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Then again, it could actually be temporary. Remember January 2014? The world didn’t end. No way of knowing till it plays itself out. Or the Fed starts up QE4 🙂

The situation bears(hah!) watching, but I don’t see the world ending tomorrow either. Keep enough cash around for comfort, but don’t panic either.

And repeat after me: individual. stocks. ain’t. the. indices.

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the bloodbath continues…

Meh. Not that bad today by comparison. Dow is actually up a bit.

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Interesting question: Ebola combined with flu season. Could the flu symptoms (coughing, sneezing, etc) aerosolize the germ?

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Yep, East Coast cities do it as well, but the cost is approx. $50 vs $500 in CA. Enough to deter people from running lights without reaming people who stop 6″ past the white line.

Question is, why not set up the cameras to ticket for a small amount if you just cross the line, rising to a higher fine if you actually enter the intersection above say 10 mph? That would serve both deterrence and fairness.

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Afaik — some camera tickets are snitch tickets. You basically have to own up to driving the car since they don’t have a pic of your face.

Look it up and read the ticket very carefully before admitting to anything.

It may seem dishonest not to own up to something that you’ve done, but the level of fines for pig-camera offenses in CA amounts to pure fucking theft. Especially if you slowed down to 2 mph and looked both ways before turning right. (zero safety issue, practically speaking)

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In theory, yes. I believe they use a magnetic detector coil that detects if you’ve passed the “stop” line after the light turns red. The right turn lane could just not have a coil.

As far as a “shared lane”, the coil could be placed in the middle of the intersection, which right-turning vehicles wouldn’t cross.

But, to be safe, I make sure not to turn on red at camera-infected intersections. Let the people behind me honk, fume, and have their b.p. readings rise 50 points. It’s the least that they deserve for voting crooks who implemented red light cameras into orifice(*).

(*) – Misspelling deliberate.

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My goal isn’t to avoid suspicion. It’s to tell the watchers “go fuck yourselves with a pointy object.”

As far as DVR power consumption, no reason why a DVR can’t run an SSD (low power, no noise) and handle connection mediation via a cloud service. Mediation via a cloud service would not require the service to have access to image data, which would only be sent peer to peer.

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Did you bend over to kiss Larry Page on the “cheeks” as well? 🙂

BTW – a properly designed cloud-free system should work out of the box as well. i.e. a DDVR doesn’t need to be difficult to set up. Most are, but that’s because of an excessively complicated UI and a surfeit of options, not because the technology need be hard to master.

I’m not anti-Google, but I just choose to limit my usage of their tech to CyanogenMod with minimal Google services, and to actual search which is their core market.

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Ebola will save us(*) — after all, there can’t be much -genic without a lot of anthropo 🙂

(*) – us that will remain.

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Much barking, little biting. I wouldn’t worry too much. I’m more worried about an expansion of police state tactics in the name of security than about an actual terror attack.

Two of the sources are also Faux and Breitbart, as credible as they are…

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Never got why 9/11 pushed Americans to accept violations of civil liberties.

A few thousand people died. So what? More than 10x that number of people die of car crashes and gun violence every year in the US, and people scream bloody murded whenever their rights to drive or own guns might be infringed.

Talk about hypocrisy.

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Kindly open your eyes, look at a long-term graph of the S&P, engage your brain, and think whether a perpetuation of the sawtooth pattern seen since 1995 is a good idea. Or if it qualifies as stability for that matter.

A hard uptrend over 3 years actually proves my point rather than detracting from it, given a bigger picture. Right. It will be different this time…

Think on this. The worst crash between WW II and the 2000s was 1987. Took about 33% off the S&P 500 with a quick recovery, under two years IIRC.

By contrast, 2000 was a nearly 50% event, then eight years later, you had 2008, which hit the S&P 500 by *over* 50%. 2000 crash took ~5 years to reclaim the previous high from the nadir, 2008 took ~4 years.

If you think that the below qualifies as stability, I’d really like to try the kind of acid you’re dropping…

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But now that they’re no longer doing it, the future result is an open question.

Though I disagree that inflating certain classes of asset prices qualifies as “stability” — what goes up quickly is more likely to come down.

Stability would have been a continuation of the gradual increase seen till about 1995, not the violent sawtooth cycles peaking in ~2000, ~2007, and ??? since then, with both downward legs being much faster than the upward legs.

What we’ve had since the mid-90s has been (deliberate?) instability. If you think otherwise, you’re barking delusional. Or just using an extremely limited time scale.

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S&P also dropped during the times I mentioned.

There’s a lot of political pressure on Yellen to cut QE regardless of the state of the economy now, so any negative data will be passed off as temporary. Only a month (and one employment report which hopefully will be “just good enough”) to go. YAY! YAY! YAY!

BTW, the upward channel since 2012 has been coincident with (OMG, YOU GUESSED IT!) active QE. Look at a graph 🙂

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i- Saving craploads and sh!tloads of money so I could not only buy a PALACE (by LA standards) I could probably afford a NICE car as well 🙂 instead of living like a pauper in LA.. making 6 figures and down and out LOL! Ok..exaggerating a bit but still trying to make a point 😀

If you’re gonna go that route, better off buying a modest house and a few fo’closures, renting them out, then telling your boss “buh-bye, go screw yourself” when you end up with enough rental property to support yourself. (Keep doing whatever you do full-time on a contract basis to keep busy.)

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