Shit, mine took 10 years (lived in Ann Arbor for 9 of them). Some of us had to work our way through school.
What a great town, though. Although if I was back there now, I'd probably be about 400 pounds after this wireless access is activated. The opportunity to surf away the day while hanging out at Blimpy Burger? Yummmmmmmmmmm...
I second that motion - at $1000, commissions alone present an insurmountable challenge to successful trading (and there are enough challenges there already).
Put together a plan to save up more money, and in the meantime, read up and devise what strategy you'd like to trade with. You can perform analysis, manage a fictional portfolio and test results in the meantime before placing real money on the line. Above all, don't treat this as "dabbling" unless you're comfortable with losing the whole wad, like someone going into a casino treats their bankroll as "entertainment" money.
I think going with the Gaming machine guidelines are a great idea - you could pull the One Armed Bandit, and after the wheels spin, up pop the candidates for that election - you hit the blinking button below the candidate of your choice, and spin again!
They could even have a sound effect from the old game show: "joker, Joker... JOKER!"
You can be certain that it won't be settled until well after the election cycle is through this year. There is so much cash involved in this fight that both parties won't stop until they've topped off every soft-money fund they can. At that level, it's only seen as a battle between one group of huge corporations and another group of huge corporations. The general consumer has no say whatsoever in this.
Bingo! That's the place - I used to live in the apartment that makes up half the ground floor there a few years back. It was bad that one year when they got busted, however. They lost their liquor license for 3 weeks, which included Art Fair, the busiest time of the Ann Arbor summer. They lost thousands and thousands of dollars because of some kid. I used to check ID's in the evenings at the front entrance and stop people from taking their drinks with them when they left, which often meant literally chasing after people who would start running down the sidewalks, making off with their Bell jars full of sangria.
How can you fine somone under the age of 18? They are not a legal adult.
I believe their parents would be on the hook for that. I'm fine with going after the minors in cases like this (not video games, but cigarettes, booze, etc.) in addition to the retailer. Back in my Ann Arbor days I used to help watch the door and check ID's for an Italian cafe/bar just off campus. Underage kids were always trying to get in, and despite honest efforts to stop them, sometimes one does get through. When that happens and the place gets busted, they lose their liquor license (and many, many thousands of dollars) but nothing happens to the kid. That's just plain wrong.
That's one of the first times I remember seeing John McCain on the national stage, during an Iowa debate for the Republican nomination. He had the cajones to tell them flat-out that he thought corn subsidies for ethanol were a huge mistake and that he opposed them. He was roundly booed, but he took it on the chin and kept going.
These aren't being posted (or hosted) in order to educate the general populace about the horrors of war. They're used as PR tools by the terrorists (spreading their message to a broader audience than merely the locals), and as unique, eyeball-attracting contents by sites like Ogrish, where the theme is one of ghoulish fascination, not journalism of any sort. There's no context, no comparison of "sanitized" media vs. "reality", just a collection of snuff films.
It's incredible how seedy the dark underbelly of the internet has become. I'm sorry, but the videorecording of such events, and posting them on websites for all the world to see, is truly a new low in the conduct of the human race.
I have no idea why Amazon thinks they're uniquely positioned to do this, it sounds like panic and confusion to me.
They're trying to leverage the expertise in their pool of customer reviewers, who gave enough positive feedback for Amazon to move forward with this. Really, this isn't a bad idea - circumventing traditional book critics and going right to a group of customers to try and get ahead of the "next big thing."
I wouldn't overreact to this story, as it's prompted by a lousy 2nd quarter earnings report. Let's check back 6 months down the road and see how the story spins...
But to extend that analogy of music-as-business-startup, does an entrepreneur expect to get his Widgets on the shelves at WalMart and Target right off the bat? No, he has to build his market and brand reputation through smaller avenues first. Admittedly, the dominance of Clear Channel in radio far outstrips WalMart's retailing share, but the basic idea is similar.
...who say that the product is very similar to sites like SourceForge but is not intended to compete with them.
I guess they mean that in the sense that the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't intended to compete with an intramural squad playing in a park. Shall we start the SourceForge countdown clock?
Then I guess she shouldn't have entered into a contract that was a bad business deal for her.
That's the problem, most artists have no business sense and thus get fleeced. My wife was watching Biography a couple weeks ago and it talked about Dolly Parton, who is at the opposite end of that scale. At one time, Elvis Presley's representatives called her and said that Elvis wanted to record one of her songs ("I Will Always Love You"), with the condition that he be able to purchase half the publishing rights to the song as part of the deal. She refused, as she didn't want to give that up, even for someone of Elvis' stature.
Whitney Houston recorded the song years later for the Bodyguard soundtrack, and Parton made millions in royalties as a result.
Agreed - other than having some emergency cash in savings, it doesn't make sense to keep money in savings while taking out loans for college costs. Some will say you can earn X% in investments vs. Y% in interest costs, and as long as X>Y (don't forget taxes and transaction costs!) you come out ahead, but you're taking on a large risk with that approach, and besides, going to college should be your primary focus during this time, not investing.
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Shit, mine took 10 years (lived in Ann Arbor for 9 of them). Some of us had to work our way through school.
What a great town, though. Although if I was back there now, I'd probably be about 400 pounds after this wireless access is activated. The opportunity to surf away the day while hanging out at Blimpy Burger? Yummmmmmmmmmm...
I second that motion - at $1000, commissions alone present an insurmountable challenge to successful trading (and there are enough challenges there already).
