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From: Ken Smith on 1 Dec 2006 10:16 In article <456A8829.8F518A36(a)earthlink.net>, Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >Ken Smith wrote: [....] >> Things like FM and 802.11 can be kept within the bounds of a state. In >> that case, it is not "interstate commerce". > > > Explain why WACX TV in Orange City Florida is required to block their >signal from radiating out over the Atlantic ocean. Why should I? That would be perhaps helping the other side on the NHS debate. If they can't argue that one with out leaving a route to the NHS in their own logic, they will be in big trouble. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 1 Dec 2006 10:31 In article <ekhf6l$8qk_002(a)s1016.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >In article <ek9v7p$lag$10(a)blue.rahul.net>, > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >>In article <ek9j8k$8qk_001(a)s1007.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>[....] >>>> The framers unwisely did not put any >>>>rules on radio communications. It was very short sighted of them. >>> >>>No,no,no. They were short-sighted by not including TV licenses. >>>Not anticipating radio comm was due to tin ears. >> >>The real problem is that they did not put anything in for the "sort of >>interstate" commerce. They left a huge gray area. > >Perhaps they figured that business agreements between states were >the states' business. >> >> >>[.... Hillary ....] >>>No,no. Futures. That means that the investment company bet >>>on when the drug indices would go up and when they would go down. >> >>Do you know how much money it was? > >No. With her pattern, it wouldn't have to be much. She may have just happened to have one dollars worth and this could have been distorted into some major issue by those opposed. >> The futures market is not a safe >>investment by any means. It is a zero sum game so there must be losers. > >Not if you can determine the winners with your policy decisions. People in government effect the value of their holdings all the time. If you have anybody but the poorest of the poor running government, there is no way to avoid this. The question is whether the effect would be enough to change how they vote. >BTW, futures is not an investment instrument. There is an argument that they are an investment. >> >>I don't have any holdings in futures that I know of. If I do it woud be a >>very small fraction of my holdings. > >Do you have money in a mutual fund? Then you do. Note the "that I know of" > Do you have >your checking account with a large bank? Then you do indirectly. >Is your pension squirreled away in your account or the company's >account? If the latter, you more than likely depend on somebody >guessing correctly. I am largely invested in earthquakes. The bunk of the rest is in things like bonds. In the new year I will be doing a rebalance. >> One reason I may have them is as a >>hedge. You can actually arrange things so that you win if the stock goes >>either direction. Only if it holds still do you lose. > >Hedge? If you have a put or a call, you're playing exotic futures. I don't that I know of. I was pointing out a reason Hillary may. >>>I'm now on my second bout of the flu. So my writing >>>is going to be less clear. >>> >>><GRIN> Now you may say, "Oh, joy!" >> >>I got my flu shot. This time it didn't make me feel bad. > >I don't have to get the shot. All I have to do is breathe the >air where the shots are being dispensed. I'm pretty sure >a shot would kill me. Talk to your doctor about it. They have other versions. >>BTW: Chicken soup really does work. > >Yea. Guess what wasn't on my shelves when I started this flu >cycle. I went out when I got better and got enough food for >my larder so I don't have to place myself in jeopardy again >this winter...except for milk and maybe some meat. Both will freeze. If you freeze milk, nothing bad happens to it. You need to be careful of the type of container it is in. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 1 Dec 2006 10:36 In article <c4cc2$456a56e4$4fe73b3$25337(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Ken Smith wrote: [...] >> Not all of it goes there. Some goes to the parts needed. The money >> changed hands but other than the repaired machine, nothing of value was >> created. There is now slightly less value in the economy. > >Start with any loss being the fact the machine failed in the >first place. Nothing lasts forever. The problem isn't as simple >as you're presenting here. We'd have to get into an entire *huge* >discussion about economics to resolve it. Try this definition >on for size. I am attempting to make a very simple example to make a point. Yes it is a simplification, but I claim that the idea that it is showing is valid. It is the wealth and not the money that matters. If it was just the money, the government could print enough to make us all rich beyond our wildest dreams. The government can't do that because the money is just how you keep score. It is wealth that really matters. ..... stopped here time to get going ........... > >S: (n) axiology (the study of values and value judgments) > >http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=axiology > >Then: > ><http://www.amazon.com/What-Value-Introduction-Axiology-2nd/dp/0875480772/sr=8-3/qid=1164596439/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/103-6419119-2470246?ie=UTF8&s=books> > >I am fortunate enough to have scored a first edition copy of this >book. As the FSU was collapsing I sent a (it was authorized by the >publisher who had no intention of a second printing at the time) >copy to a correspondant I had in Moscow at the time. > >I recommend this book, _What Is Value: An Introduction to Axiology_ >by Frodizi. > >> [....] > >>>>No, I never said anything about outlawing them. This is a question of the >>>>right way to look at what is happening in an economy. You have to follow >>>>the flow of wealth, not merely the flow of money. There are places where >>>>wealth is created and places where it is consumed. Pushing needless paper >>>>around was my example of a place where wealth is consumed. If you can >>>>reduce the amount of needless paper pushing, you can improve the economy. > >>>I'll leave you in BAH's hands for this one. She's made the point >>>that every piece of paper had, and may still have, a valid reason >>>for being. It only took a couple of hundred years to get rid of >>>the US "Tea Taster." > >> Yes and look how much things have gotten better as a result. We can now >> get PCs for less than a weeks pay. Back then we could have only dreamed >> about such computing power for so little money. > >Now you're getting into imports and a one world economy, the >capitalist dream world. > >Will the one world government be an Islamic republic? > > -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Eeyore on 1 Dec 2006 10:52 Ken Smith wrote: > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >Ken Smith wrote: > >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > > > >>>The price caps mentioned by Medicare leave me wondering what's > >>>going on. > > > >> If you want to kill a popular program, the first step is to make it > >> unpopular by messing it up. Then the public will agree to have it > >> terminated. You can also force the reduction in the size of the federal > >> government by running up unsupportable debts so that they have eventually > >> to either default on the loans or downsize massively. Both seem to be at > >> work today. > > > >History elsewhere has had governments default on loans. > > It usually is quite a disaster for the populace when that happens. I > believe that the current path the US is on leads to the US defaulting and > the economy crashing. Right now it is looking like we are about to tip > over into a down turn, but I don't see this one as the one where it comes > home to roost. The dollar and pound are nearly 2 for 1 now ! Graham
From: krw on 1 Dec 2006 11:31
In article <ekpajd$8ss_010(a)s920.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > In article <MPG.1fd8f934cc0c9057989d50(a)news.individual.net>, > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >In article <ekmifn$8ss_002(a)s886.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > >> In article <MPG.1fd79bef70af1ed3989d3d(a)news.individual.net>, > >> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >> <snip> > >> > >> >It's not a "3" it's "=3F" (the code-point for the apostrophe). I'm > >> >not sure what I did (it just happened recently). If someone has an > >> >idea how to fix it I certainly will! > >> > >> Did your system get hexed? > > > >Apparently! ;-) Maybe it's fixed, dunno. > > Well, now I have itch that can't be scratched. Your > aberration seems to have disappeared. I HATE that > when it happens. TW always blamed a cosmic ray. After > haunting the s.p. newsgroup, I learned he was telling > me a fairy tale ;-). Lloyd had it pegged. Somehow the code page got changed. I didn't go in there and mess with anything so I don't know how it happened. I hope it wasn't some secret keyboard combination. It looked fine when I typed it so I didn't see it happen. Gremlins. -- Keith |