High growth companies have very high P/E. Once the growth slow, the P/E shrinks and the stock price falls hard. Also slow growth implies deem future prospect -- stocks are about future performance. Why would you leave money in a possibly dying company? And investing is based on guessing. By the time everybody can see the proof, the game is already over.
Certainly just pre-Olympics that rule was enforced with a vengeance, emptying the hosting cities of every homeless person and "non-desirable"
Correct but those people were living in the city and not just visit the city for short business and go home. Of course, strictly speaking it is hard to classify who were there for visit and who for residency. And you don't have to agree with such actions either. But nevertheless it is OK to enter the city for visits and then apply for residence permits (for which you have to find someone to hire you.)
The problem there is that entering China on a non-working visa, and then obtaining the working visa within the country
I actually did that too. I was the management of a start-up. I entered the country on tourist visa and later after everything was up and running, I applied for the official employment visa within China. You probably can't even apply for jobs in the US (or HK) on a tourist visa, but there seems no such restriction in China. You can apply for the job on non-employment visa and then convert to employment one as long as you find someone to hire you (and meet the legal wage and pay tax.) Those that run between HK and mainland probably don't know or want to apply for employment visa for whatever reason or convenience they find. That's a different thing. But it was entirely legal for me to convert tourist visa to employment one.
(The equivalent for foreigners is the medical exam. You may not enter China without a full medical exam. Only medical exams performed in Chinese hospitals are legally accepted.
(Entry with medical reports from foreign (or S.A.R.) hospitals are routinely accepted, but right there they have all the grounds they need to deport you should you ever try to (for example) take someone rich enough to own a car to court for hitting you with said car.)
What are you talking about? In the rather distance past, outside people should get the city permit in their local police office for visit; that rule was scrapped quite long ago as I remember. Outside people still need to get resident permit, but there is no restriction in entering the cities. (For the 'special economic zones," one can apply for the entry permit at the checkpoint.)
Foreigners need medical exam only if they stay in China for employment. Therefore you can enter China with medical exams, like thousands of tourists every day do, and only do the medical within China when you apply for the working permit. I got one before.
So there are not many intrinsic contradictions in the rules. However, partially because of there are many inconvenient rules and partially because the governments are not creditworthy and having little actual controls, people tend to ignore rules whenever they find any need to. That's why in China one doesn't have a lot of freedom legally speaking but not many seem to be bothered because they don't care about everyday laws since the 1980s.
Well... forgetting to check Wikipedia before publishing is just an error of these scientists. According to the theory, they are still genius despite of this error. It is in fact a proof of their theory. No? They just publish something "new" by making an error.
There is one. The head of Sanlu -- the Chinese company in center of the tainted-milk powder scandal of 2008 -- was sentenced to life in prison. Maybe wee should adopt their system?
Structured finance may be a profitable in the past before the market bubble burst, just like web sites were during the Internet bubble. Profits and money are actually driving most people's motivation. You could blame profits and money as much as you want, until you tried to live in a society where profit chasing was forbidden such as in the socialist era of China and Russia in which people's motivations vanished. Once people start chasing profits and money, irregularities and bubbles will emerge one way or the other, because it is human nature to find shortcuts to maximize one's own profits. Will the society be doomed because of that? No, the society and the economy are dynamic system; things may go bad terribly at times but progress will be made. (In fact, at times, bubbles are the driving force of accelerated progress, despite of their damages after bursting.)
And according to game theory, if other countries do worse than we are, why do we worry? Countries like China, India and Russia may look doing good nowaday (in fact they don't) but they have done a lot more empty talks, because of both their own unique problems within their systems and problems shared with the US, than the US does, especially when it comes to science and innovations.
Actually even for Lenovo, this is nothing new. I'm typing this on a 2-year old Lenovo Y410 laptop which has this VeriFace installed out of box and it logged me in this morning when I looked it. The TFA seems selling the old trick as new, VeriFace on this laptop is at times dumb and has hard time recognize me,especially when the light is dim.
While the Chinese can be self-sustain on manufactured goods, the 1.3 billion people need to eat and US is a large net exporter of agriculture products, from pork to chicken feet to wheat and corns, to China. Guess who will need whom more? (Not to mention that we also hold them hostage with our trillion and growing debts -- debts that are too big to fail. In this world, creditors worry about debtors a lot more.)
Like what? $1 fine? $1 million? How do you know it is not some other politicians blocking it skillfully behind. Then it just raise the bar of corruption higher and someone can still afford it and circumvent it.
The problem with democracy is that most people don't care and those who do often care too much. It is a human nature and competitive tactic to game whatever system there is, and it cannot be fixed.
