing boom. Each were a much more liquid asset to get out of -- especially compared to a Miami condo -- when things went to hell.
Adding insult to injury, the key driver in house prices is not supply and demand. Location arguably counts, but that merely sets the long term mean. Rather, and the US or Spain impeccably demonstrated this in recent years, it is the rate of change in mortgage debt: ready loan availability stirs the price upwards, and decreased loan availability brings it back down. (Google Steve Keen for more on this, in case it doesn't strike you as obvious.)
Also, fwiw, the US military expenditure is such that, if the EU were to spend twice that amount each year, it would take them 20-25 years to catch up in might. So call me skeptical about China, of all backward places, catching up with the US any time soon. The only actual power-balance comes from nukes, and even those are bordering on obsolescence with the advent of missile defense.
We have the highest corporate taxes in the world. Without the loopholes most US companies would leave the country or go broke.
Who wants skyrocketing unemployment and a further collapse in the US tax base?
Err, no. You have lower corporate taxes than a number of other countries (think France or Denmark). And ridiculously lower income tax rates. In case you weren't aware, the world's biggest tax havens include Delaware, Nevada, and (until recently anyway) the City of London. Let me put it this way: if you think that lower corporate taxes are the solution, allow me to highlight that the likes of Panama or Belize (both arguably more attractive than Ireland or Luxembourg from a tax stand-point) aren't exactly roaring tigers.
More to the point, high taxes have never made companies go away. Not ever. Reagan and Thatcher wanted you to think otherwise, but the facts don't add up -- let alone history. Because your workforce is simply not there at the other end of the world. You'll excuse the political incorrectness, but I'd rather hire a mostly competent German, French or US coder than a mostly incompetent Indian or Chinese coder. It's education that counts at the end of the day for a number of businesses. And for the rest, well... you cannot outsource burger flippers or supermarket staff.
Which brings us to the employees. As in, you... How long do you think you'd last, since you take it as an example, in India? It's a nice place to go to as a tourist, mind you. Wonderful even. But to live there for more than a week or two? I dare you. Ever wiped your arse with your left hand and a bucket of water? Seen corpses drifting down a river on a regular basis? Seen kids the age of your own offering their arse for a few bucks so they can eat? Spent more than a few months away from friends and relatives? If not, your opinion on this topic is, I'm sorry to say, completely irrelevant. And don't get me started on the language barrier. Some people cope with it; some don't. Make that most don't. The point is, shifting the workforce to wherever is simply not an option. No matter how high the payroll of the staff that you keep to train and manage. The equivalent workforce elsewhere is non-existent. Those who believe that you can just shift a company to wherever may just as well believe that unicorns exist -- and that they crap skittles. Many companies tried this lunacy, mind you. Many are returning, and are finding out that they slaughtered their own workforce in the process. Many are going to die. Boeing is a case in point: they outsourced so much that their wings are now designed in Japan; if you think they'll be a meaningful business in 20 years, think again.
And then, there are trade barriers. Take Apple. They produce a lot in China, as you know, and they fully intend to keep the bulk of what they do there in the near future because, you know, the screws are produced down the street and the glass is produced at the other end of the town. It's a gigantic industrial hub, like the US used to be 50 years ago. Enter Brazil. The cost of selling built-abroad phones there is so punitive that Apple had Foxconn set up factories in Brazil. Punitive, as in during the golden age of capitalism... in the 19th century... in... wait for it... hey, cotton-farmers even lost a civil war to get rid of those tariffs... yeah, they did... slave labor was just so darn cheap.... that would be the US in case it hadn't sunk in yet. Something to chew on the next time you praise lower trade barriers and über-free markets.
Regarding going broke, that's the company's problem, not yours or mine. If all else fails, they can increase their price. But since their survival lies in delivering something that Joe Shmoes cannot deliver anyway, they deserve to die if they haven't thought about how to monetize their (hopefully) superior product or increase their competitivity -- see Apple in Brazil. In addition, in case you're not aware, increased regulation has historically increased the productivity of firms in
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Skinny != healthy.
What actually counts is the fat in your abdomen, which you cannot see. Not all overweight people have signs of metabolic syndrome, but most do. And some skinny people have it too. 60% and 40% respectively, if memory serves -- figures are from a UC video I can no longer find.
Fruit isn't so bad, because it has fiber -- this keeps part of the sugar in your bowls, until it gets refined by bacteria and farted. Plus you need the vitamin. Fruit juice is another story: might as well drink beer.
Some videos on sugar from the UC:
http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity/
If people used proper async and threading, not many programs would work. I'm not sure I know 10 coders who reliably deliver thread-safe code.
Or they could borrow a page from phone manufacturers: DDR Desire, DDR Sensation, DDR Cruise, DDR Intensity, DDR Vitality, etc.
The part that you're forgetting is that Gates never said it:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed
They also dosed them with the same radiation total over a short period of time and observed damage.
