Archive for February, 2012

Those darn patents...what pesky things they are. Kind of reminds me of the Jupiter Jack...that cellphone device that transmits the signal to your car radio. Jupiter Jack was not the original name of the device. It was coined the Black Jack at first, but that turned out to be taken already. And several names after that didn't work out either. Ultimately, Jupiter More

I had some odd jobs, mostly before I turned 16, which was a long, long time ago. But once I got my first payroll job, I began learning things organized neatly you only learn working for a well-organized, professional company. ________________ Henry, you do learn different things working in a company, but you learn even more valuable lessons working on your own, mowing More

Nick, while you are technical directorly correct, I believe the author is fully justified in using the term 'cloud' in the article. There are economic and technical drivers to cloud computing (economies of scale, shortage of qualified technical experts, widespread Internet availability, open source mindset) and anticipated effects of the cloud (business organizational More

Dennis, apparently the first 8 years were completely useless. We had to wait until Obama took office to do what Bush gave up on, getting OBL.... __________________________________________________________________________________ I'll grant you that I wasn't in total agreement with the Bush handled the war, but at least he threw the Taliban and Al Qaeda out of the More

No, you are not correct. I love America, period. You can be disappointed in a particular action of someone or some organization or some country - and still love them. Do you have a wife and/or children? Considering the slander and evil directed at Obama, and how do you know if you are in love he puts up with it in the service to his country, I think it's safe More

Legalization can be a good thing if it's implemented in a broad, global scale, otherwise it's bound to make cartels even stronger because this is an international problem. If you assume that cultivation or manufacturing of drugs remains illegal in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan etc and if only a few cities or states in the U.S. legalize drug use and trade but More

Interesting, all these municipalities are now selling valuable assets and for such long term leases. I think there should be some investigation into these sales, (politics is close to business) the future value of these assets and the cash flow are not being valuated. Why are these municipalities not restructuring their retirement and reducing employee benefits. More

The kind of arms treaties that made sense in the Cold War, and even well into the '90s, no longer make a good first impression sense. Giving Russia the false impression that its third world economy and shrinking population, but abundance of old nukes, makes it a peer of the US is nonsense. Doing so while China is massively expanding its arsenal is downright dangerous. More

American capitalism would have pretty much disappeared if mark to market on loans had been in place in 1974, or 1982, or 1991. Like it or not, we paper over our troubles until they disappear--in every downturn. Markets overshoot fair value on the upside and the downside. We humans love to take things to excess. The present system lets us digest problems over time More

I'm so glad I work at a best place to retire where people don't care what, how or IF you bring your lunch in! Some of us have plastic bags, some paper bags from the store. We have a dept. refrigerator, microwave and toaster. We also have a very nice cafeteria, its our choice if we want to go there or just sit at our desk and do personal business. Worrying about 'image' More