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Interesting test. I got a 20. :p I scored badly because I answered a low % for most of the statements. My thinking was if I'm unsure on a highly detailed and specific statement, for example "Commodore Matthew Perry compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa...

70. Humans are funny. I think at our core we are naturally good and honest. We are the only beings capable of "morality", and the only ones who define it. But we also have this incredible tendency to create heirarchial power structures that strongly compel us towards or even necessitate...

There is still too much of a widespread perception that consumerism (impulse spending on stupid crap products that generally depreciate rapidly) will dig us out of this hole. Before the economy really starts to improve, we will have to see more wealth change hands to a more intelligent investor...

Nike is already on that bandwagon. It mentions the Nike "Free" model right in the article which is sort of the same concept but without the gimmicky toe fingers.

The market can match each and every description imaginable at any and every moment.

Who needs friends or new customers when you have an AIRPLANE. The guy owns a fucking A.E.R.O.P.L.A.N.E. There were James Bond villains that didn't own an AIRPLANE. You don't fuck with AIRPLANE guy. :D

That was by Chris Hedges at truthdig.com.

It's all sematics. It's a choice in the sense that you can choose what you want. It's not a choice in the sense that you can't choose what you want to want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Have you ever lied and said you did something, just to see what happens when somebody else tries it? :p

You have entirely the wrong temperament for trading. Quit now, leave this forum, move on, and don't look back.

There's a ton of dogma floating around about the leveraged ETF's. Much of it based on certain assumptions about how these funds are "supposed to" behave in theory and how they are managed. If the dogma were true, anybody could make a killing shorting these things. I don't believe it. Each...

I don't think a ban is called for, but there's lots of ETF's that track very well over the long term. Even leveraged ones. I don't understand why some people try to make excuses for the ones that don't by saying "they're intended only for intraday trades". It's fine if that's what they're...

What??? "Main street" means sunshine, parades, ice cream parlors, and evening walks with your high school sweetheart, not selfishness and neglecting financial obligations! But seriously, that email makes an excellent point. If you want people to listen to you, you just tell them what they...

That has got to be the ugliest building in the world. Auschwitz is prettier.

Been away for months, and I just popped in to call the bottom here. :D

They used to make plastic bags that the ladies would squeeze instead of a syringe. ...OK I made that up (I almost said I pulled that out of my ass :p )

Nah, a website whitelist would be extremely low-tech compared to what the Chinese government uses. And much more oppressive too!

In the WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005, the member states agreed to phase out all their agricultural export subsidies by the end of 2013. Are we beginning to see the effects of this with high rice prices and rioting in Asia? You know the conventional wisdom... Subsidies keep supply...

I really should remember, but it's been about 6 years now, and I forget. They'd probably sue me for libel anyway. :p