which actually increases inflation since everyone rounds up as precision is lost with the 'excess' 0s
hugo chavez brilliantly employed this technique within the past year or 2.
i just gave the examples of depreciating 100k a year as the gop lowering taxes for small business. 'the little guy' already pays much less proportion of their income in taxes.
& don't get me wrong. i'm not a republican nor am i a huge fan of them. they just seem to fuck small business a LOT less than the blue team. and that fucks the 'little guy' a lot less because he is employed by those businesses.
personally arnold schwarzenegger helped get workers comp insurance to a sane level here in caleeefonnia.
when grey davis was in office State Fund was the only game in town & they would pay off any bullshit workers comp claim.
we had a guy pretend to fall & hurt himself. he called a bullshit tv lawyer who made up all this shit about him losing consciousness. we knew he was full of shit. my employees knew he was full of shit and all took statements. the doctor here knew he was full of shit.
but then the tv lawyer took him to his corrupt doctor 60 miles away to file a bullshit report.
they paid the asshole $20k. our premiums were through the roof.
after schwarzenegger took office all that shit changed. our premiums went WAY down & well, a month ago we had a guy claim he hurt himself (the minute we had to lay him off. -we're in construction. it's in the shitter.) it was obviously bullshit. the doctor knew it. case closed.
-for the record i'm an independent as well. i don't believe in political parties and both sides are full of crooks. but, from a small business perspective the red team definitely helps us out more.
another example of tax breaks for small business is being able to depreciate up to $100k in equipment per year. because of that, one year we were able to replace our 40 yr old manual 6 blade saw with a brand new semi robotic 6 blade saw. we paid $149,000 for it, in cash. being able to depreciate 100k of it that year on our taxes helped us afford to buy it.
the following year we bought 2 brand new forklifts at $60k a piece. cash. again the tax depreciation helped.
also, even if that's all they ever did, they're not trying to willingly make me their official paper-pusher as much as the democrats.
now i believe something should be done with healthcare but i don't believe a person's employer necessarily should provide it. though we do for some of our employees right now. usually they just turn it down.
i offered them FULL COVERAGE BLUE CROSS. we're talking $10 copays for primary care physician & $100 copay for emergency. i offered this to them for $60 a month (i paid the rest!) and they would NOT take it. they'd rather go sit in county and use the ER as their primary care physician every time one of their kids gets a cold. it's just the mentality.
& don't tell me they can't afford it either. one of the guys who turned it down was known for spending $200 a week minimum on backyard cock fights.
i agree 100%. the best ideal government that would actually work would be one under a benevolent dictator. one person who would be there just seeing to it that the right thing got done. forever. nobody in the way, nobody to come by 4 years later to reverse everything. just efficiency. obviously easier said than done.
this is why mc cain prefers to speak in smaller town-hall style meetings where he can engage in an actual meaningful dialogue with constituents, rather than obama on his exalted stage of reality distortion and propaganda.
he has the biggest messiah complex since Bono. though i give bono props for all he's done in africa over the years, even giving GWB SOME semblance of redemption (not saying any of the atrocities against the planet he's committed will ever be excusable) by convincing him to forgive some african debt as well as to commit to help fighting aids and poverty by giving aid.
-obama likes to speak in large crowds as it contributes to his cult of personality. much like stalin, hitler, or any of those leaders who would rather speak from a pedestal on high in a unilateral fashion where they cannot be stopped or questioned or called out on their bullshit. he is afraid of true confrontation, which is why he at first resisted postponing the debate to go help with the bailout package.
even if it WAS a stunt by mc cain to call him back to washington, he should have readily accepted the challenge, as a test, as an opportunity to actually prove how he can contribute to helping solve the nation's problems in a time of dire consequence and circumstance. he should have risen to the occasion if he was even half the leader he pretends to be. i can't believe how much people let him off the hook. or how much they say palin's let off the hook. palin has been treated terribly by the news media.
that is nothing but democrat FUD.
