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  1. Re: Given the choice on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF are you on about?

    Enron (and apparently level 3) were full of stupid greedy employees that had no clue about risk management. You don't keep you net worth in any one company, you for fucking sure don't keep your net worth in your employer.

    Enron were clients, I recall a power trading risk management training session that was full of Enron employees, they couldn't be bothered to pay attention. All they spoke of was what their Enron stock was worth (this was about 6 months before it turned interesting).

  2. Re: Nonbody asked why sales in Europ sharply drop on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of years of drowning will do that.

    Proper land? Ehhh...reclaimed land isn't the greatest idea is seismically active zones. Works there, not everywhere.

    Also: Oh Noes, the wetlands! They couldn't do it today, malarial swamps are 'precious' to greenies.

  3. Re:Goes into effect, all the scum will have retire on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your not disagreeing, your just wrong that batteries are good enough already.

  4. Re:Did you mean wipe out Capitalism and Free Marke on Aventus Blockchain-Based Ticketing System Aims To Wipe Out Ticket Touts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Prince was one of the ones that added shows to fuck the scalpers.

    I don't have a problem with scalping as a concept, but I also don't have a problem with bands adding shows to deliberately fuck the scalpers.

  5. Re:Did you mean wipe out Capitalism and Free Marke on Aventus Blockchain-Based Ticketing System Aims To Wipe Out Ticket Touts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait a second, I know that answer: The banks and speculators lost their asses.

    The problems were: 1. the government set insane underwriting standards, allowing anybody to buy a house they couldn't possibly afford, and 2. the government bailed some of them out, banks owning corrupt politicians (e.g. Bush, Bush2, Obama, Clinton, Pelosi) is the problem.

    As to oil, that's a zero sum game. The futures price at delivery date is the commodity price. That's how it works for a consumable. If doesn't matter what you paid for the future, in the end there is a physical market with relatively little storage capacity. If someone thinks the futures market is inflated, they just have to have the balls to wait and buy on spot, that's a gamble.

  6. It's doomed, but not a bad idea. All publicity is good.

    Just don't put any money in it.

  7. Re:Did you mean wipe out Capitalism and Free Marke on Aventus Blockchain-Based Ticketing System Aims To Wipe Out Ticket Touts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Scalpers are a solved problem. Been done by many bands.

    Add shows until the last one doesn't sellout. If all bands did that for 3 months, all scalpers would be broke.

  8. Re: Keynes 15 hour work week vs Parkinson's Law on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Three (hypothetical identical) people working 15 hours each won't get as much done as one working 45.

    Because communication overhead, on the order of N^2.

    Of course that can't be taken to an extreme, too many hours and workers become stupid. 80+ hour/week workers are 99% net negative producers.

  9. Re:NO! on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Should have made her get the models nipples hard too.

    She was just doing everything wrong.

  10. Re:To the anthropology professor... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense.

    The world has both carrots and sticks. Power can come from both.

    You can play games with that: e.g. the power of the pussy comes from her ability to deny it. But that's just bullshit.

  11. Re:real estate agents on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The traditional commish for real estate scumbags is 7%. Often split between buyer and seller agents.

    If the buyer doesn't have an agent, the traditional solution is for the sellers agent to take all 7%. But that's all negotiable.

    Real estate agents are a dime a dozen. Low ball them on their commission rate when shopping your listing out. Some will balk, fuck them, there are dozens just like them.

    If all else fails, take the real estate agent test. _Morons_ pass it every day, one weekend worth of study should do it. You really should understand the process, just to prevent financial sodomy.

  12. Re:What's Meuller gonna do now? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    The pettifoggery was Mueller's motion, so aside from being completely wrong, you have a point.

    Mueller thought he could just pose for those who've already made up their minds, now he has to show his evidence. LOL. I just love it when a bag of shit blows up in a scumbags face.

  13. Re:Fake ID? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    3 is a slow one, in bed all day with flu.

  14. Re:Fake ID? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU also has volumes full of un/selectively enforced laws.

    But yeah, there might still be places where they haven't gotten around to making everyone a criminal, just not many.

  15. Re: Privately owned cars should be banned on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Defend your stupidity. Perfect!

  16. Re:It all comes down to one thing on New Hyperloop Cargo Company Promises Deliveries at 600 MPH (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize your entire nation could fit into the corner of an average sized American state? You should get out more.

  17. They leak. You just don't hear about it unless it burns down a neighborhood or incenerates a train full of vacationing children. (both have happened)

  18. We can just ignore capital costs because they're 'one time'?

    Back to Engineering school for you, you lack acumen. Do you even 'present value'?

  19. Re:What's Meuller gonna do now? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    A Russian company showed up. Mueller should have only charged individuals, strategic mistake on his part. Now he's subject to discovery, which will be good fun for all but him.

  20. Re:Current capability should not dictated future on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You could put a windmill on top of the car and use that to recharge the batteries as you roll down the road... /sarc

  21. Re: Trump still would have won on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't _that_ stupid. But they will pivot left, which will produce the same result.

  22. Re:Fake ID? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So what? Do you have a point?

    Everybody commits 3 felonies/day. Once your comfortable with that, the world becomes a lot less stressful.

  23. Re:What's Meuller gonna do now? on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They're charging a corporation. Sending lawyers is how corporations showup in court.

    It isn't zero cost, by showing up, they are accepting Mueller's jurisdiction. They also make his team subject to discovery, which is going to suck for Mueller.

  24. Re:Privately owned cars should be banned on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Government is not the problem. It never was.

    That's the _dumbest_ thing posted on the net in the past decade.

    Seriously: Disproven by one example. You can't you think of one? Try harder.

  25. The FCC did what?