Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Bloomberg Originals" channel.

  1. "Same infrastructure" is a simple lie. If it's more than 15% hydrogen, you can't put it through an oil, water, or LNG pipe. Hydrogen is a very special, very tricky, litle atom, and it needs very specialized piping. Everywhere. All through your system.
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  2. Meanwhile, Russia can't built a modern tank because of the embargo on up-to-sate electronics, apparently. Great if true. Slava Ukraina.
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  3. Kevin Slimeball O'Leary was the perfect person to pick: the totally most representative figure in the whole lunatic dishonest mix.
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  4. They already have, Bobby. The feedback loop is one of the most central parts of the whole proposition. There's a story in this week's papers and news programs about a guy speaking through a computer from electrodes planted in his head. This is a version of exactly the dreams/plans that people like Grey Walter were publishing when I first started reading about computers in about 1948.
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  5. "...or sink it into the sea." Shure. If it's in the sea, it's gone forever, right?
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  6. Vaughan, Obviously the opposite is true: thousands of ships manage to drive through there routinely every year without having this problem.
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  7. How is it "militarization" of the South China Sea now but it wasn't when the French moved into Indo-China, when the English took over (and named) the Spratleys, and then, more recently, the United States started filling the joint up with aircraft carriers?
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  8. Tech is knowledge. We share it, just like we share sunlight. The most important thing America taught China was what a middle class consumer society needs made. When America wanted to buy it they sometimes taught their Chinese suppliers how to make it. For their, America's benefit. I notice that on simple things made in China the Chinese routinely improve on what we originally sent over. A simple example: a plastic dustpan I bought at Dollarama for a dollar. It is more rigid than the American one I owned before, and has a ragged edge on one side, useful for brushing fur and hair off the hand brush I use when I tidy up the corners of the floor. Some models, at the same price, have a rubber edge for a tight connection with the floor. An altogether superior product to the things it is replacing.
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  9. How is talking about some "China" or "United States" as actors in this game not truly weird? These are certainly places where stuff happens, but that these are countries which act is surely a notion that needs some circumspection. Slightly obliquely to this, there seems to me to be a very odd bias in the way these people -- like perhaps most commentators -- assume that actions normally have the results desired by the actors. When countries are the actors involved, this seems to me a very dubious thing to assume. The 180-degrees polar opposite seems to me much more plausible.
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  10. It's a question of what direction one develops in. America is highly developed in profitability,. The production of value, maybe not so much.
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  11.  @netiturtle  You mean like when Third World countries take out World Bank loans to build infrastructure for American-owned extractive industries across the whole planet?
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  12. Look at those hunched shoulders, squinted brows, tight voice. This is one tight, scared little boy. -dlj.
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  13. "Recklessly pollute"? China is in fact moving aggressively to clean up its pollution -- while it is still a developing state. The West is responsible for most of the pollution out there simply because the West -- Europe first, then the Americas -- has been throwing crap into the atmosphere for 250 years. Yet we only started to clean up after we got rich and it was easy to afford. Could we have just a wee tad of balance and context here, puh-leeze? -dlj.
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  14.  dougaldouglas8842  "not enough that 70 per cent of the world's mass is water," you say, Doug?" Uh, no. That looks like utter lunacy, but I'll be charitable and suppose that you're just confused: roughly 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
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  15. Wrong. We've been changing the layout of our roads ever since the horses left town, and deaths per passenger mile have gone down monotonically. Everything gets changed all the time; the question is just whether we change them thoughtfully or not.
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  16. You haven't seen this thing. It's not a thing. It doesn't exist.
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  17. This story tells us about some thieves who got caught stealing brinze idols. Somehow they don't mention what happened to all the gld ones.
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  18. : India, like China, will have it easy as long as it's simply a matter of burning more oil and copying Western capitalism. Then when they've copied the obvious stuff -- railroads, golf courses, McDonalds, all financed with funnypaper -- they find themselves in the position of Japan in 1980, and don't know what to do next. But for the next ten years India is going to be generating billionaires and air pollution like they were going out of style.   Which they are. -dlj.
