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Skip to comments.Drew Carey Says Libertarians Can Get Away in Hollywood, but Conservatives Pretty Much Doomed
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Yes I know. You roll the dice in Vegas but you can't get a roll in the hay.
I know.
Well, not legally...
My impression from the article is that he's speaking of the Hollywood mind-set, and in that respect he's correct.
I don't know, but I suspect that prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas because it would hurt the profits of the other vice (gambling). Most people do not like whores trolling for business in their presence, and no good neighborhood where middle-class law-abiding people live will have open solicitation going on. Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are all dangerous to stable family life, which is the basis for all civilization, including free civilization.
Drew must have been listening to MeCain.
I guess Drew thinks...
1. Adhering to the U.S. Constitution is radical
2. Reading up on our Founding, and understanding why our nation was formulated like it was, and supporting that is radical.
3. Objecting to killing a million unborn each year is radical.
4. Thinking that each of our citizens should be able to keep the benefits of the sweat of their brow, is radical.
5. Thinking that parents are the best people to make the decisions for their children is radical.
6. Thinking our borders should be protected against the illegal hoards is radical.
7. Supporting small government and more personal responsibility is radical.
8. Supporting a business friendly environment so that more of our citizens can find work in the private sector, is radical.
9. Thinking that having more people working for the government rather than the private sector is terribly wrong is radical.
10. Thinking that our military should be so powerful that no nation would ever think of challenging it, is radical.
11. Thinking that our citizen's safety trumps the comfort of terrorist detainees is radical.
12. Thinking that a nation that was developed side by side with another, that applied itself to making a better life for it's people is better than a territory that refused to create a better life for it's people rather than try to destroy every Jew in it's neighbor nation, is radical.
13. Thinking that capitalism is better than fascism is radical.
14. Thinking the the same form of governance that has been tried and has never worked successfully with or without oppression of it's citizens, is a bad unacceptable idea, is radical.
15. Thinking that the U.S. should become energy independent and develop it's own energy resources on and off it's shores, is radical.
16. Thinking that international agreements that impair our ability to make sovereign decisions, is radical.
17. Thinking that the government should not be running over 50% of what used to be the private sector is wrong, is radical.
18. Thinking that our schools should not be teaching homosexuality to our K-12 children is radical.
19. Thinking that placing homosexual marriage on the same par with Heterosexual marriage is wrong, is radical.
20. Thinking that our nation should be a God fearing nation, is radical.
Sorry Drew, your idea of radical and mine are quite different.
Shut the hell up with the whole "you propose we bring back prohibition," "look at all the organized crime it created" crap! Yes it's a major problem, but that's like the RIDICULOUS equivalent of saying "Well I have one arm missing already, let's chop my other perfectly functioning arm just to be even." And oh yea — there's also that one tiny mundane detail of alcohol not being even in the SAME UNIVERSE as H or crack or Oxy or meth.
Since 2003, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman has repeatedly stated that he favors legalization of prostitution in the city, perhaps turning East Fremont Street into a little Amsterdam. Goodman said there are pragmatic reasons to back legalized prostitution. Those include the acknowledgement that illegal prostitution is occurring and that brothels could provide safer, regulated and revenue-generating sex, he said.
Drew Carey is from Cleveland and thus not really an American.
Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!
And oh yea theres also that one tiny mundane detail of alcohol not being even in the SAME UNIVERSE as H or crack or Oxy or meth.
Are you seriously asserting that alcohol abuse in the United States causes far less damage than meth abuse?
I'm not opposed to that take on it actually. I would certainly hope that he doesn't harbor that view.
I did not mention the amendments, particularly our right to own weapons in that list. It's an important right to champion because it is infringed to a degree no other right is.
So, in Hollywood, you end up with irrational people who left an area to pursue an almost insane dream. They spend most of their working career pretending to be someone other than who they actually are.
Yep, and as far as employment, he couldnt get arrested.
Jon has a new series on FOX this fall, called "Midland."
Voight is one, so is Sinise. It's a question, what's more important, your principles or your pocketbook. Libertarians usually fail on this question.
You want a healthy family, don't be a libertarian. Don't tolerate the liberal social garbage that destroys people.
Are you "seriously asserting" just as many and anybody can get a dimebag of meth from every liquor store?
-are you "seriously asserting" fear of incarceration isn't a major deterrent to some middle class whiteboy in the suburbs who may be curious about trying coke but doesn't know how to get it and/or is too scared to?
-don't act like you know how the drug trade works or think it's like that in every inner city just cuz you've seen The Wire.
Of COURSE not! That ship has sailed, thus all the more reason we shouldn't normalize the use of every other drug in today's culture and society.
Far more destructive drugs already exist — it's called entitlement and welfare programs — just look at Greece. Thus it's all the more reason not to flood our homes w/ more destructive drugs.
Absolutely agree 100%. And I thought post #42 was a great reasoning of how libertarians fail in their thinking.
"Unfortunately they can take years to die and can do enormous amounts of damage in the mean time."
That is why we have a Second Amendment.
The only reason that libertarians do not call themselves "liberal" is that Progressives somehow appropriated that word in the early 20th century. Until then "liberal" referred to the philosophy of John Locke, which was indeed the philosophy of the Founders. Certain key concepts reasoned by Locke form the basis of the American idea of government and the rationale for its Declaration of Independence, and are incorporated directly in its founding documents. The Founders were liberals in this sense and their opponents, the Tories, were the conservatives.
