8 million fewer people voted this time around. That’s a 7% drop from 2008. I’d like to think many of those people realized how useless it is to vote.
Turnout Steady in Swing States and Down in Others, But Many Votes Remain Uncounted – NYTimes.com
In many of the states where the campaigns focused most of their attention, more people voted than in 2008. Turnout is likely to have declined in many non-battleground states, however.
Of course, gold is not the only thing of value. There’s plenty of less durable goods to be had, like livestock. The two-legged kind are particularly valuable.
Converting the National Debt into Gold | MyGovCost | Government Cost Calculator
What we find when we plug in the numbers as of 1 November 2012 is that the entire national debt of the United States is the equivalent of a solid gold cube that is nearly 80 feet tall by 80 feet long by 80 feet wide. Transporting all that gold would require over 431 of those standard 20-foot long shipping containers.
The only problem with that is that all of the gold that has ever been mined on Planet Earth would only make a solid gold cube that is 66.1 feet high by 66.1 feet long by 66.1 feet wide, which would work out to fill just over 249 of those 20-foot standard shipping containers. Even if Fort Knox held all the gold in the world, the U.S. Treasury would still be more than 182 shipping containers short of being able to pay off the national debt in gold at today’s spot prices.
Obvious. And by the way, as the titles of the related articles below show, it seems like a certain D-Generation X catch phrase came to mind for several other people.
Samsung hits Apple with 20% price hike: report – MarketWatch
Samsung Electronics , the world’s largest technology firm by revenue, raised the price of mobile processor supplied to Apple Inc. AAPL -0.77% by 20% recently, Chosun Ilbo reported Monday, citing a person familiar with negotiations between the two tech giants.
“Samsung Electronics recently asked Apple for a significant price raise in (the mobile processor known as) application processor,” the person was quoted as saying in the report. “Apple first disapproved it, but finding no replacement supplier, it accepted the (increase.)”
Mozilla released an experimental project, a SWF runtime implemented in JavaScript. Try out the racing game demo. Flash has taken some hits. Apple won’t support it on iOS. It’s not in Android 4. And Chrome provides its own runtime to replace the buggy version offered by Adobe. Shumway works well in Chrome but not IE9. Still, the actual use cases for this might be rare. If it’s something worthwhile, you probably will want to remake it in HTML5 anyway. Maybe if you had some SWF content and none of the source files, it could get you by for a short time.
A large collection of ugly sweaters offered by ShopGoodwill.com surprised me. Devoloution is real.
** Ugly / Festive Holiday Sweaters **
shopgoodwill.com is the first Internet auction site created, owned and operated by a nonprofit organization. It was created and is operated by Goodwill of Orange County (Santa Ana, CA). Participating Goodwill’s from across the country offer for auction on the site a wide array of art, antiques and collectibles as well as new and nearly new items pulled from their vast inventories of donated goods. From unique one-of-a-kind items to estate pieces, the depth of resources is enormous. Revenues from these auction sales fund Goodwill’s education, training and job placement programs for people with disabilities and other barriers.
