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An article in today's WSJ reports that the "67% increase" is largely due to revised accounting methodology which requires valuation to market prices of certain held securities.
"not making the product last as long as possible so you never have to buy another one"
@LewisBraham: That concept became "inoperative" when Bell Labs and Western Electric were broken up.
A question about dust. I've seen it said a number of places that blowing out electronic devices, for example the circuit boards in a large desktop computer, can cause damage due to a static charge on the air stream. (The air stream would have been g…
Well, back in the early 70s I held IBM and it took a real dive. Figuring that if IBM went under so would half the rest of the country I doubled down. IBM sorted itself out, I recovered my bet, and got the hell out. But of course that's only one inst…
The really neat thing about when they eventually do have to raise taxes is that so much of what we'll be paying then will be going to replace what Trump gave away to the fat cats.
Can't f'ing win!!
Well, just be patient, willya? It's just gonna take a few weeks for all of those tax reductions to speed up the economy like you won't believe, and then everything will be A-OK.
"I have no qualifications for making such a prognostication"
@BenWP: Yes, you certainly do.. as do all of us. Just read any decent newspaper, and you're qualified.
Well, maybe a little more evil...
Add: It's been my personal experience that the bigger the bank, the more prone to evil it is. And how did some of those big banks get to be so big? By buying out many of the smaller and better local and regional ba…
Why would they read any of those people? Why would they take a chance that they might hear a few facts that don't jibe well with what they "know" to be true. No sir... it's got to be a "source" that parrots exactly what they already believe and no d…
and, "sources". As if all sources are equally legitimate, and worthy of equal respect. Talk about false equivalency! "Hey, I gotta source!" It's funded by Kock or Mercer but it's just as believable as AP. Right.
@rforno- I felt that Google was going to become an all-intrusive nanny waaaay back when, and stripped everything except Google Earth from my Mac. I wouldn't touch any of the "social media" sites for any amount of money.
@Ben: Thanks. I'm also going to repeat what David Snowball said in the very first post of this thread:
"Please resist the temptation to emulate people who you wouldn't want to be."
Regards- OJ
@larryB- I just noticed bee's comment regarding posting classification. It's really important to observe that, because (among other things) it helps to separate all of those "link posts" that we're so fond of from other traffic.
It's easy to change…
