Next we'll see is people put on no-fly lists, just because they're friends with Assange.. And yet, the sheep keep defending their inadequate two-party system.
So, it's ok for authorities to lie, cheat, bribe, kill, torture, etc, and the very act of exposing them is a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment?
It's also ok for authorities to use surveillance, covert-operations, false flag operations, etc., to ensure "peace and prosperity".
You're so fucked.. Just watch your country go down in flames, and the same fucking politicians stepping up and "saving it", from the problems of their own creation!
A law was broken? So what? You are probably breaking more than a dozen laws a week, just by living and breathing, taking shortcuts over the lane, missing some info on the tax report, etc. If someone is out to get you, they can easily find something on you, or fabricate evidence against you.
If you had any spine left in your body AC, you would ask yourself WHY someone put their LIFE on the line to disclose this information, and why someone else do EVERYTHING in their power to stop it..
Interesting to note that you don't back up any of your claims with facts, but present it as fact. Also, you don't have any personal experience with it it seems, at least not something you're willing to share. This discussion is pointless as long as you keep your eyes and ears closed.
If it were a natural part of human life everyone would be doing it anyway. Also i have never done it and can count the times I've been prescribed antibiotics on one hand.
It was. The people who were doing it and assisting doing it, were hunted down, tortured and burned as witches and wizards, several centuries ago. We've simply lost the collective knowledge through murder, manipulation, brainwashing and control. I'm not saying the new system is better than the old, but we definately lost much in the process also.
So you're saying meat eaters who don't do this bowel cleansing thing had serious problems before the advent of antibiotics? bollocks
It's usually not a life-and-death needful thing to do, but something that enhances health throughout your life.
But were these types of systems documented in a public journal or did they apply for a patent before this one?
Otherwise, it's proprietary and not prior art. EVEN if Blizzard already created this type of systems in earlier iterations of their products, it's not defensible.
Maybe if it's public domain, GPL or some sort of open source, it could count if you're willing to place your bets in the US court of law..
The more expensive and risky route is to try to overthrow such patents on the grounds that they're obvious to any practitioner in the field, but that is almost never attempted because of the risky subjectiveness and arbitrariness of the whole patent system.
You think native Indians were happy to have their land expropriated? Well, now you know 1 promille of what they were feeling about "property rights".
I'm not vegan, so I wouldn't know. But oh yeah, I've met some of those types!;)
However, maybe it's just an issue of having different value sets? What then makes sense to one, may seem ridiculous or overboard by another. Ie. veganism seems way overboard to me, and it doesn't even look healthy. However, it may BE completely rational to someone with a different value-set.
In most such cases, when I get to know the people beyond the initial impressions, the prejudice wears off and I'm able to relate more closer to them than I thought I'd be able to. But some people I just "click with" much more easily than others, and usually, we share the same value-set..
Well, the point is that you never actually know wether a stock will rise or fall, so what do you do?
If you go chasing after "rising stock", you will hit the top more often than not, and thus actually lose money pretty fast when fees are deducted.
So real traders always buy a declining stock in a positive trend. They time their trade so that they know it should rebound and continue the positive trend, preferably more often than not to be profitable. The excellent traders, can trade sideways and falling markets as well. The quants buy intercorrelated markets, HFT and a bunch of other neat tricks. There are many ways for those who investigate.
Since traders trade in all kinds of timeframes, there's always someone interested in buying something which is falling on another timeframe, if there is interest at all in that paper. To imply that this is not always happening, seems a bit ridiculous to me, but it seems people always want to rationalize away what they can't accept. However in extreme situations, the market can be overloaded by a cycle and "crash", even when the cycle is very short-term, or it can aggravate other financial troubles as well.
Extremely sudden drop-and-rally or rally-and-drop in a positive trend, are quite common in normal markets, and may signal overall direction of the market or reversal and first target, with the reverse being likely for a negative trend. When doing technical analysis, they are frequently occuring in all timeframes, and are not a "technical glitch" at all, but rather the synchronicity of different cycles opening a window into a probable future of the price. Often the "glitch"'s reversal price coincide almost perfectly with some MA, unless stopped by the "overseers" of course. The MA can tell you something about the period of the cycle and give you time to prepare.
