Scratches to Sketches
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-thinks-intels-new-lightweight-processors-suck-2010-10
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/jul/07/scienceblogs-blogging-pepsi
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http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/07/the_pepsigate_linkfest.php
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However, read how the major writers fare:
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/07/scienceblogs_and_me_and_the_ch.php
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http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455
MIT and Global Warming:
Woods Hole has it's own ideas:
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7118
Read and learn:
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A major issue is the ease with which US firms relocate production to China and the low cost labour sources around the globe. This is not a bad thing for China, nor India, nor the Tiger economies of Asia. It's a bad thing for American employment. How do you figure moving the US exchange rate down somehow slows this process? To my mind, the weakening dollar reflects too many dollars doing bugger all but available to US companies to relocate their production outside the US. In fact, credit creation by George Bush accelerating the flow of jobs outside of America by making it easy for US companies to finance relocation. Dah!
The dollar's weakness is not really an advantage to America because it allows for inefficiencies in the American economy to grow. Cheapening American goods only allows US firms to be more inefficient.
The weaker US exchange rate does not slow down American imports which are due to relatively higher incomes in America. Americans have a knack for buying rubbish so a rise in the cost of this rubbish won't slow down the influx. What would slow down the inflow would be a change in the mix of goods to higher quality. This is not encouraged by weak monetary policy.
The idea that exchange rates going up or down affects trade is an old one, but the problem is that the arguments frequently neglect the mix in the value of trade, or put another way, higher incomes in America and saving would result in a trading up of the composition of imports by America. The fact that America imports more rubbish despite a weakening of its currency means that incomes in America are declining. Imports are remaining high even as the dollar value falls. The exchange rate does little to offset the trade imbalance which reshapes itself into a different mix of goods.
The perverse process of economics means that a stronger dollar might get US companies in America to produce the rubbish that it's customers seem to thrive on.
In none-rubbish products, however, a stronger dollar would force US firms to be more efficient. The problem is then that they avoid that process by migrating their production to China. So how does the exchange rate impact anything? Well, perhaps the US could consume quality rather than rubbish.
All in all, the problem is weakness in American domestic economic policy that encourages Americans to consume rubbish from China rather than quality from America. Figure that one out!
I think that maybe the solution is to force a slowdown in the American economy through more expensive money. This would make it more difficult to finance relocation in China based on credit funded in America. Perhaps, the problem is that it is too easy to relocate production to China while there is so much credit available in America to make it easy to relocate.
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Yes! A dollar based international financial system is inadequate, but it was America that saw and forced the Euro rise in value from well under a dollar to well over a dollar where it now stands, possibly as much as 60 percent decline on occasion. The financial institutions gambled away our children's future. It was America and Britain living well beyond their means that sucked in resources and acquired resources in an aggressive bid for world economic power by their largest financial firms.
A country that can't get it's act together on credit creation for wasteful development of it's property sector should not go around pointing it's finger at everyone else and say they are to blame. No, America, the buck stops with you. Your system is to blame for the present US and world crisis and more credit creation is not the solution. The American dollar printing press is not the answer.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303738504575567431511483738.html?mod=djemTEW_h
The answer is more discipline for the US dollar within a new international currency system based on a new IMF SDR mechanism in which credit creation for me sake of economic and political warfare and dominance is not rewarded. Yes, American, you have been fighting a war and there is a bill because you have not been victorious. That may be a shame, but it does not mean that you can acquire the assets of other countries with impunity just because your banks and financial institutions and derived monster companies gamble with those dollars your economy has created and cannot sustain. The dollar is weak because it is being used maliciously.
Under such a new international system all countries would be required to exercise discipline and the industrial countries would not be able to spend their way, gamble, their way further and further into debt the way Gordon Brown and the administration of George Bush did.
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From The New York Times:
Top Companies Aid Chamber of Commerce in Policy Fights
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a leading force against President Obama, has seen sizable donations from top corporations including Dow Chemical and Goldman Sachs.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/ipad-100-day-review-2010-8
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Does Obama's money mean monster farms in Britain one might ask? Is a farm of 8,000 plus cattle financed in US dollar credit seem right to you?
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The weaknesses in the Microsoft strategy to meet the challenges of the new age in computing reflect the problems of any overgrown organization languishing in the world of it's past successes, which incidentally we have all suffered through.