Unfortunately, the language of politics has become so corrupted that it almost seems as if it were "designed to diminish the range of thought", which was the objective of Newspeak in Orwell's 1984. The words "conservative" and "liberal" have no fixed definition and mean precisely what the speaker (or hearer) intend them to mean, nothing more nor less. Unfortunately, the word "libertarian" has recently been similarly corrupted with knuckleheads as diverse as Noam Chomsky, Bill Maher, and Glenn Beck referring to themselves as liberatarian, or leaning libertarian. It may be somewhat correct for Beck since he's at least superficially partial to the Founders, but Chomsky and Maher's views align with the Founders and "real" libertarians in very few regards and only by coincidence.
"The end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge Freedom." -Locke
Libertarians are no more supportive of the Obama nanny state than they are of the Giuliani nanny state.
The same faux reasoning that you use to justify prohibition against vices that you do not like have been applied to beer, demon rum, Coca Cola, Big Macs, comic books, and religion. I suppose your slogan should be, "it's not fascism when we do it." Government is not going to create heaven on earth. But it is pretty adept at creating infernos, and that's where your reasoning inevitably leads. Obama and Pelosi rationalize their positions in exactly the same way as you.
Dead on.
Sane libertarians left the movement when Ayn Rand arived with her hippy commune crowd.
Got to get rid of the welfare state first, otherwise it's not a Libertarian paradise but a Brave New World dystopia.
Alcohol is used without serious damage by millions of people, and has been for thousands of years. It's entrenched in our culture. There is no such thing as "safe" use of meth, which is a synthetic chemical of recent origin.
make that: 'defeat their attempt to create a "clean" habitat...'
Vegas. "Where you spend all night in the casino just trying to get ahead/and you spend all day at The Holiday Inn just trying to get out of bed''.
I certainly agree that you have an unalienable right to an opinion and to express it at any time or by any means at your disposal. Only a statist like, say, John McCain or Van Jones would disagree.
But you are not entitled to your own facts. Progressives used the exact argument you advance to obtain passage of Amendment XVIII in 1919. Alcohol-related crime increased with its prohibition.
Lots of people have advanced arguments about regulating fatty foods, transfats, and soft drinks due to adverse health effects. You can pretty safely bet that national dietary regulation will appear in the next few years. (But I am sure you wouldn't because some people have gambling problems.) The rationale is the same as yours: some people can't help themselves, so they need a nanny government.
WRT religion, there are a lot of people in high places who think that all, or at least some, religions are destructive to social order and individual mental health. There are innumerable examples in history. Nero banned Christianity, Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther, later Popes launched the Inquisitions, Calvin burned Michael Servitus at the stake, Salem had their witch trials, and the 20th century was far, far worse for people of faith. In each case, the political elites believed that they were acting positively to achieve some noble objective such as maintaining social order, preserving the salvation of individual souls, or preserving the Faith and the Church. In the incomparably evil cases of the 20th century, idealists who aspired to create a new socialist man or an ubermensche severely persecuted adherents of particular faiths. The Hitlers and Lenins of the world strongly believed Judaism and Christianity to be subversive of their ideas on social order and ridiculous, superstitious impediments to individual potential. To them the argument against allowing the continued existence of these faiths was just as persuasive as your argument against marijuana.
Psst ... I really don't care if you're a religious-right conservative, either. We probably agree on a lot of the important stuff. BTW, it was the Progressive Party that advocated Prohibition. I am way farther from the progressives than you, my friend.
I don't care what you do as long as I don't pay for it.
Sounds like a better expenditure of disposable income to me...
I don't think it's my (or the government's) place to tell someone which recreational drugs they should use, regardless of their vintage.
Fine with me! Not that it's going to happen, mind you.
Of all the ways I can think of to describe Objectivists, "hippy" and "commune crowd" aren't at the top of the list.
"Political tags such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
"John Vought is such a great actor..I will go to see any move he is in.."
Except that one he did the love scene with Jane Fonda. I think it was called "Coming Home." I bet he wants to puke if he ever thinks about that love scene he did with her.
"don't care what you do as long as I don't pay for it."
You do pay for it, that's the thing. All this liberal society garbage is a drag on the rest of us. I think we have a duty as good neighbours to act as a check on this trash because we certainly don't benefit.
Please see my Heinlein quote is post #88. Quite relevant to what you just said!
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So what caused it to initially do so well, and then fall off, as the figures stated at the top of the article suggest?
Introduced 1985. After 3 years (1988), 170,000 produced. After 7 years (1992), 187,300 produced. Or a mere 17,300 in the last 5 years compared to almost 10x more in the first 3. Do we have any references as to what was going on there? I wouldn't call that "commercially quite successful" in the grand scheme of things. More a very hyped car soon being proved to be awful, and after the initial 3 year honeymoon period, the first set of once-excited buyers going elsewhere for their next purchase and the model lingering for a few years while they prepared a replacement then quietly dropped it. Compared with similarly boxy stablemates the Fiat Panda and Uno which just kept selling and selling and selling for about 15 & 10 years respectively (or the more similar strada and regata, of which i think my dad's terrible, short-term keeper Regata was about the only one I have ever, ever seen). 126.96.36.199 (talk) 23:47, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
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I am unrepentant about the chnages I made. I refer to vrious articles as published in CAR magazine written by that 'doyen' of motoring journalists LJK Setright] He was most clear about the physics of automobile suspensions. In particular the so called "shock absorbers" reduce the amplitude of oscillations of the springs, - 'i.e.' they damp the motion - and hence should be called "dampers". The springs themselves absord the shock - by changes to their internal (usually metallic) structure -that goes for all sorts of springs: torsion bars, leaf springs, coil springs('i.e' volute springs snd others. Common usage and the physical realities of the matter disagree - and I was attempting to right the matter in one article, which means a lot to me: I used to drive a 2-litre 'Twin Spark' Alfa 75 and it was the best handling car I have ever driven! Hair Commodore (talk) 10:15, 14 May 2009 (UTC) I submit that given Leonard Setright's observations, my edit was correct and should therefore be reinstated!