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  19. You were doing fine until you fell right off the edge with your idiocy about Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs simply stole the ideas Xerox-PARC had worked out and put them in a nice package, the Apple with lovely teak sides and then the Apple III, the plastic version, which competed neck and neck with the IBM chiclet-keyboard machine. The personal computer revolution happened when people put genuine keyboards in front of Bill Gates' version of Basic with decent keyboards -- but, uh, the information-industrial revolution got going around 1725~1829 when Stephenson married coal power to calculus. Google up "Stephenson Rocket" but take a look at the hundred years before that.
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  20. Try "portraying" maybe?
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  21. We're all agreed that the drone's sound effects at 0:41 are bogus, right? Showing off your taste for the phoney is a fine way of establishing yourself in scandal studies, isn't in? Fer shure.
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  22. Not even that, Clap. He speculated about a notional bunch of multi-phase ACs which didn't pan out. Tesla was a very verbal, and possibly high-IQ, man, but he invented nothing of any real use. His patents are mostly silly little fribbles added to imaginary auto parts. His single accomplishment was picking the right side in the Westinghouse-Edison debate, and attaching himself to it like a limpet to steal reflected glory from Westinghouse, and implicitly from Faraday and the other early and genuine inventors of electric power.
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  23. "Game changing news," the guy intones. Funny, I thought change was the name of the game. Silly me. You mean the guy is talking total nonsense? On YouTube? Oh, Noooo!
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  24. Max, The US exports guns, you silly bunny.
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  25. It can: wood, for instance, is a building material.
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  26. In 1965 I interviewed a guy, on behalf of the CBC's This Hour Has Seven Days, who had capped, he said, 17,000 old gas well in the Niagara Peninsula. His reas, he said, was that he expected the empty space to be useful for some unspecified, perhaps unknown, reason in the future. Anybody heard anything in the 55 years since?
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  27. Is one allowed to point out to these commentators that the thing doesn't exist? There is no "hyperloop" anywhere.
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  28. There was an old and interesting theory, started by a guy named Hobshwme, that the entire British Empire was just a scheme for the English Lords and Ladies to rob the English working class, running the money and the blood through a long involved and meaningless path all around the planet. The most convincing bit of support for this, to my mind, is that a whole lot of other people who never had the planetary empires did as well or better than the English on the whole through those centuries. This comes to mind as I watched this video: can this whole fracking thing be just a Ponzi scheme, with the oil, the drilling, the steel, the huge exchanges of real estate and licenses and laws and all the noise and what-not, all of that as meaningless as the British Empire? If this video is correct, the crash to come is going to be reeeeally weird!
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  29. There's a technical term for this sort of promotion: it's called a balloon note. That rate only lasts three months. Then it jumps seven-fold or so. Oops. I checked. Seventeen-fold. Your two bucks a month becomes $34.99. And your bank will probably round it off to thirty-five bucks.
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  30. There's a very bad, and very stupid, mistake at 2:59. It says "From 1970 to... the US imported most of its oil from Saudi Arabia and Russia." This is beyond false: it is kindergarten illiterate. This is so ignorant and crazy, I hope somebody can get through to Bloomberg, fire the author and his supervisor, and replace this with a corrected video on this important topic. US corporations make huge profits from Saudi Arabia, but the US has never imported any significant oil from there, nor from Russia. Both of them sell to Europe, China, and Japan. The US is self-sufficient, and I the years when it wasn't, it imported from Venezuela, West Africa, and Canada.
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  31. Even a one-ton gold asteroid would stop the price of gold dead or worse: it would mean there's more out there so it's no permanent store of value. A mountain-sized chunk of nickel or tin dropped any place accessible, e.g. into the middle of the Australian outback, would crater the price of the stuff for a generation. Anyone with the billions needed to start pulling these stunts might, just might, get some return on their money. Given the price uncertainties involved, there aren't any sure and easy trillions here. Bloomberg should be ashamed of themselves, putting their name on this nonsense.
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  32. The EPA overview on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – known as PFAS: https://www.epa DOT gov/pfas/pfas-explained
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  33. Historically low unemployment. Inflation? Higher prices, yes -- and higher wages and incoms precisely to match.
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  34. Majority of jobs will be done by machines? Doesn't get much stupider than that. 99% of the ditch digging jobs are already done by machines, and I haven't had to ask a telephone operator for a number in the past forty years. -dlj.
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  35. Jason, Illegals can't vote.