Palin is NOT a creationist. she's been specifically asked in interviews and categorically said so. her father was a science teacher.
here:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31088_Sarah_Palin_and_Creationism
this issue has been blown out of proportion and distorted. anyone from the obama camp who accuses the mc cain camp of sleaziness (hey they're both guilty and you know it.) is a fucking hypocrite.
well it's pretty simple. crippling tax and insurance hikes for business, especially small businesses, prevent employers from keeping employees. forced to downsize. the cost of business is insane enough. when democrats are in power it skyrockets due to misguided anti-corporate sentiment. now there are huge corporations and small ones. highly unethical and there are ethical. but people sometimes forget that success is desirable. not all success in business is greed.
democrats also fail to see that by lowering taxes more money comes in, as businesses can afford to conduct their affairs and invest in new equipment, research and development, or good talent. with the money to invest businesses can make moves slightly more daring that they may not have been able to take a chance on with higher taxes. with the success of these endeavors will come more tax revenue.
democrats love to pit the supposedly poor & defenseless against their supposedly evil corporate overlords. i wish people in this country could see that most of business is small business and see the amount of work that goes into keeping one functioning, let alone successful. the paperwork, the expenses & overhead..
There cannot be any socialist expansion during Obama because there simply is no way to finance it either with direct revenue or borrowing.
and what, with the trillions in national debt we have incurred over the years, has this new bill done to max out the amount of debt our government is willing to incur, to prevent obama from doing the same?
"In law, a default is the failure to do something required by law or to appear at a required time in legal proceedings." -wikipedia
IANAL, but failure to uphold your end of a contract (violating terms of service which results in a breach of contract) is a form of default.
failure is a funny word. all failure is of course a default. you can call any action a 'failure' to do what the opposition of any action is. interesting.
This is so true. especially with certain women. you know the type, self-absorbed, crazy bitches. i know this chick, gorgeous.. we became friends.. she'd be a bit intimidating. that's just her.. the minute i met her it started like that. though i was quick on my feet & neutralized it. all my life it's something i've been trying to learn & master.. to understand women.. anyways it would start one day when she'd 'warn' me she was 'feeling sick' on a night we were supposed to go to a concert. total PMS type behavior. she'd come to pick me up (yeah i have a DUI, whoops.) & bitch about me not being out the door on time, when i'd already waited an extra half hour for her to show up.. then the music i had one was 'too spastic'... etc. the next time she was in a bad mood bc she had a 'bad day', & then pretty soon, every time we hung out, that's just how she was: a raging bitch. & me being a peace-loving guy & missing the girl who was sweet & funny & animated & fun to be around would want to keep the peace by appeasing her. big mistake. the more i tried it seemed the less satisfied she was. no we weren't even dating. i'd make deals with her since i can't drive that if she'd drive or give me a ride i'd cover her drinks or gas or whatever (we have a lot of mutual friends & to get out to see them was murder on me since i coudln't drive) & she'd pick me up & complain that i was 8 miles out of the way, etc.
anyways i realized the pattern... i mean, no matter what i said or did, i was somehow an idiot because of it.. whatever i chose to do, was either too fast, too slow, too boring, too crazy, you get the idea. so i realized no matter what i did this would always be the case & figured i was just best off no longer dealing with her.
so one day came where she had a 'proposition' for me.. -basically one that would take hours and yield almost no profit, yet her own stripper math theorized it would be a lucrative proposition. at that point she denied ever intending to share the money & accused me of trying to take advantage of her. i kept my cool with her.. but this time since i figured her out it was different..
basically, once i STOPPED trying to figure her out, was when i was finally starting to. since i was finally aware of her bullshit i would call her out on it or just not dignify it with an argument. i realized she was trying harder to start an argument. i asked her if she cared about what bothered me because she was being my friend, or was she trying to start a fight? she was all over the place. at first i was being 'insensitive' & that she felt friends should talk about things. once i started to explain things that were bothering me she just said 'i don't remember', not -'i don't remember, but i'm sorry if i did do those things' like a normal person. when she said she didn't remember i said 'hey i'm not making this up' & she said 'i'm not calling you a liar. i said 'no but you're not apologizing either'. i responded calmly & quickly & in an amused manner. truly amused, i dind't need to fake anything. she was just all over the place & it was almost hilarious once i realized how clear all this was. it went like this & finally she gave up. oh god that felt so sweet.
