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Three Democratic senators could vote against the healthcare reform bill in the Senate, which would scuttle the bill.

We can only hope that is true, and that it is stopped dead in it's tracks.


On Nov 18 09:12 AM Harry Tuttle wrote:

>
> They vote is to open debate. If they cannot even debate a bill there
> will never be a reform.
>
> On Nov 18 08:55 AM Niner wrote:

We know about the laws of supply and demand, but what if economics violates the laws of physics? Some academics are arguing that a model for consistent economic growth ignores diminishing energy supplies. As one professor puts it: "Neoclassical economics is inconsistent with the laws of thermodynamics."

Vote Libertarian! The government is way too involved in way too much, and that's NOT what the Constitution allows for.


On Oct 24 10:27 AM thotdoc wrote:

> Please give us your specific alternative to the 'socialism' occurring
> at the moment. No political rhetoric. You do not like what's going
> on....great. What is your specific answer.
>
> The current answer is wrong if you believe, in a black and white
> way, that: The US is capitalistic, the markets are efficient, and
> businessmen do what is best for their companies.
>
> And if you believe that you have some motivated blind-spots and not
> looking at what has and is occurring.
>
> I do not like what is going on from either the government or the
> greed side. But, I do not have a solution. Do you have a solution
> ?

Will Cheaper Laptops Snuff Out Netbooks?

One word: Airplanes. We are trying a netbook out with one of our salesmen and he just carries it around like it's a pet! ;-)

He can plug it into his Blackberry on the tarmac and work. I'll have to take it off his cold, dead body.

Thursday Outlook: Commodities, Global Markets

Haven't you seen Napoleon Dynamite? David as Uncle Rico rocks!


On Sep 24 05:03 AM bigbear4511 wrote:

> Dude you need to change you picture profile. i have never seen a
> man resting his head on his hand like you have done. I always see
> women doing that pose ..... in pictures some 15-20 years ago. A
> life master photographer gringed when i showed him this picture.
> Remember act natural and not contrived.
>
> Other than that keep up the good work with the articles.

"Payment option ARMs are about to explode," Iowa AG Tom Miller said after yesterday's meeting to discuss mortgage scams. In Arizona, for example, 128,000 of these mortgages will reset over the next year. "It's the other shoe. I can't say it's waiting to drop. It's dropping now.

Vote Libertarian! It's only wasted till 50.0000001% of us decide it's not. Till then we just encourage the rascals.

Kids go back to school tomorrow, as parents breathe a collective sigh of relief. Here's what President Obama plans to tell them.

The speech is, or seems, innocuous. It was the over-reaching by DOE, added to the worshipful nonsense that surrounded it that got people's dander up. The "I will serve Obama" video is absurd, political garbage, and has/had no place in the whole thing.

If they weren't trying to take over the rest of the nation, maybe folks wouldn't be so skeptical about their protestations of innocence.

Aging PCs and a fresh OS (Windows 7) will spark corporate PC sales in 2010, Intel (INTC) CEO Paul Otellini tells the FT. "The fleet of PCs is getting fairly aged; most corporate notebooks are now over four years old, desktops are over five years old, they need to refresh."

I often tell folks that if I ever install a new M$ OS before SP2, I'll have to write myself up and reprimand me! ;-)


On Sep 04 02:46 PM Lilguy wrote:

> There is a point at which a company (or an individual, like myself)
> has to refresh its IT systems & software, but I think Mr Otellini
> is unduly optimistic about 2010 in this regard.
>
> I see absolutely no value in "refreshing" IT because MS has let out
> another dog OS--or even (miraculously!) a good OS. (VISTA was horrible--and
> I've never changed to it; still using XP and will until I'm confident
> OS7 (or 8, 9, or 10) is stable, friendly, and priced right.)
>
> Will the systems themselves die & need replacement? Yes, eventually,
> but I think the corporate and consumer world are a long ways from
> that in a major way. In fact, this recession could be a genuine
> test of just how rugged our old laptops and desktops and even dumb
> terminals really are. I'll stick with mine until I'm certain (a)
> it's dead or (b) I can substantially increase my productivity with
> a new machine (& that's not likely to happen any time soon).

