Non-IT News Thread
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NBC 12 says: "WE ALL HATE I-95 TRAFFIC....but this morning, when this man found himself in a traffic jam on I-95 near Westhaven Connecticut, he decided to shed all of his clothing and sit on the roof of his car. Police were called and transported him to a facility for a mental evaluation. Coincidentally, or maybe not, today is National Nude Day."
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He's obviously disturbed. Driving a Ford Focus? Really?
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@art_of_shred said:
He's obviously disturbed. Driving a Ford Focus? Really?
FORD:
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Hey, now. I'm driving a Ford these days... I prefer First on Race Day. 8-) ... Unfortunately, I tend to drive Flipper's close cousin -- an Escape. (The Ford Explorer was dubbed Flipper by my family because of the issue they had blowing out front tires and causing the vehicles to flip).
But I previously drove Chevrolet's (did anybody ever come up with an acronym for that one? LOL)
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Also commonly referred to as the "Exploder"
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@dafyre said:
But I previously drove Chevrolet's (did anybody ever come up with an acronym for that one? LOL)
there are a few TACHronyms around. some are quite humorous.
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National Geographic posts pictures of Pluto and Charon. Some really interesting astronomy going on right now!
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Pluto
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Charon
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@mlnews said:
Pitbull asks that everyone join in the Trump and Trump businesses boycott.
I'm not sure how wanting to make sure people only enter legally, rather than illegally crossing the border equates to Hate.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I'm not sure how wanting to make sure people only enter legally, rather than illegally crossing the border equates to Hate.
Trump has done things like refer to all Hispanics as Mexicans (Pitbull is Cuban, for example) and saying that Mexicans are rapists. None of this has much to do with border crossings.
There is a separate question, not related to Trump, around if having the inability to cross in legally is related to hate, but that's not the issue with Trump.
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Winged dragon fossil discovered: Dinosaur find: Velociraptor ancestor was 'winged dragon'
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In case anyone is not watching the markets, China lost 8.5% of their market value yesterday in epic trading which is pretty close to the theoretical maximum that the market there can lose in a single day as China as a 10% cap per stock per day loss before trading automatically stops. To lose anything close to 8.5% means that most stocks had to lose their full 10%, any little gains or non-maximum losses by any stock anywhere would keep them from having the full market lose 10%.
Today, they have lost another 1.7% already. This is after a 30% loss a month ago.
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And how is this not worse than Greece?
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@Dashrender said:
And how is this not worse than Greece?
It might easily be, but China is a tiny economy compared to Europe. China bursting their bubble is nothing compared to a true economic collapse in Europe. It's not on par at all.
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Keep in mind two things....
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This is market capitalization, not economic output. This isn't real money we are talking about. This is the amount investors are "trading China shares" for, it has no direct impact on what China is producing (but does make it harder for them to start new companies.)
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This is a bubble bursting, like the .com bubble of the early 2000s. People put money in like crazy with no clear idea how they were going to make profit - then people figured out that they were investing in nothing and it burst. That's all that is going on here. It's a market adjustment.
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Greece, which might stabilize, is a potential collapse with deep reaching ramifications in an economy so much larger than China's and the risk is in real money, not market capitalization. Wholly different things. The Greece situation is the biggest economic risk since 1929, maybe worse because the 1929 collapse was mostly fueled by market capitalization looses, not primarily loss of monetary exchange. The Greece situation is almost purely the later making it far, far worse.
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Maybe after Micro and Macro economics I'll understand what you are talking about better.
