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Strange: To be clear, this is my point. Balta posted about how the "last 8 years" (and then I heard it again in the Obama "I won't take questions" presser) was to blame for the oil spill. I posted that yes, of course, it's always George W. Bush's fault when something bad happens. Then, I've seen the arguement turn into because BP, Hallyberteen, and Transocean are greedy f***ers, this happened. What part of this was an accident do you not understand? Instead of blaming George W. Bush, or capitalism, generically and categorically right away for something bad that happened, I immediately said that if this all were so bad, why didn't god (Obama) stop it? He sets policy. He can do anything he wants, right? And I was also clear that I do not blame Obama for what happened, any more then I would blame George W. Bush. Then, I see this turn into pictures and screaming about how it's destroying lives and people. Of course. It's an accident, and it has consequences. So what? It's Bush's fault. Fisherman will go out of business. So what? It's Bush's fault. People died. So what? It's Bush's fault. The oil companies are hiding s***. So what? It's Bush's fault. Yea, that gets old, and needs to go elsewhere, because last time I checked, (again, for the point) god (Obama) sets policy. Period. But he likes his lifestyle too much to shut off the oil. And so do you, and so does everyone else in this country. That's Bush's fault, too, I'm sure. This is a side rant but what I do find fault in our little manchild president is when he said "we've been there since day one" which is a lie. That's when he brought it upon himself, acting all high and mighty - if he would have said we've been monitoring events and this has turned into a very serious situation and we will work to get this solved, instead of the "boot to the neck" comment (he's not marxist? ). And then his little show of a tantrum yesterday. He's a immature egotistical dickhead. He's "tired" of the fingerpointing, he's "not going to tolerate it" - real mature, I think I just entered into the 8th grade again. After all, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." The bottom line is this. You all want this utopian, pretty little world where everything's equal, everything's green, everything's nice and beautiful, and then sit behind your technological computer, tv, monitor screen, cars, etc. and want to live the same life you have. Really? It doesn't exist, and never will. Our society is inherently risky, why? Because it's a human condition. It's not perfect, bad things happen. And when it does, you do what you can to fix it, not sit there and blame someone because they're "conservative" or support "capitalism". Nice try.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 15, 2010 -> 05:31 PM) Good to know what really gets you going. "Sure, I may have destroyed the economy of 3 or 4 states, and put the whole planet in jeopardy, but making me pay $.15 a gallon to cover the additional risks/costs associated with those problems...that's hideous socialism!" Oh, while we're at it...yet another failure at trying to plug the geyser tonight. Yup. That's what I said. Ignorant.

QUOTE (3E8 @ May 15, 2010 -> 08:29 AM) Try last.fm Much better in my opinion Elaborate.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 15, 2010 -> 02:54 PM) Because you know who's done a great job here? BP, Transocean, and Halliburton. So, I assume you've stopped eating food since so much of our food production industry is based on illegal immigrant labor? Otherwise, you're just as much to blame as anyone else here for the entire immigration problem. Yup, that's how stupid the argument is for your side. It's always a double standard for what your side of things are and what morality is according to your world. Thanks for proving me right once again.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 15, 2010 -> 10:22 AM) What are you talking about, kap? picture=George W. Bush picture=capitalism picture=Obama needs to save the day picture=government needs to fix it picture=something to throw out to bash "conservatives" How about you put the computer down, stop driving your car, stop using electricity, stop earning your money or taking it from another source, and go live in a cave without fire (because after all that emits carbon and might pollute something). Because otherwise, your stretches here is on about the same equivaliancies and you're just as much to blame as any one other category above.

I love the equivalencies here. STREEEEEEEETCH.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 14, 2010 -> 08:09 PM) What are you even going on about? Bush had s***ty, heavily-pro-business-especially-in-energy policies. I just said Obama really hasn't done much to fix them until this major clusterf*** happened. I really don't know what the right solution is here or with regulation in general. We see what happens when we deregulate--we get f***ed over by businesses. We see what happens when we regulate--we get f***ed over by businesses and their paid-for politicians. Oh yes, we get "f***ed over". OMG. Evil f***ing capitalists. You talk about a strawman arguement. We get this argument about everything now, and gee, I wonder why that is? There are some pretty good common sense answers about a lot of things, but everybody's too busy being led around by their penis complexes to ever solve anything.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 14, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) Yeah, they have had time to correct. They haven't. That doesn't change who started the s***ty policies when. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14agency.html It was an "accident" that, as of now, has all the hallmarks of incompetence, cutting corners, marginal legality and fraudulent testing and reports. Running a red light while drunk and plowing into a tree is an "accident", too, but it comes with responsibility. Yup. And the policy has been in place for a lot longer then "10 years". Again, you people want Bush to be Obama's savior in that he inherited every problem in the world, just stop it. Take some responsibility and STFU.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 14, 2010 -> 04:55 PM) Every bad thing that happens as a direct result from GWB's s***ty policies is, at least partially, his fault. Yup. And by that same token, the current administration has had a year and a half to correct this "s***ty policy", now hasn't he? So he's got just as much oil on his hands as GWB. And, for the record, it was an accident, so neither are to "blame"... but you people can't get the f*** over your hard on Bush hatred.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ May 14, 2010 -> 07:26 AM) I am so extremely horny today. And NO this is not intended to be a pornographic post for my own pleasure or use. It is just an out of the ordinary type of hornyness that I dont quite know how to deal with while I am at work. LOL QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 14, 2010 -> 07:50 AM) Ah f***...and I'm going to see you later today. I'm scared. A coincidence? I think not.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 14, 2010 -> 09:02 AM) This story reminds me a lot of, well, every other regulatory agency in the government over the past 8 years. Yup. Every motherf***ing bad things that happens, anywhere, anytime, is George W. Bush's fault.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ May 12, 2010 -> 06:49 PM) Yep. In fact, when still on analog about 5-10 years back, in my area, channels 5 and 7 on Comcast would be completely blurry. I thought it was just my house, but then I went to several friends' houses in the same area, and it happened with every one of them for all of their tv's. Same lines and broken signal for those channels for almost every household. Only way around it seemed to be an amplifier from what I heard. Uverse in terms of Internet isn't bad. My gf has it and it gets the same constant speeds. She hasn't had a drop yet and she's had it for about 6 or 7 months. I will say their HD is not as good as Comcast's, but it is still pretty good and I don't think the average viewer can spot the difference. You do/should cycle Uverse modems about once a month. Of course, I have a router behind the modem (that was a b****, but I did get it). That helps.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 12, 2010 -> 06:07 PM) Overwhelmed am I at the power of your argument. Failed I have. Into exile I must go. GOVERNMENT SAVES! WOOT! Yes, we all know that marxism is better.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 12, 2010 -> 07:59 AM) So, basically, Lewis asked them to produce an estimate if Congress votes to weaken the cost controls, and it turns out that it costs more money if they do that? What a scoop. GOVERNMENT SAVES (repeat).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 12, 2010 -> 12:11 PM) Well, then give us a public plan. That's the only cost control measure that wasn't in there in some form. GOVERNMENT SAVES!