This "signal" is not easily tradable though. When you discover it _reliably_ as a reversal signal, it is often too late. It can also be a very bullish signal at the start-middle of a cycle, shaking off many would-be investors with too tight stops. However, it can be used as a hint, and a warning of what to expect, or in conjunction with other signals. A trained eye or neural net should be able to translate its meaning more reliably than the most simple rules.
Since a market will not move unless there is both buying and selling, it doesn't make sense to me that the move made by the "mini-crash" can be explained away as a technical glitch. The buying and selling system was working, it was just that people were not prepared to accept the results. If true, it speaks of a terrible mother of all bubbles to be burst in a few years.. We won't know exactly when or how, since it was stopped mid-way. Since then the markets has been manipulated in big ways in order to expand the bubbles even more, making it hard to estimate. My guess is 2-3 years from now, or even sooner. For now, markets are still bullish, probably until April / May, and then we may hit some really volatile periods.
What also make markets work, is that not everyone is an expert, and thus loses money to the market. Those who make the quickest profits, are also often the ones who go bust in the most sudden and "unexpected" ways! So you can't really assess someone on their equity curve, even when not faked, since it says nothing about risk..
We must never forget that the markets are not infallible, and they cannot and should not make the decisions for us.
To any issue there are those who resort to hostility when their arguments have run out. However, regarding vegetarism, it seems to me the main hostility is mainly on the "skeptic" side. When veggies are hostile, it is mainly immature and emotional brats who just cannot help condemning everyone but themselves (typical projection issue). Now, you can imagine how the "so-called rational skeptics" who resort to just the same antics are really observed.. Not so logical anymore, huh, Mr. Data?
Both camps are in a more objective reality closed-minded, "believers" and "die-hard skeptics" alike. Mature people find a way to live with both of them.
If you ask me, if you feel like you "ought", you have not really decided yet. Better to skip the "ought" and live in peace.
I'm not forcing myself to be veggie. It's been a huge bonus in my life in so many ways I cannot even begin to count them.
Why is me being veggie, and correcting flawed assumptions, so inflamatory to you? I don't restrict your diet or ridicule it. Eat what you want.
If you don't see the sanctity of life, it's because your eyes are closed my friend. Ok, if you want to discover it: Cut off all contact with your friends, coworkers and family. Move to another country. Try to get by on whatever is given to you or whatever work you can find.
People have been doing bowel cleansing and other cleanses for thousands of years. You can find this in most cultures separated over the entire globe. It is an important way to keep the body and mind healthy.
It is only with recent times people have stopped doing this very natural thing, and now relying on antibiotics to reduce parasite infestations, something which destroys the natural bacteria flora and has many other side-effects.
Besides bowel cleansing has many positive side-effects, like reducing inflamations and making the digestion more effective.
The importance of digestions seems to have been forgotten by modern science due to the shortcut of antibiotics it seems, which is a shame.
Again new "facts" from people who have never done any real investigation into the matter themselves.
If you try bowel cleansing, ie. fasting for 4-5 days and doing cleansing every other day, you would say otherwise. What comes out in the toilet is just absolutely disgusting. The smell is Godawful, and what comes out is not brown, but a black and thick tar-like substance.
Having done the cleanse, and being veggie, it is much better if I do it now, not black anymore. It is generally known that people having been veggie all their life, have much cleaner bowels and the first time they do it is not so disgusting as for those who have eaten meat.
Unless you've actually experienced this yourself, you'll only have to take my word for it. But this is from my own and many others' experiences.
I'm not saying you must stop eating meat, I'm just correcting the mantra being spouted from these posts which are entirely incorrect and not in phase with reality. You may rationalize your choices however you want, but not with flawed and emotional arguments.
It is good to have a clean body if you want to avoid life-style related sickness though. Cancer is from the most recent studies believed to be strongly correlated to inflamations in the body, which impurities will aggravate.
Anything that makes humans behave more like humans and not animals, is good in my book. Our society would've been completely different if not for Christianity (in conjunction with of course Greek and French philosophers).
High ideals can lift us up, or pervert our thinking. The same is true for low ideals. Only mature people are able to see this.
Both believers and sceptics are the worst when they assume a "holier than thou" attitude and think they've all the answers, when often they are stuck on only one side of the coin.
