I'd be more impressed if it were things like food or utilities instead of more electronic crap that we don't need.

Far more important than any of those except housing is the price of solar energy. It's dropping to grid parity in many places this year.

thomps: is subby's mom on the list, or is this one of those situations where you can't go cheaper than free?

/because subby's mom is a used up whore, you see

Hey! She's still got some spunk in her!

not subby

wish LED bulbs was on the list
only thing going down this year will be your 401k.

eddyatwork: I'd be more impressed if it were things like food or utilities instead of more electronic crap that we don't need.

Doesn't the wine count for something? Mmm... cheap wine...

I see subbys mom has already been mentioned.

cig-mkr: wish LED bulbs was on the list

Me too, I also want a 200 watt equivalent LED light bulb for my laundry room, I have yet to find one.

/damn builder only put one two bulb fixture in the laundry room and the ceiling shape prohibits me from putting up a traditional florescent fixture.

What about Subby's Mo...oh fark it.

eddyatwork: I'd be more impressed if it were things like food or utilities instead of more electronic crap that we don't need.

I'd be impressed if it wasn't the obvious shiat. All these things are destined to go down, what a waste of bandwidth and brain cells...

Cost of sex with your mom, because let's face it as old as she is and as many cocks as she has sucked she just is not that exciting to fark anymore.

eddyatwork: I'd be more impressed if it were things like food or utilities instead of more electronic crap that we don't need.

That list sucked, but anyway, the consensus is a fall in many commodities this year. I would bank on cotton (lower demand) and natural gas (growing supply).

Here's what Morgan Stanley thinks. This is more interesting:

Link (new window)

Pinner: thomps: is subby's mom on the list, or is this one of those situations where you can't go cheaper than free?

/because subby's mom is a used up whore, you see

Hey! She's still got some spunk in her!

not subby

Douche.

Tom_Slick: damn builder only put one two bulb fixture in the laundry room and the ceiling shape prohibits me from putting up a traditional florescent fixture.

I live on an Air Force base and the cabinet shelves above my washer and dryer are so close together that you can't fit most cleaning supplies in it without setting them on their sides and the shelves aren't even adjustable. I'd rather have your problem.

Rapmaster2000: eddyatwork: I'd be more impressed if it were things like food or utilities instead of more electronic crap that we don't need.

That list sucked, but anyway, the consensus is a fall in many commodities this year. I would bank on cotton (lower demand) and natural gas (growing supply).

NG is contingent on getting a supply to Asia. Japan is keen on more NG due to their nuclear problems.

Not sure if companies will move fast enough to get the supply chain going. NG isn't fungible, and this is a big part why.

13, 14: Hookers, blow.

Tom_Slick: /damn builder only put one two bulb fixture in the laundry room and the ceiling shape prohibits me from putting up a traditional florescent fixture.

It could be worse... Apparently the house we're renting was a 'Project House' built by high schoolers in the mid-90's. OK, I'm fine with that. Radiant heat, which is really cool, but kind of a royal pain to calibrate, we have a series of valves on the wall in the furnace room to adjust the water level to each zone. Once again , no problem. Problem arises when you find that there are a dozen valves, and not all of them are labeled, the ones that ARE labeled is just pencil on the piece of OSB they are mounted on, and it's on the RETURN end, not the supply end, so there is no guarantee that the valve you are adjusting is even for the return line that is by the mark. We're getting it figured out, but the electrical is driving me nuts, and really just in 3 spots:

1. Garage: Only lights are inside the vestibule area, where we have a door to the basement, one to the laundry room, and one to the family room. NO switches in the garage.

2. Vestibule area: Light switch is outside of it in the family room, so when we comer home and it's pitch dark, we have to stumble through this area to turn on some light.

3. Family room: Switch is all the way across the room, by the sliding glass door.

So we come home at night, make our way through the illumination in the garage by the dingle bulb in the opener, not a total mess, go into the pitch black vestibule area, stumble over laundry piles if it's laundry day, reach through the other door, and turn on the light for people coming in, then STILL have to navigate a pitch black stairway to get up to the main floor and turn a light on for everyone coming in the door.

