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Yeah, start bundling outside the reporting and keep dropping transactions from the arms length category and when they do become arms length again ignore the $40k in work done to them. Yeah, you can see a few increases.
Turd
Rob Dawg wrote:
This, to me, is a major factor. Except $40k is low in my neck of the woods.
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mp wrote:
Greece on third base, Spain up to the plate and Italy in the batter's box.
Denial. Deck chairs. LTROs.
One bust bank could bring Spain to its knees, warns prime minister | Business | The Guardian
JimPortlandOR wrote:
"you point out all the faults of 'creating a document'. Here in OR (and some other states), the document is called POLST.
POLST.ORG - Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Paradigm
After 'registering' the POLST form, the original is returned to the patient with instructions to put it on the Refrig. door, or put it on the inside of the dwelling door. Big help if you collapse in the supermarket, or run off the road in your car.
IMO, sort of worthless, since an MD/Paramedic can always say they saw no document."
Exactly. OR also has the Health Care Power of Attorney, which authorizes one or more other persons to make decisions for you (if you're incompetent to do so) based on the P/A in which you've indicated what kinds of treatment you don't want done.
Of course, that means the person/people appointed have to know you've been hospitalized/treated. But it does mean the plug can be pulled in some situations or additional treatment can be refused.
Not sure though that it'd be better for EMTs to estimate age of the person and then decide, oh well, that person looks over 65 or 70 (or whatever age someone decides is "too old/lived long enough") we won't bother w/him/her.
Prices are crazy stupid here. Either this bubble has got to burst, or it will take decades for wages to catch up to home ownership.
mp wrote:
Those IMFers,
, and Germans all really love someone meeting their needs and the knee posture is most efficient.
NH is showing an increase in median sales price in the mobile/manufactured sector, decreases in all other sectors. Some counties are showing very tiny decreases in SFRs, with much bigger drops in condos.
http://www.nneren.com/data/uploads/docs/April_12_NH_Web.pdf
There are a few houses I am watching here.
All in the same upper middle class suburb, all sold by short sale or REO to investors at the end of last year.
Sold in the $140K to $180K range.
The house have all been updated and rehab, now back on the market in the $240K to $270K range.
New listings in the last 15 days. I'm going to watch and see what happens.
Time to finish moving my friends.
Later.
Spain is toast.
Zee swissy agrees with you MP..
Switzerland Govt Bonds 2 Year Note Generic Bid Yield Analysis - GSWISS02 - Bloomberg
Meanwhile, the music plays on.
Everyone continues to dance.
Nervously.
Gubbmint Cheese wrote:
The Merkelbunker is being surrounded.
BWAHAHAHA!
josap wrote:
$270k in Phoenix? Tough sell.
Phoenix Single-Family Homes For Sale — Trulia.com
The Euro procedure is to wait until sharks have gnawed off at least one leg before putting a clamp on the stump. Makes our TARP look genius, which takes a lot of doing. Maybe the ECB will hire Paulsen?
mp wrote:
17 players... 8 chairs.
Spandau Ballet.
Sandals on the Sidewalk: customs and immigration regulations
As usual, this is probably out of the loop and off-topic for the thread I manage to get into. Several folks on a thread on the 28th were asking about visa requirements for Greeks going to the Olympics in the UK this year. Some of the Greeks not going are members of national teams that do not have the funds to go due to the austerity. That said, EU citizens have the right to live and work in other EU countries. The Schengen Agreement signed in 1985 established that there would not be mandatory border controls for those entering one Schengen state from another. The UK did not sign up to this, so folks from Greece entering the UK will have to show their passports. Folks entering France and other Schengen countries do not. Even within the Schengen states there can be some border checks, but they are not universal or comprehensive. Someone who “looks suspicious” might be asked to produce documents.
This is a rather large issue, since a huge percentage of illegal immigrants to the EU enter via Greece, due to its several borders with non-EU countries (Albania, [the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, whose name the Greeks identify this way and not as Macedonia] and Turkey) as well as its huge coastline and understaffed border control services. Currently, quite a few EU states (Frontex) are providing staff and infrared technology to help with the Turkish border. The Greek government is in the process of building a fence or wall across the border with Turkey in key points. Some of the crossing points are across a river, and some are land borders where the river flows through Turkey. There have traditionally been extensive minefields along this border and others
There are no mandatory visas required in any of the EU states for those that travel on national identity cards. Neither the UK nor Ireland has identity cards, so for longer than 90 days of stay these folks have to get a residency and work permit (one document as opposed to the earlier two). Actual employment opportunities seem to differ for each state depending on various credentials, but, in principle, the borders and employment opportunities are rather open. In my experience, the Greeks are among the most resistant to many of these changes, since it is very difficult for a foreign pharmacist to open a pharmacy here or for a lawyer to practice law.
Many of these restrictions are the source of recent ructions, since the troika wants to open up many “professions” much more than the interested Greek parties are willing to accept. Thus, the taxi strikes of last summer, the fuel hauling strikes of last summer, and the strikes by pharmacists. In many cases, given limited licensing, folks in these professions have paid over 200,000 euros to buy an existing license or medallion. For those in the US, think of NYC taxi medallions; for those in the UK, think of the strict licensing requirements of those iconic cabs.
Huh. That's odd. Vermont has been on an uptrend (median sale price) since the crash.
http://www.nneren.com/data/uploads/docs/April_12_VT_Web.pdf
Memorial Day 2012:
lowest gas price in the area: $3.25 unleaded.
National average for unleaded: $3.641
Summer gas prices | Hoocoodanode?
