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Don't need a slide ruler to figure out our planet is so screwed up from pollution over the years. No wonder why we have so many diseases. crying


I am old enough to have had to learn to use a slide rule in high school physics. I still have it but haven't used it years. I think we spent about a week getting used to using them.

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Hello fellows from long time 8D.


Some proletarian stuff...

I did mention previously that I did have this one really brutal boss from one cliency.. Well, not any more 8D
I just could not stand any more all that yelling on emails and lack of trust. So I did huge improvement to my work life quality..

This company was on gray area to me, I was quite literally hired on Skype and then I gave details to bjurocrats (my legal employer) and just start to work.
So there was not any clear forma for directing contract. In praxis it was that yelling on emails 8)

Well, I did get enough and did take some holiday. No clear contract -> no clear worktimes.
And it seems to me that I did really work. I think they have declare me as persona non grata.

I also did let my legal employer to know that I really could use some bigger change as well. I do not want to spend next five years on office any more. They did promise me a car and post as custom engineer.
So I think on autumn my new car will be my new office also and I really do not mind at all. I have now sit some many years on my offices that I really enjoy this kind of change.

I still have more that one client so I need to use car as office as literally. But it is not a problem, I can found some rest stop and join teleconferenses from there. 3G network is working on most areas here and GPRS will cover hold land so I can also logon to intranet as well.



About that evil company.

I did some surfing on Internet and found my evil boss and owner of that company from this one page where you can put your CV to everybody see, aka big bulletin board for global labor market.
This did shock me quite well (on some weird way)....
I mean that these fellows has been act as really though guys, they have acting like they are green berets
Now why the h*ll they have provide all they information for possible employers.
Are they afraid that they will lost their job and cannot found new one with their own social network. Or are they having unsatisfactory job and are looking change for that year after year.
I cannot found answers to these wonders because they did claim to be toughest one on this planet, so they should not need to humiliate themselves this way..


I have always though that every man will grow to right to vote.
With this I mean ancient Greek definition for it. One rule to get right to vote was that you was need to be part of owner class, because only then you able to vote purely your own purpose and was free to vote.
Those why work for living did not get right to vote, because they were forced to vote their employer or town best, so they were not free to vote purely their own goals.

And I really think that this is something that happens majority of citizens....
And I really thought that those guys from evil company was something like senators of ancient Rome, because there act like ones.
But I think that they are more like cards on house of cards. When one critical go down, they will also go down as individuals as well...

I think that some school bullies never grow up.. But they will always go down..

Last ten years of helicopter money has create fertile soil to these kind of companies to bloom.
It seems to me that there is some good dimension on economical winter after all 8D



Well....
Couple of week on my office, then summer vacation and back on autumn. I hopefully not to office anymore 8)


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Hello fellows from long time 8D.


Some proletarian stuff...

I did mention previously that I did have this one really brutal boss from one cliency.. Well, not any more 8D
I just could not stand any more all that yelling on emails and lack of trust. So I did huge improvement to my work life quality..

This company was on gray area to me, I was quite literally hired on Skype and then I gave details to bjurocrats (my legal employer) and just start to work.
So there was not any clear forma for directing contract. In praxis it was that yelling on emails 8)

Well, I did get enough and did take some holiday. No clear contract -> no clear worktimes.
And it seems to me that I did really work. I think they have declare me as persona non grata.

I also did let my legal employer to know that I really could use some bigger change as well. I do not want to spend next five years on office any more. They did promise me a car and post as custom engineer.
So I think on autumn my new car will be my new office also and I really do not mind at all. I have now sit some many years on my offices that I really enjoy this kind of change.

I still have more that one client so I need to use car as office as literally. But it is not a problem, I can found some rest stop and join teleconferenses from there. 3G network is working on most areas here and GPRS will cover hold land so I can also logon to intranet as well.



About that evil company.

