Digress? Divert Never answer a question. I asked you directly, when was there such a time? A few hundred words, unread, to evade an answer? Again, Nicht wahr?
What a country. So is it a civil war, You're longing for? Your talk of weapons Constitutionally guaranteed You'd sooner shoot a wog Than a dog So it seems Hide a gun In the toilet Bang it's done? Nicht wahr?
@blogger so how then can we ameliorate rectify your unscientific incorrigible cant, anti liberal, anti-social. What certificated authority can justify your biases? How would you typify your particular mind-set. If you want some help I can offer a few words.
haud in old Scottish, hoard - Grendel was a hoarder, if I remember rightly. My wife#2 was and probably remains a hoarder of old textbooks in boxes inside toy boxes.
@miclee technically the southern tip of Florida is 24deg north, and thus north of the tropic of Cancer, so it is sub-tropical. Hawaii certainly is, but don't you count Puerto Rico? Or Wake or Marianas?
Silly thought, how to express in words 10^9, 10^12? In $ terms if I am a millionaire, I don't feel anything much, but I am for sure no billionaire/ So? Nonsense idea as would be the resulting concept of trillion etc... don't you agree?
These are LIKE zongzi, the pyramids of sticky rices with various ingredients ... I have never seen them in this elongated shape before, always a triangular pyramid wrapped in bamboo leaves... The bamboo leaves need not be eaten!
In fact I do point out to students they need to attend to the audience and practise/practice the appropriate spelling. More Americans/Canadians speak their English than do UK Aust so who are we to say what is correct. Let the Sub-continent determine it! But I won't be saying 'Jus sayin' soon, see Sunny Jim?
Erudition? Where where? or in Chinese Nali nali. And the thread topic - Bill Gates? Where oh where is there herein something of substance against their foundation? 'Jus sayin' Actually, three fools sayin nuttin
@string I serve no master. Whatever you say has nothing to do with why intelligent people dismiss the idea of a god. I'll repeat it - it is too silly a concept. Please don't report any other reason for my incorrigible disbelief.
Les Paul and Mary Ford were big hits in the 50s, and Les Paul one of the best ever guitarists, played into his 90s, only surrendering his pick in 2009. Les Paul is right up there with Chet Atkins. This was one of their hits of the 50s along with Vaya con Dios and Mockingbird Hill. This youtube was made just a few weeks ago, they are reproducing many of the LP and MF songs. A lot of their recordings are done separately under lockdown in Paris, as is the following one.
@lcbr like a dog to regurgitated breakfast, you return to a topic that is not the topic of the thread. Confucius is in the title. Focus. A debate? You may think it is a debate, but no one managed to explain the subject to you it seems. Adjudicator awards 0 for matter and method, a smidgen for manner (perhaps, out of sympathy).
Another thing to observe about the market, ignoring the price fluctuations, for the Growth chasers, the Dividend returns over the last 20 or so years have averaged 4%. Compared with post 2008 interest rates, that is justification enough. Who would want to invest in Cash or Bonds?
People save money surplus to their living needs. Ordinary people will accumulate savings and invest them, spreading risk by diversifying. Some of their savings will be held in cash, in term deposits (which have negligible return in recent years), in business, in property (needing large buy-in capital), or in ordinary stock. Ordinary stock generates fairly reliable dividend income and less reliable growth potential. Investors partake in successful companies by investing in their stock. Companies use cash from sale of their shares to fund capital projects. In this, the stock-market functions well. The rational market looks at the fundamentals of a company and makes judgements on their performance, and rationality normally controls the market very well.
But of course there are gamblers who are not interested in investment, but in profit that can be made from fluctuations. Derivatives are intended to provide a means of limiting costs over time, as insurance for example against a sudden rise or fall in a commodity price when the business is committed to buying or selling that commodity. Derivatives are normally not investments at all but a form of risk management.
Some stock simply defy rational explanation. Look at the earnings to share ratio for TESLA for example. Look at the Gamestop farce just recently. Half the punters are grinning broadly and half are serious losers. Yet if you take a serious intelligent conservative investor's view of the market, combining income and growth, you should be able to at least match the market.
Working in the investment/stock market industry as I did for almost 30 years, I was always constrained by compliance requirements, and so only my superannuation went into the market, apart from an occasional medical technology IPO. Still the ASX took a 40% hit in 2007-08 and with it my Super fell 35%, but except for shrugging, what can you do? Take it on the chin. The ASX XJO by the way is currently at 6880, slightly lower than its peak in 2007!
@lcbr On the contrary he was very much a yes-man when it came to authority, something in large part the reason for official adaptation of his 'philosophy' or precepts of governing almost 2000 years later.
online today!FargoFan Blog Comments (1,859)
RE: There was a time, years ago...
Digress?Divert
Never answer a question.
I asked you directly, when was there such a time?
A few hundred words, unread, to evade an answer?
Again,
Nicht wahr?