Instead the world runs on dynamic balance. Powers and opinions are always swung back and forth, left and right to keep the system on relative stability. If the powers do not swing back to the other side rapidly enough, the system will just crash and restart.
Maybe my conspiracy theory but this time works because the major stock market indexes has reached the 200-day moving average and due for bottom out. My conspiracy theory seems working better than your engineering analysis.
If China were to declare war, all it would need to do is stop payments for IP. Oh and stop sending goods. No need to sink cargo vessels, just not let them sail anymore. The battle for the pacific would be won with a piece of paper. What would the US do, bomb Chinese ports to force the sunken ships to sail? Block Chinese banks so the money for IP couldn't be transferred even more?
Actually, it seems the opposite would be true -- China is a net importer of large quantity of US agricultural products -- wheat, corn, pork, beef and poultry. While you don't see many "Made in USA" labels in China, a lot of what they eat are actually from the US. Lots of their young farmers have given up farming and go to work in the factories making stuff like iPhone and iPads; so China may be the one dependent on the US exports. Of course, here we are seldom informed of those exports by our media. And like the Chinese government subsidizing their factories, we subsidize our farmers. If the war you described break out, whilewe may not beable to buy iPhones, they may have problem feeding their people. Maybe that's why China keeps buying our debt.
As one of the commentators put it at the end of the article:
IMHO, the rest of the article are garbage and show the author's bigotry than actual knowledge. At least, I want to correct the facts about the eggs.
"I can't get black duck eggs in San Francisco, let alone this little piece of crap town in the middle of nowhere."
You can get the "black duck eggs" in every Chinatown including San Francisco. In fact, most Chinese grocery shops will have them. You just have asked with the right name "Century egg".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg
This article serves no purpose other than to spread propped-up fear and hatry and to promote his own security consultancy.
Well..., at least TMS from an LCD nearby causes the phenomenon of slashdotters jumping From 'interesting idea' to stated fact in record time!, I conclude.
Your plan might sound solid to the naive public. But I can come up counter-plan in less than a minute:
If I were a large and rich patent troll or if I want to take away the "innovative" patents held by you the real poor business / individual, I can do (a) hire better lawyers than yours -- chance are mine is already among the best and you can barely afford any lawyer -- good or bad; (b) create numerous shelf companies -- in Nevada or any low fee state, just to save a few dollar for my luxurious trip to Bahama -- and transfer my patents over there; in case I got sued and lost, I just folded the affected shelf company.
Like everything else in the legal world, no matter what you do -- including getting rid of patents -- people, especially the rich ones, but also poor ones too, will find way to work around it. that's just human nature.
Good try. But do you know every other piece of imported hardware and semiconductor chip are smuggled into China, just to avoid the tariff. It is another open secrete in China.
There is not much air resistance in space. A way would be to operate a radar actively detecting incoming objects and flap-down or rotate the whole sail in less than seconds?
If you can read this Chinese article (and some others on the Web,) the company was investigated right after the report by the local labor department and the press. It is found that (a) workers 16-18 year-old are allowed to work under Chinese law, but must be registered with the labor department and the company failed to register them; (b) the wage is the minimum legal wage of the city; (c) the workers need to work 8 hours day time and 2-3 hours OT; (d) the workers are allowed rest-room breaks. Of course, you won't read these follow-ups in the Western press where everything about China is sensationalized, and you can also dismiss the follow-up investigation as cover-up.
And for this image, maybe one can also interpret it as the workers taking a break at work?
I think the reason being that many Australian and American universities (especially the less well-known ones) are after money and admits any students that can pay. There are plenty of kids grown up in rich families in China who don't want to work hard. The current Chinese believe is pragmatism, as championed by Deng Xiaoping -- No matter it is a black or white cat, if it can catch mouse, it is a good cat. He probably came up with this line to defeat the communist hard rivals who against the reform, but at the same time, it costs morality of the whole society.
In the US, cheating and corruption occurs less often, but still a lot especially when you deal with sales people. and are usually done legally helped by its extremely complex laws. In China, corruption is wide spread but mostly done illegal because the laws are simple but a bit vague.
Yeah... this is the best solution we will adopt in health care reform after the century/decade/year long debates! Just have healthy people looking at the poor uninsured sick people, and the healthy ones will never get sick -- problem solved! Move one to the next agenda, please.
I wouldn't mind if I just need to take all my washed clothes in front of the robot and have it work overnight to fold all for me, especially if it saves $$$ than one capable to retrieve the clothes from the washer. The folding part is boring and laborious.
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High growth companies have very high P/E. Once the growth slow, the P/E shrinks and the stock price falls hard. Also slow growth implies deem future prospect -- stocks are about future performance. Why would you leave money in a possibly dying company? And investing is based on guessing. By the time everybody can see the proof, the game is already over.