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  36. The reason she says that is that crimes are down in New York. Check your facts before you post, OK? -dlj.
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  37. thomas boisson And vice versa. In New York it's murders that are down. Furrin diplomats double-parking their limousines is as bad as ever. The main point is that, as always, Trump is lying, lying and then lying. Trump is double worrisome: it's not just that his lies are so much worse than Hillary's fibs, which are mostly defensive little reactions to petty annoyances. Trump's lies very often seem to be the result of not strategy but of either massive ignorance or a pathological indifference to the fact that truth and untruth are two different things. There is no doubt the man is a world champion salesman, but he's also a total fruitcake. -dlj. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state
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  38. Apple is a fashion company -- just like Coca-Cola, or those jewellery and furniture outfits Buffett has invested in. That "Hathaway" in his company's name? Shirt company. Pure fashion design, just like Apple. -dlj.
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  39. Pretty sad apology by White House spokesman Deese. His repeated references to US "leadership" are quite simply incorrect. I'm putting it politely. Some in the US would like to lead. The fact is the US is crippled by know-nothing Republicans, lunatic "religious" figures, and outrageous business lobbyists. Deese and the White House would serve America better by being frank about how they have tried and failed to lead. Cap and Trade, after all, is an American invention, dating back to work in California -- the settlement between PG&E and the Environmental Defense Fund (a Rockefeller front organization), in 1977. As with Obamneycare, we find the left adopting the business originated solution, and unlike Obamneycare, a giveaway to the insurance industry, Cap and and Trade makes sense. It is silly of the White House to, uh, whitewash, America's failure here. -dlj.
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  40. Tony, Why are you concerned about "net positive energy"? The input, wind is free. What they're doing is converting it into electricity, a form of that energy that we can move around and use. That's a win.
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  41. This is Trump being a loser, bigtime, right?
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  42. Suddenly Carl Icahn is all over everywhere. YouTubes, newspaper opinions, talk-talk-talk-talk-talk. You don't think maybe the fact that he just lost his shirt last week doing business with Donald Trump might make him want to run away from the office? This looks to me like a guy desperately acting out escape from facing up to what he's just done. -dlj.
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  43. ...all of which leaves Harvard with egg on its face for not letter the Empress-in-Waiting back for postgrad work... -dlj.
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  44. Defenseless, The reason you're defenseless is this is a battle of wits. The fact that Ford can make money on these cars in Mexico doesn't mean they could have made money on them here. Ford is keeping jobs here, and creating jobs where there are now opportunities -- which will mean new investment, design, parts, maintenance, management and suchlike upline jobs here. -dlj.
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  45. MrDefenseless You ask "So let's use your "million dollar" analogy. Who's getting the Million dollars from Ford? Mexico or the U.S.? Mexico right? Who should be getting it? The U.S. We get nothing, Mexico gets our jobs and do you honestly think if it made business sense that Ford would outsource to Mexico rather than do work here in the U.S.? " If the Mexican workers and the Mexican market for the small cars didn't exist, the jobs wouldn't exist. I can make cake in the kitchen. I can't make cake in the bedroom. If I make cake in the kitchen, it doesn't mean I took it out of the bedroom. -dlj.
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  46. MrDefenseless I hesitate to contradict a person with your obvious deep understanding of automobile marketing, finance, and assembly. Still it seems to me there's another possibilty. It seems to me that thanks to NAFTA and freer trade everybody is getting a wee bit better off. For the Mexicans this means there's an emerging middle class, or workers making decent money for the first time ever. They're ready to buy cars for the first time. Small cars. This means they'll be shopping around for something cheap. Maybe a made-in-Mexico Volkswagen. Or Fiat. Or maybe even a small cheap Ford. If there is such a thing. Do you think that might be a possibility? -dlj.
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  47. MrDefenseless You are defenseless: you've left your machine unattended, and some half-wit has come along and posted under your name while you were away. Your fool friend doesn't seem to remember that you don't make money without serving others. -dlj.
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  48. George Costanza No, not at your expense. They have got jobs making cars for their markets, paid for with their labor. Economics 101? No, just common sense. Pull yourself together and stop polluting the Internet with idiocy, wouldja?
