Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. Not just Lehman but governments, other banks and states and the population as a whole.
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  2. Bob S I am in a similar position. Bought BRK for a similar amount now sitting at about $290,000.
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  3. Duke Ofhesse The officer has been made to resign. Be prepared from now on for the police to not actually call to these types of incidences. Why would an officer put their life on the line only to be sacked when ever they act. I have seen it happen in countries were politics interferes in policing and the police will not even go into areas.
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  4. Esquire What you are really saying is that government interference is key to banking. Politicians use banking and the monetary system as part of their political games. It allows them to use a really big unending check book.
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  5. And how is RT better? What they talked about was simple and easy to understand.
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  6. Or how about a student that is disruptive and needs to be removed from the room.
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  7. 9 out of every 10 millionaires are self made. They made their money by good finance and working hard.
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  8. ASML are a machin company Intel does not make its own machines.
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  9. No she is the PM. Therefore she can make that statement and there is nothing the parliament can do about it.
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  10. SO what you are saying is that no border should exist at all. That is just the stupidest thing I have every heard.
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  11. +LaRaikaa Plumbing and wiring means it is a house and not a castle. If you want it to be a castle then you have to go native and ensure that it is of the standards of the middle ages.
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  12. IMAX 70mm is actually different because it puts the film through the camera on its side. The 70mm format that Tarantino used runs through the camera vertically. SO when you watch the 70mm on Interstellar you are watching two different formats of 70mm. I hope that explains it for you.
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  13. This ruling is disgusting at best.  It is an attack on the liberty of information. They are blocking people from finding information 
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  14. Only liberals are mad.
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  15. A border fence, sensor systems and drones can make it very hard for mass illegal immigration so that only the most dedicated illegals could make it through so it would mean just a very small number rather than the 20 or million to that are in the US today.
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  16. Melvin Lee What about the black men who attacked that officer are they racist as well. Since they attacked the officer. Answer that will you.
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  17. Additional grain is not added in. Grain is like a texture that is present on the grade of film being used. It has nothing to do with resolution.
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  18. She was asked to leave the room and would not do so.
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  19. +tradertoursdotcom I use diversification to reduce risk. The old saying "..put all your eggs in one basket" is very real.  Now I do this in the knowledge that my returns are not going to be as spectacular but it is all about risk.  I cannot wait for the next recession so I can go out and buy lots of cheap assets.
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  20. Those houses are far nicer than modern tastes.
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  21. Aristotle Dreher The kids that were nice and polite were not the same that interfered with the arrest of that women.
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  22. I could almost guess who would be the opposition on this. There are people that really do not have American interests at heart and will pretend they are all about the workers when everything they do is to oppose it.
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  23. He has had 3 wives, several children and lots of friends. Life is what you make it rich or poor.
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  24. Taiwan is still going to be making a lot of chips. Moving plants to the US is to do with making sure the US has a secure production of vital components. TSCM, Intel, Samsung, IBM and so on all want to ensure that the US market gets attention.
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  25. Not everybody who works there needs to be an engineer. Some can be production technicians, fitters and so on. The US has an abundance of highly educated people with colleges spitting them out every year.
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  26. +Sean If you are buying with credit it means you cannot afford the watch and it also means that the person selling it to you knows this. And if they know this they also know that you are probably are not that good with finance and have a disconnect with money so they will try and sell you the highest they can because they know that you are not thinking of the long term aspect of the buy. In other words they know that people like this simply do not care if it is 1200 or 1800.
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  27. And what if you can afford it and want a brand new one for your wrist and not a second hand one. It is like saying everybody should buy a second hand car.
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  28. Web2 is not an exact technology and is more of a philosophy.
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  29. They are just not show on film at the cinema though.
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  30. Let me guess because the WSJ is not pro liberal Democrat you are not a fan of them.
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  31. Buffett's help would not have saved them that is for sure. They had really bad financials and nothing could help them.
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  32. Sergio Méndez There is no such thing as a respectful arrest. That girl was being arrrested and a group interfered. Are you suggesting that groups behavior was acceptable. The officer in question has been made to resign because there was Ferguson styled protests just starting. And next there would have been looting.
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  33. There is nothing wrong with a person defending them self with a gun. If there life is in danger they have that right.
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  34. A much bigger camera, more expensive and cannot be used on a whole film. When shooting a movie for IMAX 70mm they shoot most of the movie on 65mm.
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  35. The Hateful Eight was a good film. Not perfect but great.
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  36. Web 3.0 is not the same as web3. Web 3.0 is a set of loosely canonized protocols that would run web services. Web3 is an idea of decentralizing the internet. They are two different things to be honest. We are currently at a crossroads in terms of what direction we go in. Either the internet/web will become more centralized or it will go down the decentralized road. Both will have advantages and disadvantages.
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  37.  @nireviews8492  Film was still being shown up unto 2010 and beyond that even. The last film I seen was around 2012.