Another one that's not so bad, but would drive me nuts if I owned the house: By the front door is a 4-switch plate. One for the switched outlet in the living room, one for the outside garage lights, one for the front porch, and one mystery switch, but they are in no order that makes sense to anybody. People would expect the outside lights to be near the door, with the farthest ones away all the way to the right, and then the inside ones on the left, they are so randomly spaced that I've been in the house a year, and I only know the two that turn on the out side lights, and not even which is which...

God, I hope the kid who did the electrical flunked... Thank God for the housing market, too, because when we buy, we'll be able to build new, and I am going to walk through every room and figure out where the light switch SHOULD be. If it costs me more, I don't care, it's worth it for people to be able to find the light switch where they naturally would expect it.

This is what happens when a bunch of teenagers build your house I guess...

Mikey1969: This is what happens when a bunch of teenagers build your house I guess...

Also there's probably semen all over the place.

Pinner: thomps: is subby's mom on the list, or is this one of those situations where you can't go cheaper than free?

/because subby's mom is a used up whore, you see

Hey! She's still got some spunk in her!

not subby

Yah, er, sorry about that.

Mikey1969: Tom_Slick: /damn builder only put one two bulb fixture in the laundry room and the ceiling shape prohibits me from putting up a traditional florescent fixture.

It could be worse... Apparently the house we're renting was a 'Project House' built by high schoolers in the mid-90's. OK, I'm fine with that. Radiant heat, which is really cool, but kind of a royal pain to calibrate, we have a series of valves on the wall in the furnace room to adjust the water level to each zone. Once again , no problem. Problem arises when you find that there are a dozen valves, and not all of them are labeled, the ones that ARE labeled is just pencil on the piece of OSB they are mounted on, and it's on the RETURN end, not the supply end, so there is no guarantee that the valve you are adjusting is even for the return line that is by the mark. We're getting it figured out, but the electrical is driving me nuts, and really just in 3 spots:

1. Garage: Only lights are inside the vestibule area, where we have a door to the basement, one to the laundry room, and one to the family room. NO switches in the garage.

2. Vestibule area: Light switch is outside of it in the family room, so when we comer home and it's pitch dark, we have to stumble through this area to turn on some light.

3. Family room: Switch is all the way across the room, by the sliding glass door.

So we come home at night, make our way through the illumination in the garage by the dingle bulb in the opener, not a total mess, go into the pitch black vestibule area, stumble over laundry piles if it's laundry day, reach through the other door, and turn on the light for people coming in, then STILL have to navigate a pitch black stairway to get up to the main floor and turn a light on for everyone coming in the door.

Another one that's not so bad, but would drive me nuts if I owned the house: By the front door is a 4-switch plate. One for the switched outlet in the living room, one for the outside garage lights, one for the fron ...

That sucks. When you walk into my living room there are 5 switches. Two of them control switched outlets, one of which we discovered when the new cable box wouldn't turn on. I'm still not sure what all the switches do. One of the bedroom switches controls the left upper outlet and the right lower outlet behind the bed.

Shazam999: Mikey1969: This is what happens when a bunch of teenagers build your house I guess...

Also there's probably semen all over the place.

Only when the Navy buddies come over...

;-)

Tobin_Lam: That sucks. When you walk into my living room there are 5 switches. Two of them control switched outlets, one of which we discovered when the new cable box wouldn't turn on. I'm still not sure what all the switches do. One of the bedroom switches controls the left upper outlet and the right lower outlet behind the bed.

It's like the layout is determined by a blindfolded monkey and a dartbaord...

Refurbished iPad2s? NO WAY.

Sign
Me
Up.

/not really, go fark your refurbished crap.

ihatedumbpeople: /not really, go fark your refurbished crap.

I don't see the hate for a refurbished device that is 100% solid state electronics. I understand Apple hate, but not refurbished hate, especially with no moving parts. As long as it has the same warranty, which most respectable companies offer on refurbs, it's a much better deal.

Mikey1969: ihatedumbpeople: /not really, go fark your refurbished crap.

