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“BHS, I was commenting on the speed of the site, not the slowness in people to respond to anything.”
I see.
The site has been fine for me performance wise today, although the bad flash ads messing up my browser have been an annoyance again the last week or so.
I am out of the office today. Mission: the backyard. I am going to buy a power washer to clean up the patio and front yard. Trees growing in Brooklyn are very lovely but the size of the Norway maple in my back yard (spans 7 properties and towers over my 4 story building) produces so much tree trash that cleaning up my patio is a major project every spring.
I went to a energy market seminar last night and Dodd Frank is a complete nightmare for the commodity industry.
The presenter was legal counsel for an energy distribution company (not an investment company, not a hedge fund, not a pension fund— a gasoline blender and distributor) with headquarters here in NY. He took us through the last month of developments in how to implement Dodd Frank for our industry. Somehow after the meltdown of 2008, there are legislators who still do not have the slightest clue about the value and utility of the commodity derivative markets. The toxic mess that helped to torpedo the markets in 2008 had nothing to do with how the energy markets work or the ag markets and legitimate swaps dealing and trading markets work. Yet, the political pressure to DO SOMETHING has brought a new generation of hacks and a mind-frying, surreal, irrational overlay of new regulation. We now not only have the CFTC and the SEC but no less than 5 other agencies regulating markets in a confused attempt to fix something that never broke.
“BHS, I was commenting on the speed of the site, not the slowness in people to respond to anything.”
I see.
The site has been fine for me performance wise today, although the bad flash ads messing up my browser have been an annoyance again the last week or so.
Might be time to start blocking Flash again.
By bfarwell on April 26, 2011 9:45 AM
Uuugh. Huuungoooveerrrrr…
On a Tueday?? What a lush.
Uuugh. Huuungoooveerrrrr…
Keep this crap up for a 2nd day, and I’m going to incite a pun fest!
Wait, I think I may do that anyway! : P
I am out of the office today. Mission: the backyard. I am going to buy a power washer to clean up the patio and front yard. Trees growing in Brooklyn are very lovely but the size of the Norway maple in my back yard (spans 7 properties and towers over my 4 story building) produces so much tree trash that cleaning up my patio is a major project every spring.
donetella, never underestimate the stupidity of government officials and their ability to fuck things up becasue of that stupidity.
Biden causes the least amount of problems because he’s asleep most of the time
So then CGar, what you’re saying is that the French were not invited when they helped us out in the Revolutionary War???
We won. They were invited.
If the Brits had won, I’m sure the popular view would be different.
Winners write history. And whoever helps them fight gets a retroactive formal invitation from the country at large.
I went to a energy market seminar last night and Dodd Frank is a complete nightmare for the commodity industry.
The presenter was legal counsel for an energy distribution company (not an investment company, not a hedge fund, not a pension fund— a gasoline blender and distributor) with headquarters here in NY. He took us through the last month of developments in how to implement Dodd Frank for our industry. Somehow after the meltdown of 2008, there are legislators who still do not have the slightest clue about the value and utility of the commodity derivative markets. The toxic mess that helped to torpedo the markets in 2008 had nothing to do with how the energy markets work or the ag markets and legitimate swaps dealing and trading markets work. Yet, the political pressure to DO SOMETHING has brought a new generation of hacks and a mind-frying, surreal, irrational overlay of new regulation. We now not only have the CFTC and the SEC but no less than 5 other agencies regulating markets in a confused attempt to fix something that never broke.
“I say they were invited”
I’m very happy for you, jackal. But, you’re still WRONG.