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Good isn't necessarily popular, and popular ain't necessarily good. A lot of the time, doing what is good & right will piss off a lot of people and make you look like an asshole, and too many people just don't have what it takes to do it and live with it. In the end, someone just has to step up and do the right thing even if 90% of the people whine & cry about it, it's really that simple. Not exactly easy, but it's simple.

By default. My room acoustics suck so there's no point to getting speakers, so the only other way of getting decent sound is through headphones.

Had a rather depressing phone call from one of my friends in the US. Him: the housing bill passed the Senate yesterday Me: I heard Him: we're fucked, we are all fucked. Me: you still have your Russian citizenship don't you? Him: yeah, it's something to think about in the future, I'll see... To summarize, the Treasury has given Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae an unlimited line of credit, and the national debt limit has been bumped up by $800 billion. We're looking at the start of the largest wealth transfer in recorded history, as the middle class & poor have their money sucked up into the coffers of JP Morgan-Chase, Bank of America, and the rest of the Wall Street boys.

I average around 2700 calories a day and as usual, I've dropped a couple pounds this summer. Some days, like today when I'm just sitting on my ass I get around 2400-2500 calories, on days when I'm out biking I'm over 3000.

Borrow an oscilloscope and stick the probes into the socket. If it looks like this instead of a nice smooth sine wave, your power is bad.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. Alison is cute, really cute, and Plant looked like a vagrant off the streets.

There's some decent tube options with the TTVJ amp so I wouldn't be too concerned with reports of brightness or lack of involvement. The tube that's going to make most of the difference in sound is the 7N7, so if you want a fuller sound you could grab a couple of the grey glass National Union tubes.

Organized my trading accounts to make sure I'm ready for some frenzied trading in the next few days. Tuned up my bicycles, took a nap, made sure my financial news feeds are all working good.

Pretty much every politician in DC is bought off and blackmailed by various business and special interest groups. If you expect them to do something for the benefit of the people you'll be sorely disappointed every single time, unless of course it has greater benefits for their lobby groups. The US government system is fundamentally broken, and this will not change until the people wake the fuck up and have a revolution.

I'm not a psychologist*, but it sounds like you need a hug, from your mom. *I only took one psych course in university

I'm not a doctor, but I've heard that kicking them in the groin has positive results.

The big question is which Hossa shows up for the Redwings. With the exception of this past season, he usually stinks it up bigtime in the postseason.

The original "profit price" of shale oil was $5 a barrel. Then it was 10, then 15, then 20, then 30, 40, 60, 80, then 100. The technology never came even when the price of oil blew past the "profit price" of shale oil.

People have been trying to get oil from oil shale since the 1920's, if not earlier. They still haven't found a way to do it with a net energy gain. A trillion barrels worth of oil in the form of oil shale, and it still hasn't been figured out after nearly 90 years.

No, it doesn't. The term the USGS study uses is "technically recoverable", as in have the technology to recover the oil, regardless of cost. Unless new drilling technologies are developed the oil will remain unrecoverable no matter how high the demand goes. I have friends working in the industry, there's nothing in the R&D pipeline which will allow us pull more oil from Bakken, the technology does not exist and will not exist for the foreseeable future.

Official USGS study of Bakken. 3 to 4.3 billion barrels, mean estimate of 3.65 billion. Or around half a year's worth of oil for the US.

Learn to read you illiterate dumbass, we're talking about offshore drilling, ANWR is not offshore, shit for brains.

The US uses 7.5 billion barrels of oil every single year, while there's an estimated 18 billion barrels & change in the areas currently closed to drilling. That's only around 2.5 years worth of oil at current consumption rates. The long-term solution to running out of oil isn't to drill more, what needs to be done is developing and building a new infrastructure and transportation system. In short, lots of electrified rail transport, electric cars where needed and nuke plants with full fuel reprocessing and breeder reactors.

Sounds great on paper. Too bad it does jack & shit for oil & gasoline prices, it just makes the oil companies even richer than they already are. The EIA has done a case study on lifting offshore drilling restrictions, and concluded it won't do jack to help the consumer. Excerpt:

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japanese men lap up new comfort

FDIC starting salary is around $45k a year, going all the way up to ~$160k for the senior case examiners. My cousin used to work there and was pulling in $80k a year easy in a mid level position, plus the benefits are pretty much the best that you can get in the US.

Stay the fuck away from computers unless you eat, sleep, live, and breathe computers, otherwise, you'll grow to hate it by the time you're a year into your classes. My degree is in Comp Sci, I thought I liked computers, by the time 4th year came around I couldn't wait to graduate and get the fuck away from anything related to the damn things. Job prospects aren't on an upswing either since we're headed into a long & bad recession. In terms of accounting, I have a feeling the IRS and FDIC will be in need of a lot of forensics & investigative accountants once the current wave of investment banking & lending fraud starts getting prosecuted. The FDIC's already hiring and once the subpeonas start flying the IRS and FBI will be looking to hire as well.

A lot more selling than buying actually since I'm one of those damn dirty shorters.

Woke up, had breakfast, made sure my trading accounts had lots of dry powder, then started an epic day of daytrading.