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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. MrDefenseless So you are the Commissar of Cars in your dreams?
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  5. Uh, not Russia.
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  6. Ariel Victor That's pretty witless, Ariel. Democrats tend to have already served in Iraq. No bone spurs. -dlj.
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  7. 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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  8. +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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  9. +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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. "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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  13. 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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  14. "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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. No we don't. What are you smoking, Jerry?
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  18.  @cartman19892  Humor the poor child: he's been reading Tesla's idiocies.
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  19. 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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  20.  @NoSpeechForTheDumb  Well said!
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  21.  @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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  22. "All this stuff was started by Tesla..." <Shows video of electric cars made before Elon Musk was born.>
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  23. JC, Wrong. This is typical YouTube work, weaving in and out of touch with reality and heavy on popular myths.
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  24. 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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  25.  @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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28.  @marktwain368  It doesn't make any sense at all. The guy is living in a world of illusion.
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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. Bill Boeing was a bird-watcher. Um. Not a cost accountant.
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  34. 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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  35. Um, "Trinity"?
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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40.  @mod.my.polo1  But who's counting?
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  41.  @monkeyman321  Give the Dakotas back to the buffalo!
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  42. 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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  43.  @kevinc9065  Kevin, Cam Ran Bay was a major American base first.
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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. Can there be a stupider name than "Boom" for this thing?
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  49. "Driven by faith"? Maybe you missed the class when they taught the word "blasphemy."
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  50. 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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