perfectly shaped car like sci fi movie cars -> compact, shapely exterior, like a toy that fits in your hand, interior is big as a normal car, fits everywhere.
no sorry, i couldnt hold myself. i will say again ; idiot.
havent you RTFA ?
mortgages, subprime loans, the houses are ALL there. they are devalued, but they are still real assets. if this was the issue, all the banks who got into subprime lending would get out of it by themselves, although losing a great deal of money.
however they cant, because they showed those subprime loans as assets, created DERIVATIVE assets (investment funds) over them, and then sold those funds to everyone, AND then showed those inflated inv. funds as assets and AGAIN loaned to everyone. (banks can loan more money than the assets they have, up to 1 to 10 ratio. so despite they had 1, they showed it 10, and lent 100).
the difference is this : there is $1 trillion worth of mortgages. (700 bn from america, a few hundred bn from europe already covers those totally).
BUT, there are SIXTY TWO TRILLION DOLLARS worth more 'assets' (Stuff that are actually tied to those mortgages, but inflated in value by trading) around, THAT is the thing sinking entire world.
it is EXACTLY government NON INTERVENTION that caused this problem. someone should have walked in, checked the books and said 'hey, you have 10 worth of assets youre showing me, but 9 of those assets are actually 'derivative' 'assets' over the rest 1. they DO NOT EXIST. i cant let you lend 100 worth of loans to people or sell investment funds as such. your REAL value is 1, you can lend only 10'.
but noone did. you know why ? because the crazy church of holistic economics and reaganomics have been yelling 'let businesses be' 'government out of my turf'.
and here we are. ALL the world, paying the SH@T that has been the doing of those idiots. some of you may not like to see this, having been used to liking that 'hey unbounded economic freedom brings wealth' bullcrap.
yes, it brings wealth. it brings the wealth like the one you are experiencing. watch markets on monday, if the coordinated intervention (regulation - get used to it) by the world banks does not fix.
when you use words like "socialist retort", "socialism", you make all your readers think that you are a brainwashed holistic economics zealot that thinks there is only unbounded and uncurtailed wild west capitalism and its counterpart strict socialism in the world, and lose them.
and let me break another news while im at it : there is a third concept : balanced economies. economies in which existentially critical services are controlled by government (like military, police, justice, healthcare) and all the remaining sectors are properly regulated so that no self interest group, criminals, fraudsters, scamsters can do stuff to break the entire system.
what im describing is europe.
judging from the success of europe in the last 20 years (in all respects, including better distribution of wealth), and the extent that u.s. sank ( to the point of sinking ENTIRE world economy with itself), i'd say that that holistic economic rant of yours have no substance anymore.
so please, stop it at least from now on, and conceive something new. reagan, republican eras are dead. and they wont return. neither the stupid 'let businesses be' 'youll kill jobs' 'market can solve' stupidity and accompanying wild west behaviour will.
Its that simple. this is a new setting, and we didnt have the rules and regulations to prevent such juggling of assets.
there was noone to tell them 'hey you cant create new assets out of those assets', because the rules to judge and act were not there and set.
as a result these people simply did what they did. its not the fault of computer systems. after all they are just tools. they could have done that with black ink and paper too, through the books.
producing something for $1 m total cost, and then trying to sell it for $10 bucks to millions while having $0.01 distribution costs (thats cd distribution costs actually. not even online) per item and trying to make at least 10 times the profit whilst having a total control of the market is not something we consumers like. your price should be comparable with your cost. you should NOT fuck us under the guise of selling stuff.
if the provider of the content actually provides something WORTH hassling for (leave aside paying), i go to the movie, i pay, and watch.
but if they do not, and just mass produce shit after shit similar to each other just to gobble up cash (pretty much all production these days), well, in past i would maybe bother to pirate and watch 5-6 years ago to pass time, but now i got tired of even that. i just dont.
see, one can get tired of pirating shit even if its free.
youngsters do that. they will do that until they get up with watching crappy content.
there is no guarantee that a person will live long, but live sanely. there are people who are going senile at a relatively young age, there are people who are living with sharp minds until the end of their long days.
but, this is presidency. noone can take risks. thinking that 'hey there are people living long and sharp' and voting for mccain, i guess would be a bit gambling. if he flips over in a few months, then a major country in the world will be in a position to be led by a woman who thinks that whole world will come to an end with catastrophes soon, but only alaska will escape the cataclysm and will be the refugee destination for survivors. this is a typical trait of doomsday cults. not good. definitely not. and thats without talking about how raw and clueless he is about anything serious.
why one needs to challenge the positions of his party to become a 'leader' ? did jfk do that ? did FDR do that ? did eisenhower do that ? did theodore R. do that ? huh ? WHY do you hold obama responsible with that then ?