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  38. Not even close to it. 70mm has a resolution of about 18k and can form screen sizes so large that no digital cinema could come close to it.
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  39.  @renegade637  70mm IMAX at 15 perf is the largest cinema screens in the world. 65mm film projectors can make an image far larger and more clear than any digital cinema can do. Even 35 can do a larger screen. 35mm has a minimum resolution of about 8k. It is not even a contest.
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  40. 35mm film has a resolution that is about 8K. There are no digital theaters or home set up at that level. Then there is the fact that no digital system can match the color presentation of film.
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  41.  @LORDVADER357  There are very limited 8k projectors that get used in science museums as part of some display in the open floors. They are simply not cinema grade projectors though. Most cinema films today are actually 2k digital not 4k digital.
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  42. Film has a resolution of 8K digital is nowhere near that level.
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  43.  @generalralph6291  Such a concept is either going to intersect with ai or it is going to happen after the ai break development of the web.
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  44. Some people only want new. I am one of those people. I rarely buy second hand even though my Rolex was given to me by my grandfather I do not consider it second hand.
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  45. They are comfortable to wear, stay accurate and are very pretty to look at. I suppose they are like a good pair of shoes.
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  46. Mechanical watches always needed servicing. Even cheap electronic watches at some stage may need a new strap.
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  47. It is confusing because web 3.0 and web3 are two different things.
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  48.  @Anonymous_Lee19  No Lee it is not that. These are not my own views nor are they my own desires but just an explanation. The idea of the tokens/crypto is to take some of the financial power that corporations currently have and to have it distributed into the market place. The idea is that a user can take those tokens and use them to build on the net without the need for corporations to providing funding. So an enterprising user could build an organisation that could purely be constructed from those tokens. Every user will have access to those tokens. The key here is to understand that it does not mean a user will not have access when they have no tokens but if that user wants to trade or build they will require them. We also have a plug in our thinking hole in that we cannot imagine such a system with next generation technologies such as vr and ai. What exactly would such a world be?
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  49. I do not think Dorsey is correct on this. Web3 is more complex and futuristic than people imagine.
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  50. +Sean If you are buying with credit it means you cannot afford the watch and it also means that the person selling it to you knows this. And if they know this they also know that you are probably are not that good with finance and have a disconnect with money so they will try and sell you the highest they can because they know that you are not thinking of the long term aspect of the buy. In other words they know that people like this simply do not care if it is 1200 or 1800.
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  51. +Whrd Walker What about cold showers at the beach.
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  52. His point was that rappers have their culture of gold chains and bankers have their culture of watches. Now that does not mean Bankers do not wear gold chains or that rappers do not wear Pateks.
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  53. Bankers gave us the modern world. What bankers have done is allowed normal working people to buy homes. When there was no bankers people lived in houses belonging to rich lords and the land they farmed belonged to the rich lords. You need to think or do some research before you speak.
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  54. If your friends all drive Mercedes, BMW or Rolls and all wear watches the price of a house you are hardly going to impress them.
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  55. I am sure the person who buys the 35 grand watch will also go on cruises if they desire and they probably go skiing as well and Scuba diving. They probably fly business or first class as well. They probably drive a BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Rolls or Bentley.
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  56. It may keep working but it is a mechanical device that has wear within its movements and if you leave it too long it may require a complete overhaul. Depending on the watch every 5 years a clean up and check and a little lubrication will do it no harm.
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  57. Clearly you are hanging out with the wrong people. Everybody I know has a watch.
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  58. It had nothing to do with making money.
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  59.  @shuki1  It has nothing to do with wages. The US as a policy has tried to use their trading, manufacturing and inventory systems to make the world peaceful and to try and turn murdering countries into good guys. It just has not worked.
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  60. Only the left thinks of a tax break as giving subsidies. I be your region collected far more taxes over the period even though the rates were lower.
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  61. There is nothing wrong with Arabs. They have issues with their culture but that is not the same as saying there is something wrong with Arabs.
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  62. Spiritual? That is just mystical and holds no scientific value what so ever. Human consciousness is derived from electrical activity in the brain just as a worm has neural electro-activity in clusters. Pain is a chemical reaction in the brain and people who lack this chemical reaction can some times not feel pain. So are those types of people any less human in your eyes.
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  63. The 5nm sizes being claimed to not actually mean anything.
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  64. The US has a massive microchip requirement that is going to get stronger as the years advance.
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  65. I am assuming that you mean we have not dealt with all of mankinds problems. The type of science and technology that will take us to mars will also help us on earth.
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  66. Computing power is growing exponentially so by the time we reach the mid 2020s computing power will be more than what is required to do a human brain level simulation. A fruit fly simulation was not possible 20 years ago and neither was parts of the human brain. I remember 15 years ago that people said an insect brain could not be done and when it was point out that by 2010 there would be the computing power people did not believe this. This also applied to the human genome.