You probably share more genes with alot of Indians and Africans than with your unrelated neighbour.
All facts and statistics are always abused to suit our own prejudices and preconceptions, even when not intended to, especially then.
If you can't eat vegetarian, you have probably not had the correct vegetarian meal. Many who "go veggie" have absolutely no clue what kinds of food you must eat.
Also, you must take the time for the body to clean itself out. You may feel sick for days, weeks or even months, and then you'll be fine. Drinking alot of water between meals etc helps.
Educate yourself instead. If you personally can't stand it after having tried the real thing, that's fine. Personally, I would have had a hard time if not for friends who went veggie with me over a period of a few years. With friends however, it was fun and empowering. I know not everyone is so lucky.
It seems to me a bit intellectualish to try it yourself for a short time, with no friends and no support. Like learning martial arts from a book. It's not the real thing. If you want an informed opinion about it, you should of course interview a trusted practitioner instead of building your own houses of cards.
People following a vegetarian diet must eat protein foods that have complementary proteins so that the essential amino acids missing from one protein food can be supplied by another. What are some examples of complementary proteins?
# Beans and tortillas # Peanut butter sandwich # Macaroni and cheese # Tofu with rice # Hummus with pita bread # Chickpeas and rice
Do people following a vegetarian diet need to eat complementary proteins at every meal? It was once believed that complementary proteins had to be consumed at every meal. We now know that intentional combining at each meal isn't necessary.
From my own experience as lacto-ovo veggie for 10 years, lentils provide just as much or more proteins as meat, and eating varied provides you enough of everything. It's not that hard, unless you're the fiery / hunter type who craves food and meat especially. Medically, lacto-ovo vegetarian diet is superior and easy, as long as you don't restrict yourself to pasta, rice or just a few foods, but eat a varied diet.
If you're eating meat, you should question how your bowels look and smell, how much meat is stuck inside there undigested and foul. This is why, when people go veggie, they often smell worse for a good while, until their bodies are cleaned out. You can do bowel cleansing, which every person should do every other year anyways.
Vegan diet (no animal byproducts too) on the other hand. Well, those who follow it seem gray and sickly to me. I don't think it is optimal.
So we may not have to slaughter all those cows after all. Indeed, cows are reveered as holy in India for their usefulness, and many groups of people in that country have been vegetarian for thousands of years.
Funny fact: Just days ago, our "industry minister" was congratulating himself and NSG (Norske Skog), one of our biggest, failing industries here in Norway, for securing a 12-year contract for fixed power-bill with Statskraft (government-owned power company in Norway). The president of Norske Skog made a quite shocking statement, that with the current power-pricing in Norway, Norske Skog would simply not be able to operate in Norway for much longer without such a contract.
Several other huge corporations in Norway are also in need for a similar agreement, something, it seems, they are only able to get through the government, or with the help of government officials.
Makes you wonder what infrastructure they'll think of deregulating next..
No, deregulation has worked wonders for electricity. Here in Norway, the power company sells all the renewable-powered electricity to foreign countries in the summer, leaving the water-magasines emptied for the winter. Thus the power companies profit double, once for selling at higher price to foreign countries in the summer, and twice for jacking up the prices in the winter, leading to shortages and crises. Now we're having like 2-3 times the energy bill compared to 10 years ago, 3-4 times that in the winter. Not bad profits there at all..
The great thing about this is that we're left totally vulnerable to expensive foreign import of electricity in the winter, and we're importing dirty nuclear and coal energy, although Norway has loads of cheap renewable energy reservoirs with our water powered powerplants. It doesn't matter what any individual company does either, because either you're on the Nordpool power-exchange, or you're not delivering any power in Norway. So it's really impossible to create any viable alternative in the market due to the market structure being centered around Nordpool speculations.
How can profit be a bad thing? It makes no sense to regulate anything. An1 want some tea with that koolaid?
If they can throw Clinton out of office for having sex with a secretary, when Bush can start wars on false grounds, and most presidents are known for similar "extravagance", then this is just more of the same shit.
It's not that we condone Mr. Assange's or Clinton's behaviour. But it is not criminal, just a leverage for someone behind the scenes to manipulate media and everyone into getting what they want.
