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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