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by glennds
Wed Mar 10, 2021 5:24 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

China has the Great Firewall Of China. The Vatican has the Great Firewall Of Hell. Because in addition to the forbidden pictures going into internet time-out, glennds is now condemned to an eternity in the flames. They say there's a heaven for those who will wait Some say it's better but I say it a...
by glennds
Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:01 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 398626

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

I've read that the average testosterone level in American men is half of what it was decades ago, for various reasons. I'll bet a huge number of them pee sitting down. Didn't you know? The Democrats took away that right a long time ago. Except for women who identify as men, in which case they are r...
by glennds
Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:18 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Southwest?
Replies: 23
Views: 9806

Re: Southwest?

Berkshire sells airline stocks https://onemileatatime.com/warren-buffett-airline-stocks/ "When we sell something, very often it’s going to be our entire stake. We don’t trim positions. That’s just not the way we approach it any more than if we buy 100% of a business. We’re going to sell it down to ...
by glennds
Tue Mar 09, 2021 1:40 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

Stunning, glennds! Wow! Really amazingly great. I'm not sure that the issue here is copyright. I think the issue is that the Vatican agreed to forbid picture-taking. I could be wrong, though. Thx Xan. I think both issues are at play, though now only the latter. The exclusive photography licensing r...
by glennds
Tue Mar 09, 2021 1:00 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

The ceiling itself belong to the Vatican, certainly. The idea that copies of the images on the ceiling can be owned is new. In fact, they don't own those images. But what they CAN do is keep you from taking pictures of the ceiling. Correction, what they CAN do is TRY and keep me from taking picture...
by glennds
Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:19 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

One complication of reduced copyright terms is the fallacy that the value of the work is linear. Think about the fact that most artists died long before their work was fully appreciated, Picasso being one notable exception. But for Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet, it was long after their deaths that thei...
by glennds
Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:24 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

It's interesting how the default has shifted from creative works being "in the air" to being OWNED. For the vast majority of human history, there was no "owning" a story or a song or a sculpture or whatever. Under the Constitutions original copyright provisions, the Beatles would have "lost" the ri...
by glennds
Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:51 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

The bigger issue here is actually copyright. Originally, copyright in the Constitution was 14 years. It may have been renewable once. Copyright is a relatively recent (1600 or so, IIRC) invention. It artificially allows one person or entity to "own" the rights to producing a work. Copyright is a mo...
by glennds
Sun Mar 07, 2021 4:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

Who is banning books? Isn't this the Libertarian way? A private group, the estate of Dr. Seuss who owns all the books and decides which ones to publish, decided not to publish six books. The government played no role in this. I'm confused why professed Libertarians have a problem with this. Who is ...
by glennds
Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:22 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

lgsfglduail61.png Who is banning books? Isn't this the Libertarian way? A private group, the estate of Dr. Seuss who owns all the books and decides which ones to publish, decided not to publish six books. The government played no role in this. I'm confused why professed Libertarians have a problem ...
by glennds
Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:12 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Dr Seuss
Replies: 52
Views: 11773

Re: Dr Seuss

I guess my kids' copies of Scrambled Eggs Super and McElligot's Pool are now very valuable! I've seen the allegedly racist image from Mulberry Street: it's a picture of a Chinese guy eating with chopsticks saying "and a Chinaman who eats with sticks". Well... don't they? And how is that not an earl...
by glennds
Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:29 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Poll: Which asset will be the winner in 2021?
Replies: 26
Views: 9488

Re: Poll: Which asset will be the winner in 2021?

Yes, at the rate things are going, I wonder if one of the options should have been no winners. Or alternatively, choose which asset will lose the least. Where's Budd? Seriously though, today markets tanked in reaction to Fed Chairman Powell signaling a pick up in inflation. If this is in fact the fe...
by glennds
Sun Feb 28, 2021 7:56 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: COVID Cases Sharply Declining: Why This Is Worst Case Scenario
Replies: 110
Views: 13976

Re: COVID Cases Sharply Declining: Why This Is Worst Case Scenario

We have had over 500,000 covid deaths of all ages except kids , the bulk are older because this disease has an age curve for a few reasons not just being sickly prior . That is more than three wars added up ...so I would hardly say the effect of covid is meh. The death rate is 10x to 20x what flu r...
by glennds
Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:24 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Forum Members with COVID-19
Replies: 208
Views: 75632

