What will change in 2014?
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:20 am
Considering a market at all time highs, what percentage of your portfolio are you targeting for your VP?
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Yep yep. That's it!Desert wrote:I'm guessing you're referring to Henry Ford increasing the wage of his workers from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day.Ad Orientem wrote: Around 10% VP which is just one position (VT). As for predicting the future, that's not my bag. I will however note that 2014 will be the 100th anniversary of a certain event that took a lot of people by surprise. Food for thought...
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1914
Ok, and then a world war started also.
Ad Orientem wrote:Yep yep. That's it!Desert wrote:I'm guessing you're referring to Henry Ford increasing the wage of his workers from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day.Ad Orientem wrote: Around 10% VP which is just one position (VT). As for predicting the future, that's not my bag. I will however note that 2014 will be the 100th anniversary of a certain event that took a lot of people by surprise. Food for thought...
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1914
Ok, and then a world war started also.
Thomas Edison and Charles Lindbergh might also be included in the group of famous Americans from that era who were perhaps a bit less heroic than their public images suggested.Desert wrote: Henry Ford was a strange man. His anti-semitic publications, his control over his workers .. it paints a pretty grim picture of the guy.
Lindbergh was a pretty heroic guy and a big thinker, but he gets demerits for being a racist Nazi sympathizer who maintained at least two other secret families in Europe and who was never honest with his other children about who their father was. I think that his children in these secret families just knew him by a made-up name like "Klaus de Flyinguy" or something like that.Desert wrote:I don't know much about Lindbergh, but I've heard the stories about Edison. Edison was obviously angry at being spanked by Tesla.MediumTex wrote:Thomas Edison and Charles Lindbergh might also be included in the group of famous Americans from that era who were perhaps a bit less heroic than their public images suggested.Desert wrote: Henry Ford was a strange man. His anti-semitic publications, his control over his workers .. it paints a pretty grim picture of the guy.
Edison also invented the electric chair as one more way to show how "dangerous" AC electricity was compared to DC.Desert wrote: I just looked up Topsy .. Edison's a tool. I wish I could connect some big DC voltage to him right now.
Other than the obvious electrocution danger, please describe some of the other dangers.Xan wrote: AC is dangerous, particularly at the 60Hz frequency we use. The specs we picked are just about the worst possible.
Other dangers? Like what?MediumTex wrote:Other than the obvious electrocution danger, please describe some of the other dangers.
I don't know. That's why I asked. I thought you might be talking about cancer from high voltage lines or something like that.Xan wrote:Other dangers? Like what?MediumTex wrote:Other than the obvious electrocution danger, please describe some of the other dangers.
120v 60hz is particularly dangerous (more so than other specs), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock. I think this is what Xan was originally referring to.MediumTex wrote:I don't know. That's why I asked. I thought you might be talking about cancer from high voltage lines or something like that.Xan wrote:Other dangers? Like what?MediumTex wrote:Other than the obvious electrocution danger, please describe some of the other dangers.
Right, Rick. It only takes a tiny amount of current at those specs to kill a man, if it goes through your heart.rickb wrote:120v 60hz is particularly dangerous (more so than other specs), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock. I think this is what Xan was originally referring to.MediumTex wrote:I don't know. That's why I asked. I thought you might be talking about cancer from high voltage lines or something like that.Xan wrote: Other dangers? Like what?
And according to the Wikipedia article (I'm not an electrical engineer), only a tiny amount of current at that frequency is enough to stop you from being able to let go, if you had the misfortune of tightening your muscles to grab something that turned out to be electrified.Xan wrote: Right, Rick. It only takes a tiny amount of current at those specs to kill a man, if it goes through your heart.
AC is definitely dangerous if your body comes into contact with an exposed wire.Pointedstick wrote:And according to the Wikipedia article (I'm not an electrical engineer), only a tiny amount of current at that frequency is enough to stop you from being able to let go, if you had the misfortune of tightening your muscles to grab something that turned out to be electrified.Xan wrote: Right, Rick. It only takes a tiny amount of current at those specs to kill a man, if it goes through your heart.
Maybe. If you have tamper-resistant outlets when children are around, you have GFI outlets anywhere near water, etc. But only in terms of being a user. If you switch over to making any kind of home improvements: adding a ceiling fan, replacing a light fixture, adding a dimmer switch, changing the outlets to match a new paint color, etc, then electricity quickly jumps to the top of the danger list.MediumTex wrote:I would say, however, that on the scale of household risks, I would probably put the fall risk associated with wet bathroom surfaces and the fire risk associated with gas powered appliances ahead of the risk of being electrocuted.