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  49. MrDefenseless   Defenseless,   I'm certainly not arguing with you.  You're not in the game.   Ford has created some jobs in Mexico because there are markets in Mexico.  Why you think this is Mexico "taking away" jobs that didn't exist when Mexico didn't have a market for small cars escapes me entirely.   Before Ford started making them there, Fiat and Volkswagen has the market for cars made in Mexico all to themselves.  Get it?   Because of their expanding markets, there is now an expanded market for Ford after-market parts -- from the US to Mexico.  That, however, seems to be a thought entirely too subtle for you, so I'll just leave it there for you to think about.   -dlj. 
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  50. George Costanza George, Since 2008 being a finance major has not been a very good credential to advertise in public. Your claim that America can't afford to do good any more is moronic: the point of all commercial transactions is that they do good -- for both sides. Win-win is not something you have to be able to do. It's something you can't afford not to do. I don't think that you're moronic. That you are probably a bright lad suggests that you are locked into some silly ideological prison of your own construction. Cheers, -dlj. GMAT 750.
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  51. George Costanza I guess the point is sarcasm doesn't travel well on the Internet, and I should remind myself of that fact more often. My apologies. I should also not indulge in it myself. Poor Defenseless identifies himself correctly, and needs to be taken in hand gently and instructed in words of one syllable. Excuse me, "taught with short words." That gets around the three-syllable "syl-la-ble" problem. Cheers, -dlj.
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  52. MrDefenseless Defenseless, I don't think I'm acting "like a genius." I think I'm acting like a guy who can read the papers and think about how companies serve customers. You seem to me to be the one pretending that you're a toddler. The idea never occurred to me. I don't know any toddlers who type as well as you do. Sure Mexico will sell a few cheap Fords into the US. That's what's great about NAFTA. We all get the benefit of each other's work and investment. Because more Mexicans will be making a good living, they'll also be buying more American-made cars upscale. Like those Mercedes-Benzes made in South Carolina maybe... -dlj.
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  53. Short term answer might be because hte Mexican land, tansport, and labor costs are lower. Long term answer is obviously that without jobs the mexicans workers aren't going to be able to buy the cars. But the question for you is, why should the jobs be in Detroit and not in maybe Utah, where they don't have any car factories? Who are you, or Donald Trump, to be Commissar of Car Factories? And the other question you've gotta be askng yourself all the time, I'm sure, is how come all Donald's ties are made in China? Cheers, -dlj.
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  54. MrDefenseless So you are the Commissar of Cars in your dreams?
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  55. Uh, not Russia.
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  56. Ariel Victor That's pretty witless, Ariel. Democrats tend to have already served in Iraq. No bone spurs. -dlj.
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  57. Coupla poor lost decent Republicans, waifs wandering, mumbling, not knowing how to say something nasty without sounding like a Trump. Awwww. So sad.
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  58. +Justspent1k Nameless "Spent," Aren't most people at the moment? There are a few remnant decent Republicans, and like this gormless trio they are befuddled and stranded. Cheers, -dlj.
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  59. +Myoung-Ho Sin Kee-rect. The debt is covered by assets, which you don't bother to mention -- but they include the technology which helps produce that income. I take it you're not an accountant. Nor a very bright investor... -dlj.
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  60. Frank Underwood  Frank,   I'm interested in this charge that you, not Randy, make, that "America is failing."      You both seem to agree that social class inequality is growing, though he thinks it unjust, while you seem to think it is awarding justly earned huge wealth to these hard-working rich.    Assuming your accusation and your value judgement are sound, what then do you think might be the cause of this "failing" you identify?      -dlj.
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  61. Frank Underwood  If that's a question, the answer is "right up above at 12:14, where you say 2. Stop playing off your pathetic life as a reason America is failing."    If you are then saying "Oh, I see where I said it, but it was only an invention which I am attributing as a form of argument," then my question remains:  OK, within the confines of this discussion, just what failure do you have in mind?     And are you saying America was a failure in te past, when CEOs were paid lower multiples of line employees' wages?  Or that it would be a failrure in the future, if Americans divided their incomes the way Europeans do, rather than the present way, which seems to be more like Russians and Chinese?       Best,   -dlj.
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  62. "What happened to Scott Walker?" I don't think questions come much dumber than that. People found out about Scott Walker, is what happened to Scott Walker. -dlj.