Certainly just pre-Olympics that rule was enforced with a vengeance, emptying the hosting cities of every homeless person and "non-desirable"
Correct but those people were living in the city and not just visit the city for short business and go home. Of course, strictly speaking it is hard to classify who were there for visit and who for residency. And you don't have to agree with such actions either. But nevertheless it is OK to enter the city for visits and then apply for residence permits (for which you have to find someone to hire you.)
The problem there is that entering China on a non-working visa, and then obtaining the working visa within the country
I actually did that too. I was the management of a start-up. I entered the country on tourist visa and later after everything was up and running, I applied for the official employment visa within China. You probably can't even apply for jobs in the US (or HK) on a tourist visa, but there seems no such restriction in China. You can apply for the job on non-employment visa and then convert to employment one as long as you find someone to hire you (and meet the legal wage and pay tax.) Those that run between HK and mainland probably don't know or want to apply for employment visa for whatever reason or convenience they find. That's a different thing. But it was entirely legal for me to convert tourist visa to employment one.
Therefore you can enter China with medical exams, like ...
Oh... typo. I meant "Therefore you can enter China without medical exams, like ...".
(The equivalent for foreigners is the medical exam. You may not enter China without a full medical exam. Only medical exams performed in Chinese hospitals are legally accepted. (Entry with medical reports from foreign (or S.A.R.) hospitals are routinely accepted, but right there they have all the grounds they need to deport you should you ever try to (for example) take someone rich enough to own a car to court for hitting you with said car.)
What are you talking about? In the rather distance past, outside people should get the city permit in their local police office for visit; that rule was scrapped quite long ago as I remember. Outside people still need to get resident permit, but there is no restriction in entering the cities. (For the 'special economic zones," one can apply for the entry permit at the checkpoint.)
Foreigners need medical exam only if they stay in China for employment. Therefore you can enter China with medical exams, like thousands of tourists every day do, and only do the medical within China when you apply for the working permit. I got one before.
So there are not many intrinsic contradictions in the rules. However, partially because of there are many inconvenient rules and partially because the governments are not creditworthy and having little actual controls, people tend to ignore rules whenever they find any need to. That's why in China one doesn't have a lot of freedom legally speaking but not many seem to be bothered because they don't care about everyday laws since the 1980s.
Well... forgetting to check Wikipedia before publishing is just an error of these scientists. According to the theory, they are still genius despite of this error. It is in fact a proof of their theory. No? They just publish something "new" by making an error.
There is one. The head of Sanlu -- the Chinese company in center of the tainted-milk powder scandal of 2008 -- was sentenced to life in prison. Maybe wee should adopt their system?
Structured finance may be a profitable in the past before the market bubble burst, just like web sites were during the Internet bubble. Profits and money are actually driving most people's motivation. You could blame profits and money as much as you want, until you tried to live in a society where profit chasing was forbidden such as in the socialist era of China and Russia in which people's motivations vanished. Once people start chasing profits and money, irregularities and bubbles will emerge one way or the other, because it is human nature to find shortcuts to maximize one's own profits. Will the society be doomed because of that? No, the society and the economy are dynamic system; things may go bad terribly at times but progress will be made. (In fact, at times, bubbles are the driving force of accelerated progress, despite of their damages after bursting.)
And according to game theory, if other countries do worse than we are, why do we worry? Countries like China, India and Russia may look doing good nowaday (in fact they don't) but they have done a lot more empty talks, because of both their own unique problems within their systems and problems shared with the US, than the US does, especially when it comes to science and innovations.
I didn't know the foreclosure problem getting this worse. or maybe we should have expected its coming, given our trillion dollar debts.
Actually even for Lenovo, this is nothing new. I'm typing this on a 2-year old Lenovo Y410 laptop which has this VeriFace installed out of box and it logged me in this morning when I looked it. The TFA seems selling the old trick as new, VeriFace on this laptop is at times dumb and has hard time recognize me,especially when the light is dim.
according to this and this, net agriculture export from US to China is about US $9b in 2009.
While the Chinese can be self-sustain on manufactured goods, the 1.3 billion people need to eat and US is a large net exporter of agriculture products, from pork to chicken feet to wheat and corns, to China. Guess who will need whom more? (Not to mention that we also hold them hostage with our trillion and growing debts -- debts that are too big to fail. In this world, creditors worry about debtors a lot more.)
Sanctions up to and including personal liability.
Like what? $1 fine? $1 million? How do you know it is not some other politicians blocking it skillfully behind. Then it just raise the bar of corruption higher and someone can still afford it and circumvent it.
The problem with democracy is that most people don't care and those who do often care too much. It is a human nature and competitive tactic to game whatever system there is, and it cannot be fixed.