What we need to do is reward and support those who expose such abuse of power, even if it is just "political".
Once a formal charge is filed, you can bet these women's sorry ass a counter-suit for untruthful allegations and collaboration is to follow.
But by the time all this has blown over, Assange's life will already have been ruined by the powerful people behind the invisible strings. These sex-allegations are perfect, dubious and speculative, but enough to mow down Assange and his credibility, together with the denial of all business with every major corporation on the planet. The right to possess money (banking) has already been taken away from him, without any evidence of criminal activity or judgements against him.
Who will step up and assist him now? It will be professional and personal suicide.. You will also get registered and surveilled for the rest of your life.
So he should return in order to be interrogated? How can he "prove his innocence"? What defense lawyer in their right mind would recommend him to return and incriminate himself? Getting him to talk in Sweden, a totally foreign country for Assange, they can come up with any and all charges at their own leisure.
It is the Swedish prosecutor who must now file formal charges, something they have not done yet. Only "allegations", which mysteriously to all, finds its way on the Interpol (very very suspicious).
"Allegations" are not charges. How can Assange defend himself against unspecified crimes?
This combined with PayPal, VISA, Mastercard, Swiss banks and Bank Of America preventing their customers to transfer money to Wikileaks, smells like something very very rotten.
Exactly what Wikileaks is created to expose!
Btw, did you know promiscuity may be genetically triggered? We should not be so quick to condemn. Look at the bigger picture.
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Of course not! When it's China doing it, then it's "the bad guys". When it's USA, it's "the good guys".
Do as we tell you, but don't do as we do..
They'll have to imprison all of us. Eventually "they" will, if people never stand up for themselves.
Next we'll see is people put on no-fly lists, just because they're friends with Assange.. And yet, the sheep keep defending their inadequate two-party system.
So, it's ok for authorities to lie, cheat, bribe, kill, torture, etc, and the very act of exposing them is a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment?
It's also ok for authorities to use surveillance, covert-operations, false flag operations, etc., to ensure "peace and prosperity".
You're so fucked.. Just watch your country go down in flames, and the same fucking politicians stepping up and "saving it", from the problems of their own creation!
A law was broken? So what? You are probably breaking more than a dozen laws a week, just by living and breathing, taking shortcuts over the lane, missing some info on the tax report, etc. If someone is out to get you, they can easily find something on you, or fabricate evidence against you.
If you had any spine left in your body AC, you would ask yourself WHY someone put their LIFE on the line to disclose this information, and why someone else do EVERYTHING in their power to stop it..
Interesting to note that you don't back up any of your claims with facts, but present it as fact. Also, you don't have any personal experience with it it seems, at least not something you're willing to share. This discussion is pointless as long as you keep your eyes and ears closed.
If it were a natural part of human life everyone would be doing it anyway. Also i have never done it and can count the times I've been prescribed antibiotics on one hand.
It was. The people who were doing it and assisting doing it, were hunted down, tortured and burned as witches and wizards, several centuries ago. We've simply lost the collective knowledge through murder, manipulation, brainwashing and control. I'm not saying the new system is better than the old, but we definately lost much in the process also.
So you're saying meat eaters who don't do this bowel cleansing thing had serious problems before the advent of antibiotics? bollocks
It's usually not a life-and-death needful thing to do, but something that enhances health throughout your life.
But were these types of systems documented in a public journal or did they apply for a patent before this one?
Otherwise, it's proprietary and not prior art. EVEN if Blizzard already created this type of systems in earlier iterations of their products, it's not defensible.
Maybe if it's public domain, GPL or some sort of open source, it could count if you're willing to place your bets in the US court of law..
The more expensive and risky route is to try to overthrow such patents on the grounds that they're obvious to any practitioner in the field, but that is almost never attempted because of the risky subjectiveness and arbitrariness of the whole patent system.
You think native Indians were happy to have their land expropriated? Well, now you know 1 promille of what they were feeling about "property rights".
This being public news and having read about it, we're now all liable for triple damages under the US court of law.
Cease and desist all your creative and innovative efforts now and go collect your foodstamps at the nearest corner now!