Aging PCs and a fresh OS (Windows 7) will spark corporate PC sales in 2010, Intel (INTC) CEO Paul Otellini tells the FT. "The fleet of PCs is getting fairly aged; most corporate notebooks are now over four years old, desktops are over five years old, they need to refresh."

I'm an IT Manager, and we are still using WIn95, Office97 (OpenOffice where we can) and thin clients with Terminal services. M$ isn't adding value to their product, just making it so their new OS doesn't work with old apps.

Global Warming: Investment Implications

Evolution is all about some species surviving and others not. No species is "better" than another, nor worth saving. If we kill ourselves, then the survivors rule. Ask TRex.


On Aug 20 11:46 AM redavenger wrote:

> How do you reject the fact of ocean acidification (de-alkalinization)
> due to C02 absorption? Or do you also cavalierly dismiss this dire
> threat to the world ecosystem? Or are you even aware of it in your
> smug complacency?

From Obama's weekly address: "When we receive our monthly job report next week, it is likely to show that we are continuing to lose far too many jobs in this country. As far as I’m concerned, we will not have a recovery as long as we keep losing jobs. And I won’t rest until every American who wants a job can find one."

don't be a hater, be a Libertarian! WHen 501% of us don't think it's a wasted vote, it won't be a wasted vote!


On Aug 01 05:57 PM Egg wrote:

> Some people defend Obama and trash Bush.
>
> Others defend Bush and trash Obama.
>
> When will people learn that (from a fiscal perspective) they should
> both be hated and reviled? Both blow/blew up the deficit and refuse
> to cut spending. Both are/were set on destroying the dollar. In fact,
> they are both really the same, fiscally speaking.
>
> So, be like me, hate them both.
>

Obama tells China not to sweat the deficit: "Already savings are up and our external deficit has fallen, and we are committed to taking measures to maintaining greater personal saving and to reducing the federal deficit to a sustainable level by 2013."

Yep! Read this, "I'm going to pump the hell out of things so I'm re-elected, then leave the garbage for my kids".

John Dvorak thinks CADD (Corporate Attention Deficit Disorder) may mark Microsoft (MSFT -8.3%) as a company finally on the decline, with too little focus on its core competency of software. "What's shocking is that the cash cows, specifically the Windows operating system and the Office suite, have managed to finance all these idiotic efforts for so many years."

As an IT professional, I "laugh" about what I call the "Micro$oft tax": the unbelievable waste of time spent chasing down problems from systems that change daily, with literally no changes made by the staff. Most of their interfaces seem to have been written by people that NEVER had to make a living implementing their OS. This costs our company tens of thousands per year in wasted time and productivity. Multiply that by the hundreds of thousands of companies that are pretty much forced to use MS products, and the waste far outwieghs the benefits that MS brings to the economy.

MS has never innovated, IMO, but always stolen the best of others, and then pushed them out of business. Apple, fortunately, survived, and LINUX and Google may force them back into the position of writing OS and apps that actually provide value.

24 Trillion Reasons to Buy Gold

No need to apologize.... ;-) We all knew what you meant.

CIT (CIT) says talks with government have ceased, and that it's been told there's no appreciable likelihood of support in the near term. Board and management are "evaluating alternatives." Trading in CIT halted late in the session.

CIT must not have any ex-GS employees on the payroll, eh?

Winter's Coming for the Boomers: Part 1

We boomers belittled our elders for being materialistic, then outdid them exponentially. Narcissistic is such a mild word for the self-enamored, mirror-watching generation we have spawned.

The house passes cap and trade - a crippling tax on productivity based on ideologically driven "science" - and every news outlet turns into 24/7 MJTV! America moonwalks while Rome burns...

A pox on both their houses! Libertarians arise!