Curse you, Kali!
waaaaaiiiiiiilll, that's what the Brits say about Greece.
before publication of Greek voter opinion surveys
Greece hands €18bn to four biggest banks - source
I'm pretty sure the ECB can pay off "investors" longer than Cameron and the BoE can hold their.... breaths. That's the plan, Stan.... since UK didn't sign on to ESM. har. July 1, babeeeeee, freeeee money.
Nexr step is blanket bailout of Spanish banks.
That pushes up Spanish borrow costs so have to bailout Spain.
Then Eurobonds
Bail, bail, bail
Many can kicks before this finishes.
Meanwhile China bails out every city,province, SOE
While we bail left and right here as well.
Ja! We must have zee Austeritee!
Sofort!
This is turning into a tragedy of the highest order.
Meanwhile, the music plays on.
poic wrote:
Maybe we should patch that hole in the bottom of the boat.
Haralambos,
thanks for the detailed response. Much appreciated.
fear not MP - the US economy has decoupled.
scone wrote:
Maybe if we made it bigger, the water would drain out faster.
Gubbmint Cheese wrote:
For sure, for sure.
"scone wrote:
Mon, 05/28/2012 - 11:44am
poic wrote:
Bail, bail, bail
Maybe we should patch that hole in the bottom of the boat."
First class isn't getting their feet wet yet. No need until their soles are soggy.
This isn't going to be "sluggish growth."
This isn't going to be "muddle through."
Europe is powering into a MASSIVE DEPRESSION.
Ja! We haz zee Austeritee!
For sure, for sure.
@MP -
poic wrote:
Ship of fools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ESM referendum in a coupla days: ooo boy danny
Fiscal Treaty: Trade unions come together to urge Yes vote in Thursday’s referendum
Gubbmint Cheese wrote:
Gubb, thanks. I'll respond tonight.
mp wrote:
Perhaps the ECB should provide unlimited purchases of all EZ government bonds so everyone can borrow their way to prosperity?
Do you have another suggestion for the EZ?
Mr Slippery wrote:
Vladimir Horowitz related the story of a friend who played a big Haydn symphony in San Francisco.
At the intermission, he was approached by a society lady who said, "Maestro, I love your music, but hate Haydn."
The maestro replied, "It makes no difference."
fried wrote:
Thank you. One of your comments prompted this. After 35 years in Europe, I still have trouble keeping up with the rules and regs. Often they change frequently and differ from country to country to a much greater extent than in the US from state to state. As most folks on this site know and comment, Greece is an anarchistic mess in the broadest sense of the term, not just politically. Many Greek friends blame it on the Ottoman rule and cronyism; others take collective blame. I still love most Greeks I have known for many years and admire their resilience and willingness to struggle for change, but some of it is born of the privilege of being young if that is the correct diagnosis: ekathimerini.com | Being Alexis Tsipras
Much of it is born of the privilege of being privileged and living a life that way.
mp wrote:
There's still time to choose the form of your austerity.
"I'm sorry. It, it... it just popped into my head."
thump, thump, thump.
"is it?"
"yes. The Staydepressed Eurobond Man."
mp wrote:
Haha! Channeling Newt from Aliens...
wait. wut?
“While YPF net profits between 1997 and 2011 stood at 16.6 billion dollars, 14.2[B or M?] were allotted to investors as dividends, and during the same time period, Argentina’s new oil fields were not explored”.
Ambassador Argüello explains to the US business community YPF seizure
:: back story
EU-Argentina disputes escalate
Repsol YPF, S.A. et al v. Republic of Argentina
MEPs back YPF-Repsol, despite company violations in Argentina
Mr Slippery wrote:
Newt was right.
Greece successfully bailing out their banks again can mean one thing only:
Karl Dennimger is massively short right now.
Long-rates in the US are ultra-supportive of housing.
I hope that doesn't change or it could bring an abrupt end to the recovery!
poic wrote:
No, KD wears massive shorts.
Haralambos,
I am guessing all the pressure from LaGarde and the UK home secretary is to force the Greek vote for austerity, but with Spain and Italy right behind Greece, I don't see that it matters so much. I know your students have options, but I was thinking of folks with medical conditions or family members with same, and where they could go. Further cuts would just double the pain for these people. Me, I'd head for Canada, even on a tourist visa. A much more forgiving country than the US, especially for European immigrants.
Europe is committing economic suicide and you get to watch.
Pull up a deck chair.
Crack open a beer.
Have some popcorn.
It's gonna be AWESOME.
KD wears
to cover his shorts.
Less stinky.
yes, well. The soldiers weren't deployed to "take out" the Company, now were they?
Looking into our future.
If indeed unemployment drops to 8 percent or below, rent AND housing prices will increase substantially.
You can also say goodbye to a low inflation rate.
Europe is committing economic suicide and you get to watch.
Pull up a deck chair.
I'd enjoy things much more if the bankers and politicians were burning. As it is, the working and middle class is getting panzered.
KarmaPolice wrote:
Indeed, if indeed.
One bust bank? How about ICE Trust Bank.
mp wrote:
Epic Zythos IPA
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mp wrote:
It's looking more and more plausible.
fried wrote:
Have a great day surrounded by all of this AWESOMENESS!
Habeus is dead.
Habeas?
evil twin sister of Habeus.
So.
'sall good.
Wave a flag and eat a weenie.
David Cameron calls summit with Mervyn King over Greek exit plan | Politics | The Guardian
btw
Greece heading out of euro, say UK voters
Don't worry sconsie, it's all contained. . . to the eastern hemisphere.
YouTube - Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun, Berlin 1970
In memoriam.
Good interactive flowchart showing how Euro events could go into a loop that lasts for months:
Greek euro exit flowchart: what happens next | Business | guardian.co.uk
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GSPG10YR:IND
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"This list does not include the European Union (EU), which includes four (Germany, UK, France, Netherlands) of the above states in a single economic entity. As a single economy, the EU is the largest trading partner of the US with $367.8 billion worth of EU goods going to the US and $268.6 billion of US goods going to the EU as of 2011, totaling approximately $636.4 billion in total trade."
List of the largest trading partners of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I don't know why everyone is worried.
1). We have decoupled
2). Only Europe, China and India are having problems
Sandals Looking for Sanity
There is so much noise about Greece on the internet about an exit from the euro and the EU, and the various meltdown scenaria, I will have to give up on the topic for a bit. My very limited Sandals take is that it reminds me of the Greek announcement back in the early-mid- 80s in the newspapers that the drachma would not be devalued. It was devalued 15% the next day, if my memory serves. There are a few rumors that the bank holiday next weekend would be perfect; I think not, but then I am not an economist, lawyer, banker, or a mover and shaker.
scone wrote:
The blind spot everyone has is the possibility Greece might reject the bailout conditions and stay in the Euro.
It's not in the flow chart. It's probably not in the contingency planning.
and the posse rides at night
So a Greek with an Italian checking account writes a check to a merchant who deposits it in their French bank. That night there is a Greek bank holiday. Much hilarity ensues.
Rajesh wrote:
Greece defaults on its obligations, leaves the EU and continues to use the Euro. Who says they can't?
poic wrote:
I'm thinking Rajesh is right that this thing could go on for years, where Greece continually re-negotiates, does a few perp walks, a fugly deal is reached that everyone hates, the Euros flow in, some more shit hits the fan, more corruption scandals, rinse and repeat. The more interconnected the international system gets, the less stable it gets. It's like we are in for an era of permanent crisis, not just in Europe but everywhere.
I think we're going to get more can kicks than anyone thinks is humanly possible.
A big wave of qualified buyers on the sidelines bought recently because of recent price increase news. Is this wave sustainable?
Forex: EUR/USD plunges on American morning - NASDAQ.com
Despite the early better risk mood on Greece's "pro-bailout polls" and Spain's intentions of recapitalizing its struggling banks, Prime Minister Rajoy said Bankia's bailout is still to be decided in 2-3 months. Started in €4.5B, but estimations regarding the bailout amount have been increasing successively, now to €23.5B.
Reads like the JPM loss reporting.
They buy on the 'housing bottom' premise. It's market timing.
Default after Euro 2012 or maybe the London Olympics.
scone wrote:
one of a few likely scenarios requiring a delicate balance, a gentle hand on the tiller, and no comets smashing earthward, no super volcanoes erupting in surround sound, no tsunamis, no nuclear fuel rod melt downs, and also a successful outcome in the upcoming Iranian War
the other few scenarios require the same sort of careful management
and we have been witness to what masters of the macabre these clowns are
Is can kicking an Olympic event? The EU and China would sweep the field.
Ever since Obama closed Gitmo, wound down the wars, successfully implemented national health insurance, reformed the the banks reestablished a legitimate regulatory structure from EPA to International Trade, got millions more Americans working and atggood jobs, pushed through a sustainable budget with a path toward surplus, and pointed the way with a national energy policy there really is much to complain about.
volker the viking wrote:
Yep, it sucks dead gorillas, all rightee. However, I've still got to fire up the BBQ. Life goes on at the sconestead. Happy Memorial Day to all, and TTFN.
Rajesh wrote:
I do not know, but I think it is in the contingency planning.
sporkfed wrote:
Cannot wait to see the security bill for that.
We should find a quiet valley someplace temperate and buy 100 sq miles and zone the next 20 miles in every direction agricultural and slap down a permanent Olympic Village. Of course the idea of the Olympics is so perverted I really don't see the point anymore.
scone wrote:
Worst_segue_ever!
Haralambos wrote:
I see movies in our future, think Bogart or maybe Gary Cooper, smuggling euros into a drought bound, poverty stricken Greece, where mothers tag their children and leave them on the steps of the church, where pensioners eat cockroaches as a meager protein source, where young women have no dream, save to escape the grinding poverty....
awww, never mind, that's another story
sure, sure, they could do that, sort of like putting a band aid on a sucking chest wound, but doable
We're here to help.
EU commissioner blasts bilateral tax deals with Switzerland
The 4,100
Greece's tax-dodging crackdown is a soap opera for the people | Hara Kouki and Antonis Vradis | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Taste.
France criticises IMF chief's view on Greeks
No comment.
"Mr Monti talks about fighting tax evasion, but put title of his villa on Lake Maggiore just purchased with Goldman Sachs, which because it is a banking company will not pay taxes on the property value of EUR 6 million."
visual aid
Haralambos wrote:
I think the template is already written. Panama (since 1904), Ecuador (since 2000), and El Salvador (since 2001) have used the US dollar as their currency. You just have to get used to your currency being outside national sovereignty. Oh... wait.
Mary wrote:
because she's a babe, you fucking frog, now butt out
Rob Dawg wrote:
Only if they can print their own euros.
"because she's a babe"
Were you born blind, or did it start later in life?
volker the viking wrote:
Euros into Greece? No: Amazon.com: Snow Treasure (9780590425377): Marie Mcswigan: Books
don't start on her, she's with me
scone wrote:
Just got back from camping with my brother and his family. Hope everyone has had as good a Memorial Day weekend as the bad dawg.
pavel.chichikov wrote:
Why? No doubt one of the twenties in your pocket has seen time in a drug lord's larder. Which one? See?
won't make much of a movie, even if Disney did it
Bad Dawg Bobby wrote:
They dropped the charges?
Rob Dawg wrote:
This is SYRIZA's platform coming out of the 6 May election. Ridicule in Greece and abroad has helped Tsparis "spin" the so-called radical left threats to drop EUR into a eurozone solidarity message.
PS. nearly every challenger to incumbents 2010-2012 has offered voters a renegoiate (NOT restructure) the bailout promise. Enda Kenny did it best.
Oh! Look at the time . . .
Rob Dawg wrote:
Because Greece needs billions of euros. Where are they going to come from - banks in Germany?
Well....could be...
volker the viking wrote:
Snow Treasure (1968) - Overview - TCM.com
I remember the movie. Never read the book.
Mary wrote:
see, this statement is a perfect example of how you might have took some education, but it didn't take, you know like when you dose a dog for worms but it still got worms so you gotta dose it again
right up to just before you hit the send button and posted this I actually thought you were salvageable, as philosophers go
On the contrary. She nailed it.
Until now CR was all about how housing was making a bottom. Always ending with something like "a bottom is not the same as a housing price recovery". I was waiting how long was CR going to wait to start talking about house prices increasing. As it happens very little time. His next move is to scream: "BUY NOW OR BE LOCK OUT FOREVER". How long before that happen Mr. CR?. BTW this site is where I come to get the "Official Site of the National Association of REALTORS" party line
man, I wish I knew what to, how to use Resedit on OS X*. Way too many dependencies these days....
CR's stepped outside your personal party line? How sad.
Mary wrote:
Option click.. show contents... select... open using... save... permissions okay. Done.
In the case of Libs, chron or rebuild may be necessary.
Argentina: More controls for buying US dollars - Wire World News - The Sacramento Bee
What's in your wallet?
Mary wrote:
I can recommend a good twelve step program.
I'm no philosopher. I jess serve 'em from where I catch 'em.
Sum buddy's gotta save merica.
volker the viking wrote:
Still, you can strip out languages, printer definitions, entire hardware classes you don't have from firewire to graphics chips and save gigabytes.
Mary wrote:
well, from where I sit, if things go like I think they may, Greece may well be the one to do it
< squint >
you got some catch up to do thar....
lol
Mary wrote:
Sorry Mary. Nobody is going to save Merica but The America People.
And it seems like we have an up hill battle against the powerful Elites and Banksters, to Boot (!)
light a candle.
another one. not the same one, dammit.
I'm watchin you too.
Bad Dawg Bobby wrote:
he's an optimist
bless his heart
am I doing it right?
Mary wrote:
I did it 20 minutes ago on a HP dv6700 series to enable enhanced graphics modes. Seems to work. Tell me what I did wrong.
HP dv6835nr running OS X 10.7.3. TIA.
Rob Dawg wrote:
something about a candle
volker the viking wrote:
Believe it or Not, Yes I am.
volker the viking wrote:
I was being kind. Resedit was what we used to tweak the resource forks of of pre *ix Mac code. You could go into "Dark Castle" and give yourself more points or whatever. Using Resedit in OS X was a lame comment and I thought I was being kind by drawing her out as to a possible misunderstanding.
we know
I'm not in the system yet. Only got one machine. When I do go in, you'll know, because I will not be posting at HCN. For days.
PS. what I really want to do is delete or irrevocably disable Software Update.
you're over thinking it
try the direct approach
Paranoid R us wrote:
I dunno about being locked in forevah, but now is** a time **to buy.
Estupido. They really need to start rebuilding their tax systems from the ground up. The wealthy are laughing, and the poor don't care- all that effort to catch few unwary middle class fish.
What they need to do is really start taxing exports instead of charging evaded income taxes. Consumption taxes with strict enforcement, etc. Of course, then they would resemble the Swiss instead of a lax latin american regime- like this country.
Reality only bites when it bites everyone fairly, then everyone will play the game within the rules.
But people have to believe in the rules, instead of bending and breaking them with impunity- and I am looking at you- Jamie Dimon.
Someday this war's gonna end...
Mary wrote:
I don't do AMD compiles and am dropping anything Intel below Core 2 Duo but if you have questions above that I'll give it a shot.
Highly recommend: 3 or even 4 8Gb+ flash drives. Remember for dual boot OS X first partition after EFI.
3-card Monti sleeps with the
Mary wrote:
"Little Snitch." Pay the damn shareware fee. Roughly 4 minutes salary at your pay grade dear.
small change got rained on with his own 38
I'm running OS 10.1. believe it or not with 9.1. I've got a compatible version of ResEdit. No BDS; unix won't help me. I had legit (Apple served) builds up to 10.5 until.... Teh Purge in '10. I've still got the images... but something's been changed. Builds aren't stable, and I don't understand why.
Mary wrote:
Hardware? Understand 10.6 stripped Moto support. 10.5.8 is teh max.
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Vonbek777 wrote:
"Watch" & "crash." WASS
Citizen AllenM wrote:
Don't you mean taxing imports? But wait, the EU treaty forbids tariffs between member countries. Sorry!
Crisis draws squatters to Spain’s empty buildings - The Globe and Mail
Monday, May. 28, 2012
"Sleeping on inflatable mattresses with just a few boxes to hold their belongings, 32 families have occupied an empty new apartment block in Seville in southern Spain to put a roof over their heads after being thrown out of their own homes.
They share a single cooker and a cheap brown sofa left behind by the builders. To others facing the prospect of living on the streets the families are living in luxury and they have set up a 24-hour watch to keep hopefuls out...And the inhabitants say that the police have helped to protecting them from other would-be squatters.
“We’re not anti-establishment. We just don’t want to live in the streets. With so many buildings like this and so many normal people facing eviction, we hope we inspire others to do the same,” says unemployed squatter Irma Blanco, 35."
Nope exports in the case of Argentina.
Rickkk wrote:
Opening scene of Dr. Zhivago.
henceforth cops shall be doughnut eaters.
oh?
...
oh. "Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.7"
...
nope. Software Update has got to go.
Rickkk wrote:
The very definition of a terrorist.
Extremely cool basket case kitteh?
Mary wrote:
Just turn it off.
I thought you needed to get rid of it rather than disable it.
they are "property managers".
Like my foot dragging foreclosees.
Go fuck yourself.
I managed to do 10 minutes of gardening, since it is not so hot today.
OP-ED COLUMNIST; Fiscal Phonies - NY Times
May 27, 2012 - The Krugmeister
"Both Mr. Ryan and Mr. Romney..... are fake deficit hawks. And the evidence for their fakery isn’t just their bad arithmetic; it’s the fact that for all their alleged deep concern over budget gaps, that concern isn’t sufficient to induce them to give up anything — anything at all — that they and their financial backers want. They’re willing to snatch food from the mouths of babes (literally, via cuts in crucial nutritional aid programs), but that’s a positive from their point of view — the social safety net, says Mr. Ryan, should not become “a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency.”
Sounds like the English during one of their very cruel periods.
PPC G3. MOTO. 2001 off the line. I forget th CPU version. At some point, I compared and realized I'd missed the hack bus. There's little left. Even peripherals.
Like I said. The machine ran 10.5 until '10. Ever since, slow degredation from each clean install.
Rob Dawg wrote:
"The very definition of a terrorist."
Agreed.
Boston Tea Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution."
Yeah, you noticed him calling them out.
I did too, and applaud him for his efforts.
The reality is that we don't have full employment, so cutting people off of benefits just puts them into starvation mode. Guess those religious folks had better up their tithes to help keep food on the po' folks table. Handouts cost money, ya know.
And the churches are swamped here.
Someday this war's gonna end...
Yeah I've been around squatters and I've been near terrorism. That post was the very definition of slime.
Indentured Servants In The U.S. | History Detectives | PBS
"Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607.
The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor. "
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Court holiday? Check.
Late afternoon? Check.
Nothing to do with yogi? Check.
Nasty language, personal insult, off topic? Check.
Um, sounds like your chips are slowly deteriorating. Do you have overheating problems too?
I had to reapply the diamond grease to the cooling sinks on my PS3 because of that problem. Still can only run 2.5 hours playing Starhawk before heat effects and a screaming fan.
Someday this war's gonna end...
uh. I have turned it "off". Several years going, each clean install. I have searched for uninstall documentation, and guess what?
Ignore much, liar?
Testosterone alert!
What's your opinion, counselor-- are homeless squatting families "terrorists"?
The stove is calling to me.
Why don't you cook something Yogster. It could soothe the savage beast.
Honestly I can't tell when you are
ing and when you are not.
Or you can avoid the issue...
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
to the extent they threaten the status quo, yes they are
Ask dawg.
If the poor are deemed terrorists they are converted from losses into pure military-industrial-prison complex profit.
Our job-creating and innovating capitalist system is truly glorious!
YouTube - Spain's homeless turn empty apartments into squats
volker the viking wrote:
the banality of evil.
plus!1! revolutions are scary.
Was yesterday's talk-show 'commencement speech' the banality of evil, or are there those who base their discussion - and their personal cosmology - on self-reliance?
hmmm. Overheating is a problem with DVD or CD-Rom (I've got both). hmmmm. I admit, I have not search exhaustively for suitable (internal fit) replacement. Concern about current firmware support for 10.4 (my last disk).
nuts.
Planned obsolescence sux.
Rickkk wrote:
I hate Memorial Day for one reason. It gives old chickenhawks like Romney a chance to fluff their supposed patriotism by being photographed at military parades or cemeteries. That and as Krugman points out, refusing to cut a dime from DOD. For a guy who blew off Vietnam by heading to France with the Book of Mormon, without learning a word of French, you'd think he'd be embarassed, if not ashamed. But no...
Romney marks Memorial Day with call for continued military strength - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
lawyerliz wrote:
my spicy italian jambalaya is almost done. i used enough garlic to cause a distortion in the space-time continuum. i'm actually a little worried about how this will turn out.
Time for a new box- 11 years is valiant service these days.
Imho- or you can keep patching and struggling.
Your call.
Someday this war's gonna end...
burnside wrote:
self-reliance is a synonym for starving the peasants.
It's also Emerson.
lawyerliz wrote:
It might also soothe the savage breast.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
Citizen AllenM wrote:
three words: LVT
well, that was a conversation killer
well, that was a conversation killer
now everyone know why volker called dumb ass
yuan wrote:
Assuming that's true, where do you hope to effect change? The self reliant, the starvation, or the peasantry?
burnside wrote:
boston latin school, harvard college, göttingen and lots of rich relatives.
He's preparing some "it was obviously subtle irony" twinkie defense in 3.2.1...
sdtfs wrote:
ass backwards. starving the peasants brings about change.
Have you read the essay? Is there something in it you take issue with?
no, yog (may I call you yog?), we're past all that, and thank God for that
such as it is, it's a series of agonizing reappraisals
Society is a mixture that in the end must support all, as it will fail if you turn it into a darwinian scramble to fortify before your neighbors raid.
Those who want only to keep their winnings while socializing their losses are the ones who are now on the chopping block. Just reality biting into their "productivity" in Galtistan.
A great example: Greece to Leave Euro Zone on June 18: Wealth Manager - Business News - CNBC
"Greeks would no longer be able to afford German cars..." A significant portion of Greece is worrying about getting enough fricking food, and this moron is on about stuff from a decade ago.
Rich and stupid. Need I say more?
Someday this war's gonna end...
By the Rivers of Babylon, where we squatted...
YouTube - MELODIANS "RIVERS OF BABYLON" PSALM 137:1
[oops]
Citizen AllenM wrote:
apparently so, since you and me are the only ones getting this
burnside wrote:
Welcome to The Emerson Brewing Company Ltd
They're clueless as to the shitstorm they are unleashing because they have been so far removed from the pain their actions cause.
Heh, didn't even notice the first comment.
And the dollar rises, as yet again more safe assets are desired by those who wish to "preserve" wealth.
Dollar Scarce as Top-Quality Assets Shrink 42% - Bloomberg
Is there no end to this cycle of foolishness?
Europe is well into madness these days.
Spain is literally TBTF- and has to restructure radically a la Iceland, yet they think they can impose Irish Austerity?
Nope. Done. This farce is ending in shambles, and Germany will fall the farthest, as they are the most export dependent of all of Europe- and when nobody buys their cars?
Cui bono, fools?
Someday this war's gonna end...
burnside wrote:
the intellectually flabby sophistry of faux-westerm mysticism. also not a fan of his poems.
The End Of The Euro: A Survivor’s Guide | The Baseline Scenario
burnside wrote:
We in San Diego love Emerson so much, we have an annual contest to pick Miss Emerson.
Former Miss Ems
The origins of this don't seem to be directly related to the philosophy, but rather surfer speak.
Don't know what's in...
.bom
com.apple.*.plist
*.kext
Not interested studying DSK documentation. And ifn I gotta learn fluent unix, I'm done with apple. period.
sheesh.
alrighty then.
volker the viking wrote:
Disagree, Considering the action and behavior of the Banksters and our FIRE Industuy, No they are Not.
Any body who is a regular on this blog, No yogi and I disagree on almost everything.
But on this issue, More Power to the squatters. There not terrorists, just abused by the system U.S. citizens trying to force the system to give them a break.
I've been called worse. Gotta run.
My point, yuan, is that the likes of Romney, Obama & Co appeal to first principles - Emerson, Paine and the like - in order to carry out their agenda.
. . . and, yeah, it's an unpleasant read. But has been elevated to writ - probably among those who read the summary.
Super Malware Targets Middle East Computers - WSJ.com
Computer malware described as "the most sophisticated cyberweapon yet unleashed" has been uncovered in computers in the Middle East and may have infected machines in Europe, according to reports from antivirus researchers and software makers in Russia, Hungary and Ireland.
The malware, dubbed Worm.Win32.Flame, is unusual in its complexity, size and the multitude of ways it has of harvesting information from an infected computer including keyboard, screen, microphone, storage devices, network, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB and system processes.
The malware is called "Flame" by Kaspersky Labs, a Moscow-based antivirus software maker, but also known as sKyWIper by the Hungarian Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS Lab).
Both Kaspersky Labs and CrySyS Lab said it was likely the malware was developed by a government-sponsored entity.
"The geography of the targets (certain states are in the Middle East) and also the complexity of the threat leaves no doubt about it being a nation state that sponsored the research that went into it," Kaspersky Labs said in a report.
"Unlike Stuxnet," said Mr. Kamluk, "[Flame] was much more sophisticated and not simply trying to infect every machine." He said the malware was also able to find out information about other devices around it. By using Bluetooth it could scan for other devices, such as mobile phones or laptops.
Now that viking dumbass was using subtle irony.
Citizen AllenM wrote:
our rich overlords should be looking for the reincarnation of teddy like peripatetic yak-milk tea buzzed monks looking for a reincarnated rinpoche. but the rich of this age have a death wish.
Moral of the story- stop eating sushi.
Simple, move on to US beef- it will kill you slower- that is all.
Someday this war's gonna end...
I love sushi !
Looks like we'll see Pacific sea life resemble that of Bikini Atoll, i.e., abundant.
emergency hotdog wrote:
Gross...the shit that Americans do their food.
burnside wrote:
old news. its hard to maintain a military industrial complex without appealing to first principles.
Has your spouse returned from Singapore?
Comrade Kristina wrote:
The headline gives a mistaken vision of tuna and geography.
I gave glowing reviews to the last Sushi meal I had.
Comrade Kristina wrote:
Luckily, we can still eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico.....oh wait....
Of course it's old news. How do you enable the intended recipients to hear it? Observing its banality only drives the wedge deeper.
Never mind. I see I'm boring.
Mary wrote:
Yes. She liked the food.
She said Singapore felt like a huge mall. Music was piped all around the streets and public places.
burnside wrote:
i believe the recipients will feel it. injustice in human societies is self-limiting.
burnside wrote:
A Wedge? Between What?
Rommey, The supporter of the Military Industrial Complex OR
Obama, The supporter of the Military Industrial Complex?
Guess who is going to be the real winner?
