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Profit
Fat Joe featuring Lil Wayne
Length: 304
Rating: 4.90 (43 ratings)
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John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech
http://www.ted.com "I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. Spurred on by his daughter, who demanded he fix the mess the world is heading for, he and his partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers embarked on a greentech world tour -- surveying the state of the art, from the ethanol revolution in Brazil to Wal-mart's (!) eco-concept store in Bentonville, Arkansas. KPCB is investing $200 million in green technologies to save the planet and make a profit to boot. But, Doerr fears, it may not be enough.
Length: 1183
Rating: 4.60 (123 ratings)
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non-prophet vs non-profit
MIN DOUGLAS BURNETT
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Length: 652
Rating: 5.00 (3 ratings)
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Googlewhacks for Fun and Profit
Googlewhacks for Fun and Profit-
Jonathan Lansey
We study the number of Internet search results returned from multi-word queries based on the number of results returned when each word is searched for individually. We derive a model to describe search result values for multi-word queries using the total number of pages indexed by Google and by applying the Zipf power law to the word per page distribution on the internet and Heaps' law for unique word counts. Based on data from 351 word pairs each with exactly one hit when searched for together, and a Zipf law coefficient determined in other studies, we approximate the Heaps' law coefficient for the indexed world wide web (about 8 billion pages) to be beta=.52. Previous studies used under 20,000 pages. We demonstrate the validity of our method by using a different set of word pairs and with word triplets. We demonstrate through examples how the model can be used to analyze automatically the relatedness of word pairs assigning each a value we call "Strength of Associativity." . We then use our model to compare the index sizes of competing search giants Yahoo and Google.
Length: 1935
Rating: 5.00 (2 ratings)
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USA - Profit Be(for)e People ?!
September 17, 2008
the most radical intervention in private business in the central banks history.
The US government has seized control of insurance giant American International Group in an unprecedented $85 billion bailout. The Federal Reserve made the deal on Tuesday (September 2008) to save AIG from collapse in what the New York Times describes as the most radical intervention in private business in the central banks history. The move comes as a series of financial crises has altered the landscape of Wall Street. We speak with investment banker turned journalist, Nomi Prins, and Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends.
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Nomi Prins, former investment banker turned journalist. She used to run the European analytics group at Bear Stearns and is now a senior fellow at Demos. She is the author of two books: Other Peoples Money: The Corporate Mugging of America and Jacked: How Conservatives Are Picking Your Pocket.
Michael Hudson, President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire. He is the chief economic adviser to Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
Government bailout, which means taxpayers stuck with the bill is the worst possible move, and it puts the class war back in business with a vengeance. Wall Street has been preparing for this for years, because every financial analyst knows that the debts cant be paid. And the question that Wall Street has, if youre going to take a gamble on bad debts that cant be paid, how are you going to come out a winner? And theres only one way of coming out a winner, and thats to make the government bail you out. This has been known for years, because its inherent almost in the mathematics of compound interest. Every banker I know knew that the loans they were making were going to go bad. They were trying to sell them to somebody else, ultimately expecting them to end up with some sovereign wealth fund.
And now, you had at the beginning of the show, McCain saying that this is the result of fraud and incompetence. The government has now bailed them out. But by bailing them out—Wall Street was coming to terms with the bad debts. When Bear Stearns went under and when Lehman Brothers went under, this began to wipe away the bad debts. And when the debts exceed the ability to pay, theres only one thing any economy can do, and thats wipe them out. Instead, the government is trying to keep the fiction alive. And what Paulson did yesterday, in bailing out AIG, was to try to lock in whoever is the next president not only to further bailouts of Wall Street, ostensibly to protect the public money, but to make it impossible to write down the debts of the four million homeowners that are expected to default this year, impossible to write down the debts of companies that have issued junk bonds, impossible for the country to get rid of this excess of debts that cant be repaid. And youre having really a war now of creditors against debtors. And this is what Wall Street has been preparing for. It needed an emergency to do it. Its really not an emergency at all. This has been building up for many years. Everybody expected it. And breathlessly now, the Secretary of Treasury has done it.
These are the people who sang, Theres no money for Social Security. Were going to have to privatize it. Were going to have to turn over your Social Security to Bear Stearns, to AIG—to the very people who have shown how theyre mismanaging money. Imagine if the Republican program had gone through and Social Security had been privatized and these were the jokers who were managing your Social Security. Theyd stick you with the losses.