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A huge part of any sci-fi stories' strength is what I call the "what if?" factor, the introduction of a new, or freshly presented, idea that really gives you food for thought. Niven's development of Ringworld itself and his idea of luck as a sort of psychic power has succeeded in this respect.
I give "Ringworld" 4 stars: it's good, but not THAT good---it's the concept of the Ringworld itself that gives the story its real strength. I think the character development, though adequate for the book's purpose, could have been stronger. I was also a little non-plussed with the powerful sphere of influence finally attributed to "luck."
Niven is a master of ideas: this novel alone touches on solutions to overpopulation, the possibility that luck is an inherited trait and a solid ring the size of Earth's orbit around another star. All his works tend to feature grand or unusual concepts: he also writes about the use of organ banks as capital punishment, a habitable ring of gas around a neutron star, and the effects of other worlds' environments on the human form itself. These ideas are always wonderful and fascinating, and they are always the focus of his stories.
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man page
man pages—abbreviation for "manual pages"—are the extensive documentation that comes preinstalled with almost all substantial UNIX-like operating systems, including Arch Linux. The command used to display them is
In spite of their scope, man pages are designed to be self-contained documents, consequentially limiting themselves to referring to other man pages when discussing related subjects. This is in sharp contrast with the hyperlink-aware info files, GNU's attempt at replacing the traditional man page format.
less is the default pager used with man.
- 1 Accessing man pages
- 2 Format
- 3 Searching manuals
- 4 Colored man pages
- 5 Dynamic page width
- 6 Reading local man pages
- 7 Online Man Pages
- 8 Noteworthy manpages
- 9 See also
Accessing man pages
To read a man page, simply enter:
$ man page_name
Manuals are sorted into several sections. For a full listing see the section entitled "Sections of the manual pages" in
man man-pages.
Man pages are usually referred to by their name, followed by their section number in parentheses. Often there are multiple man pages of the same name, such as man(1) and man(7). In this case, give man the section number followed by the name of the man page, for example:
$ man 5 passwd
to read the man page on
/etc/passwd, rather than the
passwd utility.
One-line descriptions of man pages can be displayed using the
whatis command. For example, for a brief description of the man page sections about
ls, type:
$ whatis ls
ls (1p) - list directory contents ls (1) - list directory contents
Man pages all follow a fairly standard format, which helps in navigating them. See the section entitled "Sections within a manual page" in
man man-pages.
Searching manuals
Even though the
man utility allows users to display man pages, and search their contents via less, a problem arises when one knows not the exact name of the desired manual page in the first place! Fortunately, the
-k or
--apropos options can be used to search the manual page descriptions for instances of a given keyword.
The research feature is provided by a dedicated cache. By default you may not have any cache built and all your searches will give you the nothing appropriate result. You can generate the cache or update it by running
# mandb
You should run it everytime a new manpage is installed.
Now you can begin your search. For example, to search for man pages related to "password":
$ man -k password
$ man --apropos password
This is equivalent to calling the
apropos command:
$ apropos password
The given keyword is interpreted as a regular expression by default.
If you want to do a more in-depth search by matching the keywords found in the whole articles, you can use the
-K option:
$ man -K password
Colored man pages
Color-enabled man pages allow for a clearer presentation and easier digestion of the content.
There are two prevalent methods for achieving colored man pages: using
less, or opting for
Using less (Recommended)
Add the following to a shell configuration file.[1] For Bash it would be:
man() { env \ LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\e[01;31m' \ LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[01;31m' \ LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' \ LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m' \ LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[01;44;33m' \ LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' \ LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[01;32m' \ man "$@" }
To see the changes in your Man Pages (without restarting bash or linux), you may run:
$ source ~/.bashrc
For Fish a basic configuration would be:
set -xU LESS_TERMCAP_mb (printf "\e[01;31m") # begin blinking set -xU LESS_TERMCAP_md (printf "\e[01;31m") # begin bold set -xU LESS_TERMCAP_me (printf "\e[0m") # end mode set -xU LESS_TERMCAP_se (printf "\e[0m") # end standout-mode set -xU LESS_TERMCAP_so (printf "\e[01;44;33m") # begin standout-mode - info box set -xU LESS_TERMCAP_ue (printf "\e[0m") # end underline set -xU LESS_TERMCAP_us (printf "\e[01;32m") # begin underline
To see the changes in your Man Pages (without restarting fish or linux), you may run:
$ source ~/.config/fish/config.fish
For a detailed explanation on these variables, see this answer. To customize the colors, see Wikipedia:ANSI escape code for reference.
If less doesn't display color man pages
On some systems, terminals don't understand SGR escape sequences, and older versions of
less (without the -R option) don't understand SGR either.