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  63. All three points correct, and, uh, obvious and elementary. But what about American stupidity? My favorite is Chrysler, whose "pioneer" head in China -- years after they had subcontracted out the Jeep market there -- took two years to figger out that the head of the Party in his plant also happened to be head of the union -- and also happened to be his secretary. Like, Duh. Sleepwalk much? How many of these companies' staff in China can, ahem, read and speak the local languages? Think that might have anything to do with it? And then there's the question of the wily Orientals' suspicious numeracy. All these western companies have their books audited by Big Three auditors who are paid by and serve management. Hel-looo... You've lied to yourselves on your books, and you haven't gotten caught. Way to go Western business geniuses! So no, Bloomberg, your three little reasons are not the only three reasons Chinese competition rides you out on a rail. -dlj.
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  64. "Steven Alibaster3 weeks ago (edited) The globalists are afraid." Not afraid, Steven. Mildly concerned. There's a lot of stupidity making itself loud at the moment, but stupidity has never been in short supply. America will come to its senses eventually, and quite probably before November. President Hillary will congratulate Trump when the Post Office hotel opens, and if he's lucky his business will survive. Or he may run another string of bankruptcies in 2017, once he gets out of the Trump University court cases. This will hurt all his backers and suppliers, but it's never done him too much damage in the past. Long run everything will be pretty good. Always take care. Never be afraid. And good luck to you, -dlj.
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  65. Bryan Knight I was dead fucking wrong, and it's already going very badly. Wonderful cartoon in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago: a bunch of sheep lloking at a wolf that looks like Donald on a hoarding. The wolf is promising "I will eat you." One sheep says to some of the others "He speaks his mind honestly." Donald is being Donald, and his poor sap supporters are already the first to suffer. -dlj.
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  66. We've been active in space for fifty years now. Call it two human generations -- or 25 to33 Moore's Law doublings. If it hasn't happened yet, um, when do we call this a tired old saw?
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  67. No we don't. What are you smoking, Jerry?
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  68.  @cartman19892  Humor the poor child: he's been reading Tesla's idiocies.
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  69. Given that the forests are moving, dying out where the forest line has moved, growing new in the colder and more northern areas, nothing is easier than making a bogus claim that one is reducing carbon by putting one's name on some of the new stuff.
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  70.  @NoSpeechForTheDumb  Well said!
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  71.  @vylbird8014  All plausible but the last sentence. Tesla had nothing to do with it. An entirely frivolous universe of multi-phase ACs is one of Tesla's idle bar-stool verbal riffs, one of many loudly promoted ideas of his of no actual value. Tesla is the Oakland of technology. No there there.
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  72. "All this stuff was started by Tesla..." <Shows video of electric cars made before Elon Musk was born.>
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  73. JC, Wrong. This is typical YouTube work, weaving in and out of touch with reality and heavy on popular myths.
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  74. Net net, there is no "the world's hungry." (There are a very few hungry people -- all of them the victims of war, not food shortage.) The world's obese is the problem now.
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  75.  @timpike1616  Wey-yull, Texas isolating itself in its own grid so its people can freeze in the dark is not the most intelligent way of running things, is it? 'Course Texas isn't all of America. Thank goodness. (Spoiler alert: the first 386 coin laundries in Japan have dryers made in Texas in them. They do get some stuff right down there.)
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  76. Ma "didn't read the room very well." And this year's Oscar for Dramatic Understatement is, the envelope puh-leeze, "Jack Ma! Jack? </beat/> Jack? Uh... Where are those gentlemen taking Jack Ma?"
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  77. We already have those "giant batteries." It's called "pumped storage," and it's the water pumped uphill during the night by nuclear power, mostly in California.
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  78.  @marktwain368  It doesn't make any sense at all. The guy is living in a world of illusion.
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  79. Odd that Bloomberg should hire a woman who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "subsidy." Has Trumpism gone a wee bit too infective? She's making a Donnie Fats sort of error...
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  80. Before anybody invests in lithium, I suggest they consider Napoleon's aluminum (aluminium?) tableware. More valuable than gold at the time, worthless, at least as metal, today. The brokers are going to make a ton of money off selling lithium stocks. Gamblers are going to make a ton of money off the fluctuations. But long run the price of lithium is going to be like the price of aluminum. It will equal the price of the electrons it took to separate it out.
