Yep, good way to induce your neighbors to match you so not only does your dick look bigger, everyone elses does as well. They will all have above average dick sizes.
Iran before nuclear weapons: Hey great, we can swing our dick around and make nukes and no one will be able to do anything. Bwahahahaha!!!
Iran after nuclear weapons: Oh shit, now our neighbors created their own nukes and are pointing them at us. Damn, damn, damn....now our dicks don't look so big.
This sounds like it ought to be part of Blazing Saddles. Iranian government: No one move or we'll have our own nuclear accident. A spokeswoman from some nation speaks up: Isn't anyone going help that poor country. Iranian government backs slowly away, and hides behind a door.
Doesn't not compute: Microsoft and forward thinking. When? The only thing I would call forward thinking is realizing that if they got PHB's sold, they could force their Crapware down companies' throats.
It is different for Microsoft because they've shown they cannot be trusted. Just because you cannot see a downside doesn't mean MS hasn't thought it through and found a new way to screw FOSS.
As to their current behavior, what is it about them shaking down companies for patents on alleged MS IP in Linux that you don't understand. If they were honest, they'd wouldn't be refusing to show what the IP is so that the Linux devs could route around it. It is shameful and we can only assume the worse given their past behavior. Screw'em.
Always tell the truth, and as an added bonus, Microsoft hates it.
See the Clinton administration policies, that's exactly what they tried. And N. Korea promised to stop their nuke program in response. You know what, they did. Except that they then started another in secret. When Bush got into office, the Clinton admin people sheepishly explained that N. Korea still had a nuke program and Bush realized the Clinton policies were not going to work. Been there, done that. N. Korea is not the U.S.'s fault. N. Korea is N. Korea's fault.
Wow, a fresh blast of 50's thinking, are you still fighting the Vietnam war. The U.S. in no way wants a shooting war on the Korean peninsula, even if China were waving a red flag and yell, "Take'm, we'll pay you for it.". Hell, even S. Korea doesn't want N. Korea because they know it sink their standard of living for a least a generation.
N. Korea's nukes are primarily there so their dicks will look bigger. They rather like thinking the U.S. is obsessed with them. Hint, the U.S. stopped that obsession with Eisenhower. Maybe you've heard of him, President back in the fifties which you've never left.
Oh bullshit, those countries have pretty much steadily worked their way to nukes and nothing GW or any other politicians say in the U.S. is going to matter to them.
This isn't about preventing a U.S. invasion, it is about making their dicks look larger towards their own people so they can always remain in power.
The fallout would quickly cross the Pacific and hit the U.S. and it could easily drift south before drifting across the Pacific. The U.S. would then have wiped out the very people the U.S. is defending.
The U.S. is not stupid enough to use those big nukes, and increasingly they don't have to. Their other weapons are quite lethal.
Face it: there is no answer to N. Korea. The only answer is a non-answer or to use Muhammad Ali's phrase, rope-a-dope. In time, they might just crash and burn, but then they might realize it and attempt to take S. Korea with them.
"First of all, there is no such thing as "wahhabis"." Really? Then what is all that crap Saudi Arabia has been pushing for the last 100 years? We'd call that Wahhabism and people who believe that crock Whahabis. And it is considered a core branch of Islam. Stop white-washing Islam. There is no white-washing Islam's crimes, especially their treatment of women and minorities.
Islamic law is all over the map on this issue. One court might sentence the apostate to death and another might figure to let Allah do whatever with him. Stop trying to make us think of Islam as though it were concrete. It isn't. There are so many interpretations it is difficult to find out what is in the religion and what is out of it. Why? Because it is an interpreted religion. It isn't the word of Allah, and it cannot be since Allah is so "other" that he has never communicated directly with man. He does have an escape clause by using an angel like Gabrielle.
When we see Muslim outrage over Muslim crimes, then we'll see how not to use too broad a brush with which to paint Muslims. Christian groups regularly denounce unChristian behavior among other Christian groups. Where does that occur in Islam? It doesn't for two reasons, (1) Muslims don't find Islamic practice, no matter how barbaric, all that questionable, (2) the Muslims who do object are generally not around too long before nutjobs come for them.
Muslims do not believe Islam is in need of reformation. Others on the blunt end of Muslim atrocities do believe such a reformation is necessary.
Oracle Forms relies on Java in the browser. It isn't going anywhere because they use OForms as a front end to their database. Maybe if we asked really nicely, they'd rewrite OForms in something else. I've been asking them for years to put Uncle Larry out to pasture but they don't seem to listen.