Groff offers a few solutions to fix this. The easiest one is to set and export the variable
GROFF_NO_SGR in your terminal environment:
export GROFF_NO_SGR=1
This tells
groff to make adjustments when it is passed a man page for formatting.
Using most (Not recommended)
The basic function of 'most' is similar to
less and
more, but it has a smaller feature set. Configuring most to use colors is easier than using less, but additional configuration is necessary to make most behave like less.
Install the most package.
/etc/man_db.conf, uncomment the pager definition and change it to:
DEFINE pager most -s
Test the new setup by typing:
$ man whatever_man_page
Modifying the color values requires editing
~/.mostrc (creating the file if it is not present) or editing
/etc/most.conf for system-wide changes. Example
% Color settings color normal lightgray black color status yellow blue color underline yellow black color overstrike brightblue black
Another example showing keybindings similar to
less (jump to line is set to 'J'):
% less-like keybindings unsetkey "^K" unsetkey "g" unsetkey "G" unsetkey ":" setkey next_file ":n" setkey find_file ":e" setkey next_file ":p" setkey toggle_options ":o" setkey toggle_case ":c" setkey delete_file ":d" setkey exit ":q" setkey bob "g" setkey eob "G" setkey down "e" setkey down "E" setkey down "j" setkey down "^N" setkey up "y" setkey up "^Y" setkey up "k" setkey up "^P" setkey up "^K" setkey page_down "f" setkey page_down "^F" setkey page_up "b" setkey page_up "^B" setkey other_window "z" setkey other_window "w" setkey search_backward "?" setkey bob "p" setkey goto_mark "'" setkey find_file "E" setkey edit "v"
Colored man pages on xterm or rxvt-unicode
A quick way to add color to manual pages viewed on xterm/
uxterm or rxvt-unicode is to modify
*VT100.colorBDMode: true *VT100.colorBD: red *VT100.colorULMode: true *VT100.colorUL: cyan
which replaces the decorations with the colors. Also add:
*VT100.veryBoldColors: 6
if you want colors and decorations (bold or underline) at the same time. See
man xterm for a description of the
veryBoldColors resource.
URxvt.colorIT: #87af5f URxvt.colorBD: #d7d7d7 URxvt.colorUL: #87afd7
$ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
Launch a new
xterm/uxterm or
rxvt-unicode and you should see colorful man pages.
This combination puts colors to bold and underlined words in
xterm/uxterm or to bold, underlined, and italicized text in
rxvt-unicode. You can play with different combinations of these attributes (see the sources[dead link 2013-09-10] of this item).
Dynamic page width
The man page width is controlled by the
MANWIDTH environment variable.
If the number of columns in the terminal is too small (e.g. the window width is narrow), the line breaks will be wrong. This can be very disturbing for reading. You can fix this by setting the MANWIDTH on
man invocation. With
Bash, that would be:
man() { local width=$(tput cols) [ $width -gt $MANWIDTH ] && width=$MANWIDTH env MANWIDTH=$width \ man "$@" }
Feel free to combine this function with the color settings.
Reading local man pages
Instead of the standard interface, using browsers such as lynx and Firefox to view man pages allows users to reap info pages' main benefit of hyperlinked text. Alternatives include the following:
- KDE users can read man pages in Konqueror using
- xorg-xman provides a categorized look at man pages in X.
- The GNOME Help Browser yelp can be used via
yelp man:<name>.
Converting to browser-readable HTML
Install mdocmlAUR from AUR. To convert a page, for example
$ gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/free.1.gz | mandoc -Thtml -Ostyle=style.css 1> free.html
Now open the file called
free.html in your favourite browser.
First, install man2html from the official repositories.
Now, convert a man page:
$ man free | man2html -compress -cgiurl man$section/$title.$section$subsection.html > ~/man/free.html
Another use for
man2html is exporting to raw, printer-friendly text:
$ man free | man2html -bare > ~/free.txt
man -H
The GNU implementation of man in the Arch repositories also has the ability to do this on its own:
$ man -H free
This will read your
BROWSER environment variable to determine the browser. You can override this by passing the binary to the
-H option.
First install roffitAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] from AUR.
To convert a man page:
$ gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/free.1.gz | roffit > free.html
Converting to PDF
man pages have always been printable: they are written in troff, which is fundamentally a typesetting language. If you have ghostscript installed, converting a man page to PDF is actually very easy:
man -t <manpage> | ps2pdf - <pdf>. This google image search should give you an idea of what the result looks like; it may not be to everybody's liking.
Caveats: Fonts are generally limited to Times at hardcoded sizes. There are no hyperlinks. Some man pages were specifically designed for terminal viewing, and won't look right in PS or PDF form.
The following perl script converts man pages to PDFs, caches the PDFs in the
$HOME/.manpdf/ directory, and calls a PDF viewer, specifically mupdf.
