Comment Re:"murica (Score 2) 260
Again, with the "blame Bush"
Again, with the "blame Bush"
"We" collectively have elected these Idiots. However, "I" have not voted for a winner in at least 30 + years. So
Company charges money for services
Idiots don't shop for commodities
Blaming the guy who is marketing
By "Scam" you mean "Why didn't I think of that?"
Further, strawman much. Because GB was promoting gold and outrageous prices, doesn't mean gold is a bad investment. It just means you shouldn't listen to GB. You're left wing
I wonder how you feel about Obama's selling of the scam called "ObamaCare"? It is so good, he is violating his own law (insert blame the Republicans here) by delaying implantation till after the midterm elections!
Tablets are Entertainment Consumption devices. Reading, Music, playing games, surfing the internet, youtube etc etc etc.
They pretty much suck as content creation devices. You can create using them, but if your business is creation of content, you're not going to be served well by a tablet. iPad with Keyboard and case is 2/3 as expensive as a low end MacBook. Guess which one works better for which?
iPad $500 + $100 professional style case w/keyboard = $600
Macbook = $930
If the price difference for a general computing device isn't worth $300, then chances are you aren't creating content.
Sorry, gold was under 800 two years ago, typo.
And houses used to be 60% more valuable than they were after the market crashed. And Apple used to be $700 and now is selling at 436. And
Your analysis is lacking any depth.Where you saying gold was a bad investment when it was under 700 two years ago? Saying gold is a bad investment and pointing to Fox News is pure hyperbole, designed to illicit emotional responses.Gold is an investment, good at times, poor at other times. It is not a scam anymore than AAPL is a scam.
On the other hand, it is perfect for investors like me. Keep up the work, and I'll continue to bet against people like yourself.
Gold is and always will be a solid hedge against inflation. Of course, it doesn't hurt that you tossed in "Fox News" to get all your liberal friends panties in a wad. And when Obama's monetary policy lead to rampant inflation
Never underestimate the power of greed to suspend normal thinking processes.
You have never experienced OpenOffice until you have used it in the original Klingon!
"or at least, ameliorates" = " You can only mask them"
Yup, so you agree
People will do what they want. Technology won't stop them. Won't help in stopping them. Sociological problems are not "social" problems. They are people's socialization issues. Kids will skip school, nothing you can do to stop them. They skip school if you have RFID and Cameras everywhere. All that money wasted because people don't understand the problem, and think Technology is a panacea to every known social problem we have.
I have a phrase I use when discussing these kinds of issues with our staff (I work at a school District)
"You cannot fix sociological problems with technology. You can only mask them."
Technology doesn't solve the problems people want them to solve. It only offers mitigation. As long as you understand, you're not solving things, you will do fine. If you think you will solve the deeper problems with technology, you're going to be rudely surprised by the ineffective nature of technology.
And that is where the issue lies. Too many PHBs not understanding reality.
As for the Turbines
http://saveourseashore.org/?p=1801
There are environmentalists that are opposing the mine in California. And if you know anything about California, you know the environmentalists get just about everything they want.
Dams do block rivers, that is what they are designed to do. Salmon can't spawn if there is a dam, unless they make extraordinary efforts to bypass them with a fish ladder. And environmentalists don't like Fish ladders.
Hydro dams are great, but idiot liberals won't let people build any more of them without protesting about some bug or slug that is "endangered". They do have zero carbon footprint (except in building them), but good luck building more without having the other "environmentalists" try to stop it. See California "Auburn dam" as a fine example of this.
There is very little, if any, "green" Electricity. Dams block rivers, Nuclear is bad, Coal is bad, Gas/petrol is bad, wind kills birds that would shut down any other industry, solar has lots of toxic metals that need to be stripped mined
As far as I'm can tell most of those promoting "green" electricity are the same people saying "no" to all forms of generating that energy. But hey, it looks good on paper!
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol