tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post7558631880922541857..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: August 13 2009: A tempting propositionIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86623349838301411402009-08-14T09:02:13.003-04:002009-08-14T09:02:13.003-04:00Stoneleigh
Thanks, as always, for the latest pred...Stoneleigh<br /><br />Thanks, as always, for the latest predictive analysis. I am not intending to gamble more than I feel I can afford to lose. If this money weren't shorting the market, it would be sitting in 13 week T-bills earning a small fraction of a percent interest. I do not need this money in the foreseeable future, so I would have no pressure to sell it for a private, personal el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29318881081819934232009-08-14T08:18:53.241-04:002009-08-14T08:18:53.241-04:00DIYer - Entice works for me in this case.
Extort ...DIYer - Entice works for me in this case. <br />Extort would apply more appropriately to the Gold in Sacks Governmental collusion.Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61787098672047862452009-08-14T08:15:25.685-04:002009-08-14T08:15:25.685-04:00Coy Ote,
"Extort" is too strong a term...Coy Ote, <br /><br />"Extort" is too strong a term; "entice" might be closer to the mark. Nonetheless a failing enterprise. Note how much of the CDN heavy is "bitumen" on that chart. That isn't oil, it's roadbuilding tar.Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54055100918735231672009-08-14T08:07:47.826-04:002009-08-14T08:07:47.826-04:00VK
Thanks for the heads up. What kind of lead ti...VK<br /><br />Thanks for the heads up. What kind of lead time do you figure? I notice that the Hang Seng and Nikkei are are still peaking with the Western indexes in the suckers' rally. Do you think the other Asian indices will turn down prior to the West or stay in sink to the bitter end? I am still going with the plan of buying -1X SH around Sep 1 and converting it to SDS after I am el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49143950319600994802009-08-14T08:04:03.753-04:002009-08-14T08:04:03.753-04:00While we could be seeing the end of the rally, I t...While we could be seeing the end of the rally, I think (on balance of probabilities) that we will instead see a pullback followed by a new recovery high. Pullbacks, particularly significant ones are accompanied by fear, so we can expect to see that reflected in the headlines. We are entering dangerous territory when it comes to trying to play these moves IMO. Both the downside and the upside Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54797018171119980852009-08-14T07:58:15.643-04:002009-08-14T07:58:15.643-04:00@ CS
Here's a map of the global fibre optic n...@ CS<br /><br />Here's a map of the global fibre optic network with related incidents of damage, sure a lot of communicatons does take place by satellite but fibre optic cables are what holds the whole system together.<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/m6klp5VKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-56534728278635175942009-08-14T07:50:03.263-04:002009-08-14T07:50:03.263-04:00The Daily Wreck has this article up...
http://dai...The Daily Wreck has this article up...<br /><br />http://dailyreckoning.com/the-saudi-arabia-next-door/<br /><br />...which seems to me to a totally misleading attempt to extort financial investment in what is destined to be a failed enterprise.<br /><br />Opposing opinions welcome.Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79728527124202660942009-08-14T07:39:06.982-04:002009-08-14T07:39:06.982-04:00YD - what the Milgard and Stanford experiments sho...YD - what the Milgard and Stanford experiments showed was that ordinary people, in certain circumstances, can be made to commit atrocities on people who, for all intents and purposes, are from their own 'tribe'. The set up for this is the establishment of a differentiation, subtle in the Milgard case, not so much in Stanford, and an authority that directed the action. The frightening Dr Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53427572029134529982009-08-14T07:36:58.846-04:002009-08-14T07:36:58.846-04:00Colonial Bank on 'brink of collapse'
Judg...Colonial Bank on 'brink of collapse'<br /><br />Judge grants temporary restraining order barring asset transfer in response to Bank of America suit.<br /><br />As of the end of June, Colonial had assets of $25.5 billion and liabilities of at least $24.2 billion, which includes deposits of $20 billion. Colonial BancGroup says it has more than 340 branches in five states: Alabama, Florida, Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58227235367286361372009-08-14T07:32:28.238-04:002009-08-14T07:32:28.238-04:00Hi VK
Where there are cables I can imagine this be...Hi VK<br />Where there are cables I can imagine this being an issue - I'd love to know how the assembly is done though - IIRC there's a major mid-atlantic fibre optic, sure there are others, but what about dongle based/mobile internet - do these go through the same 'pinch points'?<br />I've never seen schematics of how the information gets transported - I tried to find out whoCSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75834124673695128832009-08-14T07:09:02.381-04:002009-08-14T07:09:02.381-04:00@ El G
Shanghai down 3%. So down about 13% from i...@ El G<br /><br />Shanghai down 3%. So down about 13% from it's recent peak.VKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-88606800041207038902009-08-14T07:05:12.039-04:002009-08-14T07:05:12.039-04:00@ CS
The internet is highly vulnerable to energy ...@ CS<br /><br />The internet is highly vulnerable to energy shocks and physical damage to cables. Last year large parts of India and the middle east lost access to the internet as cables were cut by ships dropping their anchors about 3 times!<br /><br />The internet is quite vulnerable to viruses, attacks where hackers imply overwhelm the servers with requests - such as getting 5 million messagesVKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-23082133273861813332009-08-14T05:27:15.920-04:002009-08-14T05:27:15.920-04:00It will be harder for American troops to shoot Ame...<i><br />It will be harder for American troops to shoot Americans. As said before, the response will not be monolithic, some will more happily "restore order" by whatever means necessary, others will be unable to do so under any circumstance. And as time goes on, it will become harder and harder for more and more. This means that long term involuntary police state/martial law is Nassimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-30372110785847008292009-08-14T05:13:53.541-04:002009-08-14T05:13:53.541-04:00@anon 12:48
The Dervaes family urban homestead?
h...@anon 12:48<br /><br />The Dervaes family urban homestead?<br />http://tinyurl.com/ldpltAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-39588739344377156412009-08-14T04:54:49.523-04:002009-08-14T04:54:49.523-04:00One thing that gives me hope re t'internet, is...One thing that gives me hope re t'internet, is that as I understand it, it was designed by the military to withstand attempts at dismantling - with many nucleii/servers rather than one large frankenstein style ON/OFF switch.<br />I'm less worried about server shut down than the control of the transfer of informaiton via satellite communication/cell phone breakdown.<br />I did a bit of CSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17432859626417705652009-08-14T04:54:27.960-04:002009-08-14T04:54:27.960-04:00Dr J said...
Greyzone - it may not be the mil...<i>Dr J said...<br /><br /> Greyzone - it may not be the military. I may be militias raised by these conservative Christian movements or other ideological cults that will arise when social order and central control starts to falter. The point is that under certain conditions, the fact that you are a white anglo-saxon American may not be enough to prevent you from being the "other" YDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11659429390056544844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-88257274250993229492009-08-14T04:07:02.859-04:002009-08-14T04:07:02.859-04:00Stoneleigh commented: "The erstwhile middle c...Stoneleigh commented: "The erstwhile middle class will be ruined."<br /><br />Normally this wouldn't be possible, as the political process will do everything it can to prevent this outcome. No sweets to the middle class means no votes to the politicians. Let's see if it will happen this time.<br /><br />Politicians must put more money into the system. If they don't, energy Censorernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-12454450357009313932009-08-14T02:05:08.084-04:002009-08-14T02:05:08.084-04:00El G...Plan b is the sailboat.......got a nice 26f...El G...Plan b is the sailboat.......got a nice 26ft or so laying around ...cheap?...like say a pearson 26?...or a morgan.out-island30... was looking hard at this<br />http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/boa/1314564633.html<br /> <br /> 35k...and thats a boat..steel hull too...<br /><br />snuffysnuffynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9696862833265159792009-08-14T01:09:59.570-04:002009-08-14T01:09:59.570-04:00"... fascinating how much they are able to pr..."... fascinating how much they are able to produce ..."<br /><br />There are two side benefits ...<br />Exercise ... better health<br />Cheap activity vs going out and spending money<br />jaljalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46429700650460377472009-08-14T01:04:21.698-04:002009-08-14T01:04:21.698-04:00A 12:43,
The pictures come from shorpy.com and r...A 12:43, <br /><br />The pictures come from shorpy.com and represent a time about 70 or 80 years ago, when there was a financial event in some ways similar to the present.Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61248389169647255382009-08-14T00:48:04.516-04:002009-08-14T00:48:04.516-04:00JAL and 2 minds:
Have you seen the family in LA t...JAL and 2 minds:<br /><br />Have you seen the family in LA that grows a tremendous amount of food on their one city lot?? Maybe someone can find that article, fascinating how much they are able to produce.<br /><br />I also saw somewhere that if people planted fruit trees as even one tenth of their ornamental trees, that this would help.<br /><br />I got so many oranges this year from my one treeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-42267531297602792822009-08-14T00:43:47.767-04:002009-08-14T00:43:47.767-04:00S and I,
The pictures at the top of your blog are ...S and I,<br />The pictures at the top of your blog are amazing. Where do you find them? The poor children with nothing to eat.<br /><br />Do you see this in our future??<br /><br />Thank you for your blog!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-91434707953158559102009-08-14T00:36:36.188-04:002009-08-14T00:36:36.188-04:00Six Lobbyists Per Lawmaker Work to Shape Health-Ca...Six Lobbyists Per Lawmaker Work to Shape Health-Care Overhaul <br />http://tinyurl.com/kjl9cz<br /><br />Ya think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53120182505516746072009-08-14T00:25:31.605-04:002009-08-14T00:25:31.605-04:00A fundamental error made by most human beings is t...A fundamental error made by most human beings is that homo sapiens is a rational species. Cure yourself of that myth and things become both clearer and more interesting. Rationality is a useful tool but one that we do not turn to sufficiently to really alter our behavior on a macro level. And it's also a tool that we do not use on a frequent enough basis to justify calling ourselves a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46666207671738913102009-08-13T23:50:05.727-04:002009-08-13T23:50:05.727-04:00To Spice,
Alas you are wrong about Ahimsa being t...To Spice,<br /><br />Alas you are wrong about Ahimsa being the only 'pure' one here. There is more then one so she is certainly not alone. And it really is not so much about purity as wisdom and compassion. But referring to Ahimsa as 'pure' in fact is delivering a great complement. How many in this world are filled with wisdom and compassion. How many 'pure' visionaries doAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com