Usage: manpdf [<section>] <manpage>
#!/usr/bin/perl use File::stat; $pdfdir = $ENV{"HOME"}."/.manpdf"; -d $pdfdir || mkdir $pdfdir || die "can't create $pdfdir"; $manpage = $ARGV[0]; chop($manpath = `man -w $manpage`); die if $?; $maninfo = stat($manpath) or die; $manpath =~ s@.*/man./(.*)(\.(gz|bz2))?$@$1@; $pdfpath = "$pdfdir/$manpath.pdf"; $pdftime = 0; if (-f $pdfpath) { $pdfinfo = stat($pdfpath) or die; $pdftime = $pdfinfo->mtime; } if (!-f $pdfpath || $maninfo->mtime > $pdftime) { system "man -t $manpage | ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen - $pdfpath"; } die if !-f $pdfpath; if (!fork) { open(STDOUT, "/dev/null"); open(STDERR, "/dev/null"); exec "mupdf", "-r", "96", $pdfpath; #exec "acroread", $pdfpath; }
Online Man Pages
There are several online databases of man pages, including:
- Man7.org. Upstream for Arch Linux's man-pages.
- Debian GNU/Linux man pages
- DragonFlyBSD manual pages
- FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages
- Linux and Solaris 10 Man Pages
- Linux/FreeBSD Man Pages with user comments
- Linux man pages at die.net
- The Linux man-pages project at kernel.org
- NetBSD manual pages
- Mac OS X Manual Pages
- On-line UNIX manual pages
- OpenBSD manual pages
- Plan 9 Manual — Volume 1
- Inferno Manual — Volume 1
- Storage Foundation Man Pages
- The UNIX and Linux Forums Man Page Repository
- Ubuntu Manpage Repository
Noteworthy manpages
Here follows a non-exhaustive list of noteworthy pages that might help you understand a lot of things more in-depth. Some of them might serve as a good reference (like the ascii table).
- ascii(7)
- boot(7)
- charsets(7)
- chmod(1)
- credentials(7)
- fstab(5)
- hier(7)
- systemd(1)
- locale(1P)(5)(7)
- printf(3)
- proc(5)
- regex(7)
- signal(7)
- term(5)(7)
- termcap(5)
- terminfo(5)
- utf-8(7)
More generally, have a look at category 7 pages:
$ man -s 7 -k ".*"
Arch Linux specific pages:
- archlinux(7)
- mkinitcpio(8)
- pacman(8)
- pacman-key(8)
- pacman.conf(5)
See also
- man page - Gentoo wiki article
- Setting colors for less and solving related problems (threads on StackExchange)
- Write The Fine Manual with pod2man


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Feb. 12, 2015, 10:01 AM
- The 10-year Treasury yield drops to 1.98% from 2.04% after January retail sales missed expectations - both on the headline print (-0.8% vs. -0.4% expected) and ex-autos/gas (-0.2% vs. +0.4% expected). Excluding just autos, sales fell 0.9% vs. expectations for a 0.5% decline.
- The -0.8% decline in overall retail sales follows a 0.9% decline in December, maybe suggesting consumers - for now - are choosing to pocket some of their savings from lower gasoline and heating oil prices.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL
Feb. 6, 2015, 8:36 AM
- Alongside a stronger-than-expected January jobs gain of 257K, December's 252K gain was revised sharply higher to 329K, and November's 353K was revised to the blowout level of 423K.
- The 10-year Treasury yield has popped to 1.88% from 1.80% prior to the 8:30 ET print, and the dollar is doing cartwheels.
- TLT -0.7%, UUP +0.8% premarket
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, UUP, TMV, UDN, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, UUPT, FORX, VGLT, DLBS, UDNT, UBT, TLO, USDU, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL
- Previously: Job gains better-than-forecast in January (Feb. 6)
Feb. 4, 2015, 8:38 AM
- "Businesses in the energy and supplying industries are already scaling back payrolls in reaction to the collapse in oil prices, while industries benefiting from the lower prices have been slower to increase their hiring," says Moody's Analytics' Mark Zandi, as the ADP reports a roughly inline 213K job gain in January (expectations were for 223K).
- December's gain was upwardly revised to 253K from 241K.
- The 10-year Treasury yield has popped to 1.83% - up four basis points on the session - from 1.77% just ahead of the 8:15 ET print.
- TLT -1.1%, TBT +2.2% premarket
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL
- Previously: ADP Jobs Report (Feb. 4)
Jan. 30, 2015, 8:36 AM
- The 10-year Treasury yield has ducked under 1.70% for the first time in nearly two years following the softer-than-hoped preliminary read on GDP growth (2.6% vs. 5% in Q3, and forecasts for 3%). It's now off six basis points to 1.69%.
- In Germany, 30-year government paper now carries a yield of less than 1% for the first time ever. The 10-year Bund is at 0.30%.
- TLT +1%, TBT -2% premarket
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL, BUNL, GGOV, BUNT
Jan. 27, 2015, 9:01 AM
- Morgan Stanley has pushed back the timing of its expected first Fed rate hike to March 2016, reports Bloomberg.
- Earlier, the Caterpillar CEO - after his company dour 2015 forecast - urged the Fed to hold off this year, and over the weekend Felix Zulauf suggested disappointing economic growth will force the Fed to postpone tighter policy this year, and maybe the next.
- Meanwhile, Fed members from all sides of the dove/hawk split continue to promise a mid-year rate hike. The FOMC begins a 2-day meeting today.
- Earlier: Durable goods orders for December missed estimates by a mile
- The 10-year Treasury yield is lower by six basis points to 1.77%.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL
Jan. 24, 2015, 8:26 AM
- "I don't see how the Fed can justify hiking rates when economic growth will disappoint, employment growth will fade, and inflation will overshoot on the downside," says Felix Zulauf at the Barron''s Roundtable. He wouldn't be shocked to see 2016 also pass by without tighter policy.