Antipodes wrote:
Excellent food. Unfortunately the entire city is like living in a mall.
yuan wrote:
Yeah, well, history shows those limits get pushed pretty damned far sometimes.
Me too. Out in the "burbs"... I forget the lingo for wagon vendors. Center city haute is something else -- "international"-like. It's been a long time.
Question is: How many tropical storms did she get caught by?
KarmaPolice wrote:
That's exactly what she said. It all seemed fake, a bit like Disneyland, with canned music piped out onto the streets and public places.
Bad Dawg Bobby wrote:
Let me guess... the MIC?
Antipodes wrote:
That place is nuts. It has zero appeal.
burnside wrote:
I thought it was an admirable attempt, but perhaps another time,...
The wedge between those who see the 'appeal to first principles' as the tool it is and those who don't.
. . . and now I'm done.
yuan wrote:
Everything human is self-limiting:
WE ARE TOO SMALL
How can this be
Sent down through generations
Destruction by vile war, by poverty
By famine and pestilence
By rage and base insanity
Oppressions of the mind and of the state
Revengeful malice, revolting insolence
Death by self-infecting hate
Bring the green jar for the ashes to the undertaker
It isn’t large enough to fit both liner and remains -
Suppose it breaks what then?
This is the puzzle of the race of men -
We are not large enough to store the soul
That is consumed within us, coal by coal
And she was not so very large, after all -
We are too small
Pavel
May 28, 2012
burnside wrote:
Yeah, someone needs to appeal to those with no principles whatsoever.
oh, don't be like that. I see your point of view, and I see yuan's. But oddly enough. neither of you is willing to drag the text, or contents, of the Meme Machine into plain view in order to examine why our flatulent representatives are comfortable passing off aphorism for principles.
TJ and The Bear wrote:
And I personally want to bring the Troops Home.
Other than Ron Paul, who is ( thanks to the media and Presstitutes) an Outside shot, I and the "Common Grunt", are not a winner either way.
TJ and The Bear wrote:
With what - a fresh herring on a string?
KarmaPolice wrote:
It didn't help that her hosts for the week scheduled the entire week's free time around shopping and tourist attractions. If we have a layover there, I would really like to see the cultural stuff. And, it's a very short drive to Malaysia.
Trying, Mary. Evidently not well.
Anyway, not for lack of willingness.
ciao.
KarmaPolice wrote:
And only country of its size than has never had a Nobel Prize winner.
It is more like a corporation than a society, and it squashes all creativity and innovation.
They stamped shit on a friend of mines passport when he entered, as his hair was not up to specification.
It is run by sociopaths.
pavel.chichikov wrote:
Rollmops!
pavel.chichikov wrote:
A rich, red one.
prin·ci·ple/ˈprinsəpəl/
Noun:
1. A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
2. A rule or belief governing one's personal behavior.
Hmmm... sounds vaguely religious.
Antipodes wrote:
Ugh...I love shopping, but most things I want are actually cheaper in the US.
Check this out:
"Fierce price competition means good deals too. Even international flights in the region can cost as little as $20."
Hopefully, you can take advantage of these fares.
Low-fare airline carriers catch on in Southeast Asia | Marketplace.org
Rent a car. It'll cost ya dear, too.
I thought you'd get it, someone didn't
adornosghost wrote:
Doesn't Marc Farber live there?
Doesn't say much for Eduardo Severin as well.
thanks for the link, CK
ain't it funny, we ain't getting any traction on this story at all
but the legs be gettin kinda long and bony jes the same
Antipodes wrote:
I have friends who grew up in Singapore (an ex girlfriend also), most of whose fathers were Air America Pilots in the 60s.
They had to go to Malaysia for fun, and it is Islamic.
You go on. HCN is a particularly err challenging err audience.
I've always thought so !
Comrade Kristina wrote:
Hopefully we then quit consuming them.
CK, The affects of that Disaster, will compound and be with us FOR DECADES.
KarmaPolice wrote:
That may be, but I'm more likely to go through Singapore than the US. Things are definitely cheaper in Singapore than NZ, if you know what you're looking for.
There are occasional good deals, but I've never seen anything close to that price. When my wife booked, there was a special out of Christchurch for something like NZ$350 one way, or some ridiculously cheap amount like that.
Mary wrote:
My wife said public transport in Singapore is quite good.
Bad Dawg Bobby wrote:
Pu-239 has a half-life of 24000 years
adornosghost wrote:
Slaughter on the water - FT.com
volker the viking wrote:
This story showed up in NZ this morning.
Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to... | Stuff.co.nz
Well, yeah. And there's an extensive AIR CONDITIONED pedestrian tunnel system -- from mall to mall. heh.
It's never not humid in Singapore.
No beaches of which to speak (politely). I stayed at Sofitel a few times, long term. Can't fault the cabana. But clients drove me into the burbs for local flava.
adornosghost wrote:
I was thinking about the damage to the Global Environment, and Fishing, Air quality.
I know your Right but I just can wrap my mind around, such long term Global pollution.
And the Japenese say , No One is responsable for repairing the damage. I do not see anyone even thinking about what to do to repair the damage.
Mary wrote:
They have two wet seasons, though.
One sight my wife told me about was the number of ships at anchor in the river. At night they were lit up like a city skyline. She said there must have been several hundred ships.
Spiegel Interviews Tsipras: "If Greece Is Destroyed, It Would Be Merkel's Fault" | ZeroHedge
I dug myself into this hole, but they lent me the shovel--it's their fault!
adornosghost wrote:
it's not the half-life that gets you, it's the Becquerels.