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  67. $50k is a start why be pessimistic when 20 years ago most of this would have been considered Science fiction. We will have the capabilities in 10 years to go to mars but will we is another question.
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  68. Are you claiming that pain is not part of the nervous system. Yes or no.
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  69. What if you construct a machine that is an exact replica of the body with nerves and also with nanotechnology cells that are an exact replica even down to genetics. Will that machine be able to feel pain.
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  70. It will more than likely occur in the 2020s. When there will be super computers that will have the power and the human brain will have been studied in enough detail for computer architecture to be constructed in a fashion that will allow brain computer simulation. The future is much closer than what people realize. We are now only starting to touch the surface of the concept of quantum computing and that will be truly revolutionary and the human brain will be tiny in comparison.
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  71. The technology that will allow us to live on mars will also be the technology that will transform our civilization. The things I talk of are nanotechnology, computing, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, energy abundance and space travel. Humans do not use 98% of the space on earth nor do we even use the oceans at present. Education and material abundance will get rid of the slums. Mars and the moon will probably be our first engineered space habitats. Its a brave new solar system.
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  72. Pain is a warning and defense mechanism even animals have this. Pain is also subjective as some people cannot feel pain. It is obvious you cannot prove any of what you talk about.
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  73.  @Izann1  When he is asked to leave he has to do so. The parents are nothing to do with it.
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  74. Technologies like Watson and Google Glass combined will enable very power intelligence amplification systems. So a 15 year old will being performing mathematics at the level of a Phd student.
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  75.  @Alexander-vg4ss  Socialism is not compatible with capitalism. It is like saying a little bit pregnant. Socialism is about complete control and ownership of everything from money, property and labour by the whole economy. That means you would not be allowed to own anything and would also be subject to the system of socialism. There is no half way in between. People confuse a social contract with socialism so you will hear people talking about fire service and police being socialism when they are nothing of the sort.
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  76. Many of them were hurt as well. Many lost their jobs, homes and careers after that. One minute they are working a 70 hour week getting very well paid the next they are struggling with their mortgage and with no end in sight for them. It was the banks board, government, state and banking industry as a whole that was to blame. The people you see in that video are only mid level management they are not the real deal or decision makers. Everyone you seen in that video was in the dark as to the decisions that were being made. I know somebody who lost their job in the financial industry and never got it back again. Today their life is a complete struggle and what they had previously seems like a dream. Some would have recovered but for every one that did there is a person who did not.
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  77. Part 1 5% of a billion is 50,000,000 were as 5% of a 1000 is only 50. It is not worth an everyday workers time to invest at only a $50 return were as with a billion it is a whole different ball game. Most active professional investors do not beat the market and that probably includes Cuban. The market grow at an estimated 10% aprox. Trust me it is very hard to beat the market. Was he a one hit wonder in making a billion in one go yes many people are.
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  78. He is a guy with money that has to invest it. His strategy can work if used sensibly. Now I am of the complete opposite and want diversification. My portfolio exist of money, land, stocks and shares, Index investment, Direct company shares, Agriculture and cash. My view is that hedged investments are a must so that you do not loose everything or get hammered. His strategy does work as well as long as you do not invest every penny you have which is more than likely what he does.
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  79. They took a massive hit of course but they are still there if you invested wisely. He did state some useful advice investing in the stock market is not wise for most people. And most people cannot out perform professional investment firms who employ all manner of analysts. If you notice he did not give any direct advise.
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  80. Governments have to invest and also see a return from their investment we cannot have a situation were government just sits there and gains its income of taxing people it makes not logical sense. They need to partake in the market and for people to stop thinking that the market is actually government that is one of the reasons that so many governments are in massive financial trouble.
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  81. Part 2 Elon Musk is an example of a person who has built 2 companies with billion dollar valuations. Can you name others please. Was cuban lucky absolutely not he went and pitched his company to Yahoo and managed a billion dollar plus sale (share options) Do you think that was luck or easy. Do you think the world works that way. Do you know how many people pitch companies everyday with out success. I have been involved in several failures.
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  82. I am sure he is laughing all the way to the bank. it still stands most people should not go near the stock market even profession active investors struggle to match the market. Over 60% of professional cannot even match market growth so Cuban is right and you are wrong.
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  83. Your sympathy is irrelevant. Many people lost their way of life because of the crisis. Some never recovered again.
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  84. The crisis was caused by government interference in the market place.
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  85. Some of you have hypersonic on the brain yet have no idea what it means.
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  86. H Ml The officer has every right to draw his gun when being attacked by multiple people. Are you saying it is acceptable for people to interrupt an arrest.
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  87.  @John-yg2rt  No they are a sound company that are a good investment. There are other companies out there with a similar outlook. They had a long track record and do not do anything crazy or stupid. When you invest you know what you will get.
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  88. And what do you do when they are American citizens maybe even 4th generation. And what about Americans who have converted to Islam would you deport them as well. And how would you deport them if they are from America.
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