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 12, 2010 -> 08:47 AM) Obama looks good in a pearl necklace. That's wrong.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 11, 2010 -> 09:12 PM) Compression is always the providers answer to getting more channels over the existing last mile provisioning. Compression however becomes costly from a quality standpoint with all of the HD channels. The HD signals really are going to cause chaos with the available signaling in the cable plant. FiOS use of the three wavelengths to provision their service as well as providing native RF signaling instead of IPTV gives them the greatest room for growth for HD. The problem with Verizon is its hard to grow with such a large cost for new subscribers. Exactly. I know what it costs for the plant. Very, very well. That was my job. And I also know what they do to try and compensate. Most people won't know the difference. They turn on U-Verse HD and it looks decent... I know what to look for, though. And the HD quality of Uverse is a lot worse then cable. Uverse However, I do know that Uverse is also trying to change their technology a bit. I think they should have done so before they rolled out, but they were in a race to try to capture homes passed so they could drive their subs up. Now, they have to go back and spend more money to do it right. Cable - one of the first things that Time Warner did when they came into this market was upgrade the plant. But the problem with cable is that they run the signal through the nodes and you can have some heavy hitters on a node, and the node on the next block will be hit a lot less, but that's the breaks. They were working on controlling that, but they really have a hard time with that. They were trying to split the nodes to address this problem, but they can't totally compensate for it, so you have a degraded signal in one neighborhood as compared to another. Again, most common people don't notice it, but it does happen.

One of the things that they are really trying to do is find more bandwidth with cable. They're running out. The VDSL2 is a technology that heavily compresses video signal, but the converters should compensate. You cannot get a better signal then the FIOS because it's all fiber and no old technology. But at some point Verizon is going to lose their ass on it because it is very cost prohibitive. Once the depreciation on the plant wears off, unless they have a whole s***load more subscribers, I can't see where they can remain viable.

I actually know a bit about this because I worked for Comcast/Time Warner for a while. Back in a bit.

I had a friend email me this picture from rushlimbaugh.com: LMAO.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 10, 2010 -> 03:19 PM) What happens when you try really hard to be partisan? You end up supporting slavery... even though you're black: Michael Steele Inadvertently Supports Constitutions 3/5 Compromise OOPS!! IMO: The constitutional IS by nature defective or flawed. It's written by humans. It was designed to be a living and breathing document that can be changed over time... hence the whole amendments thing. If your definition of "living and breathing" is consitutional amendments, okay. But the bastardization of everything else is NOT "living and breathing".

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ May 10, 2010 -> 03:39 PM) See Page 89 of this topic Yea, that was the one time I remember. But I don't remember anything else.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 10, 2010 -> 07:57 AM) Hahahaha, 100% losses. I have some terrible news for such a prediction. If the US market went down to 0 -- which would be a 100% loss -- the entire world would enter a depression that would make the original depression look like good financial times. Yea, I meant that literally.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ May 8, 2010 -> 02:16 PM) Barack's new Facebook feed is up. http://www.slate.com/id/2253217/ Jimmy Hoffa was tagged in a video: Guy Taking Off Sweatshirt in Times Square. and Ken Cuccinelli filed a lawsuit against Science, Breasts, Homosexuals, Death Panels, and Women Who Wear Pantaloons. LMFAO.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ May 8, 2010 -> 01:54 PM) Oh, look there goes another clue bus with one less passenger...... I forgot you are all knowing. How many years have you been a market maker? If you know not what you speak silence is best. But thats hard for..... Go back through this thread and point out three times when you've been right. I can remember once, maybe twice. You've been predicting 100% losses for three years now. Holy s***, you should know better that I'm not a kool aid drinker, but I find that 80-90% of the time you don't know what you're talking about. Then again, maybe I don't understand what you're trying to say, as Strange was trying to point out, I don't know. I just see you saying some pretty wild s*** about tanking markets that I don't see happen very often. That's all I know.