Instead the world runs on dynamic balance. Powers and opinions are always swung back and forth, left and right to keep the system on relative stability. If the powers do not swing back to the other side rapidly enough, the system will just crash and restart.
Mac 6 melts steel
Oh... I'm running on Mac 10, no doubt the economy is burning!
Maybe my conspiracy theory but this time works because the major stock market indexes has reached the 200-day moving average and due for bottom out. My conspiracy theory seems working better than your engineering analysis.
'It is not a question of if a major earthquake will strike,' says Goldfinger, 'it is a matter of when.'
When do we have a question of if?
If China were to declare war, all it would need to do is stop payments for IP. Oh and stop sending goods. No need to sink cargo vessels, just not let them sail anymore. The battle for the pacific would be won with a piece of paper. What would the US do, bomb Chinese ports to force the sunken ships to sail? Block Chinese banks so the money for IP couldn't be transferred even more?
Actually, it seems the opposite would be true -- China is a net importer of large quantity of US agricultural products -- wheat, corn, pork, beef and poultry. While you don't see many "Made in USA" labels in China, a lot of what they eat are actually from the US. Lots of their young farmers have given up farming and go to work in the factories making stuff like iPhone and iPads; so China may be the one dependent on the US exports. Of course, here we are seldom informed of those exports by our media. And like the Chinese government subsidizing their factories, we subsidize our farmers. If the war you described break out, whilewe may not beable to buy iPhones, they may have problem feeding their people. Maybe that's why China keeps buying our debt.
IMHO, the rest of the article are garbage and show the author's bigotry than actual knowledge. At least, I want to correct the facts about the eggs. "I can't get black duck eggs in San Francisco, let alone this little piece of crap town in the middle of nowhere." You can get the "black duck eggs" in every Chinatown including San Francisco. In fact, most Chinese grocery shops will have them. You just have asked with the right name "Century egg". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg
This article serves no purpose other than to spread propped-up fear and hatry and to promote his own security consultancy.
Well..., at least TMS from an LCD nearby causes the phenomenon of slashdotters jumping From 'interesting idea' to stated fact in record time!, I conclude.
Your plan might sound solid to the naive public. But I can come up counter-plan in less than a minute:
If I were a large and rich patent troll or if I want to take away the "innovative" patents held by you the real poor business / individual, I can do (a) hire better lawyers than yours -- chance are mine is already among the best and you can barely afford any lawyer -- good or bad; (b) create numerous shelf companies -- in Nevada or any low fee state, just to save a few dollar for my luxurious trip to Bahama -- and transfer my patents over there; in case I got sued and lost, I just folded the affected shelf company.
Like everything else in the legal world, no matter what you do -- including getting rid of patents -- people, especially the rich ones, but also poor ones too, will find way to work around it. that's just human nature.
Good try. But do you know every other piece of imported hardware and semiconductor chip are smuggled into China, just to avoid the tariff. It is another open secrete in China.
There is not much air resistance in space. A way would be to operate a radar actively detecting incoming objects and flap-down or rotate the whole sail in less than seconds?
If you can read this Chinese article (and some others on the Web,) the company was investigated right after the report by the local labor department and the press. It is found that (a) workers 16-18 year-old are allowed to work under Chinese law, but must be registered with the labor department and the company failed to register them; (b) the wage is the minimum legal wage of the city; (c) the workers need to work 8 hours day time and 2-3 hours OT; (d) the workers are allowed rest-room breaks. Of course, you won't read these follow-ups in the Western press where everything about China is sensationalized, and you can also dismiss the follow-up investigation as cover-up.
And for this image, maybe one can also interpret it as the workers taking a break at work?
I think the reason being that many Australian and American universities (especially the less well-known ones) are after money and admits any students that can pay. There are plenty of kids grown up in rich families in China who don't want to work hard. The current Chinese believe is pragmatism, as championed by Deng Xiaoping -- No matter it is a black or white cat, if it can catch mouse, it is a good cat. He probably came up with this line to defeat the communist hard rivals who against the reform, but at the same time, it costs morality of the whole society.
In the US, cheating and corruption occurs less often, but still a lot especially when you deal with sales people. and are usually done legally helped by its extremely complex laws. In China, corruption is wide spread but mostly done illegal because the laws are simple but a bit vague.
Yeah... this is the best solution we will adopt in health care reform after the century/decade/year long debates! Just have healthy people looking at the poor uninsured sick people, and the healthy ones will never get sick -- problem solved! Move one to the next agenda, please.
I wouldn't mind if I just need to take all my washed clothes in front of the robot and have it work overnight to fold all for me, especially if it saves $$$ than one capable to retrieve the clothes from the washer. The folding part is boring and laborious.