Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
"When the Trump Rally started in the markets (January?)" a.k.a. the Obama trend.. [cid:71b6b327-44b6-481e-85c2-37d19013bd43] From: Friam on behalf of Steven A Smith Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 6:57:45 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Gro

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Marcus - Thus, it is not a necessarily a good sign when someone that has to make people cooperate takes a direct approach. It may just show that they lack the memory and patience to turn over all the necessary rocks and think about how they relate before taking action. Thus: *"< *Give him

Re: [FRIAM] Stock Bubble

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
DaveW - I have several friends with tons of money (multi-millionaires, not billionaires) and they are all leaving stocks. Not because of Trump but because of the massive shift away from actively managed funds to passive ones and the overvaluation of price as a result. Bloomberg business just had

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Well said (as usual). >Pedestrian black humor is very irritating. But when it's done right, it carries just the right balance of poignancy and >banality. In contrast, tag clouds are antiseptic and devoid of any humanity. There is no "there" there. There is only posturing and marketing. So, wha

Re: [FRIAM] Stock Bubble

2017-08-18 Thread Prof David West
I have several friends with tons of money (multi-millionaires, not billionaires) and they are all leaving stocks. Not because of Trump but because of the massive shift away from actively managed funds to passive ones and the overvaluation of price as a result. Bloomberg business just had a major ar

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread gⅼеɳ
On 08/18/2017 01:24 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: >> https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/ > 15 minutes with this make me painfully aware of how much I'm not in tune with > twitter culture... the tool seems pretty well made, but I found myself having > a hard time drawing me

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
Steve writes: < Give him credit or not, he's been willing to take on lots of groups/subcultures fairly head-on (and many more smarmily obliquely... like the LGBT/Latino/Black/??? communities) > Speaking as person who deals with things head-on more than it ever benefits me, I would say that my

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Gil - Thanks for the reference to Anonymous@YouTube. You can tell I'm an old fogey by my irritable reaction to the style of their videos. I felt like it was created by/for Max Headroom! I HAVE watched one or two before (over a year ago?) with the same reaction. I have a natural (Ithink)

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Marcus - While I like the idea of his continued self-sabotage, his pronouncements probably keep a part of the base stoked. I do understand that and agree that this channel is a significantly powerful/focused one for his fringe/base. If his accounts were to go away, those folks might not h

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - This is interesting if you type in "trump": https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/ 15 minutes with this make me painfully aware of how much I'm not in tune with twitter culture... the tool seems pretty well made, but I found myself having a hard time drawing meani

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Gillian Densmore
Anonymous has been posting videos on youtube sugesting people put aside the petty bickering. Making sugestion what things people can do to empower themselves. Their current call to arms is about (weirdly) love and joy and getting rid of washinton as it currently is and try for something like a Soci

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
“While I feel very nervous about Twitter shutting down theDonald's personal account so cavalierly, I can imagine how devastating it would be to his ego to not be able to blurt out his nonsense at all times of the day or night without benefit of counsel by his (admittedly highly flawed) inner cir

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread gⅼеɳ
This is interesting if you type in "trump": https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/ Here are some other tools: https://blog.bufferapp.com/free-twitter-tools It irritates me to no end when we call password guessing or phishing "hacking". The concept of hacking is rich and c

Re: [FRIAM] Stock Bubble

2017-08-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
Last time there was a near government shutdown, I was buying short-sells on U.S. bonds as hedge.Under Obama, I lost money on that. But there they sit waiting to make their triumphant rebound! -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith

[FRIAM] Stock Bubble

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
With morbid fascination, I believe we are about to see the "Trump Bubble" in the stock market, driven by the promises of deregulation, collapse under the weight of the belligerent dysfunction of his administration and sycophants. I don't know how transparent the financial holdings of his fat

[FRIAM] SJ Coffee Shop Unavailable

2017-08-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
The floors are being cleaned and they say that will take 3-4 hours. I propose Saveur as an alternative. It's at the corner of Galisteo and Cerrillos, near the new courthouse. I'll try to get some tables put together. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 ==