- The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:TLT) is the largest position in his portfolio (the 30-year yield was 2.53% when the Roundtable took place earlier this month; it's 2.37% today). "The U.S. bond market is mispriced," he says, noting long-term yields on these shores tower over those in Europe (they tower far more after the ECB's QE this week).
- Zulauf is also bullish on the dollar (NYSEARCA:UUP) - not exactly a contrarian view - but he says most don't understand the real reason for the greenback's strength: Basically the world is massively short greenbacks thanks to dollar weakness policies pursued by the Greenspan and Bernanke Feds. When the dollar corrects later this year on realization the Fed won't be lifting rates, it will be a good spot to get long.
- Expecting a correction in U.S. stocks, Zulauf would then put money to work in the Market Vectors Retail ETF (NYSEARCA:RTH) - a strong dollar allows retailers to benefit by buying their overseas supplies cheaper.
- Related ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL, UUP, UDN, UUPT, FORX, UDNT, USDU
Jan. 16, 2015, 1:00 PM
- The surge in consumer sentiment to its highest level in eleven years is combining with rallying equities and a 3.4% gain in crude oil to send Treasury yields sharply higher.
- The 10-year yield fell to as low as 1.70% overnight, but has since popped to 1.82%, up 10 basis points on the session.
- Ignored is a steep oil-induced drop in the CPI last month, but even stripping out energy & food, the CPI was flat in December vs. expectations for a 0.1% gain.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL
Jan. 15, 2015, 3:55 PM
- Into the close of equity action, the 10-year Treasury yield is making new multi-year lows - down 12 basis points to 1.74% - and the long bond is making a new all-time low of 2.39.
- The move comes as the SNB earlier abandoned its CHF 1.20 floor for euro/franc -causing plenty of volatility, a 14% surge in the franc, but not really any blowups (for now).
- The U.S. stock averages are modestly lower, but the big financial names continue to be punished amid lame earnings and a low interest rate environment that's not going anywhere. Europe closed sharply higher as it mulls a weaker currency and what must surely be a big QE announcement coming from the ECB next week.
- TLT +1.5% on the session and +7% YTD. TBT -3% today.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, IEF, TBF, EDV, TMF, PST, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, IEI, TYO, VGLT, DLBS, DTYS, UST, UBT, TLO, VGIT, TBX, GSY, SCHR, TENZ, DTYL, TYD, LBND, ITE, DLBL, TYBS, DFVL, TBZ, FIVZ, DFVS, TYNS, SYTL
Jan. 13, 2015, 4:17 AM
- Treasuries advanced for a third day, with U.S. 10-year notes hovering near their lowest level since May 2013. The 10-year yield is down 4 bps at 1.87%.
- "It's all about oil," said Ali Jalai, a bond trader at Bank of Nova Scotia. "Inflation expectations keep coming down. That's forcing the bond market to rally."
- Japan's five-year yield fell to zero for the first time today, while the country's 10-year yield and Australia's 15-year yield also dropped to new records.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, SHY, IEF, TBF, EDV, TMF, PST, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, IEI, TYO, VGLT, DLBS, DTYS, BIL, UST, UBT, STPP, TLO, VGSH, PLW, VGIT, GOVT, SHV, TBX, FLAT, SCHO, GSY, SCHR, TENZ, DTYL, TYD, LBND, ITE, DTUS, SST, TYBS, DLBL, DTUL, TUZ, DFVL, TBZ, FIVZ, DFVS, TYNS, TAPR, TFLO, USFR, SYTL
Jan. 12, 2015, 3:55 PM
- Head of fixed-income research at HSBC, Steven Major one year ago correctly predicted the 10-year yield would fall to 2.1%, while many of his peers were guessing something closer to 4%.
- With the median forecast from a Bloomberg survey showing yields rising to 3% by year-end, Major sees the 10-year falling all the way to 1.5% before turning back up to end the year.
- Dismissing any concern over the Fed, Major sees parallels between now and the global economy after WWII, when slow growth pinned yields below 2.5%. Another parallel: Governments today are saddled with debt the way they were back then.
- So far this year, Major is looking golden again, with the 10-year yield falling all the way to 1.90% today.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL
Jan. 8, 2015, 9:33 AM
- A nice piece of data mining from Urban Carmel shows for more than the last ten years, job gains in the nonfarm payroll report of more than 300K have been followed with far lower prints.
- Last month's gain was 321K, meaning expectations for tomorrow of 240K could be a little optimistic.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL
Jan. 7, 2015, 2:26 PM
- Stocks, bonds, the dollar, and commodities remain about where they were ahead of the release of the FOMC minutes, which makes sense given the minutes produced nothing unusual - i.e., the Fed has decided we must have a rate hike, and slow growth overseas and inflation below target isn't going to change that stance.
- The first chance of a rate hike comes in April as the minutes reiterate what Janet Yellen has previously said - that nothing is likely to happen at the next two FOMC meetings.
- The 10-year Treasury yield remains three basis points higher at 1.97%, and Fed Funds futures are pricing in 100% chance of a 25 basis point hike by late summer/early fall.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, SHY, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, BIL, UBT, TLO, VGSH, SHV, SCHO, TENZ, LBND, DTUS, SST, DLBL, TYBS, DTUL, TUZ
- Previously: FOMC minutes: Global slowdown, low inflation won't stand in way of tighter policy (Jan. 7)
Jan. 6, 2015, 7:16 AM
- The improbable (to most) rally in long-dated U.S. government paper continued overnight, with the 10-year yield dipping down all the way to 1.98%. It's bounced since, and currently stands at 2.00%, off three basis points on the session.