"puppet of the party" DEFINES mccain. he is not even able to speak sanely, he is doing what he is told. and he is bit by bit showing his senility every day.
he is a total bastard, a switcher, a liar. at the start of his campaign, he was touting ALL the lines and positions of neoconry at its finest. when they saw that they're headed for shit, and that change was the slogan of the day, they suddenly became all for 'change'. i said they. why ? because his entire campaign switched in a glimpse ! centuries old republican conservative party, suddenly the party of change !!! ANYTHING just to win. anything goes. and when his party decided they cant win with ages old rhetoric, and switched, mccain also switched too. told whatever asked of him during speeches. he didnt even come up and say 'hey, we're the conservative party, our promise to people and our members has been different all along. we cant just suddenly become agents of change just because we want winning that much'. now THAT is standing against the lines of a party. THAT is decency, that is integrity.
mccain has none of that. a 70 year old person with clear contempt against racial differences, suddenly an agent of change at the head of one of the most conservative parties in the world.
if you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you.
additionally, what kind of a puppet someone is, when he forces his way into a party, doggedly stalks senators who shoo him by saying 'hey leave us alone' in senate floor, and one by one wins them over, and eventually crushes a 20 year old political machine like the clinton's ? hm ?
what kind of a puppet someone is, when he spearheads a transparency bill (one of the hardest things to do almost anywhere in the world - government prefers its spendings in the dark) just a few years into the senate position ?
one of the founding principles of the entire internet, the principle which allowed grad students to set up multibillion $ companies everywhere around the world, is a 'minor' matter ?
it is not. it is a foundation of the future. future is digital.
including mine. unbelievable amounts of client sites use mysql, all web development clients use mysql, there is a HUGE market for php/mysql out there (bigger than anything similar i assure you), hell, even a goodly percentage of web runs on mysql....
rest assured if anything happens to mysql, ill come there with a thick stick in my hand.
can the moron who modded it offtopic explain the reason ?
so, government is ok when it ILLEGALLY wiretaps its citizens, but its not ok when the citizen does it ?
whats this, love of fascism, idiocy, morondom ? which ?
or did republican party unleashed a chapter full of registered members on slashdot ? i have noticed that A LOT of comments pointing to misdeeds of the current administration and the republican party and its candidates are being modded down with irrelevant moderation selections lately.. EVEN if you recite highly relevant, proven, undeniable FACTS. or is it a fault with the moderation screening process ?
people willingly omitting slanderous and unfounded crap about other people from their websites has been here since the dawn of internet.
and the person you label as 'big brother' openly declares support about net neutrality and lectures about what freedom and equal opportunity means to internet and how it is tied to network neutrality on his website and policies.
dont spurt crap without knowing about what you speak about next time.
a race (orcs) that happen to have the addiction to instantly become slaves of any head villain that pops up. their culture is of conquest and brutality.
a race that eats corpses. undead. living with unholy energy. and sought to destroy ALL life on the world.
a race that sold itself to villains to acquire mana. went basically evil WILLINGLY. blood elven.
a race of cows that are in alliance by situation. no comment there.
a race that is described as 'vile and vicious' by blizzard at one point in character creation screen. now they have changed it. they are trolls. nothing vile and vicious can be not evil. not only that trolls are evil since the early celtic myths of 8000 years ago.
so, basically its all a load of bullshitty make believe by many horde players saying that 'horde is not evil'. just a cover not to admit that they are basically playing an evil faction, just out of the need to play something badass. badass wannabeeness.
and its people are increasingly becoming bitches to the big corporation's unfair and inhumane practices.
each day im becoming happier because i live in turkey. yes. i live in turkey. unbelievably, each passing day its seeming a better place than america, despite having a lot of shortcomings and issues.
because if there are more than 1 independent supplier of the same good/service, then the market will have a choice, and market will choose whomever provides the same quality for lower price.
all suppliers will try to ramp up prices to where they think they can make most profit, but in the end market will decide that most profit point.
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perfectly shaped car like sci fi movie cars -> compact, shapely exterior, like a toy that fits in your hand, interior is big as a normal car, fits everywhere.
there should be more cars like that.
i dont give a damn about shift key and capitalization.
look pal, youre the only continent that is stuck with that mccarthian scarecrowing shit about left.
entire europe is on social democracy, and it already got past north america in terms of economy and life standard, - hell, in every aspect of life.
get this shit into your head -> in life EVERYthing needs BALANCE. without balance, everything flops. economy is not exempt from this basic rule.