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Put another way, however, that banking systems allowing hedge funds to determine which innovators succeed may not be the best way to promote effective competition.
As regards the economics, one of the major weaknesses in Keynes General Theory was that it failed miserably on the question of innovation. Schumpeter's theory of innovation and business cycles equally failed miserably on the question of credit and banking within a managed economy that has an effective central bank.
Today, economics as a field and central banking as a subset of this field has failed miserably to understand the complex processes of growth, innovation, competition and inflation.
It is no good governments or central banks throwing more credit into a system or doing what is called financial easing. This process of reflation does not help create jobs, nor improve the chances of innovation, nor reduce the risks of inflation. What it does do is take the politicians off the hook. It seems like a solution, but it is a pipe dream of weakly understood economics. We are thrown into a destructive world of economics that the political do not really understand and follow accounting conventions rather than the economics of business cycles under the unsound influence of central bank credit creation weakly understood.
The economic policies during the past decade of Gordon Brown, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Bank were seen in hindsight to have been massively destructive. Rather than money going into job creation money went into the most destructive aspects of capital financing, over-investment in the business of speculation in property and stocks, highly suspect hedge operations that reduced effective competition and forced the closure and relocation of real economic activity much sooner than it would have occurred.
The reality is that credit creation and lax competitive policy spawned by poor understanding of risk financing can accelerate all the negative aspects of an economy at the expense of jobs and security. We see it with the ownership and fortunes of Manchester United football club and Harrods. Do we have to watch the economy micro-self destruct over and over again?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575565712776857050.html?mod=djemalertDEALS
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The world in effect has become much busier and we have become busier. People are more actively engaged as a whole whether peacefully or not.
In addition, we are communicating more and more through travel and for want of a better words, what I would call interpersonal presentations: talking, writing, painting, fighting, and a multitude of interpersonal behaviors, such as smiling, chatting, laughing, stroking, dancing, bumping, viewing, touching and so on.
The number of medias for communication has grown rapidly as has our incentive to communicate.
To enable us to be busier, our per capital incomes have also grown, nevertheless, there are enormous gaps between what the fortunate are enjoying compared with the unfortunate.
Our business is directly related to the access that we have to incomes and credit directly and indirectly. The influence of banks has grown in our lives both directly and indirectly.
The world because it is busier has a more direct dependency on banking as an institution. Thus, it is ultra important that we make sure our banking institutions are sound and our deposits with banks are both secure and valued.
The key word here is valued.
One of the big problems the world faces is the undervaluation of deposits. This happens when the amount of credit has grown too rapidly relative to our joint busy ness or business. When credit grows too rapidly business rather than growing slows down. The reason is because too much credit leads to lower valuation of savings, and lower valuation of savings leads to unproductive and wasteful investment or to ballooning of the valuation of goods relative to money.
This running away from the appropriate valuation of money is our major problem. It happens because credit growth in the past has been too rapid and as a result money has lost it's value and people buy stuff instead of money, and the stuff they buy is not real stuff but imaginary stuff, dreams that cannot be fulfilled.
Gambling is a direct result of the loss of value of money. When people decide to gamble they are taking a risk based on an imaginary payoff and winning more money. The money they already have is devalued to the point that the imaginary wealth arising from the dream of winning is more important than the building of sound deposits in a bank.
What has happened is the lower valuation of saving relative to gambling. It's not that risk taking per se is something we should not do, but risk taking is destructive if it is not based on an appropriate valuation of the odds. The problem is compounded when the mathematics of risk taking bear no relation to the taking of the risk and the risk taking is just a bad habit.
Habitual risk taking is not healthy and is destructive in a world where people are already struggling to make ends meet.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html
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Here are some pointers to the memory....:
http://www.picstop.co.uk/memory-cards/sdxc-memory-card
Here are some pointers to the new Canon Camera....:
http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Press_Release-v1_0_tcm14-779253.pdf
http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Specification_Sheet-v1_0_tcm14-779254.pdf
http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Technologies_Explained-v1_0_tcm14-779255.pdf
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Camera ....
http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/PowerShot_SX30_IS_Technologies_Explained-v1_0_tcm14-779255.pdf
Memory cards ....
http://www.lowpricememory.co.uk/sdxc-memory-cards-c-48
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