Length: 657
Rating: 4.90 (12 ratings)
Tags: USA America Bush Cheney Republican Neocon Incompetence Right Wing Ideology Wall Street Greed Profit Economy AIG Bear Stearnss Fed Bailout Social Security Healthcare Money Imperialism McCain Obama Government Financial Crisis Henry Paulson Depression Congress Rescue Bankruptcy Lies Tax Taxpayer Freddie Mac Fannie Mae Merril Lynch Bank Of Lehman Brothers Housing Market Mortgage Chomsky
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The Profit: The Movie Scientology Won't Let You See
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This is an 8-Minute Clip From "The Profit". This movie has been Suppressed by the Church of Scientology, and has not been allowed a public release.
If you can obtain a copy of this video - please contact Dacovale@calloftheday.net . I will ensure the video is both uploaded in the highest possible quality on my own server, and on youtube.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/TheProfit/
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0277255
The Scientologist lawyers step in:
http://www.theprofit.org/mcgowan208.htm
http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.rel...
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About this movie:
The Church of Scientology, has obtained an injunction against the showing of the independent film The Profit. (Internet Movie Database entry here.) Scientology is currently facing a lawsuit for the abuse and wrongful death of one of its members, Lisa McPherson, who died while being held against her will at the cult's headquarters in Clearwater, Florida. The supposed purpose of the injunction is to prevent influencing the jury pool in that upcoming trial.
However, Senior Circuit Judge Robert E. Beach did not stop there. He crossed out the proposed language limiting the scope of the injunction to the geographical jurisdiction of his court. The injunction he issued in April 2002 applied worldwide, and continues to this day! It has completely prevented release of the film. This type of denial of First Amendment rights is unprecedented in the history of US cinema.
The Profit was written and directed by Peter Alexander, who spent 20 years in the Scientology cult and gave over $1 million to the organization. Alexander is a former executive at Universal City Studios, and was the creator of several famous theme park rides, including Back to the Future, Jaws, and ET. He and his crew suffered intense harassment from Scientology agents while making the film. Alexander's ex-wife, Scientologist Jolie Kanat (author of the book "Bittersweet Baby") continues to abet the cult in its harassment campaign against him via their hate site, "Religious Freedom Watch". When The Profit debuted at Cannes in 2001, all the copies of the trailers were stolen
Length: 428
Rating: 4.80 (76 ratings)
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Milton Friedman on Self-Interest and the Profit Motive 1of2
This clip is from the 15-part lecture series, "Milton Friedman Speaks"
http://www.ideachannel.com/product_info.php?products_id=1137
Transcript available via FreedomChannel: http://freedomchannel.blogspot.com/2007/12/milton-friedman-on-slavery.html
Summary:
A student poses a series of question on based on Friedman's notion that people should pursue their own self-interest. The student points out that he'd read that Friedman had previously come out against disaster aid for victims of a flood in Pennsylvania. Friedman corrected the questioner and noted that he did not come out against private aid for flood victims but instead was against the Federal Government providing discounted flood insurance in advance to home purchasers which motivated people to build houses in areas where they otherwise would not have been able to obtain insurance privately. If not for the discounted insurance, it's likely many of the flooded houses would never have been built in the first place as it wouldn't have been in peoples self-interest.
The student went on to note that it was recently reported that an old man in Ohio died when the electric company turned off his power when he'd failed to pay his electric bill. Was it moral for the company to act in it's own self-interest to do so? Friedman responded by asking what if the electric company never turned off the power for anyone? Who would pay the cost--the people who own or work at the electric company? It would be unjust to impose that responsibility on individuals who are running an honest business of providing electricity. Friedman suggests that the true responsibility lies on the mans neighbors and friends who were not charitable enough to allow him to meet the electric bills.
Finally the student uses the example of Ford deciding not to install a $13 block of plastic which would prevent it's Pinto cars from exploding in a rear-end collision. Ford estimated such a move would cost 200 lives a year at a cost of $200,000 per life lost. They multiplied and found that it wasn't worth it to install the plastic block. He asked if a corporation seeking it's own self-interest was a good thing in this case? Friedman responded by asking, what if it cost $1 billion to save each life, should Ford have put in the block? It's simply not practical to put an infinite value on an individuals life. If it took $1 billion in resources to keep one individual safe, and acquiring those resources meant that a million people must starve, it's a bad deal. Friedman concludes that he doesn't know if the $200,000 number that Ford used was the right number to maximize the overall benefits, but at the end of the day the principle is that we can't simply protect ourselves from everything and impose that cost on others. Friedman posits that the question the student should be raising, is should Ford be required to attach the statement to the car, "we've made this car $13 cheaper, and therefore it is X% more risky for you to buy it".
See also:
Free to Choose - All 15 episodes streaming online for free
http://www.ideachannel.tv
A history of Free to Choose
http://www.freetochoose.com
Length: 325
Rating: 4.80 (133 ratings)
Tags: Milton Friedman Capitalism Freedom Corporations Profits Communism Socialism Subsidies Documentary Politics liberty
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