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Re:Security and Oil by admin — last modified Apr 25, 2008 10:26 AM

I understand that price affects supply. I am not really concerned (here) with current prices. I'm concerned that the government is manipulating the market (for gasoline) by mandating ethanol additives and that we've lost a sense of the strategic value of having a large, relatively easily accessible reserve of oil in case of a long, unpleasant, global situation.

Re:Security and Oil by Paul feet — last modified Apr 24, 2008 10:23 PM

Oil is finite at any given price. As the price of oil rises, more oil becomes available - is available and is discovered. The issue is what the true long term price of oil is, it is not $120/bbl, that is just what the speculators have driven it to. If it was long term above $100/bbl, much more production would come online. Not enough people believe it will stay that high to spend the money on those sources.

Re:100% open source by admin — last modified Apr 22, 2008 02:52 PM

Ha, yes - some slip :).

You probably didn't even need an editor for that book of yours.

Re:100% open source by Adam — last modified Apr 22, 2008 12:09 PM

"We're not so fond of our use of Java?" Perhaps you meant "were not so fond..."

:)
Adam

Re:Capital Gains Tax Rates and Entrepreneurs by Lance — last modified Oct 23, 2007 11:09 AM

You are right. The tax system is too complex. We could make it a lot more simple by making the capital gains tax zero, as the majority of industrialized countries already have such a policy in place.

Re:Capital Gains Tax Rates and Entrepreneurs by scott p — last modified Oct 23, 2007 10:57 AM

Hi!
Scott P, Halane's husband, here. We are living in Austria.

I am somewhat on the fence with this, but, also, I'm not an investor in companies and it doesn't directly affect me. but , in general, my view is that those who risk *their own* capital should benefit from a capital gains tax rate, while people who are taking management fees and risking *other people's* capital (such as VCs) should not gain the benefit and should pay normal income tax on that cash.

And, no, that won't be a driving factor on my absentee ballot.

Re:Visibility & PCI Security by Bad Credit Loan — last modified Aug 01, 2007 04:05 PM

I too am for the tightening of credit card security. The number of fraud cases caused by lax credit card security is on the rise even with these new changes. I believe a bit more responsibility has to be pushed to the retailer as some retailers don't even check signatures at this moment.

Re:Visibility & PCI Security by Anonymous User — last modified Mar 23, 2007 11:58 AM

The problem with the Visa PCI standard is that Visa/MC have a vested interestedin keepin gthe business flowing. The entity that is responsible for answering Visa is the issuing bank. The retailer is responisible to the issuing bank. The reports are filed with the issuing banks and shared with Visa. The problem with this structure is that all parties have a financial interest in keeping the business flowing. It take a serious public violation, like card systems, for Visa/Issuing Banks to drop a vendor.