-i didn't talk to her for 6 months. the funny thing is we're really good friends now. i didn't do anything ugly to tell her to fuck off, and by not dignifying her with that final argument i didn't let her do anything too blatant to offend me. i let that silent time allow her to wonder if i might have just thought she was a crazy idiot. i also used that silence to let her own friendships with our other mutual friends go south.
the funny thing is she's an awesome chick. ever since then she's been VERY cool, thoughtful, considerate, & respectful. she's being the girl i first met. she respects me as well. we make an awesome team when we go out (that's a really long story actually).
i used her as a learning experience, still do. i figure
it's the rapid rising of home prices that has hurt. that is what makes us all poorer and contributes to inflation. like gas prices. how can anything being MORE expensive help?
sure if you want to sell your house it hurts, but tough shit. when you bought your house, you obviously decided that it was worth the price you paid for it. just because that value goes down doesn't give you the right to bitch. you chose to live there. the only ones who have benefited from rising home costs are investors. homes shouldn't exist as a tool for investors. that can be a symptom, fine, but they exist to provide shelter. how would it be a good thing that people cannot afford them? investment is only secondary. or should be.
also in terms of the economy, the credit crunch and the construction industry are directly affected by the high value of homes. now the banks allowed this to happen, or more specifically, the lack of a fool-proof self-preserving system, but regardless this is the problem.
i welcome low home prices. not only so i can afford one some day, but so anybody else can as well. when prices come down people will afford them and construction will increase and the economy can be normal again.
as one who firmly opposes the Patriot Act and the disintegration of privacy and civil liberties in our country, I must say that I find nothing wrong with our government checking for radioactive material. In our day and age where 99% of national security is simply 'theatre' designed to make you FEEL safe rather than actually BE safe (ahem, airport 'security'?), it's nice to know that there is a program out there that actually intends the opposite and isn't simply squandering time and taxpayer money playing mind games with us. In testing for radioactivity they are NOT conducting strip- or cavity searches nor your search engine history or phone records, nor monitoring anything, other than levels of radioactivity. This practice in & of itself is what this country NEEDS as part of REAL security.
& in regards to us 'knowing' about it.. I don't care if I KNOW they are testing for radioactivity. How obnoxious that would be to be driving along the freeway to see signs saying 'warning, you are being scanned for radioactivity'. In fact I'd be more offended by that, as one could perceive that as fear-mongering and additional 'theatre' as psychological civil obedience conditioning. There's really no reason for me to know, and if our government is TRULY trying to protect me as they clearly are in this case I can objectively understand. Now, this is not to say that I don't want to know about OTHER types of surveillance, especially video, or believe that other types of surveillance, especially warrantless wiretapping, aren't intrusive, unconstitutional, and really just ways for introduce new domestic control under the guise of national security. I'm just saying in the case of radioactive material, hell, do you really need to know? Do you really care?
i'd mod this up if i could. this is what i tell everybody. political parties must be abolished. the electoral process has been sucha hype game. people never vote for who will run the country best, they vote for who they identify with. this country is so divided. each candidate pretends to be for or against certain elements of the population and attempts to demonstrate to their base how the other candidate is supporting the factions that are 'getting in the way of your dreams'. it's all a bunch of bullshit. if everyone voted for who SHOULD win instead of who was 'most likely' to win, or voted FOR who they wanted, instead of AGAINST who they don't want, the right candidate would emerge. people in this country are so conditioned and brainwashed it's disgusting. and this is how these assholes not only stay in power but profit whichever way the wind blows.
it's just the motley fool but if it was a bear stearns analyst telling his investors not to invest in the record companies, that information alone would be enough to drive the prices down, warranted or not.
3 weeks ago i had Sirius stock at $3.52 a share, & one morning it was in fact a bear stearns analyst who supposedly told his investors 'the DOJ could approve the merger (with XM radio) as early as friday (that same day)!'
well the stock price shot up to $3.84. i was up $800 that morning just on that rumor. guess what. it's at $3.08 now & the merger STILL hasn't been approved by the DOJ.
from apple, to say 'hey kids, we're making AT&T happy by plugging this hole..but if you modded your shit DON'T UPDATE YOUR PHONE.'
read between the lines, kids.
they did not have to have such explicit warnings whatsoever. and they did and i think that was nice of them. fixing a buffer overflow is reasonable. tho... if any of the 3rd party shit gets locked out that's kind of a bummer.
by the way, IS it locked out? i don't wanna lose my 3rd party stuff. the NES emulator and Mobilechat are too cool. as is the summerboard hack that allows scrollable springboard and dock hiding.
actually synthetic diamonds contain no flaws. de beers painted themselves into a corner with that one, when in the 80s the russian mines found tons of diamonds. de beers shit themselves. the russian diamonds were small.
de beers had to change their strategy. size had to no longer matter, so they came up with the idea that bigger wasn't better, but it was then about quality and flawlessness.
funny, now that synthetic diamonds contain no flaws, de beers is trying to say they those are inferior to 'real' diamonds, as 'real' diamonds 'have flaws'.
actually the more diamonds on the market decrease value. hence the 'false scarcity'. more diamonds means less scarcity which means more supply to overpower demand.
Slashdot Mirror
most relevant sig i've read in a while.
which actually increases inflation since everyone rounds up as precision is lost with the 'excess' 0s hugo chavez brilliantly employed this technique within the past year or 2.
i just gave the examples of depreciating 100k a year as the gop lowering taxes for small business. 'the little guy' already pays much less proportion of their income in taxes.
& don't get me wrong. i'm not a republican nor am i a huge fan of them. they just seem to fuck small business a LOT less than the blue team. and that fucks the 'little guy' a lot less because he is employed by those businesses.
my bad on the paragraph tags :-x
personally arnold schwarzenegger helped get workers comp insurance to a sane level here in caleeefonnia. when grey davis was in office State Fund was the only game in town & they would pay off any bullshit workers comp claim. we had a guy pretend to fall & hurt himself. he called a bullshit tv lawyer who made up all this shit about him losing consciousness. we knew he was full of shit. my employees knew he was full of shit and all took statements. the doctor here knew he was full of shit. but then the tv lawyer took him to his corrupt doctor 60 miles away to file a bullshit report. they paid the asshole $20k. our premiums were through the roof. after schwarzenegger took office all that shit changed. our premiums went WAY down & well, a month ago we had a guy claim he hurt himself (the minute we had to lay him off. -we're in construction. it's in the shitter.) it was obviously bullshit. the doctor knew it. case closed. -for the record i'm an independent as well. i don't believe in political parties and both sides are full of crooks. but, from a small business perspective the red team definitely helps us out more. another example of tax breaks for small business is being able to depreciate up to $100k in equipment per year. because of that, one year we were able to replace our 40 yr old manual 6 blade saw with a brand new semi robotic 6 blade saw. we paid $149,000 for it, in cash. being able to depreciate 100k of it that year on our taxes helped us afford to buy it. the following year we bought 2 brand new forklifts at $60k a piece. cash. again the tax depreciation helped. also, even if that's all they ever did, they're not trying to willingly make me their official paper-pusher as much as the democrats. now i believe something should be done with healthcare but i don't believe a person's employer necessarily should provide it. though we do for some of our employees right now. usually they just turn it down. i offered them FULL COVERAGE BLUE CROSS. we're talking $10 copays for primary care physician & $100 copay for emergency. i offered this to them for $60 a month (i paid the rest!) and they would NOT take it. they'd rather go sit in county and use the ER as their primary care physician every time one of their kids gets a cold. it's just the mentality. & don't tell me they can't afford it either. one of the guys who turned it down was known for spending $200 a week minimum on backyard cock fights.
