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This fountain can actually make pictures and words with falling water. It's been described as working like an inkjet printer. Hundreds of nozzles create precise streams of water. Timed just right, images are created.
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A free E-book. Will probably come in handy at some point.
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I'll be needing this next week, I suspect, once our 3.5 campaign ends
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Very impressive image search engine. Finds the image you give it, plus variants and cropped versions.
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Fascinating concept. I wonder if it will catch on. It's not, by the way, even slightly the eBay model, unless they're thinking of eBay Express.
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Figures published yesterday show deaths from cancer fell by 18.2 per cent in the decade to 2007 and are on course to hit the target reduction set by the Government four years ago of a 20 per cent fall by 2009-11.
Deaths from heart disease and stroke are down 44 per cent over the same period and have already exceeded the 40 per cent target set for 2009-11.
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Which takes you through it, top to bottom and back again, showing how everyone in the chain was, frankly, an idiot, who thought they could get away with it. If you've ever wondered how the credit crunch happened, this will explain it.
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Date: 2008-10-08 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-08 05:43 pm (UTC)What do you see as the bigger part of what went wrong? To me it's about there being more investment money to invest than there is to invest it in, which pushes up prices and causes the money to be invested in places it really shouldn't be. And the mortgage market was one place it was invested where it shouldn't be.
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Date: 2008-10-08 07:10 pm (UTC)However, part of the problem isn't just that there are bad mortgages. Apparently, there was some HUGE amount of money (or possibly fairy gold) bet on which way investments would go. Generally, it was bet on investments people didn't have by people who couldn't cover the bets. This, plus the mortgages, meant that so much confusion has been injected into the financial system that the companies which make the short term loans that business is highly dependent on have panicked (they're a risk-averse bunch) and aren't doing that lending.
My impression is that the fairy gold betting involved more money than the mortgages.
"You can print money, but you can't print trust". (Sorry, no source.)
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Date: 2008-10-09 08:18 am (UTC)http://videos.komando.com/2008/08/19/water-painting/
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