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  81. Diamonds don't "produce electricity," although your notion would consumer a great deal of it. We don't need more diamonds: the world already has boxcar loads of them, most of the jewelry-grade ones being kept off the market by the mining organizations to keep the prices high.
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  82. And after you've burned ten gllons of gas a month for forty years, that's going to make exactly how many key chains you can wear?
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  83. Bill Boeing was a bird-watcher. Um. Not a cost accountant.
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  84. I have a nice blue, paper, five yen note. Are you people trying to tell me this won't buy me a bento lunch, delivered by the guy on the motorbike -- the old Honda that we irreverently call the Divine Wind Noodle Delivery Service? Lemme guess: you must be those Bloomberg Originals, who offer me their service for $1.99 a month. You would never switch that out to $34.99 a month -- so I know my bento lunch is on its way. I can hear the motorbike now...
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  85. Um, "Trinity"?
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  86. 1.) Nice circuit-board, Woz, but who decided on the teak sides for the Apple, the thing we retrospectively call "the Apple I"? For all I know there were dozens of prototype-ish models out there in about 1967. The teak-sided one I saw was on a small Upper East Side network put together by the National Science Foundation, Alvin Toffler and Amitai Etzioni being two of the networkers.* 2.) I really love that bit about redesigning it to have five drilled holes instead of eight. One of the biographies of John D. Rockefeller has him critiquing a guy soldering the tops on oil cans and saving two drops of solder. "But my goodness, I saved millions that way" is roughly what he is supposed to have said. * Around that time, Etzioni wrote an article in I think Harpers, in which he touched on the subject of memory. He said, "Some things you never forget, like the list of German prepositions which take the (ablative, or nominative or some damn thing), 'aus, auser, bei, mit, nach, zeit, tsu.'." He forgot von.
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  87. Not an ounce of Jesus there. Pure American Protestant Evangelicalism. South Korea, at one point widely but incorrectly called "the most Christian nation on Earth," was for a few years one of the most popular markets for this racket. It's still in command in the US Midwest, and suppllies a crucial, my pure guess, 12% or so of the vote to make the Trump phenomenon possible. Yechhh.
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  88. Oil doesn't make a people prosperous. Guyana is prospering on its oil because they have one of the better education systems around.
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  89. Not quite, Nathanael. Tesla patented a lot of trivial adjustments around the edges of things. His only notable invention was the Tesla coil. It makes impressive sparks using weak power at high voltages, and involves no original invention. Just like the man himself.
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  90.  @lavorbitor9711  But who's counting?
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  91.  @monkeyman321  Give the Dakotas back to the buffalo!
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  92. Normally this would be a managerial and engineering error resulting in a major and expensive tragedy. Thanks to Donald Trump, however, this is a life-threatening event for Boeing itself. Trump has conjured into existence an America with no friends or Allies -- though Putin, Kim, Erdogan and such are his personal besties. America has competitors and opposite numbers now. Result? Everywhere in the world there are no mid-level bureaucrats who will be perfectly happy to take any opportunity to stick it to fat baby Trump. If that means delaying, or side-lining, or even cancelling, anything to do with a large, vulnerable American corporation, so be it. He's drawn a bulls-eye on Boeing's back, done wonders for Airbus.
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  93.  @kevinc9065  Kevin, Cam Ran Bay was a major American base first.
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  94.  @restoredsanity5546  You're confusing democracy and militarization, and not making sense about either. There is nothing democratic about eighty years of French rule and thirty of American domination of Vietnam, is there? As for the South China Sea, what's your theory, water should have a vote?
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  95. I have never understood Starbucks. Five bucks for a paper cup? Gimme a break. I think their going down the drain would be a plus for civilization.
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  96. Not a Japanese company: Mongolian! (That's why their name is "Japanese Industry," because that's what it isn't.) Set up by the Japanese Army in Mongolia when it was a Japanese colony. Moved to Japan in 1945...
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  97. First seven virgins, report to Red Cross for plasma donation, drop it off at my office promptly, as instructed, puh-leeze.
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  98. Can there be a stupider name than "Boom" for this thing?
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  99. "Driven by faith"? Maybe you missed the class when they taught the word "blasphemy."