I'm not vegan, so I wouldn't know. But oh yeah, I've met some of those types! ;)
However, maybe it's just an issue of having different value sets? What then makes sense to one, may seem ridiculous or overboard by another. Ie. veganism seems way overboard to me, and it doesn't even look healthy. However, it may BE completely rational to someone with a different value-set.
In most such cases, when I get to know the people beyond the initial impressions, the prejudice wears off and I'm able to relate more closer to them than I thought I'd be able to. But some people I just "click with" much more easily than others, and usually, we share the same value-set..
Well, the point is that you never actually know wether a stock will rise or fall, so what do you do?
If you go chasing after "rising stock", you will hit the top more often than not, and thus actually lose money pretty fast when fees are deducted.
So real traders always buy a declining stock in a positive trend. They time their trade so that they know it should rebound and continue the positive trend, preferably more often than not to be profitable. The excellent traders, can trade sideways and falling markets as well. The quants buy intercorrelated markets, HFT and a bunch of other neat tricks. There are many ways for those who investigate.
Since traders trade in all kinds of timeframes, there's always someone interested in buying something which is falling on another timeframe, if there is interest at all in that paper. To imply that this is not always happening, seems a bit ridiculous to me, but it seems people always want to rationalize away what they can't accept. However in extreme situations, the market can be overloaded by a cycle and "crash", even when the cycle is very short-term, or it can aggravate other financial troubles as well.
Extremely sudden drop-and-rally or rally-and-drop in a positive trend, are quite common in normal markets, and may signal overall direction of the market or reversal and first target, with the reverse being likely for a negative trend. When doing technical analysis, they are frequently occuring in all timeframes, and are not a "technical glitch" at all, but rather the synchronicity of different cycles opening a window into a probable future of the price. Often the "glitch"'s reversal price coincide almost perfectly with some MA, unless stopped by the "overseers" of course. The MA can tell you something about the period of the cycle and give you time to prepare.
This "signal" is not easily tradable though. When you discover it _reliably_ as a reversal signal, it is often too late. It can also be a very bullish signal at the start-middle of a cycle, shaking off many would-be investors with too tight stops. However, it can be used as a hint, and a warning of what to expect, or in conjunction with other signals. A trained eye or neural net should be able to translate its meaning more reliably than the most simple rules.
Since a market will not move unless there is both buying and selling, it doesn't make sense to me that the move made by the "mini-crash" can be explained away as a technical glitch. The buying and selling system was working, it was just that people were not prepared to accept the results. If true, it speaks of a terrible mother of all bubbles to be burst in a few years.. We won't know exactly when or how, since it was stopped mid-way. Since then the markets has been manipulated in big ways in order to expand the bubbles even more, making it hard to estimate. My guess is 2-3 years from now, or even sooner. For now, markets are still bullish, probably until April / May, and then we may hit some really volatile periods.
What also make markets work, is that not everyone is an expert, and thus loses money to the market. Those who make the quickest profits, are also often the ones who go bust in the most sudden and "unexpected" ways! So you can't really assess someone on their equity curve, even when not faked, since it says nothing about risk..
We must never forget that the markets are not infallible, and they cannot and should not make the decisions for us.
To any issue there are those who resort to hostility when their arguments have run out. However, regarding vegetarism, it seems to me the main hostility is mainly on the "skeptic" side. When veggies are hostile, it is mainly immature and emotional brats who just cannot help condemning everyone but themselves (typical projection issue). Now, you can imagine how the "so-called rational skeptics" who resort to just the same antics are really observed.. Not so logical anymore, huh, Mr. Data?
Both camps are in a more objective reality closed-minded, "believers" and "die-hard skeptics" alike. Mature people find a way to live with both of them.
If you ask me, if you feel like you "ought", you have not really decided yet. Better to skip the "ought" and live in peace.
I'm not forcing myself to be veggie. It's been a huge bonus in my life in so many ways I cannot even begin to count them.
Why is me being veggie, and correcting flawed assumptions, so inflamatory to you? I don't restrict your diet or ridicule it. Eat what you want.
If you don't see the sanctity of life, it's because your eyes are closed my friend. Ok, if you want to discover it: Cut off all contact with your friends, coworkers and family. Move to another country. Try to get by on whatever is given to you or whatever work you can find.
It may open your eyes a bit.
