louislouis

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by louislouis 15y ago
I'm gona take a wild stab in the dark and say megaupload has freed a lot of servers lol.
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by louislouis 15y ago
Awesome work, I'll be keeping this in mind for my next video player needs :)
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by louislouis 15y ago
Your argument is void because the buyer never finds out what conditions the products are made in unless the factory workers protest such as in this case. Social responsibility is not part of the sales pitch, all the buyer see's are the shin
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by louislouis 15y ago
A prime example of why money needs to be taken out of politics. It takes all this shouting from the 99% but nothing speaks to the congress members like the sweet dollars of the 1%. If wikipedia was able to raise $20M in donations, an anti-s
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by louislouis 15y ago
Pay is certainly a good thing. But perhaps the companies need a heavy touch of social responsibility as part of their manifesto. Unfortunately social responsibility does not fly in the name of profit. That is what I mean by exploitation.
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by louislouis 15y ago
I'll assume you're bringing up those 2 countries as a direct comparison to North Korea and China? Correct? China seems to be doing alright for now. As for NK? Well when the country was formed, it got the better half compared to South Korea,
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by louislouis 15y ago
I'm not just talking about China. It really doesn't matter which country the factories are in. The poor will always get exploited. Be it child labour in India or Indonesia, or closing of GM Flint Michigan. Exploitation of the poor is at the
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by louislouis 15y ago
It's called the choice of capitalism for the poor. Basically get exploited or don't eat.
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by louislouis 15y ago
"Instead of the raise they requested, these workers were given the following ultimatum: quit with compensation, or keep their jobs with no pay increase. Most quit and never got the money." That's a pretty shitty thing to do. Had the manufac
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by louislouis 15y ago
Well there's only so many dictators we can knockout at any one time. We've been targeting those oil rich countries in the past decade where the ROI will be worth our while. The minerals of North Korea do look pretty sweet but we need some t
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by louislouis 15y ago
hong kong baby
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by louislouis 15y ago
Hmmm... It's rather convincing when you put it that way.
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by louislouis 15y ago
Yes but shouldn't the demand for stock be translated into the stock price going up? And not a backdoor to dilute the cake?
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by louislouis 15y ago
It's a joke that stocks can be diluted afterwards by insider offerings. Thats almost a license to print money. Surely theres a law for this scam?
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by louislouis 15y ago
Truthed. My friends company struck a deal with groupon in a strategic attempt to get more exposure, even though they sold their products at a loss. Yes their website got a large traffic spike on the day it hit groupons front page, but no, n
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by louislouis 15y ago
$3B profit or revenue? Theres a big difference. Revenue is just song and dance to look good in reports for investors.
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by louislouis 15y ago
I've been in HK for the past 2.5 years. The air isn't too bad. For example today, sunny and clear skies. I think it would only have a measurable effect on health if you were to live here 30+ years. I would say in any given week, maybe 1-2 d
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by louislouis 15y ago
How the hell can u work like that for a number of hours at a time? The weight of the laptop on your legs, not to mention the heat from the fan must make it bearable for only a short time. A desk/table for minimum requirement surely.
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by louislouis 15y ago
Did you ever consider Hong Kong as one of your possible locations to migrate to? And what made you decide against it?
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by louislouis 15y ago
The thinness is definitely cool! But controlling the device through bending gestures doesn't seem all that intuitive. I would rather have a thicker easy-to-use phone. Next step is to get touch screen on that.
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MIT Fog Collector extracts drinking water from thin air(web.mit.edu)
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by louislouis 15y ago
"The Chinese treasury uses $1T in USD reserves to stop the run on the bank." How does it do that? Do you mean the whole money is an illusion thing? And people only work when they have trust in the government backed bills? Cos this argument
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by louislouis 15y ago
Ok, so your overall point is that "Chinese now have dollars that buy 1/2 as much as the dollars they used to buy the treasuries". But isn't this due to inflation and the dollar becoming devalued due to sub-prime disaster and overall global
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by louislouis 15y ago
"the way China subsides its own banking system in such a way that $3 Trillion in reserves is somewhat illusionary" Care to expand on this a little bit? I don't quite understand
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by louislouis 15y ago
Holding $3 Trillion in boring American gov securities seems like a safe way to shelter itself from price fluctuations if the FED decides to play with the interest rates.
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by louislouis 15y ago
The video is too small on the front page, double the size. Also list all the benefits of sharepad on the front page, what can it do for users etc.
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by louislouis 15y ago
can you give some examples of some cool things this can be used for? I watched the youtube video and checked out the site but I'm still a little confused. What I got was you can control stuff on your PC from you iphone? So nodeler creates a
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by louislouis 15y ago
"The next night, Friday, October 19, 2007 at 10:24pm" Was there a time-machine involved overnight or is it supposed to be 2008?
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by louislouis 16y ago
only in death are you truly free.
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by louislouis 16y ago
A fourth risk: Fed raises interest rates then your monthly mortgage payments cost more than renting and hopefully not more than you can afford.

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