No, what is likely to happen is the fellow with gun gets into school, starts shooting. The armed teacher/guard races to the scene and starts shooting back. The SWAT team arrives, sees armed teacher/guard with gun shooting and shoots the armed teacher/guard.
Any kids nailed in the crossfire are just collateral damage. You'd sacrifice your first born for this, right?
It is just the press attempting to act like they know what's going on. Like the use of "ordnance" after the 1991 Gulf War, and "spider hole" after the Iraq War. And whomever came up with "incentivize" should be shot in the butt for gross injury to the English language.
I've taken not a quite opposite approach and have done well. I tend to stick to tech companies since I know that sector better but other areas are open, say health care, petroleum, and construction. I have a mix of small, mid, and large cap stocks...but not too many, otherwise you do no better than the market. There's more risk this way though. I tend to buy and hold, some for what I hope are stock price appreciation, some for dividends. The hard part for this kind of a strategy is "how much do you believe you made the correct choice, have those reasons changed." This has been said repeatedly, but it bears saying just once more. Many little investors get nervous when a stock goes down, down, down...and then sell. If the underlying reasons you bought the stock are still solid (and you can verify those), then it is probably better to stick. If when the stock first goes down, you actively re-evaluate your reasons and then find the basis for those reasons no longer holds, then sell immediately. You've built an assumption into your purchase which isn't valid now. This sort of a strategy requires you constantly review your portfolio. And you need to do that without losing your mind or becoming obsessed with it.
When I get closer to retirement, I'll get more conservative and probably move to your strategy.
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Ever see the size of the holes in the Mac Pro's grill. They are fairly small.
Einstein: I know, I'll stick this narrow jabbing thing through the front grill while my MacPro is running.
MacPro: What's this sticking in my fan preventing it from whirling?
Einstein: Huh? The fan stopped.
MacPro: Whew, I'm getting a bit hot in here.
Einstein: Hey, my computer's smoking, what the hell is going on here?
Some of us cannot get off Java; Snoracle has a lot stuff depending on it, Snoracle Forms for one.
Yep, good way to induce your neighbors to match you so not only does your dick look bigger, everyone elses does as well. They will all have above average dick sizes.
Iran before nuclear weapons: Hey great, we can swing our dick around and make nukes and no one will be able to do anything. Bwahahahaha!!!
Iran after nuclear weapons: Oh shit, now our neighbors created their own nukes and are pointing them at us. Damn, damn, damn....now our dicks don't look so big.
This sounds like it ought to be part of Blazing Saddles. Iranian government: No one move or we'll have our own nuclear accident. A spokeswoman from some nation speaks up: Isn't anyone going help that poor country. Iranian government backs slowly away, and hides behind a door.
Android succeeds because companies can use it freely, and that only because Google makes their money elsewhere and can afford to give it way.
Doesn't not compute: Microsoft and forward thinking. When? The only thing I would call forward thinking is realizing that if they got PHB's sold, they could force their Crapware down companies' throats.
It is different for Microsoft because they've shown they cannot be trusted. Just because you cannot see a downside doesn't mean MS hasn't thought it through and found a new way to screw FOSS.
As to their current behavior, what is it about them shaking down companies for patents on alleged MS IP in Linux that you don't understand. If they were honest, they'd wouldn't be refusing to show what the IP is so that the Linux devs could route around it. It is shameful and we can only assume the worse given their past behavior. Screw'em.
Always tell the truth, and as an added bonus, Microsoft hates it.
See the Clinton administration policies, that's exactly what they tried. And N. Korea promised to stop their nuke program in response. You know what, they did. Except that they then started another in secret. When Bush got into office, the Clinton admin people sheepishly explained that N. Korea still had a nuke program and Bush realized the Clinton policies were not going to work. Been there, done that. N. Korea is not the U.S.'s fault. N. Korea is N. Korea's fault.
Wow, a fresh blast of 50's thinking, are you still fighting the Vietnam war. The U.S. in no way wants a shooting war on the Korean peninsula, even if China were waving a red flag and yell, "Take'm, we'll pay you for it.". Hell, even S. Korea doesn't want N. Korea because they know it sink their standard of living for a least a generation.
N. Korea's nukes are primarily there so their dicks will look bigger. They rather like thinking the U.S. is obsessed with them. Hint, the U.S. stopped that obsession with Eisenhower. Maybe you've heard of him, President back in the fifties which you've never left.