But I didn't know what a Bq was until last year so what do I know.
After they got the explosions semi under control my next question was where was all the seawater they were pumping through the cores going. Now we know.
The ocean's a big place, but cesium will concentrate in the food chain. But comparing it to banana-equivalent dose is pretty fair I think.
and CBS evening news just reported it here
and they also reported that scientists say it is still safe to eat
at ten times normal radioactive cesium
volker the viking wrote:
Will you tuck in for some sushi for tonight's tea?
Antipodes wrote:
It's excellent.
volker the viking wrote:
Oh ! Scientists.
We all know that Scientists can be trusted.
They can't be controled by the Government, or bought off by Industries.
RE wrote:
One would hope so. Singapore is pretty much Sim City in real life, as far as the map size goes at least.
volker the viking wrote:
The wording was more like "levels are below bottom limits set by both Japan and the US". Whether that's a safe amount or not...
Comrade Troyski wrote:
I agree. I like it in its sterile, organized way.
Though Chinese taxi drivers in their anger against the establishment are a political treat.
"wet seasons" LOL I didn't miss those since it seemed to rain torrents for 10 mins oh every 72 hours. All I can say about the harbor amusement park is.... looks fun. like. at night. from a distance.
Twinkle. Twinkle. Where's my beer....?
I think Singapore is 85 -100 miles from the equator. Climate not unlike Viet Nam -- but the street vended food is much, much safer to sample.
They'll just incorporate the word in menus.
Becquerels of Pacific Bluefin Tuna, choice of miso potatoes duchesse or three-finger poi.
There. See?
Antipodes wrote:
don't correct volker
the talking head said, "Scientists say it is still safe to eat."
volker the viking wrote:
"Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared."
-- Colonel Kurtz
Comrade Troyski wrote:
Stamford Raffles had a keen eye for laying out a city.
burnside wrote:
I am going full-tilt bluefin.
And they thought that puffer fish was a delicacy.
Pffffffttt. As if!
Mary wrote:
I love street food!
Has anyone noticed that home prices seem to be on the rise?
picosec wrote:
we'd all appreciate it if you'd stay on point
this is a blue fin blog
picosec wrote:
Home prices are still rising in Auckland.
picosec wrote:
This is about branding:
Mexico state arrests four after attacks on PepsiCo brand
| Reuters
Antipodes wrote:
Are those home prices or the actual foundations of the house?
Antipodes wrote:
Apparently, you have never visited Mexico and got "Montizumas Revenge".
volker the viking wrote:
Yeah, my thought was the headline seems to assign limits to the tuna, Japan, US waters,... But the tuna are always on he move, and I'm thinking every Pacific bluefin tuna, in its lifetime, will swim through radioactive waters off Japan. But adorno can correct me if I'm wrong.
Vonbek777 wrote:
There's a pork cloud hanging over Mexico?
Oops, have to go answer the door. Wonder what that kind Homeland Security officer wants.
Bad Dawg Bobby wrote:
I've traveled a bit through Mexico. Spent a couple months in Chiapas. Street food is delicious. And, yes, I've definitely had my share of Montezuma's Revenge. I've also had the runs after eating at restaurants in the US.
sdtfs wrote:
like the salmon
volker the viking wrote:
And eel.
I highly recommend visiting the flower garden in Singapore. Amazing variety of Orchids.
Do NOT walk back downtown like we did though. Almost died from the humidity.
Antipodes wrote:
and the smelt
sdtfs wrote:
You are right:
In the Pacific, tagging studies indicate there is only one stock with a spawning ground off southern Japan.
sdtfs wrote:
Off Japan ? They keep pumping that radioactive water into the Pacific, it is just amatter of time before the entire Pacific Ocean and the fish in it, are contaminated (!)
Then it will work its way into the Atlantic but not to worry. WE will all be dead and gone, so not to worry, so who cares.
It is nobodys fault or responsablity as far as clean up, Right?
poic wrote:
My wife wanted to visit the gardens. Unfortunately, the gardens were not on her hosts "schedule".
Antipodes wrote:
I'm not saying it isn't posible but you need to pick better places to eat !
doing some reading I see they measured an order of magnitude less radiation from cesium in the tuna than bananas exhibit with their potassium isotope.
I believe there's an :icon: for that, but am too lazy to go get it.
(IOW, the mercury is no doubt a bigger worry than the cesium)
Bad Dawg Bobby wrote:
you might be, but volker legend has life beyond years
things to watch out for:
radiation
tsunami
volcano
earthquake
comet
super volcano
polar shift
that's about it, relax everybody, bdb is correct, we're all gonna die anyway, won't it be reassuring to know how
You forgot my favorite, Solar Flare .
Hey maybe this will save the fish. EVER
YBODY SCARED to eat it. It's an ill wind. . . .
Bad Dawg Bobby wrote:
Absent any ability to force someone to clean up, yes, you're right. You might as well claim it's my fault for all the good it's going to do you. Wait until memmel is on line and see if he's got any idea what they should do. I remember during the days after he and I agreed that there was obviously a meltdown and they should have capped it with as much concrete as they could. But I don't know if that's an effective strategy or not.
Pumping seawater through and out to the ocean really was the only least offensive thing they could do at the time, since they were looking at having it just burst unchecked into the environment anyway, but they don't seem to have made much headway against the problems, even with the time it bought them.
Volker you forgot car doors when biking (even though dawg law says you're liable for your own bicycle death)
Bad Dawg Bobby wrote:
I've been sick several times even from eating at national chain restaurants with an "A" health rating. Sometimes, street food is more safe to eat.