Comments on: When Will the Recession End?

By: Deeply Oversold Bounce, Not Green Shoots | The Big Picture

Deeply Oversold Bounce, Not Green Shoots | The Big Picture — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:25:12 +0000

[...] case in point is the absurdly foolish Green Shoots compost. As we have detailed since this nonsense first started spreading earlier this year, the data simply did not [...]

By: pmorrisonfl

pmorrisonfl — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000

@Mike in Nola
> On the Nautilus, I believe it was an older hull design and the Skipjack was one of the newer, faster round hull jobs.

You are correct; Mea Culpa on the facts, though the principle still holds.
I never built a Skipjack; I built Polaris sub models (showing my age!)

By: Why Diss Economic Forecastors ? | The Big Picture

Why Diss Economic Forecastors ? | The Big Picture — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:35:44 +0000

[...] of the comments in a post yesterday (When Will the Recession End?) asked why I am “always dissing on other [...]

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:22:31 +0000

Mike,

with the stock in a uptrend that you don’t believe, look to be Selling Calls, and raking the premium..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL

the June 135 Calls @ 4.15, for instance, are nice..

the June 140 Calls @ 2.29 are even more stupid..

note the Pricing mis-step between the 130s and the 135s, There be Idiots about, Sell to Them..

By: Mike in Nola

Mike in Nola — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:58:47 +0000

Forgot the link:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/campaigns/back_to_school

By: Mike in Nola

Mike in Nola — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:57:38 +0000

For the no-deflation crowd, here is Apple cutting prices Macbooks in a back to school promotion. Of course they aren’t saying they are cutting prices, but you get a free iPod Touch which list for a bit over $200. I’m still looking at puts, but the stock keeps rising, so I’m waitin.

On the Nautilus, I believe it was an older hull design and the Skipjack was one of the newer, faster round hull jobs. Showing my age, but I had a model of the Skipjack in grammar school.

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:13:34 +0000

cvienne,

our Problems are Political, not Technological, much like the Roman-era that you were referring to..

By: cvienne

cvienne — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:27:01 +0000

@MEH

Then THANK GOD…

We can all sleep soundly night after night…

all the while knowing that our SUPERIOR technology will far outstrip anything that anyone could ever think of for milennia on end…

That’s good to know…:-)

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:05:15 +0000

“Could be as simple as a handful of pebbles in the ‘wrong’ orbit, relative to the satellites.
Enjoy GPS… but don’t forget how to go old school, just in case.”

pm makes a good a point. it’s the flip-side to the over-reliance on sigint for intel. though, it’s also why I was mentioning the USN, and the Ocean(s)..

cvienne,

Iran, as a threat, is waay overblown, and, if you want to shut-down N. Korea, tell the Chinese. The PROC has been keeping them on the hoof, for decades..

By: pmorrisonfl

pmorrisonfl — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:18:44 +0000

@cvienne
> Anyway…what would it take to disable satellite transmissions?

Could be as simple as a handful of pebbles in the ‘wrong’ orbit, relative to the satellites.
Enjoy GPS… but don’t forget how to go old school, just in case.

There are more things in the world than are dreamed of in any man’s philosophy. It’s certainly worth thinking about them.