Oh bullshit, those countries have pretty much steadily worked their way to nukes and nothing GW or any other politicians say in the U.S. is going to matter to them.
This isn't about preventing a U.S. invasion, it is about making their dicks look larger towards their own people so they can always remain in power.
The fallout would quickly cross the Pacific and hit the U.S. and it could easily drift south before drifting across the Pacific. The U.S. would then have wiped out the very people the U.S. is defending.
The U.S. is not stupid enough to use those big nukes, and increasingly they don't have to. Their other weapons are quite lethal.
Face it: there is no answer to N. Korea. The only answer is a non-answer or to use Muhammad Ali's phrase, rope-a-dope. In time, they might just crash and burn, but then they might realize it and attempt to take S. Korea with them.
It isn't NK's behavior, it is the behavior of the latest of the little sawed off runts that run/ran the joint.
Well, more to the point, they could hurt S. Korea. They haven't a prayer of hurting the U.S. just yet.
Nah, a better thing would be use their missile launches as testing for our anti-missile technology.
It's Hammer time!!! C'mon Steve, show us your simian moves, get jiggy with it!!!
errr...could you please say it somewhere else?
"First of all, there is no such thing as "wahhabis"." Really? Then what is all that crap Saudi Arabia has been pushing for the last 100 years? We'd call that Wahhabism and people who believe that crock Whahabis. And it is considered a core branch of Islam. Stop white-washing Islam. There is no white-washing Islam's crimes, especially their treatment of women and minorities.
Islamic law is all over the map on this issue. One court might sentence the apostate to death and another might figure to let Allah do whatever with him. Stop trying to make us think of Islam as though it were concrete. It isn't. There are so many interpretations it is difficult to find out what is in the religion and what is out of it. Why? Because it is an interpreted religion. It isn't the word of Allah, and it cannot be since Allah is so "other" that he has never communicated directly with man. He does have an escape clause by using an angel like Gabrielle.
When we see Muslim outrage over Muslim crimes, then we'll see how not to use too broad a brush with which to paint Muslims. Christian groups regularly denounce unChristian behavior among other Christian groups. Where does that occur in Islam? It doesn't for two reasons, (1) Muslims don't find Islamic practice, no matter how barbaric, all that questionable, (2) the Muslims who do object are generally not around too long before nutjobs come for them.
Muslims do not believe Islam is in need of reformation. Others on the blunt end of Muslim atrocities do believe such a reformation is necessary.
Oracle Forms relies on Java in the browser. It isn't going anywhere because they use OForms as a front end to their database. Maybe if we asked really nicely, they'd rewrite OForms in something else. I've been asking them for years to put Uncle Larry out to pasture but they don't seem to listen.
Teacher: Johnny, stop bothering Sally.
Johnny:
Teacher: For the 100th time, Johnny, leave that girl alone.
Johnny: Make my day.
Teacher:
No, what is likely to happen is the fellow with gun gets into school, starts shooting. The armed teacher/guard races to the scene and starts shooting back. The SWAT team arrives, sees armed teacher/guard with gun shooting and shoots the armed teacher/guard.
Any kids nailed in the crossfire are just collateral damage. You'd sacrifice your first born for this, right?
It is just the press attempting to act like they know what's going on. Like the use of "ordnance" after the 1991 Gulf War, and "spider hole" after the Iraq War. And whomever came up with "incentivize" should be shot in the butt for gross injury to the English language.
Apple's PE hovers between 12-14, hard to twist that into somehow the perception of being an innovator is built into their stock price.
I've taken not a quite opposite approach and have done well. I tend to stick to tech companies since I know that sector better but other areas are open, say health care, petroleum, and construction. I have a mix of small, mid, and large cap stocks...but not too many, otherwise you do no better than the market. There's more risk this way though. I tend to buy and hold, some for what I hope are stock price appreciation, some for dividends. The hard part for this kind of a strategy is "how much do you believe you made the correct choice, have those reasons changed." This has been said repeatedly, but it bears saying just once more. Many little investors get nervous when a stock goes down, down, down...and then sell. If the underlying reasons you bought the stock are still solid (and you can verify those), then it is probably better to stick. If when the stock first goes down, you actively re-evaluate your reasons and then find the basis for those reasons no longer holds, then sell immediately. You've built an assumption into your purchase which isn't valid now. This sort of a strategy requires you constantly review your portfolio. And you need to do that without losing your mind or becoming obsessed with it.
When I get closer to retirement, I'll get more conservative and probably move to your strategy.