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There's a ghost town in the middle of Silicon Valley too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawbridge,_California

I'm not a native speaker, but http://www.answers.com/wealth doesn't agree with you either. A company is something you can own, possess, a resource you can use as a tool. When it is bankrupt, I think some real wealth is lost.

When a company goes bankrupt, is wealth destroyed? When creditors are not repaid, is wealth destroyed? When pension fund investors lose their money and would have to retire later, is wealth destroyed? Current stock and bond prices imply that 10-20% US companies will go out of business in the next 5 years.

Not really, most of it was really destroyed - debts not repaid, foreclosures, etc.

Just think how much they will lose in customer trust because of that. I pulled everything out today.

Bug in parsing: line 2 is mostly javascript, not mako.

More evidence from fellow hacker - http://jwz.livejournal.com/1002269.html

Great Britain was very close to complete banking collapse on October 10th too. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127278/Revealed-Day...

Being honest to yourself is much harder than it seems. Have you read Ghandi's "Experiments with Truth" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Experiments_wit... ?

3) Have you tried named_scope? It solves most of the query building pain for me...

Rails: problem - who takes care of it - how

1) Input validation - programmer - validates_* and attr_accessible in the models

2) Output validation - programmer - HTML::Sanitize

3) SQL injection - rails - use ? or named_scope to construct complex queries

4) XSS - programmer - do not forget <%= h

5) Command injection - programmer - do not do it

6) Cleartext - programmer - requires_ssl module

7) CSRF - rails - uses authentication_token in all forms

8) Race conditions - rails - single threaded

9) Error info leaks - rails - use production mode

10) Memory - ruby - safe language

The rest are all on programmer - just do not do it.

You ain't seen nothing yet:

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=iso (up 100,067.23%)

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=jdo (up 81,870.14%)

Peak of the "suicide" corresponds to the bottom of the stock market in November.

Another breakdown is needed, but my guess is that it is air force pilots and bomber crew that skew the stats. Read/see "catch 22".

But there were at least 10 times more soldiers than officers. That means officer's death risk was at least 3 times higher than soldier's. They also mention that average IQ of a soldier that died was 95.

I bet there will be a study that shows how smarter people lost more during current crisis.

Statistics :( Just add another variable - officer or soldier - and the conclusion can be reversed. Clearly no causation here: higher percentage of officers died, and officers were smarter.

Congratulations! Need more news like that to get over gloom & doom.

Crazy world, we have web2.0 attack of the clones, now in finance:

http://stockpickr.com http://alphaclone.com http://zecco.com, that's not counting virtual stock market games where you can sell you strategies to others.

Funny how people pile on these "top pickers" and create a self-fulfilling prophecy bubble and then wonder where all the money went.

Anybody can find the text of the response?

Here's the text of lawsuit (08-CV-9595) [PDF] http://people.bakersfield.com/file/document/339038/2/0/

Cool, that's exactly what I need, yet, even after skimming "how it works" page I'm still not sure.

Nobody knows http://jaanix.com

$200k this December, max flight time of 19 minutes, travel distance of 27 miles @83 mph: http://uk.cars.ign.com/articles/817/817351p1.html

Linus Torvalds: "The git architecture simply sucks for big objects": http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/2/8/200591/thread

In the good old days stocks were considered too risky and to compensate for that they had to return more than bonds.

Earnings are a lot easier to fake than dividends that's why some consider dividend rate more reliable indicator than P/E (esp. when comparing with other asset classes). Last time S&P returned more than treasuries was in 1950's.

It is even worse (or better if you're buying), the dividend yield on S&P 500 is now more than the yield on 10 year treasury bond.

P/E doesn't mean much for a company that is still growing fast.

The fall in the shares in these companies has nothing to do with their business.

The overall market is down more than 30%, and technology companies are a lot more sensitive to the market direction than others. This is how Salesforce looks adjusted for market trends: http://whomovedmystock.com/CRM (disclaimer: this is my startup)

Right now it is part of the overall market exposure, but yes, some companies might be more sensitive to it than others.