I don't see the hate for a refurbished device that is 100% solid state electronics. I understand Apple hate, but not refurbished hate, especially with no moving parts. As long as it has the same warranty, which most respectable companies offer on refurbs, it's a much better deal.

Until you find out that say the memory modules can't actually handle the speeds they're asked to run, as an example. That sort of defect may not show up for a while into its usage either, ie beyond the point where the refurb workers have bothered to test it.

Mikey1969: Tom_Slick: /damn builder only put one two bulb fixture in the laundry room and the ceiling shape prohibits me from putting up a traditional florescent fixture.

It could be worse... Apparently the house we're renting was a 'Project House' built by high schoolers in the mid-90's. OK, I'm fine with that. Radiant heat, which is really cool, but kind of a royal pain to calibrate, we have a series of valves on the wall in the furnace room to adjust the water level to each zone. Once again , no problem. Problem arises when you find that there are a dozen valves, and not all of them are labeled, the ones that ARE labeled is just pencil on the piece of OSB they are mounted on, and it's on the RETURN end, not the supply end, so there is no guarantee that the valve you are adjusting is even for the return line that is by the mark. We're getting it figured out, but the electrical is driving me nuts, and really just in 3 spots:

1. Garage: Only lights are inside the vestibule area, where we have a door to the basement, one to the laundry room, and one to the family room. NO switches in the garage.

2. Vestibule area: Light switch is outside of it in the family room, so when we comer home and it's pitch dark, we have to stumble through this area to turn on some light.

3. Family room: Switch is all the way across the room, by the sliding glass door.

So we come home at night, make our way through the illumination in the garage by the dingle bulb in the opener, not a total mess, go into the pitch black vestibule area, stumble over laundry piles if it's laundry day, reach through the other door, and turn on the light for people coming in, then STILL have to navigate a pitch black stairway to get up to the main floor and turn a light on for everyone coming in the door.

Another one that's not so bad, but would drive me nuts if I owned the house: By the front door is a 4-switch plate. One for the switched outlet in the living room, one for the outside garage lights, one for the fron ...

Be sure to check the attic for Mexicans. I hear they like to live in people's attics.

Gold?

Current Resident: Tobin_Lam: That sucks. When you walk into my living room there are 5 switches. Two of them control switched outlets, one of which we discovered when the new cable box wouldn't turn on. I'm still not sure what all the switches do. One of the bedroom switches controls the left upper outlet and the right lower outlet behind the bed.

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Yeah buddy, you run around with an electrical device, plugging it in and flipping switches, only to figure out that 3 of the 5 have the top outlet on one switch, one of the remaining two is set up to another switch, and then you have a switch that controls nothing that you can find in the house, and tell us all it isn't frustrating as hell.

BumpInTheNight: Until you find out that say the memory modules can't actually handle the speeds they're asked to run, as an example. That sort of defect may not show up for a while into its usage either, ie beyond the point where the refurb workers have bothered to test it.

I see that point, but usually refurbed means that it's been used somewhere, and alot of times these things DO get picked up, but I see where you're coming from on this.

I just wouldn't buy a fracking iPad... ;-) Problem solved.

Funny I count only 4 things on the list:
1) Wine
2) Houses
3) Car Rentals
4) Aging electronic technology

subby's mom at the top of the list, correct?

stuhayes2010: Gold?

God, I would hope so at some point... It's gonna have to break, and when it does, it'll fall hard, and the Beckies will be bawling their eyes out, blaming Obama, when in fact it was the fear-mongering people like Brother Glenn who artificially inflated this price and made a lot of speculators rich. This is the absolute dumbest time for ANYONE to buy gold, yet they keep doing it.

stuhayes2010: Gold?

Not according to the Morgan Stanley link that Rapmaster provided above. They say ave. $2,200/oz.

Goldman Sachs predicts $1,810
Barclays predicts $2,000
UBS predicts $2,050
Link (new window)

It will be an interesting year for gold.

Why do these articles keep saying the GPS is 'close to extinction?' I'd much rather spend the money for a good GPS rather than buy an expensive smartphone with some shiatty GPS app with an expensive contract for unlimited data with limits.

Mikey1969: stuhayes2010: Gold?

