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For more on American Airlines check out americanairlinesinvest.../ ReplyWall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
smaller content on what you buy at the supermarket-the real hidden inflation.when this measure increases you will know the bottom has been hit.i dont think we will everb get the content back.gyps & scams.thats what goldilocks has become. ReplyWall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
There is nothing out there to support the proposition that inflation is subsiding or under control, and everything to assure the opposite. The current strengthening of the dollar is clearly a blip that will quickly fade away. Wish it were otherwise, but wishing won't make it so. ReplyWall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
re NBC's viewership, 2 billion was tossed around (presumably for the world); still, 34+ million seems such a modest figure. ReplyAirlines Will Profit No Matter What [view article]
While you folks were bitching here all major airlines like DAL, SKYW, CAL, ALK, AMR ,LCC .... gained 50% , 70% 100% !!! and more.Reply
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On Jul 29 09:30 AM RightinSanFr ancisco wrote:
> Ah, the budget thing. On the one hand, the deficit is about 3% of
> GDP - worse than recent years, but OK by historical and international
> standards. As for thet politics of it, forget McCain's tax cuts.
> That would take agreement by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, both of
> whom would like higher capital gains taxes, an end to the Social
> Security tax limit, and elimination of the favorable rates for dividends
> and capital gains. Health care is the issue where fiscal prudence
> will run into politcs, and that's not a battle that prudence is likely
> to win if the liberal Dems control both houses and the presidency.
Consider myself and independent voter - but registered Dem. I'm not sure why
Democrats (liberals - or whatever the current nom de plume) are so interested in
raising capital gains....???? As a middle class retiree, and one who is responsible for our retirement portfolio, those lower cap gains taxes are keeping us alive. And the last I've
heard, there's a lot of us keeping this economy moving - even considering that it might be on slow idle.
njbdustyrd
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What really cracked me up was, Obama ripping into the deficit and with the same breath calling for another stimulus package. Go figure! ReplySan
Francisco
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Ah, the budget thing. On the one hand, the deficit is about 3% of GDP - worse than recent years, but OK by historical and international standards. As for thet politics of it, forget McCain's tax cuts. That would take agreement by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, both of whom would like higher capital gains taxes, an end to the Social Security tax limit, and elimination of the favorable rates for dividends and capital gains. Health care is the issue where fiscal prudence will run into politcs, and that's not a battle that prudence is likely to win if the liberal Dems control both houses and the presidency. ReplyWall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
Sure took Russo a long ass time to go.... ReplyWall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
Ding dong ... the witch is dead!... or at least she is starting to melt!
Wow ... I would say this is very good news to the entire copyright industry. While potentially inconvenient to YouTube viewers, and understanding the importance of privacy protection in the complex world of the Internet these days, this decision by the judge in the Viacom v. Google/YouTube case may be the best thing that has happened to the copyright industries in this country, and to our overall economy, in practically a decade.
I have been following this case, and others like it, now for several years. I, for one, am sick and tired of the Google's of the world blaming their own customers for all of the infringing activity that occurs day in and day out over the Google sponsored networks. Who do you think gains the most financially from these obvious infringements - Google or the poor smuck in Louisville who does not have a clue what is right or wrong, let alone what is infringing and what is not?
In fact, if it is true that an individual typically adapts his or her production and viewing habits from what they see and are taught by the larger media, entertainment, Fortune 500, and technology companies in this country ("if this weren't legal, certainly mighty Google wouldn't encourage it as they do or run AdSense ads on the infringing sites, and Exxon/Mobile wouldn't be placing ads on the sites that are displaying the "shared" works, either").
It is an unfortunate reality today that many of the copyright defense lawyers, and their clients out to make the big bucks regardless of the rules, have made a mockery of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the DMCA), which was signed into law in 1998 by President Clinton. Like the music industry has learned in the school of hard knocks (aka "the real world"), it is virtually impossible today to hold the middlemen in these unlawful distribution channels and networks accountable. So, what do the copyright companies have to do to protect their valuable property? Go directly after the often innocent "end users" who are often sucked into this game, more often unknowingly than not. It is shameful.
Perhaps this New York court decision will help to turn those tides.
Google enables widespread copyright infringement activity like no other company on this planet. Google subsidizes entire networks of infringers through it Adwords and AdSense marketing and advertising programs. Google facilitates willful copyright infringement. Google enables widespread copyright infringement. Day in and day out. Google causes enormous damages to legitimate copyright holders every second of every single day. Google has been doing this for years. They earn a substantial portion of their overall revenue and profits by sponsoring illegal activities over the Internet. And their operations outside the U.S. are far more egregious than the infringement activity we see referenced in this Viacom case, which is largely within our borders.
I, for one, have had enough. Baseless, if not ludicrous excuses and piracy defense strategies, implemented by what used to be some of the finest copyright law firms in this country, - "fair use", "safe harbor", "no harm", "unclean hands", "de minimus damage", "copyright misuse", "DMCA safeguards", "willful blindness", "laches", and on and on - haven't we seen it all?