i agree 100%. this is why all the lemmings are worshipping the Cult of Barack.
i agree 100%. the best ideal government that would actually work would be one under a benevolent dictator. one person who would be there just seeing to it that the right thing got done. forever. nobody in the way, nobody to come by 4 years later to reverse everything. just efficiency. obviously easier said than done.
wooden over insincere = mc cain over obama.
this is why mc cain prefers to speak in smaller town-hall style meetings where he can engage in an actual meaningful dialogue with constituents, rather than obama on his exalted stage of reality distortion and propaganda.
he has the biggest messiah complex since Bono. though i give bono props for all he's done in africa over the years, even giving GWB SOME semblance of redemption (not saying any of the atrocities against the planet he's committed will ever be excusable) by convincing him to forgive some african debt as well as to commit to help fighting aids and poverty by giving aid.
-obama likes to speak in large crowds as it contributes to his cult of personality. much like stalin, hitler, or any of those leaders who would rather speak from a pedestal on high in a unilateral fashion where they cannot be stopped or questioned or called out on their bullshit. he is afraid of true confrontation, which is why he at first resisted postponing the debate to go help with the bailout package.
even if it WAS a stunt by mc cain to call him back to washington, he should have readily accepted the challenge, as a test, as an opportunity to actually prove how he can contribute to helping solve the nation's problems in a time of dire consequence and circumstance. he should have risen to the occasion if he was even half the leader he pretends to be. i can't believe how much people let him off the hook. or how much they say palin's let off the hook. palin has been treated terribly by the news media.
that is nothing but democrat FUD. Palin is NOT a creationist. she's been specifically asked in interviews and categorically said so. her father was a science teacher. here: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31088_Sarah_Palin_and_Creationism this issue has been blown out of proportion and distorted. anyone from the obama camp who accuses the mc cain camp of sleaziness (hey they're both guilty and you know it.) is a fucking hypocrite.
well it's pretty simple. crippling tax and insurance hikes for business, especially small businesses, prevent employers from keeping employees. forced to downsize. the cost of business is insane enough. when democrats are in power it skyrockets due to misguided anti-corporate sentiment. now there are huge corporations and small ones. highly unethical and there are ethical. but people sometimes forget that success is desirable. not all success in business is greed. democrats also fail to see that by lowering taxes more money comes in, as businesses can afford to conduct their affairs and invest in new equipment, research and development, or good talent. with the money to invest businesses can make moves slightly more daring that they may not have been able to take a chance on with higher taxes. with the success of these endeavors will come more tax revenue. democrats love to pit the supposedly poor & defenseless against their supposedly evil corporate overlords. i wish people in this country could see that most of business is small business and see the amount of work that goes into keeping one functioning, let alone successful. the paperwork, the expenses & overhead..
most insightful i've read so far.
There cannot be any socialist expansion during Obama because there simply is no way to finance it either with direct revenue or borrowing.
and what, with the trillions in national debt we have incurred over the years, has this new bill done to max out the amount of debt our government is willing to incur, to prevent obama from doing the same?
problem with #2 is that you then have a witness. one of which disposing of will have problems of its own.
part of why he depends on his wife for help is his lack of manual dexterity due to torture experienced in vietnam.
uhh... did you say, you.. 'take it'? /butthead voice
"In law, a default is the failure to do something required by law or to appear at a required time in legal proceedings." -wikipedia
IANAL, but failure to uphold your end of a contract (violating terms of service which results in a breach of contract) is a form of default.
failure is a funny word. all failure is of course a default. you can call any action a 'failure' to do what the opposition of any action is. interesting.