Re: Forum Members with COVID-19

It is actually lack of proper laws and regulations that creates a lot of the situation Whether it's the existence of laws you don't like or the absence of laws you do, the constant is that our government doesn't always serve the interests of its people. Well neither do the large corporations whose ...
by glennds
Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:42 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Forum Members with COVID-19
Replies: 208
Views: 75632

Re: Forum Members with COVID-19

Most of healthcare in the US works off monopolistic practice and market leverage, whether we're talking pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, insurers, dialysis providers, large lab providers. I know the government sucks in every respect, but the alternative, which in the US is the private for-profi...
by glennds
Fri Feb 26, 2021 2:03 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Forum Members with COVID-19
Replies: 208
Views: 75632

Re: Forum Members with COVID-19

For those who want to know the difference between having a for profit insurer as your gate keeper vs not for profit govt Medicare I will give you an example. A friend had an advantage plan ..she bragged all the time about how little she was paying . Well she got pituitary gland cancer ....one side ...
by glennds
Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:28 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: COVID Cases Sharply Declining: Why This Is Worst Case Scenario
Replies: 110
Views: 13976

Re: COVID Cases Sharply Declining: Why This Is Worst Case Scenario

Not trying to make a political point but I do find it fascinating how Covid has exposed a lot of collectivist tendencies in a country that is supposedly so individualist. The slogans are everywhere..."We are in this together" or "Stronger Together." Even my son's elementary school tshirts this year...
by glennds
Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:24 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: COVID Cases Sharply Declining: Why This Is Worst Case Scenario
Replies: 110
Views: 13976

Re: COVID Cases Sharply Declining: Why This Is Worst Case Scenario

Not trying to make a political point but I do find it fascinating how Covid has exposed a lot of collectivist tendencies in a country that is supposedly so individualist. The slogans are everywhere..."We are in this together" or "Stronger Together." Even my son's elementary school tshirts this year...
by glennds
Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:04 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Coronavirus General Discussion
Replies: 5196
Views: 1777286

Re: Coronavirus General Discussion

[ Watching tonight's Celtics / Hawks game it looked like the Celtic players and coach were... Ah, yes. The Woke NBA. We should all follow their lead. How do you even force yourself to watch that? It's not even sports anymore, it's just a propaganda show. Rating are down so low, they are quaking in ...
by glennds
Thu Feb 11, 2021 5:53 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump should be convicted, forthwith.
Replies: 8
Views: 1738

Re: Trump should be convicted, forthwith.

The test for 1st Amendment applicability has nothing to do with Trump's personality or whether the speech is offensive to anyone, let alone liberals. The test comes out of the 1969 Brandenburg v. Ohio case which held that speech is NOT protected under the First Amendment if it is directed to and lik...
by glennds
Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:37 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: The American Flag
Replies: 37
Views: 7792

Re: The American Flag

Is not comradery and patriotism the main reason for any playing of our National Anthem? It's what causes some to become a little emotional when it's played. If we are so divided as a nation at this time, and we have little love and appreciation for our country, maybe we do need to scrap it. I wonde...
by glennds
Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:07 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The American Flag
Replies: 37
Views: 7792

Re: The American Flag

Maybe in your mind Xan, the term racist is too strong for the issue we're discussing. But having heard the rationale above, would you agree that some of these "Indian" names could be considered insensitive, rude or uncouth to Native Americans? "could be considered" is the bar? The world is going to...
by glennds
Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:19 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The American Flag
Replies: 37
Views: 7792

Re: The American Flag

I haven't heard a satisfactory explanation for why Indian team names are "racist". I'll bet a lot that the woke police believe that when a team is named after white people, that that's racism by white people against non-white people. And we certainly know that when a team is named after non-white p...
by glennds
Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:18 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The American Flag
Replies: 37
Views: 7792

Re: The American Flag

I will admit any patriotism I felt when I was younger is definitely waning now. As one example, the whole Kapernick kneeling thing should have been more about the flag and the anthem representing the freedom we enjoy to allow Kapernick to be able to do such a thing vs. the how dare that well paid b...
by glennds
Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:42 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: When Short Interest Exceeds 100% of Stock
Replies: 2
Views: 1766

Re: When Short Interest Exceeds 100% of Stock

In an overall macroeconomy, the money multiplier is one thing. I understand why the short interest will push the stock up temporarily. But for short interest to exceed total stock outstanding for a sustained period of time I do not understand. Maybe the answer is that it's a freak aberration, and wh...