God, I would hope so at some point... It's gonna have to break, and when it does, it'll fall hard, and the Beckies will be bawling their eyes out, blaming Obama, when in fact it was the fear-mongering people like Brother Glenn who artificially inflated this price and made a lot of speculators rich. This is the absolute dumbest time for ANYONE to buy gold, yet they keep doing it.

Anyone who thinks that Glenn Beck has ANY influence over the price of gold is the real idiot. It's a worldwide market, and some of the biggest buyers over the last 2 years are the central banks of China, Russia, India and South Korea. You think these people even know who Glenn Beck is? Do you know how minuscule gold retail sales in the U.S. are compared to sales worldwide? If you knew this, you'd know your comment makes absolutely no sense at all.

Atomic Spunk: Mikey1969: stuhayes2010: Gold?

God, I would hope so at some point... It's gonna have to break, and when it does, it'll fall hard, and the Beckies will be bawling their eyes out, blaming Obama, when in fact it was the fear-mongering people like Brother Glenn who artificially inflated this price and made a lot of speculators rich. This is the absolute dumbest time for ANYONE to buy gold, yet they keep doing it.

Anyone who thinks that Glenn Beck has ANY influence over the price of gold is the real idiot. It's a worldwide market, and some of the biggest buyers over the last 2 years are the central banks of China, Russia, India and South Korea. You think these people even know who Glenn Beck is? Do you know how minuscule gold retail sales in the U.S. are compared to sales worldwide? If you knew this, you'd know your comment makes absolutely no sense at all.

Oh yeah, the constant 'Buy Gold!!' Buy Gold!!' mantra has done nothing whatsoever... You don't think the speculators are buying based on increased demand in the US, which drives the price higher, and then causes more speculators to buy more gold, which drives the price higher, and so on?

You're not delusional at all, are you?

Mikey1969: Atomic Spunk: Mikey1969: stuhayes2010: Gold?

God, I would hope so at some point... It's gonna have to break, and when it does, it'll fall hard, and the Beckies will be bawling their eyes out, blaming Obama, when in fact it was the fear-mongering people like Brother Glenn who artificially inflated this price and made a lot of speculators rich. This is the absolute dumbest time for ANYONE to buy gold, yet they keep doing it.

Anyone who thinks that Glenn Beck has ANY influence over the price of gold is the real idiot. It's a worldwide market, and some of the biggest buyers over the last 2 years are the central banks of China, Russia, India and South Korea. You think these people even know who Glenn Beck is? Do you know how minuscule gold retail sales in the U.S. are compared to sales worldwide? If you knew this, you'd know your comment makes absolutely no sense at all.

Oh yeah, the constant 'Buy Gold!!' Buy Gold!!' mantra has done nothing whatsoever... You don't think the speculators are buying based on increased demand in the US, which drives the price higher, and then causes more speculators to buy more gold, which drives the price higher, and so on?

You're not delusional at all, are you?

I wouldn't say Glenn Beck so much as I'd say gold ETFs. The liquidity of ETFs that have allowed gold to rise so quickly will also cause them to fall quickly... whenever that will be.

Regardless, I'm staying the fark away from gold. It's way too high for my comfort level. I buy distressed investments and wait. Gold is not distressed.

This is all well and good for subby's mom, but ramen at the 99 cent store has gone from six for a dollar to only five!

Costs decreasing my ass.

online gambling fees?

Rapmaster2000:
I wouldn't say Glenn Beck so much as I'd say gold ETFs.

I'll agree with that. The gold ETFs currently act like the tail wagging the dog. Perhaps the MF Global rehypothecation mess will scare people away from GLD. Time will tell, but I hope it does.

I will also agree that gold isn't currently distressed, but I also believe the bull market in gold bullion still has some legs. I do think that gold shares (especially the juniors) are distressed, though. The big miners are running out of reserves and they're sitting on a lot of cash. They will need to buy juniors to keep their mills going.

NPD, the market research group, said that sales of digital still cameras, video cams and digital picture frames were all down significantly as people switch to using iPads and intelligent phones for the same function. That will put downward price pressure on those categories too.