'socialism boooooooooo' 'nationalization booooooooo' 'government intervention booooooooooo'
please, its 2008. stop it.
no sorry, i couldnt hold myself. i will say again ; idiot.
havent you RTFA ?
mortgages, subprime loans, the houses are ALL there. they are devalued, but they are still real assets. if this was the issue, all the banks who got into subprime lending would get out of it by themselves, although losing a great deal of money.
however they cant, because they showed those subprime loans as assets, created DERIVATIVE assets (investment funds) over them, and then sold those funds to everyone, AND then showed those inflated inv. funds as assets and AGAIN loaned to everyone. (banks can loan more money than the assets they have, up to 1 to 10 ratio. so despite they had 1, they showed it 10, and lent 100).
the difference is this : there is $1 trillion worth of mortgages. (700 bn from america, a few hundred bn from europe already covers those totally).
BUT, there are SIXTY TWO TRILLION DOLLARS worth more 'assets' (Stuff that are actually tied to those mortgages, but inflated in value by trading) around, THAT is the thing sinking entire world.
it is EXACTLY government NON INTERVENTION that caused this problem. someone should have walked in, checked the books and said 'hey, you have 10 worth of assets youre showing me, but 9 of those assets are actually 'derivative' 'assets' over the rest 1. they DO NOT EXIST. i cant let you lend 100 worth of loans to people or sell investment funds as such. your REAL value is 1, you can lend only 10'.
but noone did. you know why ? because the crazy church of holistic economics and reaganomics have been yelling 'let businesses be' 'government out of my turf'.
and here we are. ALL the world, paying the SH@T that has been the doing of those idiots. some of you may not like to see this, having been used to liking that 'hey unbounded economic freedom brings wealth' bullcrap.
yes, it brings wealth. it brings the wealth like the one you are experiencing. watch markets on monday, if the coordinated intervention (regulation - get used to it) by the world banks does not fix.
when you use words like "socialist retort", "socialism", you make all your readers think that you are a brainwashed holistic economics zealot that thinks there is only unbounded and uncurtailed wild west capitalism and its counterpart strict socialism in the world, and lose them.
and let me break another news while im at it : there is a third concept : balanced economies. economies in which existentially critical services are controlled by government (like military, police, justice, healthcare) and all the remaining sectors are properly regulated so that no self interest group, criminals, fraudsters, scamsters can do stuff to break the entire system.
what im describing is europe.
judging from the success of europe in the last 20 years (in all respects, including better distribution of wealth), and the extent that u.s. sank ( to the point of sinking ENTIRE world economy with itself), i'd say that that holistic economic rant of yours have no substance anymore.
so please, stop it at least from now on, and conceive something new. reagan, republican eras are dead. and they wont return. neither the stupid 'let businesses be' 'youll kill jobs' 'market can solve' stupidity and accompanying wild west behaviour will.
Its that simple. this is a new setting, and we didnt have the rules and regulations to prevent such juggling of assets.
there was noone to tell them 'hey you cant create new assets out of those assets', because the rules to judge and act were not there and set.
as a result these people simply did what they did. its not the fault of computer systems. after all they are just tools. they could have done that with black ink and paper too, through the books.
that bitch had it coming for 10 years now.
.... you know
ill give her a lesson on
producing something for $1 m total cost, and then trying to sell it for $10 bucks to millions while having $0.01 distribution costs (thats cd distribution costs actually. not even online) per item and trying to make at least 10 times the profit whilst having a total control of the market is not something we consumers like. your price should be comparable with your cost. you should NOT fuck us under the guise of selling stuff.
if the provider of the content actually provides something WORTH hassling for (leave aside paying), i go to the movie, i pay, and watch.
but if they do not, and just mass produce shit after shit similar to each other just to gobble up cash (pretty much all production these days), well, in past i would maybe bother to pirate and watch 5-6 years ago to pass time, but now i got tired of even that. i just dont.
see, one can get tired of pirating shit even if its free.
youngsters do that. they will do that until they get up with watching crappy content.
there is no guarantee that a person will live long, but live sanely. there are people who are going senile at a relatively young age, there are people who are living with sharp minds until the end of their long days.
but, this is presidency. noone can take risks. thinking that 'hey there are people living long and sharp' and voting for mccain, i guess would be a bit gambling. if he flips over in a few months, then a major country in the world will be in a position to be led by a woman who thinks that whole world will come to an end with catastrophes soon, but only alaska will escape the cataclysm and will be the refugee destination for survivors. this is a typical trait of doomsday cults. not good. definitely not. and thats without talking about how raw and clueless he is about anything serious.
why one needs to challenge the positions of his party to become a 'leader' ? did jfk do that ? did FDR do that ? did eisenhower do that ? did theodore R. do that ? huh ? WHY do you hold obama responsible with that then ?
