FeedFool Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 Where is everyone on Tuesday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungster Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I'm here.... with a few of my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Prince Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I do not care if most here are mega perma bears and ridicule Mark incessantly I still think he should open. After all the place has his name on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Skidmark Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I got another one of those 0% credit card offers in the mail from Chase yesterday. That makes about 6 in 2 weeks. Either their mailing list has a glitch or someone is really desperate to push debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungster Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I get a techie email from time to time.... so there is no link... CELL PHONE SENSORS The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is researching the use of cell phones equipped with sensors that could detect biological agents such as anthrax, as well as radioactive isotopes and toxic chemicals. Since fixed sensors can't be placed everywhere, the solution could soon be in everyone's hands. Gentag, a Washington, DC-based company, is working with the government on a patented technology that modifies a cell phone to serve as a low-cost radiation and/or chemical sensor to discover external threats. The technology incorporates both modular (removable) sensor modules and built-in sensors. The DHS program, called Cell-All, would link cell phones equipped with the detection sensors via the Global Positioning System (GPS). If a detector sensed a threat, the GPS would transmit the location and time to local emergency responders and the DHS operations center. According to the DHS, if the program works, it could be a "game-changer" in how the nation detects and responds to a deadly attack. Great idea if it works...Will they just put them in govt. employees phones or incorporate them in everyone's phones??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elh Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 Hey Feed, are you trying to tell us something with your chart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 Many tanks to Feedfool for opening this evening's thread. It's now set up so that any registered stoolie can open. I should be able to pick up the task for the balance of this week, but will be on the road next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothership Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 Staff shortages raise fears of bank errors "Top investment banks are struggling to cope with the record volume of deals and their overworked staff are in danger of making costly mistakes, according to senior executives. My worry is that people will start cutting corners, will not do the due diligence and will damage the brand.? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ffd3ac00-1398-11dc...0b5df10621.html Not sure whether to a : laugh b : start a lucrative stress consultancy to steal their bonus cheques c : wonder what disaster of biblical proportions we are being prepared for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardrech Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I get a techie email from time to time.... so there is no link... CELL PHONE SENSORS The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is researching the use of cell phones equipped with sensors that could detect biological agents such as anthrax, as well as radioactive isotopes and toxic chemicals. Since fixed sensors can't be placed everywhere, the solution could soon be in everyone's hands. Gentag, a Washington, DC-based company, is working with the government on a patented technology that modifies a cell phone to serve as a low-cost radiation and/or chemical sensor to discover external threats. The technology incorporates both modular (removable) sensor modules and built-in sensors. The DHS program, called Cell-All, would link cell phones equipped with the detection sensors via the Global Positioning System (GPS). If a detector sensed a threat, the GPS would transmit the location and time to local emergency responders and the DHS operations center. According to the DHS, if the program works, it could be a "game-changer" in how the nation detects and responds to a deadly attack. Great idea if it works...Will they just put them in govt. employees phones or incorporate them in everyone's phones??? 584727[/snapback] Bungster Recall the late ninteenth century in literary America--a vast migration of small town belle-letterists took place. Most of them were tired of the nosy busy bodies of small town America. These human moral periscopes were the people perpetually looking out of their bay windows panoptically spying on wayward adolescents .. So, feeling stifled, because of the lack of private-spaced oxygen, as soon as these literary neophytes reached the neighborhood of maturity they bought railroad tickets and expatriated themselves to towns like New York and Chicago.....Towns which permitted them to enjoy a certain amount of anonymity, a cocoon where their literary souls could incubate, and achieve a modicum of maturity.... Years have passed, and like the mysterious changes of the portrait of Dorian Grey Now once again we are becoming a village, an electronic village, a Global Village. And the global return to nineteenth century urban rusticity is, to many, as comforting as the early migration was in an opposite direction.. The crime,the neurotic plague, the madness of current urbania converts many city dwellers into worshippers of the pastoral--The current alienating force is the vast numbers of urbane criminals,although lacking tuxedos and patent leather shoes, spying out those ambulating supersensitive sensibilities as targets, vulnerable to a mugging, Instead of fearing an Aunt Bessie they yearn for her return and get it metaphorically in the form of an electronic conscience; in the form of surveillance cameras-- beardrech Sad, but another example of what goes around comes around; and once we complete a turn we see ourselves returning from whence "we" (as a culture) came from. Even more remote a memory: just as we admire the protective exoskeletons of various insect species as they evolved so will we begin to admire our own carapaces as they change from season to season.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungster Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 This from http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/: The Napa Valley Register reports from California. ?As the number of homes in foreclosure rises in Napa County, American Canyon finds itself at the center of the storm. Of the 64 foreclosures recorded in Napa County during the first four months of 2007, 16 were in American Canyon.? ?In 2005, during the same time period, only two foreclosures took place in all of Napa County, and neither was in American Canyon.? ?ReMax agent David Barker is on the foreclosure frontlines in American Canyon. According to Barker, on average, one in every 60 homes in American Canyon is in foreclosure proceedings or has been foreclosed. Statewide, the statistic is closer to one in every 389, and nationwide, one in every 783 homes.? ??I think we?ve got a lot of problems,? said Barker. ?Clearly the pace is picking up. I don?t know whether this is just the tip of the iceberg.?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 One page M2M after a nice gap down ? Bears have quitted in disdain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 In the real estate market, we are about to see the differences between a disaster, a catastrophe, and a calamity of biblical proportions, as time goes on. 584687[/snapback] Woohoo, lets have it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4shzl Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Small craps not worth the effort: Gloomberg: Tudor Returns Money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elh Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 One page M2M after a nice gap down ? Bears have quitted in disdain. 584733[/snapback] You can't be serious. We've seen today's tired act countless times over the last year. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brisbane Bear Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 In the real estate market, we are about to see the differences between a disaster, a catastrophe, and a calamity of biblical proportions, as time goes on. Spanish real estate is about to collapse according to this dude. They might be the second domino that sets off the worldwide collapse. The results are amazing. For one, Spain has the largest current account deficit in the industrial world after the United States. This is astonishing for a country with only 40 million people and that until recently was still considered a third-world country. Spain's current account deficit is now 10% of GDP. Household debt has risen to 133% of disposable income... the highest level in the world. (The U.S. ratio has just reached 110%, its own personal best.) Second, Spain has the largest property bubble in the world. More than 800,000 homes were built last year in Spain, beating France, Germany, and Italy combined. House prices have risen 270% over the past decade. A real bubble in housing construction formed last year. One builder ? called Astroc ? listed in June 2006. It's stock rose tenfold in the last nine months. Construction now represents 16% of total Spanish GDP. Now the interest-rate problem is hurting Spain again ? but this time its in the opposite direction. You see, the Germans have decided to raise interest rates on the euro. They've risen seven times since December 2005 to 3.75%. "Spanish housing is about to implode," says Charles Dumas, chief economist at Lombard Street Research. In Spain, 96% of mortgages use floating rates, but in Germany, most people have fixed-rate mortgages. In other words, the Germans are causing a property crash in Spain. a buttefly flaps its wings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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