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  100. Trivia du jour: at 11:30, note that "the East coast of Panama" is west of "the West coast of Panama." The northern and more easterly one, on the Caribbean, is west of the southern and more easterly one, on the Pacific.
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  101. The current "AI boom" is almost entirely bogus. What we are seeing is simply the continued advance of computer speed and memory size, the factors celebrated in Moore's eponymous, but rough and ready, "Law." There is no more intelligence in computing today than there was when System 360 came along in the early 1960s. Merest horse feathers!
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  102. I would have expected Bloomberg, financial specialists, to have noted the rise and fall of helicopters in clearing cheques. I'd like to know, has electronic banking taken the helicopters out of the paper-shuffling business?
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  103. Needs high voltages than we have now -- but moving power from the day side to the night side is an attractive thought, maybe yes, maybe no, for the future.
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  104. When the shot was taken Trump either wanted money out of Kravis or had recently gotten money out of Kravis. Very recently: Trump's gratitude has a half-life of any other artificially-created element.
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  105.  @mkkm945  It's really obvious. Apparently. That means it can't be simple: why hasn't it happened?
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  106. Artemas, Plausible as far as you go -- but you don't get around to the pro-Russian mob's largely successful attempt to steal Ukraine. Not to steal stuff in Ukraine, or from Ukraine. Steal the whole damn country. They got kicked out -- but not before getting out with billions, some of it through London, some of it through Cyprus (and just exactly what was Trump's Secretary of Commerce doing in Cyprus all those years?) and some of it through Russia. Manafort? Oh, merely Donald Trump's campaign manager...
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  107. We do. We just dial it down within households for safety reasons.
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  108. It lost money every flight every year. That's not one failure: it's thousands.
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  109.  @patkennedy1  Karma, Pat. The Republicans have confected a wonderful invention, a way of punishing themselves and anybody who falls for their guff. A small, ancient, reminder: Clinton left a balanced budget and a national debt headed down so fast that economists were beginning to worry about what they would do with a negative national debt. Bushlet destroyed all that toot sweet, but as usual the succeeding Democratic Administration went to work repairing the damage. Then along came Trump: seven trillion, with a T, in the hole in four years flat. A truly amazing performance! Made possible only by whole-hearted incompetence in containing Covid.
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  110. ​ @thomasmangold7489  I think you've got the right general idea, that Wiegand may not quite have accomplished the Millennium -- but you owe us a more thoughtful post if you want to make that point. The huge solar farms already in existence don't have the "flash to the ground" problem that you imagine, and "too thick conductors" don't seem to be a problem with the .75 megavolt lines we already have, so on the face of it you're just whining.
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  111. David, That would be a sensible post if what she is saying were true. It isn't. She's carelessly retailing currently popular nonsense. Somebody is promoting the name "Tesla" with tired old lies. I wonder who?
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  112. This item is inaccurate from the git-go, and its authors clearly don't understand the notion of prices. There is no practical sense in which the supply of gold is limited: it is a major component of sea-water, and that resource has hardly at all been used. South Africa is unusual in that its gold underground has been somewhat exploited: there has not yet been more than cursory mining of the Alaskan and California sources of two great gold rushes of the past. Typical YouTube nonsense.
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  113. It would have been nice if the reporter had found out why the peculiar shape is good, and how the design avoids "overspin," then told us. Instead the stupid editor has let the reporter get away with a stupid video. Not good work, Bloomberg.
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  114. "Made is a series of simple, gorgeous short films that demonstrate how everyday luxury objects are made, and honor the process and artisans behind them." Backward run sentences until reels the mind -- but is stainless or carbon steel a better blade for a guillotine?
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  115. Where's the "lesson"? Are they in jail? Did Granny get paid back? Somebody seems to have chopped off the last third of this video... unless, of course, the dummies didn't make that last third.
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  116.  @supremelyeducated3273  Not very well educated at all. Snowden's situation involved no hacking or cracking. He took a principled and valuable stance that the freedom of Americans depends upon the government being contained when it acts un-Constitutionally. A genuine patriot, unlike all the loudmouths of Fox-world.
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  117. I think that all this change, that is providing power for your sainted "future generations" as well as us, is provided by profiteers, Daniel. Some of them are even electrical co-ops -- which can only run if they make a profit.
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