You're rationalizing your own prejudice though.
People have been doing bowel cleansing and other cleanses for thousands of years. You can find this in most cultures separated over the entire globe. It is an important way to keep the body and mind healthy.
It is only with recent times people have stopped doing this very natural thing, and now relying on antibiotics to reduce parasite infestations, something which destroys the natural bacteria flora and has many other side-effects.
Besides bowel cleansing has many positive side-effects, like reducing inflamations and making the digestion more effective.
The importance of digestions seems to have been forgotten by modern science due to the shortcut of antibiotics it seems, which is a shame.
With this information do as you wish.
Again new "facts" from people who have never done any real investigation into the matter themselves.
If you try bowel cleansing, ie. fasting for 4-5 days and doing cleansing every other day, you would say otherwise. What comes out in the toilet is just absolutely disgusting. The smell is Godawful, and what comes out is not brown, but a black and thick tar-like substance.
Having done the cleanse, and being veggie, it is much better if I do it now, not black anymore. It is generally known that people having been veggie all their life, have much cleaner bowels and the first time they do it is not so disgusting as for those who have eaten meat.
Unless you've actually experienced this yourself, you'll only have to take my word for it. But this is from my own and many others' experiences.
I'm not saying you must stop eating meat, I'm just correcting the mantra being spouted from these posts which are entirely incorrect and not in phase with reality. You may rationalize your choices however you want, but not with flawed and emotional arguments.
It is good to have a clean body if you want to avoid life-style related sickness though. Cancer is from the most recent studies believed to be strongly correlated to inflamations in the body, which impurities will aggravate.
With this information, do as you wish.
Anything that makes humans behave more like humans and not animals, is good in my book. Our society would've been completely different if not for Christianity (in conjunction with of course Greek and French philosophers).
High ideals can lift us up, or pervert our thinking. The same is true for low ideals. Only mature people are able to see this.
Both believers and sceptics are the worst when they assume a "holier than thou" attitude and think they've all the answers, when often they are stuck on only one side of the coin.
This is intellectual masturbation.
"Fact."
You probably share more genes with alot of Indians and Africans than with your unrelated neighbour.
All facts and statistics are always abused to suit our own prejudices and preconceptions, even when not intended to, especially then.
If you can't eat vegetarian, you have probably not had the correct vegetarian meal. Many who "go veggie" have absolutely no clue what kinds of food you must eat.
Also, you must take the time for the body to clean itself out. You may feel sick for days, weeks or even months, and then you'll be fine. Drinking alot of water between meals etc helps.
Educate yourself instead. If you personally can't stand it after having tried the real thing, that's fine. Personally, I would have had a hard time if not for friends who went veggie with me over a period of a few years. With friends however, it was fun and empowering. I know not everyone is so lucky.
It seems to me a bit intellectualish to try it yourself for a short time, with no friends and no support. Like learning martial arts from a book. It's not the real thing. If you want an informed opinion about it, you should of course interview a trusted practitioner instead of building your own houses of cards.
People following a vegetarian diet must eat protein foods that have complementary proteins so that the essential amino acids missing from one protein food can be supplied by another.
What are some examples of complementary proteins?
# Beans and tortillas
# Peanut butter sandwich
# Macaroni and cheese
# Tofu with rice
# Hummus with pita bread
# Chickpeas and rice
Do people following a vegetarian diet need to eat complementary proteins at every meal?
It was once believed that complementary proteins had to be consumed at every meal. We now know that intentional combining at each meal isn't necessary.
Source: http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/dietarytherapy/a/Vegetarian.htm
From my own experience as lacto-ovo veggie for 10 years, lentils provide just as much or more proteins as meat, and eating varied provides you enough of everything. It's not that hard, unless you're the fiery / hunter type who craves food and meat especially. Medically, lacto-ovo vegetarian diet is superior and easy, as long as you don't restrict yourself to pasta, rice or just a few foods, but eat a varied diet.
If you're eating meat, you should question how your bowels look and smell, how much meat is stuck inside there undigested and foul. This is why, when people go veggie, they often smell worse for a good while, until their bodies are cleaned out. You can do bowel cleansing, which every person should do every other year anyways.
Vegan diet (no animal byproducts too) on the other hand. Well, those who follow it seem gray and sickly to me. I don't think it is optimal.