"puppet of the party" DEFINES mccain. he is not even able to speak sanely, he is doing what he is told. and he is bit by bit showing his senility every day.
he is a total bastard, a switcher, a liar. at the start of his campaign, he was touting ALL the lines and positions of neoconry at its finest. when they saw that they're headed for shit, and that change was the slogan of the day, they suddenly became all for 'change'. i said they. why ? because his entire campaign switched in a glimpse ! centuries old republican conservative party, suddenly the party of change !!! ANYTHING just to win. anything goes. and when his party decided they cant win with ages old rhetoric, and switched, mccain also switched too. told whatever asked of him during speeches. he didnt even come up and say 'hey, we're the conservative party, our promise to people and our members has been different all along. we cant just suddenly become agents of change just because we want winning that much'. now THAT is standing against the lines of a party. THAT is decency, that is integrity.
mccain has none of that. a 70 year old person with clear contempt against racial differences, suddenly an agent of change at the head of one of the most conservative parties in the world.
if you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you.
additionally, what kind of a puppet someone is, when he forces his way into a party, doggedly stalks senators who shoo him by saying 'hey leave us alone' in senate floor, and one by one wins them over, and eventually crushes a 20 year old political machine like the clinton's ? hm ?
what kind of a puppet someone is, when he spearheads a transparency bill (one of the hardest things to do almost anywhere in the world - government prefers its spendings in the dark) just a few years into the senate position ?
thats obama for you.
one of the founding principles of the entire internet, the principle which allowed grad students to set up multibillion $ companies everywhere around the world, is a 'minor' matter ?
it is not. it is a foundation of the future. future is digital.
your vision is minor in contrast, apparently.
therefore obama > biden. just like how JFK was, when he got the candidacy. the top guy.
policies and vision will be held by obama.
including mine. unbelievable amounts of client sites use mysql, all web development clients use mysql, there is a HUGE market for php/mysql out there (bigger than anything similar i assure you), hell, even a goodly percentage of web runs on mysql ....
rest assured if anything happens to mysql, ill come there with a thick stick in my hand.
can the moron who modded it offtopic explain the reason ?
so, government is ok when it ILLEGALLY wiretaps its citizens, but its not ok when the citizen does it ?
whats this, love of fascism, idiocy, morondom ? which ?
or did republican party unleashed a chapter full of registered members on slashdot ? i have noticed that A LOT of comments pointing to misdeeds of the current administration and the republican party and its candidates are being modded down with irrelevant moderation selections lately.. EVEN if you recite highly relevant, proven, undeniable FACTS. or is it a fault with the moderation screening process ?
it has been around but it is not an all encompassing rule.
people willingly omitting slanderous and unfounded crap about other people from their websites has been here since the dawn of internet.
and the person you label as 'big brother' openly declares support about net neutrality and lectures about what freedom and equal opportunity means to internet and how it is tied to network neutrality on his website and policies.
dont spurt crap without knowing about what you speak about next time.
one should have stood up and asked, 'which one, sen. mccain, your mother ?' ... but noone did.
here's your perspective.
lets see :
a race (orcs) that happen to have the addiction to instantly become slaves of any head villain that pops up. their culture is of conquest and brutality.
a race that eats corpses. undead. living with unholy energy. and sought to destroy ALL life on the world.
a race that sold itself to villains to acquire mana. went basically evil WILLINGLY. blood elven.
a race of cows that are in alliance by situation. no comment there.
a race that is described as 'vile and vicious' by blizzard at one point in character creation screen. now they have changed it. they are trolls. nothing vile and vicious can be not evil. not only that trolls are evil since the early celtic myths of 8000 years ago.
so, basically its all a load of bullshitty make believe by many horde players saying that 'horde is not evil'. just a cover not to admit that they are basically playing an evil faction, just out of the need to play something badass. badass wannabeeness.
and its people are increasingly becoming bitches to the big corporation's unfair and inhumane practices.
each day im becoming happier because i live in turkey. yes. i live in turkey. unbelievably, each passing day its seeming a better place than america, despite having a lot of shortcomings and issues.
there is an over 20 pages long thread in eu forums discussing this issue. it is a valid issue. i wonder which idiot modded this down.
no.
because if there are more than 1 independent supplier of the same good/service, then the market will have a choice, and market will choose whomever provides the same quality for lower price.
all suppliers will try to ramp up prices to where they think they can make most profit, but in the end market will decide that most profit point.
you smell of republican holistic economics.
the fact that government doesnt step in something doesnt make that thing a free market.
conditions of free market can be broken and manipulated by private companies.
for this is a question i would like to get an answer for.