I believe "Just business." is the libertarian position.

andriod owning the largest part of the mobile market share is only temporary, IMO.  since there are a lot of cheaper phones running android, they have scooped up the low-end and mid-range smartphone section of the market.  *if* the rumor is true that appl is going to be releasing a lower end iphone alongside the iphone 5, i would expect a large portion of andriods market share to dry up.  the other thing that killed apples market share this time around was an iphone launch plagued with issues and launching exclusively to at&t initially.

its still way too early to tell where the tablet market is going to go, but for now, the ipad dominates.

in any case, jobs is staying on as chairman, so he'll still be involved. personally, i dont think he's the all-knowing genius that the cult of mac portrays him to be, but if he his, he'll still be able to work his magic (albeit from a smaller role, i suppose). 

in any case, apple is an extremely healthy company with great financials and they are consistantly turning a profit...as an investor, thats all that matters to me.

nah, we may see a little selloff, but the stock wont crash. apple still has the mobile, tablet and mp3 player markets cornered; they have a moat that will be hard to cross, they are highly profitable, and they have a SHITLOAD of reserve cash.

that still says "buy" to me.

besides, investors have known about his failing health and heave expected him to step down for sometime now.

Any thoughts?

Esta semana recibi un par de golpes en la ingle cariñosamente desde Paypal y mi banco.

Paypal: generalmente debo enviar dolares paypal a otras personas. Para ello uso la modalidad "Pago Masivo" de modo de pagar solo 1 dolar de comision, independiente de la cantidad enviada. Como siempre fui a la pestaña de envio, y veo el siguiente mensaje "You are not allowed to send mass payments", buscando informacion en google encuentro que Paypal ha eliminado esta opcion de envio para Asia y el Pacifico. Finalmente la comision que tuve que pagar fue 3.5% que la repartimos entre la otra persona y yo.

Banco: Me hicieron una transferencia internacional por 3000 dolares. La comision del banco fue 20 dolares. Sin embargo el robo descarado no termino ahi. El tipo de cambio en chile es 1 dolar = 468 pesos chilenos. Sin embargo el banco arbitrariamente impuso como tipo de cambio 1 dolar = 455 pesos chilenos. El banco me robo 13 pesos chilenos por cada dolar, es decir, 39 mill pesos chilenos, o sea, 83 dolares. Finalmente el banco se quedo con 103 dolares de los 3000 enviados.

Mi veredicto es que se requiere BitCoin masificado lo antes posible.

What you are not saying is that this situation was happening because the USA was printing more dollars than the gold it had. If you promise to pay gold for each dollar you print, and then start printing dollars... well, you are going to run out of gold. The printing to pay for the Vietnam war and getting Nixon re-elected was the final nail in the coffin.

It was kind of how Raize put it.  The dollar was promised to pay at a certain ratio to gold, when nixon "shut the window" what was going on is that the dollar could be bought cheaper than the gold it promised to back so that is what countries and large entities started to do, buy cheaper dollars and then cash out for gold at the promised higher value... naturally this could not sustain itself and the U.S. lost much of it's gold reserve very quickly so Nixon said enough is enough and shut it off instead of re pegging the currency to the true value of Gold and that opened up the option to limitless inflation.

Gold-Hater Roubini Recommends Physical Gold

Wow baby! This is a flip. Anti-gold Nouriel Roubini tweets that you are better off holding physical gold over ETFs during a global financial crisis. He tweets:
This is what Roubini wrote in 2009:

We've already seen the security part,

we're still waiting for margin trading from the R&D team. And I think that the interests that are generated by the money being deposited can fund the maintenance part.

I'm not worried, the market will regulate it and make it much more efficient.

In my view the protest was a failure because we ended up debating about property and about the freaking grass. But yes they DESERVE respect for having the guts to protest and go through with being arrested. If in the end people realize about what the protest was about and forget about the capitol grass which i already stated has nothing to do with them being arrested and with the protest and start doing something about the issue then it won't be a failure anymore. I think they should go back to the drawing board because the capitol grass stole their protest .

Explain.  What he stated had nothing to do with the media.

The article mentions Gavin postulating that in 5 years bitcoin could possibly be administered by Bank of America?
That really does not seem possible.

OK, that's just my 2c worth, but, well, the mining community is seriously full of superstition and I think a level minded comment is needed.

The US closed the gold window not because they ran out of gold, but because it was propping up Britain's crappy currency. So people were buying pounds and then converting to USD and then subsequently to Gold via a loophole in the British system. Instead of opening the window again, though, Nixon left it shut, and no other president reopened it, meaning the US was free to float its currency against gold. Since there was still this huge demand for USD, it slowly replaced the British pound as the world's reserve currency. Over time, politicians used the status of being the world's reserve currency to go deeper into debt. As long as the rest of the world needed USD to buy their oil, agriculture, and other products, it was still in need. But recently that has been changing, and the world doesn't need the dollar anymore. But the US is still spending as if the world does, and the latest agreement by politicians to cut back on spending isn't enough to remedy the situation.

I can't tell you much about what is going to happen in the future, but I can tell you this: If anyone says "Oh, the US always bounces back, just you wait and see..." then you need to ignore what that person has to say. The US is become less and less free economically, there are a myriad of local, state, and federal regulations that hamper small businesses from thriving, in fact, increasingly the larger corporations use regulatory capture and iron triangle politics to keep competition out of their respective industries. I could go on, but I think I've put enough information in this message you guys can wiki most of the stuff you don't already know. It's pretty easy to see what is happening right now if you take the time to learn it all.

Still I would never vote for the man, his policies would have us in a depression inside of a month