- It's a global rally, with bonds in the BAML Global Broad Market Sovereign Plus Index having an effective yield of just 1.28% - an all-time low (data is from 1996 on). A sampling: Japan 10-years 0.29%, German 10-years 0.47%, Spain 1.55%, U.K. 1.62%, Italy 1.77%, Australia 2.7%.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, JGBS, JGBD, BNDX, ZROZ, BWX, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, IGOV, BUNL, JGBL, ITLY, TENZ, LBND, ITLT, JGBT, GGOV, TYBS, DLBL, BUNT, JGBB
Jan. 5, 2015, 10:13 AM
- Greece jitters have returned in full force to Europe, sending money into U.S. government paper, and the 10-year Treasury yield down six basis points to just 2.05%.
- Jeff Gundlach thinks the yield could take out its 2012 modern-era low of 1.38% ... Looking at Italian 10-years at 1.78% and Spanish 10-years at 1.56%, one might only fault Gundlach or being too conservative.
- Leading Europe lower on the equity side today is Italy's (NYSEARCA:EWI) 3.5% decline.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, IEF, TBF, EDV, TMF, PST, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, IEI, TYO, VGLT, DLBS, DTYS, UST, UBT, TLO, VGIT, TBX, GSY, SCHR, TENZ, DTYL, TYD, LBND, ITE, DLBL, TYBS, DFVL, TBZ, FIVZ, DFVS, TYNS, SYTL
Jan. 3, 2015, 9:14 AM
- In what's become an annual rite of passage, long-dated U.S. Treasurys top most prognosticators' lists of what not to own in the coming year. Jeff Gundlach doesn't make the big money by following the crowd, though, and he thinks the 10-year Treasury yield in 2014 could take out its 2012 low of 1.38% (it closed at 2.11% last night) - this even as the Fed hikes short-term rates.
- Deflationary forces are still in charge, Gundlach tells Barron's, and could even strengthen if oil continues to decline. "Look, commodity prices have fallen back to their lows of 2009, which of course was at the height of the financial crisis. Something is obviously very wrong these days in the global economy."
- As for demand for U.S. paper now that the Fed has stopped QE, it's coming from overseas as nominally low U.S. yields positively tower over what's available domestically to investors in Germany, Japan, the U.K., and yes, Italy and Spain.
- Gundlach's DoulbeLine Total Return Fund (MUTF:DBLTX) - with $40B in AUM - and DoubleLine Core Fixed Income (MUTF:DBLFX) both finished in the top decile of their Morningstar groups in 2014.
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, STPP, TLO, PLW, GOVT, FLAT, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL, TAPR
Jan. 2, 2015, 10:10 AM
- A sizable slump (from strong November levels) in both the New Orders and Production subindexes led the unexpected drop in the December ISM report to 55.5 from 58.7.
- New Orders fell to 57.3 from 66.0 and Production to 58.8 from 64.4.
- Employment rose to 56.8 from 54.9, as did Supplier Deliveries to 59.3 from 56.8.
- Prices fell to 38.5 from 44.5 (oil), as did Backlogs to 52.5 from 55.
- Up as high as 2.21% in early action, the 10-year Treasury yield has retreated all the way to 2.13%. TLT +0.9%, TBT -1.8%
- ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, TBF, EDV, TMF, TTT, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, VGLT, DLBS, UBT, TLO, TENZ, LBND, TYBS, DLBL
- See also: U.S. manufacturing output growth slows again in December
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The case for CBSH:For many years now CBSH has paid a 5% stock dividend. Add to that the $1 cash dividend and you get an extraordinarly high return on your investment. With CBSH as approximately $40 the 5% is a $2 sweetener on top of the $1 cash. If you sell the additonal stock each year you are receiving a 7.5% return ($3/40) Given that the stock is now selling at a multi year low you would be reasonable to assume that you could take to the bank a nice capitol gain on any purchase today in the next 18 months. WW
The stock dividend doesn't improve your return. Instead of slicing the pie into 100 pieces, they've sliced it into 105. Same pie, smaller pieces. For that matter, the cash dividen reduces equity, so the dividend comes at the expense of your share price. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a fine company. But you need to look at total return.


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Courier service affects our experiences with the mail order/online store. Which courier do you prefer from your past shopping experience? Canada Post or UPS? Anyone had any certain type of problem with Canada Post or UPS??
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Canada Post. Least amount of problems, cheapest cost (for me at least) and lots of places to send and receive packages._______________
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Canada Post. Even though I think their prices are way too high.
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I absolutely hate UPS. They never bother if someone is home always leave the item outside your door.Reply With Quote LOG IN TO THANK No one has yet thanked nyxeus for this post.
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Canada Post doesn't score much higher on the scale. I have had many parcels left at my home. Sometimes, the carrier rings and leaves (doesn't wait) and I have seen others just drop it off and leave to sit there in plain view. To date, I have never experienced a problem.
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UPS i stay away from at all costs, lost packages, redirecting tracking results with no movement at all, expensive.
CanadaPost I used 90% of time, 2-3 day delivery across canada from $7-$18 CAD, signature and insurance is reasonable priced. And i'm in rural area. I also have a Venture one card so save 5%.