I did some surfing on Internet and found my evil boss and owner of that company from this one page where you can put your CV to everybody see, aka big bulletin board for global labor market.
This did shock me quite well (on some weird way)....
I mean that these fellows has been act as really though guys, they have acting like they are green berets
Now why the h*ll they have provide all they information for possible employers.
Are they afraid that they will lost their job and cannot found new one with their own social network. Or are they having unsatisfactory job and are looking change for that year after year.
I cannot found answers to these wonders because they did claim to be toughest one on this planet, so they should not need to humiliate themselves this way..


I have always though that every man will grow to right to vote.
With this I mean ancient Greek definition for it. One rule to get right to vote was that you was need to be part of owner class, because only then you able to vote purely your own purpose and was free to vote.
Those why work for living did not get right to vote, because they were forced to vote their employer or town best, so they were not free to vote purely their own goals.

And I really think that this is something that happens majority of citizens....
And I really thought that those guys from evil company was something like senators of ancient Rome, because there act like ones.
But I think that they are more like cards on house of cards. When one critical go down, they will also go down as individuals as well...

I think that some school bullies never grow up.. But they will always go down..

Last ten years of helicopter money has create fertile soil to these kind of companies to bloom.
It seems to me that there is some good dimension on economical winter after all 8D



Well....
Couple of week on my office, then summer vacation and back on autumn. I hopefully not to office anymore 8)


Accumulated Points: 51,870,564


Yah, it has been a long time no see. I could not quite follow all of the evil company train of thought, but I think I get the idea. It sounds like you need a vacation anyhow. Summer is good to get away and do a little fishing or partying or whatever.
Good to hear from you again, you are always interesting.
Still badly waiting for rain here. Storms have gone both south and north of us. The saving grace is that it has not been too hot yet.

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My goal of 100 million is very close now hypnotized
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Don't need a slide ruler to figure out our planet is so screwed up from pollution over the years. No wonder why we have so many diseases. crying


You also don't need a slide rule to figure out that the drastic increase in standard of living made possible by fossil fuels and all the other "pollution" has caused the death rate to plummet and the average lifespan to skyrocket in the first world.

I don't process work units for:
- Discovering Dengue Drugs because DDT and mosquito netting works great, we just need to get people to actually use them.
- Fight AIDS at home because if you avoid promiscuous unprotected buttsex and live in the first world, AIDS is already a non-issue.
- The Clean Energy Project because unhindered capitalism will provide the cheapest energy - looking for cancer cures is far more important to me.
- Nutritious Rice for the World because the Earth provides plenty of food for everyone already - the problem is getting it to the right people. This is a supply-chain problem, generally caused by brutal dictatorships and the resulting lack of individual liberty. This also applies to the other "third-world-only" problems I alluded to above.

You could invent a magic cure pill or magic nutrition pill and people would still die of disease and starvation. The solution is spreading freedom. Trade, not aid.
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Don't need a slide ruler to figure out our planet is so screwed up from pollution over the years. No wonder why we have so many diseases. crying


You also don't need a slide rule to figure out that the drastic increase in standard of living made possible by fossil fuels and all the other "pollution" has caused the death rate to plummet and the average lifespan to skyrocket in the first world.

I don't process work units for:
- Discovering Dengue Drugs because DDT and mosquito netting works great, we just need to get people to actually use them.
- Fight AIDS at home because if you avoid promiscuous unprotected buttsex and live in the first world, AIDS is already a non-issue.
- The Clean Energy Project because unhindered capitalism will provide the cheapest energy - looking for cancer cures is far more important to me.
- Nutritious Rice for the World because the Earth provides plenty of food for everyone already - the problem is getting it to the right people. This is a supply-chain problem, generally caused by brutal dictatorships and the resulting lack of individual liberty. This also applies to the other "third-world-only" problems I alluded to above.

You could invent a magic cure pill or magic nutrition pill and people would still die of disease and starvation. The solution is spreading freedom. Trade, not aid.

I like the way you think. cowboy
Edit: All but DDT. Yes it works great on mosquitoes but it's devastating to birds and other wildlife including humans. ?? thinking
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Yah, it has been a long time no see. I could not quite follow all of the evil company train of thought, but I think I get the idea.