What do they all mean in Google's true vernacular? How about this. "We are big. We are powerful. We can do anything we damn well please. Quit complaining, copyright owners, or we'll cut you off from all the online revenues streams, as well". Better yet, "... if you don't conform, we'll simply run some of this stuff from our operations in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (those BRICS have plenty of money), and let them beam it all back here to the states."
Aren't you tired of watching Google hide behind the skirt-tails of their customers. "They were the ones who loaded the illegal videos onto our system, not us." Or , better yet, "how were we to know that Bart Simpson wasn't already in the 'Public Domain'?"
Is Google alone in this? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, and others are moving as fast as they can to mimic and duplicate Google's cash cow system, whether the law is violated or not. Cash is the king. And copyrights from the creative industries are not the only victims. Haven't you seen lately, similar claims (and penalties) levied against these giant Internet companies for their advertising efforts to support, or even subsidize in many cases, the distribution of harmful pharmaceutical drugs and counterfeits over the Internet, sponsor illegal gambling and pornography web sites, and many others too numerous to mention. Billions and billions and billions of dollars every single month.
"What do you expect us to do, your honor. Try out every single drug our customers illegally deliver just because we provide the advertising revenues for them to survive?"
This activity not only helps to destroy our economy, it breaks down the moral fiber of our society. What makes you think this young generation that has grown up witnessing these wide scale unlawful activities delivered to them (usually "free of charge") via the Internet, will be able to draw a distinction between the virtual world and the physical world where STEALING in concerned as they get older and have to put food on a table full of their own babies and elderly parents? The jury is still out on that one.
I applaud the nerve, and the intelligence, of the judge up there in New York who presides over this case between Google and Viacom. Maybe your recent ruling will cause all of these Internet parasites to wake up and see the error of their ways before it is too late for all of us.
As a pleasant footnote to copyright holders. Do you think the judge would have allowed the complete user logs of YouTube to be released in this case if the outcome of this case was not leaning in Viacom's direction? I certainly do not. This may, indeed, be one of the most important weeks in the history of protecting the original works of copyright owners in this country ... one of the few absolute rights that was guaranteed to all of us in our Constitution over 200 years ago.
Congratulations New York. Congratulations copyright holders. It must feel good to know you have some judges up that way who have your best interests at heart in enforcing our critically important (and "endangered"... copyright laws and maintaining the delicate balance between managing and policing unbridled growth (i.e. "growth at ANY cost") over the Internet and maintaining our vital and long standing ethical, moral, and legal business practices going forward, while looking out for your best interests.
... which old witch ... the wicked witch!
George P. Riddick, III
Chairman/CEO
Imageline, Inc.
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interesting remarks..coal? steel? potash? Helsi ReplyAirlines Will Profit No Matter What [view article]
Jack , are you really Jack or are you Scott Kirby from US Airways ?? You must be looking through "rose colored" glasses. The Airlines' business plans are very poor (single source revenue business plans do not work very well) (except for Southwest). As long as Southwest is paying less for fuel all domestic airlines will face a problem and maybe chapter 11 for some. I hope that you are right but I would not bet my house on your article. ReplyAirlines Will Profit No Matter What [view article]
was it mr. bronson who said"if you want t become a millionaire start with a billion & invest in airlines? ReplyAirlines Will Profit No Matter What [view article]
Correction to previous comment:"As of yesterday, there was still a three month waiting list for most new small jets."
Should read "three years" - not months. Used small jets take about three months to find and refurbish. Reply
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Current best geophysical estimates of total world oil reserves including tar sands and oil shale is 3.74 trillion barrels of oil. The easily extractable crude is less than a third of that.But if you want use your magical figures, let's say there is 13 trillion barrels of oil. A barrel of oil is 84% carbon, and most of a barrel is used for generating fuels. So a barrel of oil is roughly equivalent to about 105 kg (210 lbs) of CO2 production per barrel.
Now using you're magic 13 trillion barrel number, burning it all would release about 1.37x10^15 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere. Dividing by the volume of the earth's atmosphere, that gives us an increase in atmospheric carbon of 5.3x10-4 kg/m^3.
That doesn't sound so bad? The total mass of the atmosphere is about 5.2x10^18 kg. So you've jacked up the CO2 concentration from .03% to 3%. Not so bad still? That's toxic, as in prolong exposure can kill you, as well as most forms of surface dwelling life. Not to mention our planet would be a boiling sauna. Given the carbon cycle is about 150 years and our consumption rate, we'd pretty much guarantee our own extinction, along with the other unfortunate critters who happen to exist at that time.
But fortunately we don't have that much oil, so the damage we can cause from oil is limited. At our current consumption rate (and rate of increase), IF we can extract all the oil, we are looking at 70 years best case. If everyone ramps up to US levels, you can shave another couple decades off that. The easy stuff will be gone in the next 20 or 30 years.
Coal is a whole different (and uglier) matter.
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