This is so true. especially with certain women. you know the type, self-absorbed, crazy bitches. i know this chick, gorgeous.. we became friends.. she'd be a bit intimidating. that's just her.. the minute i met her it started like that. though i was quick on my feet & neutralized it. all my life it's something i've been trying to learn & master.. to understand women.. anyways it would start one day when she'd 'warn' me she was 'feeling sick' on a night we were supposed to go to a concert. total PMS type behavior. she'd come to pick me up (yeah i have a DUI, whoops.) & bitch about me not being out the door on time, when i'd already waited an extra half hour for her to show up.. then the music i had one was 'too spastic'... etc. the next time she was in a bad mood bc she had a 'bad day', & then pretty soon, every time we hung out, that's just how she was: a raging bitch. & me being a peace-loving guy & missing the girl who was sweet & funny & animated & fun to be around would want to keep the peace by appeasing her. big mistake. the more i tried it seemed the less satisfied she was. no we weren't even dating. i'd make deals with her since i can't drive that if she'd drive or give me a ride i'd cover her drinks or gas or whatever (we have a lot of mutual friends & to get out to see them was murder on me since i coudln't drive) & she'd pick me up & complain that i was 8 miles out of the way, etc.
anyways i realized the pattern... i mean, no matter what i said or did, i was somehow an idiot because of it.. whatever i chose to do, was either too fast, too slow, too boring, too crazy, you get the idea. so i realized no matter what i did this would always be the case & figured i was just best off no longer dealing with her.
so one day came where she had a 'proposition' for me.. -basically one that would take hours and yield almost no profit, yet her own stripper math theorized it would be a lucrative proposition. at that point she denied ever intending to share the money & accused me of trying to take advantage of her. i kept my cool with her.. but this time since i figured her out it was different..
basically, once i STOPPED trying to figure her out, was when i was finally starting to. since i was finally aware of her bullshit i would call her out on it or just not dignify it with an argument. i realized she was trying harder to start an argument. i asked her if she cared about what bothered me because she was being my friend, or was she trying to start a fight? she was all over the place. at first i was being 'insensitive' & that she felt friends should talk about things. once i started to explain things that were bothering me she just said 'i don't remember', not -'i don't remember, but i'm sorry if i did do those things' like a normal person. when she said she didn't remember i said 'hey i'm not making this up' & she said 'i'm not calling you a liar. i said 'no but you're not apologizing either'. i responded calmly & quickly & in an amused manner. truly amused, i dind't need to fake anything. she was just all over the place & it was almost hilarious once i realized how clear all this was. it went like this & finally she gave up. oh god that felt so sweet.
-i didn't talk to her for 6 months. the funny thing is we're really good friends now. i didn't do anything ugly to tell her to fuck off, and by not dignifying her with that final argument i didn't let her do anything too blatant to offend me. i let that silent time allow her to wonder if i might have just thought she was a crazy idiot. i also used that silence to let her own friendships with our other mutual friends go south.
the funny thing is she's an awesome chick. ever since then she's been VERY cool, thoughtful, considerate, & respectful. she's being the girl i first met. she respects me as well. we make an awesome team when we go out (that's a really long story actually).
i used her as a learning experience, still do. i figure
http://www.steelcase.com/na/think_products.aspx?f=11845 http://www.steelcase.com/na/amia_products.aspx?f=24934 the Aeron is ugly. i ordered a Think today actually. friend raved about it.
it's the rapid rising of home prices that has hurt. that is what makes us all poorer and contributes to inflation. like gas prices. how can anything being MORE expensive help? sure if you want to sell your house it hurts, but tough shit. when you bought your house, you obviously decided that it was worth the price you paid for it. just because that value goes down doesn't give you the right to bitch. you chose to live there. the only ones who have benefited from rising home costs are investors. homes shouldn't exist as a tool for investors. that can be a symptom, fine, but they exist to provide shelter. how would it be a good thing that people cannot afford them? investment is only secondary. or should be. also in terms of the economy, the credit crunch and the construction industry are directly affected by the high value of homes. now the banks allowed this to happen, or more specifically, the lack of a fool-proof self-preserving system, but regardless this is the problem. i welcome low home prices. not only so i can afford one some day, but so anybody else can as well. when prices come down people will afford them and construction will increase and the economy can be normal again.