This is akin to turning your thermostat up 10 degrees for a few weeks as opposed to heating your house up to 500 degrees for a minute.
I'm not saying I want to invest in cheap Fukushima real estate. I'm just saying that maybe this science isn't as junky as some Slashdotters think.
If I put an egg in warm water for a few hours, I'll have the same egg -- one that I can use to make an omelette. If I put it in boiling water for 10 minutes, I'll have hardened. Similar amounts of energy, different results.
A 400x radiation dose over 5 weeks does not necessarily a long term 8x dose make, and Slashdotters are absolutely correct to call this out.
No no, you're describing the historical state of affairs. It has changed in recent years because demand for the franc has been so strong that their central bank cannot keep the currency down. This then hurts exports, and thus growth, and the Swiss at large are growing angry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17275880
Sheesh... whoever rated this flame bait out to grow a sense of humor...
http://www.willitblend.com/
Could you please citate any real warmongering that China or Russia have done?.
Could you please hop over to Google and lookup suggestions that turn up when you enter "Russian conquest of" or "Chinese territorial claims"? There are far too many to enumerate here.
The only trouble is... it won't blend.
It's funny how similar (and crazy) both US and UK are while rest of the world lives in peace.
This world in peace features another two States with a long history of warmongering, China and Russia, a whole continent (Africa) in which armed conflicts occurred perpetually for most of the last 50 years, a latent nuclear standoff between India and Pakistan (and China) over Kashmir, as well as actual and latent wars across the Middle East. I'd add Columbia and Mexico, but one could conceivably argue that these are small guerrilla conflicts.
Dr. Paul's ideas would be fine for certain countries of Europe, like maybe Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Switzerland.
You must be living in the US... It shows, I'm sorry to mention, because of your comment's utter display in geopolitical illiteracy.
With respect to Scandinavia, you presumably ignore that they enjoy some of the highest standards of living, best education, best healthcare and best pensions in the world. Along with one of the highest tax rates. That's not exactly Ron Paul material, but they're quite happy with it.
As for Switzerland, you might be unaware that there's a rampant and growing "screw rich foreigners, they deserve to get taxed more" sentiment. As in an über-tax the blasted creeps who buy Swiss Francs as a store of wealth, screwing exports in the process kind of sentiment. Not precisely Ron Paul material either.
The truth is closer to this: one of Ron Paul's biggest fans in Europe in France's xenophobic extreme-right wing National Front leader Marine Lepen. And the poor curmedgeon desperately sought --and failed-- to avoid her when she visited the US a few months back.
Some commentators on this side of the pond are in line with Paul's ideas, mind you. They've been continually arguing in the past years that his views ought to be applied almost verbatim in Greece. But then, the Greeks recently had an election, and they'll likely do a new election shortly, from lack of a government majority. These may very well bring "screw the banksters, and the rich, we'll just default, expropriate and hang them" extreme-left wings to power, with "screw the banksters, and the foreigners, we'll just default, expropriate and shoot them" neo-nazis as one of the opposing parliament groups.
It's not a pretty sight...
Food for thought.
Should the police be allowed to stop and search vehicles which show a slight level of radioactivity?
Seriously? What kind of donkey are you?
You're living in a Police State that monitors its citizens and foreigners to an extent that developing countries can only dream of, molests travelers before they can board a plane, hosts a fourth of the world's inmates, locks foreigners for a decade without trial on tropical islands, and recently murdered one of its own citizen without trial... And you're fucking worried about your car getting searched because it's slightly radioactive? How about wondering what kind of turd bought the cop a radioactive detector?
Will it blend?
The methodology to come up with these listings invariably involves asking former US university alumni what they think the best universities are. You aren't seriously expecting them to mention institutions that offer education in German or French, are you?
The US hosts a fourth of the world's inmates. How are you not there already?
If either side really wanted to offer better protection for families, they'd kill student loans altogether. This would make education prohibitively expensive at going rates, and immediately pop the education cost bubble.
You can get better education, free or nearly free, in most of Europe, and yet the US youth just sits there, saddling itself with gazillions in student loan debt -- all of which it cannot default on, because it belongs to uncle Sam himself. Shudder...
First, don't build a game engine.
Oh, I'm absolutely certain that Torval, van Rossum and Matz were all told the same thing.
First, don't build an OS...
First, don't build a computer language...
Well, duh... What do you care if I find that it's interesting to do so?
Further, the car must have two people at all times, with one behind the wheel who can take control of the vehicle if needed.
I can just picture the epic scene... Drunkard has his car drive him home while he snoozes. And gets arrested for sleeping at the wheel. Would that count as a DUI?
It doesn't make sense to own your own home. Period.
It (usually) doesn't make sense to own your own home as an investment.
If so, it is a mightily awkward one. Especially if purchased using leverage. In the latter case, your landlord merely happens to be your banker. You're additionally saddled with an illiquid asset that might prevent you from moving then and there should an opportunity arise. And whatever inflation-adjusted net profit you might eventually make would demonstrably have been better invested in growing your business or in liquid assets.