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OP, you have to specify whether it's domestic or international shipping, but I'm assuming mostly the latter.
For international (from the US), CP is the best choice since the fee structure is laid out. However, if you're willing to pay for Express/Premium, UPS is also very good, without the brokerage surprises that come with Ground service.
I seldom ship anything international, but UPS is hard to beat for in-country deliveries to my US address or for domestic packages from Amazon.ca etc. With UPS, you get good rates, excellent tracking and a committed delivery date. I've only had one (of many, many) packages delivered late, due to snow storms.
Conversely, CP is garbage for domestic shipping. The rates are high and the tracking is a complete farce. You may get notified the package was picked up, but they don't provide delivery forecast and delivery confirmation is usually 2-3 days after the item was delivered. Also, don't waste your money paying for "Express", since in my experience, it just costs more and really doesn't guarantee you'll get your stuff any sooner.Reply With Quote LOG IN TO THANK No one has yet thanked apn64 for this post.
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Within Canada I haven't really had any major issues with any one. Canada Post/Purolator tend to be slower than Fedex or UPS, but I usually just try and go for the cheapest options.
From the USA I don't need to get into the horror stories with the UPS/Fedex/DHL Ground services. However the Express services for each are sometimes cheaper than USPS, so I don't mind using them since the brokerage is covered.
If it's shipping from China or Japan, I like EMS the best. The service is both very quick and cheap, and a lot of the time they don't charge taxes and duty even with expensive items.
For shipping to the USA or across Canada I usually use Fedex. They're almost always the cheapest option and I haven't had any problems. For Europe and South America it usually varies, although DHL was cheaper for South America, and UPS was for Europe.Reply With Quote LOG IN TO THANK No one has yet thanked scv for this post.
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Canada Post for everything within Canada.
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Within Canada, I find they're all about the same (Fedex, UPS, CP).
I'm shipping more and more via Fedex ground since it's cheaper than CP and Fedex tracking is waaay better.
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For domestic I find UPS to be pretty good. I always get my packages promptly, and tracking works well. The only downside is that there's no depot to go to for pickup if you miss a delivery.
Canadapost on the other hand is really slow. Packages takes at least double the time in comparison.
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The CP delivery person for my area is a grumpy old lady who complains if she has to bring anything over 5lbs to the door. So, I'd have to say, UPS. If its something the letter carrier can deliver, or is from the US, I vote CP._______________
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Canada Post. Seeing as I (like alot of other people) tend to work all week. I'm rarely home to accept delivery. Canada Post has parcel pickup places all over town. It's only a 10-15 minute walk from here. UPS has one depot in every city, and they're usually way out of the way in some commercial sector somewhere, where even public transit doesn't go. This makes picking up parcels a pain in the ass. Even purolator has a few places around the city to make it easier
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Plans to force newspapers, magazines and websites to pay exemplary damages unless they sign up to an approved regulator could force smaller publications out of business, according to a human rights lawyer.
Geoffrey Robertson, QC, said that Hacked Off, the group that campaigns for reform of the press, had created a "noose" that could strangle left-leaning publications such as the New Statesman, as well as the group's own website.
Peers will today debate amendments to the Crime and Courts Bill which, in addition to penalising publications which refuse to join the new regulator, could also open the door for judges,


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Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
Source: Religio Medici, 1835
Contributed by: Zaady
There is another man within me that's angry with me.
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
Source: Christian Morals
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Source: Religio Medici, part 2, chapter 9 (1635)
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NEW DELHI: Mayawati has leapfrogged to claim authorship of 'promotion quota', leaving Congress behind in the clamour for credits and demonstrating that her support to the Centre may not be a one-way street in terms of benefits as it recently appeared over the FDI debate.
The BSP supremo lost no time in slamming Congress for the plight of dalits after six decades of independence, leaving the treasury benches squirming after they walked the extra mile to deliver on her flagship agenda in the face of SP's unrelenting hostility. Congress had no option but to stand behind her under protest.
Government managers claimed victory, saying they had convinced the BSP that 'promotion quota' could not be exempted from the "efficiency clause" enshrined in Article 335. The Constitution amendment bill grants that exemption but government will seek to remove it during the debate on Monday.
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Haiku and SATA II
Does Haiku support SATA II disks ?
I have booted it on both my Acer W500 and ASUS 1215b an for both devices the hard drives aren't recognised.
For both I've submitted full bug reports.
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As I know SATA II is supported, maybe you


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Released: Dec 26th, 2007
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Director: Wildbill Witrock
Company: Juicy Entertainment
Cast: Eliza (I), Honey Haven, Terri Hendrix, Dia (I), Gauge, Elizabeth Del Mar, Violet Ray, Kayla Marie, Swiss Miss, Taryn Woods, Autumn (I), Tara (I), Jesse (I), Tianna (I), Vanessa Mackenzie
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Specialty
In this era where squirt videos are all the rage, it's good to know that the old-fashioned golden shower feature hasn't gone completely the way of the dodo. This is what Real Golden Showers 10 is all about.
Elizabeth is certainly hot, a little blonde with a great smile, who strips down to her lovely naked body, and then bends over to piss from behind, her little anus puckering at the same time.
Honey is a newbie, a sweet young redhead with a nervous look, but who has no problem stripping down to her naked body and pissing in a measuring cup.
Golden shower enthusiasts will like this one just fine. The girls are cute and the piss is real.
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