as one who firmly opposes the Patriot Act and the disintegration of privacy and civil liberties in our country, I must say that I find nothing wrong with our government checking for radioactive material. In our day and age where 99% of national security is simply 'theatre' designed to make you FEEL safe rather than actually BE safe (ahem, airport 'security'?), it's nice to know that there is a program out there that actually intends the opposite and isn't simply squandering time and taxpayer money playing mind games with us. In testing for radioactivity they are NOT conducting strip- or cavity searches nor your search engine history or phone records, nor monitoring anything, other than levels of radioactivity. This practice in & of itself is what this country NEEDS as part of REAL security. & in regards to us 'knowing' about it.. I don't care if I KNOW they are testing for radioactivity. How obnoxious that would be to be driving along the freeway to see signs saying 'warning, you are being scanned for radioactivity'. In fact I'd be more offended by that, as one could perceive that as fear-mongering and additional 'theatre' as psychological civil obedience conditioning. There's really no reason for me to know, and if our government is TRULY trying to protect me as they clearly are in this case I can objectively understand. Now, this is not to say that I don't want to know about OTHER types of surveillance, especially video, or believe that other types of surveillance, especially warrantless wiretapping, aren't intrusive, unconstitutional, and really just ways for introduce new domestic control under the guise of national security. I'm just saying in the case of radioactive material, hell, do you really need to know? Do you really care?
i'd mod this up if i could. this is what i tell everybody. political parties must be abolished. the electoral process has been sucha hype game. people never vote for who will run the country best, they vote for who they identify with. this country is so divided. each candidate pretends to be for or against certain elements of the population and attempts to demonstrate to their base how the other candidate is supporting the factions that are 'getting in the way of your dreams'. it's all a bunch of bullshit. if everyone voted for who SHOULD win instead of who was 'most likely' to win, or voted FOR who they wanted, instead of AGAINST who they don't want, the right candidate would emerge. people in this country are so conditioned and brainwashed it's disgusting. and this is how these assholes not only stay in power but profit whichever way the wind blows.
it's just the motley fool but if it was a bear stearns analyst telling his investors not to invest in the record companies, that information alone would be enough to drive the prices down, warranted or not. 3 weeks ago i had Sirius stock at $3.52 a share, & one morning it was in fact a bear stearns analyst who supposedly told his investors 'the DOJ could approve the merger (with XM radio) as early as friday (that same day)!' well the stock price shot up to $3.84. i was up $800 that morning just on that rumor. guess what. it's at $3.08 now & the merger STILL hasn't been approved by the DOJ.
from apple, to say 'hey kids, we're making AT&T happy by plugging this hole..but if you modded your shit DON'T UPDATE YOUR PHONE.' read between the lines, kids. they did not have to have such explicit warnings whatsoever. and they did and i think that was nice of them. fixing a buffer overflow is reasonable. tho... if any of the 3rd party shit gets locked out that's kind of a bummer. by the way, IS it locked out? i don't wanna lose my 3rd party stuff. the NES emulator and Mobilechat are too cool. as is the summerboard hack that allows scrollable springboard and dock hiding.
Don't let him show you his Scarecrow mask!
actually synthetic diamonds contain no flaws. de beers painted themselves into a corner with that one, when in the 80s the russian mines found tons of diamonds. de beers shit themselves. the russian diamonds were small. de beers had to change their strategy. size had to no longer matter, so they came up with the idea that bigger wasn't better, but it was then about quality and flawlessness. funny, now that synthetic diamonds contain no flaws, de beers is trying to say they those are inferior to 'real' diamonds, as 'real' diamonds 'have flaws'.
actually the more diamonds on the market decrease value. hence the 'false scarcity'. more diamonds means less scarcity which means more supply to overpower demand.