Some of the consistently profitable businesses during the gold rush sold shovels and miscellaneous supplies. Home-builders and home-centric stores were no exception to this rule during the housing boom. Each were a much more liquid asset to get out of -- especially compared to a Miami condo -- when things went to hell.
Adding insult to injury, the key driver in house prices is not supply and demand. Location arguably counts, but that merely sets the long term mean. Rather, and the US or Spain impeccably demonstrated this in recent years, it is the rate of change in mortgage debt: ready loan availability stirs the price upwards, and decreased loan availability brings it back down. (Google Steve Keen for more on this, in case it doesn't strike you as obvious.)
The same economist that predicts that China will be a larger economy than the US by 2018? Here's the take from a finance professor in China:
http://www.mpettis.com/2012/05/03/revisiting-predictions/
Also, fwiw, the US military expenditure is such that, if the EU were to spend twice that amount each year, it would take them 20-25 years to catch up in might. So call me skeptical about China, of all backward places, catching up with the US any time soon. The only actual power-balance comes from nukes, and even those are bordering on obsolescence with the advent of missile defense.
Don't politicians lie all the time? A political promise only commits those who receive it...
Your résumé is not just a piece of paper. It's a piece of paper with lies written all over it.
More seriously... Who doesn't beautify his résumé by slightly exaggerating his or her achievements and level of responsibilities?
Not to mention the VP et al labyrinth of meaningless corporate title BS.
I think you mean dick...
Nah, OP probably meant a naked short seller.
http://www.deepcapture.com/introduction-to-the-deep-capture-analysis/
We have the highest corporate taxes in the world. Without the loopholes most US companies would leave the country or go broke.
Who wants skyrocketing unemployment and a further collapse in the US tax base?
Err, no. You have lower corporate taxes than a number of other countries (think France or Denmark). And ridiculously lower income tax rates. In case you weren't aware, the world's biggest tax havens include Delaware, Nevada, and (until recently anyway) the City of London. Let me put it this way: if you think that lower corporate taxes are the solution, allow me to highlight that the likes of Panama or Belize (both arguably more attractive than Ireland or Luxembourg from a tax stand-point) aren't exactly roaring tigers.
More to the point, high taxes have never made companies go away. Not ever. Reagan and Thatcher wanted you to think otherwise, but the facts don't add up -- let alone history. Because your workforce is simply not there at the other end of the world. You'll excuse the political incorrectness, but I'd rather hire a mostly competent German, French or US coder than a mostly incompetent Indian or Chinese coder. It's education that counts at the end of the day for a number of businesses. And for the rest, well... you cannot outsource burger flippers or supermarket staff.
Which brings us to the employees. As in, you... How long do you think you'd last, since you take it as an example, in India? It's a nice place to go to as a tourist, mind you. Wonderful even. But to live there for more than a week or two? I dare you. Ever wiped your arse with your left hand and a bucket of water? Seen corpses drifting down a river on a regular basis? Seen kids the age of your own offering their arse for a few bucks so they can eat? Spent more than a few months away from friends and relatives? If not, your opinion on this topic is, I'm sorry to say, completely irrelevant. And don't get me started on the language barrier. Some people cope with it; some don't. Make that most don't. The point is, shifting the workforce to wherever is simply not an option. No matter how high the payroll of the staff that you keep to train and manage. The equivalent workforce elsewhere is non-existent. Those who believe that you can just shift a company to wherever may just as well believe that unicorns exist -- and that they crap skittles. Many companies tried this lunacy, mind you. Many are returning, and are finding out that they slaughtered their own workforce in the process. Many are going to die. Boeing is a case in point: they outsourced so much that their wings are now designed in Japan; if you think they'll be a meaningful business in 20 years, think again.
And then, there are trade barriers. Take Apple. They produce a lot in China, as you know, and they fully intend to keep the bulk of what they do there in the near future because, you know, the screws are produced down the street and the glass is produced at the other end of the town. It's a gigantic industrial hub, like the US used to be 50 years ago. Enter Brazil. The cost of selling built-abroad phones there is so punitive that Apple had Foxconn set up factories in Brazil. Punitive, as in during the golden age of capitalism... in the 19th century... in... wait for it... hey, cotton-farmers even lost a civil war to get rid of those tariffs... yeah, they did... slave labor was just so darn cheap.... that would be the US in case it hadn't sunk in yet. Something to chew on the next time you praise lower trade barriers and über-free markets.
Regarding going broke, that's the company's problem, not yours or mine. If all else fails, they can increase their price. But since their survival lies in delivering something that Joe Shmoes cannot deliver anyway, they deserve to die if they haven't thought about how to monetize their (hopefully) superior product or increase their competitivity -- see Apple in Brazil. In addition, in case you're not aware, increased regulation has historically increased the productivity of firms in