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  1. I love the fact these scumbags are down to the 'Nixon defense'.

  2. Burning man 2.0.

    Pay no attention to the ashes and the fact nobody ever leaves.

  3. Re:China has evolved on China Launches New Heavy-Lift Long March 5 Rocket For First Time (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything is made in China. But chinese manufacturers average less than 1% profit. They have made a bad pig fuck of that 1%. Bubbles everywhere.

  4. Re:Paris Climate Change Agreement Enters Into Forc on Paris Climate Change Agreement Enters Into Force (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Right: It's either a treaty and not ratified or an executive agreement and has no authority.

    In any case: it's meaningless toilet paper.

  5. It's difficult to return profit to investors that you have hidden from tax authorities with accounting tricks.

    For the investor to see it, it has to be profit or growth.

  6. Re:No do not launch it! on World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected To Launch In 2018 (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Never own a car 'too nice to drive' those belong in museums. If you own a car museum, you are the exception.

    Fly this thing.

  7. Accounting tasks and displacing accounting clerks was one of the first big set of computing tasks.

    It made 'chartered accounting' less drab and awful, less manually added up columns. Still not 'lion taming'.

    Giving credit to accountants for the computer revolution is a stretch though. Like crediting manual loom workers for the automated textile revolution.

  8. Possible bullshit story (para):

    Jr Engineer at NASA: The beancounters want to know why we want to use a gold surfaced mirror, what should I tell them?

    W. Von Braun: Tell them a solid gold mirror would be too heavy.

  9. As long as the fed prints money and buys all the leftovers, that will continue to be true.

    If the fed wasn't buying the bonds, we would know the open market rate for US debt. Until then, we know fuckall.

  10. No.

    There is no effective market for US treasuries. In every auction, if the price even starts to rise, the federal reserve buys them all.

    That is why stopping 'quantitative easing' isn't easy. They have a target rate, the money required to be printed to maintain that rate is an unknown. If the interest rate goes much higher than the target, the government goes broke before schedule.

    That being said, US treasuries are the _good part_ of chinese bank reserves. The rest is bubble real estate, Shanghai stocks (average PE ratio still in the neighborhood of 50-60 was 100) and non performing loans to central committees members children.

  11. Re:Robin Williams in "World's Greatest Dad" on World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected To Launch In 2018 (space.com) · · Score: 0

    We should start a betting pool on the variety of items that will be found up his butt.

    Anybody know Hillary's shoe size?

  12. Re:Smart move on On Wall Street, a High-Ranking Few Still Avoid Email (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the whole 'Aid/Lawyer' trick.

    I'm betting soon, all senior aids in DC will have law licenses. So they have privilege. Soon the human to lawyer ratio will approach 0:1. (Remember law students still count as 0.3 of a person, their soul still being in escrow. Interns will keep the human count above 0.)

  13. Tax deductions like expenses? You and yours should not lecture.

    Even for those few corporations big enough to play the international shell games, it's tricky to return profits to investors without first declaring a profit. Sure you can 'grow valuation', but valuation without profit is the definition of 'bubble';.

  14. My point is that tax rates for investment have to compete globally for capital. They all end up very similar once you factor in average ROI for the nation.

    I bet American average ROI is higher but noisier than Sweden's.

  15. Re:Where have I heard that before on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    UK property only looks like a good investment from places like China, who have even bigger, simultaneous property and market bubbles.

    The west coast of the USA has the same 'problem'. But in truth it's a 'check and balance' on China's (mostly, they are the 'elephant in the room') central planners. As always capital controls aren't working. Chinese citizens are able to get capital into less corrupt markets. The ripples they make there are paid for by better stability in China. There will be less rioting because of this.

  16. American Cap gains rate: 15%

    American Corp tax rate 35%

    Effective tax rate for corporate investors = 1 - ((1-CapGains)*(1-CorpTax))

    Swedish effective tax to corporate investors: 45.4%

    American effective tax to corporate investors: 44.75%

  17. Singapore.

    Keeps his people on their toes by not coddling them with welfare.

  18. Re:Blatant Lie on On Wall Street, a High-Ranking Few Still Avoid Email (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A beeping phone lines that record all conversations.

    But there is no way to insure nobody goes to side channels. There basically can't be a way.

  19. Re:Smart move on On Wall Street, a High-Ranking Few Still Avoid Email (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    All while being so obviously willing to throw anybody under the bus at a moments notice that her closest personal aid keeps home copies of all email as 'life insurance'. Then forgets about them being on her perv husbands laptop.

    I bet that she deleted the emails off her own laptop (or just had it paved over, and no they didn't share a computer, be real) but forgot that she had backed up her user folder to Carlos Danger's computer.

    Or maybe Carlos grabbed a copy and called it 'life insurance'. The folder name is damning in either case.

  20. Re: Kickstarter for source code and tools for my c on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Heretic. Burn him!

    You can pass smog with a cam, but you'll need to adjust the maps. Cams don't trip the visual inspection, being buried pretty deep, neither do oversize injectors.

    Do you go around looking at cars and thinking they all need GeoMetro 3 cylinder engines? I think GeoMetros need mice* myself.

    * Mouse = small block chevy V8, Rat = Big block chevy V8

  21. Re: Makes sense on On Wall Street, a High-Ranking Few Still Avoid Email (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    No one asked him, under oath, during the course of a sexual harassment law suit against him.

  22. Re:Makes sense on On Wall Street, a High-Ranking Few Still Avoid Email (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I close the door, but I shout out a play by play and color commentary.

  23. Re:EPA rules? on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Fucking law abider.

  24. Marketing MBAs on Interviews: Ask American Author and Entrepreneur Seth Godin a Question · · Score: 1

    Would you recommend a cattle prod or something more permanent for dealing with marketers with MBAs?

    Did the lobotomy at the MBA graduation ceremony hurt?

  25. Re:This is a good thing. on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Your claim is that BBC went out and interviewed only the people that ended up in the clip?

    What I'm claiming doesn't even require 'conspiracy'. Just standard (including the BBC) journalistic practice. Select content for entertainment value, insert personal bias during process. (It's unavoidable, but many don't even bother considering their POV, being snotty self righteous halfwits.)