My God! He's right

(Looks nervously northward)

But isn't this because the installations are largely custom? Different studios seem to run different toolchains, have their 'special sauce' application that somebody wrote and, of course, have to deal with hundreds of different hardware configurations and even more wetware configurations. It's not like everyone is just installing Creative Suite (as much as Adobe would like that to happen) and letting it go at that.

Hey, what do you all think of the new iPhone?

Yeah, looking at a few years doesn't tell us much about the trend. Here is some REAL data:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Vostok_Petit_data.svg

I've been saying it for years. I got fed up of being made fun of, so I stopped saying it. Still this is nice. I feel a warm glow inside.

Carbon taxes will do nothing in the face of exponential population growth. When it starts getting too expensive, the politicians will begin handing out "exemptions", you know, for the really poor, for the children, etc. And at the end of the day you'll be back to square one, only worse since you will not have addressed the real problem. If there were only 1 billion people in the world we would not even be having the discussion of whether or not our lifestyle impacts the environment significantly. Keep adding more people and it takes less effort for any individual to cause lasting harm. At one point merely existing, without actually consuming or being reckless, will cause harm. And then we're all fucked. But people are blind, blind blind. And they keep shitting out babies like it was their god-appointed duty or something. Oh wait...

In real science, only a proven hypothesis gets to be called a theory. But since this is pseudoscience, and political pseudoscience at that, any wild speculation gets to be called "theory". But please don't think less of real science because bullshitters get caught bullshitting.

I have actual, physical, solid gold. I have silver too. Silver is more practical than gold for "everyday" use. But you're right, gold "funds" and gold "certificates" are useless. The only problem with the metal is storing it.

If only that were true. Ask the users with thousands of dollars stuck in Mt. Gox, or worse, one of the "exchange" or "online wallet" companies that went bust. Sure, you can ship Bitcoins around, but there are serious liquidity problems doing anything with them.

What do you think of SABRE?

They're not qualified to make public policy - period.

Fair enough. I bought loads of it when it was around $400 an ounce to protect part of my capital. I don't see that as an investment. I also have no plans on selling it. And I sleep very well at night, even with the economy lagging the way it is.

Here you go. You should google it while you're still allowed to google stuff.

Gold is a safe haven not an investment.

It's not fraud at all. They are not making any false promises. They say they will give you bitcoin in exchange for cash, and that is exactly what they do (less a modest commission I'm sure). It's not their fault if you haven't researched Bitcoin at all and get taken out by one of the swings in value.