Cheers


Well all this economical turmoil that is going right now, it is not anything new here. Twenty years ago this government went to bankruptcy after economical superboom.
So I have seen this all before. I´have seen raise of those arrogant figures who excavate their claims from cheaply borrowed money.
I have also see what happens when economical winter turns to midwinter and continues couple of years. And I know that those figures will go down like toy soldiers..

When those guys enter here they did act like conquistadors, they expand to domain that was never create any profit for it's previous holders.
Previous fellows did have at least dozen another clients, they did have natural monopoly to some clientele and owner of that company was member of "old money" family.

Owner of that company did work also on technical layers. So he was strategist and tactician as well. And because he is old money, he can stand all those years of midwinter that are starting here.
I know that he did stand all those years when banking system felt down here and unemployment rate claim to 20%. So he will stand also this great depression, this is not big deal to him..
We talk every now and then when eating buns 8)


When those conquistadors enter, I really though that they are world greatest strategist. But they are not. They are just average Joe's who had get cheap money from bank and thing that they can do something that nobody has ever done before.
I know what is their destiny.

And I'm pissed of that I spend so much time with them...


Well some banking stuff 8)

Latvia is near bankruptcy right now, and it is wonderful opportunity to me take some risk to me..
Idea is that Latvians currency is tied to €uro within range of 1%. So on another hand there is no currency risk when doing deposit on Latvia's laties (LVL).
Right now offer for one month deposit on government (well it might go to bankruptcy also) owned bank is 8%. And that is very lot right now, Scandinavian banks offer something like 1% - 1,5%.

Risk for devaluation of LVL is considerable, it would of course mean destruction of deposit and design about devaluation can be done by simple decision of government, aka it can just happen overnight bases.
On Lithuania situation is different because they need to change law first and it require lot time.. Well lot enough to change deposit back to €uros 8D

So, there is risk and there is lot of it.
But I think that when storm is coming, you can build shelter or you can build windmill.
Trust me, I know what I'm doing biggrin

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So, there is risk and there is lot of it. But I think that when storm is coming, you can build shelter or you can build windmill.


I can see you are more of the build a windmill type. I am more of the build shelter first and than build a windmill type. I examined the yield charts at Paraxa. Quite aninteresting yield curve where the maximum return is at a year with the interest being less at a longer term. Really a disincentive to invest long term money. It appears they are pricing for liquidity in the local currency. USD and EURO are flatter curve which would indicate more confidence in that currency for the longer term, although I note the yield also drops for the EURO at 5 years. Strange. Under normal markets there should be a premium for a longer term. I would be wary of curve inversions.

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I have build good shelter already, so I can stand some storms..

Well, about Latvia and curves...
I really do not know for sure.... I think that no one know because economy of Latvia is not transparent, there is not public information about it.
That is one reason why they put jail persons who put rumors to street about devaluation, gossip are still carrying most solid information there, like on CCCP era.

But on light on pure logic, central bank need to buy LVL's from market to defend it value. They need to defend it because they have made this decision to tie LVL to €uro on this one percentage tube.
They have manage to do this, some British economist count that central bank has now use 90% of it's money, and it seems to me that there is not much LVL on market because central bank is forced to buy all of them.
Overnight rate on Interbank market is something like 20% right now.
This would explain those weird curves on LVL's and €uros.

About that devaluation risk.
It is not that big risk to me, it could actually lead to some quality time 8)
If they would devaluate now, I would not change deposit back to €uros, I would just spend half of interest on Latvia and let capital to run for rest of my days..

Price level (outside Riga) is something like tenth what it is here, and I have EU passport so in praxis it would mean jumping to car and start engine.
It is not any bigger deal than crossing state border there.
I could use returned interest to listen red army choir singing, zipping red vine and do some study on red light district. You know, hold nine yards 8)


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They have manage to do this, some British economist count that central bank has now use 90% of it's money, and it seems to me that there is not much LVL on market because central bank is forced to buy all of them.


Sounds like they are defending their currency. Apparently this is the only way they defend its value, raise the interest rate to give the investor a good return. Attract foreign money to make the currency desirable. Only a short term fix. They can not do this indefinetly. The market will eventually decide what the currency is worth in terms of the surrounding currencies. Hope you make some money.

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