Put together a plan to save up more money, and in the meantime, read up and devise what strategy you'd like to trade with. You can perform analysis, manage a fictional portfolio and test results in the meantime before placing real money on the line. Above all, don't treat this as "dabbling" unless you're comfortable with losing the whole wad, like someone going into a casino treats their bankroll as "entertainment" money.
it drives me nuts now when I find a puntuation (sp) mistake on a web page, and I realize it's not WP, so I can't fix it :-)
/. and not want to claw your own eyes out, then?
How do you surf
Just don't get it confused with the Vulcan Nerve Pinch...
Shhhhh... it's a top-secret IT job-creation scheme!
I support drawing & quartering those who react to overreaction by overreacting themselves... Seriously.
I think going with the Gaming machine guidelines are a great idea - you could pull the One Armed Bandit, and after the wheels spin, up pop the candidates for that election - you hit the blinking button below the candidate of your choice, and spin again!
They could even have a sound effect from the old game show: "joker, Joker... JOKER!"
Hey, now that's not a bad idea for a look at all!
You can be certain that it won't be settled until well after the election cycle is through this year. There is so much cash involved in this fight that both parties won't stop until they've topped off every soft-money fund they can. At that level, it's only seen as a battle between one group of huge corporations and another group of huge corporations. The general consumer has no say whatsoever in this.
Bingo! That's the place - I used to live in the apartment that makes up half the ground floor there a few years back. It was bad that one year when they got busted, however. They lost their liquor license for 3 weeks, which included Art Fair, the busiest time of the Ann Arbor summer. They lost thousands and thousands of dollars because of some kid. I used to check ID's in the evenings at the front entrance and stop people from taking their drinks with them when they left, which often meant literally chasing after people who would start running down the sidewalks, making off with their Bell jars full of sangria.
And it's against the law for minors to drink, so both parties have violated the law (that's why I'm saying the kid should be punished too).
How can you fine somone under the age of 18? They are not a legal adult.
I believe their parents would be on the hook for that. I'm fine with going after the minors in cases like this (not video games, but cigarettes, booze, etc.) in addition to the retailer. Back in my Ann Arbor days I used to help watch the door and check ID's for an Italian cafe/bar just off campus. Underage kids were always trying to get in, and despite honest efforts to stop them, sometimes one does get through. When that happens and the place gets busted, they lose their liquor license (and many, many thousands of dollars) but nothing happens to the kid. That's just plain wrong.
That's one of the first times I remember seeing John McCain on the national stage, during an Iowa debate for the Republican nomination. He had the cajones to tell them flat-out that he thought corn subsidies for ethanol were a huge mistake and that he opposed them. He was roundly booed, but he took it on the chin and kept going.
If high school kids today are such kids that they can't even be trusted to buy their own lunch...
Just take a look at the soaring rates of obesity in this country (particularly among children and teens, and it's obvious that they can't be trusted.
These aren't being posted (or hosted) in order to educate the general populace about the horrors of war. They're used as PR tools by the terrorists (spreading their message to a broader audience than merely the locals), and as unique, eyeball-attracting contents by sites like Ogrish, where the theme is one of ghoulish fascination, not journalism of any sort. There's no context, no comparison of "sanitized" media vs. "reality", just a collection of snuff films.
It's incredible how seedy the dark underbelly of the internet has become. I'm sorry, but the videorecording of such events, and posting them on websites for all the world to see, is truly a new low in the conduct of the human race.
I have no idea why Amazon thinks they're uniquely positioned to do this, it sounds like panic and confusion to me.
They're trying to leverage the expertise in their pool of customer reviewers, who gave enough positive feedback for Amazon to move forward with this. Really, this isn't a bad idea - circumventing traditional book critics and going right to a group of customers to try and get ahead of the "next big thing."
I wouldn't overreact to this story, as it's prompted by a lousy 2nd quarter earnings report. Let's check back 6 months down the road and see how the story spins...
Carl Everett? Is that you? Wow, a major league baseball player posting on /. - now I've seen everything...
But to extend that analogy of music-as-business-startup, does an entrepreneur expect to get his Widgets on the shelves at WalMart and Target right off the bat? No, he has to build his market and brand reputation through smaller avenues first. Admittedly, the dominance of Clear Channel in radio far outstrips WalMart's retailing share, but the basic idea is similar.
...who say that the product is very similar to sites like SourceForge but is not intended to compete with them.
I guess they mean that in the sense that the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't intended to compete with an intramural squad playing in a park. Shall we start the SourceForge countdown clock?
Why do you think he's no longer public enemy No. 1?
I thought that was because our national attention span can barely make it through a season of American Idol, let alone an extended manhunt.
What's being discussed here is having money in the bank to live on, but taking out loans instead. Big difference!
Then I guess she shouldn't have entered into a contract that was a bad business deal for her.
That's the problem, most artists have no business sense and thus get fleeced. My wife was watching Biography a couple weeks ago and it talked about Dolly Parton, who is at the opposite end of that scale. At one time, Elvis Presley's representatives called her and said that Elvis wanted to record one of her songs ("I Will Always Love You"), with the condition that he be able to purchase half the publishing rights to the song as part of the deal. She refused, as she didn't want to give that up, even for someone of Elvis' stature.
Whitney Houston recorded the song years later for the Bodyguard soundtrack, and Parton made millions in royalties as a result.
Agreed - other than having some emergency cash in savings, it doesn't make sense to keep money in savings while taking out loans for college costs. Some will say you can earn X% in investments vs. Y% in interest costs, and as long as X>Y (don't forget taxes and transaction costs!) you come out ahead, but you're taking on a large risk with that approach, and besides, going to college should be your primary focus during this time, not investing.
If it looks like a dupe and smells like a dupe...
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