So we may not have to slaughter all those cows after all. Indeed, cows are reveered as holy in India for their usefulness, and many groups of people in that country have been vegetarian for thousands of years.
That's exactly the system we have here in Norway and Scandinavia. The power is even traded on the Nordpool power exchange.
We've seen nothing else but prices going up and up, on a yearly averaged basis that is.
See my other posts for more detailed explanation.
On the positive side, we do have access to MORE power than ever before, since we can import from abroad. But it ain't cheaper.
Funny fact: Just days ago, our "industry minister" was congratulating himself and NSG (Norske Skog), one of our biggest, failing industries here in Norway, for securing a 12-year contract for fixed power-bill with Statskraft (government-owned power company in Norway). The president of Norske Skog made a quite shocking statement, that with the current power-pricing in Norway, Norske Skog would simply not be able to operate in Norway for much longer without such a contract.
Several other huge corporations in Norway are also in need for a similar agreement, something, it seems, they are only able to get through the government, or with the help of government officials.
Makes you wonder what infrastructure they'll think of deregulating next..
http://www.hegnar.no/bors/article533510.ece
No, deregulation has worked wonders for electricity. Here in Norway, the power company sells all the renewable-powered electricity to foreign countries in the summer, leaving the water-magasines emptied for the winter. Thus the power companies profit double, once for selling at higher price to foreign countries in the summer, and twice for jacking up the prices in the winter, leading to shortages and crises. Now we're having like 2-3 times the energy bill compared to 10 years ago, 3-4 times that in the winter. Not bad profits there at all..
The great thing about this is that we're left totally vulnerable to expensive foreign import of electricity in the winter, and we're importing dirty nuclear and coal energy, although Norway has loads of cheap renewable energy reservoirs with our water powered powerplants. It doesn't matter what any individual company does either, because either you're on the Nordpool power-exchange, or you're not delivering any power in Norway. So it's really impossible to create any viable alternative in the market due to the market structure being centered around Nordpool speculations.
How can profit be a bad thing? It makes no sense to regulate anything. An1 want some tea with that koolaid?
Irony mode off..
If they can throw Clinton out of office for having sex with a secretary, when Bush can start wars on false grounds, and most presidents are known for similar "extravagance", then this is just more of the same shit.
It's not that we condone Mr. Assange's or Clinton's behaviour. But it is not criminal, just a leverage for someone behind the scenes to manipulate media and everyone into getting what they want.
What we need to do is reward and support those who expose such abuse of power, even if it is just "political".
Once a formal charge is filed, you can bet these women's sorry ass a counter-suit for untruthful allegations and collaboration is to follow.
But by the time all this has blown over, Assange's life will already have been ruined by the powerful people behind the invisible strings. These sex-allegations are perfect, dubious and speculative, but enough to mow down Assange and his credibility, together with the denial of all business with every major corporation on the planet. The right to possess money (banking) has already been taken away from him, without any evidence of criminal activity or judgements against him.
Who will step up and assist him now? It will be professional and personal suicide.. You will also get registered and surveilled for the rest of your life.
Unless we expose it all that is.
You haven't had sex yet I see.. ;)
What happened with just getting up and leave the bed? What was she doing in the same bed as Mr. Assange anyways?
The reports says no violence or threats were involved. So it doesn't seem any due effort were put in order to stop the activity.
In any civilized and mature country, that would mean consensual sex.
So he should return in order to be interrogated? How can he "prove his innocence"? What defense lawyer in their right mind would recommend him to return and incriminate himself? Getting him to talk in Sweden, a totally foreign country for Assange, they can come up with any and all charges at their own leisure.
It is the Swedish prosecutor who must now file formal charges, something they have not done yet. Only "allegations", which mysteriously to all, finds its way on the Interpol (very very suspicious).
"Allegations" are not charges. How can Assange defend himself against unspecified crimes?
This combined with PayPal, VISA, Mastercard, Swiss banks and Bank Of America preventing their customers to transfer money to Wikileaks, smells like something very very rotten.
Exactly what Wikileaks is created to expose!
Btw, did you know promiscuity may be genetically triggered? We should not be so quick to condemn. Look at the bigger picture.