userque's Account talk

[userque]

I believe there's a good chance 'the markets' will close up today.

 

[userque]

"How do you find a good small-cap fund manager? Find a good large-cap fund manager, and wait."

 

[userque]

Doctors will be made obsolete by emerging AI diagnosis systems

(NaturalNews) Nearly everyone with internet access has, at one point or another, used an online diagnostic tool when trying to identify an illness. It's a sure-fire way to scare the heck out of yourself -- almost invariably, you will find that many of your symptoms appear to match those of some rare and fatal disease.


Online self-diagnosis has always been a risky proposition at best, but things may be about to change. A UK-based company has developed a software product that incorporates artificial intelligence to provide accurate medical diagnoses to users online.


The product is called Your.MD, and it's available through Apple's app store and Google Play. Its makers claim that Your.MD does a far better job of interpreting symptoms and diagnosing medical conditions than any of the currently available medical diagnostic tools found on the web....

 

[userque]

Cartoon...

 

[userque]

Cartoon...

 

[userque]

Video...BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd

 

[userque]

China's covert war with America heats up: warships near Alaska, another industrial explosion, and China unveils cruise missile that renders U.S. carriers obsolete

Now, as reported by The Daily Sheeple, a THIRD massive explosion has ripped through China's industrial infrastructure... this time also taking place in the Shandong province.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kE_hvXDoYFQ

Now, then, we have FOUR explosions that have taken place between China and the United States, all in the span of just a few weeks. The realization that something far beyond chance is happening here is now inescapable. Clearly, someone is strategically and covertly sabotaging China's industrial infrastructure... and this is all taking place at a time when China is accelerating its selling of U.S. debt while devaluing its own currency (both of which are considered acts of economic warfare by the United States).

From the WSJ on Wednesday, Sep. 2:


Five Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, marking the first time the U.S. military has seen them in the area. The officials have been tracking the movements in recent days of three Chinese combat ships...

On top of all this, China has just unveiled a Mach 10 cruise missile that can destroy U.S. aircraft carriers, thereby rendering them all but obsolete in the modern theater of war.

 

[userque]

cartoon...

 

[burrocrat]

Video...BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd

hey, that is the burros-ark strategery in a nutshell. except for the ark is a rather crude and limited expression of it. mainly due to a small representative sample of 'the crowd' and which beans to count, as well as occassional mathematical errors in the actual counting of the beans.

 

[userque]

One explosion is an accident; four is sabotage: Fourth industrial explosion rocks China in string of covert attacks on industry

Now, a fourth industrial explosion confirms the pattern. As Reuters now reports:


An explosion shook a chemical plant in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, state media said on Monday, though there were no immediate reports of casualties in a country on edge after blasts killed more than 160 people last month. The blast caused a fire and thick smoke to bellow from the plant in Lishui city shortly before midnight, state radio said on its official Weibo microblog.

Remarkably, when the mainstream media isn't ignoring these explosions, it's now suddenly claiming that industrial explosions happen every day in China... so move along, there's nothing to see here.

 

[userque]

cartoon...

 

[userque]

A man dies and goes to hell. There he discovers that he has a choice: he can go to capitalist hell or to communist hell....

A man dies and goes to hell. There he discovers that he has a choice: he can go to capitalist hell or to communist hell. Naturally, he wants to compare the two, so he goes over to capitalist hell. There outside the door is the devil, who looks a bit like Ronald Reagan. "What's it like in there?" asks the visitor. "Well," the devil replies, "in capitalist hell, they flay you alive, then they boil you in oil and then they cut you up into small pieces with sharp knives."


"That's terrible!" he gasps. "I'm going to check out communist hell!" He goes over to communist hell, where he discovers a huge queue of people waiting to get in. He waits in line. Eventually he gets to the front and there at the door to communist hell is a little old man who looks a bit like Karl Marx. "I'm still in the free world, Karl," he says, "and before I come in, I want to know what it's like in there."


"In communist hell," says Marx impatiently, "they flay you alive, then they boil you in oil, and then they cut you up into small pieces with sharp knives."


"But... but that's the same as capitalist hell!" protests the visitor, "Why such a long queue?"


"Well," sighs Marx, "Sometimes we're out of oil, sometimes we don't have knives, sometimes no hot water."

(Taken from the website of Jeffrey Parker at Reed College)

 

[userque]

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

 

[userque]

"A recession is when your neighbor has lost his job. A depression is when you lose yours."

 

[userque]

"A man walking along a road in the countryside comes across a shepherd and a huge flock of sheep. He tells the shepherd, "I will bet you $100 against one of your sheep that I can tell you the exact number in this flock."

The shepherd thinks it over. It's a large flock, so he accepts the bet. "There are 973 sheep," says the man. The shepherd is astonished, because the man is exactly right. "O.K., I'm a man of my word. Take one." The man picks one up and begins to walk away.

"Wait," cries the shepherd. "Let me have a chance to get even. Double or nothing that I can guess your occupation." The man agrees.

"You are an economist for a government think tank," says the shepherd. "Amazing!" responds the man. "You are exactly right! But tell me, how did you deduce that?"

"Well," says the shepherd, "Put down my dog and I'll tell you.""

 

[userque]

An economist returns to visit her old school. She's interested in the current exam questions and asks her old professor to show her some.

To her surprise, they are exactly the same ones that she had answered 10 years ago! When she asked the professor about this, the professor answered, "The questions are always the same. Only the answers change!"

 

[userque]

cartoon...

 

[userque]

The Bank Robbery​

Two stock brokers are in a bank, when, suddenly, armed robbers burst in, waving guns and yelling for everyone to freeze. While several of the robbers take the money from the tellers, others line the customers, including the two stock brokers, up against a wall, and proceed to take their wallets, watches, and other valuables. While this is going on, one of the stock brokers jams something into the other stockbroker's hand.

Without looking down, the second stockbroker whispers: "What is this?"

The first stockbroker : "It's the $100 I owe you!"

 

[FireWeatherMet]

cartoon...
View attachment 35307

Thought this one might be more up to date. :smile:

 

[userque]

A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job.

The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks "What do two plus two equal?"
The mathematician replies "Four."
The interviewer asks "Four, exactly?"
The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says "Yes, four, exactly."

Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question
"What do two plus two equal?"
The accountant says "On average, four - give or take ten percent, but on average, four."

Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses the same question
"What do two plus two equal?"
The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down close to the interviewer and says
"What would you like it to equal?"​